Alyssa J. O'Brien, Ph.D.
Stanford University
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Alyssa J. O'Brien, Ph.D. is
a writer and lecturer at Stanford University, where she teaches writing,
public speaking, and cross-cultural communication in the Program in Writing
and Rhetoric and as a regular instructor in Stanford’s Continuing Studies
Program. Since arriving at Stanford
in 2001, Alyssa has written or co-authored several textbooks as well as many
articles and conference papers. She’s
been an invited speaker in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East on subjects such
as global learning, communication for leadership, visual rhetoric, and
“mapping a change in writing.” Over the past five years,
she’s directed the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric project (or CCR), a research and
teaching endeavor originally funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning
Network. CCR now connects students
across five continents and involves universities from ten countries through
video-conference technology and blogs. Alyssa recently published a collection of her mother's writing, entitled The Quilt of My Life. Alyssa has taught creative writing for the past four years at
Stanford's “Write Retreat” on Fallen Leaf Lake, as well as in the Stanford
Continuing Studies Program’s Online Writing Studio, at the University of
Rochester, the Eastman School of Music, and Cornell University. She also
articles writes for her community paper, Coastviews
Magazines, as a way to give back; selections from her writing are available
here. Alyssa won the Phi
Beta Kappa Outstanding Teaching Award in 2006, and what she enjoys most
is helping people discover their voices in writing of all kinds. |