Arlene Fish WilnerArlene Fish Wilner, professor of English at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, holds a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and was trained in the study of higher education pedagogy as a Fellow of the Carnegie Academyfor the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). Inspired by the CASTL experience, she designed and directed BRIDGE (2001-15), a collaborative campuswide faculty development program that facilitated classroom-inquiry projects and supported participants in publishing their research. Her studies in literary theory and interpretation, composition pedagogy, and faculty development have appeared in venues such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Children's Literature, Modern Language Studies, the Journal of Narrative Theory, the CEA Critic, College Literature, Reader, Composition Forum, Pedagogy, Learning Communities Journal, Criticism, and New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Throughout her career, Wilner has been an advocate for more purposeful attention in higher education to the interdependence of reading and writing, with a focus on assignment design. Read More Read Less