Leah Sink Haynes

Prior to joining the faculty at UNCSA, Leah Sink Haynes taught writing at Wake Forest University. Previously, she had also taught American literature, science and speculative fiction, composistion, and public and professional writing at UNC Greensboro. Haynes aims to help students build greater confidence and self-efficacy, particularly in academic and professional writing. 

I use a place-based, critical approach to teaching where students' past and present experiences with place — their hometowns, their travels, their lived experiences here at UNCSA — are central to the reading, writing and creating we do in my classrooms.

Leah Sink Haynes

Credentials

• Former Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing, Department of English, Wake Forest Universty.
• Former Instructor of Record, Department of English, UNC Greensboro.
• Former Graduate Teaching Intern, Department of English, UNC Greensboro.
• Writing Consultant, University Writing Center, UNC Greensboro 2018-19.
• Former English Teacher at Trinity High School.

Career Highlights

• Lead editor "Navigating Rhetoric: A Guidebook for College Writing," Macmillan Learning Curriculum Solutions, 2021.
• Edited “Common places: Where to Go and What to Say," 2021.
• Co-authored “B.E.A.M: Putting Your Sources to Work,” 2021.
• Contributing author “Girls and Postfeminism: The Free and Determined Woman," Critical Media Studies, vol. 3, SUNY Press, 2017, pp. 173–90.
• Reviewed "Deaf Identities: Exploring New Frontiers," Irene W. Leigh and Catherine O’Brien, Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 5, Mar. 2021.

Awards, Recognitions and Honors

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, UNC Greensboro, 2023.
• Research Assistantship, Department of English, UNC Greensboro, 2022.
• Bernard Dissertation Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC Greensboro, 2020-21.
• National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency, “Passionate Teaching in the Research Environment: How to Create Meaningful Online Learning Experiences,” National Humanities Center, July 2020.
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, The College of Arts and Sciences, UNC Greensboro, 2019-20.
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, UNC Greensboro, 2019-20.

Organizations

• Rhetoric Society of America.
• National Council of Teachers of English.
• College English Association.
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.