Carmen Werder

Carmen Werder is Director of Interdisciplinary Programs at Western Washington University. She designs curriculum, assessment, and faculty development for cross-disciplinary initiatives such as the First-year Interest Group Program (FIG). With an academic background in English, she has taught rhetoric and composition and has served as a writing program administrator. Awarded Western’s first Scholarship of Teaching award in 1999, Dr. Werder assisted in organizing the Carnegie Campus Conversations Program and its emergent Teaching and Learning Academy. Working with faculty and student co-facilitators, she has piloted a course on the scholarship of teaching and learning for undergraduates from first- through senior-years from across majors with the goal of making the student voice more integral to an institutional culture of learning. Her current research interests include writing across disciplines, the rhetoric of silence, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, inquiry that includes a current study on the metaphors we teach and learn by.