Back to top

Photograph of Edward Comstock

Edward Comstock Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer (Continuing) Literature

Degrees
Ph.D., Education, American University
MA, Literature, American University
BS, Sociology & English, James Madison University

Bio
Edward Comstock holds a PhD from American University's School of Education, Teaching, and Health, as well as an MA in Literature. At the intersection of rhetoric, writing studies, educational psychology, and post structuralist philosophy, his scholarship focuses on writing pedagogy and theory. His most recent book (published by Routledge May 2018), Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age, argues that plasticity in contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. He began teaching classes at American University in fall 2006.
See Also
Writing Studies Program
Personal Website
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

Teaching

Spring 2024

  • LIT-252 Survey of Literary Theory

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

Fall 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Plasticity: Shaping the Brain

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive