Christopher LeCluyse

He/Him/His

FULL-TIME Faculty
Professor
English

Phone: 801.832.2417

Email: clecluyse@westminsteru.edu

Office Location: Foster Hall 409

Office Hours: T 9:00–11:00 a.m.

Office Hours: Schedule an Appointment

Degrees:

Ph.D. University of Texas At Austin
M.A. University of Texas At Austin
B.A. Oberlin College

About

Teaching at Westminster returns me to the liberal arts environment I enjoyed at Oberlin College, where I studied English and vocal performance. I received my B.A. there in 1995, then went on to a much bigger place, the University of Texas at Austin. At UT I earned a PhD in English, specializing in the history of the language and linguistics, and discovered the wonderful world of writing centers. I helped administer UT's Undergraduate Writing Center 2001-2005 while teaching at St. Edward's University and in UT's Science, Technology, and Society program. I then taught for a year as a visiting professor at Southwesern University in Georgetown, Texas. The variety of courses I teach is wide, but all of them have in common a focus on language in a social context, from academic writing and writing pedagogy to Honors humanities and arts courses to the history of English and media. Students in my courses engage with thought-provoking, at times challenging, literary and theoretical works while interpreting, creating, and revising a wide range of texts. I have sung professionally with a variety of choirs and early music ensembles and sang with Conspirare on the CD Threshold of Night, nominated for two Grammy awards.

Interests

Academic writing, writing centers, game studies, history of the English language, vocal performance, early music.

Areas of Expertise

Academic writing, rhetoric, history of the English language, linguistics, Medieval studies, vocal performance, and early music

Publications

LeCluyse, Christopher. “Gamifying Writing Center Design.” In The Post-Pandemic Writing Center, edited by Sarah Rice, John Katunich, and Noreen Lape, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship Digital Edited Series, 2024.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “Marks Across Time: Explaining Punctuation and Its (Historical) Function.” Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials, vol. 1, no. 1, 2023.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “The Writing Consultation as Fantasy Role-playing Game.” In Unlimited Players: The Intersections of Writing Center and Game Studies, edited by Holly Ryan and Stephanie Vie, Utah State University Press, 2022.

LeCluyse, Christopher, Nkenna Onwuzuruoha, and Brandon Wilde. “Write Here, Right Now: Shifting a Community Writing Center from a Place to a Practice.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, 2021.

LeCluyse, Christopher and David Stock. “Religious Identity and Writing Center Tutoring: Perceptions from Latter-Day Saint (LDS) Tutors.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 42, nos. 5–6, 2018.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “The Westminster College Writing Center.” In Writing Program Architecture: Thirty Cases for Reference and Research, edited by Bryna Siegel Fyner, Utah State University Press, 2017.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “The Categories We Keep: Writing Center Forms and the Topoi of Writing.” Praxis: A Writing-Center Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 2013.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “Medieval Literacy in the Writing Center.” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 10, 2009.

LeCluyse, Christopher and Sue Mendelsohn. “Training as Invention: Topoi for Graduate Writing Consultants.” In (E)merging Identities: Working with Graduate Students in the Writing Center, edited by Melissa Nicolas, Fountainhead Press, 2008.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “Music in Glass: The St. Cecilia Window [at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Austin].” Catholic Southwest: A Journal of Arts and Culture, vol. 17, 2006.

LeCluyse, Christopher. “Lost in Theory,” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 2004.