Positions

Overview

  • Christina Ortmeier-Hooper (Ph.D., University of New Hampshire) is an associate professor of English and incoming Director of the NH Literacy Institutes. She has served as the Director of Composition for the first-year writing program, and she is a leader of the UNH School-University Dialogues on College-Readiness and Writing initiative. She began her teaching career as an English language arts and ESL teacher in the public schools, and her research areas continued to reflect her investment in school-university collaborations, writing teacher education, and immigrant adolescent literacy. At UNH, Ortmeier-Hooper teaches in the undergraduate writing program (first-year writing, introduction to creative non-fiction) and in the English graduate program. At the graduate level, she has taught courses in research methods in composition, second language (L2) writing, literacy and identity, sheltered instruction, the teaching of writing, and composition theory. She has served as chair of the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing and is the founding chair of the TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section. Ortmeier-Hooper has edited four collections focused on research in second language writing, including Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers: Transitions from High School to College (Routledge, 2017 with Todd Ruecker), Reinventing Identities in Second Language Writing (NCTE Press, 2010 with Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Gwen Gray Schwartz) and The Politics of Second Language Writing: The Search for a Promised Land (Parlor Press, 2006 with co-editors Paul Kei Matsuda and Xiaoye You). Her work has also been published in English Journal, TESOL Journal, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and College Composition and Communication. Her books include The ELL Writer:  Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Writing Across Language and Culture (National Council of Teachers, 2017).
  • Teaching Activities

  • Adv Top/Literacy Instruction Taught course
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2024
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2023
  • Spc Top/Composition & Rhetoric Taught course 2023
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2022
  • Adv Top/Literacy Instruction Taught course 2022
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2022
  • Research Method in Composition Taught course 2022
  • Adv Top/MST Capstone Project Taught course 2021
  • Iss/Teacher as Leaders/Researc Taught course 2021
  • Iss/Teacher as Leaders/Researc Taught course 2021
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2021
  • Spec Top/Composition Studies Taught course 2021
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2020
  • Spc Top/Politics of Language Taught course 2020
  • Adv Top/Leadership Seminar Taught course 2020
  • Adv Top/MST Capstone Project Taught course 2020
  • Research Method in Composition Taught course 2019
  • Special Topic/English Teaching Taught course 2019
  • Adv Top/Directed Reading Taught course 2019
  • Adv Top/MST Capstone Project Taught course 2019
  • History of Composition Taught course 2019
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2019
  • Spc Top/In Comp & Lit Taught course 2018
  • TESL: Theory and Methods Taught course 2018
  • TESL: Theory and Methods Taught course 2018
  • Issues Second Language Writing Taught course 2018
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2017
  • Research Method in Composition Taught course 2017
  • History of Composition Taught course 2017
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2016
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2016
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2015
  • Issues Second Language Writing Taught course 2015
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2014
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course 2014
  • Spc Top/Composition & Rhetoric Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • M.A.T. Secondary Education, University of New Hampshire
  • Ph.D. English, University of New Hampshire
  • Full Name

  • Christina Ortmeier-Hooper