Travis Holt, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Travis Holt currently serves as Associate Professor of English, Director for the English Graduate Assistant program, and NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative. His research and teaching interests include composition, rhetoric, technical and professional writing, technology and new media, and American literature.

Presentations:

Holt, T. “‘Finding a Balance’: User, Reader, and Learner Functions in First-Year Writing Textbook Engagement.” Liberty University. College Composition and Communication Conference. Chicago, IL. February 2023. Conference Presentation.

Holt, T. “Case Study Design: FYC Student Agency and the Composition Textbook.” Liberty University. Crossings II: Minds, Means, and Materials. University of Nevada-Reno. January 2021. Virtual Conference Presentation.

Holt, T. “Reversed Polarity: Recognizing Moments of Negative Transfer in the Composition Classroom.” Liberty University. College Composition and Communication Conference at ODU. Norfolk, VA. May 2019. Conference Presentation.

Holt, T. (Chair), Johnson, S., & Jacobs, A. “Towards Transfer: Identity (de)Construction in Writing Programs.”  Old Dominion University. College Composition and Communication Conference at VCU. Richmond, VA. June 2017. Conference Presentation.

Holt, T., Myers, R., Green, E., & Harrell, B. “‘But I Don’t Know What to Say’: Peer Review as a Tool To Help Students Effectively Join the Conversation.”  Liberty University. College Composition and Communication Conference. Houston, TX. April 2016. Conference Workshop.

Recent Courses Taught

• Modern Rhetoric (Grad)
• Classical Rhetoric (Grad)
• Composition Studies (Grad)
• Survey of American Literature I
• Survey of American Literature II
• Composition and Literature
• Composition and Rhetoric
• English as a Second Language: Composition and Rhetoric
• Basic Composition
• Research 201
• Inquiry 101

Awards

• CTE Faculty Fellow 2022-2023
• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2020-2021
• 2016 Flamespy Professor of the Year 2015-2016