Biography

B.A. Auburn University

Ph.D. Temple University

Leslie Allison joined Rowan Writing Arts after serving as Assistant Director of the Writing Center at Temple University. While her background is rooted in women's writing and writing centers, these days she currently teaches  critical information and news literacy skills to first year, education, and journalism students. In both teaching and research, what drives Leslie the most is helping students develop confidence in their ideas, their writing, and themselves.

Research Interests

Critical Information Literacy, Literacy Studies, Women's Writing and Rhetoric

Publications

"Google Search vs. AI: Teaching Students Online Research Skills." Teaching and Learning with AI Conference, University of Central Florida, September 2023.

"Teaching News Literacy with the News Literacy Project." New Jersey Writing Alliance, Rowan University, May 2023.

"Generative AI: An Overview," Presented with Tiffany DeRewal, PWPA, Neumann University, May 2023. Allison, Leslie.

"Reading the West Sideways: Queering the Frontier in Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion." Studies in the Novel, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 2017.

Jacobson, Kristin, Leslie Allison, Kristin Allukian, and Rickie-Ann Legleitner, eds. Liminiality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature. Palgrave Macmillian, 2018.