Professor, English
Julie Nelson Christoph's area of expertise is Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies. At Puget Sound, she has taught courses on authorship, autobiography, literacy and culture, and rhetorical theory.
Her research focuses on how complex personal identities are transmuted through the lenses of language and literacy. She was a contributor to and co-editor of Literacy, Economy and Power: Writing and Research after "Literacy in American Lives" and is working on a book titled Strategies of Placement: Locating the Person in Academic Writing.
She also co-authored Sound Writing, and is director of the Center for Writing and Learning (CWL), which provides peer-to-peer learning support across the disciplines. She is on the board of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing and is the chair of their 2024 national conference.