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).
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2015 IntroductionPedagogy.  15:383-386. 2015
    2011 Traditions and TrajectoriesPedagogy.  11:591-597. 2011
    2011 Mapping new territory: Toward an understanding of adolescent L2 writers and writing in US contextsJournal of Second Language Writing.  20:167-181. 2011
    2009 Teaching Writing for the "Real World": Community and Workplace WritingEnglish Journal.  98:72-80. 2009
    2009 Teaching Writing for the "Real World": Community and Workplace WritingEnglish Journal.  98:72-80. 2009
    2008 "English May Be My Second Language, but I'm Not 'ESL'"College Composition and Communication.  59:389`-419. 2008
    2008 "English May Be My Second Language, but I'm Not 'ESL'"College Composition and Communication.  59:389`-419. 2008
    2000 Project Homeland: Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the ESL ClassroomTESOL Journal.  9:10-17. 2000

    Book

    Year Title
    2017 Writing across Culture and Language: Inclusive Strategies for Working with ELL Writers in the ELA Classroom 2017
    2017 Writing across Culture and Language: Inclusive Strategies for Working with ELL Writers in the ELA Classroom 2017
    2016 Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers: Transitions from High School to College.  Ed. Ortmeier-Hooper, Christina.  2016
    2013 The ELL Writer Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom 2013
    2010 Reinventing Identities in Second Language Writing 2010
    2006 The Politics of Second Language Writing In Search of the Promised Land 2006
    Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2019 Rethinking the Five-Paragraph Essay as a Scaffold in Secondary School.  89-115. 2019
    2017 Internationalization and the place of resident ML students: Identifying points of leverage and advocacy..  Ed. Ortmeier-Hooper, Christina.  229`-236. 2017
    2017 Paying attention to resident multilingual students..  1`-17. 2017
    2016 4. ESL writing in schools.  91-112. 2016
    2016 Internationalization and the Place of Resident ML Students.  229-236. 2016
    2013 The Case of a Refugee L2 Writer in a High School English Language Arts Classroom.  9-26. 2013
    2013 The Case of a Refugee L2 Writer in a High School English Language Arts Classroom.  9-26. 2013
    2009 The Expansion of Second Language Writing.  457-471. 2009

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    Designing Dialogues on writing and college readiness across educational institutions

    Teaching Activities

  • Adv Top/Literacy Instruction Taught course
  • Intro to Creative Nonfiction Taught course
  • 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