Tara J. Coleman

About

Dr. Tara J. Coleman’s current research relates to issues of language justice, translanguaging and global Englishes in writing instruction and in literary studies. She has also written and presented on topics related to composition pedagogy and writing program administration, including: writing across the curriculum, critical reading pedagogy, and accelerated learning programs.

She primarily teaches first-year writing courses: ENG101: Composition I, ENA101: Accelerated Composition I, and ENG102: Composition II. She has also taught ENG103: The Research Paper, LIB200: Science, Humanism and Technology and ENG295: World Literatures Written in English.

With graduate training in comparative literature, and with a specialty in Chinese language poetry and film, she maintains an interest in comparative poetics and translation studies. Her article “From Translating for the World to Translation as the World: Two Cinematic Poets from Hong Kong” appeared in volume 6 of The Journal of World Literature (2021). Previously, an article titled “Ya Xian’s Lyrical Montage: Modernist Poetry in Taiwan through the Lens of Translation” was included in the collection: Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs, edited by Lucas Klein and Maghiel van Crevel (2019).