Mary Soliday

Mary Soliday is a Professor in the Department of English at San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. in British literature from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Her roles include directing the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)/in the Disciplines program and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and literature.

• Education: Ph.D., British Literature, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1990)
• Previous Institutions: City College of New York (17 years), where she led the writing center and writing across the curriculum program.

Her research focuses on basic writing, disciplinary writing practices, genre theory, and institutional approaches to remediation. She authored The Politics of Remediation (2002) and Everyday Genres (2011), both influential in composition studies. Her work emphasizes equity and pedagogical innovation, including a FIPSE grant (with Barbara Gleason) to integrate remedial students into freshmen writing programs.

Awards:

• 2004 Outstanding Book Award for The Politics of Remediation

Grants & Initiatives: Co-developed a writing program via a FIPSE grant to mainstream remedial students. Active in curriculum design and writing center leadership.

Labs/Teams: Maintains the SF State WAC program website. Serves on the editorial board of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, soon affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English.