Below are a list of themes that instructors typically teach. For a list of what is going to be taught for the upcoming quarter, please check the "News" section of the Composition Website (at the bottom of the homepage). Once the themes for the upcoming quarter are available, they will be posted there.
| Instructor Name | Courses Typically Taught | Themes |
| Atamdede, Aysel | WR50, WR 60 | WR50: Paranormal as the Other/Horror as Humanity. WR60: The Changing Face of Education |
| Atkin, Kendra | WR60 | |
| Bacchus, Hannah | WR50 | Fairy Tales/Critical Reading and Analytical Writing |
| Baker, Librecht | WR60 | BLM/Technology and Bias |
| Bense, Brendan | WR50 | Science Fiction & What Makes Us Human |
| Boghozian, Sharece | WR50 | WR50: Allegory and Ideology |
| Brauer Rogers, Emily | WR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | WR 40: How does Story Define Us? WR 45/WR 50: Science Fiction, WR 60: Climate Change |
| Brouwer, Mo | WR 50, WR 60 | Fairy Tales, Nature Writing, Animal Ethics |
| Buczinsky, Zak | WR 50 | Exploring the Shadow |
| Campo Bowen, Kathryn | Writing 50; Literary Journalism 20 | WR 50: The Rhetoric of Memoir; WR 50: Travel Writing |
| Chavez, Daniela | WR 60, 50, 40 | WR 60: Education as the Practice of Freedom |
| Cibula, Peter | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | Bullshit Jobs (WR 60) |
| Comerci, John | ||
| Danner, Keith | Writing 45 and Writing 60. | Writing 45: Memoir; Writing 60: Climate Change |
| Dean, Matthew | WR 60 | WR 60: The American Housing Crisis |
| Delany-Ullman, Lorene | WR 45, 50 | The Rhetoric of Memoir: A Slice of Life |
| Dubey, Jaya | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | WR 45/50: Fairy Tales & Disney, Anti-Fairy Tale, Horror, Fairy Tales & Social Change |
| Dumas, DeShawn | WR60 (formerly WR 39C) | WR60: Anthropocene & The Liberal Crisis of Rational Human Being |
| Eason, Kat | WR 40, WR 50 | WR40: Food for Thought WR50: The Zombie Apocalypse |
| Eason, Loren | WR 40, WR 45, WR 60 | WR 40 - College Music, WR 45 - Science Fiction and Speculative Journalism, WR 60 - Climate Refugees and Migration |
| Ellis, Tagert | WR45, WR50 | Disney Dystopia, Internet Infamy, Video Games+Memento Mori |
| Fixa, Jack | WR 60 | Climate Justice |
| Flores, Brian | WR50 WR60 | WR50: Magical Realism WR60: Video Games and Technology |
| Gerci, Jennifer | WR 40, WR 50, WR 60, WR 139W | Autobiographical writing, Latina and queer memoir (WR 40); Afrofuturism (WR 50); Gender and Fashion (WR 60) |
| Goldman, Matthew | WR 50, WR 60 | Conspiracy Theories (WR 50), Mass Incarceration in America (WR 60) |
| Graul, Kelin | WR60 | Education and Critical Pedagogy |
| Gullaba Jr., Alberto | WR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | |
| Haas, Lynda | WR 40, WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | WR40: Disney films and the Social Construction of Gender; WR45/50: The Superhero Genre WR 60: Animal Science and Scicomm |
| Hanson-Kegerreis, Sarah | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | WR 45 and 50: science fiction; WR 60 themes: Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Education |
| Hanson, Danielle | English 16: The Craft of Poetry | English 16: The Craft of Poetry: Poetry of Surprise and Wonder; Writing 50: Fairy Tales |
| Harrison Vernon, Alexandra | WR 50, WR 60 | The Rhetoric of Fairy Tales (WR 50), The Criminalization of Immigration (WR 60) |
| Hoenicke Flores, Sarah | WR60, LJ20 | Medical Humanities, Literary Journalism |
| Huerta Osborn, Marc | WR 60 | WR 60: Immigration |
| Kilolo, Munyao | WR 60 | Technology |
| Kim, Jamie | ||
| King, Becky | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | WR 45&50: Chivalric Romance, WR 60: Pollution and Environmental Justice |
| Kongshaug, Erik | WR 50, WR 60, History 100W | WR 50 (“Frankenstein Rhetoric”), WR 60 (“Pedagogy of Liberation”). I also teach an upper division writing course (History 100W, “The Craft of History Writing”) for the History Department. |
| Lara, Michael | No courses taught at UCI, but TA for Puzzles and Paradoxes. | I normally teach Intro to Philosophy, Philosophy and Music, Sociology of Pop Culture, Classical and Modern Sociological Theory, Revolutionary Theory and Activism, and recently Sociology of Religion. |
| Lee, Jungmin | WR60 | WR60: Social Justice and Education |
| Leopold, J. Austin | WR 60 | mass incarceration, abolition feminism, rhetorics of power |
| Lerner, Scott | WR 50, WR 60 | WR 50: Zines and the Rhetoric of Change; Writing 60: Climate Change |
| Liberman, Hannah | WR 60 | WR 60: Deaths of Despair, shifting the framework |
| Lillmars, Bryce | WR 40/40A, WR 50, WR 60 | WR 40/40A & WR50: Food Writing; WR60 - Bioethics/Medical Ethics |
| Matthews, Ricardo | WR 50 and WR60 | WR 50 (Hollywood), WR 60 (The City in Trouble) |
| McBurnie-Nicolay, Patrick | WR50 & WR60 | WR50: Social Protest Literature, WR60: The New Economy, WR60: Climate Change and Environmental Justice, WR60: Labor, Gender, and Globalization |
| McClure, Greg | WR 40, WR 50, WR 60, WR 139W | Modern Horror (WR 50), Superheroes (WR 50), Humanimal Intersections (WR 60), Narrative & Discipline (WR 139W) |
| Ming, Russell | I have TA'd Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Ethics, Puzzles & Paradoxes, and Technology & Society; I have been the lead instructor for an Intro to Philosophy summer course, and am currently the lead for two sections of Business Ethics at CSU Bakersfield. | I have only TA's or taught philosophy courses. |
| Morrell, Iris | WR 50 | The Devil in Literature (WR50,) Writing About Illness |
| Nwabunnia, Elfrieda | WR 50, Beginning Poetry | WR 50: Science Fiction |
| Obodiac, Erin | WR60, WR50 | WR60: TECHNO-ECOLOGIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, WR50: ROBOTS AND SCI-FI |
| Payne, Lauryn | WR 60 | Immigration (WR60) |
| Price, Darby | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | Rhetoric of the Devil (WR 45/50) and Information & Influence (WR 60). Occasionally, The Environment (WR 60) and Unnatural Creatures (WR45/50) |
| Read, Madeleine | WR50 | Tragedy, Crime Fiction |
| Rowland, Mariel | WR60 | Education |
| Sandoval, Jaime | WR 60 | WR 60: Labor and the Economy |
| Schubert, Kathryn | WR50, WR60 | WR50: Rhetoric of Fairy Tales; WR60: Gender, Labor, and Globalization |
| Schulte, Julie | Writing 31, Writing 50, Writing 60, Writing 45 | Writing 50: The Language of Exile; Writing 60: Mothers and the Rhetoric |
| Seward, Spencer | WR 40, WR 45, WR 50, and WR 50 | "What's Your Truth?" (WR 40), Family in Horror (WR 45/50) |
| Sharif, Saiham | WR 50, WR60 | WR50: Fairy Tales; WR60: Animal Ethics |
| Short, Gretchen | WR 50 | Adapting to the Alien |
| Sims, Rick | WR 40, WR 45, WR 50 | WR 40: Opinion Writing -- WR 45: Pop Culture Criticism -- WR 50: Ecopoetry |
| Smith-Newman, Julian | WR 60; WR 45 | WR 60: Social Movements and the Politics of Change; WR 45: Autoethnography |
| Son, Sara | WR60: Immigration | |
| Speer, Margaret | WR 45, WR 50, WR 60 | "Medical Horror" "Medicine and Marginalized Identities" |
| Streitfeld, Scott | WR 50, WR 60 | |
| Suh, Haley | WR50, WR 60 | WR50: K-Pop Gothic Tales WR60: Body Politics and Epidemic Diseases |
| Tada, Annabelle | WR 50, WR 60 | WR 50: Fairy Tales, WR 60: Medical Ethics and Marginalized Perspectives |
| Venegas, Yolanda | WR45, WR50, WR60 |
WR 45/50: Autohistoria: Personal Writing for Social Change WR 60: First Generation Students and the Promise of Higher Education |
| Viger, Noelle | WR60, | WR60: Elections and Democracy in the United States |
| Watson, Emma | WR 50 | Fairy Tales (WR 50) |
| Weinberg, Dara | WR 60 | Free Speech Abuses |
| Wells, Emily | WR40, WR45, WR50, WR60, WR139W | Medical humanities(60), autobiographical medical narratives (139W), new journalism and the personal essay (40), Gender in literature (45, 50) |
| White, Marion | WR 60 | |
| Wiggins, Wyatt | I have TA'd for world history survey courses, European history courses, and religions classes. | War and Memory, Comparative study of faith traditions, analyzing world history and interconnected systems (social, political, financial, etc.) Queenship and kinship in the medieval world. |
| Winiarski, Catherine | WR 40, 50, 60 | American nature writing, climate justice |
| Zhuang, Jie | WR 40, 50, 60 | Style and Rhetoric; Fairy Tales; Horror; Global Woman |
| Ziff, Joost | WR 60 | Free Speech and its Limits. Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the Working World. |