01 / Faculty
Theresa Walsh
Also teaches Composition at UC Davis
- Education
- Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, Expected 2024
- Education
- M.A. in English, California State University, Sacramento, 2013
- Education
- B.A. in English Language and Literature/Letters, University of California, Davis, 2005
- Education
- A.A. in Liberal Arts, De Anza College, 2002
Theresa WalshUC Davis
02 / Meet Theresa
Meet Theresa
Theresa Walsh is an education and writing superstar. A full-time lecturer at UC Davis, where she also served as the Assistant Director for Online Writing Instruction (2019-2021), Walsh helped her department find success during the university's emergency remote instruction protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic and assisted in the development of two hybrid writing courses. As a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, Walsh has studied a wide range of topics — her research includes intersectional feminism, comedy studies, narrative medicine, teaching writing in online and hybrid modalities, and ancient rhetorics.
She has taught over 20 different writing- and language-based courses throughout her career and reviewed a book that explores rhetorical work in emergency medical services in 2019. Outside of education, Walsh has many talents. She has a small ceramics studio at her home where she enjoys working with clay. She also loves making candy and working with chocolate. In fact, she was a confectioner in her twenties, and even went to school for baking and pastry arts!
03 / Beyond the classroom
- 01Community College Grad
- 02Baker
- 03Comedy Lover
- 04Foodie
04 / Ask Theresa
Ask Theresa Walsh
We had this program in my undergraduate program where if you wanted to be a tutor, a teacher would recommend students. My first tutoring gig through my school was actually for a biology class. The next quarter, I got a recommendation from my professor who was teaching English 1B, a writing and literature class about Shakespeare.
So I started tutoring English while I was taking my first two years of classes at community college and I realized that it was writing that I like. I really like to work with people on their writing and communicating what they mean.