Karen Buechner

Adjunct
Humanities 1100
karen.buechner@stonybrook.edu

• Biography

  Biography

  Karen Buechner, Ed.D, is an adjunct professor of English who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in both English and in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric. She has taught secondary English Language Arts for thirty years and has been an adjunct instructor for the Graduate Education Program at Molloy University. She is also a consultant for the OWL Teacher Center and Eastern Suffolk Boces. As a fellow of the Long Island Writing Project, she has been instrumental in implementing professional development in schools across Long Island. Her areas of teaching and research include literacy education, particularly writing instruction, writing identity, learning-centered environments, and classroom discourse. She has presented numerous professional workshops on secondary literacy with a focus on writing identity and culturally responsive teaching.