11/26/13
LINDA WOODSON
Department of English
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0643
(210) 458-5344
[email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in English
Graduate work
B.S. in Education
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Areas of specialization: Rhetoric and composition, Early
American literature
The University of California at Davis
The University of Texas at Austin
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, magna cum
laude. Senior Scholar in Education.
TEACHING:
Professor of English, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1999-present.
Associate Professor of English, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1987-99.
Assistant Professor of English, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1981-86.
Assistant Professor of English, Texas Tech University, 1979-81.
Instructor of English, Southern Methodist University, 1977-79.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Undergraduate Advisor of Record, Department of English, 2012-2013.
MA Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English, 2008-2011.
Department Chair, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy, The University of
Texas at San Antonio, 2001-2003. Same position as Division
Director, following restructuring of university into departments
and separation of Communication into separate department.
Division Director, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication, The
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1999-2001.
Interim Division Director, English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication, The
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1998-99.
Coordinator of Composition, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1986-98.
Director of Core Curriculum, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1993-95.
Writing Lab Director, Southern Methodist University, 1978-79.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Contemporary rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, composition theory, teaching of
composition, American literature, literature of Texas and the Southwest.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Departmental Nominee, Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2010.
Departmental Nominee, President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in
Teaching, 2009.
Honors Alliance Award for Excellence in Promoting Academic Integrity, Intelligent
Living, and Meaningful Learning, 2006.
Directory of American Scholars, 11th edition.
Honorary member, Golden Key Honour Society, 1999.
Faculty Excellence Award, Office of Disabled Students, The University of Texas at
San Antonio, 1999.
President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for University Service, 1998.
Executive Council, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1995-98.
Divisional Nominee, President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching
Excellence, 1995.
UTSA Nominee, Freshman Advocate, 1992.
Who’s Who in American Education, 1989. Relisted in 6th Edition, 2003.
Nominating Committee, Conference of College Composition and Communication, 1985.
Commission on Composition, National Council of Teachers of English, 1980-82.
Texas Researchers in English, Texas Joint Council of Teachers of English, 1978.
GRANTS:
National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, 2002. Project Director. One
of four awarded nationally. $100,000 awarded for an Endowed Chair in
Literature and the Humanities at UTSA. Successful match of $500, 005 from
Brackenridge Foundation to chair in the English, Classics, and Philosophy
Department.
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED:
Nancy Wilson, “The Writing Center as Bodega: Making a Third Space in Academia for
Global Englishes and Alternative Discourses.” Summer, 2011.
Terri Pantuso, “Reading Silence Actively: Recovering the Maternal in Contemporary
Women’s Novels.” Fall, 2009.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES:
Melissa Whitney, “German Colonialisms: German Hybrid Identity Formations
Overseas,” Summer 2013.
Angeli Willson, “Examining Children’s Comprehension of Conventional, Wordless, and
Postmodern Picturebooks,” Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, Spring
2013.
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Laura M. Lόpez, “Confronting Predators and Shadow-Beats: Representations of
Working-Poor Chicanas in Contemporary Young Adult Literature.” Fall 2012.
Kristina A. Gutierrez, “Ecoliteracy and a Place-Based Pedagogy Expanding Latin@
Students’ Critical Understanding of the Reciprocity Between Sociocultural
Systems and Ecosystems in the US-Mexico Border Region.” Summer 2012.
Candace de Leόn-Zepeda, “Decolonizing the Classroom: Mapping the Impact of
Educational Inequalities on Mexican Americans through a Thirdspace
Chicana Feminist Analysis of Literature and Film.” Spring 2012.
Jeffrey Turpin, “Survival Stories: Some Adaptive Functions of Narratives and Their
Implications for Literary Criticism.” Fall 2009.
Cordelia Barrera, “Border Places, Frontier Spaces: Deconstructing Ideologies of the
Southwest.” Summer 2009.
Jody Briones, “South Texas Working-Class Millennial Mexican Americans: Identity,
Subjectivity, and Composition Studies.” Summer 2009.
Dissertation Committees Ongoing: Laura Ellis-Lai (chair), Kelly Harris, Debra Peña,
Isaac Hinojosa, Neli Gogovska-Rabb, Allegra Castro
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Modes of Inquiry: Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study. Eds. Marian
Martinello, Gillian Cook, and Linda Woodson. Carrollton, TX: Alliance
Press, 1998. Revised Edition, 1999.
Writing in Three Dimensions (co-author, Margaret Batschelet). New York:
Allyn and Bacon Publishers, 1995.
The Writer’s World: An Essay Anthology. San Diego: Harcourt, 1986.
From Cases to Composition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1982.
A Handbook of Modern Rhetorical Terms. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1979.
Added to ERIC database, 2008.
Exercises and Teacher’s Manual for Contemporary Writing, by Jim Corder.
Glenview, Il.: Scott, Foresman, 1979.
ESSAYS IN BOOKS:
“Deceiving the Will to Truth: The Semiotic Foundation of All the Pretty Horses.”
Revised and reprinted in Beyond Borders: Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty
Horses (Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, Vol. 3). Ed. Rick
Wallach. The Cormac McCarthy Society, forthcoming Dec. 2013.
“McCarthy’s Spanish.” They Rode On: Blood Meridian and the Tragedy of the
American West (Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, Vol. 2). Ed. Rick
Wallach. The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2013. 121-32.
“McCarthy’s Heroes and the Will to Truth.” The Cambridge Companion to
Cormac McCarthy. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 15-26.
“Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Identity in Suttree.” You Would Not Believe What
Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville (Casebook Studies in
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Cormac McCarthy, Vol. 1). Ed. Rick Wallach. The Cormac McCarthy Society,
First Edition, 2012. 182-89. Digital Edition, LSU Press, May 1, 2013.
“’This is another country’: The Complex Feminine Presence in All the Pretty Horses.”
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road.
Ed. Sara L. Spurgeon. Continuum Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Series. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. 25-42.
“’...you are the battleground’: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Causal
Determinism in No Country for Old Men.” Rpt. In Novel to Film: No Country for
Old Men. Ed. Lynnea Chapman King, Rick Wallach, and Jim Welsh. Lanham,
MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 1-12.
“Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie: A Kristevan Reading of McCarthy’s Border
Fiction,” in Cormac McCarthy: New Directions. Ed. James Lilley.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 267-84.
____ Canadian edition. University of British Columbia, 2002.
“Imaginative Literature: Possibilities for Multicultural Conversations in the Composition
Classroom.” Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons. Eds. Robert and
Christina McDonald. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002). 184-92.
"Deceiving the Will to Truth: The Semiotic Foundation of All the Pretty Horses."
Reprinted in Sacred Violence: Volume II, Cormac McCarthy's Western Novels.
Eds. Wade Hall and Rick Wallach. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2002. 51-56.
“De Los Herejes y Huerfanos: The Sense and Sound of McCarthy’s Fiction”
in Myth, Legend, Dust: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction. Ed. Rick
Wallach. Manchester U P Press and St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 201-08.
“Deceiving the Will to Truth: The Semiotic Foundation of All the Pretty Horses,”
in Sacred Violence: A Reader’s Companion to Cormac McCarthy. Eds.
Wade Hall and Rick Wallach. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1995.
“Two Years Before the Mast.” Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1993.
ARTICLES:
Review, HBO’s The Sunset Limited, February 2011. The Cormac McCarthy Society
Journal 9.1 (2011). 96-100.
“Mapping The Road in Post-Postmodernism.” The Cormac McCarthy Society Journal 6.
Special Issue: The Road, (December 2008). 87-97.
“Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Identity in Suttree,” The Cormac McCarthy Society
Journal 4. Special Issue on Suttree. (March 2007). 171-183.
“’...you are the battleground’: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Causal
Determinism in No Country for Old Men.” The Cormac McCarthy Society
Journal 5 (June 2006). 5-26. Issue sold out and reprt. Mar 2008.
“`The Lighted Display Case: a Nietzschean Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Border
Fiction.” The Southern Quarterly 38.4 (Summer 2000). 48-60.
“From Writer to Writer/Designer.” (co-author, Margaret Batschelet). JAEPL Journal,
Journal of the NCTE Assembly on Expanded Perspectives on Learning. 2
(Winter 1996-97). 56-65.
“The New Rhetoric for the Composition Class.” Journal of English Teaching
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Techniques 10 (1980): 34-40.
NON-REFEREED:
Review: Tommy Lee Jones’s production of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited.
HBO. The Cormac McCarthy Journal 9.1 (2011). 96-100.
Review: American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions. By
Eric Gary Anderson. American Literature 71.4 (December, 1999). 818-19.
“Jim W. Corder, 1929-1998.” Composition Studies 26.2 (Fall 1998). 9-11.
“Attitudes of Basic Writers in an Electronic Classroom.” (co-author, Margaret
Batschelet). ERIC. ED 344-206.
[contributor] “Stylistics Annual Bibliography: 1987-88.” Style 23 (1989).
[contributor] “Stylistics Annual Bibliography: 1985.” Style 20 (1986).
[contributor] “Stylistics Annual Bibliography: 1983-84.” Style 19 (1985).
[contributor] “Stylistics Annual Bibliography: 1982.” Style 18 (1984).
[contributor] “Stylistics Annual Bibliography: 1981.” Style 17 (1983).
“A Two-Process Model of Paragraph Development.” Freshman English News
12 (1983): 4,12=14.
Review: “The Shape of Thought.” College Composition and Communication
(February 1979): 88-89.
“The Phaedrus, Perelman and the Groundwork for a Theory of Composition.”
ERIC (March 1979).
“Writing Worth Doing.” ERIC (July 1978).
“The Deep Structure of the Paragraph.” English in Texas 9 (1978): 34-36. ERIC
(October 1979).
SOFTWARE:
“R-WISE.” Functional Skills Reading and Writing Tutor (with developmental
team at Brooks AFB Armstrong Human Resources Laboratory), 1992.
EDITORIAL:
English in Texas, co-editor with Eileen Lundy and Marjorie Smelstor, 1982-85.
Freshman English News (now Composition Studies), Editorial Assistant, 1976-79;
Editorial Board, 1979-84.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Cormac McCarthy’s Spanish.” “Twenty-fifth Birthday Celebration of Blood Meridian,”
International Conference, sponsored by The Cormac McCarthy Society, October
27-30, 2010.
“’The Category of All Categories’”: Toward Post-postmodernism in Cormac McCarthy’s
Later Novels.” South Central Modern Language Association,
November, 2008.
“Understanding the Created ‘I’: Some Implications of Cognitive Research for
Autobiographical Writing.” South Central Modern Language Association,
October 2006. (unable to attend due to illness)
“you are the battleground”: Materiality, Moral Responsibility, and Causal Determinism
in No Country for Old Men.” Annual Cormac McCarthy Society
Conference, October 27-29, 2005.
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“Visual Rhetoric and Cognitive Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” Suttree 25th
Anniversary Celebration, Annual Cormac McCarthy Conference, October 14-16,
2004.
“Creating Cross-Cultural Conversations through the Use of Literature in the
Composition Classroom.” South Central Modern Language Association Annual
Meeting. Hot Springs, 2003.
“Literature? The Ongoing Controversy.” College Composition and Communication
Convention, Minneapolis, 2000. (unable to attend)
“Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie.” The Annual International Cormac McCarthy
Conference. San Antonio, November 11-14, 1999.
“De Los Herejes Y Huerfanos: The Sense-sound, Sound-sense of McCarthy’s
Fiction.” South Central Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, New Orleans, 1998.
“Syllabus as Contract or Syllabus as Invitation.” with Margaret Batschelet.
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Detroit, 1997.
“Composing Sites.” South Central Modern Language Association Annual Convention,
Dallas, 1997.
“Where is Sophia?” SCMLA, San Antonio, 1996.
“From Writer to Writer/Designer.” with Margaret Batschelet. SCMLA, Houston,
1995.
“Integrating Visual Literacy into the Composition Class.” with Margaret Batschelet.
College Composition and Communication Conference, Washington, D.C.,
March, 1995.
President’s Forum, “Core Curriculum and English Studies.” Conference of College
Teachers of English, Huntsville, 1994.
“Deception of the Will to Truth: The Semiotic Foundation of All the Pretty Horses.”
First Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Louisville, Kentucky. October 16, 1993.
“Design of Intelligent Software for Sentence Combining.” with Margaret Batschelet.
South Central Modern Language Association. Austin. October 15, 1993.
“Woman as Storyteller in the Southwest.” American Literature Association Symposium
on Women Writers. San Antonio. October 1, 1993.
“`I God!’: Gus as Prophet in Lonesome Dove.” Conference of College Teachers of
English. San Angelo, TX. March 4, 1993.
“Attitudes of Basic Writers in an Electronic Classroom.” with Margaret Batschelet.
National Council of Teachers of English. Seattle, WA. November 23, 1991.
“UTSA’s Response to the Writing Portion of the TASP.” College English Association
and Conference of College Teachers of English. San Antonio, TX. March 6,
1990.
“Creativity: Do We Know It When We See It?” and “Self-Examination and SelfEducation: Writing in Content Areas.” Featured Speaker. Fall Forum in
Composition. Texas Woman’s University. Denton. November 13 and 14,
1987.
“The Frag-meant.” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans.
October, 1986.
“Creativity and Classification of Discourse.” South Central Modern Language
Association. Fort Worth, TX. October 29, 1983.
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“Creativity and Innovation in the Composition Classroom.” Conference of College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco. March, 1982.
“John Quincy Adams, the Rhetorician.” Conference of College Composition and
Communication. Washington, D.C. March, 1981.
“Form-Consciousness in the Paragraph.” Conference of College Composition
and Communication. Dallas. March, 1980.
“What the Visual Arts Can Teach Us About the Composing Process.” Conference
of College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis. March, 1979.
“Valid Assumptions for Teaching Composition.” (invited speaker/facilitator).
National Secondary School Conference. Dallas. March, 1978.
“The Deep Structure of the Paragraph.” Texas Joint Council of Teachers of
English. San Antonio. February, 1977.
“Motivating Students to Write.” National Council of Teachers of English (invited
by Commission on Composition). New York. November, 1977.
“A Rhetorical Analysis of Donne’s Epigrams.” College English Association. March,
1977.
“The Deep Structure of the Paragraph and the Discourse.” Conference of College
Composition and Communication. Kansas City. March, 1977.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
ADMINISTRATIVE:
Undergraduate Advisor of Record, Department of English, 2012-2013.
As UGAR, I contacted faculty regarding the English program annual assessment,
collected the materials for the assessment, assigned responsibilities to the
Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee for the assessment, participated in
gathering those materials, did the numerical calculations, and wrote the reports
for Fall, 2012, and Spring, 2013. Based upon suggestions from faculty and on
requirements of the new Core Curriculum, I made over 50 changes to the
Undergraduate Catalog for 2014-15. I developed assessment grids for
the department’s Core classes and informed faculty about those requirements.
I revised the ENG 2213 Teaching Handbook.
M.A. Graduate Advisor of Record, Department of English, 2008-2011.
As M.A. Graduate Advisor of Record, I compiled data and wrote the majority of
the Graduate Program Review in 2008-2009. I advised students in person, by
by telephone, and by e-mail and also provide information in these three venues to
prospective students. I worked at the College’s table for the Graduate Fair each
semester. I provided oversight for the most recent revision of the Graduate
Catalog and in Spring, 2010, for revision of the Reading List. I evaluated
applications before they were reviewed by the Graduate Program Committee,
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and in the summer I evaluated them alone before they went to the Department
Chair. I oversaw the development of the Comprehensive Examination and wrote
the examination in two semesters. I coordinated the faculty schedules
with assignments to Examination Committees and created the Examination
Schedule, and I monitored the four-hour written examination. I monitored the
progress of students through the program and counseled with those students who
were at risk. I participated in recruitment activities, including the planning of
open houses and in sending letters to eligible undergraduate English majors
to encourage them to apply.
Department Chair, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy, 2001-2003.
Same position as Division Director, following restructuring of University into
departments and separation of Communication into its own department.
Director, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication, 1999-2001.
Interim Director, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communication,
1998-99.
As Division Director, I was head of a complex Division, including five
disciplines: English, Classics, Philosophy, Communication, and Humanities, until
Communication became a separate Department in 2001. At that time I became
Department Chair of English, Classics, and Philosophy, with Humanities also
included. The Division had over seventy faculty members, including 33 tenuretrack faculty, as well as 38-40 non-tenure track faculty, and over 600 majors in six
degree plans. I facilitated and helped to rewrite a proposal for an innovative
Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis in Latina/o Studies and in Rhetoric and
Composition, when an earlier, more traditional proposal was rejected, and I
represented the proposal at all levels through its approval by the Coordinating
Board in 2000. I then worked with the Department to add the Ph.D. program to
our curriculum and welcomed our first cohort of students. I also rewrote a
Classics degree proposal when an earlier version had been rejected at the
University level and saw its approval and institution. I managed the budget,
carried out reviews and promotions, did course scheduling, facilitated the
departmental readiness for the SACS review, participated in Strategic Planning,
arranged many events including seven residencies of the Actors from the London
Stage and five visits of Brackenridge Distinguished professors, participated in the
College’s fundraising events, and helped to expand the Creative Writing Reading
Series. During this period I hired nine tenure-track faculty. I wrote a successful
proposal for a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
for $100,000.00 and matched the grant, creating the first Endowed Chair in the
Humanities and Literature, as a support for the new Ph.D., the Department’s first
endowed position. When the opportunity arose to move to a new academic
building, I worked with architects and a design team to create the existing English
Department space in that new building. I worked with the College to secure
funding for a Division Writing Center when the existing center moved with
Communication, and I oversaw the design and purchase of equipment.
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Director of Core Curriculum, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1993-95.
As Director of Core Curriculum for two years, I worked closely with the Core
Curriculum Committee to institute the newly designed Core Curriculum. Among
my duties were to encourage the development of new courses to be added to the
Core in the various Domains, to gather syllabi from existing Core courses, to
conduct reviews of the syllabi with the Committee to ensure that the courses were
meeting the goals and objectives of the Domain, and to solicit applications for
small faculty grants to develop Core courses and work with the Committee to
evaluate the applications and oversee the grants. I revised Undergraduate Catalog
copy as necessary to include new courses and to ensure accuracy of course
numbers and descriptions. I gave presentations at meetings with representatives
of area community colleges, universities, and high schools to explain the nature of
the Domains of our Core Curriculum and to ensure consistency with transfer
courses. I worked closely with the Testing Center and with those in charge of the
2 + 2 program agreements with colleges.
Coordinator of Composition, Division of English, Classics, and Philosophy, 1986-98.
As Coordinator, I directed the Division’s lower-division composition and
communication programs, including developmental writing, two semesters of
freshman composition, technical writing, and introduction to communication. I
scheduled and staffed all courses, worked with the instructors in curriculum
development and textbook selection, served as liaison to the University’s core
courses and the Testing Center, chaired the Composition Committee, instituted
University-mandated exit examinations, evaluated faculty and allocated merit
raises and recommended promotions, and interacted with students. I observed
faculty classes, organized professional development activities for faculty, and
developed the idea for the Student Handbook and secured a publisher, thereby
creating a vehicle of information and policy shared by faculty and students, with
proceeds creating a program support fund. I also wrote an annual Faculty
Handbook. I worked closely with the Division Director in all matters pertaining
to the faculty at large. I worked with the Graduate Advisor to create a plan for the
Division’s first teaching assistants and supervised five to seven a year who taught
two classes each, and I taught the one-hour Practicum as an overload to help the
teaching assistants create syllabi and manage their courses.
UNIVERSITY:
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Recruitment and Retention, 2012.
Member, Judiciary Tribunal, 2009-10.
President’s Distinguished Awards for Excellence Selection Committee, 2008.
Member, Judiciary Tribunal, 2007-08.
President’s Appointee. University Faculty Grievance Committee. 2006-October, 2010.
University Faculty Grievance Committee. ECP Representative. 2007-2009.
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University Task Force on Diversity, representative for COLFA, 2005.
Task Force on Scheduling. 2002-2003.
Chair, DFRAC, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, committee of full professors to
assess promotion case, 2002.
Representative to UT-System Committee on Assessment: Writing Assessment, 20012002.
Committee for Curriculum Alignment, 2000.
COFAH Committee for Strategic Initiatives, 1999-2000.
Building Committee, Academic Building III, 1604 Campus, 1998-1999.
Task Force for Developmental Coursework Plan, 2000-2002.
Judge, University Life Honors Awards, 2000.
Chair, College Faculty Review Advisory Committee, College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, Fall, 1998.
Member, Learner-Centered Committee for SACS Accreditation, 1998-99.
Provost’s Committee on Faculty Development, 1997-98.
Search Committee, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, 1997.
University Strategic Initiative Committee, 1997-99.
Provost’s Committee on Faculty Research Leaves, 1995-96.
Director of Core Curriculum, 1993-94.
Provost’s Ad Hoc Faculty Development Committee, 1993-97.
Task Force on TASP, 1990-1995.
Chair, Undergraduate Education and Core Curriculum Development Strategic
Initiatives Committee, 1994.
Interdisciplinary Studies Advisory Committee, 1990-97.
University Assembly/Faculty Senate, 1992-94.
Faculty Senate Nominating Committee, 1993-94.
Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, 1992-93.
Committee on Self-Paced Academic Skill Development Program, 1992-93.
Committee to Plan for Orientation Testing for Core Curriculum Placement, 1993-94.
Ad Hoc Committee of Interdisciplinary Program Directors, 1993-94.
Committee to Plan for Publicity of Core Curriculum, 1993-94.
Task Force on Core Curriculum, 1990-92.
University Task Force on Planning and Evaluation, 1988-89.
Faculty Grievance and Appeals Panel, 1989-90.
UTSA Task Force to Respond to UT System Teacher Education Task
Force Report, 1983.
University Committee on Teacher Education, 1981-83.
College Committee on Internship, 1981-82.
COLLEGE:
Member, DFRAC, Department of Philosophy and Classics, 1987-present.
Facilitator for panel, Graduate Research Conference, 2010.
Member, COLFA Pool of Representatives to UFRAC, 2010.
Member, Research Paper Committee, Facilitator for session, Graduate Research
Conference, 2009.
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Member, COLFA Graduate Program Committee, 2008.
Member, Ad Hoc COLFA Committee to assess the Core Curriculum Literary Studies
Requirement for SAACS Accreditation, 2008.
Member, COLFA Faculty Grievance Committee, 2007-2009.
Member, COLFA Research and Creative Activities Committee, 2007-2009.
Member, COLFA Pool of Representatives to UFRAC, 2005-07.
Member, Screening Committee, Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the*
Humanities, 2005-06.
Member, Screening Committee. Sue E. Denman Endowed Chair in American Literature,
2005-06.
Member, Search Committee, Public Relations, for Full Professor and Associate
Professor, Department of Communication, 2003-04.
Member, COLFA Advisory Council, 1998-2003.
Search Committee, College Development Officer. 2002.
Member, College Strategic Initiative Committee, 1998-99.
DEPARTMENT:
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Rhetoric and Composition, 2013.
Chair, Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, 2012-13.
Member, Rhetoric/Composition Search Committee, 2011-12.
Member, Merit Advisory Committee, 2011-present.
Acting Chair for Promotion Review, Fall, 2011.
Presentation on Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D. Orientation, August 2011.
Secretary, Faculty Forum, 2009-2011.
Chair, M.A. Graduate Program Committee, 2008.
Presentation on Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D. Orientation, August 2010.
Chair, Department Faculty Review Advisory Committee, 2009-2010.
Presentation on Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D. Orientation, August 2009.
Member, Periodic Performance Review Committee, 2008-10.
Chair, Search Committee, Rhetoric/Composition, 2008.
Chair, Ad Hoc Rhetoric/Composition Committee, 2007-2009.
Member, Committee on Staff Hiring, 2008.
Member, Periodic Performance Review Committee, 2005-07.
Chair, Department Faculty Review Advisory Committee, 2005-06.
Chair, Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, 2005-06. Member, 2006-07.
Chair, Merit Advisory Committee, 2005-06. Member, 2006-07
Member, M.A. Graduate Program Committee, 2005-06.
Chair, Search Committee, Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and
The Humanities, 2004-05.
Certification Liaison. 1984-98, 2002-03.
Enrollment Management, 1997-98.
Chair, English Education Search Committee, 1997-98.
Co-chair, Rhetoric and Composition Search Committee, 1996-97.
Coordinator of Composition, 1986-98.
Division Director Search Committee, 1995.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1990-93; 1983-85.
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Chair, Lower Division Sequence Committee, 1986-98; member, 1981-98.
Student Handbook, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication,
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.
Communication Search Committee, 1992-93.
Communication Search Committee, 1991-92. Chair.
Faculty Review and Advisory Committee, 1987-1998. Chair, 1996-97. Chair, 1991-92.
Internship Director, 1983-86.
Co-director, Creative Writing Series, 1985-86.
Curriculum Committee, 1984-86.
Designer with Margaret Batschelet of Technical Writing Emphasis for BA in English,
1984.
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL:
Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Reviewer, symploke, spring, 2010.
Reviewer, Cormac McCarthy Journal, 2010 to present.
Invited instructor, UT Health Science Center “Medicine and Literature” course for 2nd
and 4th year medical students. February 13, 2008.
Reviewer, University of South Carolina Press, book MS on Cormac McCarthy, 2008,
Co-Local Arrangements Chair, with Sue Hum Conference of College Composition and
Communication, largest writing conference in the US. San Antonio, 2004.
Organized all local committees, coordinated their work, coordinated registration
table and exhibits and events of the conference. Over 3500 attendees.
Reviewer, Contemporary Literature, spring, 2002.
Invited Reader, College Literature, 2001-present.
Executive Council, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1995-98. Chaired
Rhetoric Committee, year one; served on committees, Literature, and
Creative Writing, next two years. Task to select all papers to be
Presented in all sessions of each category.
Chair, History of Rhetoric Session, SCMLA, 1996.
Chair, Rhetoric Section, SCMLA, 1986.
Secretary, Rhetoric Section, SCMLA, 1985.
Nominating Committee, Conference of College Composition and Communication,
1985.
Local Arrangements Chair, Conference of College Teachers of English,
March, 1985.
Secretary, Commission on Composition, NCTE, 1980-82. Drafted position
statement with Michael Halloran on teaching composition; in charge
of preparation of Commission-sponsored sessions for NCTE, 1982.
Invited reader (one of 20), Educational Testing Service, Princeton, 1982, to
determine effectiveness of College Entrance Examination writing sample.
COMMUNITY:
Presentation on Blood Meridian to Kinitra Brooks’s “Horror” graduate class, October 20,
2010.
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Presentation to Mary Francine Danis’s “Scholarship in English” graduate class, Our Lady
of the Lake University, October 6, 2010.
Presentation on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, UTHSC class on Ethics and Humanities,
February, 2008.
Keynote Speaker, 2003 ExCEL Awards Banquet Honoring Excellence in Education,
Sponsored by KENS 5 and SACU, honoring 19 area teachers for excellence,
May, 2003.
Barnes & Noble Special Event, Texas Writers' Month, Panel on Cormac McCarthy and
Reading of His Work, June, 2000.
Barnes & Noble Special Event, "Modes of Inquiry: Voices of Scholars Across the
Fields of Study," Barnes & Noble Fiesta Trails, September 1999. Presentation
by authors of Modes of Inquiry.
Workshop for Tutors on Writing, Tomas Rivera Office of Student Information
and Retention, May, 1996.
Consultant, Mei Corporation, Brooks AFB, Armstrong Laboratory, work on
Functional Skills Writing Tutor, 1992.
“Writing Letters and Memos.” Student Affairs Staff summer workshop, June,
1991.
Writing workshops, all New Student Orientations, 1986-89.
TASP workshop, Tomas Rivera Office of Student Information and Retention,
Institute of Texan Cultures, April, 1989.
Writing Workshop, “Intellectual Heights” series, Tomas Rivera Office of
Student Information and Retention, 1987.
Facilitator and Presenter, Comal County Independent School District, Weeklong Writing
Institute for Elementary Teachers, August, 1986, and August, 1985.
Comal County Independent School District, Writing In-service Workshop, August, 1985.
Harlandale School District, Project Share, April 3 and April 16, 1985, talks to honor
Students at McCollum and Harlandale High Schools on “What Can You Do
With a Degree in English?”
“Satire Workshop,” Meeting of Advanced Placement English Teachers, UTSA, October,
1983.
“Introduction to the Writing Process,” in-service presentation, Deer Park Independent
School District, Houston, August, 1983.
“Writing Lab,” Texas Department of Human Resources, Region 09 Third Annual
Clerical Workshop, San Antonio, July, 1983.
Consultant, Spring Branch Independent School District, 1982-83, guided development
of district-wide elementary writing lesson plans.
Judge, Writing Competition, UTSA Library and Division of English, 1983.
Judge, UTSA Forensics Tournament, 1982-83.
Consultant, Southwest Texas State University, with Eileen Lundy, evaluated
holdings in rhetoric and composition, September, 1982.
Judge, Texas Christian University Creative Writing Contest, 1982.
Region 20 Workshop, “The Relationship of Literature and Writing,” April,
1982.
Forest Hills Elementary School, San Antonio, in-service workshop, “The
Relationship of Reading and Writing,” January, 1982.
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Consultant, Texas Instruments, 1979, advised in planning stages of computer
language program.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
The Cormac McCarthy Society
COURSES TAUGHT:
GRADUATE:
Publishing in Rhetoric/Composition and/or Literature
Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
Development of Rhetoric and Composition
Teaching the Verbally Talented
Practicum in Rhetoric
Topics in Genre: Evolution of the Essay
Topics in Composition: Writing in a Multicultural Setting
Topics in Composition: The New Rhetorics
Topics in Composition: Perspectives on Collaboration
Professional Writing: Technical Writing
Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature
Innovative Fiction
UNDERGRADUATE:
LITERATURE:
Literature of Texas and the Southwest
American Literature I
Senior Seminar (Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy)
Senior Seminar (American Gothic Fiction)
Major American Writers
Modern American Literature
Contemporary American Literature
Introduction to Literature
Honors Seminar: Literature of Children and Adolescents
Literature for Children and Adolescents
COMPOSITION:
Advanced Professional Writing
Specialized Professional Writing
Theory and Practice of Composition
Advanced Composition
Persuasive Writing
Technical Writing
Internship
Composition for Professionals
Rhetorical Communication Analysis
Freshman Composition
Critical Reading and Writing I
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Critical Reading and Writing II
Basic English
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