Cathy Fleischer
Professor
Expertise: English education, Teaching of writing, Disciplinary writing, Teacher research
About
Dr. Cathy Fleischer is a professor of English, teaching courses in English education and writing studies. She is co-director of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project (the local site of the National Writing Project that is devoted to improving the teaching of writing in our nation's schools). In that role, she facilitates a Family Literacy Initiative, designed to help parents and families support their children and teens as writers; a teacher research group, designed to help teachers pursue research questions that arise from their own classrooms; and an advocacy group, designed to help teachers add their voices to the public narrative about public education. Dr. Fleischer has written a number of books and articles on writing pedagogy, including Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone (with local teacher Sarah Andrew-Vaughan) and Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy, and she presents regularly at state and national conferences. Fleischer has received several national awards for her work, including the Britton Award for Inquiry in English Language Arts, the Meade Award for Research in English Education, and the English Award for Outstanding Woman in English Education.
