Derek N. Mueller
Curriculum Vitae
Department of English
Virginia Tech
323 Shanks Hall (MC 0112)
181 Turner St. NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
dmueller@vt.edu
- EDUCATION
- PhD, Syracuse University, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, 2009
- MA, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, English (Rhetoric and Writing), 2000
- BA, Park University, English (Literature and Writing), 1996
- EMPLOYMENT
- Professor, Department of English, Virginia Tech, 2021-
- Faculty Associate, Food Studies Program, Virginia Tech, 2020-
- On research assignment leave (sabbatical), Spring 2025
- Interim Director, Rhetoric and Writing PhD Program, Virginia Tech, Spring 2024
- Director of the University Writing Program, Virginia Tech, 2018-2023
- Interim Co-Director, Center for Rhetoric in Society, Virginia Tech, 2021
- Associate Professor, Department of English, Virginia Tech, 2018-2021
- Associate Professor of Written Communication, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2014-2018
- Director of the First-year Writing Program, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2013- 2018
- Assistant Professor of Written Communication, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2009-2014
- Associate Director of the First-year Writing Program, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2012-2013
- Graduate Teaching Associate, The Writing Program, Syracuse University, 2004-2009
- Senior Part-time Instructor, English and Humanities, Park University, 2000-2009
- Online Course Developer, Park University, 2001-2009
- Assistant Director of Athletics/Sports Information, Park University, 1997-2004
- Part-time Instructor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000
- Associate Director of Professional Development for TAs, English Dept., Missouri-Kansas City, 1999-2000
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Theories and practices of composition; Research methods and methodologies; New media and digital writing; Network studies; Writing pedagogies; Geography and mapping; Visual rhetorics; Information design and data visualization; Disciplinary formation, maturation, and dissipation
- HONORS AND AWARDS
- Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award for Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline, 2018
- CCCC Research Impact Award for Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline, 2019
- Claude English Award, for leadership, service, and professional achievement, Park University, 2019
- Catch the Spirit Award, Native Vision, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, 2016
- Provost's New Faculty Research Support Award ($4,969 grant to fund research), Eastern Michigan University, 2010
- CCR Dissertation Oral Defense, Passed with distinction, 2009
- CCR Qualifying Exams, Passed with distinction, 2007
- Teaching Assistant Superior Teaching Award, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998, 1999
- Sosland Teaching Award, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies co-authored with Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, and Andrea Williams. Anderson, SC: Inkshed/Parlor P, 2017. (196 pp.)
Review: Eaton, Christopher. (2019, Fall). [Review of the book "Cross-border networks in writing studies," by Mueller, D. N., Clary-Lemon, J., Phelps, L.W., and A. Williams]. Composition Studies, 47(2), 220-223. https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/eaton_review_47.2.pdf
Review: Chen, Chen. (2017, Fall). [Review of the book "Cross-border networks in writing studies," by Mueller, D. N., Clary-Lemon, J., Phelps, L.W., and A. Williams]. Composition Studies, 45(2), 242-245. https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/45.2-chen.pdf
Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline. #writing series. Fort Collins, CO: CSU Open P, 2018. (192 pp.)
Review: Zobel, Gregory. (2019, November). [Review of the book "Network sense: methods for visualizing a discipline," by Mueller, D. N.]. Communication Design Quarterly, 7(3), 32-33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3321388.3321393
Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts, co-edited with Rachel Gramer and Logan Bearden. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2021. (80k words; 79 figures)
Review: Beers, Morgan. (2022, Spring). [Review of the book "Radiant figures: Visual rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts," by Gramer, R., Bearden, L., and Mueller, D.]. Programmatic Perspectives, 13(1), 131-135. https://cptsc.org/journal/current-issue
Review: Mainaly, Shiva. (2023, Spring). [Review of the book "Radiant figures: Visual rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts," by Gramer, R., Bearden, L., and Mueller, D.]. Composition Studies, 51(1), 208-212. https://compstudiesjournal.com/current-issue-spring-2023-51-1/
Try This: Research Methods for Writers, co-authored with Jennifer Clary-Lemon and Kate Pantelides. Practices & Possibilities Ser. Fort Collins, CO: CSU Open P, 2022. (169 pp.). https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1442
Review: Queeney, Ann Marie. (2023, August). [Review of the book "Try This: Research Methods for Writers," by Clary-Lemon, J., Mueller, D.N., and K. Pantelides]. Technical Communication, 70(3), 99-100. https://www.stc.org/techcomm/
Articles in Refereed Journals
"Myth-Checking in Complandia: The Dispositions of Try This," Invited "At a glance: Connection and Collaboration" co-authored with Jennifer Clary-Lemon and Kate Pantelides, Composition Studies 50.3 (Fall 2022): 18-19.
"Polymorphic Frames of Pre-tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia," co-authored with Laura Davies, Matt Dowell, Alanna Frost, Mike Garcia, Rik Hunter, and Kate Pantelides, Kairos 21.1 (August 2016). Web. n.p.
"Eight Years a "Wooden Opponent": Genre Change (and its Lack) in Campus Timely Warnings," co-authored with Kate Pantelides and Gabe Green, Present Tense 5.3 (May 2016). Web. n.p.
"Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy," Composition Forum 32 (Fall 2015). Web. n.p.
"Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell Us About the Field's Changing Shape," College Composition and Communication 64.1 (Sept. 2012): 195-223. [PDF]
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web. n.p.
"Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom," Computers and Composition 26.4 (Dec. 2009): 240-250. [PDF]
Book Chapters
"Heuristics," Keywords in Making: A Rhetorical Primer, edited by Jason Tham. Anderson, SC: Parlor P, 2024. 62-65.
"Silhouette of DFWI," Radiant Figures. Logan, UT: CCDP/Utah State UP, 2021. n.p.
"Big Time Disciplinarity: Measuring Professional Consequences in Candles and Clocks," co-authored with Kate Pantelides. Composition as Big Data. Amanda Licastro and Ben Miller, eds. Composition, Literacy, and Culture ser. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 2021.
"New Materialisms, Networks, and Humanities Research," co-authored with Laurie Gries, Jenny Bay, and Nathaniel Rivers. Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University. Jeff Rice and Brian McNely, eds. New Media Theory ser. Anderson, SC: Parlor P, 2018. 85-102.
"Every Mad Scientist Needs a Tower, a Monster, and a Telegraph Wire: Blogs as Research and Pedagogy Laboratories for Graduate Students," co-authored with Krista A. Kennedy for Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andréa D. Davis and Suzanne Webb. X ser. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead P, 2017. 139-154.
“Style Conventions,” co-authored with Julie Mengert. Understanding Rhetoric Virginia Tech Custom. Boston: Macmillan, 2018 (Rpt. with revisions annually, 2019-2023). 27 pp.
“Welcome to the Virginia Tech Composition Program.” Understanding Rhetoric Virginia Tech Custom. Boston: Macmillan, 2018 (Rpt. with revisions annually, 2019-2023). 25 pp.
Anthologies & Reprints
"Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy." Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017. Kate Vieira, Vincent Portillo, and Jason Luther, David Blakesley, and Steve Parks, eds. Anderson, SC: Parlor P, 2018. Print. Rpt. of "Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy," Composition Forum 32 (Fall 2015). Web.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011." Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012. Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, and Heather Christiansen, eds. Anderson, SC: Parlor P, 2014. Print. Rpt. of "Views from a Distance," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
Book Reviews
Rev. of Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, co-authored with Angelique Trent (Fish) for Composition Forum 22 (Summer 2010). Web. n.p.
Rev. of The Economics of Attention by Richard A. Lanham, JAC 28.1-2 (2008): 328-335. [PDF]
Peer Reviewed Digital Media
"How to Travel in Time," audio cut-up for "William S. Burroughs Teaches Writing" Response, Enculturation (Feb. 2015). Web. n.p.
"Lessons in Generative Design, Publishing, and Circulation: What EM-Journal’s First Year Has Taught Us," co-developed with Jana Rosinski, Becky Morrison, Chelsea Lonsdale, and Adam Nannini, Kairos 17.2 (Jan. 2013). Web. n.p.
"Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web. n.p.
Blog Entries
"Availability Dereliction," Discerning Digital Rhetorics' Futures, Blog Carnival 14, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, October 2018. Web. n.p.
"Digital Rhetorics: Simply Too Complicated a Phenomenon," What Does Digital Rhetoric Mean to Me, Blog Carnival 1, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, June 7, 2012. Web. n.p.
Newsletters
"Distant Reading Methods: How (and Why) to Read 400 Scholarly Articles in One Sitting," SP: Language and Social Processes AERA SIG 32.1 (Spring 2011): 15-16. [PDF]
"Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts," Composing Ourselves, 4.2, Missouri-Kansas City, Winter 1999. n.p.
Forthcoming & Under Contract
"Methods in Dialogue: We Learn Research Methods, But How?", with Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Samira Grayson, Kate Pantelides, Christopher Rogers, and Molly Ryan; Invited chapter for Evolving Writing Studies: Sustainable Graduate Education in the 21st Century, edited by Sarah Henderson Lee and Kirsti Cole.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Exhibitions & Artwork
"Pada Deszcz," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, September 30, 2024
"Salt Loss," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, August 26, 2024
"Lychee," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, July 29, 2024
"Three Hills," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, June 28, 2024
"Memory Foams," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, May 29, 2024
"Said the Grackle to the Augur," editorial illustration, OnlyPoems Poem of the Month, April 22, 2024
"Out of Hollow Green Stuff Woven," fourteen digital illustrations, with Amelia Salisbury (Smoyer Gallery, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, Va.), November 3-December 3, 2023
"Cave Guests," eight digital illustrations, with Amelia Salisbury (Falcon Gallery, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, Va.), August 13-October 1, 2022
"#18 Write (Pandemic Bestiary Series)," digital illustration, Reflections: Art in the Time of COVID-19 (sponsored by The Artful Lawyer, Blacksburg, VA), July 30-October 15, 2021
"Pandemic Bestiary," thirteen digital illustrations, Perspectives Flex Gallery, Squires Student Center at Virginia Tech, February 4-May 1, 2021
Interview & Press
"Virginia Tech graduate students and staff are launching labor unions," by Lisa Rowan, Sept. 5, 2023, Cardinal News
"Interview: Behind the Scenes with Radiant Figures, with Rachel Gramer and Logan Bearden, Part I, and Part II," by Wenqi Cui , Dec. 14, 2022, and Feb. 15, 2023, The Scholar Electric
"Interview: Try This: Research Methods for Writers, with Jennifer Clary-Lemon and Kate Pantelides," by Deidre Tyler, Sept. 19, 2022, New Books Network
"Derek Mueller takes whimsical approach in ‘Pandemic Bestiary’ series," by Andrew Adkins, Apr. 23, 2021, Virginia Tech Daily
"Ask the Artist" Interview, moderated by Robin Scully, Feb. 17, 2021, Virginia Tech Student Engagement & Campus Life
"The Source Awakens: An Interview with Derek Mueller," by Eric Detweiler, Feb. 16, 2017, Rhetoricity
"Rebranding the Bronx: Why Do Electeds Keep Bringing Up the Bad Old Days?," by Sarina Trangle, Sept. 20, 2016, City & State New York
"Does NYC's Quest for Data Actually Offer Any Insight?," by Sarina Trangle, Aug. 12, 2015, City & State New York
"Episode 19: Dimensions of Data: Visual Disciplinography," by Jana Rosinski, Feb. 28, 2014, This Rhetorical Life, Syracuse University
Editing
Co-editor with Lauren Garskie and Jason Tham, "Discerning Digital Rhetorics' Futures," Blog Carnival 14, Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, 2018.
Sponsoring Editor and Faculty Advisor, EM—Journal, 2011-2014.
Editorial Assistant, College Composition and Communication, 2005-2009
Responsible for CCC Online Archive with Associate Editor, Collin Brooke.
Technical Editor, Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache All-in-One, 4th Ed., for Pearson Education, Inc., 2008.
Grants
Pathways Grant, "Redeveloping ENGL3754: Advanced Composition," with Megan Weaver (principal), and Maggie Fernandes, ($9,925), Virginia Tech, 2021
Pathways Grant, "Bridging Farther the Digital Literacies Initiative and Composition Program," with Stefanie Motko, Tim Becker, Kayla McNabb, Katelyn Griffin, Julia Feerrar, Lisa Becksford, Chloe Robertson, Olayemi Awotayo, and Brooke Marton, ($10,000), Virginia Tech, 2021
Pathways Assessment Spring 2021 Mini-Grant (Composition Program), with Julie Mengert, ($6,700), Virginia Tech, 2021
Online Transition Funding/Pathways, "Developing Fully Online Blueprint Sections for the Composition Program (Expedited Pandemic Response)," with Julie Mengert and Steve Oakey, ($21,969), Virginia Tech, 2020
Pathways Grant, "Bridging the Digital Literacies Initiative and Composition Program," with Stefanie Motko, Tim Becker, Kayla McNabb, Katelyn Griffin, Chloe Robertson, Olayemi Awotayo, and Aaron Bond, ($10,000), Virginia Tech, 2020
Pathways Grant, "Pathways Assessment Professional Development in the Composition Program," ($18,600), Virginia Tech, 2019
Women in Philanthropy Grant, "Developing and Leading a Life Skills Workshop for Native Youth," for 2016 Native Vision camp in Okmulgee, Okla., with Michelle Lietz ($3,500), Eastern Michigan University, 2015-16
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Enacting the First-Year Writing Program Assessment Initiative (Phase Four - Final)," with Kate Pantelides ($5,000), Eastern Michigan University, 2014-15
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Enacting the First-Year Writing Program Assessment Initiative," with Kate Pantelides ($5,000), Eastern Michigan University, 2013-14
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Proposal for a Peer Tutoring Initiative at EMU: A Collaboration Between the University Writing Center, the English Department, and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program," with Ann Blakeslee, Cathy Fleischer, and Kim Pavlock ($2,000), Eastern Michigan University, 2011
Posters
"Keywords in Threshold Concepts: Time-Binding and Methodologizing Disciplinary Lexicon," March 20, 2015, poster presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Fla.
"Lessons in Generative Design, Publishing, and Circulation: What EM-Journal’s First Year Has Taught Us," March 22, 2012; Poster presentation with Becky Morrison, Jana Rosinski, Adam Nannini, and Chelsea Lonsdale, Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Mo.
"The EM-Journal Experiment: Selected Lessons in Launching and Maintaining an Online Journal," March 2, 2012; Poster presentation with Becky Morrison, Jana Rosinski, and Chelsea Lonsdale, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Alma College, Alma, Mich.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model," December 3, 2011; Poster presentation, HASTAC V, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," April 7, 2011; Poster presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Ga.
Invited Presentations & Workshops
"Preparing for Preliminary Exams," May 8, 2024, Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program, Virginia Tech
"Is Food Studies a Discipline?", April 5, 2024, Food Studies Program, Virginia Tech
"Preparing for Academic Interviews and Job Talks," October 18, 2023, Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program, Virginia Tech
"Recalling the Cafeteria," October 13, 2023, Food Studies Program, Virginia Tech
"Writing Picogogy: Integrating One Small Change," May 18, 2023, Writing Across the Curriculum Institute/2023 Pathways Summer Institute, Virginia Tech
"Why Worknets," Sept. 23, 2022. With Jen Clary-Lemon and Kate Pantelides, invited presentation, The Ohio State University (virtual)
"Network Quiescence," January 15, 2021, invited presentation, and "Decisions Big and Small at the Outset: Teaching (and Learning) Writing Online Under Duress," January 14, 2021, invited teaching discussion, Writing and Rhetoric Program Spring Lecture, Univ. of Virginia (virtual)
Invited presenter and co-lead facilitator, “Effective Practices in Online Writing Instruction” Workshop, Writing Across Virginia Affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators Virtual Discussion Conference, August 6, 2020 (virtual)
Invited presenter and co-lead facilitator, “Online Writing Instruction” session, 2020 Council of Writing Program Administrators Virtual Discussion Conference, July 14, 2020 (virtual)
"Network Sense and Fugue Data Sets: What In a Precarious Discipline Blooms," April 13, 2020, invited presentation, Writing and Rhetoric Program Spring Lecture, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (COVID-19 interrupted)
"Reading Out of Bounds; Writing Off the Edge," November 1, 2019, invited workshop, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
"Disciplinary Rustle, Phantasmagoria and Fugue," October 31, 2019, invited presentation, Rhetoric Colloquium Series, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pa.
"When Disciplinary Things Fall Apart," invited presentation, and "Last Words First, invited workshop, October 29, 2019, Univ. of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio
"Discipline Going Gone," October 25, 2018, featured speaker, Watson Conference, Making Future Matters, Louisville, Ky.
"What Source Entanglement Teaches," November 9, 2017, invited presentation and workshop, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich.
"The Inventive Edges of Academic Sources," October 13, 2017. With Rachel Gramer, invited presentation and workshop, Saginaw Valley State University, Mich.
"Data Visualization Methods," July 27, 2017. Invited presentation (Skype) for KairosCamp, West Virginia University.
"Writing Desert Survival Kit," June 24, 2017. Invited presentation and workshop for Mapping Terrains and Navigating Bridges: Preparing Students to Transfer Writing Knowledge, hosted by Macomb Community College, Warren, Mich.
"Veering Operations," May 8, 2017. Invited presentation and workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Reading and Writing with Worknets," May 4, 2017. Invited workshop for the Advanced Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University.
"Standing on the Shoulders of Networks," March 3, 2017. Invited presentation and workshop, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
"In Walks a Snowflake," January 20, 2017. Invited keynote for the 2017 Academic Success Partnerships Scholars' Banquet, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"Teaching with Canvas," Sept. 1, 2016. Workshop for faculty, instructors, and graduate assistants in English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University.
"Mapping Worknets," May 5, 2016. Invited workshop for the Advanced Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Disciplinary Discourse Networks 1984/2014," March 4, 2016. Invited presentation and workshop for the Peck Composition Series, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
"Mapping Worknets," May 7, 2015. Invited workshop for the Advanced Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Meandering Pathways, Strange Turns: Visualization Methods for Heuretical Discipliniography," April 17, 2015. Invited plenary presentation and workshop for the second annual Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Workshop, Syracuse University
"Blogging as Curiosity Habit," September 12, 2014. Invited presentation (Skype) for the Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Winnipeg, MB
"Mapping Worknets," May 8, 2014. Invited workshop for the Advanced Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
Co-facilitator, Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University, April 29-May 3, 2013 (Included "Writing in a Digital Age" workshop, April 30)
"Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-rich Timelines with Timeline JS," April 4, 2013 Invited Digital Future Workshop for the Center for 21st Century Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Using Google Docs for Collaborative Work," May 10, 2012, Invited workshop for the Communication Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Blogs as Scaffolding for Research Writing," May 1, 2012, Invited presentation (WI Spotlight) for the Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"A Quick Rhetoric of QR Codes," Nov. 8, 2011, Invited Tech Talk for the Art Department, Eastern Michigan University
"Technological Support for Collaborative Work," May 5, 2011, Invited workshop for the Communication Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Google Reader Across the Curriculum," April 27, 2011, With Becky Morrison, invited workshop for the Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"How to Curate a Digital Antilibrary: An Introduction to Google Reader," Dec. 2, 2010, Technovations workshop for the Nelson Faculty Dev. Center, Eastern Michigan University
"The Found-Kept Web: A Delicious Workshop," April 28 & May 5, 2010, Invited workshop for the Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Graduate Studies and Professional Ethos, Blogwise," May 2, 2009, Invited speaker (via Skype), Creating, Composing, Curating: Converging Sites of Composition, FYC Professional Development Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Podcasting: Sonic Composing," October 22, 2008, Guest presenter, CCR720: Interdisciplinary Influences on Composition and Rhetoric: Computers and Writing, Syracuse Univ.
"Tech Camp: A Workshop on Web Writing, Image Work, and Video Production," June 17-19, 2008, Co-Facilitator, The Writing Program, Syracuse University
"Social Bookmarking in Action," August 20, 2007, CCR Community Day Panel, "Scholarship in Action: Scholarly Perspectives II," Syracuse Univ.
"Blogging as a Graduate Student," October 20, 2005, Gateway Focus on Teaching Luncheon Series, "Technology to Support Student Motivation," Syracuse Univ.
"Quick and Dirty Research: RSS and Aggregation," August 24, 2005, Writing Program New TA Orientation, Syracuse University
"The Photographemic Map as Writable Space," August 22, 2005, CCR Community Day Panel, "Mapping Spatial and Material Conditions," Syracuse Univ.
"Technology and the Writing Classroom," April, 1999, Composition workshop, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
Conference Presentations
"Future Theory/Method(ologies): Research Methods for Writers," February 16, 2023, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Ill.
"Writing into the Shadows: Toward a Contemporary Hauntology," October 1, 2022, Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Blacksburg, Va.
"Disciplinary Phantoms Are a Kind of Real," respondent for "Why Research Here?: An Octalog Interrogating the Locations of College Writing Research and their Significance," March 11, 2022, Conference on College Composition and Communication, online.
"The Invitational Dilemma of Fragile Disciplinarity," May 21-14, 2020, 19th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Portland, Ore. (COVID-19 interrupted)
"Navigating Time Warps at the Intersection of Intellectual and Personal Writing Lives," March 28, 2020, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, Wisc. (COVID-19 interrupted)
"Intersectional from the Start: The Durative Influence of Feminist Rhetorical Theory in the Development of GTA Professional Practice and Identity," Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference, Roundtable, November 15, 2019, James Madison U, Harrisonburg, Va.
"DFWI Wept," September 21, 2019, Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Blacksburg, Va.
"Charting Felt Time at Mid-Career," June 21, 2019, Computers and Writing Conference, East Lansing, Mich.
"Re-humanizing Spreadsheet Cell Q19," March 15, 2019, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pa.
"Command-prompting Unavailability—Do Not Disturb," The States and Futures of Digital Rhetorics, roundtable/fishbowl, May 31, 2018, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, Minn.
"Illustrating Who We Are Made Of: Literacy Sponsor Avatars as Articulating Presences Unseen," March 15, 2018, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, Mo.
"Network Sense at Nascency," October 28, 2017, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Winding Again the Affiliate's Watch: A Michigan WPA Rebeginning and Roundtable, September 30, 2017, Corridors: The Great Lakes Rhetoric and Writing Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
"The Messy and Complex Middle Ground Between Method and Methodology: A Conversation on Research," Think Tank Session, March 16, 2017, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Ore.
"In the Dust of this Writing Program," October 15, 2016, WIDE-EMU Conference, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"Worknets as Rhetorical Invention," Designing a WAC Institute for Modal Diversity, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Roundtable, June 23, 2016, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Chreodic Build-up: Planning and Enacting a Networked Methodological Approach," April 8, 2016, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas
"Turn Spotting: Tracing Keywords Across an Expanding Disciplinary Lexicon," October 30-31, 2015, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Tempe, Arizona
"Threshold Concepts and the Inevitability of Transgressive Invitation," October 10, 2015, WIDE-EMU Conference, East Lansing, Mich.
"Meh Admin: The Generative Potential of Ambivalence," July 17, 2015, Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, Idaho
"Program-Responsive Assessment Design: A Report on the First-year Writing Program's Assessment Initiative," with Kate Pantelides. October 31, 2014, Eastern Michigan University 2014 Assessment Forum, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"Mad Handles," E.17 Polymorphic Frames of Pre-Tenure WPAs: Eight Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia, Thursday, March 20, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Ind.
"Emplaced Disciplinary Networks from Middle Altitude," Interdependencies and Cross-Pollination between Canadian and U.S. Writing Studies: Examining Transnational Relationships through Distant and Close Methodologies, Writing Research Across Borders, Symposium W9, February 22, 2014, Paris, France
"Dissoi Ecologoi: Differential Rhetorical Ecologies and Prospective Appeals," Latour’s Compositionism and the Angel of History, Friday, April 26, 2013, HASTAC, Toronto, Ont.
"Considerations of Research Design and Analyzing Large Data Sets in the 2012 Master's Degree Consortium Survey," L.18 Respondent, Saturday, March 16, 2013, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nev.
"Cross-Generational Connections among Retired Faculty, Retiring Faculty, and the Emergent Professoriate: Beginning a Conversation," E.01 Facilitator, Featured Session, Thursday, March 14, 2013, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nev.
"Alien Discipliniography: Visualization Methods for an Ontographic View of Rhetoric and Composition," Networked Relations: New Materialist Contributions to the Digital Humanities February 16, 2013, Networked Humanities Conference, #nhuk, Lexington, Ky.
"Clocking Composition: Exploring Chronography with Timeline JS," Oct. 20, 2012. With Jana Rosinski and Joe Torok. WIDE-EMU Conference, East Lansing, Mich.
"Sifting for Worm Turns: Thirty Keywords over Two Decades in College Composition and Communication," March 22, 2012; Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Mo.
"The Hyper-Circumference of Effectiveness in 3…2…1… FTL Jumps," Oct. 15, 2011, WIDE-EMU Conference, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"CCC In Motion: Twenty Terms Over Twenty Years," May 20, 2011, Panel: "Motion, Media, Method, Materiality," Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Cloud Parallax," April 9, 2011, Roundtable: "A Department in Exile: The Challenges of Contested Spaces and Roles," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Ga.
THATCamp—Chicago, November 20, 2010, The Humanities and Technology Camp, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill.
"I'll Have What You're Having: Delicious Mentorship 2.0 Ways," May 22, 2010, Computers and Writing Conference, West Lafayette, Ind.
"When the Last Database You Search Is Not Your Own," March 18, 2010, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Ky.
"1987: A Choragraphic Return to North's Neighborhood," March, 2009, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, Calif.
"Sweding a Scholarly Journal: Metadata, Digitization, and Whatever You Have On Hand," October 17, 2008, Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Ky.
"Automata for the Archive: A Machinery for Distant Reading," May 25, 2008, Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Wash.
"Everywhere Drafting: A Thick Map," May 23, 2008, Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Wash.
"Visualizing Disciplinary Patterns: Distant Reading Methods and Composition Studies," April 11, 2008, Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, N.Y.
"How Archives Learn: Tagging Practices and the Circulation of Digital Archives," April 4, 2008, Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, La.
"Blogging and the Orchestration of Attention It Demands," May, 2007, Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, Mich.
"Clouds, Graphs, and Maps: CCC From a Distance," March 24, 2007, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Featured Session, New York, N.Y.
"Digital Underlife and Writing Instruction," July 24-27, 2006, Virtual Reality in Real Life Conference, SUNY-Cortland, Online
"Mirror, Mirror on the Web: The Evolution of CCC Online," March, 2006, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Ill.
"Networked Writing as Micro-Monument: The Long Tail's Nested Memoria," October, 2005, Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.
"Weblogs and Emergence: Opening Gestures in Networked Spaces," April, 2005, Humanities, Arts and Technosciences (CHATS) Conference, Albany, N.Y.
"Ping! Re-Addressing Audience in the Blogosphere," March, 2005, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, Calif.
"Competing Voices in Anna McAfee's Lectures to Young Women," April, 2000, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, Minn.
"Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts," February, 2000, Missouri Write to Learn Conference, Osage Beach, Mo.
Conferences Organized
Liaison, Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Virginia Tech, October 1, 2022
Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Virginia Tech, September 19, 2020
Corridors: The Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Virginia Tech, September 21, 2019
Liaison, Corridors: The Great Lakes Writing and Rhetoric Conference (formerly WIDE-EMU), Wayne State University, September 30, 2017
WIDE-EMU 2016, with Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven Krause, Eastern Michigan University, October 15, 2016
WIDE-EMU 2015, with Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven Krause, Michigan State University, October 10, 2015
WIDE-EMU 2013, with Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven Krause, Eastern Michigan University, October 12, 2013
WIDE-EMU 2012, with Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven Krause, Michigan State University, October 20, 2012
WIDE-EMU 2011, with Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven Krause, Eastern Michigan University, October 15, 2011
Virtual Reality in Real Life Conference, with Alex Reid, SUNY-Cortland, Online, July 24-27, 2006
Training & Certificates
CITI Program (Basic Responsible Conduct of Research; Social & Behavioral Research - Stage 1 - Basic Course), Virginia Tech, renewed March 2023 (valid through 2026)
LED: Mastery of Online Instruction Certification, Virginia Tech, Fall 2018
Training in Human Subjects Protection, Virginia Tech, August 2018
CITI Program (Stage I RCR/IRB - Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research & Investigators, Students, and Faculty Mentors), Eastern Michigan Univ., July 2017
Future Professoriate Program (FPP), Syracuse University, 2006-2008
Online Instructor Certificate, eCollege, April, 2004
Grant Writing Certificate, Prairie Lands Writing Project, November, 2001
Online Instructor Certificate, VCampus Corporation, August, 2001
National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, July, 1999
SERVICE & OUTREACH
Professional Service
Editorial Board, Kairos, 2022-
Editorial Board, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 2017-
Board, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012-
Editorial Board, Enculturation, 2010-
Rhetoric Society of America Book Award Selection Committee, 2024
Reader/Reviewer, Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2023, Parlor Press, 2024
Facilitator, Virtual Qualitative Research Network Forum (remote attendees), Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 3, 2024
United Campus Workers—Virginia (UCWVA) Local Elections Committee, 2023
Reviewer (external), tenure and/or promotion for candidates from Case Western Reserve University, University of Kentucky (x2), Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, University of Mississippi, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, North Carolina State University, University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University Fort Wayne, University of Southern California, SUNY-Binghamton, Texas Tech University (x2), Virginia Commonwealth University (x2), and York University (Ont.)
Reviewer for Enculturation (20 revs.), College Composition and Communication (15 revs.), Kairos (seven revs.), Xchanges (eight revs.), College English (one rev.), Intermezzo (one rev.), Intraspection (one rev.), Journal of Writing Assessment (one rev.), and Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies (two revs.).
Proposal Reviewer, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Denver, Colo., 2024
Stage I Reviewer, NCTE/CCCC, 2023, 2024
Treasurer, Writing Across Virginia Affiliate (elected, unopposed; appointed CWPA liaison for the affiliate), 2019-2023
PraxisWiki Review Board, Kairos, 2019-2022
Resolutions Committee, CCCC, 2023
Facilitator (invited), Think Tank for Newcomers, CCCC, 2010-2013, 2017, 2023
Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Executive Board (elected), 2019-2022
Antiracist Priorities Web Resources Subcommittee, Co-Chair, Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), 2020
Digital Committee, Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), 2019-2021
Nominating Committee, Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), 2019-2021
Working Group, "CWPA and CCCC Joint Statement in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic," co-authored with Beth Brunk-Chavez, David Green, Holly Hassel, and Lyra Hilliard. 26 June 2020. Web.
Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Greenville, N.C., 2020
Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award Committee, 2020
Steering Committee, CCCC Regional Summer Conference, Old Dominion University (host), 2018
Coordinator, Michigan WPA Affiliate, 2018
Linked Women Pedagogues Co-design Participant, Florida State University, 2016
Research Network Forum Table Leader, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas, April 2016
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication Committee, 2016
CCCC Task Force on Cross-Generational Connections, 2013-2018
Stage II Reviewer, NCTE/CCCC, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Online Coach, 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April-May 2014
Review Board, Xchanges, 2011-2014
CCCC Nominating Committee, 2013-2014
Co-Chair, Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists, NCTE/CCCC, 2011-2014
Online Coach, 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2013
Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2011
HASTAC Mentor, 2010-2011
Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, Mich., 2007
University & College Service
University Budget and Planning Committee (elected representative from College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences), Virginia Tech, 2023-
CLAHS Promotion & Tenure Committee (appointed representative from English), Virginia Tech, 2023-
Team Member, AAC&U Institute on Open Educational Resources (iOER), Virginia Tech, 2024-
Strategic Advisory Board, Creativity and Innovation District Living Learning Community, Virginia Tech, 2020-2022
Faculty Co-lead, with Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Communities of Practice (Writing Intensive Courses; Provost's Pandemic Response Initiative), Virginia Tech, 2020
Gateway to Completion (G2C) Steering Committee/Task Force, Eastern Michigan University, 2016-2018
College of Arts & Sciences Subcommittee on College Response to Racism, Eastern Michigan University, 2016-2017
Campus Literacy Task Force, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2012-2013
Honors College Advisory Council, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2011-2013
Reader, TRUEMU Essay Contest, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2012
Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 10, 2011
University Writing Center Faculty Consultant, Winter 2011
Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 4, 2010
Computer Refresh Program (CRP) Committee, College of Arts & Sciences, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2010
Mentor, Online Instructor Mentor Program, Park University, Parkville, Mo., 2007-2009
Facilitator, GKCWP Student Writing Project, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, July, 2001
Facilitator, Student Writing Project, Carver Elementary, Kansas City, Mo., June, 2001
Department Service
Executive Committee, English, Virginia Tech, 2018-2023, 2024
Rhetoric and Writing Committee (PhD Program), English, Virginia Tech, 2018-2023, 2024
Admissions Subcommittee, 2019, 2022, 2023
Carolyn Rude Award Subcommittee, 2019, 2021
Early Career Faculty Mentor (24-25 AY: Primary x2; Secondary x2), Virginia Tech
Annual Faculty Activity Report (FAR) Review Committee (elected), English, 2022-2024
Advisory Board, Center for Rhetoric in Society, Virginia Tech, 2021-2024
Chair, University Writing Program Committee, English, Virginia Tech, 2018-2023
Professorial Personnel Committee, English, Virginia Tech, 2019, 2021-2022
Search Committee (Diversity Advocate) for Instructors of First-year Writing (8 full-time hires), Virginia Tech, 2022
Co-chair, with Traci Gardner, Teaching Evaluations Ad Hoc Committee, 2021-2022
Chair, Search Committee for Instructors of First-year Writing (5 full-time hires), Virginia Tech, 2021
Chair, Search Committee for Professor (open rank), Rhetoric and Writing (4 TT lines), Virginia Tech, 2021
Chair, Search Committee for Collegiate Professor, Composition Studies, Virginia Tech, 2019-2020
Chair, Search Committee for Instructors of First-year Writing (13 full-time hires), Virginia Tech, 2019
Professional and Technical Writing Subcommittee, English, Virginia Tech, 2018-2019
Research and Sabbatical Leave Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2017-2018
Graduate Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2016-2018
Chair, First-year Writing Program Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., Sept. 2012-2018
Written Communications Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2009-2018
Rhetoric and Writing Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2011-2018
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Associate WPA, 2016-2017
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Technical Communication, 2014-2015
Graduate Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2012-2015
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Technical Communication, 2012-2013
Curriculum Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2010-2013
Co-coordinator, with K.J. Rawson, CCR Graduate Collective, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2005-2007
Review Committee on the Candidacy of Professor Collin Gifford Brooke for Promotion and Tenure, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2006
Graduate Committee, CCR, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2005-2006
President, English Graduate Student Association, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999-2000
Outreach
Facilitator, with Amelia Salisbury (SOVA), "Daily Drawing," A Taste of Technology Series, Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI), October 11, 2021
Invited presentation with Phillip Hayes and Isabel Mueller, "Lines Drawn Home," Creativity and Innovation District Friday Friends Series, Virginia Tech, September 10, 2021
Host and co-organizer with Victor Luftig, "VT-UVA Writing Program Dialogues," Jan. 22, Mar. 19, and April 16, 2021
Guest in Meaghan Dee's undergraduate seminar at Virginia Tech, ART4504: Correspondence Design (via Zoom) on Feb. 16, 2021. Focus: The pandemic bestiary exhibition, serial digital illustrations as phatic visual rhetoric
Community Engagement Committee, Lakeview Estates, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2021-2022
Participant (semester-long WPA interview subject) in Chris Anson's graduate seminar at North Carolina State U, ENG 505/798: Writing Program Administration: Theory, Practice, and Research, Spring 2020
Guest panelist in Dean Karen DePauw's graduate proseminar at Virginia Tech, GRAD5104: Preparing the Future Professoriate, on open access publishing, Oct. 22, 2018, Oct. 21, 2019, and Oct. 19, 2020.
Guest in Shelley Rodrigo's graduate seminar at University of Arizona, ENGL696E: Theories of Networks (via Zoom) on May 1, 2019. Focus: Network Sense and case-study based research projects-in-progress
Guest in Kate Pantelides' graduate seminar at Middle Tennessee State University, Writing Center Theory and Practice (via Skype) on September 19, 2016. Focus: Composition Forum article, worknets and invention, secondary research as guided by chora and topoi
Acted as department liaison for campus-wide Canvas pilot (new CMS) in Winter 2015, led a CMS-based pedagogy workshop in September 2016
Guest in Sean McCarthy's undergraduate class at James Madison University, Theory and Methods in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication (via Skype) on October 23, 2012. Focus: CCC article and research design
Guest in Jeff Pruchnic's graduate class at Wayne State University, Postpostmodernism (via Skype) on April 1, 2013. Focus: CCC article, recent Kairos article, and distant reading methods
Guest in Laurie Gries's graduate seminar at the University of Florida, Digital Humanities (via Skype) on October 20, 2011. Focus: distant reading methods and in-progress draft of "Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model"
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Bernalillo, N.M., 2004, 2005, 2008, 2019
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Shiprock, N.M., 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Whiteriver, Ariz., 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Okmulgee, Okla., 2016
Volunteer, Little Panthers Basketball, South Point Scholars, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2014
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Tuba City, Ariz., 2012
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Santa Fe, N.M., 2010
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of University Professors, AAUP, 2009-2018, 2023-
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, ATAC, 2007-2013 (org discontinued)
Conference on College Composition and Communication, CCCC, 1998-
Council of Writing Program Administrators, CWPA, 2012-2022
Michigan Council of Teachers of English, MCTE, 2010-2011
Modern Language Association, MLA, 2008-2009
National Council of Teachers of English, NCTE, 1998-
Rhetoric Society of America, RSA, 2007-Lifetime member
United Campus Workers—Virginia (UCWVA), 2023
DOCTORAL EXAM & DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Committee chair, André Jones, RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2022-
Committee chair, Temitope Ojedele, RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2023-
Committee member, Jenna Zan, RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2023-
Committee member, Patrick Greene, RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2023-
Committee member, Skyler King (ABD), RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2021-
Committee member (external reader), Marie Pruitt, English, U Louisville, 2024-
Committee member, Joe Torok (ABD), English, Wayne State U, 2021-
Committee member, Lauren Wallace (ABD), RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2018-
Committee chair, Amilia Evans (Proposal Consultant, Bethesda, MD), "Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution," RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2023
Committee member, Matt Homer, "Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric," RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2022
Committee member, Fai Inthajak (Director, Pearce Communication Center; Asst Professor of English/Writing, Columbia C, SC), "Thriving in the Academy: Thai Students' Experiences and Perspectives," RW Program, Virginia Tech, 2022
Committee member, "First-Year Writing Teachers’ Emotions and Grammar Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study," by Cheyenne Franklin (Asst. Professor of Instruction, U South Florida), Virginia Tech, 2021
Committee member, "Beyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public Hearings," by Kelly Scarff (Collegiate Asst. Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech), RW PhD Program, Virginia Tech, 2021
Committee member, "It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration," by Jonathan Adams (Asst. Prof, US Military Academy West Point), RW PhD Program, Virginia Tech, 2021
Committee member, "Set in Stone: Rhetorical Performances in Virginia Tech’s April 16th Memorial," by Brooke Covington (Asst. Prof., Christopher Newport U.), RW PhD Program, Virginia Tech, 2020
Outside reader, "Visualizing Words and Knowledge: Arts of Memory from the Agora to the Computer," by Seth D. Long (Assoc. Prof., U Nebraska-Kearney), PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2015
MA PROJECTS & THESES SUPERVISED
Reader/Committee Member, Master's Capstone Project, "The Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall: Rethinking Literacy Sponsorship Through Multimodal Drafting," Bailey Doan, MA in English, Virginia Tech, 2023
Reader/Committee Member, Master's Thesis, "With Hope: A Student-Centered Model of Critical Pedagogy for First-Year Writing," by Molly Ryan, MA in English, Virginia Tech, 2023
Advisor, Master's Project, "Journaling Practices to Support First-Year Writing Student Wellness," by Hillary Degner, MA in Written Communication (Teaching of Writing), EMU, 2018
Advisor, Master's Project, "Assembling Adēlon: A Pedagogical Flux Kit," by Brianne Radke, MA in Written Communication (Teaching of Writing), EMU, 2017
Advisor, Master's Project, "What Visual Rhetorics Need from Cultural Rhetorics: A Study of Social Justice Murals," by Ja'La Wourman, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), EMU, 2017
Advisor, Master's Project, "Locating Safe Spaces," by T Passwater, MA in Written Communication (Teaching of Writing), EMU, 2017
Advisor, Master's Project, "Mapping Rhetorical Action in Controversies: Kairos and Advanced Imaging Technology," by Lisa Pignotti, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), EMU, 2015
Advisor, Master's Project, "Stases Theory into Practice: A Rhetorical Perspective on Content-Management Systems and Writing Practices in a Corporate Setting," by Dan Lyons, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), EMU, 2014
Advisor, Master's Project, "Toward a Rhetoric of Amusement Park Maps," by Danielle Newby, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), EMU, 2014
Advisor, Master's Project, "The Mode and the Message: A Case Study of an Online Open Letter to RIM," by Ila Coltas, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), EMU, 2013
Advisor, Master's Project, "Technical Composition," by Jana Rosinski, MA in Written Communication (Teaching of Writing/Professional Writing), EMU, 2013
Advisor, Master's Project, "Visualizing Present Tense: Graphing and Mapping a Corner of the Discipline," by Joe Torok, MA in Written Communication (Teaching of Writing), EMU, 2013
Reader, "Something to Talk About: Rhetorical Exchanges on 'Professors Strike Back,' from Ratemyprofessors.com," by Bushra M. Malaibari, MA in Written Communication, EMU, 2010
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISED
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "The Show Was Yesterday: Redefining Writing and Research Process Through Mixing and Sampling," by Gabriel Green, BA in Written Communication, EMU, 2015
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "A Craft-based Composition: Expanding and Foregrounding Materiality in Writing," by Chelsea Lonsdale, BA in Language, Literature, and Writing (LLW), EMU, 2012
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "A Case for Mutual Engagement: On the Consequences of Professor as Terminal Audience," by Adam Nannini, BA in Language, Literature, and Writing (LLW), EMU, 2012
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "Explorations of a Geek," by Erin C. Stratos, BA in Language, Literature, and Writing (LLW), EMU, 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
- ENGL1105: First-year Writing: Introduction to College Composition (2 sections)
- ENGL1106: First-year Writing: Writing from Research (1 section)
- ENGL2014: Food Writing (2 sections)
- ENGL3764: Technical Writing (3 sections)
- ENGL5004: Theory and Practice of University Writing Instruction (1 section)
- ENGL5034: Practicum (Spring 2024)
- ENGL5054: Composition Theory (1 section)
- ENGL5454: Studies in Theory: University Writing Instruction (1 section)
- ENGL5974: Ind. Study: Writing Program Administration and Digital Rhetorical Ecologies (1 section)
- ENGL6344: Rhetoric in Digital Environments (Fall 2023)
- ENGL6364: Research Design in Rhetoric and Writing (2 sections)
- ENGL6524: Theories of Written Communication (Fall 2024)
- Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mi.
- WRTG120: Composition I: Writing the College Experience (1 section)
- WRTG121: Composition II: Researching the Public Experience (3 sections)
- WRTG326: Research Writing (4 sections)
- WRTG328: Writing, Style, and Technology (15 sections)
- WRTG444: Writing for the World Wide Web (1 section)
- WRTG499: Ind. Study: Composition as Craft (Honors Thesis)
- WRTG499: Ind. Study: Inquiring into Digital Humanities (Honors Thesis)
- WRTG499: Ind. Study: Digital Writing Pedagogy (Honors Thesis)
- WRTG500: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Written Communication
- WRTG505: Rhetoric of Science and Technology (2 sections)
- WRTG516: Computers and Writing: Theory and Practice (3 sections)
- WRTG527: Visual Rhetoric
- WRTG540: Visual Rhetoric and Information Design (2 sections)
- WRTG596: Teaching Composition on the College Level (4 sections)
- WRTG699: Ind. Study: Felt Optics: Intersections in Affect Theory and Visual Rhetorics
- WRTG699: Ind. Study: Reading-Writing Disability Studies
- WRTG699: Ind. Study: Rhetorical Genre Studies
- UWC Faculty Consultant, Winter 2011
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
- WRT105: Analysis, Argument and Academic Writing (3 sections)
- WRT195: Studio 2 for Transfer Students (1 section)
- WRT205: Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing* (3 sections)
- WRT220: Writing Enrichment
- WRT302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing (1 section)
- WRT307: Advanced Writing Studio: Professional Writing (2 sections)
- Writing Consultant, Writing Center, 2008
- Park University, Parkville, Mo.
- EN105: Writing Strategies and Concepts (3 sections)
- EN105DL: Writing Strategies and Concepts (Online) (9 sections)
- EN106: Writing Purposes and Research (4 sections)
- EN106DL: Writing Purposes and Research (Online) (9 sections)
- EN306B: Prof. Writing in the Disciplines: Business Communications (Online) (2 sections)
- LS211DL: Introduction to the Humanities (Online) (10+ sections)
- ML315C: Reading and Culture for International Students (1 section)
- PK115: Basic Skills: Writing I (2 sections)
- PK116: Basic Skills: Writing II (2 sections)
- PK117: Principles of Composition in Review (1 section)
- Writing Tutor, Academic Support Center, 2000
- University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.
- ENG110: Freshman Composition (2 sections)
- ENG225: English II (2 sections)
- ENG305WI: Theory and Practice of Composition (1 section)
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