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David J. Bartholomae is a leading American scholar in composition studies. He is Professor of English and a former Chair of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

His primary research interests are in composition, literacy, and pedagogy, and his work engages scholarship in rhetoric and in American literature/American Studies. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as PMLA, Critical Quarterly, and College Composition and Communication.

He is also the co-editor, with Jean Ferguson Carr, of the University of Pittsburgh Press Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, a leading list of monographs in the field.

Bartholomae has served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and as president of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and president of the Association of Departments of English.

In 1985, Bartholomae was the Chair of CCCC, where he gave his CCCC Chair's Address “Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC.”

He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1975.

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