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Nicholas J. H. Coles (born 1947 Leeds, England) is a British-American scholar in working-class literature and composition studies, and is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh.〔(Nicholas Coles webpage at the University of Pittsburgh )〕 ==Life== He holds BA and MA degrees from Oxford University (Coles was educated at Balliol College, where he was awarded a first-class undergraduate degree), and he holds MA and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His 1981 PhD dissertation was ''The Making of a Monster: The Working Class in the Industrial Novels and Social Investigations of 1830–1855.'' He writes and teaches about literacy, pedagogy, contemporary poetry, and teacher-research. His best-known book, ''Working Classics'' (1990), co-edited with Peter Oresick, was the first to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry.〔(Oxford University Press website for Nicholas Coles ) 〕 He is also Field Director of the National Writing Project, based at the University of California at Berkeley. He directed until 2002 the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, working to improve students’ writing and academic performance in K-12 schools. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Coles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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