Dr. Bruce McComiskey, Red Mountain Writing Project Director
Dr. Bruce McComiskey specializes in Rhetoric and Composition, Classical Rhetoric, and Professional Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His most recent publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process (Utah State UP, 2000), Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (Southern Illinois UP, 2002), and a co-edited collection titled City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices (SUNY Press, 2003).
Dr. Bruce McComiskey: mccomisk@uab.edu
Dr. Tonya Perry, Red Mountain Writing Project Director
Dr. Perry is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her primary professional interests include reading and writing instruction and integrated curriculum. Learn more here.
Dr. Tonya Perry: tperry@uab.edu
Natasha Matthews Flowers, Co-Director
Having been a fellow with the 2005 RMWP, Natasha has returned as a co-director. She is a National Board Certified Teacher (Early/Middle Childhood Literacy). She currently teaches third grade at Cherokee Bend School.
She is passionate about literacy and being a voice and advocate for marginalized children and parents. An aspiring writer,she has completed her first picture book and is building up the nerve to mail it to publishers (which should be a goal for this summer.)
Ben Davis, Co-Director/Tech Liaison
Ben is returning to RMWP after having been a fellow in 2006. He currently teaches the 11th-grade English at Vestavia Hills High School. To say that he is obsessed with technology is an understatement. He graduated from UAB with a BA in English Literature with a concentration in linguistics. He then secured a MA in Language Arts.
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Cindy Peavy, Director of Continuity
Cindy graduated from UAB with a degree in biology and chemistry, but decided to change directions and pursue her graduate degree in English. After earning her M.A. in 1985, she taught freshman composition and sophomore literature courses at UAB and then Samford University before going on to a career as a freelance writer that spanned more than 15 years. During that time, she wrote shamelessly for money, tackling everything from advertisements and brochures to video scripts and magazine articles. After having a child of her own and nurturing his literacy development, Cindy decided to pursue a career in education, earning a M.S.Ed. from Samford University in 1999. She now teaches fourth- and fifth-grade language arts at Highlands School, as well as after-school creative writing classes where she shares her passion for poetry inspired by art and nature.
