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Frances Di Lauro

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Associate Professor in Writing Studies, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney

Frances is an interdisciplinary scholar, formally trained in archaeology and religious studies, who teaches writing, rhetoric, and argumentation. Her area of specialisation is the analysis of communicative artifacts, and her current research projects focus on digital writing pedagogy, the digitisation of wayside shrines, and religious tourism sites. She has developed innovative digital assessments using OER, open-access mobile technologies, and open mass collaboration platforms.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
  • 2007–2016
    Lecturer, University of Sydney

Education

  • 2013 
    The University of Sydney, Graduate Certificate of Teaching (Higher Education)
  • 2011 
    The Universit of Sydney, PhD
  • 2005 
    The University of Sydney, BA (Hons 1) Religious Studies
  • 2003 
    The University of Sydney, BA Religious Studies and Archaeology

Publications

  • 2020
    Wikipedia in Higher Education: Practice What You Teach., Studies in Higher Education
  • 2020
    ‘If it is not in Wikipedia, blame yourself:' edit-a-thons as vehicles for computer supported collaborative learning in higher education, Studies in Higher Education
  • 2017
    Student Perceptions of Writing with Wikipedia in Australian Higher Education (with Robert E. Cummings), First Monday
  • 2017
    Employing Wikipedia for Good not Evil: Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Writing Assessment (with Rebecca Johinke), Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
  • 2013
    Multimodal Writing Instruction in a Global World (with Susan Thomas, Angela Shetler, and Benjamin Miller), Kairos
  • 2012
    Between Heaven and Hell: Faces of Iniquity and Surrender in Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Commedia", Lambert Publishing
  • 2007
    On a Panegyrical Note: Studies in Honour of Garry W Trompf, Sydney Studies in Religion