Dr. William Breeze began his career at CWRU in 2024 as Administrative Director of Faculty Advancement and Postdoctoral Affairs after serving fifteen years as Director of First-Year Writing at Cleveland State University. Before that, Breeze was Assistant Professor of English at University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has twenty-five years of teaching and leadership experience in higher education.
In his role as Director of First-Year Writing, Breeze developed general education writing curricula for face-to-face and online course offerings, supervised and trained faculty, promoted multiple student success initiatives, worked with the Ohio Department of Higher Education on curricula development and course transferability, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and in rhetoric. He has served as editor-in-chief of In Practice: A Reader for Writers (Bedford St. Martins, 2017), The Engaged Reader: Issues and Conversations for Composition (Van-Griner Learning, 2015 & 2017), and the Quarter After Eight literary journal (Ohio University, 2003-2005).
Breeze holds a doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition and a bachelor’s in English from Ohio University, as well as a master's in English from University of Louisville. He grew up in the rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio before serving in the United States Navy. He currently lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife, son, and a menagerie of pets, both mammalian and amphibian. He enjoys live music, travel, Cleveland baseball, and the National Parks.