Appendix F:
Faculty Vitae
ELIZABETH J. BIRMINGHAM
1418 6th Street South • Fargo, North Dakota 58103 • [email protected]
EDUCATION:
Iowa State University, December 2000
PhD: Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Specialization: Architectural history, theory, and criticism (32 credit emphasis)
Dissertation: Marion Mahony and The Magic of America: Recovery, Reaction, and Re-entrenchment
Iowa State University, May 1994
M.A.: English, Creative Writing
Thesis: Playing Destiny
Australian National University, 1991-1992
Fulbright Fellow in architectural history
Research area: Australian architectural practice of Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin
Rosary College, Summa cum laude, May 1989
B.A.: English, literature
B. A. Honors: art history
Thesis: Walter Burley Griffin's Midwestern Residential Architecture: 1901-1913
ACADEMIC POSITION:
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Associate Professor of English, August 2007
Assistant Professor of English, January 2001
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Director of Upper-division Writing Program, January 2006-present
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications
“I See Dead People: Archive, Crypt, and an Argument for the Researcher’s 6th Sense.” Beyond the
Archives: Research as a Lived Process. Eds. Elizabeth Rohan and Gesa Kirsch. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois U P, 2008. (Forthcoming)
“First-year Composition and the Research/Writing Gap.” Library Orientation Series 40 (2007): 12pp.
(Forthcoming: refereed conference proceeding, with Molly Flaspohler)
“The Case of Marion Mahony Griffin and the Gendered Nature of Discourse in Architectural History.”
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 35.2 (2006): 87-123.
“An Alternative Network Architecture: Sexing the Moment of Complexity.” JAC: A Journal of
Composition Theory 24.4 (2004): 1001-1024.
“Marion Mahony, Architectural Attribution, and Millikin Place: Response to the Call for a
Reinterpretation of Architectural History.” Architectural Theory Review 9.2 (2004): 34-50.
“Another Fine Mess: the Pregnant Body and the Discipline of the Line.” WOE: Writing on the Edge 14.2
(Spring 2004): 95-109.
“Policing the Architectural Canon: The Gendered Discourse of Architectural History.” Professing
Rhetoric. Eds. Fred Antczak, et al. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 97-105.
“Re(per)forming War: Capturing Contemporary History in Two Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Henry
V.” Film and History 2000 CD-ROM Annual. Ed. Peter C. Rollins. 2001.
“Fearing the Freak: How Talk TV Articulates Women and Class.” Journal of Popular Film and
Television 28.3 (2000): 133-139.
“A New Way of Doing Business: Articulating the Economics of Composition.” JAC: A Journal of
Composition Theory 19.4 (1999): 679-697. (co-authored)
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“Reframing the Ruins: Pruitt-Igoe, Structural Racism, and African American Rhetoric as a Space for
Cultural Critique.” Journal of Western Communication 63.3 (1999): 291-309.
“Gender Differences in Teaching Assistant Response to Student Papers.” Our Own Voice. Eds. Tina
Good and Leanne Warshauer. Boston: Allyn-Bacon, 1999. 200-211.
“Reinventing First-Year Composition at the Nation’s First Land Grant University: A Cautionary Tale.”
Writing Program Administration 21.1 (1997): 19-30. (co-authored)
Reviews
“Shifting Discipline in Women’s Studies: Studies of Masculinities, Pornographies, and Sexualities.”
Review essay. NWSA Journal 19.2 (2007): 15pp. (Forthcoming, July 2007)
“Modernity and the Renegotiation of Gendered Space.” Review essay. NWSA Journal 19.1 (2007): 201210.
“The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 19001933 by Emily Thompson.” Review. The International Journal of Listening 18 (2004): 56-60.
Invited Articles/Proceedings
“Lies, Damn Lies, and Autobiography: How and Why We Read Architect’s Lives.” Wright Angles 33.1:
2007. 3-8.
“Reading Between the Lines: The 75th Anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s An Autobiography.” Wright
Angles 33.1: 2007. 9.
“Marion Mahony and the Magic of America: Visiting the Text.” Wright Angles 31.3 (2005): 3-8.
“When the Course is the Problem.” Samford University’s Teaching Portfolio Project. First
Year/Problem Based Learning Peer Reviewed Portfolio, Fall 2003.
“Marion Lucy Mahony: A Brief Biography.” Women’s Arts News 5.3 (November 2002): 1.
“Battle Fronts: The Rhetorical Spaces of Marion Mahony Griffin's Magic of America.” Travel
Narratives/Women's Writing//Recrits de voyage/Ecriture des femmes. Ed. Constance Cartmill.
Winnipeg: U of Manitoba, 2002. (Proceedings)
“Articulating a White, Masculine Australian Identity: Mateship and Nationalism in Gallipoli and
‘Breaker’ Morant.” Red River Conference of World Literatures: Proceedings. 2000.
“Writers Talk About . . . Sex.” River Oak Review Fall (1995): 50-51.
Literary (journals/anthologies)
“Canberra City Winter Sunday Morning, 1991.” Redoubt 29.2 (2001): 14.
“Falling Away.” The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection Eds. Ellen Datlow
and Terri Windling. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 486-497.
“Marshmallow Creme.” Briar Cliff Review Spring (1999): 54.
“Falling Away.” Prairie Schooner Spring (1999): 45-59.
“Avoiding the Fête Worse than Death: Negotiating Men, Motherhood and Postmodernity.” Discourse
April (1997): 59-68.
“Small Things.” River Oak Review Fall (1995): 69-78.
Under Review
“Recent Scholarship on Frank Lloyd Wright: Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Big Picture.”
Architectural Theory Review. Ed. Anna Rubbo.
“The Problem of Information Literacy and the First-Year Writing Course: A Study.” Communications in
Information Literacy. Ed. Stewart Brower. (Co-authored)
PRESENTATIONS:
Plenaries
Plenary, Third Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Decatur, IL, October 2001
“Marion Mahony and Millikin Place: Gender, Erasure, and Architectural Attribution”
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Conferences
LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange), San Diego, CA, May 2007
“First-year Composition and the Research/Writing Gap.”
College Composition and Communication Conference, New York, NY, March 2007
“The Problem of Information Literacy: A Study of Three First-year Writing Programs.”
The Collaboration, Bloomington, MN, February 2005 (with Jennifer Krueger, and Bill Slanger)
“Assessing the Impact of a Learning Community: an Academic/Student Services Collaboration”
Computers and Writing, Honolulu, HI, June 2004
“Be A Model: Teaching PhotoShop as Tool for Media Critique”
Fourth Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Columbus, OH, October 2003
“Building Knowledge: Invention as Blueprint for a Feminist Epistemology”
Western States Composition Conference, Seattle, WA, October 2002
“Strict Discipline: Women, Absence, and the Discourse of Architectural Studies”
Modern Language Association (MLA), New Orleans, LA, December 2001
“Hyper/Textual Criticism and the Burden of Linearity”
Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Denver, CO, March 2001
“Composing Gated Communities: Gender, Exclusion, and Discourse in Architectural Studies”
Research Network Forum, Denver, CO, March 2001
“The Queerness of Textual Spaces: Critical Uncertainty and the Homoerotics of Louis Sullivan”
Rhetoric Society of America, Washington, D.C., May 2000
“Policing the Architectural Canon: The Mechanics of Recovery, Revision and Re-entrenchment”
Second Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 1999
“Battle Fronts: The Rhetorical Spaces of Mahony Griffin's Magic of America”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998
“Pruitt-Igoe, Structural Racism, and African-American Rhetoric as a Framework for Cultural
Critique”
Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Chicago, IL, April 1998
“Repositioning Tenure Track Faculty: An (Un)Fortunate History of First Year Composition”
First Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Corvallis, OR, August 1997
“Rorty's Recontextualization: Feminist Hope Meets the Impossibility of Ethnocentrism”
Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Milwaukee, WI, March 1996
“Gendered Teaching: Responding to Mixed Messages”
Association for Business Communication (ABC), Orlando, FL, November 1995
“Unsilenced Voices: Secretaries' Unions as Spaces for Empowerment”
Regional Conferences
Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Moorhead, MN, October 2006
“Women’s Studies Courses and Pedagogies”
Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Madison, SD, April 2001
“The Limits of Linearity: Architecture/Text/ Hypertext”
Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, October 2000
“The Battle Fronts of Marion Mahony Griffin's Magic of America”
Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Grand Forks, ND, October 1999
“‘If I Were a Woman, I Would Be in Love with Rick’: the Homoerotics of Hard-boiled Masculinity
from Casablanca to LA Confidential”
Red River Conference of World Literatures, Fargo, ND, April 1999
“The New Rhetorics of National Cinemas: Articulating Australian Postcolonial Masculinities in
Gallipoli and ‘Breaker’ Morant”
Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, October 1998
“Toward A Minor Rhetoric”
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Red River Conference of World Literatures, Fargo, ND, April 1998
“Subversive Masculinities: Undermining Notions of Hybridity in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid”
Invited Presentations and Workshops (Selected)
Mid-American Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Fargo, ND June 2007
“Developing Themes as a Strategy for Writing Successful Grants.” Research and Writing Grant
Proposals w/ Charles Okigbo
Women’s Week, Brown Bag, NDSU March 2007
“Gender Bias in Language” w/ Danealle Carter, Emily Ergen, Carly Hearn, Heather Nessimeier,
CeCe Rohwedder
Teaching Circle, Department of Plant Sciences, NDSU December 2006
“Upper-Division Writing, Portfolio Assessment, and Evidence of Meeting Your Program Outcomes”
Pedagogical Luncheon, NDSU October 2006 (with Eunice Johnston, Dale Sullivan, Amy Taggart)
“Understanding the Vertical Writing Program and the Upper-Division Requirement”
Teaching Academy Workshops, NDSU August 2006 (w/ Kevin Brooks)
• “Writing as an Engaging Pedagogy: Designing Effective and Engaging Assignments”
• “Evaluating Student Writing: Strategies for Engaging Students through Feedback”
WISMET Lunch Lecture, North Dakota State University, February 2006
“Architects in Popular Culture: What Americans Always Think They Know About Architects,
Even if They Don’t Know Anything about Architecture or LA”
Roundtable discussion, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, November 2005
Invited participant, Scholars’ response to the work of Marion Mahony Griffin
Teaching Academy Workshops. NDSU, August 2005
“Assigning and Responding to Student Writing”
NDSU Scholar’s Lunch, NDSU, June 2005
Keynote speaker, orientation activities for NDSU scholarship recipients and their families
College of Agriculture Teaching Circle, North Dakota State University, February 2004
“Assigning and Responding to Student Writing” (w/Kevin Brooks)
Communications Department Noon Seminar, North Dakota State University, January 2004
“Assigning and Responding to Student Writing” (w/Kevin Brooks)
FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning) Lunch, North Dakota State University, October 2003
“Teaching Engagement Workshop” (panel presentation)
Last Lecture (Student nominated lecture series), North Dakota State University, October 2003
“You Can’t Live on Chicken Soup Alone: Other ‘Reading’ for the College Student’s Soul”
Communications Department Noon Seminar, North Dakota State University, September 2003
“Writing Proposals—Generic Conventions”
Training for Memorial Union Student Workers, North Dakota State University, August 2003
“Workplace Communication” (workshop)
FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning) Luncheon, North Dakota State, November 2002
“Composition is the Problem: Problem Based Learning in a First Year Writing Class” (presentation)
Professional development for Memorial Union supervisors, North Dakota State University, October 2002
“Supervisory Communication” (presentation)
International Programs Office, North Dakota State University, September 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
“Writing Effective Fulbright Applications” (workshop)
International Programs Office, North Dakota State University, May 2002, 2003, 2006
“Summer Checklist for Fulbright Applications” (presentation/discussion)
Women’s Studies Seminar Series, North Dakota State University, September 2001
“What are There No Great Women Architects?”
Professional Development Workshops, North Dakota State University, June 2001
“Creating a Coherent Professional Writing Curriculum”” (15 hours, 3 workshops)
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New Faculty Workshops, North Dakota State University, August 2000
“Designing and Responding to Writing Assignments” (w/ Kevin Brooks)
BEST teacher training workshop, Iowa State University, August 1996
“Incorporating Biology Content into the FYC Curriculum” (w/ Kevin Brooks)
AWARDS:
Honors
Mary McCannel Gunkelman Award nomination, NDSU, April 2007
Carnegie Professor of the Year Nominee, NDSU, Spring 2005
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Outstanding Teacher Award, NDSU, May 2004
Last Lecture, Student-nominated lecture series, Division of Student Affairs, October 2003
Excellence in Creating Engaged Classroom, Provost and VP Academic Affairs Office, October 2003
Mary McCannel Gunkelman Award nomination, NDSU, April 2003
Excellence in Implementing Problem-based Learning, Provost and VP Academic Affairs, NDSU, April
2003
Milka Bliznakov Prize, (Annual Prize for Research on Gender and Architecture), International Archive of
Women in Architecture, November 2002
Best Fantasy Story of 1999, Editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2000
Excellence in Research Award, (University research award), Iowa State University, December 2000
Pushcart Nomination (Poetry), 1999
IOWA Literary Prize (First Place Poetry), Iowa Writers' Association, 1998
Richard Wright Award (Literary/Critical Writing), Iowa State University, May 1996
River Oak-Hemingway Foundation National Fiction Award, River Oak Review, July 1995
Excellence in Teaching Award (University teaching award), Iowa State University, May 1994
Grants and Fellowships
Faculty Development Grant. Architecture/English collaborative upper level writing course development.
2005
DCE Grant. On-line grants writing course. Division of Distance and Continuing Education. 2004
Faculty Development Grant. Upper level writing assessment and curriculum development. 2004
Samford University/Pew Foundation mini grant. Problem Based Learning/Peer Reviewed Teaching
Portfolio, 2002
Community Project Awards. (Partnership with Fargo non-profits for grants writing intern program.) 2002
FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning) Advanced Fellowship. NDSU, 2002
Peer-Review of Teaching Fellow. NDSU, 2002
Vice President’s Summer Salary Grant (research), 2002
Centennial Endowment Fund Grant. (Purchases for slide library: women in art and architecture) 2002
Proposal to Office of Research, Creative Activity and Technology Transfer to fund Great Plains Alliance
for Computers and Writing. 2002
Cargill Scholarship Program. (To help fund GPACW annual meeting) Cargill International. 2002
Grant-in-Aid, Development of Magic of America CD-ROM project, NDSU, 2001
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Summer Salary Grant (research), 2001
Faculty Development Grant (Coordinating upper-level writing), NDSU, 2001
Haggard Dissertation Fellowship (Dissertation research), Iowa State University, 1998-1999
Rosann Berry Fellowship (Research in architectural history), Society of Architectural Historians, 1998
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Miller Grant (Funding for curriculum development and TA training), Iowa State University, 1996-1997
(co-PI)
Pearle Hogrefe Grant-in-Aid (Fiction writing), Iowa State University, May 1996
Hughes Grant (Funding of curriculum development for learning team project), Iowa State
University,1995 (co-PI)
Fulbright Student Fellowship (Research fellowship), Australian National University, 1991-1992
Architectural Study Tour Scholarship (Research in architectural history), Society of Architectural
Historians, May 1991
SERVICE:
Community Service/Outreach
NDUS Orientation Video, March 2007
Talking to Children about Alcohol Use. Volunteer participant.
United Way of Cass-Clay County. 2006, 2007
Community Review Volunteer. Review sites and proposals from community non-profits
“Rights and Responsibilities.” Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education (FAME). 2005
(Usability testing of pilot training module for Disability Student Services)
Bremer Foundation Funded Program for Minority Managers of Non-Profits, Fargo, ND, October 2004
“Writing Grants to Fund Non-profit Organizations”
Communiversity Community Education Course (w/ Glenda Swan), Moorhead, MN, February 2004
“A Lost History: Women in Art and Architecture”
Governor’s School, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND June/July 2003
Creative Writing Workshop (six weeks, high school participants)
Plains Art Museum, Tri-college Writers (reading creative work), Spring 2001
“Small Things”
University Committees
NCAA Division I Certification Steering Committee, Academic Integrity Subcommittee, 2006-2007
Advisory Board for Student Affairs, 2005-07
General Education Committee, 2005-08
• Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication subcommittee (Chair, 2005-06)
• Liaison to upper-division writing committee
College of AHSS, Policy and Planning Committee, 2004-07 (Chair, 2005-06)
Faculty Development Committee, 2003-07
Bush Grant, CCLP—Learning Community Program, 2002-2006 (Assessment team)
FORWARD Team for Improving Campus Climate for Women Faculty—NSF grant research and writing
team, 2003-07
FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Teaching) humanities group (Chair), 2002-03
Safe Zone Project Core Committee, 2002-04
Women’s Studies Advisory Board, 2001-06
Other University Service/Engagement
Peer Mentoring Program (Mentor to Andrew/Miriam Mara) w/Kevin Brooks, 2006-2007
Summer Orientation, Parent Q & A Panel, 2006
Peer Review of Teaching (Mentor to Sarah Wagner), 2006
Peer Mentoring Program (Mentor to Christine Weber), 2005-06
Interim Fulbright Program Administrator (International Programs director’s maternity leave), 2005
• Mentored three students through Fulbright application process
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Scheduled interviews, recruited interview committees, wrote committee recommendations for
students
• Received 2/3 recommendations from Fulbright US for awards
WISMET (Women in Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology), 2004-06
Rhodes Scholarship Interview Committee, 2004-06
NSEP Scholarship (National Security Education Program) selection committee, 2004-05
Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program, AHSS selection committee, 2004
Tapestry of Diverse Talents Award Committee, 2003-07
Fulbright Recruitment, Mentoring and Interview Committee, 2002-07
Departmental Committees
Upper-division Writing Committee (chair), 2005-07
Search Committee (two open positions), 2003-04
Search Committee (for department head), 2002-03
Social, Outreach and Recognition Committee (chair), 2001-04
Assessment Committee, 2001-2004 (chair 2004-2007)
Search Committee (for 3 assistant professor positions), NDSU, 2001-02
First Year English Committee (FEC), 2001-2002
Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Committee (chair), 2001-02
Red River Conference Committee, 2001-03
Search Committee (for technical writing position), 2000-01
Ad hoc committee to develop writing major, 2000
Advising
Graduate Paper Director:
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Niki Carlson (co-director with Wendy Reed), untitled dissertation in Environmental and Conservation
Science, (Spring 2009)
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Najla Admundsen (co-director with Paul Nelson), untitled dissertation in Communications, (Spring
2008)
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Marianna Cabellaro, “Toward a Translation Philosophy.” (Spring 2007)
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Jennifer McKenzie (co-director), untitled thesis (Spring 2007)
Nancy Kittelson, “Revisiting Composing As a Woman: Gender and Process.” (Spring 2007)
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Laure Seguela, “Revealing Paradigms: Making the Translator Visible through Hypertext.” (Fall 2006)
Katey Ehrenberg: “The Invisible Compositionist: Personal Perceptions, English Instructors, and the
Influence of the Media.” (Spring 2004)
• Mirim Kim: “Reconstructing Narratives of International Adoption: A Korean Adoptee Talks Back.”
(Fall 2003)
• Kim Crowley: “My Mother, Herself: A Rural Woman Develops a Literate Self through the
Sponsorship of the Women’s Movement.” (Summer 2003)
• Dayna Del Val: “Think But This and All Is Mended: Rewriting the Academy.” (Summer 2002)
Reader/responder: 21 graduate portfolios, 2002-07
Second or outside reader: eighteen graduate thesis/dissertation committees, 2002-07
Advisor: Callie Nordahl, McNair Scholar’s Program, “Human Resource Management and Volunteers:
Using Action-based Research to Understand Volunteer Recruitment and Retention in a Local NonProfit Agency.” 2003-2005
Advisor: Dayna Del Val, technology transfer traineeship, NDSU, 2001-2002
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Interim President, Executive Board of the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 2007
Manuscript Reviewer, Managing Change: A Guide to Proposal Writing by Richard Johnson-Sheehan,
Allyn-Bacon, October 2006
Manuscript Reviewer, The New Basics: Sex, Gender and Sexuality edited by Abby L. Ferber, New York
University Press, July 2006
Exam Reader and Report Coordinator, Academic Profile Essay Exam, Office of Institutional Research
and Analysis, 2006
Manuscript Reviewer, Lamentations from a Prodigal Son by Dean Hulse, Institute for Regional Studies,
June 2006
Manuscript Final Reviewer, Fight Like a Girl by Megan Seeley, New York University Press, January
2006 (final prepublication review)
Manuscript Reviewer, The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women’s Rights in
America by Debra Rowland. Boston: Allyn-Bacon Longman, July 2005
Manuscript Reviewer, Fight Like a Girl by Megan Seeley, New York University Press, January 2005
Exam Reader and Report Coordinator, Academic Profile Essay Exam, 2004
Executive Board, NWSA Journal (National Women’s Studies Association), 2003-2008
Reviewer, NWSA Journal (National Women’s Studies Association), 2003-2008
Reviewer, Problem Based Learning Clearinghouse, University of Delaware, 2002-2005
Conference coordinator and fundraiser, Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, 2002
Planning Committee, Red River Conference of World Literatures, 2001-2002
Executive Board, Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, 2001-2004
TEACHING/CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT:
Graduate Level
Topics in Rhetoric and Writing: Alternative Academic Writing and Research (English 758)
Research Methods (English 756)
Composition Theory (English 755)
Advanced Writing Workshop (English 458/658)
Researching and Writing Grants and Proposals (English 459/659)
Language Bias: Gender, Sexuality, Language and Power (English 454/654)
General English Studies
English Capstone Experience (English 467)
Communication/Writing
Writing in the Design Professions (English 326)
Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (English 358)
Business and Professional Writing (English 320)
First Year English I and II (English 110 and 120)
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives in Women's Studies (WS 350)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Association of University Women
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Fulbright Association
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Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Women’s Studies Association
Walter Burley Griffin Society of America
Kevin Brooks, Ph.D.
Department of English // North Dakota State University // Fargo, ND 58105 // 701-231-7146
[email protected] // www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks
Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Iowa State University, Ames IA, 1997
Dissertation: “Writing Instruction in Western Canadian Universities: A History Of
Nation-building and Professionalism.” Dr. David R. Russell, advisor.
Master of Arts, English Literature
University of Calgary, Calgary AB, 1993
Thesis: “Writing and Unrighting Games in Robert Kroetsch and Richard Ford.”
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature (Honours)
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg MB, 1990
Academic Employment
Associate Professor (English), North Dakota State University.
August 2003-present.
Writing Program Administrator: August 2003-present.
• Facilitated major revision to first-year courses.
• Implemented large-scale portfolio assessment.
• Requested and received funding to develop a wireless network
(including laptops) for Graduate Teaching Assistants.
• Awarded two internal Faculty Development Grants to improve writing
instruction at NDSU.
• Organize regular workshops for all teachers of first-year composition.
• Conduct regular classroom visits and evaluations of Graduate
Teaching Assistants.
• Partially responsible for the hiring and supervision of part-time
instructors.
• Work to resolve student-teacher conflicts.
Assistant Professor (English), North Dakota State University.
August 1997-July 2003
Undergraduate Classes:
Undergrad/Grad:
Graduate Seminars:
Composition I & II; Introduction to Writing Studies;
Intermediate Composition; Practical Writing; Technical
Communication, Visual Culture and Language.
Advanced Writing Workshop, Electronic Communication.
Textbook and Living Traditions of Rhetoric: A History;
Composition Theory; Computers and Composition;
Rhetorics and Poetics of New Media (online)
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Refereed Publications
“Life is Not a Game: Re-working the Metaphor in Richard Ford’s Fiction.” The Journal
of Popular Culture. Forthcoming.
“’All In!’ Understanding the Media Ecology of the Poker Craze.” Exploration in Media
Ecology. Forthcoming.
“The Classical Trivium: A Heuristic and Heuretic for New Media and Digital
Communication Studies.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and
Pedagogy. Forthcoming.
“Changing the Ground of Graduate Education: Wireless Laptops bring Stability, not
Mobility, to Graduate Teaching Assistants.” Going Wireless: A Critical
Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and
Scholars. Forthcoming: Creskill NJ: Hampton Press.
"What's Going On? Listening to Music, Composing Videos." [With Michael Tomanek,
Matthew Warner, Rachel Wald, Brianne Wilkening.] Computers and
Composition Online Fall 2006. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/brooks/index.htm
“Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs.” [With
Cindy Nichols and Sybil Priebe.] Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community,
and Culture of Weblogs. Ed. Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson,
Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. University of Minnesota, 2004.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/remediation_genre.html
“National Culture and the First-Year English Curriculum: An Historical Study of
Composition in Canadian Universities.” American Review of Canadian Studies.
34 (2002): 673-94.
“Composition’s Abolitionist Debate: A Tool for Change.” Composition Studies. 30.2
(2002): 27-42.
“Developing Doctoral Programs in the Corporate University: New Models.” [With
Kathleen Blake Yancey and Mark Zachry.] Profession 2002. 89-103.
“Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-based Pedagogy.”
Pedagogy 2.3 (2002): 337-56.
“Silence, Talk, and Speaking Out: Language Use and Class on the Upper Great Plains.”
North Dakota Quarterly 69.1 (2002): 63-76.
“Writing Instruction or Textual Studies? Professionalism and the Junior Curriculum at
the University of Manitoba, 1909-1935.” Textual Studies in Canada 10/11
(1998): 157-76.
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“Liberal Education on the Great Plains: American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations,
1930-1950.” Great Plains Quarterly 17 (1997): 103-18.
“Reviewing and Redescribing ‘The Politics of Historiography’: Octalog I, 1988.”
Rhetoric Review 16 (1997): 6-21.
“Robert Kroetsch Writing Mad Games.” Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature 10
(1992): 57-63.
Invited Publications
“National Culture and the First-Year English Curriculum: An Historical Study of
“Composition” in Canadian Universities.” Writing Centres, Writing Seminars,
Writing Culture: Writing Instruction in Anglo-Canadian Universities. Eds. Roger
Graves and Heather Graves. Winnipeg: Inkshed, 2006. 95-119.
Non-Refereed Publications
“Canadian Writers of Sports Literature.” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed.
Joyce Duncan. New York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 405-06. 73-74.
“Ford, Richard.” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed. Joyce Duncan. New
York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 138-39.
“Harris, Mark.” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed. Joyce Duncan. New
York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 160.
“Howe, Gordon “Gordie.”” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed. Joyce
Duncan. New York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 172-74.
“Hull, Robert “Bobby” Marvin.” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed. Joyce
Duncan. New York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 405-06. 174-76.
“World Hockey Association.” Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture. Ed. Joyce
Duncan. New York: ABL-CIO, 2004. 405-06.
“Border Radio: A Collection of Notes to the Count of Eight.” North Dakota Quarterly.
69.4 (2002): 81-85.
Technology and Empire: The Postcolonial Vision of David Cronenberg. Annual
Proceedings of the Red River Conference on World Literature, 2000.
http://www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL/V2/brooks.html.
Ed. Thru the Smoky End Boards: Canadian Poetry about Sports and Games. Vancouver:
Polestar, 1996.
Book Reviews
Review Essay: “The McLuhan Revival Reviewed.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric,
Technology, and Pedagogy. 9.1 Fall 2004.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/binder.html?reviews/brooks/index.htm
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Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. The Writing Instructor 16 (1997): 141-44.
Review Essay: Bankrupt Education, Harmonious Perfection, and Writing Instruction in
Canadian Universities. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 16 (1996): 50509.
Conference Presentations
“Exploring Virtual Globalism: Reading and Writing MEmorials for Afghanistan and the
Lost Boys of the Sudan.” Computers and Writing. Wayne State University,
Detroit MI. May 18-20, 2007.
“Re-Presenting Marshall McLuhan: A brief historical re-assessment of the place of
McLuhan in rhetoric and composition.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication. New York, NY. March 22-24, 2007.
“Three Perspectives on Four Years of Blogging: Tetradic Perspectives.” [With Sybil
Priebe and Cindy Nichols.] Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing,
Mankato State University, November 10, 2006.
“Multimodal Composing, Bad Things Are Good, and Copyright Instruction: A Look at
Composing Music Videos with PowerPoint.” [With Michael Tomanek, Matthew
Warner, and Brianne Wilkening.] Great Plains Alliance for Computers and
Writing, North Dakota State University April 7 & 8, 2006.
“Chipping the Ice off the Institutional Windshield: Co-alition Building and Resistance to
a Vertical Writing Curriculum.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Chicago IL, March 23-25, 2006.
“McLuhanesque Meditations on Sports and Literature.” The Annual Sports Literature
Association Conference. Iowa State University, Ames IA. June 23-26, 2005.
“Scott McCloud’s Big Triangle and New Media Composition.” Computers and Writing.
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA. June 16-19, 2005.
“Beyond the Global Village: Marshall McLuhan’s Laws of Media as Heuristic Device.”
Computers and Writing. Honolulu, Hawaii. June 10-13, 2004.
“North Dakota is Everywhere: Disciplinary Lessons from a Historical Study of
Composition at two North Dakota Universities.” Western States Conference on
Composition. U of Washington, Seattle WA. Oct. 24-26, 2002.
“Composition’s Abolitionist Debate: A Tool for Change.” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba
and North Dakota. North Dakota State U. Oct. 26-27. 2001.
“Activity Theory and Genre: Tools for Planning and Building Hypertexts.” Writing as a
Human Activity. University of California, Santa Barbara. Oct. 6-7, 2001.
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“Cooking Up a Multi-Vocal Essay: Dinner Conversations about Teaching and Writing
MVEs.” With Dayna Del Val, Lynne Devitt, and Mary Pull. Great Plains Alliance
for Computers and Writing. Dakota State U. Madison SD. April 19-22, 2001.
“Popular Genres, Collaborative Hypertexts.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and
Writing. Dakota State U. Madison SD. April 19-22, 2001.
“Cultivating the Red River Valley: A Local History.” Research Network, Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March 14-17, 2001.
“Time, Space, and Rhetorical Education in the Twenty-first Century. ” Linguistic Circle
of Manitoba and North Dakota. U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. October
21-22, 2000.
“Professing Rhetoric on the Upper Great Plains: Cultural and Professional Challenges.”
Rhetoric Society of America. Washington DC. May 25-28.
“Composition in the Red River Valley: An International Perspective.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. April 12-15, 2000.
“Reading and Writing Hypertext: A Genre Based Approach to Hypertext
Autobiography.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. U of South
Dakota, Vermillion SD. February 25-27, 2000.
“Wollstonecraft, Fuller, Perkins Gilman: Extending the Living Tradition of Rhetoric.”
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). U of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN. October 7-10,
1999. Session chair and organizer.
“Composition in the Red River Valley: An Historical Overview.” Linguistic Circle of
Manitoba and North Dakota. U of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND. October 2223, 1999.
“Rhetorical Education In Canada: The Persistence of Time, Resistance to Pragmatism.”
Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Penn State U, State
College, PA. July 4-7, 1999.
“Universities in Western Canada: A History of Hybridity.” American Studies
Association. Seattle WA. Nov. 19-22, 1998.
“David Cronenberg’s Technoscience Bodies in M. Butterfly and Dead Ringers.”
Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota. U of Winnipeg, Winnipeg MB.
Oct. 23-24, 1998.
“Technology and Empire: The Postcolonial Vision of David Cronenberg.” Red River
Conference of World Literature. North Dakota State U, Fargo. April 24-26,
1998.
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“Talk about Truth and Falsity: Anti-foundationalism and an Account of Truth.”
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Oregon State U, Corvallis. Aug. 28-30, 1997.
“Writing in the Disciplines: A Canadian History.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication. Phoenix, AZ. March 12-15, 1997.
“Life is Not a Game: The Pragmatism of Richard Ford.” Sports Literature Association
Conference 1996. U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Aug. 1-4, 1996.
“Liberal Education on the Great Plains: American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations
1930-1950.” Symposium for the Study of Great Plains Culture. U of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE. April 11-13, 1996.
“Understanding the Absence of Composition in Western Canadian Universities: A Brief
History.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee,
WI. March 27-30, 1996.
“Externalism and Cultural Studies: Literacy Narratives as Enabling Conceptual
Schemes.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Washington, DC. March 22-26, 1995.
“Forms of the Future: Editorial Decisions for Electronic Scholarly Publications.” U of
Missouri Graduate Student Conference. Columbia, MO. February 16-18, 1995.
Awards and Grants
• (with Dale Sullivan) NDSU Technology Fee Advisory Committee Grant, Fall 2005. For
developing a wireless, flexible classroom space for hybrid instruction.
• (with Amy Taggart) NDSU Foundation Library Grant, Fall 2005. For video material to
support English 110 and 120 themes of literacy and leadership.
• NDSU Instructional Development Grant, Spring 2005. For developing a junior-level
writing course for Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Sciences students.
• (with Mark Aune) NDSU Technology Fee Advisory Committee Grant, Spring 2004. For
developing a wireless network (including laptops) for Graduate Teaching Assistants in
English.
• NDSU Instructional Development Grant, Spring 2003. For revising First-year Writing
Curriculum at NDSU.
• Mart and Lois Vogel Outstanding Teacher Award, NDSU English Department, 2002.
• NCTE Grant-In-Aid, Fall 2000. For “Cultivating the Red River Valley: A History of
English Studies in Four Institutions of Higher Education.”
• NDSU Instructional Development Grant, Spring 2000. For developing an upper-level
course, “Electronic Communications.”
• NDSU Research and Consulting Committee Grant-In-Aid, 1999-2000. For research on the
history of composition in North Dakota.
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Student Advising/Mentoring
• Melissa Vosen, “Collaborative Writing and Co-operative Education: A Comparative
Analysis.” MA Paper Director. Completed Spring 2006.
• Joshua Hernandez, MA Paper Director, in progress.
• Danielle Kvanvig, MA Paper Director, in progress.
• Joshua Kern, MA Paper Reader, in progress.
• Marianna Caballero, MA Paper Reader, in progress.
• Jennifer McKenzie, MA Paper Reader, in progress.
• Tina Young, “Notre Dame de Paris: Hugo’s Long Laugh at Death.” MA Paper in
progress. Reader.
• Sybil Priebe, Technology Transfer Graduate Traineeship, 2003-05. Faculty mentor.
Also MA Paper Director, completed Spring 2005: “The Bison Blog: A Study of an
Online Campus Community.”
• Kim Sjurseth, “Conflict and Resolution in Western Literature: Land, Culture, and
Brotherhood.” M.A. Paper 2005. Reader.
• Katey Ehrenberg, “The Self-Perception of English Teachers and the Influence of
Film.” MA Paper, 2005. Reader.
• Marcie Lundberg, “Gender Differences in Scientific Grant Proposals: A Case Study.”
MA Paper 2004. Paper Director.
• Kendra Faiman, “A Mordant Realization: The Role of Electronic Plagiarism and the
Cultural Commons in First-year English.” MA Paper 2004. Reader.
• Emily Malsam, “Linguistic Patterns and Teacher Feedback in Teacher Response
Emails.” MA Paper 2004. Reader.
• Bethany Eastvold. “Glossing Glossolalia: A Phonemic Analysis of Speaking in
Tongues.” MA Paper 2004. Reader.
• Suzanne Hagelstrom, “Electrifying a Traditional Writing Lab: Developing an Online Writing Lab at North Dakota State College of Science.” M.A. Paper 2003.
Paper Director.
• Kimberly Crowley, “My Mother, Her Self: A Rural Woman Develops a Literate Self
Through the Sponsorship of the Women’s Movement.” M.A. Paper 2003. Reader.
• Mary Pull, “Snippets and Snapshots: Focusing on Writing in the Disciplines at
NDSU.” M.A. Paper 2002. Reader.
• Sheree Kornkven, “Electrifying Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth
Century.” M.A. Paper 2002. Paper Director.
• Dayna Del Val, “Think But This and All is Mended: Rewriting the Academy.” M.A.
Paper 2001. Reader.
• Mi-Rim Messelt, “Reconstructing Narratives of International Adoption: A Korean
Adoptee Talks Back.” M.A. Paper 2001. Reader.
• Anthony Ellertson, “Time, Reality, And Brahman in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. M.A.
Thesis (including Storyspace component), 2000. Reader
• Christine Harrell, “Responding Responsibly: Writing Conventions in Mary
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and First-Year Composition
Writers.” M.A. Paper, 2000. Paper Director.
• Paige Anderson, “Modeling: Shunning the Slavish-Herd Image for a Pragmatic
Approach.” M.A. Paper, 1999. Paper Director.
• Janet Mittendorf, “Dictation and Handwriting as Modes of Essay Production: A Case
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Study of Four Fourth-Grade Writers.” M.A. Paper, 1999. Reader.
English Club/Literary Magazine, 2001-2003. Co-advisor.
Twelve undergraduate capstone projects 2001-06.
Approximately 12 undergraduate major advisees a year.
Informal Workshops and Presentations
• “Podcasting: Course Content, Delivery Methods, and Assignments.” Great Plains
Alliance for Computers and Writing. North Dakota State University. April 8, 2006.
• “Faculty Development in and Through Writing” and “Learning Communities,
Electronic Portfolios, and Social Computing.” Rochester Institute of Technology,
Feb. 21st 2005.
• “Engaging Students with Writing Assignments.” Luncheon Talk with the Plant
Sciences Teaching Circle, NDSU. Friday February 27, 2004.
• “Assigning and Responding to Writing.” Luncheon Talk with the Communications
Department, NDSU. Wednesday January 21, 2004.”
• “Engaging Students with Writing Assignments.” Pedagogical Luncheon Talk, NDSU
Faculty. Nov 18, 2003.
• “Remediation and English Studies.” Presentation to English Capstone Course, Nov
13, 2003.
• “Surfing and IM-ing: Impact of the Internet on Rural Youth.” Co-presenter with
James Ross (ITS, NDSU). Ministry to Rural and Small-Town Youth Conference,
June 10, 2002. Moorhead MN.
• Essay Contest Judge, Minn-kota Red Cross’ “Everyday Hero” Contest. Summer
2002.
• “Exploring Electronic Literature.” Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, February
2002.
• “Integrating Advanced Writing Courses into a Traditional Curriculum - The NDSU
Experience.” CCCC. Chicago, March 20, 2002.
• “Designing and Responding to Writing Assignments,” NDSU Campus Workshop,
Aug. 23, 2000.
• “Writing Assignments and Assessment,” NDSU Campus Workshop, Aug. 12, 1999.
• “Reading and Writing Cultural Stories,” NDSU Department Workshop, Aug. 13,
1999.
• “Service, Standardization, Survival: Multiple Perspectives.” NDSU English
Department Seminar, Dec. 3, 1997.
Professional Development Conferences and Workshops
• Council of Writing Program Administrators Workshop, July 6-10, 2003. Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, MI. Attendee.
• “New Research for New Media, Symposium.” September 4-6, 2003, Minneapolis,
MN. Attendee.
• Institute for Managing and Developing E-Learning. Sponsored by the Western
Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, July 15-19, 2001. Park City, Utah.
Attendee.
• Developing an Advanced Writing Curriculum. CCCC. Denver, March 17, 2001.
Attendee.
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Professional Activities/Committees
• Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Conference Coordinator, 2004,
2006. Member of the GPACW Executive Committee, ongoing.
• English Department Search Committee Chair, 2005-06.
• ITS Strategic Plan Review Team, NDSU Committee, 2005-06.
• First-Year English Committee Chair, 2003-present.
• Vertical Writing Curriculum Committee (English Dept) Member, 2003-present.
• University Senate, College Representative, 2003-06
• University Senate Executive Committee, 2004-05
• NDSU Wireless Task Force, 2004-present.
• NDSU Problem-based Learning/Learning Communities Initiative, Technology Group
Member (2001)
• NDSU Content Management Solution Task Force (2001)
• Technology Fees Advisory Committee, University Committee, NDSU, Member
(2000-present)
• College Planning and Policy Committee, NDSU, Member (2000-01)
• Regional Studies Lecture Co-ordinator (1999-2004)
• Red River Conference on World Literature, Chair (1999-2001)
• Computer Resource Committee, NDSU, Chair (1998-present)
• Graduate Studies Committee, NDSU, Member (1998-2001)
• College Curriculum Committee, NDSU, Member (1998-2001)
• First-year English Committee, NDSU, Member (1997-present)
• Web Site Management, Red River Conference on World Literature (1999-2001)
• Co-Editor, H-Arete (electronic list for the discussion of Sports Literature) (19972002)
Professional Editing Experience
Editor, Proceedings of the Red River Conference on World Literature
1998-2003 (www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL/proceedings.html)
Assistant Editor, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory.
Fall 1994-Summer 1997, Iowa State University. Dr. Thomas Kent, editor.
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Professional Organizations
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English
• Member, Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
• Member, Modern Language Association
• Member, Sports Literature Association
Technology Skills
Hardware
• PC and Mac platforms
• Flatbed and photo/slide scanners
• Digital cameras and video cameras
• Digital audio recorders
• LCD projectors
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Operating systems: Windows and Mac OS
Productivity Suites: MS Office and Open Office
Image editors: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks
Web design: Macromedia Dreamweaver, working knowledge of HTML and CSS
Courseware: Blackboard
Weblog Software: Blogger, Tinderbox, Movable Type, Drupal
Wiki-ware: Wikispaces
Video editing: iMovie
Audio editing: GarageBand and Audacity
File transfer: WS_FTP, Fetch
Animation: Macromedia Flash
Content Management: Tinderbox
Mailers: Pine, Eudora, MS Outlook, Webmail, Mac Mail
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Safari, Firefox
Curriculum Vitae
Muriel Brown
Address and phone:
Department of English
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
(701) 231-7144
Education:
1971 Ph.D.
1960 M. A.
1958 B. A.
Home:
1318-18th Ave. S.
Moorhead, MN 56560
(218) 233-6844
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska
Dakota Wesleyan University (Magna Cum Laude)
Professional experience:
1997-2003 Chair of Department of English, North Dakota State University
1991Associate Professor, North Dakota State University
1974-1991 Lecturer and Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University
1970, 1974 Moorhead State University (Minnesota–part-time)
1959-1964, 1965-1967, Instructor, University of Nebraska
1958-1959, 1964-1965, Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska
Professional Publications:
“‘Sarasins’ in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale and the Middle English ‘King Horn.’” Proceedings
of the 13th Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature. April 2005:
13-21.
“‘Gentilesse’ in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature. April 2003: 82-89.
“What’s Hunting Got to Do with the Green Knight?: Bercilak, the Green Knight, and Sir
Gawain.” Proceedings of the Fifth Dakotas/Nebraska Conference on Earlier British
Literature July 1997 (published Summer 1999): 82-88.
“‘For . . . she was not undergrowe’: Chaucer’s Prioress Revisited.” Selected Papers
Presented to the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, 1989-1993.
“Opal Lee Popkes’ ‘Zuma Chowt’s Cave’”: Two Cultures in Conflict.” Nebraska English
Journal 38.2 (1993): 103-14.
“Growth and Development of the Artist: Willa Cather’s My Antonia. Midwest Quarterly. Fall
1992: 93-107.
Co-editor with Chandice M. Johnson, Robert O’Connor, Julie Bergman, Maureen Jonason, and
Helen Correll. Prairie Perspectives. New York: McGraw Hill, 1992.
Co-editor with Richard M. Shaw, Robert O’Connor, Julie Bergman, Chandice Johnson, and
Gordon Johnston. Kaleidoscope 3: Emerging Perspectives on Science, Ethics, and
Economics. 2nd ed. Needham Heights: Ginn Press, 1990.
Co-author with Richard M. Shaw, Robert O’Connor, Julie Bergman, Chandice Johnson, and
Gordon Johnston. Writing, Reading, and Reasoning. 2nd ed. Needham Heights:
Ginn Press, 1989.
Co-editor, Kaleidoscope 1: Emerging Perspectives on Community and School. 2nd ed.
Needham Heights: Ginn Press, 1989.
Co-editor, Kaleidoscope 2: Emerging Perspectives on History and Social Justice. 2nd ed.
Needham Heights, Ginn Press, 1989.
Book reviews in the Prairie Schooner.
Professional Papers and Presentations:
“Sarazins” in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale and the Medieval English ‘King Horn,’” Northern
Plains Conference on Early British Literature, University of Minnesota, Morris,
Minnesota, April 2005.
“Havelok the Dane: The Growth and Development of an Ideal King,” Northern Plains
Conference on Early British Literature, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
April 17, 2004.
“‘Gentilesse’ in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale.” Northern Plains Conference on Early British
Literature. Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota, April 4, 2003.
“Hunting and the Courtly Love Tradition: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Andreas
Capellanus,” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, North Dakota State
University, Fargo, North Dakota, October 24, 1997.
“What’s Hunting Got to Do with the Green Knight?: Bercilak, the Green Knight, and Sir
Gawain,” Fifth Dakotas/Nebraska Conference on Earlier British Literature, Jamestown
College, Jamestown, North Dakota, April 25, 1997.
“Reversing Gender Roles in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker,” Ninth Annual
Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Omaha, Nebraska, March 15-16,
1996.
“The Worth of ‘Labour’ and ‘Pleye’: Point of View in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale.” Linguistic
Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 25, 1996.
“‘Whiles that I Live I Shall Be Obasiaunt’: Gawain and the Transforming Power of Obedience
[in ‘Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell’].” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota,
Minot, North Dakota, November 4, 1995.
“Philippe de Mezieres’ Order of the Passion, Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Hundred Years’
War.” 30th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 4, 1995.
“Willa Cather’s My Antonia and Cultural Diversity.” Eighth Annual Midlands Conference on
Literature and Language, Omaha, Nebraska, March 31, 1995.
“Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale: Navigating through Life’s Seas.” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba
and North Dakota, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 29, 1994.
“Shakespeare’s I Henry IV and John of Salisbury: Prince Hal and Medieval Kingship.” Seventh
Annual Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, April 9, 1994, Omaha, NE.
“‘For . . . She Was Nat Undergrowe’: Chaucer’s Prioress Revisited.” Linguistic Circle of
Manitoba and North Dakota, October 15, 1993, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
“‘[I]f Women Hadde Writen Stories’: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale Reconsidered.” Linguistic
Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, October 23, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
“Opal Lee Popkes’ ‘Zuma Chowt’s Cave’: Two Cultures in Conflict.” Fifth Annual Midlands
Conference on Language and Literature, April 11, 1992, Omaha, Nebraska.
“‘Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings’: The Prioress’s Tale and the Contemplative
Tradition.” 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10, 1990, Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
“Creating Value: Women’s Work in Willa Cather’s My Antonia.” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba
and North Dakota, October 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Katherine Anne Porter’s Miranda: A Study in Quiet Rebellion.” Linguistic Circle of Manitoba
and North Dakota, October 22, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
“Listening for Silence: Making Women’s Perspectives Heard.” 34th Annual Conference on
Reading and Writing. Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. June 20-21,1988.
Also presented to the North Dakota Council of Teachers of English, Bismarck, North
Dakota. April 22, 1988.
“Growth and Development of the Artist: Willa Cather’s My Antonia.” Linguistic Circle of
Manitoba and North Dakota. Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 23, 1987.
North Dakota University System Committees:
Arts and Humanities Summit Committees 2004, 2006
University Committees:
Student Affairs Committee, chair 1995-present
Commission on Alcohol and Other Drugs 1997-present
Women’s Week Committee 1987-1996
Career Services, Faculty Advisory Board 1992-1993
Faculty Affairs Committee 1988-1992 (chair of subcommittee, 1989; chair of committee
1989-1990)
Student Retention Commission 1991
College Committees:
Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee 1996-1997, 2006-present
Student Progress Committee 1987-1990, 1991-1997
Career Day Committee 1986-1996, chair 1989-1996
H&SS Faculty/Lecturer Recognition Committee 1994H&SS Awards Committee 1992
Department Committees:
Department Head Evaluation Committee 2006
Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee 2004-present
Member of PTE Committee for History Department promotion 2005, French Department
promotion 2002, Communications Department promotion 1993
Curriculum Committee 2004-2005
Chair, Search Committee for Professional Writing Position 2006-2007
Chair, Search Committee for Lecturers 1998
Chair, Search Committee for Renaissance Position 1998
Search Committee for Composition Position 1997
Red River World Literature Conference Coordinating Committee 1997-present
Scholarship Committee 1995-present
Graduate Committee 1991-1997, chair 1991-1994
First Year English Committee 1987-1997
University Advisory Council to the FEC, chair 1996-1997
Faculty-Lecturer Committee 1995-1997
Ad hoc Department Excellence Award Committee 1995
Chair Evaluation Committee 1993
Curriculum Committee
Professional Service:
Chair of numerous sessions at regional conferences
External reviewer of Dr. Kathleen Rettig Collins’ research, service, and teaching for her
application for tenure and promotion at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska,
1996.
Evaluated a proposed text: Worlds in Our Words: An Anthology of Contemporary
American Women Writers for Blair Press, a division of Simon and Schuster 1994
Phi Kappa Phi, secretary of local chapter 1987-1992
Panelist “Teaching British Literature I: Selections and Strategies,” First Dakotas
Conference on Earlier British Literature, Aberdeen, South Dakota, October 17, 1992
President, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota 1990-1991
Vice-President and President Elect, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
1989-1990
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association 1975-present
National Council of Teachers of English 1982-present
Phi Kappa Phi 1958-present
Professional Honors:
Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Service Award 1995
English Department Vogel Teaching Award 1979
Phi Kappa Phi membership as undergraduate
M.A. papers (advisor)
A. J. Mittendorf, “‘Dame Sirith’ and Heroines: A New Look at an Old Piece Which Cannot Be
Allowed to Die.” August 1998.
Jamsa, Denise Ann Wilson, “Alisoun as Ambiguous Narrator: The Double Meaning of
‘Soveraynetee’ in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.”
Na, Yong-jun, “Chaucer’s Development of his Realistic Vision Through the Dream Vision
Poems.” January 1991.
Paul Rovang, “Malory’s Mark and Gottfried’s Mark: A Comparison of Their Characterization
and Thematic Functions.” August 1988.
Linda Lizut Helstern
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289 Egret Lake Road
Carbondale, Illinois 62903
701-367-2789
EDUCATION
2001
Ph.D. in English, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Dissertation: “Trickster Chaos: Old Stories and New Science in the Postindian Novel”
College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Dissertation 2001-02.
M.A. in English, University of New Mexico
B.A. in English with honors, magna cum laude, Hamline University
Additional Study
North Dakota State University, 2004-05. (Ojibwe Language.)
Berkeley Summer Research Seminars in the Humanities: American Identities.
University of California, Berkeley, 1997. (Native American Studies/American Studies.)
American Studies Institute. University of California, Berkeley, 1995. (Native American Studies.)
Art of the Wild. University of California, Davis, 1993 and 1994. (Creative Writing.)
Traditional Pueblo Pottery Making. 1992. Dolores Lewis Garcia and Emma Lewis Mitchell.
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1984-85. (Museum Studies.)
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008
20042003-04
2002-03
2002
1991-2002
1998-99
1986-91
1982-86
1979-81
Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies
English, North Dakota State University
English, University of Texas-Pan American
English, University of Texas-Pan American
Women’s Studies, SIU, Carbondale
College of Engineering, SIU, Carbondale
English, SIU, Carbondale
College of Engineering, SIU, Carbondale
Coal Research Center, SIU, Carbondale
Shawnee Health Service
and Development Corporation, Carbondale
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor/Graduate Faculty
Lecturer
Lecturer
Assistant to the Dean, External Affairs
Adjunct Instructor
Public Information Specialist
Corporate Development Assistant
Project Developer
SCHOLARLY PUBLCIATIONS
Books
Louis Owens. Western Writers Series 168. Boise: Boise State University, 2005.
Journals
“My Ántonia and the Making of the Great Race.” Western American Literature. Forthcoming.
“Who the Hell Is Donna Green?” Southwestern American Literature 28.2 (Spring 2003): 15-20.
“’Bad Breath’: Gerald Vizenor’s Lacanian Fable.” Studies in Short Fiction 36.4 (1999): 131-41. Pub. 2002.
“Mixedbloods: Stereotypes and Inversion in The Yogi of Cockroach Court.” South Dakota Review 40.2
(Summer 2002): 132-39.
“Indians, Woodcraft, and the Construction of White Masculinity: The Boyhood of Nick Adams.” Hemingway
Review 20.1 (Fall 2000): 61-78.
"Gerald Vizenor: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism." Studies in American Indian Literatures 11.1
(Spring 1999): 30-80.
"The Man Who Killed the Deer: Stories within Stories." Studies in Frank Waters 20 (1998): 73-87.
"Nightland and the Mythic West." Studies in American Indian Literatures 10.2 (Summer 1998): 61-78.
"Blue Smoke and Mirrors: Griever's Buddhist Heart." Studies in American Indian Literatures 9.1 (Spring
1997): 33-47.
Chapters in Professional Books
“Shifting the Ground: Theories of Survivance in From Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi.” Survivance. Ed. Gerald Vizenor.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Forthcoming 2007.
“Identity and the Fictions of Disability.” Gerald Vizenor: Litterateur at Large. Ed. Simone Pellerin. Montpellier, France:
Presses de la Méditeranée. Forthcoming 2007.
“Re-storying the West: Race, Gender, and Genre in Nightland.” Louis Owens: Tribute to a Native Writer.
Ed. Jacquelyn Kilpatrick. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 119-38.
“Mixedbloods: Stereotypes and Inversion in The Yogi of Cockroach Court.” Rekindling the Inner Light: The
Frank Waters Centennial. Ed. Barbara Waters. Taos: The Frank Waters Foundation, 2003. 152-62.
"Sycorax Video Style: Kamau Brathwaite's Middle Passages." African Images: Recent Studies in Text and
Cinema. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2000. 139-152.
"Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China: A Cross-Cultural Re-Membering."
Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor. Ed. A. Robert Lee. Bowling Green: Popular
Press, 2000. 136-54.
Encyclopedia Articles
“The Light People.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Literatures. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming 2007.
“Dark River.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Literatures. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming 2007..
“Kimberly Blaeser.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Gordon Henry, Jr.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Carter Revard.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
“Ray A. Young Bear.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Public Humanities
“Within Living Memory: Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi and Japanese-American Cultural Exchange after World War
II.” Bismarck: North Dakota Humanities Council, 2007.
Book Reviews
Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern by Joel Pfister. (Durham: Duke U P, 2004).
Western American Literature 41.3 (Fall 2006): 362-63.
Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey in the American Grasslands by John Price. (Lincoln: U of
Nebraska P, 2004). North Dakota Historical Review. Forthcoming.
Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction by Gordon Slethaug (Albany:
State U of New York P, 2000). Rocky Mountain Review 56.1 (Spring 2002): 114-16.
Winning the Dust Bowl by Carter Revard (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2000). Crab Orchard Review 7.1 (Fall
2001): 227-28.
Dark River by Louis Owens (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999). American Indian Culture and Research
Journal 24.3: 184-86.
Family Matters, Tribal Affairs by Carter Revard (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1998). Studies in American Indian
Literatures 11.4 (Winter 1999): 78-80.
American Indian Literature and the Southwest by Eric Gary Anderson (Austin: U of Texas P, 1999). Western
American Literature 35.1 (Spring 2000): 468-69.
Artistry in Native American Myths by Karl Kroeber (Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1998). Rocky Mountain Review
53.2 (Fall 1999): 112-15.
Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts by William M. Clements (Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1996).
Great Plains Review 18.3 (Summer 1998): 270-71.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Copperhead Country.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Spartanburg, SC, 2007.
Forthcoming.
“Becoming a Citizen of the World: Gerald Vizenor and the Age of Globalization.” Modern Language
Association/Philadelphia, 2006.
“Written on the Skin: Ableism and the Native Subject.” Western Literature Association/Boise, 2006.
“Beyond Aesthetic Victimry: Disability and Race in Yellow Robe’s Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Vizenor’s
Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57. Native American Literature Symposium/Mt. Pleasant, 2006.
“The Past Is a Foreign Country: Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57.” Western Literature Association/
Los Angeles, 2005.
“Gary Snyder’s Danger on Peaks.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment/Eugene, 2005.
“The Smoking Gun Pipe: Detecting the Mystery in Stephen Graham Jones’ The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph
Manifesto.” Native American Literature Symposium/Mystic Lake, 2005
“My Antonia and the Making of the Great Race.” Western Literature Association/Big Sky, 2004.
“Burying Talk Radio in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus.” Western Literature Association/Big Sky, 2004.
“Native Literature in the Border Classroom.” Native American Literature Symposium/Mystic Lake, 2004.
“Steal This Book! Dimensions of Textuality in the Novels of Louis Owens.” Western Literature
Association/ Houston, 2003.
“Normalizing Chaos in Gordon Henry’s The Light People.” Native American Literature Symposium/Mystic
Lake, Minnesota, 2003.
“Desire in Two Languages: The Poetry of Luci Tapahonso.” Western Literature Association/Tucson, 2002.
“From Carlisle to ‘New York’: Marianne Moore and the Modern Indian.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association/Scottsdale, 2002.
“Mixedbloods: Stereotypes and Inversion in The Yogi of Cockroach Court.” Frank Waters Centennial
Celebration/Taos, 2002.
“Chaos in Turbulent Flow: Louis Owens’ Dark River.” Native American Literature Symposium/Mystic Lake,
Minnesota, 2002.
“The Essential Environmentalist: Inverting the Rhetoric of Race in the Novels of Louis Owens.” Western
Literature Association/Omaha, 2001.
“Following Basho: Chaos, Wandering, and Place in Gordon Henry’s The Light People.” Association for the
Study of Literature and the Environment/Flagstaff, 2001.
“Chaos: Myth and Science in Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles.” Western Literature Association/Norman,
2000.
“And the Beat Goes On: Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers without End.” Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association/Boise, 2000.
“Thriller Survivance: Louis Owens's Genre Fiction.” Modern Language Association/Chicago, 1999.
“Sparking the Sunwise Circuit: Gordon Henry’s The Light People.” Modern Language Association/Chicago,
1999.
“Dark River, Gold Mountain, and the Ghost of Locke.” Western Literature Association/Sacramento, 1999.
“The Woodcraft Indian and the Power of Medicine.” Hemingway Centennial Literary Conference/Oak Park,
Illinois,1999.
"The Fragmented Forest." Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment/Kalamazoo, 1999.
"Is Nothing Sacred in Nightland? Or, Coyote Waits for Tony Hillerman." Western Literature Association/Banff,
Alberta, Canada, 1998.
"Trickster Reversals/Mongrel Intertexts: Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China."
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association/Salt Lake City, 1998.
"Stories within Stories: The Man Who Killed the Deer." Frank Waters Society/Salt Lake City, 1998.
"Tribal Children and the Law of the Father in Gerald Vizenor's 'Bad Breath.'" Twentieth Century Literature
Conference/Louisville, 1998.
"'Is It Not a Kind of Incest?': Brothers and Sisters in Hamlet and Measure for Measure." Shakespeare
Association of America, 1998.
"Stories within Stories: The Man Who Killed the Deer." Western Literature Association/Albuquerque, 1997.
"Gary Paul Nabhan: The Ethnobotanist as Storyteller." Association for the Study of Literature and the
Environment/Missoula, 1997.
"Louis Owens's Nightland and the Mythic West." Native American Literature Conference/Eugene, 1997.
"Sycorax Video Style: Kamau Brathwaite's Middle Passages." African Literature Association/East Lansing,
Michigan, 1997.
"Debt and Forgiveness: Money and Values in Love's Labor's Lost." Shakespeare Association of America, 1997.
"Seeing with the Mind's Eye, or What Does Polonius Have to Do with Poland?" Sixteenth Century Studies/St.
Louis, 1996.
"Griever's Buddhist Heart." Western Literature Association/Vancouver, 1995.
Session Chair
“Sacajawea’s Story.” Western Literature Association/Boise, 2006.
“Gerald Vizenor: History, Sovereignty, Survivance.” Western Literature Association/Los Angeles, 2005.
“Native Literature in the Border Classroom.” Native American Literature Symposium/Mystic Lake, 2004.
“Decentering Traditional Notions of the American West: Language, Culture, Geography, Politics.” Western
Literature Association/Houston, 2003.
“Ethnicity and Language.” Linguistic Association of the Southwest/Edinburg, 2003.
“Creative Oases: Poets of the Native West.” Western Literature Association/Tucson, 2002.
American Literature Since 1900. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association/Scottsdale, 2002.
“Stories from the Home Front.” Western Literature Association/Omaha, 2001.
“Mixing Bloods: Mathews, Dunbar-Ortiz, Armstrong and Laurence.” Western Literature Association/Norman,
2000.
Native American Literature. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association/Boise, 2000.
"Other Destinies: The Novels of Louis Owens." Native American Literature Conference/Eugene, 1997.
"Willa Cather and Parallel Literary Universes." Western Literature Association/Lincoln, 1996.
LARRY REMELE MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP PRESENTATIONS
“Within Living Memory: Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi and Japanese-American Cultural Exchange after World War
II.” Keynote address: Upper Midwest Honors Council Conference, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, 2007.
“Within Living Memory: Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi and Japanese-American Cultural Exchange after World War
II.” North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck, 2007.
“Within Living Memory: Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi and Japanese-American Cultural Exchange after World War
II.” North Dakota State University, Fargo, 2007.
SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS
Poems
“Speaking of Oaks.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 14.3/4 (Summer/Fall 2002)
“A Different Story.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 14.3/4 (Summer/Fall 2002)
"At Home." Whole Terrain (1998/99): 20.
"you cannot deny." Huracan 4 (1998): 28.
"Learning the Landscape." Huracan 4 (1998): 26-27.
“A Story Off the Ground.” Sou’Wester (Spring 1998): 21-22.
“Sour Cream.” Sou’Wester 26.2 (Spring 1998): 23.
"Metamorphosis." The MacGuffin (Fall 1997).
"Time and Again." Primavera. (1996).
"No Doubt." Sou'Wester 25.1 (Fall 1996): 7-8.
"New Ways." Sou'Wester 25.1 (Fall 1996): 9-10.
"Pancakes at Eight." Hamline Journal (1996): 1.
"Impenetrable as a Conch." Confluence 45.7 (1996): 45.
"Family History." Confluence 45.7 (1996): 46-47.
"The Gift of Color." rhino (1996): 12.
"Trick or Treat." Borderlands/Texas Poetry Review 7 (Fall/Winter 1995): 17.
"In Memory." Hurakan 2 (1995): 102.
"Matrilineal." Borderlands/Texas Poetry Review 5 (Fall/Winter 1994): 25.
"Women's Work." Blue Mesa Review 6 (1994): 4-6.
"Out of the Darkness." The Cape Rock 28.1 (Spring 1993): 38.
"The Path of Darkness." South Dakota Review 31.1 (Spring 1993): 79.
"For the Deer." South Dakota Review 31.1 (Spring 1993): 80.
"Without Eyes." South Dakota Review 31.1 (Spring 1993): 81-82.
"The Eye of the Hawk." South Dakota Review 31.1 (Spring 1993): 83.
"The Living Mountain." South Dakota Review 31.1 (Spring 1993): 84.
Essays
"The Time and the Place." South Dakota Review 13.3 (Autumn 1975): 76-79.
Slide Films
Trabajando para el Mejor Salud/Working for Health. 1983. Bilingual production for the Migrant Health
Program, Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation.
Private Sector Initiative Program. 1981. Produced for the City of Carbondale, Division of Human Resources.
The Coal Miners Respiratory Disease Program. 1981. Produced for the Coal Miners Respiratory Disease
Program, Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation.
Illinois: The State of the Future. 1978. Produced for the Governor's Task Force on the Future of Illinois.
Television Documentaries
Pablita Velarde. Aired April, 1977. Produced for KRWG, Portales, NM; shown at the First International
Public Television Conference in Milan, Italy; in the collection of the Musem of the American Indian.
Song Cycles
Beyond Dreaming. (Settings by Darcy Reynolds.) Premier performance December 5, 1993: Unity Chamber Concert
Series, San Francisco, California.
MANUSCRIPT EVALUATIONS
Editorial Board, Western Writers Series, 2005University of Oklahoma Press
North Dakota State University Regional Studies Institute
Publications of the Modern Language Association
Western American Literature
Studies in American Indian Literatures
Hemingway Review
Chicago Review, poetry editorial board, 7/75-5/77
HONORS AND AWARDS
Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship, North Dakota Humanities Council, 2006-07.
“Revisiting Hiroshima, Reclaiming History:
Gerald Vizenor’s Crossblood Vision and Japanese-American Cultural Exchange.”
SIUC College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Dissertation Award 2001-02.
Runner Up, J. Golden Taylor Award, Western Literature Association, 2000.
Alan M. Cohn Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
1998.
AEGIS/SIUC Department of English Literary Criticism Award 1997-98.
AEGIS/SIUC Department of English Creative Nonfiction Award 1997-98.
Honorable Mention, J. Golden Taylor Award, Western Literature Association, 1997.
Phi Kappa Phi, 1997.
Nominee, Illinois Arts Council Literary Arts Award in poetry, 1997.
Finalist, Snake Nation Press Poetry (Book) Competition, 1995.
Honorable Mention, Borderlands/Texas Poetry Review Competition, 1995.
Competitive Residency Fellowship, Vallecitos (New Mexico) Retreat/Witter Bynner Foundation, 1994.
Honorable Mention, San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Competition, 1994.
Finalist, Bluestem Poetry (Book) Competition, 1994.
Finalist, Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry (Book) Competition, 1993.
SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Who’s Who in the World
Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who of American Women
Who’s Who of American Education
Who’s Who in the Midwest
GRANTS RECEIVED
NDSU Presidential Faculty Development Award, 2004, 2005, and 2006
NDSU Regional Studies Lecture, North Dakota Humanities Council, 2005.
NDSU Regional Studies Lecture, NDSU Cooperative Sponsorship Committee, 2005.
GTE Focus Grant, Minority Engineering Youth Program, 1992.
Southern Illinois Interpretive Folktales Project, Illinois Humanities Council, 1982.
Coal Miners Respiratory Disease Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1980 and 1981.
Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 1975.
COURSES TAUGHT
Border Crossers in Native Fiction (Graduate Seminar)
Native American Literature
Making Race in Literature
Multicultural Literature
Modern Poetry
Literature and the Environment
Survey of American Literature I & II
Introduction to American Literature
Multi-America; California USA
Introduction to Literature
Composition I & II
Freshman Rhetoric
Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology
Independent Studies Supervised:
Hemingway
Ecofeminism
English Capstone Projects Supervised:
Rachel Sinness, “White Earth Land Recovery Project,” 2005.
Robert Hoshaw, environmental philosophy and communication, 2006.
Matthew Sather, environmental communication, 2006.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Red River World Literature Conference Steering Committee, 2006-07.
NDSU Department of English Curriculum Committee, 2006-present.
NDSU Department of English Graduate Committee, 2004-present.
NDSU Department of English Social and Outreach Committee, 2004-06. Interim Chair, Fall 2005.
Coordinator, NDSU Regional Studies Lecture, 2005.
Keynote Introduction, Red River World Literature Conference, 2005.
UTPA Department of English Curriculum Committee, 2003-04.
UTPA Department of English Library Committee, 2003-04.
Syllabus development for SIUC Women’s Studies 301: Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology,
approved as a University Core Curriculum/Interdisciplinary offering, 2002.
“How to Plan Your Syllabus.” SIUC Department of English Teaching Orientation Workshop, 2000.
SIUC Engineering Dean Search Committee, 1998-99.
Project MAGIC (Maximize Academic Growth in College) mentor, 1998-99.
SIUC University Women's Professional Advancement Advisory Board, 1995-1998.
SIUC Engineering Student Council advisor, 1988-present.
Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science/SIUC:
Publicity Chair, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.
Planning Committee, 1992 and 1993.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Moorhead, MN, director, 2005-2007.
Univeristy Interscholastic League/South Texas Region, judge (Essay Competition), 2004.
Illinois State Science Fair, judge (Behavioral Sciences Division), 1993.
Unity Point School, Great Books discussion leader, 1992-93.
Girl Scouts:
Curator/designer, Shagbark Girl Scout Council exhibit commemorating 75 years of Girl Scouting, 1986;
Troop leader, 1986-91;
Carbondale Service Unit Day Camp site director, 1991;
Carbondale Service Unit Day Camp unit leader, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991;
Carbondale Service Unit Day Camp planning committee, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991.
Carbondale Hands-on Children's Museum feasibility study, 1985.
League of Women Voters of Jackson County:
President, 1983-87;
Voter Service Chair, 1981-83.
Chicago Committee to Save Lives in Chile, 1974-77.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Modern Language Association
Western Literature Association
Phi Kappa Phi, NDSU, Chapter 10
President Elect, 2007-08
Vice President, 2006-07
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R.S. KRISHNAN
1242 44th Ave. N
Fargo, ND 58102
(701) 231-7152/8492 [W]; (701) 232-5901 {H]; [email protected]
Professional
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost, NDSU (2002-);
Special Assistant for Faculty Development, Office of the Vice President for Academic
Affairs, 1997-2002. Professor of English (1998-current); Associate Professor (1991-98);
Assistant Professor, (1986-91); Special Appointment as Assistant Professor, North
Dakota State University (1984-86).
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1981)
MA, English, Wichita State University (1974)
BA, English and Psychology, S.I.E.S. College, University of Bombay (1972)
(Select) Publications and Acceptances
Refereed
“The Incidental Tourist: Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul and Postmodern Diaspora.”
International Fiction Review. Article (To be published).
Mike Davis. Late Victorian Holocausts El Nino Famines and the Making of the
Third World. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Invited review article. Forthcoming.
Seodial F. H. Deena. Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization A Comparative Study
of Political and Critical Works by Minority Writers. (Peter Lang, 2001). International
Fiction Review. Invited review article. Forthcoming
Oliver Lovesey. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Twayne, 2000). International Fiction Review.
Invited review article. Forthcoming
“A world they never made’: [Re]Vision of Childhood in Arundhati Roy’s The God of
Small Things.” Small Worlds: transcultural visions of childhood. Eds. Rocio G. Davis
and Rosalia Baena. Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarre, S.A. 2001: 71-84.
Lilas Desquiron, Reflections of Loko Miwa. Tr. Robin Orr Bodkin (UP of Virginia, 1998).
International Fiction Review. 28: 1 & 2 (2001): 111-13. Invited review article
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J. Michael Dash. The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (UP
of Virginia, 1998). International Fiction Review. 28: 1 & 2 (2001): 109-11 Invited review
article
“Double Discourse: Narrative Artifice in Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Lamar Journal of
the Humanities. 24:2 (Fall 1999): 13-23. Article
“Cultural Construct and the Female Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife.” International
Fiction Review. 25: 1&2 (Fall 1998): 89-97. Article
“The shortness of our present state: Locke’s Time’ and Johnson’s ‘Eternity’ in Rasselas.”
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 19: 1&2 (March 1998): 2-9. Article.
“Reinscribing Conrad: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.” International
Fiction Review. 23: 1&2 (1996): 7-15. Article.
‘(Re)Creating the Self: The dialectic of cultural discourse in Bharati Mukherjee’s
Jasmine.” Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse: Essays in Criticism. Ed.
A. L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Press, 1996. 248-55. Book Chapter.
“Telling of the Tale: Text, Context, and Narrative Act in Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea
of Stories.” International Fiction Review. 22: 1&2 (1994): 67-73. Article.
“’Imagination out upon the wings’: Lockean Epistemology and the Case of the
Astronomer in Johnson’s Rasselas.” Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 11 (1990): 33240. Article.
“’The Vortex of the tumult’: Order and Disorder in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker.” Studies
in Scottish Literature. 23 (1988): 239-53. Article.
(Select) Papers (Refereed)
“Hastings’ Preface and Macaulay’s Minute: Culture, Ideology, and the Study of English
in Imperial India.” Conference on Books and Empire, University of Sydney, January 30February 1, 2003. Paper accepted for presentation.
“Paradigm Lost: V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River and the Politics of Postcolonialism.
Western Conference on British Studies, Houston, October 12-13, 2001.
“The Incidental Tourist: Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul and Postmodern Diaspora.” Asian
Diasporas and Cultures: Globalisation, Hybridity, Intertextuality. National University of
Singapore, Singapore, September 5-7, 2001.
“Commerce, Capitalism, and Cultural Dissonance: Edmund Burke’s Political Exotic.”
David Nichol Smith Memorial Conference in 18th Century Literature. National Library,
Canberra, Australia, March 26-28, 2001.
“Epistolic Narrative and the Epistemology of Nationalism: Memory and Identity in
Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Toronto, Canada, October 19-21, 2000.
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‘[Re]Visions of Childhood: The Ideology of Self in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small
Things.” Small Worlds: Visions of Childhood in Contemporary Writings in English,
University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, March 9-11, 2000.
“Burke’s Sublime, The Trial of Warren Hastings, and the Narrative of Anxiety.”
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October
14-16, 1999.
“History as Trope and Atrophying History: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.”
American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 9-11,
1999.
“Husbands, Husbandry, and Household: The Economics of Humphry Clinker.” Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 16-20,
1998.
“Allegory, Allusion, and the Elusion of History in Salman Rushdie’s Shame.” The First
Annual Red River Conference on World Literature, Fargo, North Dakota, April 24-26,
1998.
“The Cultural Carnivalesque: Subversive Heteroglossia in Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children.” Institute for Commonwealth and American Studies and English Language,
Mysore, India, January 5-8, 1998.
. “Double Discourse: The Fictionality of Johnson’s Life of Savage.” Canadian Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Windsor, Ontario., Canada, October 11-15, 1995.
“Telling of the Tale: Text, Context, and Narrative Act in Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea
of Stories.” XIVth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 15-18, 1994.
“Aesthetic [dis]Unity in Northanger Abbey.” Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada, October 15-18, 1992.
“’Imagination out upon the wing’: Views of Madness in Johnson’s Rasselas and
Smollett’s Humphry Clinker.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Knoxville, Tennessee, April 22-24, 1988.
“The Function of Epigram in Eighteenth-Century Verse Satire.” Midwest Modern
Language Association, Oconomowac, Wisconsin, November 21-24, 1981.
Select Grants
Co-PI, Bush Foundation Grant (Total $450,000)—Establishment of a university-wide
Honors Program ($60,000 over three years with matching institutional contribution).
Received November 1999.
Grant-in-Aid, Research Administration, NDSU. $2700, 1996-97. Book-length manuscript
preparation: “Myths, Monsters, and Magical Realism: The Art of Salman Rushdie.”
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Awards
Distinguished Service Award, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997.
North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship, 1995. $4500. “Art, Artifice,
and Anecdotes: Samuel Johnson and the Beginnings of Biographical Writing.”
Author of report, NDSU Departmental Excellence Award, 1995. $10,000.
Mart and Lois Vogel Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1987.
(Select) Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars
Established, planned, and organized the Annual Red River Conference on World
Literature. April 13-16, 2000; April 23-25, 1999; April 24-26, 1998. Ramada Plaza Suites
and Conference Center, Fargo, North Dakota.
NDSU Leadership Development Training Seminar, Spring 1996. One of thirty faculty
selected to participate.
ACE Leadership Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, February 23-25, 1995.
Committee Membership (Select), North Dakota State University—since 1986 (c-current)
A. University
Chair, President’s Ad-hoc Committee on Collaborative Possibilities with institutions in
India (current)
Chair, NDSU Presidential Inauguration Committee, 1999-2000 [organized the
inauguration of Dr. Joseph Chapman as President of NDSU, May 3-4, 2000]
Member, Graduate Council, NDSU, 1999-2002
Member, NDSU Development Foundation Grants and Awards Committee, 1997-2000.
Member, NDSU Development Foundation Endowed Professorship Committee, 1997-c.
Chair, Search Committee for Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1996-97.
Member, Bush Foundation Grant Committee, 1996; Steering Committee, c..
University Senate: Presiding Officer, 1995-96. Presided over the meetings of the
University Senate; chaired the Executive Committee of the Senate; prepared the agenda
for the Senate meetings; represented the Senate on various University Councils.
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Chair, NDSU Celebration Committee, 1995-96. Chaired a committee (at the request of
President Thomas Plough) to plan and organize celebration in conjunction with his
inauguration as President.
B. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Member, CAHSS Policy and Planning Committee, 2000-c
Member, CAHSS Dean’s Search Committee, 1996.
C. Department of English
Chair, Search Committee for Department Chair, 2002-c.
Chair, English Ph.D. Committee, 2001-current.
Chair, Search Committee for positions in Linguistics, Composition and Renaissance
Studies, 2001-02.
Authored the Department of English self-study of its Graduate Program for the
university’s Combined Program Review Committee, 1992, 1998.
Red River Conference on World Literature. Coordinator, 1998-2000. Conference
Coordinating Committee Chair, 1996-2000.
Chair, Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee, 2000-c; 1994-98. Prepare
standards for, and evaluate, tenure-track faculty for tenure and promotion.
Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1991-98 (chair, 1997-99; 91-94).
Graduate Committee, 1994 (Chair, 1994-98).
(Select) Professional Membership (Past and Current)
American Comparative Literature Association; American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies; Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; International Comparative
Literature Association; International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Public Service
Frequent lectures to groups, Churches and Clubs on aspects of Hinduism, Eastern
Philosophy, Meditation, Literature and Ethics.
Complete vita and references available upon request.
ANDREW FLOOD MARA
I. Academic Degrees
2003
The University of New Mexico, Doctor of Philosophy, Rhetoric and Writing: Emphasis on
Professional Writing
1996
Pennsylvania State University, Master of Arts in English
1993
University of Redlands, Bachelor of Arts, English: Literature with Honors, Minor in Music
II. Academic Positions
A. Teaching Positions
Fall 2006-Present
Fall 2003-Spr 2006
Fall 1996-Fall 2001
Fall 1995-Spr.1996
Advanced Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University
Assistant Professor of English, Bowling Green State University
Teaching Assistant in English, The University of New Mexico
Teaching Assistant in English, Pennsylvania State University
B. Administrative Positions
2004-05
Co-Director, Scientific and Technical Communication program, BGSU
1997-1999
Special Assistant to the Provost for Accreditation,
III. Non-Academic Positions
2001-2003
Sandia National Labs, Communications Specialist, Full Time Employee
1998-2001
Sandia National Labs, Technical Communications Specialist, Intern
1997
Center for Info Resources and Technology, UNM, Technical Writer
1997
University of New Mexico Archives, Web Editor
1999-2001
Managing Editor of American Literary Realism
1999-2000
Copy Editor of American Literary Scholarship
1994-95
Copy Editor of Comparative Literary Studies, Penn State
IV. Teaching Experiences
A. Teaching Experiences
1.
Undergraduate Courses
English 486:
Writing Process for Online Documents, BGSU, Fall 2005, 10 students
English 457:
Electronic Culture and Communication, NDSU, Fall 2007, 8 students
English 389:
Undergraduate Professional Editing, BGSU, Fall 2003,
Spring 2004, 22 students
English 388:
Introduction to Technical Communication, BGSU, Fall 2005, 20 students
English 275:
Introduction to Writing Studies, NDSU, Fall 2007, 19 students
English 290:
Introduction to Professional Writing, UNM 1999-2000, 16 students
English 219:
Technical Writing, UNM, 1998-2001, 24 students
English 102:
Analytic and Argumentative Writing, UNM 1997, 24 students
English 101:
Expository Writing, 1996-1997, UNM, 20 students
English 15:
Analytical and Argumentative Writing, Penn State, 1995, 20 students
Am Studies 100:
Introduction to American Studies, Penn State, 1994, 100+ students
2.
Undergraduate-Graduate Courses
English 580/487:
Scientific Rhetoric and Writing, BGSU, Spring 2004, 10 students
3.
Graduate Courses
English 795:
English 758:
English 758:
English 640:
Accounting 649:
English 642:
English 580:
4.
Thesis and Dissertation Committees
Chaired:
Brent Driscoll
B.A.
2006
Bethany Woolf
M.A.
2005
Michael Siebenaler M.A.
2005
Angel Belford
M.A.
2006
Andrea Angott
B.A. (Honors) 2004
Member:
Nicholas Zoffel
Meghan McGuire
Sun Kang
Ashley Ford
5.
6.
Field Studies, Fall 2007, 1 student
Invention to Innovation, NDSU, Fall 2006, 6 students
Technical Documentation, NDSU, Fall 2006, 4 students
Technical Writing, BGSU, Fall 2004, 11 students
Writing for Accountants, BGSU, Fall 2004, 18 students
Technical Editing, BGSU, Fall 2003, 12 students
Writing Process for Online Documents, BGSU, Spring 2005, 11 students
Ph.D.
2005
M.A.
2005
M.A.
2005
B.A. (Honors) 2005
(Won Mayeux Prize—Outstanding Honors Project)
Graduate Faculty Representative on committee
Portfolio Committees
Member:
Michael Tomanek
M.A.
2007
Student Professional Placement
Professional Writing Positions:
Brandon Gustafson
M.A.
Stephen Porter
M.A.
2007 Campus One-Stop Web Designer
2007 ND Connect Usability Consultant
V. Curriculum Development
A. Courses
NDSU
1+1 M.A. degree program with Korean Daegu University (exploratory)
BGSU
Online Graduate Technical Writing Certificate (international student emphasis—passed)
English 586, Writing Process for Online Documents (graduate level course—passed)
B. Campus Seminars
NDSU
Podcasting Seminars (with Brian Jambor, Nem Schlecht, Dr. Kevin Brooks, and Dr. Lisa Daniels)
VI. Professional Development
VII. Academic Advising
A.
Undergraduate
2005 6 students
2004 6 students
B.
Graduate
2006 2 students
2004 12 students
VIII. Research Interests
My scholarly agenda focuses on the way that technology and science practitioners design, articulate and
negotiate institutions through disruptive rhetorical invention and constitutive ethical stances. I am
particularly interested in the use of contemporary digital remediation of technical and educational genres
to create new public/private partnerships. My research and teaching involve digital rhetorics, genre
study, classical rhetoric, cultural studies, usability, interface design, and urbanism.
IX. Research Projects and Grants
NDSU Development Foundation Library Grant ($350 funded) 2007
OLN—Digital Literacy and Communication Studio ($20,000 funded Co-PI) 2004-05
BGSU Learning Community Facilitator Development Grant ($3,000 funded) 2005-06
BGSU Research Learning Community Grant, ($500 funded) 2004-05
BGSU Research Learning Community Grant, ($500 funded) 2003-04
UNM Research Projects and Travel Grant ($500 funded), 2000, 2001
Graduate Professional Student Grant ($700 funded), 2001, 2002
English Department Travel Grant ($200 funded) 2002
X. Publications or Equivalencies
A.
Publications
Edited Refereed Journal Special Issues
"Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication," special issue editor for Technical
Communication Quarterly, forthcoming Winter 2010 (with Dr. Byron Hawk).
Book Chapters
“Reinventing Audience through Distance,” accepted for collection Composing and
Revising the Professional-Technical Writing Program, eds. Alex Reed and Parlor Press,
forthcoming 2007 (with Dr. Jude Edminster), 20 pages.
“Digital Studio as Method: Articulating, Critiquing, and Redrawing the Borders between
Rhetoric and Technical Communication,” accepted for inclusion in the essay collection
Technological Ecologies and Sustainability (with Drs. Jude Edminster and Kristine
Blair).
Refereed Journal Articles
“The Classical Trivium: An Information Storage Device and Curricular Heuristic for
New Media and Digitial Communication Studies,” Kairos, forthcoming summer 2007.
First peer-reviewed wiki in the writing studies discipline. (with Dr. Kevin Brooks)
“Using Charettes as a Technical Writing Process/Genre,” Technical Communication
Quarterly, spring 2006, 215-36.
"Genre, Rhetorical Interpretation, and the Open Case: Teaching the Analytical Report,"
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 42 (March 1999), 20-31. (With Dr.
Richard Johnson-Sheehan)
"Selling Possibilities: Hypertext, Freedom, and Direction," Journal of Business and
Technical Communication, 12 (October 1998), 455-71. (With Dr. Lisa Craig)
Non-refereed Articles
“Balancing Acts: Tenure-Track Faculty in Learning Communities,” Academe (JulyAugust 2005), 44-49. (With Drs. Paul Cesarini, Joseph Chao, Andrew Hershberger, Dan
Madigan, and Hassan Rajaei)
In Process
Disruptive Rhetoric: The Silence of Surveillance and Marketing of Invention, book-length
manuscript under review at Southern Illinois University Press
“Ethos as Market Maker: The Creative Role of Technical Communications Marketing in
an Aviation Startup,” under review at Journal of Business and Technical Communication
"Publish or Perish and the Ripple Effect: Lessons From a Research and Teaching Faculty
Learning Community," under review at The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
(with Andrew Hershberger, Maria Spense, Paul Cesarini, Kathleen Jorisson, Dave
Albrecht, Jeffrey Gordon, and Canchu Lin)
“University Commons: A Place to Take an Educational Stand,” (with Dr. Miriam Mara)
XI. Papers Read to Professional Societies
A.
Invited Papers
“Cityblogging,” VR@RL (Virtual Reality in Real Life) Conference on New Media
Rhetoric, SUNY Cortland, July 2006
“Facing the New Normal,” The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, May
2004.
B.
Refereed papers and presentations
“They Built this Campus on PeopleSoft,” Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit,
MI, May 2007.
“Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment”
(Workshop), Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.
Articulating Professional Identities: Constructing Disciplinarity from Professional
Writing Exigencies,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New
York, March 2007.
"Publish or Perish and the Ripple Effect: Lessons From a Research and Teaching Faculty
Learning Community," Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami, OH, November
2005.
“Promoting Student Success with Digital Tools: Remediating Access” (Workshop),
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2005.
“Digital Studio as Method: Bridging the Digital Divide in Technologies,
Cultures, and Institutions,” Conference for CPTSC (Council for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication), West Lafayette, IN, October 2004.
“Richard Lanham’s Critique of the Humanities: The Hyperbole of Possibility in
Hypertext,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY,
March 2003.
"Using the Internet to Make the University Self-Study a More Open Practice,"
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.
"A Transcendental Struggle with Moral Sentiment: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letter to
President Van Buren Regarding the Cherokee Removal," Eighth Annual Southwest
Symposium, March 1997.
"Navajo (P)Reservations: The Borders of Navajo Medical Interventions," SUNY Stony
Brook Connecting the Catchphrases Graduate Student Conference, March 1995.
"'One Arguing Voice': Louise Erdrich's Fragment Narrative and the Chippewa Oral
Tradition," Fifth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature,
SUNY Cortland, NY, October 1995.
XII. Service
Department
NDSU
Chair, Computer Committee, 2006
Graduate Committee Member, 2006
Ph.D Graduate Subcommittee Member, 2006
Search Committee Member, 2006
BGSU
Co-Director of Scientific and Technical Writing Program, 2004-05
Member of Undergraduate Committee, English, 2005-06
Creator and Organizer of Tea for Tenure, 2004-05
Member of Promotion, Review and Tenure Committee, English, 2004-05
UNM
Director of the Southwest Symposium, English 2000-03
President of the English Graduate Student Association, 1998-99
McSorley Grant Committee Member, English, 1998-99
Treasurer of the English Graduate Student Association, 1997-98
Graduate Committee Member,1998-99
Search Committee Member, English,1998-99 (non-voting)
Computer Committee Member, English, 1997-98
Colloquia Series Committee Member, English, 1997-98
La Puerta Composition Textbook Instructor's Manual Committee, English 1997
College
NDSU
Member of Policy and Planning Committee, Fall 2007-Present
University
NDSU
Faculty Liaison, NDConnect Documentation Project, 2006
BGSU
Member of Faculty Senate, 2005-06
Learning Community Proposer and Facilitator, 2005-06
UNM
Founder of University of New Mexico “Send a Kid 100 Club”
Professional
Webmaster for Society for Technical Communications, 1998-2002
XIII. Professional Consultantships
Fargo Literacy Summit Coordinator, Spring 2007.
Public Charette to Design a Regional Internet Professionals Association, Fall 2004.
XIV. Membership in Professional Organizations
Society for Technical Communications (STC)
Association of Teachers in Technical Writing (ATTW)
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), 2004-05
Modern Language Association (MLA)XV. Honors and Awards
A.
Membership in Honor Societies
Omicron Delta Kappa
B. Awards
UNM English Department Service Award, 2001
UNM Professional Writing Fellowship, 1999
English Department Fellow, 1999-2001
Undergraduate Honors in English
Cum Laude
Vahe Proudian Interdisciplinary Scholar 1990-93
National Merit Scholar
Miriam O’Kane Mara
English Department
North Dakota State University
320e Minard Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
701-231-6506
Curriculum Vitae
210 11th St N. #102
Fargo, ND 58102
419-957-3052
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D. English, University of New Mexico, 2003.
M.A. English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1998.
B.A. International Studies, Jacksonville University, Summa Cum Laude, 1989.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor: North Dakota State University, 2006-present.
Assistant Professor: Ohio Northern University, 2003-2006.
Instructor/Teaching Assistant: University of New Mexico, 1998-2003.
Professional Positions
Faculty Consultant: Advanced Placement Reading, Educational Testing Service, Summers 2002-2006.
Academic Advisor: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1997-1998.
Writing Consultant: The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996-1997.
Publications
Books
A Famine of Preference: Images of Anorexia in Contemporary Irish Literature. Bucknell University
Press. Full Manuscript under review.
Journal Articles
“It Grows Like a Cancer: Building Female Autonomy through Medical Discourse and Fiction.”
Literature and Medicine under review.
“(Re)producing Identity & Creating Famine in Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You.” Critique: Studies
in Contemporary Fiction 48:2 Heldref Publications, 2007. 197-216.
“Sucking the Empire Dry: Colonial Critique in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Dickens Studies Annual
Vol 32, New York: AMS Press, 2003. 233-246.
Book Chapters
“Reading the Landscape for Clues: Environment in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.” Murmurs that Come Out
of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts Ed Christine Cusick. Forthcoming.
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“The Geography of Body: Borders in Edna O’Brien’s Down By the River and Colum McCann’s
‘Sisters.’” The Current Debate About the Irish Literary Canon, Ed. Helen Thompson. Lewiston, NY:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Publications Under Development
“University Commons: A Place to Take an Educational Stand,” (Written with Dr. Andrew Mara).
Publication Reviewing
Book Proposal Review. Broadview Press.
Academic Honors
Phi Kappa Phi.
Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars.
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society.
Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society.
Finalist Graduate Teaching Award, University of New Mexico, 2003.
Social Sciences Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Jacksonville University, 1989.
University Scholarship, Jacksonville University, 1985-1989.
Refereed Conference Presentations
“Almost There: O’Faolain’s Search for Global Irishness” American Conference on Irish Studies. New
York, New York. April 19, 2007.
“ ‘Liquids I Can Eat:’ Stephen Dedalus Channels Female Anorexia” Grian Conference. New York.
March 4, 2006.
“Pathologies of Femininity: Cancer Crossing the Borders of the Body in O’Brien and O’Faolain” Session
Organizer. American Conference on Irish Studies. South Bend, Indiana. April 15, 2005.
“Starving and Feasting in Nuala O’Faolain and James Joyce” Bloomsday 100: 19th International James
Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland. June 15, 2004.
“Anorexia: Food and Control in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction.” The Irish Renaissance Cultural Festival,
Albuquerque, NM. October, 2001.
“Roddy Doyle’s own Bird Girl: An Eco-Critical Reading of Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha.” Southwest
Symposium, Albuquerque, NM. April, 2001.
“The Schizophrenia of Narrators in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” Victorian Interdisciplinary
Studies Association of the Western United States, Los Angeles, CA. October 22, 2000.
“Epiphany or Rebirth: Evaluating the Bird Girl in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Miami Joyce
Conference, Miami, FL. February 7, 2000.
“The Trope of Silence in John Montague and Seamus Heaney.” American Conference on Irish Studies
Roanoke, VA. May 17, 1999.
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Invited Presentations
“Class-based Ethos in the Denial of Patient’s Rights.” Symposium Series: A Pharmacist’s Right to
Choose, Ohio Northern University, 2005.
“Facing the New Normal.” Lecture to Pennsylvania State University, Department of English, May 2004.
“Anorexia, Food, and Space in Contemporary Irish Literature.” Lecture to Irish-American Society:
Albuquerque, NM. October 11, 2002.
“Creating a Gender Neutral Document.” Guest Lecturer in English 290: Introduction to Professional
Writing, UNM, Spring 2002.
“Classroom Authority.” Presentation to First-Year Writing Orientation, Department of English, UNM,
Fall 2001
Grants Earned
Faculty Development Grant: College of Arts and Sciences, ONU. $1300. Summer, 2005
To revise book manuscript.
Faculty Development Grant: College of Arts and Sciences, ONU. $1000. Summer, 2004.
To prepare four new courses.
Research, Projects, and Travel Grant: Office of Graduate Studies, UNM. Under $500. Fall, 2000.
Conference travel.
Research, Projects, and Travel Grant: Office of Graduate Studies, UNM. Under $500. Spring, 2000.
Conference travel.
University Teaching
North Dakota State University:
English 780: Studies in British Literature: Irish Literature
(Irish Global Identity — Beyond Postcolonial)
English 330: British and American Women Writers
English 252: British Literature II
English 240: World Literature Masterpieces
English 110: College Composition I
Ohio Northern University:
English 432: Studies in Comparative Literature
English 430: Readings in English-Language Literature – Post-colonial Literature.
This course investigates post-colonial literatures from Ireland, Zimbabwe, Kenya, New Zealand,
and India. At the same time, we use post-colonial theory to help understand post-colonial
identities and texts.
English 324: Victorian Literature
English 263: Women’s Literature
English 262: African Literature
English 219: Non-Western Literature
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This course investigates literature of the non-western world including texts from Asia, Africa,
India, and Native America. We begin by unpacking the meaning of non-western and continue to
deconstruct the title of the course throughout the term.
English 214: British Literature II
English 204: Great Works
English 111: Writing 2
English 110: Writing 1
University of New Mexico: As a Teaching Assistant I had the sole responsibility for classroom
instruction of these courses (excluding English 537, which was team taught).
English 537: Teaching Composition
English 295: Survey of Later British Literature
English 220: Advanced Expository Writing
English 219: Technical Writing
First Year Learning Community Linked Writing Course
English 102: Argumentative Writing
English 101: Expository Writing
Masters Thesis Committees
Chair: Michelle Forness.
Masters Portfolio Committees
Reader: Michelle Forness, Spring 2007.
Reader: Michele Wilman, Spring 2007.
Senior Essays & Capstones Advised
Amy Uthus. Gallery Book. NDSU. Fall, 2006.
Laurel Tacoma. “Perpetual Distraction: Unhappiness and the Search for Identity by the Characters of
Dawn Powell” ONU. Fall, 2005.
Shelah Sterling. “What She Said: How Women in The Bone People and Once Were Warriors Build
Maori Community,” Highest Departmental Honors, ONU Spring, 2004.
Student Awards
Michele Wilman, Graduate Paper Award, “Gender Subversion in Dancing at Lughnasa” Spring 2007.
Other Teaching
GRE Preparatory Class, University of New Mexico, Special Programs, Summer 2000.
Fantasy Quest: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Duke University: Talent Identification Program, 1999.
Writing With Power, Duke University: Talent Identification Program, 1999.
Short Fiction, Duke University: Talent Identification Program, 1998.
Campus Service
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University & College
Guest, Faculty Welfare Committee—Present Proposal for new Student Evaluation Form. ONU, Feb 2005.
Committee on Academic Qualifications, ONU, 2004-2006.
Faculty Interviewer, Presidential Scholarship, ONU, Winter 2004.
Student Publications Board, UNM, Fall 2001 through Spring 2003.
Conference
Co-Director: Southwest Symposium, Department of English, UNM, 2002.
Graduate Assistant and web designer: The Irish Renaissance Cultural Festival, UNM, 2001.
Planning Committee: Southwest Symposium, Department of English, UNM, 2001.
Panel Moderator: “The Postmodern Southwest,” Southwest Symposium, UNM, March, 1999.
Planning Committee, Abstract Selection and Panel Formation Committee, Registration Committee:
British Women Writers Conference, UNM 1998-1999.
Department Committees
Ph.D. Planning Committee, NDSU, 2006-7
Curriculum Committee, NDSU, 2006-7
Vertical Writing Committee, NDSU, 2006-7.
Committee on Undergraduate Writing (Assessment), ONU, 2005.
Essay Selection Committee, Department of English, ONU, 2005.
First Year Orientation, Department of English, ONU, 2004-2005.
Essay Selection Committee, Department of English, ONU 2004.
Freshman English Committee, Department of English, UNM, 2001-2002.
Coordinating Committee: Departmental Gender Colloquia, Department of English, UNM, 2002.
Graduate Committee, Department of English, UNM, 1999-2001.
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English, UNM, 1999-2001.
Other Department Service
Representative -- meeting with prospective students. ONU, Fall 2005.
Program Organizer & Faculty Advisor: Graduate School Seekers Group, ONU, 2004-2006.
Prospective Student Recruitment, Department of English, ONU, 2004-2006.
President: English Graduate Student Association, Department of English, UNM, 2000-2001.
Research Assistant: Study on UNM Composition Program library and research component, 2001.
Teaching Assistant Mentor: Freshman English Program, Department of English, UNM, 2001-2003.
Treasurer: English Graduate Student Association, Department of English, UNM, 1999-2000.
Grant Administrator: Across The Tracks: A Route 66 Story. Department of English, UNM, 1999-2000.
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Conference on Irish Studies
Irish American Cultural Institute
Modern Language Association
Curriculum Vitae
Bruce Maylath, Ph.D.
Department of English
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota 58105
Tel.: (701) 231-7143 (off.)
E-mail: [email protected]
Faculty Positions
2007-present Professor, Department of English, North Dakota State University
2002-2007 Assoc. Professor, Department of English & Philosophy, University of WisconsinStout
1998-2002 Asst. Professor, Department of English & Philosophy, University of WisconsinStout
1994-1998 Asst. Professor, Department of English, The University of Memphis, Tennessee
Education
1994 Ph.D., English, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
Major emphasis: composition theory and rhetoric
Minor emphasis: linguistics
1987 M.A., English, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Major emphasis: English education—college level
1980-81, overseas graduate study, University of Oslo, Norway
Major emphasis: Norwegian language and literature
1980 B.A., English, Kalamazoo College, Michigan
Major: English Minor: history
1978, overseas undergraduate study, University of Oslo, Norway
Major emphasis: Norwegian language and literature
Publications
Books
Language Awareness: A History and Implementations. Ed. Lana White, Bruce Maylath,
Anthony Adams, and Michel Couzijn. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,
2000.
Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers across the Curriculum. Ed. David
Sigsbee, Bruce W. Speck, and Bruce Maylath. New Directions for Teaching and
Learning 70. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Managing Change and Growth in Technical and Scientific Communication. Proceedings
of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
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Communication, 11-13 October 2001. Ed. Bruce Maylath (Pittsburgh: CPTSC, 2002).
Models for Strategic Program Development. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of
the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 19-21 October
2000. Ed. Bruce Maylath (Pittsburgh: CPTSC, 2001).
Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews
"Growing Grassroots Partnerships: Trans-Atlantic Collaboration between American
Instructors of Technical Writing and European Instructors of Translation," with Sonia
Vandepitte and Birthe Mousten. Ch. 3 in Designing Global Learning Environments:
Visionary Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies. Eds. Doreen Stärke-Meyerring and
Ann Hill Duin. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers (In press).
"Theory and Practice of Intercultural Collaborative Pedagogy in the Trans-Atlantic
Project," with Birthe Mousten and Sonia Vandepitte. Ch. 12 in Designing Global
Learning Environments: Visionary Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies. Eds.
Doreen Stärke-Meyerring and Ann Hill Duin. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers (In press).
"Editing for Global Contexts." Technical Editing, 4th ed. Ed. Carolyn Rude. New York:
Longman, 2005.
"Learning Localization through Trans-Atlantic Collaboration," with John Humbley, Birthe
Mousten, Sonia Vandepitte, and Lucy Veisblat. Proceedings of the IEEE International
Professional Communication Conference, 10-13 July 2005, U of Limerick, Ireland. Ed.
George F. Hayhoe. New York: IEEE, 2005. 578-595.
"Editing for Global Contexts." Technical Editing, 3rd ed. Ed. Carolyn Rude. New York:
Longman, 2002.
"Translating User Manuals: A Surgical Equipment Company's 'Quick Cut'." Global
Contexts: Case Studies in International Technical Communication. Ed. Deborah S.
Bosley. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.
"Floods of Foreign Words: Building Language Awareness through the Study of
Borrowed Lexicon." Language Awareness: A History and Implementations. Ed. Lana
White, Bruce Maylath, Anthony Adams, and Michel Couzijn. Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press, 2000. 33-40.
Review of Exploring the Rhetoric of International Professional Communication, edited
by Carl R. Lovitt and Dixie Goswami, Journal of Business and Technical
Communication 14 (2000): 113-116.
"Café , thé ou lait? Training Technical Communicators to Manage Translation and
Localization," with Emily Thrush. Managing Global Communication in Science and
Technology. Ed. Peter Hager and H. J. Scheiber. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
233-254.
Review of Technical Communication in the Global Community by Deborah C. Andrews,
Business Communication Quarterly 62 (1999): 126-131.
"The Enigma of International Technical Communication: Measuring Translation
Quality," ATTW Bulletin, Fall 1998.
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"Do We Do What We Say? Contradictions in Composition Teaching and Grading." The
Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Ed. Frances Zak
and Christopher Weaver. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.
"Assessors' Language Awareness in the Evaluation of Academic Writing." The Encyclopedia
of Language and Education, Ed. David Corson. 8 vols. Dordrecht, The Netherlands:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998: 195-203.
"Writing Globally: Teaching the Technical Writing Student to Prepare Documents for
Translation." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 11 (1997): 339-52.
"Why Do They Get It When I Say ‘Gingivitis’ But Not When I Say ‘Gum
Swelling’?"Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers across the
Curriculum. Ed. David Sigsbee, Bruce Speck, and Bruce Maylath. New Directions for
Teaching and Learning 70. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 29-37.
"Words Make a Difference: The Effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Lexical
Variation on College Writing Instructors," Research in the Teaching of English 30
(1996): 220-247.
"The Trouble with Ibsen’s Names," Names: The Journal of the American Name Society. 44
(1996): 41-58.
"When Biology Meets English: Health Sciences in the Composition Classroom," The
Astonishing Curriculum: Integrating Science and Humanities through Language. Ed.
Stephen N. Tchudi. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993. 135-43.
"Searching for Journals: A Brief Guide and 100 Sample Species," with Chris M.
Anson.Teacher as Writer. Ed. Karin Dahl. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1992. 150-87.
"Can Culture Warp Literacy? The Social Reconstruction of Knowledge," Academic
Literacies in Multicultural Higher Education Ed. Thomas Hilgers, Marie Wunsch, Virgie
Chattergy. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1992. 42-47.
"Confronting Our Linguistic Stereotypes: What Flowers for Algernon Teaches Young People
about Intelligence and Language," Minnesota English Journal. 22.2 (1992): 35-44.
"Mr. Potato Head Meets the Creepers: A Young Reader's Encounter with Manipulated
Text," Language Arts Journal of Michigan. 3.1 (1987): 45-54.
Dissertation
Words Make a Difference: Effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Lexical Variation on
Post-secondary-level Writing Assessment in English
Director: Chris M. Anson
Completed July 1994
This quantitative descriptive study used texts in which vocabulary was manipulated
etymologically to gauge differences in college instructors’ assessments of student
writing. Selected assessments were further explored through discourse-based interviews
with respondents.
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Academic Honors
1995 Finalist for James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award, Conference on
College Composition and Communication
1990 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Minnesota
1980 Stetson Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad, Kalamazoo College
1979 Maynard Owen Williams Award for Foreign Study, Kalamazoo College
Grants
2002-03 Grant director. Expanding Class Exchange Contacts for International Technical
Communication." Professional Development Grant ($3,300.43), University of WisconsinStout
2002 Grant co-director. "Using Web Camps to Create Networks of K-12 Students/Instructors
and Web Development Training at UW-Stout." Stout Foundation grant ($4,193),
University of Wisconsin-Stout
2000 Grant director. "Building Class Exchange Contacts for International Technical
Communication" for work at Global Conversations on Language & Literacy conference,
Utrecht, the Netherlands, Professional Development Grant ($2,500), University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2000 Grant director. "Expanding International Contacts for UW-Stout's Technical
Communication Program" for work at FORUM 2000, London, England, International
Faculty Development Grant ($1200), University of Wisconsin-Stout
2000 Grant co-director (with Bruce Johnston). "Equipment Purchases for UW-Stout Web
Site Usability Testing Center." College of Arts & Sciences ($10,000), University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2000, 2001 Grant director. "Radio Advertising in Twin Cities Market of UW-Stout Technical
Communication Program." College of Arts & Sciences ($3,250), University of
Wisconsin-Stout
1999 Grant director. "An Amalgamated Plan for Professional Development in International
Communication" for work in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom,
Professional Development Grant ($1992), University of Wisconsin-Stout
1999 Grant director. "An Amalgamated Plan for Professional Development in International
Communication" for work in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom,
International Faculty Development Grant ($1200), University of Wisconsin-Stout
1996 Grant director. "Multimedia Demonstration and Training Station." TAF Fund
($12,822), The University of Memphis.
1995 Grant director. "Effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Lexical Variation on
Technical Writing Assessment in English." Faculty research grant ($4,000), The
University of Memphis
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Extramural funding
2003 Website usability testing. Client: UW-Stout webmaster ($2,700), UW-Stout Website
Usability Testing Center
2002 Website usability testing. Client: UW-Stout e-Scholar portal design team. ($2,700),
UW-Stout Website Usability Testing Center
2002 Website usability testing. Client: Bakke-Norman Law Offices. ($300), UW-Stout
Website Usability Testing Center
Presentations
2006 "Preparing Students across the Technical Communication Program for a Global
Economy," Council for Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, San
Francisco, CA
2005 "Musical Chairs with More Chairs than Players: Challenges and Solutions for Hiring
Professional & Technical Communication Specialists at Teaching-focused Universities,"
Council for Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX
2005 “Facilitating Research on Global Partnerships in Technical Communication Programs,”
Council for Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX
2005 "Learning Localization through Trans-Atlantic Collaboration," with John Humbley,
Birthe Mousten, Sonia Vandepitte, and Lucy Veisblat. IEEE International Professional
Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland
2004 "A Wake-up Call: Adjusting Tech Comm Curricula to Stem the Offshore Flow of
Documentation Work." Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, San Antonio, TX
2003 "Milano2003 Roundtable" poster session. Council for Programs in Technical &
Scientific Communication, Potsdam, NY
2003 "Guidelines for Writing English-Language Technical Documentation for an
International Audience." FORUM 2003, Milan, Italy.
2003 Keynote address: "Meeting the Cross-cultural Challenges of Technical Communication
Higher Education in 2003 and Beyond." CPTSC/ATTW Milano2003 Roundtable, Milan,
Italy
2002 "Steps Toward Globalizing the Technical Writing Classroom," Association of Teachers
of Technical Writing, Chicago, IL
2000 "Growing Technical Communication Programs through Recruiting." Council for
Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Menomonie, WI
2000 "International English: What Version Should We Be Teaching Our Students?" Featured
address, 4th Int’l Conference Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Utrecht,
The Netherlands
2000 "Setting Up International Exchanges Between Students in Europe and the U.S."
CPTSC/ATTW London2000 Roundtable, London, England
1999 "Strengthening Literacy among Minority-Dialect Mother-Tongue Learners,"
International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education, Amsterdam,
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The Netherlands
1999 "Documents in Translation: How Do You Ensure Quality?" Featured address, Society
for Technical Communication Twin Cities Chapter, Minneapolis, MN
1998 "Do We Have a Community Here? The Stakeholder Ecology of Technical
Communication Programs, Related Industries and Their Legal Departments, " Council
for Programs in Technical & Scientific Communication, Lewes, DE
1998 "The W.R.I.T.E Project: A Tale Wherein a White University Professor Learns from
Black Middle Schoolers Writing African-American Oral History," National Council of
Teachers of English, Nashville, TN
1998 "What's the Language of My Classroom? A Workshop on Language Awareness," 3rd
Int’l Conference Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, Bordeaux, France
1998 "'Extend your vocabulary—Avoid big words': Teachers, Textbooks, and
Contradictions," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL
1998 "Outward Bound: The Inevitable Direction of Technical Communication Teaching,"
25th Anniversary Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Chicago,
IL
1997 "Lexical Lessons from Luxembourg: How Luxembourg's Curriculum Can Inform the
Learning of English Vocabulary," National Council of Teachers of English, Detroit, MI
1997 "Upgrading Translation Quality: The Translation Process and the Forces Affecting
Quality," with Charles Capaldi, American Translators Association, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Connecting Technical Writing to Creative Writing and Beyond," Council for Programs
in Technical & Scientific Communication, Austin, TX
1997 "Lexical Preferences in the Assessment of Written Texts," Society for Text and
Discourse, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1997 "Floods of Foreign Words: What Methods Can Mother Tongue Teachers Use to Teach
Vocabulary Borrowed from Other Languages?" International Association for the
Improvement of Mother Tongue Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 "Café , thé ou lait? How Shall We Train Technical Communicators to Handle
Translation?" Society for Technical Communication, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1996 "Yankee, Leave Home! Reinventing Technical Communication Programs for
Documentation Abroad," Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication, Oxford, OH
1996 "Along the Germanic/Romance Fault Line: Assessing Student Writing through English
Vocabulary," 2nd Int’l Conference Global Conversations on Language and Literacy,
Heidelberg, Germany
1995 "Methods of Creating Student-Published Documents." Tennessee College English
Association, Memphis, TN
1995 "Writing or Composing? What Technical Communication Offers Writing Programs."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, DC
1994 "Words Make a Difference: How Writing Assessors Treat Latinate vs. Anglo-Saxon
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Texts." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN
1993 "The Trouble with Ibsen’s Names." American Name Society Meeting. Midwest
Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN
1993 "A Publication Approach to Teaching Writing in the Two-year College." Midwest
Regional Conference on English Studies. Madison, WI
1993 "Teaching Writing: A Publications Approach." Nevada State Council of Teachers of
English Spring Meeting. Reno, NV
1993 "Electronic Literacy: What’s in Store for Writing and Its Instruction." Conference on
College Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA
1993 "Process, Product and Pride: Turning Papers into Publications." Michigan State
University/Michigan Council of Teachers of English 12th Annual Conference on the
English Language Arts, East Lansing, MI
1993 "Teaching Process and Product: Publication in the Classroom." Inservice workshop,
Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI
1992 "How Does Students’ Word Choice Affect Readers’ Judgments?" Assembly for
Research, National Council of Teachers of English, Louisville, KY
1992 "Lexical Assessment: Which Words Do You Favor?" Minnesota Council of Teachers
of English, Minneapolis, MN
1992 "Should Portfolio Assessment Be Used in Graduate Education?" Fourth Miami
University Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Oxford, OH
1991 "Through Process to Product and Pride: The Publication Approach to Teaching
Writing." National Council of Teachers of English, Seattle, WA
1991 "Can Culture Warp Literacy? The Social Reconstruction of Knowledge." Conference
on Academic Literacies in Multicultural Higher Education, Honolulu, HI
1991 "With Fits and Starts: How Collaborative Learning Fares in the Hierarchical,
Authoritarian University." Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Boston, MA
1990 "Using Writing to Assess Skills in Scientific Inquiry: The Dental Connection," with
Profs. Chris M. Anson and Michael J. Loupe. National Testing Network in Writing, New
York, NY
1990 "Expressive Writing in Operative Dentistry Clinic Journals: Its Effects on Critical
Thinking in Dental Science" and "Writing-to-Learn Strategies for the Dental
Curriculum." 2nd International Congress of Preventive Dental Medicine, Ofir, Portugal
1990 "Confronting Our Linguistic Stereotypes," "Integrating Writing into the Dental
Curriculum," and "The Publications Workshop: What It Was and What It's Become."
Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Brooklyn Park, MN
1989 "Taking Charge: Students as Owners and Publishers." Minnesota Council of Teachers
of English Spring Conference, St. Cloud, MN
1987 "Decisions and the Writing Process." Michigan State University/Michigan Council of
Teachers of English Spring Conference on the English Language Arts, East Lansing, MI
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Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin-Stout:
English 385: Document Design
English 121: Introduction to Technical Communication
English 340: The Structure of English
English 225: Copyediting & Preparation
English 102: Reading and Related Writing
English 415: Technical Writing
English 101: Freshman Composition
English 437: Technical Writing Practicum
English 210: Journalism Practicum
English 207: Writing for the Media
2003-2004
2003-2004
2001-present
2000-present
1999-present
1998-present
1998-present
2000-2001
1999-2001
1999-2000
The University of Memphis:
English 7809: Technical Editing
English 1102: Composition and Analysis
English 3604: Persuasive Writing
English 3601: Technical Writing
English 7475: Literary Publishing
English 7810: Document Design
English 3603: Engineering Communication
1997
1997
1995-1997
1995
1998
1995-1998
1994
University of Minnesota:
Rhetoric 5581: Document Design (in multimedia)
Rhetoric 3582: Senior Seminar
Rhetoric 5573: Grant Proposal Writing
Rhetoric 5560: Editing for Technical Communicators
Rhetoric 5574: Publications Management
Rhetoric 1151: Writing in Your Major
English 1019: Introduction to Modern Drama
English 3851: Introduction to the English Language
Composition 3050: Writing in the Professions
Composition 3011: Writing about Literature
Composition 3014: Writing for the Social Sciences
Composition 3033: Writing in the Health Sciences
Composition 1027: Intermediate Expository Writing
Composition 1011: Freshman Writing
1994
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
1992
1990
1993
1992
1992-93
1989-93
1991
1988-89
Western Michigan University:
ESL, all levels
1988
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Kalamazoo Valley Community College:
English 200: Freshman Writing II
English 110: Freshman Writing I
English 100: ESL, level 2
English 098: Basic Writing
1988
1987-88
1987-88
1987-88
Southwestern Michigan College:
English 103: Freshman Composition I
1987
Michigan State University:
English 313: Advanced Science Writing
English 101/102H: Freshman Writing, Honors College
English 213B: Writing Workshop for Business Majors
English 213: Writing Workshop
1987
1986-87
1986
1985-86
Oslo Språksenter:
English as a foreign language, levels 1-3
1980-81
Writing centers:
The College of St. Catherine
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Lansing Community College
1993-94
1987-88
1985-86
Research Experience
1992 WAC Research Assistant. Carlson School of Management, University of
Minnesota
1989-1991 WAC Research Assistant. School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota
Administrative Experience and Professional Consulting
2000-07 Director. Program in Technical Communication, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2000-06 Co-director and founder. Website Usability Testing Center, University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2001-02 Co-Director. Wisconsin Webfair. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1995-98 Managing Editor. The Southeast Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) Review. The
University of Memphis
1995-98 Managing Editor. River City. The University of Memphis
1993-94 Writing Coordinator. O’Neill Learning Centers, The College of St. Catherine
1991-93 Editor and Administrative Assistant. Center for Nordic Studies, University of
Minnesota
1990-93 Writing across the Curriculum Workshop Facilitator. University Academic Affairs
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and the Program in Composition and Communication, University of Minnesota
1992 Conference on College Composition and Communication logistical planning staff for
1993 convention
1989-91 Coordinator for Research and Development. Program in Composition and
Communication, University of Minnesota
1989-91 Workshop Leader and Consultant. School of Dentistry/Program in Composition and
Communication, University of Minnesota
1989-90 Outreach Coordinator. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing, University of
Minnesota
1986-87 WAC Consultant. Institute of Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management,
Michigan State University
Other Professional Activity
2005 Moderator. Program administrators’ roundtable. Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX
2004 Chair. "Strategies for Performing Intercultural Communication in Technical and Online
Mediated Discourses." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San
Antonio, Texas
2003 Chair. "Explanding Borders: Relationships, Contexts, Competencies." Council for
Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Potsdam, NY
2003 Conference chair and organizer. CPTSC/ATTW Milano2003 Roundtable, Milan, Italy
2003 Participant. Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY
2003 Participant. Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, New
York, NY
2002 Chair. "Teaching Tech. Comm.: Redesigning Presentation." Council for Programs in
Technical and Scientific Communication, Logan, Utah
2002 Chair. "Three Perspectives on Assessment: Cross-Institutional, Program-Based, and
Classroom-Based." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago,
IL
2001 Chair. "Program and Project Management." Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Participant. Globalization Faculty/Staff Development Institute, UW-System. Lake
Geneva, WI
2001 Chair. Web Review Team's Design & Navigation Subcommittee, UW-Stout,
Menomonie, WI
2001 Participant. Chancellor's Visioning Session, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI
2001 Participant. Web Camp, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI
2001 Participant. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO
2001 Chair. "Workplace Connections: Blurring Divisons Between the Inside and Outside,"
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Denver, CO
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2001 Participant. Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Denver,
CO
2000 Participant. Globalization Faculty/Staff Development Institute, UW-System. Lake
Geneva, WI
2000 Participant. FORUM 2000: "Technical Communicators Leading the Way," London,
England
2003 Conference co-chair and organizer. CPTSC/ATTW London2000 Roundtable, London,
England
2000 Participant. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis,
MN
2000 Participant. Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing,
Minneapolis, MN
1999 Participant. Globalization Faculty/Staff Development Institute, UW-System, Wausau,
WI
1997 Chair. "Big Words, Hard Words—Words, Words, Words! Research on Vocabulary and
Advice for Teaching It," National Council of Teachers of English, Detroit, MI
1996 Participant. "Human-Computer Interaction: The 'People' Aspects of the
Communication," Workshop with Roger Grice. Mid-South Chapter of the Society of
Technical Communication. Memphis, TN
1996 Chair. "Boundaries in Virtual Space: Theory, Research and Practice in Professional
Environments." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee,
WI
1996 Participant. Online Documentation Workshop with JoAnn Hackos. Society for
Technical Communication. Memphis, TN
1995 Participant. American Translators Association national convention, Nashville, TN
1995 Participant. "Technology in All Instructional Settings: A Demonstration Conference."
Tennessee Board of Regents, Nashville, TN
1995 Participant. Usability Testing Workshop with Roger Grice. Mid-South Chapter of the
Society of Technical Communication. Memphis, TN
1994 Participant. Society for Technical Communicators international convention,
Minneapolis, MN
1991 Chair and Discussant. Applied Linguistics Section. Topic: Applied Lexical Studies.
Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL
1990 Discussant. "Beyond Stereotypes: Studies of Writing and Disciplinary Thinking in the
Sciences." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL
1986 Participant. Michigan State University/Michigan Council of Teachers of English Spring
Conference on the English Language Arts, East Lansing, MI
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On-campus Presentations
1999-2005 "The Scandinavian Culture of the Upper Midwest," College Teaching Seminars
for new faculty and staff, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2004 "Creating the New Student-Teacher Dynamic with Laptops" at Best Practices in the
Classroom, sponsored by Teaching & Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2001 "Using Laptops to Enhance the Teaching of English." Training and Development
Conference, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2001 "Laptops Are on Campus," Winter Professional Development Days, University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2001 "How Do I Teach Global Contents?" (Moderator), Winter Professional Development
Days, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2000 "European Virtual Exchange Program/Classroom Instruction," International Bag-Lunch
Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2000 "So What's This Globalization Thing?" Winter Professional Development Days,
University of Wisconsin-Stout
1999 "Strengthening Literacy among Minority-Dialect Mother-Tongue Learners," Research
Day, University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998 "The Future of English Departments: What's in Store for Stout, Students, and English
Studies." Department of English & Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998 "Marketing Yourself for Your Dream Job: Panel Discussion on Interviewing, Resume
Writing and Other Job Information, " Graphic Communications eXchange (student
organization), University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998 "Floods of Foreign Words: What Methods Can Mother Tongue Teachers Use to Teach
Vocabulary Borrowed from Other Languages?" Research Day, University of WisconsinStout
1997 "Editing as a Profession." English 7006—The English Profession, The University of
Memphis
1996 "Career Paths in Professional Writing and Technical Communication." English 7006—
The English Profession, The University of Memphis
1995 "How Writing Assessors Treat Latinate vs. Anglo-Saxon Texts." Cognitive Research
Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis
1995 "ESL Students and Writing in the Business Curriculum." Fogelman School of Business,
The University of Memphis
1994-present "Writing across the Curriculum and ESL Students." Writing across the
Curriculum Workshop, The University of Memphis
1994 "Assessing Your Students’ Writing." Writing across the Curriculum Workshop, The
University of Memphis
1994 "Using Learning Journals across the Disciplines." Writing across the Curriculum
Workshop, The University of Memphis
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Professional Service
2006-07 Chair. University Promotion Committee—Associate level. University of WisconsinStout
2004-06 Immediate Past President. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication
2004-05 Chair. Search committee for technical communication position. English &
Philosophy Dept. University of Wisconsin-Stout
2004-05 Member. University Promotion Committee—Associate level. University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2003-04 Chair. College of Arts & Sciences Promotion Committee. University of WisconsinStout
2003-04 Member. Search committee for generalist positions. English & Philosophy Dept.
University of Wisconsin-Stout
2002-04 President. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
2002-03 Chair. University Promotion Committee—Associate level. University of WisconsinStout
2002-03 Member. Search committee for technical communication position. English &
Philosophy Dept. University of Wisconsin-Stout
2001-present Member. Minors Committee. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1999-2000 Member. Search committee for technical communication position. English &
Philosophy Dept. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998-present Member. Advanced Writing Committee. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998-2003 Member. Computer Advisory Committee. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1998-2001 Member. Publications and Professional Issues Committee. University of
Wisconsin-Stout
2003 Conference Organizer. CPTSC/ATTW Milano2003 Roundtable, Milan, Italy
2000-02 Vice President. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
2000-03 Advisor. Stout Student Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication
2000-present Chair. Globalization Working Group. University of Wisconsin-Stout
1999-2002 Faculty Representative. Stout Alumni Association
2000 Assistant Program Chair. 4th Int’l Conference Global Conversations on Language and
Literacy, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2000 Conference Organizer. CPTSC/ATTW London2000 Roundtable, London, England
2000 Member. Local Arrangements Committee for CPTSC annual conference, Menomonie,
WI
1999 Senator. University of Wisconsin-Stout Faculty Senate
1999 Conference Program Chair. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication conference in Santa Fe, NM
1998-2000 Member at large. Executive Committee. Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication
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1997-1998 Member. University Undergraduate Bulletin Committee. The University of
Memphis
1997-1998 Member. Moss Chair of Excellence Committee. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1997-1998 Member. Upper-division Curriculum Committee. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1997-1998 Member. Honors Committee. English Department. The University of Memphis
1996 Member. Graduate Studies Committee. English Department. The University of
Memphis
1996-1998 Chair. Graduate Studies Subcommittee on Publications. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1995-96 Member. Search committee for department chair. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1995-96 Member. Search committee for discourse studies position. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1994-95 Member. Search committee for writing center director. English Department. The
University of Memphis
1991-92 Member. Search committee for professional administrator position. Program in
Composition and Communication, University of Minnesota
1988-90 Policy Council Member. The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing,
University of Minnesota
Professional Memberships
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Society for Technical Communication
References
Dr. Mary Sue MacNealy, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of English, The University of Memphis.
Tel.: 901-754-8601 (hm.)
Dr. Christina Murphy, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affair,
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Tel.: 719-262-3260 (off.)
Dr. Jessica Reyman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Northern Illinois University. Tel.:
815-753-6644 (off.), 815-501-8619 (hm.)
Dr. Daniel Riordan, Professor, Dept. of English & Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–
Stout. Tel.: 715-232-5196 (off.), 715-235-7002 (hm.)
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(Short) Academic Vita:
MARK MEISTER
Associate Professor
Department of Communication, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
[email protected] (701) 231-7635 (office) (701) 231-7784 (fax)
Education
Ph.D. 1997. Communication Studies, University of Nebraska. Lincoln, NE
M.A. 1994. Speech Communication, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
B.A. 1991. With Honors. Communication and Environmental Studies, Carroll
College, Helena, MT
Academic awards
2004. Recipient, Larry Remele Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities and
the North Dakota Humanities Council.
2001. Recipient, North Dakota Speech & Theatre Association, Outstanding Scholar
Award
1999. Recipient, Emerging Scholar Award. Kenneth Burke Society.
1996. Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, International Communication
Association.
Referred Journal Publications
Over 25 refereed journal articles appearing in American Indian Quarterly, Argumentation
and Advocacy, Communication Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication
Review, Environmental Communication Yearbook, Journal of Communication Inquiry,
Communication and Our Environment, Environmental History, Critical Studies in Media
Communication, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Development
Communication, Communication Research, Journal of American Culture, Journal
of Popular Culture, Speaker and Gavel, Journal of Visual Communication, North Dakota
Journal of Speech and Theatre, Journal of Health Communication, and Communication
Studies.
Books
Mark Meister & Phyllis Japp. (2001). Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and
Popular Culture. Praeger Press.
Phyllis Japp, Debra Japp, & Mark Meister (in press 2004). Communication Ethics,
Media, and Popular Culture. Peter Lang Publishers.
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Meister, M., Backland, P., & Burnett, A. (under contract, 2006). Communication Theory
in Practice. Roxbury Publishers.
Edited book chapters
Meister, M. & Japp, P.M. (2002). Introduction: A Rational for Studying Environmental
Rhetoric and Popular Culture. In Mark Meister and Phyllis Japp (Eds.), Enviropop:
Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Okigbo, C. & Meister, M. (2001). Communication and cultural considerations for
promoting a human rights dialogue in Africa. In Michael Prosser (Ed.), Civic Discourse
and Conflicts in Africa. Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Referred Scholarly and Invited Presentations
I have presented over 60 scholarly presentations at: (1995-2004) National
Communication Association (NCA), (1994-1997, 1999-2003) Central States
Communication Association (CSCA), (1999-2001) Western States Communication
Association (WSCA), (1999, 2002) Conference on Communication and the Environment
(COCE), (2002) International Communication Association (ICA), (1999, 2001) Kenneth
Burke Society (KBS), (2002-2003) National Communication Ethics Conference (NCEC).
I have received a total of 8 “Top Paper” designations at national academic conferences.
ROBERT HAROLD O’CONNOR
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio December, 1979
M.A. SUNY/Binghamton, Binghamton, New York - English, May, 1973
B.A. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York English, June, 1970
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AWARDS AND HONORS:
Robert Odney Excellence in Teaching Award, North Dakota State University, 1997-98.
English Department Nominee for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Award, 1995 and 1996.
Vogel Award for Outstanding Teaching in English at North Dakota State University, 1989.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1997 present
1988 1997
1985 1988
1980 1985
1978 1979
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Professor, North Dakota State University
Associate Professor, North Dakota State University
Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University
Assistant Professor, Southwest Texas State University
Lecturer, Southwest Texas State University
PUBLICATIONS:
Scholarly Edition:
Henry William Bunbury’s Tales of the Devil [edition of 1802 poetry volume, with
introduction]. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
Composition Texts:
With Richard Shaw et al. Kaleidoscope 1 [essay anthology]. Needham, Mass.: Ginn Press,
1987 and 1989.
With Richard Shaw et al. Kaleidoscope 2 [essay anthology]. Needham, Mass.: Ginn Press
1987 and 1989.
With Richard Shaw et al. Kaleidoscope 3 [essay anthology]. Needham, Mass.: Ginn Press,
1987 and 1990.
With Richard Shaw et al. Writing, Reading, and Reasoning [writing handbook]. Needham,
Mass.: Ginn Press, 1987 and 1989.
Criticism:
“At Millennium’s End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, ed. by Kevin Alexander
Boon” [book review] Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts forthcoming.
“Myth as Genre in British Romantic Poetry, by Paul M. Wiebe” [book review]. Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts 12.3 (Fall 2001): 351-53.
"Sverige Nights, by Julie Sandland” [book review]. The Fargo Forum 1 July 2001: C2.
“Rituals of Hospitable Civility in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings”
[paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 22 March 2001.
“Mary Shelley: A Literary Life, by John Williams” [book review]. SFRA Review 250 (Jan./Feb.
2001): 17-18.
“Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography, ed. by Glennis Byron and David Punter”
[book review]. SFRA Review 244 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 20.
“Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Bróntes, by
Diane Long Hoeveler” [book review]. SFRA Review 241 (Jul./Aug. 1999): 45.
“Avatars of the Necessary Tempter in the Poetry of Keats” [paper]. International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 18 March 1999.
“Henry William Bunbury” [reference article]. Encyclopedia of British Humorists. Ed. Steven H.
Gale. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
“Thomas Love Peacock” [reference article]. Encyclopedia of British Humorists. Ed. Steven H.
Gale. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
“The Failure of Social Harmony in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” [paper]. International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 22 March 1996.
With Pamela Kett-O’Connor. “Stanislaw Lem” [reference article]. Magill’s Survey of World
Literature. Supplement. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1995.
Annotated Bibliography for “Matthew Gregory Lewis” [reference article]. Magill Critical Survey
of Drama: English Series. Second Edition. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena:
Salem Press, 1995.
“Robert Southey and the Gothic Ballad” [paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the
Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 25 March 1994.
“Matthew Gregory Lewis and the Gothic Ballad” [journal article]. Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 18.2 (Fall 1992): 5-26.
“The Sin of Vicarious Fulfillment in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [journal article]. The Nassau
Review 6.3 (1992): 131-37.
“Antiquarianism” [reference article]. The Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Ed. Laura Dabundo.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
“Ballad” [reference article]. The Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Ed. Laura Dabundo. New
York:Garland Publishing, 1992.
“Dracula as Tragic Solitary” [paper]. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort
Lauderdale, 26 March 1992.
“The Sin of Vicarious Fulfillment in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [paper]. International Conference
on the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 22 March 1990.
“The Lyric Poetry of Byron” [reference article]. Masterpieces of World Literature. Ed. Frank N.
Magill. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
“Sylvia Plath” [reference article]. Cvclopedia of World Authors II. Ed. Frank N. Magill.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989.
“Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” [reference article]. Cyclopedia of World Authors II. Ed. Frank N. Magill.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989.
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau” [reference article]. Great Lives from World History. Ed. Frank N.
Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989. “Lewis’s The Monk as Sentimental Tragedy” [paper].
Conference of the Linguistic Circle
of Manitoba and North Dakota. Winnipeg, 22 October 1988.
“Davy Crockett” [reference article]. Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Ed. Steven H. Gale.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
“Don Marquis” [reference article]. Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Ed. Steven H. Gale.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
“Henry William Bunbury and the Gothic Ballad Parodies” [paper]. International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts. Fort Lauderdale, 17 March 1988.
“The Scourge (Boston)” [reference article]. American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals.
Ed. David E. B. Sloane. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
“The Ariel” [reference article]. American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. Ed. David
E. E. Sloane. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
“The Aeronaut” [reference article]. American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. Ed.
David B. E. Sloane. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
“John Keats” [reference article]. Great Lives from British History. Ed. Frank N. Magill.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987.
“Percy Bysshe Shelley” [reference article]. Great Lives from British History. Ed. Frank N.
Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987.
“Edmund Kean” [reference article]. Great Lives from British History. Ed. Frank N. Magill.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987.
“The Gothic Ballad Parodies” [paper]. WHIM Conference. Tempe, 1 April 1987. “Walter Scott
and the Gothic Ballad” [paper]. Conference of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North
Dakota. Winnipeg, 25 October 1986.
“Frederick Prokosch” [reference article]. Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets.
1915-1945. Second Series. Ed. Peter Quartennaan. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.
“Usin2 Research to Improve Teaching Effectiveness” [book review]. Update 2.3 (1986):
4.
“Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos” [reference article]. Magill Literary Annual. Ed. Frank N. Magill.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 1986.
“Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos” [book review]. Magill Book Reviews. Ed. Frank N. Magill. New
York: Dow Jones, 1986.
“Van Wyck Brooks” [reference article]. Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets.
1915-1945. First Series. Ed. Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985.
“John Hall Wheelock” [reference article]. Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Poets.
1915-1945. First Series. Ed. Peter Quartermain. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985.
“Percy Bysshe Shelley” [reference article]. Magill Critical Survey of Drama: English Series. Ed.
Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1985.
“Matthew Gregory Lewis” [reference article]. Magill Critical Survey of Drama: English Series.
Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1985.
“George Gordon, Lord Byron” [reference article]. Magill Critical Survey of Drama:
English Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1985.
“Arthur Wing Pinero” [reference article]. Magill Critical Survey of Drama: English Series. Ed.
Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1985.
“The Evolution of the Dream Vision in the Poetry of Keats” [paper]. International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts. Beaumont, 14 March 1985.
“The Literature of Terror, by David Punter” [book review]. The Romantist 6, 7, and 8 (19821984): 63.
“‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Tales of the Devil: A Note” [journal article]. The
Wordsworth Circle 15 (1984): 2-5.
“The Deracination of Man in Golding’s The Inheritors” [journal article]. Notes on Contemporary
Literature 16.1 (1984): 2-5 “Some Allegorical Elements in Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson”
[journal article]. The Bulletin
of the West Virginia Association of College English Teacher ns 8 (1983): 10-16.
“Keats” ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ and Ballad Gothicism” [journal article]. Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 9.1 (1983): 17-27.
“Sexuality without Renewal: The Undoing of the Comic Metaphor in the Opening Cantos of
Byron’s Don Juan” [paper]. WHIM Conference. Phoenix, 31 March 1983.
Amy Rupiper Taggart
369 Elmwood Ave.
Fargo, ND 58103
(701) 239-3400
[email protected]
Department of English
320 Minard
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
Present Appointment
Assistant Professor of English (Writing & Rhetoric)
North Dakota State University Fargo, ND
Education
Ph.D. in English (Composition and Rhetoric), May 2002
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX
• Awarded a University Fellowship (1996-97)
• Qualifying examination, May 2000: Composition Pedagogy, Community Service
Learning, 20th Century Multi-ethnic Women’s Literature
B.A. in English and German, May 1995
University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN
Universität Trier Trier, Germany 1993-94
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Honors, Sigma Tau Delta
Research
Books
A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. (Co-edited with Gary
Tate and Kurt Schick).
Editing
Guest Edited a Special Issue on “Rewriting Community Writing and Rhetoric Courses.”
Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning and Community Literacy 5 (Spring 2006). (With
H. Brooke Hessler).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Tensions with Authorship and Evaluation in Community Writing.” Michigan Journal of
Community Service Learning 13 (Spring 2007): pages 53-64.
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“Stasis and the Reflective Practitioner: Experienced Teacher-Scholars Sustain
Community Pedagogy.” Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community
Literacy 5 (Spring 2006): 153-72. (With H. Brooke Hessler).
“Pentadic Critique for Assessing and Sustaining Service-Learning Programs.”
Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. Special
Issue on Professional Writing and Service-Learning 4. Eds. Jim Dubinsky and
Melody Bowdon. (Winter 2005). 78-102.
"Reciprocal Expertise: Community Service and the Writing Group." By Any Other Name:
Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Eds. Beverly J. Moss, Nels P.
Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 95-112.
(With H. Brooke Hessler).
“The Community Writing Sequence.” Teaching Ideas for University English: What Really
Works. Eds. Patricia M. Gantt and Lynn Langer Meeks. Norwood, MA:
Christopher Gordon, 2004. 55-68.
“What Are Styles and Why Are We Saying Such Terrific Things about Them?”
Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons. Eds. Christina McDonald and Rob
McDonald. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. 214-227. (With Rebecca
Moore Howard, et al.)
"Scholarly Transdiscursivity: The Author-Function of 'Star' Citation." In "The CitationFunctions: Literary Production and Reception." Kairos 3.1. (March 1998).
Online. Internet. Available. <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/index_f.html>.
Reviews
CCCC 2005 Conference Review of Chair’s Address—“Who Owns Writing?” Across the
Disciplines (March 24, 2005). Online available
<http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/reviews/cccc2005/cccc2005.cfm>
CCCC 2005 Conference Review of Session D01—“Across the Drafts: Responding to
Student Writing—A Longitudinal Perspective.” Across the Disciplines (March 24,
2005). Online available
<http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/reviews/cccc2005/cccc2005.cfm>
Review of Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. Composition Studies 31.2
(Fall 2003): 138-42.
Review of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online
Classroom. Kairos 7.1 (2002). Online available
<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/index.html> (With H. Brooke Hessler).
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Teaching Resources
“Writing for Business.” Howard Handbook. Rebecca Moore Howard, primary author.
New York: McGraw/Hill. (In development).
“Writing for the Public.” Howard Handbook. Rebecca Moore Howard, primary author.
New York: McGraw/Hill. (In development).
The Call to Write: Instructor's Resource Manual. New York: Longman, 1999. (With
Rebecca Moore Howard, et al).
Reference
“Langston Hughes.” The Modern Age, 1914-2000: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Joe
Nordgren. (Accepted for collection; collection in development).
“Maya Angelou.” The Modern Age, 1914-2000: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Joe
Nordgren. (Accepted for collection; collection in development).
“Toni Morrison.” The Modern Age, 1914-2000: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Joe
Nordgren. (Accepted for collection; collection in development).
Non-Peer Reviewed and Invited Publications
“Introduction: Why We Revise.” Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community
Literacy 5 (Spring 2006): 3-6. (With H. Brooke Hessler).
Under Review
Presentations
“Teaching Problem Solving Through Community-Based Writing.” China-US
Conference on Literacy. Beijing, People’s Republic of China. July 2007.
“Assessing Your Program or Project, Part II.” All day workshop on Service Learning,
Community Literacy, and Civic Engagement: Developing Teaching and Research
(Sponsored by the Service Learning and Community Literacy Special Interest
Group). Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL.
March 2007.
“The Third-Year Writing Requirement.” NDSU Pedagogical Luncheon. November 2006.
(With Elizabeth Birmingham, Dale Sullivan, and Eunice Johnston).
“And You Were with the Little Guy? Reinventing First Year Writing.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2006.
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“Reflective Practice & Praxis: Literacy Experts in Community Engagement Share Their
Insights.” Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2006.
“Best Practices in Service-Learning.” NDSU Service-Learning Faculty Development
Workshop. Fargo, ND. October 2005. (Invited).
“Why Do I Feel Guilty When a Student Plagiarizes? Dealing with Academic
Dishonesty.” NDSU Graduate Teaching Assistant Organization Workshop
Series. Fargo, ND. January 2005. (Invited).
“Advocates for Sustainability: Service-Learning Advisory Boards and Cross-College
Consortia.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Service
Learning Special Interest Group. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
“Connecting Campus to Community: Service Learning in Student Affairs and Beyond.”
NASPA Region IV-W Conference. Fargo, ND. October 2004.
“Reciprocity in Community Engagement? Children’s Writing as Public/Published
Works.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio,
TX. March 2004.
“A Man at the Forefront, A Woman Nearby: Gender & Rhetorical Space in the
Leadership Rhetoric of W. E. B. Du Bois and Jessie Fauset.” Rhetoric’s Road Trips
and Horizons. Penn State U. State College, PA. July 2003.
“Integrating Service-Learning Research and Pedagogy.” Tri-College Academic ServiceLearning Brown Bag Session. NDSU. Fargo, ND. October 2002.
“Solving Application and ‘Pseudo-Transaction’ Problems in Writing Classes through
Community Engagement.” English Department Seminar. NDSU. Fargo, ND.
October 2002.
“From Mission to Curriculum: The Uneasy Marriage of Religion and Service Learning.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March
2002.
“Arrangement for Invention.” Workshop on "Using Rhetoric to Teach Writing."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March
2002.
“Introduction to Community Engagement Pedagogy.” Graduate Instructor Training
Workshop. TCU. Fort Worth. August 2001. (Invited).
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“The Container and the Thing Contained: Local and Institutional Scenes Shape Service
Learning.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver,
CO. March 2001. (Panel Organizer).
“That Group Work Thing: Collaboration in the Composition Classroom.” Graduate
Instructor Training Workshop. TCU. Fort Worth. Spring 2001. (Invited).
“One or Many? The Problem of Authorship and Evaluation in Service Learning.”
Writing Program Administrators Conference. Charlotte, NC. July 2000.
“The Community Engagement Continuum for Composition.” Graduate Instructor
Training Workshop. TCU. Fort Worth. Spring 2000. (Invited).
"The Question of Motive: A Dramatistic Analysis of Service Learning." Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. April 2000.
"Surveying the American Dream: Gender & Class in the Shopping Mall." PreConvention Workshop on "Using Popular Culture in the Writing Class."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. March
1999.
"Citation-Functions: Literary Production and Reception." The Sociomaterial Turn:
Excavating Modernism. University of Tulsa Twelfth Annual Comparative
Literature Symposium. Tulsa, OK. March 1998.
"Midwifing the Harlem Renaissance: The Nonfiction Essays of Jessie Redmon Fauset."
American Women Writers of Color Conference. Ocean City, MD. Oct. 31-Nov.
2, 1997.
"Classical to Modern: Can Stasis Theory Be Adapted to the Composition Classroom?"
American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Speech Communication
Association. Chicago, IL. November 1997.
"Sethe: Beloved’s Goddess of Grain." Sigma Tau Delta National Conference. St. Louis,
MO. Spring 1995.
Teaching Experience
North Dakota State University Fargo, ND
Assistant Professor, August 2002 to Present
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College Composition I. Emphasized literacy. Integrated the Intercollegiate E-Democracy
Project into coursework.
College Composition II. Emphasized leadership. Service-learning partnership with Ben
Franklin Middle School. College students entered into writing relationship with
middle school students.
Honors Composition II. Topic focus: Peace and Conflict. An interdisciplinary approach to
reading and writing, drawing on rhetoric, literature, history, film, and
philosophy.
Introduction to Writing Studies. Offers English majors and writing minors insight into the
field of writing studies, including reading and writing creative, academic, public,
and professional pieces, as well as researching issues central to writing studies.
Intermediate Writing, now titled Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Emphasizes
taking a variety of critical stances and generic responses in relation to popular
culture. Whole-class workshops are a central component.
Advanced Writing Workshop. Focuses on style and research, moving from traditional
academic styles and research to alternative styles and research.
Literacy, Culture, and Identity. Explores varied types of literacy in a global age, exploding
myths and oversimplified representations of literacy. Community-based literacy
project enriches theory.
Composition Studies: Seminar on Community Engagement. Masters-level course on the
theory, research, and pedagogies of community engagement in composition.
Community engagement includes internships, cooperative education, service
learning, participant action research, and activist research.
Composition and Rhetoric: Seminar on Authorship. Masters/Ph.D. level course on the
theory, research, and pedagogies of authorship in English Studies, particularly
composition and rhetoric.
Composition Theory. Masters/Ph.D. level course on writing theories with some
implications for application.
Field Experience. Masters/Ph.D. level course structured like an internship with regular
reading, writing, and final project.
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX
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Graduate Instructor, 1997 to 2001
Introductory Composition: Introduced academic writing, leading to formal argument.
Emphasis on rhetorical strategies for reading and writing.
Intermediate Composition: Genre-based course intended to stretch students beyond the
academic essay, with a continued emphasis on rhetorical strategies for reading
and writing. Integrated several models of community engagement into teaching
this course.
Advanced Composition: "Writing about Pop Culture" (with Gary Tate). Featured
advanced rhetorical analysis of news media, film, popular music, and television.
Literature: “Multi-Ethnic Literature” (with Australia Tarver). Web discuss board
available: http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/english/discuss/ (See S99 ENGL 3693030 - Multi-Ethnic Literature).
Distance Learning: TIPS Partnership On-line Writing Consultant (through Texas Tech
University).
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate Rhetoric & Composition: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced
Writing and Rhetoric Courses, including: Introduction to Writing Studies; Writing in
the Humanities and Social Sciences; Literacy, Culture, and Identity; Professional
Writing; The Teaching of Writing; Introduction to Rhetoric; Persuasion & Social
Movements; Rhetorical Criticism; Advanced Writing Workshop
Undergraduate Literature: Multi-Ethnic Literature, Women’s Literature, Harlem
Renaissance
Graduate Rhetoric & Composition: Composition Theory, Composition Pedagogy, History
of Composition Studies, Theories of Authorship, Community Engagement in
Composition Studies, Literacy Studies
Administrative Experience
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
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Assistant Director of the William L. Adams Writing Center (Fall 2000-Spring 2002): Assisted
in the administration of a large writing center with 6 full-time staff members and
approximately 10 peer consultants and serving 7,000 graduate and
undergraduate students. Improved tutor training through the use of
blackboard.com and formal training sessions. Began formal compilation of data
concerning online writing labs; reconceived delivery of web-based services.
Consulted with students on a weekly basis.
Assistant to the Undergraduate and Graduate Directors (Fall 1999): Assisted in directing
both the graduate (M.A. & Ph.D.) and undergraduate (major and minor)
programs, including assigning faculty advisors, planning and coordinating
events for majors, and contributing to graduate program improvement through
reassessment.
Associate Director of Composition Studies (Fall 1998/Spring 1999): Assisted in
administering a composition program that included approximately 50 sections of
introductory and intermediate composition per semester. Participated in major
revision of the introductory and intermediate course requirements.
Write to Succeed, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (Now contributing remotely from Fargo)
Advisory Board Member (Fall 2004-present)
Continue to foster and direct Write to Succeed programs such as Writing
Partners in Fargo-Moorhead. Attend online meetings and contribute to vision of
organization.
Co-founding Board Member and Director of Research and Development (Summer 1997Summer 2004): Helped develop and maintain the nonprofit organization and its
programs: Writing Partners, which pairs elementary and college students in
reciprocal writing relationship; Reading Partners, which involves having college
students read to and with elementary students.
March of Dimes, Fargo, ND
Board Member and Member of the Communications Committee (Spring 2004-Present):
Contribute to board efforts as the North Dakota chapter transitions from a Grand
Forks to a Fargo office.
Grants and Awards
Vogel Teaching Award, (Student nominated, Spring 2006).
Recognized in Who’s Who of American Women, 2007 (Nominated Spring 2006).
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Development Foundation Libraries Fund award for $500 to develop NDSU library
collections on literacy and leadership. (April 2003).
Nominated for membership and accepted by Delta Kappa Gamma, a distinguished women
educator’s organization. (Spring 2003).
Fort Worth Women’s Wednesday Club Award for Essay Writing (2001).
TCU College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2000).
TCU Adams Writing Center Creative Writing Awards Winner for Writing about Rhetoric &
Composition (2000) & about Women/Feminism (1998).
TCU University Fellowship (1996-97)
Professional Writing & Research
National Center on Education and the Economy Fort Worth, TX. (2000-01, 2004).
• Researched and co-wrote 12 Reading and Writing Monographs intended as
foundational and practical guides for teachers, grades K-10.
• Copyedited Author and Genre Studies directed toward the same audience.
Writing Monograph Series
“Writing Conferences.” 2000.
Reading Monograph Series
“Vocabulary, Secondary.” 2001.
“Book Discussion Groups, Secondary.” 2001.
“Shared Reading, Primary.” 2001.
“Independent Reading, Primary.” 2001.
“Reading Aloud, Primary.” 2001.
“Partner Reading, Primary.” 2001.
“Vocabulary, Primary.” 2001.
“Book Discussion Groups, Primary.” 2001.
“Rituals, Routines, and Artifacts in Readers Workshop, Primary.” 2001.
“The Skill Block, Primary.” 2001.
“Reading Conferences, Primary.” 2001.
Development Group Fort Worth, TX. (1996-97).
• Produced grants, which involved research, project management, copyediting, and
formatting.
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Service
Regional & National
Conference Planning Committee Member. Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota
50th Conference. Fargo, ND Spring-Fall 2007.
Coordinator and Moderator. All day workshop on Service Learning, Community Literacy,
and Civic Engagement: Developing Teaching and Research (Sponsored by the
Service Learning and Community Literacy Special Interest Group). Conference
on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2007.
Coordinator and Moderator. Special Interest Group on Service Learning. Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2006.
Session Chair. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. Fargo, ND. April 2004.
Moderator, Concurrent Session on “Rhetoric, Modernity, and Hermeneutics.”
”Rhetoric’s Road Trips: Histories and Horizons,” Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric. State College, PA. July 2003.
Concurrent Session Chair. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New
York, NY. March 2003.
Session Chair. Red River Conference on World Literatures. Fargo, ND. April 2003.
Member, Action Group on "Theories of Authorship and Pedagogy." Caucus on
Intellectual Property and Composition/Communication Studies. Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. (Spring 1999).
North Dakota State University Fargo, ND
Member, Faculty/Lecturer Recognition Committee (Fall 2007-).
Independent Study Teacher/Director: Sean Johnson, “Creative Writing for the High School
Teacher.” (Spring 2007).
Member, Hiring Committee, Technical Communication and English Education. (Fall
2006-Spring 2007).
Reader, Assessment of Majors’ Portfolios. (Summer 2006).
Member, Vertical Writing Curriculum Committee. (Spring 2005-present).
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NDSU Representative, Quad-College Service Learning Consortium. (2004).
Writing Partners Program Coordinator. Coordinated 5 NDSU classes and 5 Ben Franklin
Junior High class partnerships in spring 2003, 20 NDSU classes and 19 Ben
Franklin Junior High class partnerships in spring 2004, 15 NDSU and 15 Ben
Franklin classes in spring 2005, 15 NDSU and 15 Ben Franklin classes in spring
2006, 17 NDSU and 17 Ben Franklin classes in spring 2007.
Member, Interdisciplinary Committee for developing a Peace and Conflict minor.
(Spring 2004).
Thesis Director: Kendra Faiman. (2003-2005). Kelly Cameron (2004-2006), Carly Hearn
(2006-), Seth Archer (2007-).
Graduate Field Experience Director: Codi Schmitz (Spring 04). Kristin Garaas-Johnson
(Spring 06). Beth Ecker (Fall 2006).
Dissertation Committee Member: Jon Pike (2005-).
Comprehensive Exam Committee Member: Jon Pike (2006).
Thesis Committee Member: Kim Crowley, Suzanne Hagelstrom, Sybil Priebe, Katey
Ehrenberg, Bethany Eastvold, Melissa Vosen, Dani Kvanvig.
Graduate Portfolio Review Committee Member: Katey Ehrenberg, Laura Stowe, Kendra
Faiman, KrisAnn Norby, Marcia Lundberg, Bethany Eastvold, Kelly Cameron,
Melissa Vosen, Josh Hernandez, Laure Seguela, Beth Ecker, Carly Hearn.
Undergraduate Capstone Project Director: Carly Hearn and Katie Murphy (F03), Jessica
Herbold and Jamie Skroch (F04). Zach Packineau and Jenny Wegner (F06).
Faculty Advisor, Harvest Field. (Fall 2003-present).
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Representative. Service-Learning Advisory
Committee. (Fall 2003-Present).
Member, First-year English Committee. (Fall 2002-present).
Member, Social Outreach and Recognition Committee. (Fall 2002-Fall 2004). Chair (Fall
2004-Spring 2005, Spring 2006-present).
Member, Curriculum Committee. (Fall 2002-Spring 2003).
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Texas Christian University
Member, TCU Hiring Committee for positions in Rhetoric and Composition (Fall 1999Spring 2000).
Member, Committee for Course Development: TCU ENGL 2803 (Spring 1998).
Community
Board Member and Member of Communications Committee. March of Dimes. Fargo, ND.
Fall 2003-Present.
Advisory Board Member. Write to Succeed, Inc. Fort Worth, TX. (2004-present).
Board Member and Director of Research and Development. Write to Succeed, Inc. Fort
Worth, TX. (1997-2004).
Tutor/Mentor, Cross-Age Academic Mentoring Program sponsored by Working Class
Studies Special Interest Group at the Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Atlanta, GA. (Spring 1999).
Full-time Volunteer, Women’s Bean Project, a women’s job- and life-skills training
program. Denver, CO. (1995-96).
Professional Affiliations
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Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Council of Writing Program Administrators
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Vita of Dale L. Sullivan
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Full Professor, Department of English, North Dakota State University, 322G Minard Hall,
Fargo, ND 58105, Phone: 701.231.7144, E-Mail: [email protected]
Home Address and Phone: 1506 6th Street S., Fargo, ND 58103, Phone: 701.476.1336
Educational Background:
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Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1988.
Dissertation: A Rhetoric of Children's Literature. Director: S. Michael Halloran.
Master of Arts in English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 1979.
Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City, Kansas, 1977. Major-English; MinorFrench. Magna Cum Laude.
Professional Experience:
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. Tenured, Professor of English and Department Head, July 1,
2003 to present.
• Responsible for scheduling classes; hiring, directing graduate studies; overseeing budget; evaluating
faculty, lecturers, staff; assigning advisors, writing annual reports.
• Worked with faculty to fully reform of English Curriculum, 2004-05.
• Worked with Director of Writing and General Education Committee to reform writing requirements at
university—from traditional first-year sequence to vertical writing sequence. This process involved the
development of several new discipline-specific writing courses.
• Worked with Provost and English faculty to bring languishing writing center under direction of
English department. It is now flourishing.
• In consultation with faculty, rewrote our department’s proposal for a Ph. D. in Rhetoric, Writing &
Culture.
• Encouraged the development of online classes and participation in distance and continuing education.
Developed and taught two distance education courses (English 320, practical writing, and English 333,
Fantasy and Science Fiction).
• Oversaw the search and hiring process for faculty and lecturers.
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. Tenured, Full Professor in Rhetoric. Department Head, May 13,
2002 to June 2003.
• Pulled together the first accurate budget analysis for the department of Rhetoric in many years and
traced revenue flows in comparison with other departments in the College of Agriculture, Food, and
Environmental Sciences. Worked out agreements with scientists in College of Agriculture, Food, and
Environmental Sciences to work with graduate students in Rhetoric. Restructured the internship
program in the department of Rhetoric. Negotiated reclassification on behalf of staff member to
improve her status. Negotiated change of three-year renewable contract on behalf of faculty member to
tenure-tract position. Interviewed candidates and hired new assistant to the head. Took workshops in
basic accounts monitoring procedures for UMN and in being a department head. Relieved of active
duty late September 2002 because of a disagreement with the Dean of the College of Agriculture,
Food, and Environmental Sciences.
Michigan Technological University: Houghton, MI. Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Technical
Communication and Director of Scientific and Technical Communication. Fall 1997-May2002, tenured
2001.
• Director of Scientific and Technical Communication, an undergraduate degree program, chair of STC
committee, director of industrial relations (Fall 1999 to May 2002). Taught undergraduate and
graduate courses, served on graduate students' Masters and Ph.D. committees. I gave up tenure but
retained rank of Associate Professor to make the move to MTU.
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Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL. Assistant Professor of English (promoted to Associate 1995,
tenured 1996), and Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator. Fall 1994 to Summer 1997.
• Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty. Developed a "Writing Consultants Across the Curriculum"
Program, a newsletter, and an extensive WWW archive. Gave several WAC workshops for Faculty.
Taught graduate courses in the history of rhetoric and in rhetorical theory, and undergraduate advanced
writing courses. Served on University Assessment Committee, English Department Council, English
Department Writing in the Major Committee, and English Department Assessment Work Group.
Served as consultant to University General Education Committee, and worked with science and
technology literacy program for high schools in Rockford, IL.
University of Nebraska at Kearney: Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate 1994) of English.
Director of Writing Programs, Fall 1991 to Spring 1994.
• Graduate Fellow of the University of Nebraska, 1993; Graduate Faculty, 1992. Taught graduate
courses in the teaching of writing, and undergraduate writing classes, both first-year classes and
advanced-writing classes. Developed a new writing curriculum for the undergraduate major.
Administered the University Writing Center and trained new TAs. Served on Faculty Senate, English
Department Writing Committee, and English Department Graduate Committee.
Michigan Technological University: Houghton, MI. Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in Humanities
Department, Fall 1988 to Summer 1991. Graduate Faculty.
• Served on department Graduate Committee, 1990-91; on department Promotion and Tenure
Committee, 1990-91; on STC Committee 1989-90. Mentored TAs teaching Technical Communication.
Directed undergraduate STC program, Fall 1989, during director's sabbatical. Participated in NSF
Grant to develop Writing-Intensive Engineering courses 1989-91.
• Taught HU 631 (Rhetorical Criticism), HU 543 (History of Rhetoric), HU 542 (Modern Rhetorical
Theory), HU 520 (Rhetoric of Science), HU 470 (Special Projects), HU 411 (Reading and Technical
Comm.), HU 333 (Technical and Scientific Comm.), HU 303 (Modern Masters: C. S. Lewis), HU 202
(American Experience in Lit. II), HU 201 (American Experience in Lit. I).
Gordon College: Wenham, MA. Director of Writing, Fall 1987 to Spring 1988.
• Worked with faculty in other disciplines to develop Writing Across the Curriculum, directed the
writing center. Taught En 417 (Modern Grammar), Cr 110 (First-year Writing).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY. Teaching Assistant, Fall 1985 to Spring 1987.
• Writing Center Tutor, 1985-86, Summer and Fall 1986; Writing Consultant to Chemical Engineering
Design, 1986; Writing Consultant to Electrical Engineering, 1985-86. Taught Rhetoric and Writing.
Kansas Technical Institute: Salina, KS. Assistant Professor, Spring 1980 to Summer 1985.
• Taught Technical Writing, Written Communication, Oral Communication, Developmental English,
Literature and Technology, Professional Writing Seminar.
Wichita State University: Teaching Assistant, Fall 1977 to Spring 1979; Lecturer, Fall 1979.
• Taught Composition 101, Composition 102, Developmental English.
Publications and Presentations:
Edited Volumes
• Guest Editor of Special Issue of The Journal of Communication and Religion. Conversations about
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian and Rhetorician. 28.2 November 2005. (All articles were peer
reviewed).
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Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job, co-editor with
Jerry Savage. Allyn & Bacon, 2001. (The whole book was sent out for peer review by the publisher).
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Refereed Articles
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“Reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together in the Contexts of Monastic Literature and The
Communion of Saints.” The Journal of Communication and Religion 28.2 (November 2005): 188-205.
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“After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Epideictic Exhortation to Responsible Action.” Journal of
Communication and Religion, 26 (2003): 28-50.
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Primary author with Michael Martin as second author. "Habit Formation and Story Telling: A Theory
for Guiding Ethical Action." Technical Communication Quarterly 10 (Summer 2001): 251-272
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Primary Author with Christian Anible as second author. "The Epideictic Dimension of Galatians as
Formative Rhetoric: The Inscription of Early Christian Community." Rhetorica 18 (Spring 2000): 117145.
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"Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in Science." Technical Communication Quarterly 9
(Spring 2000): 125-146. Winner of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year 2000 in
Technical Communication Quarterly.
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"Beyond Discourse Communities: Orthodoxies and the Rhetoric of Sectarianism." Rhetoric Review
18 (Fall 1999): 148-164.
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“Identification and Dissociation in Rhetorical Exposé: An Analysis of St. Irenaeus’ Against
Heresies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 49-76.
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"Francis Schaeffer's Apparent Apology in Pollution and the Death of Man." The Journal of
Communication and Religion 12 (1998): 200-229.
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"Displaying Disciplinarity." Written Communication 13 (1996): 221-250.
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"Migrating Across Disciplinary Boundaries: The Case of David Raup's and John Sepkoski's
Periodicity Paper." Social Epistemology 9 (1995): 151-164. Reprinted in Scientific & Technical
Communication: Theory, Practice, and Policy. Eds. James H. Collier with David M. Toomey. Sage,
1997, 330-349.
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"Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy in The Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." Rhetorica 12 (1994):
237-264.
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"Exclusionary Epideictic: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication of Fleischmann and Pons." Science
Technology & Human Values 19 (1994): 283-306.
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"A Closer Look at Education as Epideictic Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 23 (1993): 70-89.
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"The Ethos of Epideictic Encounter." Philosophy and Rhetoric 26 (1993): 113-133.
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"The Epideictic Character of Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 339-349.
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"Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius as Epideictic Rhetoric." The Journal of
Communication and Religion 15 (1992): 71-86.
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"The Decline of Imitation in Nineteenth Century Rhetoric." Platte Valley Review 20 (1992): 45-62.
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"Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 317-332.
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"The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 5 (1991):
229-245.
"The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's Algeny." Rhetoric Review 9 (1990): 134-148.
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"Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice." Journal of
Advanced Composition 10 (1990): 375-386. Reprinted in Humanistic Aspects of Technical
Communication, ed. Paul M. Dombrowski, Baywood, 1994, 223-234; also reprinted in Central Works
in Technical Communication, eds. Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart Selber, Oxford UP, 2004, 211219.
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"Attitudes toward Imitation: Classical Culture and the Modern Temper." Rhetoric Review 8 (Fall
1989): 5-21.
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"The Computer as a Two-way Medium in the Technical Writing Classroom." The Technical Writing
Teacher 14 (Spring 1987): 143-150.
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Refereed Proceedings
• "Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic." Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic,
Graphic, Electronic. (Refereed proceedings of the Rhetoric Society of America.) Ed. Victor J. Vitanza
and Michelle Ballif. Arlington, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, 1990, 171-187.
Book Chapters
• First author with Michael S. Martin and Ember R. Anderson. “Moving from the Periphery:
Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for the Technical Communicator.” Power and
Legitimacy in Technical Communication, Volume I. Ed. Teresa Kynell-Hunt and Gerald J. Savage.
Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 2003. 115-136.
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"Afterword: Talking to the People Who Know." Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical
Communicators On and Off the Job. Ed. Gerald J. Savage and Dale L. Sullivan. Allyn & Bacon 2001.
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"Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific and Technical Communication: Academic
Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L. Keene. Society for Technical Communication, 1997. 167-181.
Invited Publications
• “Mediating Controversial Technology: The Case of Monsanto’s Attempt to Introduce Genetically
Modified Wheat in North Dakota.” Hermes—Journal of Language and Communication Studies 37
(2006): 23-45. Invitation by Peter Kastberg, editor.
• “Rhetorical Invention and Lutheran Doctrine?” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7 (Winter 2004) 4: 603-614.
Invitation by Martin Medhurst, editor.
• "Worries about the New Literacies." (Review of Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt's
Expanding Literacies.) Sigdoc 23 (November 1999) 4: 30-35. Invitation by Robert Johnson, book
review editor.
Book Reviews
• Review of Michael Carter’s Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction. College
Composition and Communication 56 (December 2004): 346-348.
• Review of John T. Battalio's Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods, Practice, and
Pedagogy. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (Spring 2000): 112-114.
• Review of Robert R. Johnson's User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and
Other Mundane Artifacts. Technical Communication Quarterly 9 (Winter 2000): 97-99.
• Review of Edward Schiappa's The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. Rhetoric
Society Quarterly 29 (Fall 1999): 89-92. Also published online at The American Communication
Journal, October 1999. <http://www.americancomm.org/%7Eaca/acj/acj.html>.
• Review of Computers and Technical Communication, ed. Stuart A. Selber. Journal of Business and
Technical Communication 13 (April 1999): 226-229.
• Review of Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking the Discipline, ed. Lee Odell."
Technical Communication Quarterly 3 (1994): 423-425.
Proceedings
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“Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer
Cases.” 2005 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings. 353-358.
• "Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resist the Introductory Course?"
2000 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.
• "Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implications for Academic Program
Development in Technical Communication." 1999 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in
Technical and Scientific Communication.
• "What is Keeping Practitioners and Academics from Meeting in the Middle?" 1998 Proceedings of the
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. 49-50.
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"Developing a Technical Writing Program at Kansas Technical Institute," 1983 Proceedings of The
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 81-83.
ERIC Documents
• "Legitimizing Technical Communication: 1985 and 1998." ERIC ED 420 882, 1998.
• "Connections with Industry and the Liberal Arts: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching
Technical Writing: Bibliography of Articles and Papers in Technical Communication." ERIC ED 254
860. RIE 1985.
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"Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching
Technical Writing." ERIC ED 254 859. RIE, 1985.
Other Publications
• "What Kind of Place is the Writing Classroom?" Response to Gregory Clark's "Rescuing the Discourse
of Community." College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 384-386.
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One of several authors and editors. Manual for Report Writing in Engineering Design: Guidelines for
Advanced Engineering Students. Michigan Tech. University, 1992.
Conference Papers:
• “St. Paul’s Therapy of Desire.” 2006 Society of Biblical Literature Conference, November 2006,
Washington DC.
• “Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis’ Fictional Autobiography.” 2006 Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and
North Dakota, October 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• “Paulo Freire’s Basis for Intervention in Public Life.” 2006 Rhetoric Society of America Conference,
May 2006, Memphis, TN.
• “You Don’t Need That: Secret Meetings and Doctored Contracts,” 2006 Conference on College
Composition and Communication, March 2006, Chicago.
• “Researchers’ Role in Creating Public Awareness,” 2005 Council for Programs in Scientific and
Technical Communication, Lubbock, TX.
• “Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer
Cases,” 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland.
• “Hebrews and the Rhetoric of Perfection and Change.” 2005 Inquiries into Rhetoric and Christian
Tradition, Chicago, IL.
• “Reflections on S. Michael Halloran’s ‘Eloquence in a Technological Society.’” 2004 National
Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
• “Retreating/Advancing to Monastic Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Adaptation of Monastic Rule in Life
Together,” 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Austin, TX.
• “Directing Desire in the Sub Culture of Early Christianity: A Preliminary Study of Desire in Hebrews
and Philippians,” 2003 National Communication Association, Miami.
• “Position on Rhetoric as Therapy,” 2003 Alliance of Rhetoric Societies Conference on the Status and
Future of Rhetorical Studies, Evanston, IL.
• “The Role of Narrative in Preserving Folk Knowledge and in Enabling the Reflective Practitioner,”
with Ember R. Anderson, 2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York.
• “Eating Together: An Exploration of Epideictic Rhetoric and Food,” 2002 National Communication
Association, New Orleans.
• “Novelty and Heresy in the Debate on Nonthermal Effects of Electromagnetic Media,” with Carolyn
R. Miller, 2002 Rhetoric Society of American Conference, Las Vegas.
• "After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Epideictic Exhortation to Conspiracy," 2001 National
Communication Association, Atlanta.
• "Overt and Occult Neutralization Techniques in Scientific Apologia," 2001 National Communication
Association, Atlanta.
• "Planning, Delivering, and Assessing Communication Modules in an Engineering Enterprise
Program," 2001 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Pittsburgh.
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"Who Are the Educated?" in the Most Significant Passage in the Surviving Texts of Isocrates Panel.
2000 National Communication Association, Seattle.
"Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resist the Introductory Course?"
2000 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Menomonie, Wisconsin,
October 2000.
"Herbert Wichelns and Richard Young: Divergent Agendas for Rhetorical Criticism," Rhetoric Society
of America 2000, Washington, D.C.
"Taking Advantage of Authorized Speech to Build Legitimacy: An Analysis of David M. Raup’s
Presidential Address to the Paleontological Society, 1977," 1999 National Communication
Association, Chicago.
"Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implications for Academic Program
Development in Technical Communication," 1999 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical
Communication, Santa Fe, NM.
“Comments on Edward Schiappa’s The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece,” 1999
Central States Communication Association, St. Louis.
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“Achieving Legitimacy and Authority through Social Knowledge,” 1999 Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing Pre-Conference, Atlanta.
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"Polemic Rhetoric in Galatians and James," co-presented with Christian Anible. 1998 National
Communication Association Conference, New York.
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"What is Keeping Us from Meeting in the Middle." 1998 Council for Programs in Scientific and
Technical Communication, Lewes, DE.
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"Legitimizing Technical Communication, 1985 and 1998." 1998 Conference on College Composition
and Communication, April 1998, Chicago.
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"Recontextualization and Performance: The Epideictic Exposé of St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies." 1997
National Communication Association Conference, November 19-23, 1997. Chicago.
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"Computer Literacy and Syntactic Fluency." 1997 Conference on College Composition and
Communication, March 12-15, 1997. Phoenix.
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"Using the Computer Revolution to Promote WAC." 3rd National Writing Across the Curriculum
Conference. February 6-8, 1997. Charleston, SC.
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"Defending and Explaining Orthodoxy." 1996 Speech Communication Association Conference,
November 1996. San Diego.
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"Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in the Physical Sciences." Seventh Biennial
Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, May 1996. Tucson, Arizona.
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"The Formation of Orthodoxy through Rhetorical Expose': An Analysis of St. Irenaeus' Against
Heresies." 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1996. Milwaukee.
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"The Case of the Sandhill Cranes: Bringing the Outdoors into Class." 1995 Conference on College
Composition and Communication, March. Washington, D. C.
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"A Case Study of Ecological Literacy." 1995 Conference on College Composition and
Communication, March 1995. Washington, D. C.
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"Orthodoxy without Hierarchy: Methodology in the Evangelical Bible Study Movement." Speech
Communication Association, November 1994. New Orleans.
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"The Interdisciplinary Ethos of David M. Raup." Society for the Social Studies of Science, October
1994. New Orleans.
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"The Epideictic Voices of Maxine Hairston." Rhetoric Society of America. May 1994. Virginia Beach.
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"Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy: Creating Ethos through Identification and Allegiance." American
Society for the History of Rhetoric. November 1993. Miami.
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"Boundary Work: A Rhetorical Analysis of G. K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy." The
American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, Rocky Mountain-Great Plains
1993 Regional Meeting. April 1993. Omaha.
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"The Rhetoric of Modern Evangelical Christianity: An Analysis of Haddon Robinson's Biblical
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Preaching as a Rhetoric." 1992 Conference of the Speech Communication Association. October 1992.
Chicago.
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"Vilifying Science through Alter Ideologies: Fictional Characterizations of Scientific Community and
Ethos." 1992 Conference of the Society for Literature and Science. October 1992. Atlanta.
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"Celebrating Orthodoxy: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication of Fleischmann and Pons." 1992
Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 1992. Minneapolis.
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"Ethos as Allegiance in the Rhetoric of Science." 1992 Conference on College Composition and
Communication. March 1992. Cincinnati.
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"Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch as Epideictic Rhetoric." 8th Biennial
Conference of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. September 1991. Baltimore.
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"Imitation and Ethos: Classical Rhetoric in Technical Communication." 1991 Penn State Conference
on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1991. University Park, PA.
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"The Epideictic Functions of Criticism." 1991 Conference on College Composition and
Communication. March 1991. Boston.
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"Narrative Instruction and Celebration in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia." 1990 Speech
Communication Association Conference, November 1990. Chicago.
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"Kairos and Exhortation as Alternatives to Aristotelian Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Meaning of Kairos in
the New Testament." 1990 Conference of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric,
American Chapter. October 1990. Chicago.
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"Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic." 1990 Rhetoric Society of
America Conference. May 1990. Arlington, TX.
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"The Epideictic Functions of the Rhetoric of Science." 1990 Conference on College Composition and
Communication. March 1990. Chicago.
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"The Epideictic Rhetoric of Quintilian, Hugh Blair, and C. S. Lewis." 1989 Speech Communication
Association Conference. November 1989. San Francisco.
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"The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's Algeny." "1989 Society for Social Studies of Science
Conference. November 1989. Irvine, CA.
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"The Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice." 1989 Penn
State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1989. University Park, PA.
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"Education as Conversation: Empowering Freshmen with Textual Power." 1988 Penn State
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1988. University Park, PA.
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"The Problem of Rhetorical Invention and Technical Communication." 1986 Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition. July 1986. University Park, PA.
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"Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching
Technical Writing." 1985 Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 1985.
Minneapolis.
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"Two Possible Futures of Teaching Writing across the Curriculum." 1984 Southwest Regional
Conference for Teachers of English in Two-Year Colleges. November 1984. Oklahoma City.
Professional Service:
Professional organizations: offices and duties
• Member of the Steering Committee for the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical
Communication, Spring 2000-2002. Co-Chair of 2002 Conference and Webmaster for the Conference.
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Member of the Steering Committee of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1997-1999;
1992-93.
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Chair of the committee judging dissertations submitted to the American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Dissertation of the Year Award Competition, 1996-97.
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List Owner for steeringashr-l, a listserv for the steering committee of the American Society for the
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History of Rhetoric.
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List Owner for aarst-l, a listserv for the American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and
Technology.
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Web Master for American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Fall 1999-2002.
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Web Master for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Fall 1998Spring 2000.
Reviewer for journals and conferences
• Referee reader for Journal of Communication and Religion, (2006), Quarterly Journal of Speech,
(2006, 2002), Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1996-present), for College Composition and
Communication (2000-present), Technical Communication Quarterly (1989- present), for Reader
(1988-91), for Science Technology & Human Values (1995), for Journal of Advanced Composition
(1996).
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Reviewer of papers and panels for American Society for History of Rhetoric pre-conference and for
panels submitted to NCA, 1993, 1998, 1999.
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Reviewer of papers submitted to Rhetorical Theory subdivision of CCCC for 1994 conference.
Promotion and tenure review for other universities, program review, and textbook review
• Reviewed files for candidate for tenure at Metropolitan Sate, Spring 2004
• Reviewed files for candidate for tenure at Butler University, Summer 2003
• Reviewed files for candidate for Full Professor at North Carolina Sate University, Fall 2003
• Reviewed files for candidate for tenure at Illinois Institute of Technology, Spring 2000
• Reviewed files for candidate for tenure and promotion at Ohio University, Fall 1996
• Reviewed proposed Ph.D. program courses for University of Central Florida, Fall 2000
• Reviewed two proposed scientific and technical communication textbooks for Pearson Publishers,
2000&2001 and for another publisher in 1994
Invited speaker, panelist, participant, respondent, or writer
• Respondent, "Apologetics, Apologia and Argument: Engaging Culture through Religious Discourse, "
NCA 2000.
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Speaker, “Stories and Technical Communication Culture,” Milwaukee Chapter of Society for
Technical Communication. 1/11/2000.
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Respondent , "C. S. Lewis in the Next Millennium," NCA 1999.
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Respondent, "Is there a Christian Theory of Rhetoric," NCA, 1998.
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Invited participant, "Pre-Conference of the Commission on Spiritual Rhetoric," NCA, 1997.
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Invited participant, "Religious Consciousness in Prophecy and Kerygma," SCA, 1993.
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Invited participant, "A Conference on Writing in Engineering Design," Houghton, MI, 1992.
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Invited participant, "Practical Conference on Communication," Knoxville, TN, November 1993.
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Invited writer, “Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific and Technical Communication:
Academic Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L. Keene. Society for Technical Communication, 1997.
167-181. Research travel funded by the Society for Technical Communication.
Panel organizer of the following sessions at conferences
“Writing in New Fields” (2 panels), IPCC 2005; "Radical Christian Rhetoric of Resistance: An
Introduction to the Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," NCA 2001; "Rhetorical
Criticisms: Are Speech Communication and Composition Scholars Doing the Same Thing?" RSA
2000; "Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacy in the Rhetoric of Science," NCA 1999; "Polemics
within the Church," NCA 1998; "Defining Rhetorical Competence and Computer Literacy," CCCC
1997; "Establishing a Presence on Campus for a New WAC Program," 3rd National WAC Conference
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1997; "Epideictic Rhetoric, Community, & Change," SCA 1993; "Exploring the Ethos of Science,"
CCCC 1992; "Epideictic Rhetoric and the Discourse of English Studies," CCCC 1991; "Narrative
Argument in the Writings of C. S. Lewis," SCA 1990.
Panel chair for following panels at professional meetings
"Graduate Programs," CPTSC 2001; "Mythopoesis, Nomos and Physis: A volatile Mixture," NCA
1999; "The Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacy in the Rhetoric of Science," NCA 1999;
"Rhetoric and Culture," NCA 1998; "Examining the Intersections of Rhetoric and Technical
Communication," CCCC 1994; "Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of Environmental
Policy," CCCC 1993; "Two Holders of Harvard's Boylston Chair of Rhetoric: Channing and Hill,"
CCCC 1988.
Member of the following professional organizations
•National Council of Teachers of English •Conference on College Composition and Communication
•National Communication Association •American Society for the History of Rhetoric •Council for
Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication •Rhetoric Society of America •Religious Speech
Communication Association •Association of Teachers of Technical Writing • Rhetoric Society of
America• Society for Biblical Literature • IEEE International Professional Communication
Departmental, University, and Community Service: Since 1994
North Dakota State University
ƒ Department Head, English
ƒ English Department Assessment Committee Chair
ƒ English Department Curriculum Committee,
ƒ Planning committee for North Dakota Humanities Summit
ƒ ND committee on common course numbering
University of Minnesota
ƒ Department Head, Rhetoric Department, May 2002 to June 2003 (by title), active duty May to
September
ƒ Director of Internship Program for Rhetoric Department, May 2002 to present.
ƒ Member of STC’s academic-industrial relationship sub group for the Twin City chapter.
Responsible for developing an internship initiative between STC and academic programs in
Technical Communication.
Michigan Technological University
ƒ Directed Scientific and Technical Communication (Fall 1999-Spring 2002), Chair the STC
Committee, and direct industrial relations with technical communication program.
ƒ Advised Student Chapter of Society for Technical Communication (Beginning Fall 1999-Spring
2002).
ƒ Served on Humanities Department Steering Committee, (1999-2002).
ƒ Served on communication search committee, 2000-2001.
ƒ Served on search committee for media faculty, 1998-99.
ƒ Served on committee that developed and delivered communication modules to the Engineering
Enterprise project in the Engineering College
ƒ Designed and maintain the web site pages and for the STC Degree Program.
ƒ Gave guest presentations for First-year Student Orientation 8/99; Humanities Department
Teaching Effectiveness Forum 2/12/98 and 12/3/99; Teaching with Technology 3/20/98; Graduate
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Student Lunch Moot 10/20/99 and Spring 2001.
Served as the Faculty Advisor for the NASA-Tech Briefs Website, a website that published digital
supplements for NASA-Tech Briefs Photonics and NASA-Tech Briefs Electronics. This project was
supervised directly by a Ph.D. student; a team of graduate and undergraduate students researched,
wrote, and published the material on the site. 1998-99.
Coordinated of the Humanities Department Colloquium Series, 1997-98, Michigan Technological
University. Wrote proposals for funding; made arrangements for guest speakers' lodging, meals,
and presentations; took care of publicity for speakers; wrote status reports; and kept track of the
budget.
Served on the STC Committee, 1997 to present, Michigan Technological University.
Supervised GTAs who teach HU333 (Scientific and Technical Communication), 1997-1999,
Michigan Technological University. Worked with them and others to develop an assessment
instrument and policy for the course and to rewrite a manual on the teaching of technical
communication.
Northern Illinois University
ƒ Elected member of the English Department Council for Spring 1997, Northern Illinois University.
ƒ Coordinated Writing Across the Curriculum, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1994-Spring 1997.
Involved hiring GTAs as writing consultants, setting up workshops for faculty, keeping a budget
of over $50K, setting up and maintaining a web-based archive of WAC materials.
ƒ Served on English Department Assessment Committee, Northern Illinois University, Fall Spring
1996.
ƒ Served on English Department Graduate Committee, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1995Spring 1997.
ƒ Served on English Department Search Committee, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1995-Spring
1996.
ƒ Served on General Education Committee, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1994-Spring 1996.
ƒ Served on University Assessment Committee, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1994-1995.
Graduate Committees
ƒ Directed William Williamson's Ph.D. Dissertation, Completed Spring 2000, MTU
ƒ Directed Jim Cichoracki's Ph.D. Dissertation, Completed Spring 1998, MTU
ƒ Served on Gordon Coonfield's Ph. D. Dissertation Committee, Completed Fall 2003, MTU
ƒ Served on Arthur Grant's Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Completed Fall 1999, Northern Illinois U.
ƒ Served on Pete Praetorious' Ph. D. Dissertation committee, Completed Spring 2000, MTU
ƒ Served on Margaret FalerSweany's Ph.D. Dissertation committee until Fall 2000, MTU
ƒ Served on John Harrison Carpenter's Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Completed Spring 2001, MTU
ƒ Served on Tracy Bridgeford's Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Completed Fall 2001, MTU
ƒ Served on Charles Fierz's Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Spring 1997, NIU
ƒ Served on Wenjun Jin's Ph.D Dissertation Committee, Spring 1996, NIU
ƒ Serve on Nancy Hoft Ph.D. comprehensive committee, Fall 2001, MTU
ƒ Served on Gordon Coonfield's Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee, Fall 2000, MTU
ƒ Served on Christa Albrecht-Crane's Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee, Fall 1999, MTU
ƒ Served on Jim Cichoracki's Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee, Fall 1994
ƒ Served on Arthur Grant's Ph.D. comprehensive exam committee, Spring 1995, NIU
ƒ Served on Shawn Fisher’s Masters Thesis Committee, NDSU, Fall 2004
ƒ Served on Marcia Lundberg’s Masters Thesis Committee, NDSU, Fall 2004
ƒ Served on Ginger Anderson's Masters Project Committee, Spring 1999, MTU
ƒ Served on Hao Lu's Masters Project Committee, Fall 1999, MTU
ƒ Served on Katsuki Nagotomi's Masters Thesis Committee, Fall 1999, MTU
ƒ Served on Chrystal Holombo's Masters Project Committee, Spring 1998, MTU
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Served on Sook Fun's Masters Thesis Committee, Spring 1991, MTU
Served on Dennis Walikainen's Masters Thesis Committee, Spring 1991, MTU
Served on Carol Brown's Masters Thesis Committee, Spring 1991, MTU
Served on Marsha Penti's Masters Thesis Committee, Spring 1991, MTU
Local Community Service
ƒ Member of the Clara Barton Neighborhood Association, Fargo, ND, 2004 to 2005.
ƒ Selection Committee member for Copper Country Habitat for Humanity, Spring 2000 to Spring
2002.
ƒ Invited speaker to the Hancock Home Study Club, April 1999.
ƒ Invited speaker on Religion and Technology, Fireside Chat. Portage Lake United Church, 1/24/99.
ƒ Invited speaker to the Lutheran Interfaith Seminary, The C. S. Lewis Centenary Celebration: 1898
- 1998. 11/29/98.
ƒ Invited presenter on Writing Across the Curriculum for Educator's Ecology Institute, June 1998.
ƒ Invited Consultant for Science and Technology Literacy Program; Rockford Public Schools.
Rockford IL. Spring 1996-Spring 1997.
ƒ North Central Accreditation Visiting Team. Grayslake Community High School. Grayslake, IL.
March 1997.
ƒ Invited Participant in literacy discussion group, chaired by Alan Purves, Albany, NY, Spring
1987.
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Curriculum Vitae
Gary Totten
Department of English
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
(701) 231-7158
[email protected]
459 Birch Lane
Moorhead, MN 56560
(218) 233-8591
Education
Ph.D. English, Ball State University, July 1998
M.A. English, Brigham Young University, August 1993
B.A. Humanities (Magna Cum Laude), Brigham Young University, December 1990
Dissertation
The Eyewitness in American Specular Narrative: Empiricism, Representation, and the Gaze
Director: Patti White; Committee Members: Lauren Onkey, Lee Papa, Beverley Pitts
Teaching & Research Interests
late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, travel writing, multi-ethnic
American literature, narrative and cultural theory, material culture
Publications (published or in press)
Books:
Totten, Gary, ed. Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture.
Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007.
Articles and Book Chapters:
---. “Critical Reception and Cultural Capital: Edith Wharton as a Short Story Writer.” Pedagogy (2007)
(in press, 25 manuscript pages)
---. “Southernizing Travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington’s The Man Farthest Down.”
MELUS (2007). (in press, 34 manuscript pages)
---. “Teaching Travel Writing as Life Writing.” Approaches to Teaching Life Writing. Eds. Craig
Howes and Miriam Fuchs. New York: MLA, 2007. (in press, 12 manuscript pages)
---. “Introduction: Edith Wharton and Material Culture.” Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith
Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Totten. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007. 1-16.
---. “The Machine in the Home: Women and Technology in The Fruit of the Tree.” Memorial Boxes
and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Totten. Tuscaloosa: U of
Alabama P, 2007. 237-64.
---. “‘American Seen’: The Road and the Look of American Culture in Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday,”
American Literary Realism 39.1 (Fall 2006): 24-47.
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Publications (cont.)
---“Dreiser and the Writing Market: New Letters on the Publication History of Jennie Gerhardt.”
Dreiser Studies 36.1 (Summer 2005): 28-48.
---. “Zitkala-Sa and the Problem of Regionalism: Nations, Narratives, and Critical Traditions.”
American Indian Quarterly 29.1/2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 84-123.
---. “Ideology and Aesthetics in Teaching Gilman’s Works.” Approaches to Teaching Gilman’s “The
Yellow Wall-Paper” and Herland. Eds. Denise Knight and Cynthia Davis. New York:
MLA, 2003. 26-31.
---. “An Ordinary Tourist: Cultural Vision and Narrative Form in Dreiser’s A Traveler at Forty.”
Dreiser Studies 33.3 (Fall 2002): 21-39.
---. “Simone de Beauvoir’s America Day by Day: Reel to Real.” Issues in Travel Writing:
Displacement, Empire, and Spectacle. Ed. Kristi Siegel. New York: Peter Lang, 2002: 135-49.
---. “The Art and Architecture of the Self: Designing the ‘I’-Witness in Edith Wharton’s The House of
Mirth.” College Literature 27.3 (Fall 2000): 71-87.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
---. “Critical Editions of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: Theoretical and Pedagogical
Considerations.” American Literary Naturalism Newsletter 1.2 (2007): 16-21.
---. Rev. of Stepping Twice Into the River: Following Dakota Waters, by Robert King. Great Plains
Quarterly 26.4 (Fall 2006): 293-4.
Notes and Encyclopedia Entries:
---. “A Cabin in the Clearing,” “Iota Subscript,” “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep,” and “Revelation.” The
Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Eds. Nancy Tuten and John Zubizarreta. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 2001: 48-49, 172-73, 226-27, 304.
---. “The Field of Study.” PMLA 115.7 (December 2000): 2021.
Teaching Experience: North Dakota State University
Associate Professor, 2007-present; Assistant Professor, 2004-2007
20th C. American Writers: Reading and Writing Nation, 1900-1950 (Eng 472/672)
The American Road Book (Eng 499/696)
The Harlem Renaissance (Eng 475/675)
Reading and Writing the Black Atlantic (Honors Eng 111; Eng 345)
Edith Wharton and Material Culture (Eng 770)
American Literature I & II (Eng 261 & 262)
Nineteenth Century American Novel (Eng 340)
Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Eng 358)
Literary Theory (Eng 271)
Teaching Experience: Concordia College
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The American Mosaic: Multicultural Literature of the Americas (Eng 223)
The Literature of the American Road (Eng 380)
Native American Literature (Eng 358)
Honors Seminar: Critical Theory and the State of the Discipline (Eng 471)
American Literature to 1900 (Eng 353)
American Literature since 1900 (Eng 355)
Study Abroad Seminar, Paris, France: American Writers in Paris (Eng 355)
Travel Literature and Criticism (Eng 480)
Expository Writing (Discourse 101)
Argumentative Writing (Discourse 102)
The Research Paper (Discourse 103)
Principia: Introduction to the Liberal Arts (Principia 101)
Awards & Honors
Vogel Teaching Award, North Dakota State University English Department, 2007
Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship, North Dakota Humanities Council, 2005-2006
Centennial Scholars Research Grant (with two students), Concordia College, 2002-2003
Summer Study Grant, Concordia College, 2001
Dovre Center Grant, Concordia College, 2001
Centennial Scholars Individual Research Grant, Concordia College, 2000-2001
Selected Conference Presentations
“Body, Text, and Travel in Dreiser’s American Diaries and A Hoosier Holiday,” American Literature
Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007
“Florida’s New Frontier and the Re-Making of America: Nation, Culture, and Progress in Dreiser’s
Florida Travel Diary,” International Society for Travel Writing Conference, Denver, CO,
September 28-October 1, 2006
“Technologies of Uplift: Race and Beauty in Wharton’s Twilight Sleep,” Modern Language Association
Conference, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2005
“The Critics, The Canon, and Cultural Capital: Edith Wharton as a Short Story Writer,” American
Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 28-30, 2005
“‘Traveling Through the Ruins of Western Civilization’: Pilgrimage and Manifest Destiny in
Contemporary Native American Literature,” International Travel Writing Society Conference,
Milwaukee, WI, October 21-24, 2004
“Cultivating a Cultural Vision: Dreiser’s The Color of a Great City,” American Literature Association
Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2004
Selected Conference Presentations (cont.)
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“Teaching the Post-nationalist Road Narrative,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego,
CA, December 27-30, 2003
“The Machine in the Home: Labor and Technology in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree,”
American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 22-25, 2003
“The Post-nationalist American Road: Travels with Renee Tajima-Pena and Chris Eyre,” Red River
Conference on World Literature, Fargo, ND, April 25-27, 2003
“Zitkala-Sa and the Problem of Regionalism,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, November 8-10, 2002
“Re-writing Travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington’s The Man Farthest Down,” Modern
Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, December 27-30, 2001
“Intangible Return: Physical Disembodiment and Cultural Estrangement in Simone de Beauvoir’s
America Day by Day,” Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA,
December 27-30, 2001
“Inhospitable Splendor: Spectacles of Consumer Culture in Edith Wharton’s Summer,” American
Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 24-28, 2001
“Realism as Narrative: The ‘Fleshly Gaze’ and the Problem of Representation in James’ The Spoils of
Poynton,” American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, CA, May 25-28, 2000
“American Seen: The Postcard and the Traveler’s Gaze in Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday,” Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Santa Fe, NM, October 14-16, 1999
“Specular Subjectivity, Self-Design, and the Auto-Gaze: Lily Bart’s ‘Aesthetics of Self,’” Twentieth
Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 28, 1998
Other Presentations & Workshops
“Travel, Tourism, and American Culture: Theodore Dreiser’s American Travel Diaries, 1916-1926,”
Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship Lecture, Heritage Center, Bismarck, ND (February 2006);
Barnes County Historical Society, Valley City, ND (April 2006); NDSU, Fargo, ND (April
2006); Williston State College, Williston, ND (May 2006)
“Race, History, Literature,” Interdisciplinary Program Retreat, English and History Departments,
with Joy Lintelman, Concordia College, June 2003
“Teaching Race,” Faculty Brown Bag Lunch Series, Concordia College, February 2002
Professional Development
Anti-Racism Team Retreat, North Dakota State University, October 2005; August 2006
Pedagogy Workshops, North Dakota State University, August 2005
Vocational Advising Workshop, Concordia College, October 2003
Professional Development (cont.)
First-Year Experience Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 2003
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Human Relations Anti-Racism Training, Moorhead, MN, March 2003
Anti-Racism Workshops, Concordia College, August 2001; June 2002; February 2004
Using Small Groups in the Classroom, Concordia College, June 2001
Latino Unity Conference, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN, April 2001
Professional Service
National/International
Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group on Travel Literature, 2005-2010
Executive Board, Edith Wharton Society, 2007-9
Referee, College Literature, 2000-present
Referee, American Literary Realism, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Ascent, 2000-2002
Contributor, William Dean Howells Online Bibliography, 1998-2002
North Dakota State University
University Anti-Racism Team, 2004-present
College of Art, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Student Progress Committee, 2005-2008
English Department Graduate Studies Committee, 2004-present
English Department Curriculum Committee, 2004-present
English Department American Literature Working Group, 2004-2005
English Department Vertical Writing Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006
Concordia College
Chair, College Academic Advisement Committee, 2003-2004
Faculty Advisor, New Voices (student journal of academic writing), 2003-2004
Anti-Racism Task Force, 2002-2004
Learning Community Consultant (First-Year Experience), 2002-2004
English Department Literature Committee, 2001-2004
First-Year Experience Coordinating Committee, 2000-2004
Chair, English Department Literature Major Assessment, 2000-2001
Editor, Concordia College Background Document for Strategic Planning, 2001
Faculty Mentor, Orientation, 2000, 2003
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
International Travel Writing Society
International Theodore Dreiser Society
Edith Wharton Society
Christina D. Weber
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Emergency Management
North Dakota State University
PO Box 5075
Fargo, ND 58105
(701) 231-8928
[email protected]
Education:
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Ph.D., 2005: Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY)—University at Buffalo.
M.A., 2001: Sociology, SUNY—University at Buffalo.
B.A., 1999: Sociology, Minor Germanics, University of Washington, cum laude.
Professional Employment History:
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2005-Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Emergency
Management, North Dakota State University.
2001-2005: Instructor, Department of Sociology, (SUNY)—University at Buffalo.
2001-2003: Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, (SUNY)—University at Buffalo.
2000-2002: Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, (SUNY)—University at Buffalo.
Research and Scholarly Activities:
Publications:
• Christina Weber. Forthcoming. “Interrogating the Social Monad Through Jonathan Safran Foer’s,
Everything is Illuminated. In Argument Le Texte ed. Florent Gaudez. Paris: L’Harmattan.
• Christina Weber. 2003. “Reading Lives as a Palimpsest: A Reconsideration of the Interpretation
Process.” Proteus, October.
• Christina Weber. 2003. “Love” entry in Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical
Encyclopedia. Eds. Michael S. Kimmel & Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.
• Christina Weber. 2002. Book Review—Imagining the Modern City by James Donald. Urban
Affairs Review, 37:3.
Submitted for Publication:
• Christina Weber, “Global Power Relations and Representations of Trauma: An Analysis of
11’09”01, September 11.”
• Christina Weber, “Literary Fiction as a Tool for Teaching Social Theory and Critical
Consciousness.”
• Christina Weber, “‘Awkward Anxiety’: Ambivalent Expressions of Masculine Subjectivity.”
• Christina Weber, The Traffic in Social Memory: The Vietnam War’s Second Generation, book
manuscript.
Work in Progress:
• Christina Weber and Heather Gill-Robinson, “Surviving Cultural Representation: Exploring the
Impact of “Survivor” on Cross-Cultural Relations.”
• Christina Weber, “Thirty-Something Masculinity in Film: Some Preliminary Assessments.”
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Colloquia, Papers and Presentations:
• “Social Memory and the Shaping of American Masculine Identity: An Analysis of War Veteran
Memoirs.” Celebrating Memory: The 50th Anniversary of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and
North Dakota, September 2007—Fargo, ND. [to be presented]
• “Shifting Discourses of Trauma: Comparing Narratives of Veterans of the Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq
Wars.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Conference, April 2007—Chicago, IL.
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“Teaching Feminist Theory & Discourse.” Red River Women’s Studies Conference, October
2006, Moorhead, MN.
• “Surviving Cultural Representation: Exploring the Impact of “Survivor” on Cross-Cultural
Relations.” Co-presented with Heather Gill-Robinson. North Dakota University System Arts &
Humanities Summit, October 2006—Fargo, ND.
• “Understanding the Civil-Military Gap Through the Family Program of the North Dakota National
Guard.” Great Plains Sociological Society Annual Conference, October 2006—Grand Forks, ND.
• “Interrogating the Social Monad Through Jonathan Safran Foer’s, Everything is Illuminated.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August, 2006—Montreal, Canada.
• “Negotiating the Past in the Present: The Social Monad as Collective Memory.” Crossroads in
Cultural Studies: Sixth International Conference, July 2006—Istanbul, Turkey.
• “Exploring the Social Monad: Some Methodological & Epistemological Concerns.” Midwest
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, March 2006—Omaha, NE.
• “Visualizing Trauma through Multiple (Re)Presentations: An Analysis of 11’09”01—September
11.” Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror: Annual Conference on Literature and Film,
February 2006—Tallahassee, FL.
• “Traumatic Gaps in the Vietnam War Film.” War in Film, Television and History: Annual
Conference of the History & Film League, November 2004—Dallas, TX.
• “Converging Interests: Intergenerational Transmissions of Trauma.” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, August 2004—San Francisco, CA.
• “Transmissions of Trauma: Articulating the Silent Present.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Fifth
International Conference, June 2004—Urbana-Champaign, IL.
• “Remembering Antigone: Our Generational & Familial Relationship with War & Violence.”
Achilles in Iraq: The Contribution of Greece in Understandings of War and Peace Conference,
April 2004—University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO.
• “Children of Vietnam Veterans: Exploring Generational Effects of War Trauma.” Graduate School
of Education Graduate Student Symposium, April 2004—University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
• “Imagining the Masculine Subject: Analyzing Murder, Violence and Death in Vietnam War
Photographs.” American Studies Association Annual Conference, October 2003—Hartford, CT.
• “Historical Trauma: Looking at the Vietnam War through Narratives of Children of Vietnam
Veterans.” Critical Moments Conference, March 2003—Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
• “A Consideration of Subjectivity in the Process of Interpreting the Lives of Children of Vietnam
Veterans.” Department of Sociology Graduate Student Colloquium, March, 2003—University at
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
• “Interpreting the War Photo: Casting a Different Gaze Upon the Body.” Intensities Conference,
January 2003—York University, Toronto, ON.
• “The War Machine: Casting a Different Gaze on Masculinity.” Department of Sociology Graduate
Student Colloquium, April 2002—University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
• “’Jacob’s Ladder’: A Journey Through the Hauntings of a Vortical History.” Imaginations,
Negotiations, Boundaries: Rethinking the Social, Graduate Student Conference, April 2001—
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
• “On Being and Becoming: Writing the Woman into the Girl.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, August 2000—Washington, DC.
Unpublished Papers:
• “Constructing the Masculine Subject,” Department of Sociology, SUNY—University at Buffalo,
2002, Qualifying Paper.
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“Conceptualizing a Vortical History: Narrative Negotiations of Vietnam Veterans,” Department of
Sociology, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2001, Masters Project.
Employment History:
Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University, 2005-Present:
Spring 2007
• SOC 115: Social Problems
• SOC 410: Social Inequality
• SOC 610: Social Inequality
Fall 2006
• SOC 412: Sociology of Sex Roles
• SOC 422: History and Development of Social Theory
• SOC 612: Sociology of Sex Roles
• SOC 622: History and Development of Social Theory
Spring 2006
• SOC 115: Social Problems
• SOC 424: Feminist Theory and Discourse
• SOC 624: Feminist Theory and Discourse
Fall 2005
• SOC 410: Social Inequality
• SOC 422: History and Development of Social Theory
• SOC 610: Social Inequality
• SOC 622: History and Development of Social Theory
Instructor, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2001-2005:
Spring 2004
• SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory
Fall 2004
• SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory
• SOC 335: Sociology of Adolescence
Summer 2004
• SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory
Spring 2004
• SOC 314: Sociology of Gender
Fall 2003
• SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory
• SOC 350: Contemporary Sociological Theory
Summer 2003
• SOC 293: Research Methods
Spring 2003
• SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory
• SOC 370: ST: Sociology of Culture
Fall 2002
• SOC 314: Sociology of Gender
Summer 2002
• SOC 335: Sociology of Adolescence
Spring 2002
• SOC 314: Sociology of Gender
Fall 2001
• SOC 371: Individual and Society
Teaching Assistant, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2000-2002:
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Fall 2002, SOC 309: Introduction to Social Change, Dr. Jorge Arditi.
Fall 2001, SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology, Dr. Christopher Mele.
Summer 2001, SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology, Dr. Christopher Mele.
Spring 2001, SOC 314: Sociology of Gender, Dr. Natasha Kraus.
Fall 2000, SOC 349: History & Development of Sociological Theory, Dr. Natasha Kraus, SOC
440: Theories of Gender, Dr. Natasha Kraus.
Research Assistant, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2001-2003:
Summer 2001 & Summer-Fall 2002:
Dr. Natasha Kraus: “Sexuality and the Governess”: I organized primary source documents, creating
thematic areas for a database.
Spring 2002 & Spring 2003:
Dr. Tai Kang: “Summer Institute in Advanced Statistics and Methods Workshop”: I was the administrator
for two workshops. I developed advertising and maintained enrollment of the participants.
Professional Development:
•Columbia University Oral History Workshop, Summer 2003.
Professional Service & Associations:
Professional Service:
• Organizer & Presider, Session on Remembering and Forgetting: Exploring the Relationship
Between Memory and Subjectivity, Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Sixth International
Conference, July 2006—Istanbul, Turkey.
• Faculty Sponsor, Feminist Majority Student Organization, North Dakota State University, 2006.
• Graduate Student Member, Steering Committee, Gender Institute, SUNY—University at Buffalo,
2003 through 2005.
• Co-Organizer, “Gender in Global Perspectives Film Series,” part of the Gender Institute’s Gender
Week Activities, September, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2002.
Professional Associations:
• Member of Association for Cultural Studies, 2004-Present
• Member of American Sociological Association 2000-2 & 2003-Present
• Member of Midwest Sociological Society, 2006-Present
• Member of Pacific Sociological Society, 2007-Present
• Member of Great Plains Sociological Society, 2005-Present
• Member of History & Film League, 2004-Present
• Member of American Studies Association 2003-2005
Honors & Awards:
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College of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2004-5
Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Students, SUNY—University at Buffalo, 2004
American Sociological Association Honors Program, 2000.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1999.
Golden Key Honor Society, 1999.
Howard B. Woolston Award for Academic Excellence in Sociology, University of Washington,
1999.
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