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Assistant Professor of Written Communication Department of English Language and Literature Eastern Michigan University |
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Education |
Doctor of Philosophy, Composition
and Cultural Rhetoric
Master of Arts, English Bachelor of Arts, English |
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Academic Employment |
Assistant Professor of Written Communication Graduate Teaching Associate |
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Scholarly
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publications |
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web. "Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web. "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. Rev. of Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, co-authored with Angelique Trent for Composition Forum 22 (Summer 2010). Web. "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. Fountainhead Press. (ms. accepted; collection expected to be in press 2012). "Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom," Computers and Composition 26.4 (Dec. 2009): 240-250. Rev. of The Economics of Attention by Richard A. Lanham, JAC 28.1-2 (2008): 328-335. "Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts," Composing Ourselves, 4.2, Missouri-Kansas City, Winter 1999 |
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Editorial |
Sponsoring Editor and Faculty Advisor, EM—Journal, 2011- Editorial Assistant, College
Composition and Communication, 2005-2009 Technical Editor, Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache All-in-One, 4th Ed., for Pearson Education, Inc., 2008. |
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GRANTS |
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 Provost's New Faculty Research Support Award ($4,969 grant to fund research), Eastern Michigan University, 2010 |
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Awards |
CCR Dissertation Oral
Defense, Passed with distinction, 2009 |
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Conference PRESENTATIONS |
"Sifting for Worm Turns: Thirty Keywords over Two Decades in College Composition and Communication," Session B.20, 12:15-1:30 p.m., March 22, 2012 (upcoming) "Lessons in Generative Design, Publishing, and Circulation: What EM-Journal’s First Year Has Taught Us," March 21-24, 2012 (upcoming) "The EM-Journal Experiment: Selected Lessons in Launching and Maintaining an Online Journal," March 2, 2012 (upcoming) "Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model," December 3, 2011 "The Hyper-Circumference of Effectiveness in 3…2…1… FTL Jumps," Oct. 15, 2011 "CCC In Motion: Twenty Terms Over Twenty Years," May 20, 2011 "Cloud Parallax," April 9, 2011 "Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," April 7, 2011 THATCamp—Chicago, November 20, 2010 "I'll Have What You're Having: Delicious Mentorship 2.0 Ways," May 22, 2010 "When the Last Database You
Search Is Not Your Own," March 18, 2010 "1987: A Choragraphic Return
to North's Neighborhood," March, 2009 "Sweding a Scholarly
Journal: Metadata, Digitization, and Whatever You Have On Hand," October
17, 2008 "Automata for the Archive: A Machinery for Distant Reading," May
25, 2008 "Everywhere Drafting: A Thick Map," May 23, 2008 "Visualizing Disciplinary Patterns: Distant Reading Methods
and Composition Studies," April 11, 2008 "How Archives Learn: Tagging Practices and the Circulation of
Digital Archives," April 4, 2008 "Blogging and the Orchestration of Attention It Demands," May,
2007 "Clouds,
Graphs, and Maps: CCC From a Distance," March 24,
2007 "Digital Underlife and Writing Instruction," July 24-27,
2006 "Mirror, Mirror on the Web: The Evolution of CCC Online,"
March, 2006 "Networked Writing as Micro-Monument: The Long Tail's Nested
Memoria,"
October, 2005 "Weblogs and Emergence: Opening Gestures in Networked Spaces,"
April, 2005 "Competing Voices in Anna McAfee's Lectures to Young Women,"
April, 2000 "Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts,"
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WORKSHOPS & Invited
PRESENTATIONS |
"A Quick Rhetoric of QR Codes," Nov. 8, 2011 "Technological Support for Collaborative Work," May 5, 2011 "Google Reader Across the Curriculum," April 27, 2011 "How to Curate a Digital Antilibrary: An Introduction to Google Reader," Dec. 2, 2010 "The Found-Kept Web: A Delicious Workshop," April 28 & May 5, 2010 "Graduate Studies and
Professional Ethos, Blogwise," May 2, 2009 "Podcasting: Sonic Composing,"
October 22, 2008 "Tech Camp: A Workshop
on Web Writing, Image Work, and Video Production," "Social Bookmarking in
Action ," August 20, 2007 "Blogging as a Graduate
Student,"
October 20, 2005 "Quick and Dirty Research: RSS and Aggregation," August
24, 2005 "The Photographemic Map as Writable Space," August 22, 2005 "Technology and the Writing Classroom," April, 1999 |
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Teaching |
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COURSES |
Eastern Michigan University,
Ypsilanti, Mi. Syracuse University, Syracuse,
N.Y. Park University, Parkville, Mo. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. * Taught in both conventional classrooms and computer labs. |
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THESES & PROJECTS |
Faculty Advisor for Senior Honors Thesis, "Explorations of a Geek," by Erin C. Stratos, BA in Language, Literature, and Writing (LLW), 2011 Reader, "Something to Talk About: Rhetorical Exchanges on 'Professors Strike Back,' from Ratemyprofessors.com," by Bushra M. Malaibari, MA in Written Communication, 2010 |
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CERTIFICATES |
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 |
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TEACHING
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Academic |
Honors College Advisory Council, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2011- Co-Chair, Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists, NCTE/CCCC, 2011- Rhetoric and Writing Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2011- Review Board, Xchanges, 2011- Curriculum Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., Sept. 2010- Editorial Board, Enculturation, 2010- Written Communication Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2009- Library Liaison, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2009- Reader, TRUEMU Essay Contest, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2012 Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 10, 2011 Co-organizer, WIDE-EMU Conference, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2011 Facilitator, Information Technologies, Think Tank for Newcomers, CCCC, Atlanta, Ga., 2011 Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2011 University Writing Center Faculty Consultant, Winter 2011 Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 4, 2010 Manuscript Reviewer, Xchanges 7.1, November, 2010 HASTAC Mentor, 2010-2011 Manuscript Reviewer, Xchanges 6.2, August, 2010 Computer Refresh Program (CRP) Committee, College of Arts & Sciences, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2010 Facilitator, Information Technologies, Think Tank for Newcomers, CCCC, Louisville, Ky., 2010 Textbook Reviewer, Pearson/Longman, August, 2009 Textbook Reviewer, Bedford/St. Martin's, February, 2008 Mentor, Online Instructor Mentor Program, Park University, Parkville, Mo., 2007-2009 Online Reviewer, Bedford Bits, Bedford/St. Martin's, June, 2007 Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, Mich., 2007 Co-coordinator, 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 Co-director, VRRL Conference, SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, N.Y., 2006 Graduate Committee, CCR, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2005-2006 Reader, Writing Competency Test, Park University, Parkville, Mo., 1998-2004 Facilitator, GKCWP Student Writing Project, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, July, 2001 Facilitator, Student Writing Project, Carver Elementary, Kansas City, Mo., June, 2001 President, English Graduate Student Association, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999-2000 |
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Community |
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Santa Fe, N.M.,
2010 Youth Coach and Div. Coordinator, SPCAA Basketball and Soccer, 1998-2004 Greater Kansas City Writing Project Advisory Board, Technology Liaison, 2000-2004 |
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Technology
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Memberships |
American Association
of University Professors, EMU-AAUP, 2009- |
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