Wendy Ryden

Wendy Ryden is Professor of English and Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at Long Island University, within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She holds a B.A. from Drew University, an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Her research spans Composition and Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Rhetoric (including critical whiteness and working-class studies), rhetoric of emotion, creative nonfiction, and writing as healing. She explores how personal, emotional, and political narratives shape identity and pedagogy, with a focus on marginalized voices and transformative writing practices.

Her publications reveal a consistent engagement with subjectivity, audience, and power in writing, especially in life writing, therapeutic narratives, and classroom dynamics. Themes of class, race, gender, and emotion recur across her scholarly and creative works.

Wendy Ryden is actively involved in academic service, serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Basic Writing and Confrontation Magazine, and as Associate Chair of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL). She is also a member of the LIU Teaching and Learning Initiative Advisory Committee and the C.W. Post Collegial Federation.

She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, contributing to conversations on pedagogy, affect, and critical literacy. While no specific awards are listed, her sustained scholarly output and editorial roles indicate recognition within her field.

Though no named advisees are listed, her leadership in writing programs and pedagogical scholarship suggests significant mentorship and curriculum development. She is not associated with a named research lab or team, but her work is deeply collaborative through editorial and committee roles.