Faculty Profile

Degrees

PHD, Hofstra Univ; MA, Hofstra Univ; BA, Calif St Univ Dominguez Hills; AA, El Camino Coll

Bio

Marilyn Buono is Assistant Director of the Writing Center and adjunct associate professor of writing in the Writing Studies and Rhetoric Department at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Buono received her PhD in Literacy Studies and her MA in English Literature from Hofstra University. Her theoretical framework embraces a sociocultural perspective and relational notions of identity and is consistent with the work of the New London Group (1996) in its emphasis on multimodal social semiotics. Buono's multimodal approach to college writing has produced data that serves to expand the learning process, documents the ways in which student identities shift and change, and supports the disruption of literacy practices that are autonomous and fixed. These research findings have been presented by Buono at national conferences including NCTE, CCCC, WLU, The Ethnography in Education Forum, and NEWCA. On a related and lighter note, Dr. Buono is a Marvel superhero fan and often features a section on heroes and superheroes in her Composition classes.