ELDON J. GARDNER TEACHING AWARD BETH BUYSERIE

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Beth Buyserie is the Director of Composition and Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education in 2018. Her work focuses on writing program administration, the teaching of composition, critical pedagogies, professional learning, and the intersections of language, knowledge, and power through the lenses of queer theory and critical race theory. As Director of Composition, Dr. Buyserie mentors all English graduate instructors (GI), lecturers, and adjunct instructors in the teaching of English 1010 and 2010. She regularly teaches English 6820, the graduate pedagogy course that prepares GIs to teach English 1010, as well as English 1010 and 2010. Dr. Buyserie particularly enjoys learning with and from undergraduate and graduate students—and each day she learns something new about the teaching of composition from students’ energy, insight, and lived experiences.

In Spring 2023, Dr. Buyserie taught a graduate course on queer and antiracist pedagogies as part of her Teaching Fellowship through the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research. She received an ETE Scholar Award in 2021; in August 2022 she earned her Master Scholar Certificate through the Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence. In addition to serving as the CHaSS Teacher of the Year, she is a Pedagogy Fellow for the Transformative Intersectional Collective (a collaboration among USU, UU, SLCC, & WSU) for 2022-2023