Sarah Allen is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, where she serves as a Rhetoric and Composition scholar and teacher. Her current book project is an exploration into an "attitudinal" approach to w
...MoreSarah Allen is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, where she serves as a Rhetoric and Composition scholar and teacher. Her current book project is an exploration into an "attitudinal" approach to writing that enables the possibility of self-transformation (i.e., inspiration) in the writer. Her first book, Beyond Argument: Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change was published in 2015 with Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse. She has placed articles in Rhetoric Review and Educational Philosophy and Theory; she also has book chapters in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press) and Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers (Heinemann). Her scholarship explores the ethics of the personal essay, and this work informs her teaching, as she strives to discover the most useful and effective ways of assisting students in engaging with difficult, dense material and generating complex, rigorous writings of their own.
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The Learner
