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Community Engaged Scholar Award

Writing Fellows Program

Collaborated with Jon Smith. Approved in 2015

Technical Writing Certificate

Writing Tutor Practicum Course

Southern Utah University English Department, 2013

Outstanding Lecturer

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Wooden O Symposium 

International English Honor Society

Rhetoric Society of America

Teaching Academy Training Program, SUU Center of Excellence for Teaching and Learning

National Council of Teachers of English

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Southern California Writing Center Association

Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association

International Writing Center Association

National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 

Fountains of Love: The Maternal Body as Rhetorical Symbol of Authority in Early Modern England.

"Me thinks if I Were a Man": An Analysis of Dorothy Leigh's Mother's Blessing as a Response to Joseph Swetnam.

There's No Place like Home: Constructing Ethos in Dorothy Leigh's Seventeenth-Century Conduct Manual

ENGL 1010 Intro to Academic Writing

ENGL 2010 Intermediate Writing

ENGL 3120 Writing in the Sciences

ENGL 3120 Grant and Technical Writing

ENGL 3890 Writing Tutor Practicum

Dr. Julia Combs is an associate professor of English at Southern Utah University. Her research focuses on the history of rhetoric, particularly feminist rhetoric of the seventeenth century, the rhetoric of place and space and writing in the disciplines. 

As the former director of SUU's Writing Center, Dr. Combs trained students to act as a campus resource, coaching and encouraging successful writers across all disciplines. Together with students, Dr. Combs proposed and collaborated on an extensive remodel and move of the Writing Center in 2018. 

She also proposed and developed the Technical Writing Certificate and developed the Writing Fellows, a program for faculty-nominated students to support specific classes in majors like biology, business, history and engineering. 

Dr. Combs earned a bachelor’s degree in language with an emphasis in German from Southern Utah University. At the University of Nevada Las Vegas, she earned a master’s degree in English with an emphasis in medieval literature and her Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing.

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International Writing Centers

Professional Writing and Presentations

Grant Writing

Seventeenth-Century Rhetoric

Technical Writing

Editing

Medieval Literature

Rhetoric

Feminist Rhetoric 

Academic Writing

Poetry

History of Feminist Rhetoric

Creative Writing in Higher Education

Creative Writing Techniques

Rhetoric of Place

German

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Meet Our Professors: Dr. Julia Combs, English 

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The Writing Center: Am I “Write?”

Southern Utah University continues to expand global partnership with Chinese university

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