Theresa WalshAlso teaches Composition at:
UC DavisTheresa Walsh
Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, Expected 2024
M.A. in English, California State University, Sacramento, 2013
B.A. in English Language and Literature/Letters, University of California, Davis, 2005
A.A. in Liberal Arts, De Anza College, 2002
Theresa Walsh is an education and writing superstar. A full-time lecturer at UC Davis, where she also served as the Assistant Director for Online Writing Instruction (2019-2021), Walsh helped her department find success during the university's emergency remote instruction protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic and assisted in the development of two hybrid writing courses. As a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, Walsh has studied a wide range of topics — her research includes intersectional feminism, comedy studies, narrative medicine, teaching writing in online and hybrid modalities, and ancient rhetorics.
She has taught over 20 different writing- and language-based courses throughout her career and reviewed a book that explores rhetorical work in emergency medical services in 2019. Outside of education, Walsh has many talents. She has a small ceramics studio at her home where she enjoys working with clay. She also loves making candy and working with chocolate. In fact, she was a confectioner in her twenties, and even went to school for baking and pastry arts!
We had this program in my undergraduate program where if you wanted to be a tutor, a teacher would recommend students. My first tutoring gig through my school was actually for a biology class. The next quarter, I got a recommendation from my professor who was teaching English 1B, a writing and literature class about Shakespeare.
So I started tutoring English while I was taking my first two years of classes at community college and I realized that it was writing that I like. I really like to work with people on their writing and communicating what they mean.
Seeing students progress is all of the incentive for me. When I work with students and I know that what they've written is what I understand is what they intend — it's just the best!
My hope is that the thing that students love about my classes is that they are fully capable of doing things that they previously maybe hadn't realized they could.
I'm really trying to get them to write what they intend, and I work hard to make sure that they understand that any kind of writing that they need to do is learnable. Writing is a practice and it takes sitting down and practicing every day. It takes confronting things that you aren't really comfortable with or always felt like you couldn't do, but it’s really just that you didn't know how to do it. I will help you learn how to do it!
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