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EDUCATION
PhD English The University of Texas at Austin, May 2005
Dissertation: Everyday Intensities: Rhetorical Theory, Composition Studies, and the Affective Field of Culture
Committee: Diane Davis (Chair), Lester Faigley, Sharon Crowley, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Kathleen Stewart
MA English The University of Texas at Arlington, 2001
Thesis: Toward a Stupid Composition: Critical Pedagogy and the Possibility of Social Hope
Committee: Victor Vitanza (Chair), Hans Kellner, Ben Agger
BA English The University of Texas at Arlington, 1997
Summa Cum Laude
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Missouri, 2007-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of EnglishCourses Designed and Taught:
English 3010: Documenting Your World English 2000: Writing (with) Sound English 4970: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric English 2030: Civic Writing in a Digital Context English 8040: Rhetorics and Poetics
Penn State University, 2005-2007
Assistant Professor, Department of EnglishCourses Designed and Taught:
- English 502: Intro to Rhetorical Theory (graduate)
- Rhetoric 421: Advanced Writing
- Rhetoric 471: The Rhetoric of Place
- Rhetoric 601: Practicum for Business Writing
University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2005
Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Courses Designed and Taught:
- Rhetoric 306: Rhetoric and Composition
- Rhetoric 309k: Special Topics in Writing
- Rhetoric 309l: The Writing Process
- Rhetoric 309s: Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing
The University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-2001
Instructor, Department of EnglishCourses Designed and Taught:
- English 1302: Argumentative Writing
- English 1301: Expository Writing
- English 1302C: Argumentative Writing for the Computer Classroom
ADMINISTRATION
Developer, Computer Writing and Research Lab 2004-2005
The University of Texas at AustinMy responsibilities included the creation of pedagogical resources for instructors in the Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL). I helped to develop an online database of various practices that CWRL instructors have implemented in their own computer classrooms. I was also responsible for reviewing new educational software programs, assessing their potential usefulness for rhetoric and writing classrooms.
Assistant Director, Division of Rhetoric and Composition 2002-2004
The University of Texas at Austin
My responsibilities included the development of resources and training material for graduate instructors in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition (DRC). I also assisted Professors Davida Charney and John Ruszkiewicz in the DRC’s teaching practicum and summer orientations. I created original online instructor resources, including a revised version of the Rhetoric 306 syllabus that was used by all new instructors during the 2003-2004 academic year. As a liaison for graduate instructors and lower-division students in the DRC, I arbitrated grade disputes, academic dishonesty hearings, and various classroom management issues. My duties as a member of the Rhetoric 306 committee included designing procedures for observation of graduate instructors, choosing textbooks for departmental adoption, and creating assessment measurements for the DRC’s outcomes statement on student performance.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Manuscript
Passages of Power: Pathos and Public Rhetorics (in progress)
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“Affect and Argument.” Pre/Text. (forthcoming)
“Rhetoric’s Mechanics.” CCC. (forthcoming)
“Meta/Physical Graffiti: ‘Getting Up’ as Affective Writing Model.” JAC. 25.1.
“Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Fall 2005.
“Overhearing: The Intimate Life of Cell Phones.” Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts: Assessing the Implications of New Media. Eds. Byron Hawk and David Rieder. (Forthcoming)
“Executive Overspill: Affective Bodies, Intensity, and Bush-in-Relation.” Postmodern Culture 15.1 (October 2004).
“Big Time Sensuality: Affective Literacies and Texts That Matter.” Composition Forum 13.1 and 13.2 (2002).
Review Essays and Book Reviews
“The New New: Making the Case for Critical Affect Studies.” Quarterly Journal of Speech. (Forthcoming).
Review of Toward a Civil Discourse by Sharon Crowley. JAC 26.4.
Review of Moving Beyond Academic Discourse by Christian Weisser. The Review of Communication 3.2 (April 2003).
Review of Internet Invention by Greg Ulmer. Enculturation. 4.2 (Fall 2002).
Review of Literacy with an Attitude by Patrick Finn. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 32.3 (Summer 2002).
PRESENTATIONS
“Robbing Peter: Public Archives and Critical Emotion Studies.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 2008.
“Audio Technology and the Progress Narratives, 1965-1985.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. April 2008.
“Dense Feelings: The Affective Metonymy of Local Places.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2007.
“Writing in Place: a Podcast.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2006.
“Writing Austin: Documentary as Street (Re)Search.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2005.
“Everyday Banality and the WPA.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. October 2004.
“Affect, Persuasion, and the Ethical Moment of Passionate Bodies.” Rhetoric Society of America. May 2004.
“Finding Rhetoric Outside Rhet-Comp.” (Special Roundtable: “Bridging Disciplinary Gaps Among Graduate Students in Rhetoric.”) Rhetoric Society of America. May 2004.
“Am I on Pause? The Writing Classroom in Trance.” NCTE Annual Convention. November 2003.
“Exodus: Notes on Leaving.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 2003.
“Wake to Intensity: The Affective Life of Small Tech.” Computers and Writing. May 2003.
“In through the Out Door: Seriousness, Certitude, and Public Identity.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. October 2002.
“Making Ourselves at Home: Rhetoric Graduate Students and the Problem of Fragmented Disciplinarity.” Rhetoric Society of America. May 2002.
“‘Now that we’re in the Rhetoric business’: Teaching Civic Engagement.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2002.
“Going From Somewhere to Nowhere in Post-Punk Composition.” Research in progress presented. Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2001:
“Nothing Fails Like Success: Critical Pedagogy and Social Hope.” Gorgias Society National Conference. February 2001.
“‘Hello Politics, Goodbye politics’: A Look at the Problem Person in Cybernetic Society.” Gorgias Society National Conference. February 2000.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Big 12 Faculty Fellowship, The University of Missouri. 2006. ($2500)
- English Department Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Texas. May 2004.
- The James L. Kinneavy Prize for Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition, The University of Texas. May 2004.
- Kairos Best Academic Weblog Award. May 2004.
- Nominee, Maxine Hairston Prize for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Texas. March 2004.
- Professional Development Award, The University of Texas. January 2004.
- English Department Development Award, The University of Texas. May 2003. January 2002.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Manuscript Reviewer, Pittsburgh University Press
- Editor, Artifacts: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing
- Facilitator, Public Culture Reading Collective (CAH-sponsored group), University of Missouri, 2006-2007
- Member, Composition Committee, University of Missouri, 2006-2007
- Member, Liberal Arts Faculty Awards Committee, Penn State, 2005-2006
- Member, Rhetoric 306 Committee, University of Texas, 2003-2004
- Chair, Rhetoric 306 Textbook Committee, University of Texas, 2002-2003
- Workshop Leader, “Designing Assignments for Rhetoric 309k.” October 2003.
- Workshop Leader, “Creating a Syllabus for Rhetoric 306.” April 2003.
- Member, Professional Development Committee, University of Texas, 2002-2003
- Member, Rhetoric 306 Assessment Committee, University of Texas, 2002