Brenda Rinard

Brenda Rinard is a Continuing Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program at the University of California, Davis. She specializes in teaching advanced composition and discipline-specific writing courses, including UWP 101, UWP 104D, and graduate-level writing seminars. Her work focuses on rhetoric, genre pedagogy, multilingual writing, and cross-disciplinary writing initiatives. Rinard has held administrative roles in writing programs at both UC Davis and Stanford University, where she developed curricula for international students.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Education (Language, Literacy, and Culture), UC Davis, 2010
• MA in English Composition, San Francisco State University, 2002
• BA in English (High Honors), UC Berkeley, 1997

Research Interests: Genre theory, writing transfer to professional contexts, STEM writing instruction, and large-classroom pedagogy. Current projects explore genre awareness as a bridge between academic and workplace writing.

Awards:

• Nominated twice for the ASUCD Excellence in Education Award (2012, 2014)

Grants & Service: Principal Investigator on a Spencer-Teagle grant (2008–2010); active in writing program administration, grant-writing consulting, and peer review for Gifted Child Quarterly and NCTE.

Labs/Teams: Core contributor to UC Davis’s WAC Program and the Area Three Writing Project.