Catherine Bayly

CB has taught rhetorical writing in UMD's English Department since 2012, and is currently a Principal Lecturer. Her teaching focuses on both multimodal composition and the rhetoric of protest and advocacy, especially in the 1960s. CB also has a passion for framing rhetoric as performance art and tries to incorporate that work and aura into her classrooms.

CB has also served many terms as a mentor and Faculty Fellow in Academic Writing, contributing significantly to work on anti-racism and justice-oriented pedagogy, as well as research and presentations on alternative grading philosophies in the composition classroom. CB has also contributed to programmatic assignment creation and written several articles that were included in the AWP's textbook Fearless Writing: Rhetoric, Inquiry, and Argument.

In years past, she has taught College Level and Developmental Writing at McDaniel College and literature courses at Howard Community College. In 2014, Catherine also co-edited a book of poems, To Linger on Hot Coals, and has published poems in magazines including the Little Patuxent Review. She continues to write, mostly in private.