Jill Dahlman

Jill Dahlman is an Assistant Professor of English at California Northstate University College of Health Sciences, is a product of the University of Hawaii system: Hilo for undergraduate and Manoa for graduate. In addition to teaching and creating classes, she is the co-director of the writing center and coordinator of its burgeoning WAC program. She is a first-year specialist researching the pedagogy of raising student self-efficacy in writing, and she coordinates partnerships with national parks as part of that vision. She has been included in collections as diverse as Comics and the Punk Aesthetics and Composition as Big Data. She is the primary editor for the Beyond the Frontier: Innovations in First-Year Composition series, currently in its third volume. She sits on the editorial board of the Rocky Mountain Review and the peer-reviewed Journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, for which she also serves on its executive board.