Toby Fulwiler

Professor Emeritus Department of English University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 Phone (home): 802-879-8811 Email: Toby.Fulwiler@uvm.edu Education: Ph.D. English (American Literature), The University of Wisconsin, 1973

Brief Biography

Toby Fulwiler directed the writing program at the University of Vermont from 1983 to 2002, when he retired to write, teach part time, and manage the ninety acres of woods and meadows on his farm in Fairfield, Vermont. Before moving to Vermont, he taught at Michigan Tech and the University of Wisconsin where, in 1973, he also received his Ph.D. in American Literature.

Though technically retired, Toby is not out to pasture, as he is currently teaching writing to graduate students in UVM’s Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning programs. He works with first-year graduate students on writing site reviews and fellowship proposals. He works with second-year graduate students to help them tease out popular articles suitable for lay audiences from their rigorous summer field research projects.

Toby has taught introductory and advanced writing classes with titles such as "Personal Voice," "Reading and Writing Autobiography," and "Creative Nonfiction" as well as American literature. He is the author of College Writing, The Working Writer, and Teaching With Writing; he is co-author with Alan Hayakawa of The Blair Handbook, College Writers Reference, and Pocket Reference for Writers; he is editor of The Journal Book and co-editor of, among others, Introduction to English Studies, The Letter Book, When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, Community of Voices, Angles of Vision, and Programs that Work.

Toby conducts writing workshops for teachers across the disciplines, riding to workshop sites, weather permitting, on is BMW motorcycle.

Professional Books

• The Letter Book: Ideas for Teaching College English. Co-ed Susan Dinitz. Portsmouth, Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2000, 132 pp.
• The Journal Book for At-Risk Writers. Co-ed. Susan Gardner, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1999.
• The Journal Book for Teachers of Technical and Professional Programs. Co-ed. S. Gardner, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1999.
• When Writing Teachers Teach Literature: Bringing Writing to Reading. Co-ed. A. Young. Boynton/Coo-Heinemann, 1995.
• Programs that Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum. Co-ed. A. Young. Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1990.
• The Journal Book. Ed. 1987. Teaching with Writing. Boynton/Cook, 1987.
• Writing Across the Disciplines: Research into Practice. Co-ed. A. Young, Boynton/Cook, 1986.
• Language Connections: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Co-ed. A. Young, NCTE, 1982.

Textbooks

• The College Writer's Reference, 4th ed. Co-author A. Hayakawa, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
• The Pocket Reference for Writers, 2nd ed. Co-author A. Hayakawa, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
• English Studies: Reading, Writing, and Interpreting Texts. Co-ed. W. Stephany. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
• The Working Writer, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
• College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing, 3rd ed. NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002.
• The Blair Handbook, 2nd ed. Co-author A. Hayakawa, Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Community of Voices. Co-ed. A. W. Biddle, Macmillan, 1992.
• Angles of Vision. Co-ed. A. W. Biddle, McGraw-Hill, 1992.
• Reading, Writing, and the Study of Literature. Co-ed. A. W. Biddle, Random House, 1989.

Selected Chapters in Books

• "The Writing Committee at Work." Co-author. Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers & Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories, ed. D. George. Boynton/Cook, 1999, 138-149.
• "Downshifting to Fourth." Teaching College English and English Education: Reflective Stories. Eds. R.Larson and T. McCracken. NCTE, 1999, 273-279.
• "Writing Snapshots." Teaching Writing Creatively. Ed. D. Starkey, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.9.
• "Telling Stories, Writing Truths." Narration as Knowledge. Ed. J. Trimmer, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998, 84-97.
• "Writing Back and Forth: Class Letters." Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. Eds. M.D. Sorcinelli & P. Elbow, Jossey Bass, 1997.
• "Song of the Open Road: A Motorcycle Rider Teaches Literature." When Writing Teachers Teach Literature. Eds. A. Young & T. Fulwiler, Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1995.
• "Claiming My Voice." Voices on Voice. Ed. K. Yancey, NCTE, 1994.
• "A Lesson in Revision." The Subject Is Writing. Ed. W. Bishop, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1993.
• "Writing and Learning American Literature." Writing, Teaching, Learning in the Disciplines. Eds. A. Herrington & C.Moran, MLA 1992.
• "The Quiet and Insistent Revolution: WAC." The Politics of Writing Instruction. Eds. R. Bullock & J. Trimbur, Boynton/Cook, 1991.
• "Responding to Student Journals." Writing and Response. Ed. C. Anson, NCTE, 1989.

Selected Articles

• "Provocative Revision." Writing Center Journal (1992) 190-204.
• "Looking and Listening for My Voice." CCC 41, 2 (May 1990) 214-220.
• "Writing Workshops and the Mechanics of Change." WPA12 (Spring, 1989) 7-20.
• "Writing Across the Curriculum: Implications for Teaching Literature," ADE Bulletin (Winter, 1987).
• "Interactive Writing and Teaching Chemistry." (Co-author M. Strauss.) Journal of College Science Teaching. (February,1987) 256-262.
• "Freshman Writing: The Best Course in the University to Teach." The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2. 1986).
• "Writing is Everybody's Business." National Forum, The Phi Kappa Phi Journal (Fall,1985), 21-24.
• "How Well Does Writing across the Curriculum Work?" College English 46, 2 (February, 1984).
• "Showing, Not Telling, at a Writing Workshop." College English 43, 1 (Jan. 1981), 55-63.
• "Journals across the Disciplines." English Journal 69, 9 December, 1980), 14-19.

Teaching Award

Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence, Full Professor, 1993

Workshops on Teaching with Writing for College Faculty: 1977-2001

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