Sara Biggs Chaney

|Senior Lecturer
Academic Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer in Writing

  • Associate Coordinator of MMUF

Sara Biggs Chaney has taught writing courses for the Institute since 2005 and served as the Associate Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship since 2016. She studies the rhetoric of ADHD across media and historical periods and teaches first-year writing courses focused on disability and representation.

Contact

Sara.B.Chaney@dartmouth.edu
37 Dewey Fld Rd, Room 230
HB 6250

Department(s)

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Education

  • B.A. Barnard College
  • M.A. Indiana University
  • Ph.D. Indiana University

Selected Publications

  •  "ADHD and Rhetorics of Delinquency" Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Volume 8, No. 1, Winter, 2025. pp. 85-113

  • "Rankings and Ravings in the Academic Public." Rhetoric Review, April 2011.

  • "Beyond Critical Pedagogy in Basic Writing." Review Essay, Enculturation, June 2010.

  • "Study of Teacher Error: Misreading Resistance in the Basic Writing Classroom." Journal of Basic Writing 23 (Spring 2004): 25-38.