Director, Institute for Writing
Studies
Director, Queens Writing Center
Associate Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
St.John Hall, Room B40
Queens campus
Phone:(718) 990-5610
owensd@stjohns.edu
Profile
Derek Owens began teaching at St. John's University in 1994;
before that taught in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard,
the Experimental College at Tufts, and worked as an academic
counselor in the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Siena
College. In 2006 he helped create the Institute for Writing Studies
which houses the University's two Writing Centers, the First-Year
Writing Program, and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. His
teaching and research interests include composition pedagogy;
Writing Program administration; ecocomposition and sustainability;
place-based pedagogy; future studies; and experimental, open, and
hybrid forms of writing.