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Derek N. MuellerAssociate Professor of Written Communication
Director of the First-year Writing Program Department of English Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University 613M Pray Harrold, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
[email protected] @derekmueller +1-734-985-0485
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Associate Professor of Written Communication Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2014-
Director of the First-year Writing Program Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan
University, 2013-
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Syracuse University, 2004-2009
Dissertation: "Clouds, Graphs, and Maps: Distant Reading andDisciplinary Imagination" Committee: Collin G. Brooke (chair),Rebecca M. Howard, Louise W. Phelps, Alex Reid, and Anne F. Wysocki
Certificate in University Teaching (Future Professoriate Program)
Exam areas: Writing Technologies, Tools-in-use: Ecologies andAffordances, and Visuality and New Media
Master of Arts, English University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998-2000
Concentration in rhetoric and composition
Bachelor of Arts, English Park College, 1992-1996, Summa cum laude
PROFESSIONALHISTORY
Assistant Professor of Written Communication Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2009-2014
Associate Director of the First-year Writing Program Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, 2012-2013
Graduate Teaching Associate The Writing Program, Syracuse University, 2004-2009
Senior Part-time Instructor, English and Humanities
Park University, 2000-2009
Online Course Developer Park University, 2001-2009
Asst. Director of Athletics/Sports Information
Park University, 1997-2004
Part-time Instructor University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000
Assoc. Director of Professional Development for Graduate Teaching Assistants
English Dept., Missouri-Kansas City, 1999-2000
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TEACHING ANDRESEARCH AREAS
Theories and practices ofcompositionResearch methods andmethodologiesNew media and digital writingNetwork studiesWriting pedagogiesGeography and mapping
Digital humanitiesInformation design and datavisualizationComputational rhetoricsDiscourse analysis and distantreadingHeuretic/alien/aerialdiscipliniography
ScholarlyActivity
PUBLICATIONS Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies co-authored with Jennifer Clary-Lemon,Louise Wetherbee Phelps, and Andrea Williams. Anderson, SC: Inkshed/Parlor P,2017.
"Polymorphic Frames of Pre-tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity andPronoia," co-authored with Laura Davies, Matt Dowell, Alanna Frost, Mike Garcia,Rik Hunter, and Kate Pantelides, Kairos 21.1 (August 2016). Web.
"Eight Years a "Wooden Opponent": Genre Change (and its Lack) in Campus TimelyWarnings," co-authored with Kate Pantelides and Gabe Green, Present Tense 5.3(May 2016). Web.
"Mapping the Resourcefulness of Sources: A Worknet Pedagogy," Composition Forum32 (Fall 2015). Web.
"How to Travel in Time," audio cut-up for "William S. Burroughs Teaches Writing"Response, Enculturation (Feb. 2015). Web.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses,1977-2011." Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012.Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, and Heather Christiansen, eds. Anderson, SC: ParlorP, 2014. Print. Rpt. of "Views from a Distance," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
"Lessons in Generative Design, Publishing, and Circulation: What EM-Journal’sFirst Year Has Taught Us," co-developed with Jana Rosinski, Becky Morrison,Chelsea Lonsdale, and Adam Nannini, Kairos 17.2 (Jan. 2013). Web.
"Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell UsAbout the Field's Changing Shape," College Composition and Communication 64.1(Sept. 2012): 195-223. PDF
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses,1977-2011," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
"Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," Kairos 16.2 (Jan.2012). Web.
"Distant Reading Methods: How (and Why) to Read 400 Scholarly Articles in OneSitting," SP: Language and Social Processes AERA SIG 32.1 (Spring 2011): 15-16.PDF
Rev. of Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, co-authored withAngelique Trent for Composition Forum 22 (Summer 2010). Web.
"Every Mad Scientist Needs a Tower, a Monster, and a Telegraph Wire: Blogs asResearch and Pedagogy Laboratories for Graduate Students," co-authored withKrista A. Kennedy for Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development onGraduate Students. Eds. Andréa D. Davis and Suzanne Webb. X ser. Southlake, TX:Fountainhead P, 2017. 139-154.
"Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom," Computers andComposition 26.4 (Dec. 2009): 240-250. PDF
Rev. of The Economics of Attention by Richard A. Lanham, JAC 28.1-2 (2008): 328-335. PDF
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"Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts," ComposingOurselves, 4.2, Missouri-Kansas City, Winter 1999
ACTIVE & IN-PROGRESS
"Across Thresholds with Methods and Time," chapter-in-progress for ConsideringWhat We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies.
"Big Time Disciplinarity and Its Professional Consequences," co-authoredchapter-in-progress with Kate Pantelides for Composition as Big Data.
Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline, #writing Series, WACClearinghouse (under contract/ms. in final production, due out Fall 2017)
"New Materialisms, Networks, and Humanities Research," co-authored with JenniferBay, Laurie Gries, and Nathaniel Rivers (accepted in edited collection, 20+ ms.pp.; volume in production)
INTERVIEW & PRESS "The Source Awakens: An Interview with Derek Mueller," by Eric Detweiler, Feb.16, 2017, Rhetoricity
"Rebranding the Bronx: Why Do Electeds Keep Bringing Up the Bad Old Days?," bySarina Trangle, Sept. 20, 2016, City & State New York
"Does NYC's Quest for Data Actually Offer Any Insight?," by Sarina Trangle, Aug.12, 2015, City & State New York
"Episode 19: Dimensions of Data: Visual Disciplinography," by Jana Rosinski,Feb. 28, 2014, This Rhetorical Life, Syracuse University
EDITORIAL Sponsoring Editor and Faculty Advisor, EM—Journal, 2011-2014.
Editorial Assistant, College Composition and Communication, 2005-2009 Responsible for CCC Online Archive with Associate Editor, Collin Brooke.
Technical Editor, Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache All-in-One, 4thEd., for Pearson Education, Inc., 2008.
GRANTS & AWARDS Catch the Spirit Award, Native Vision, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian
Health, 2016
Women in Philanthropy Grant, "Developing and Leading a Life Skills Workshop forNative Youth," for 2016 Native Vision camp in Okmulgee, Okla., with MichelleLietz ($3,500), Eastern Michigan University, 2015-16
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Enacting the First-Year Writing ProgramAssessment Initiative (Phase Four - Final)," with Kate Pantelides ($5,000),Eastern Michigan University, 2014-15
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Enacting the First-Year Writing ProgramAssessment Initiative," with Kate Pantelides ($5,000), Eastern MichiganUniversity, 2013-14
Dean's Program Development Initiative, "Proposal for a Peer Tutoring Initiativeat EMU: A Collaboration Between the University Writing Center, the EnglishDepartment and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program," with Ann Blakeslee,Cathy Fleischer, and Kim Pavlock ($2,000), Eastern Michigan University, 2011
Provost's New Faculty Research Support Award ($4,969 grant to fund research),Eastern Michigan University, 2010
CCR Dissertation Oral Defense, Passed with distinction, 2009 CCR Qualifying Exams, Passed with distinction, 2007
Teaching Assistant Superior Teaching Award, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998,
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1999 Sosland Teaching Award, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"The States and Futures of Digital Rhetorics," roundtable/fishbowl (upcoming)May 31-June 3, 2018, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, Minn.
"Illustrating Who We Are Made Of: Literacy Sponsor Avatars as ArticulatingPresences Unseen," (upcoming) March 15, 2018, Conference on College Compositionand Communication, Kansas City, Mo.
"Network Sense at Nascency," October 28, 2017, Western States Rhetoric andLiteracy Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Winding Again the Affiliate's Watch: A Michigan WPA Rebeginning and Roundtable,September 30, 2017, Corridors: The Great Lakes Rhetoric and Writing Conference,Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
"The Messy and Complex Middle Ground Between Method and Methodology: AConversation on Research," Think Tank Session, March 16, 2017, Conference onCollege Composition and Communication, Portland, Ore.
"In the Dust of this Writing Program," October 15, 2016, WIDE-EMU Conference,Ypsilanti, Mich.
"Worknets as Rhetorical Invention," Designing a WAC Institute for ModalDiversity, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Roundtable,June 23, 2016, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Chreodic Build-up: Planning and Enacting a Networked Methodological Approach,"April 8, 2016, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston,Texas
"Turn Spotting: Tracing Keywords Across an Expanding Disciplinary Lexicon,"October 30-31, 2015, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Tempe,Arizona
"Threshold Concepts and the Inevitability of Transgressive Invitation," October10, 2015, WIDE-EMU Conference, East Lansing, Mich.
"Meh Admin: The Generative Potential of Ambivalence," July 17, 2015, WritingProgram Administrators Conference, Boise, Idaho
"Keywords in Threshold Concepts: Time-Binding and Methodologizing DisciplinaryLexicon," March 20, 2015, poster presentation, Conference on College Compositionand Communication, Tampa, Fla.
"Program-Responsive Assessment Design: A Report on the First-year WritingProgram's Assessment Initiative," with Kate Pantelides. October 31, 2014,Eastern Michigan University 2014 Assessment Forum, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"Mad Handles," E.17 Polymorphic Frames of Pre-Tenure WPAs: Eight Accounts ofHybridity and Pronoia, Thursday, March 20, Conference on College Composition andCommunication, Indianapolis, Ind. (review, review)
"Emplaced Disciplinary Networks from Middle Altitude," Interdependencies andCross-Pollination between Canadian and U.S. Writing Studies: ExaminingTransnational Relationships through Distant and Close Methodologies, WritingResearch Across Borders, Symposium W9, February 22, 2014, Paris, France(handout)
"Dissoi Ecologoi: Differential Rhetorical Ecologies and Prospective Appeals,"Latour’s Compositionism and the Angel of History, Friday, April 26, 2013,HASTAC, Toronto, Ont.
"Considerations of Research Design and Analyzing Large Data Sets in the 2012Master's Degree Consortium Survey," L.18 Respondent, Saturday, March 16, 2013,Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nev.
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"Cross-Generational Connections among Retired Faculty, Retiring Faculty, and theEmergent Professoriate: Beginning a Conversation," E.01 Facilitator, FeaturedSession, Thursday, March 14, 2013, Conference on College Composition andCommunication, Las Vegas, Nev.
"Alien Discipliniography: Visualization Methods for an Ontographic View ofRhetoric and Composition," Networked Relations: New Materialist Contributions tothe Digital Humanities February 16, 2013, Networked Humanities Conference,#nhuk, Lexington, Ky.
"Clocking Composition: Exploring Chronography with Timeline JS," Oct. 20, 2012 With Jana Rosinski and Joe Torok. WIDE-EMU Conference, East Lansing, Mich.
"Sifting for Worm Turns: Thirty Keywords over Two Decades in College Compositionand Communication," March 22, 2012
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Mo.
"Lessons in Generative Design, Publishing, and Circulation: What EM-Journal’sFirst Year Has Taught Us," March 22, 2012
Poster presentation with Becky Morrison, Jana Rosinski, Adam Nannini, andChelsea Lonsdale, Conference on College Composition and Communication, St.Louis, Mo.
"The EM-Journal Experiment: Selected Lessons in Launching and Maintaining anOnline Journal," March 2, 2012
Poster presentation with Becky Morrison, Jana Rosinski, and Chelsea Lonsdale,Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters, Alma College, Alma, Mich.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model," December 3, 2011 Poster presentation, HASTAC V, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"The Hyper-Circumference of Effectiveness in 3…2…1… FTL Jumps," Oct. 15, 2011 WIDE-EMU Conference, Ypsilanti, Mich.
"CCC In Motion: Twenty Terms Over Twenty Years," May 20, 2011 Panel: "Motion, Media, Method, Materiality"
Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Cloud Parallax," April 9, 2011 Roundtable: "A Department in Exile: The Challenges of Contested Spaces and
Roles" Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Ga.
"Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," April 7, 2011 Poster presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Atlanta, Ga.
THATCamp—Chicago, November 20, 2010 The Humanities and Technology Camp, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill.
"I'll Have What You're Having: Delicious Mentorship 2.0 Ways," May 22, 2010 Computers and Writing Conference, West Lafayette, Ind.
"When the Last Database You Search Is Not Your Own," March 18, 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Ky. (Review)
"1987: A Choragraphic Return to North's Neighborhood," March, 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, Calif.
"Sweding a Scholarly Journal: Metadata, Digitization, and Whatever You Have OnHand," October 17, 2008
Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Ky.
"Automata for the Archive: A Machinery for Distant Reading," May 25, 2008 Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Wash.
"Everywhere Drafting: A Thick Map," May 23, 2008 Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Wash.
"Visualizing Disciplinary Patterns: Distant Reading Methods and CompositionStudies," April 11, 2008
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Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, N.Y.
"How Archives Learn: Tagging Practices and the Circulation of Digital Archives,"April 4, 2008
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, La.
"Blogging and the Orchestration of Attention It Demands," May, 2007 Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, Mich.
"Clouds, Graphs, and Maps: CCC From a Distance," March 24, 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Featured Session, New York,
N.Y.
"Digital Underlife and Writing Instruction," July 24-27, 2006 Virtual Reality in Real Life Conference, SUNY-Cortland, Online
"Mirror, Mirror on the Web: The Evolution of CCC Online," March, 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Ill.
"Networked Writing as Micro-Monument: The Long Tail's Nested Memoria," October,2005
Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.
"Weblogs and Emergence: Opening Gestures in Networked Spaces," April, 2005 Humanities, Arts and Technosciences (CHATS) Conference, Albany, N.Y.
"Ping! Re-Addressing Audience in the Blogosphere," March, 2005
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, Calif.
"Competing Voices in Anna McAfee's Lectures to Young Women," April, 2000 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, Minn.
"Challenging Literacy: Student Readers and Difficult Texts," February, 2000 Missouri Write to Learn Conference, Osage Beach, Mo.
WORKSHOPS &
INVITEDPRESENTATIONS
"What Source Entanglement Teaches," November 9, 2017 (upcoming), invitedpresentation and workshop, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Mich.
"The Inventive Edges of Academic Sources," October 13, 2017. With Rachel Gramer,invited presentation and workshop, Saginaw Valley State University, Mich.
"Data Visualization Methods," July 27, 2017. Invited presentation (Skype) forKairosCamp, West Virginia University.
"Writing Desert Survival Kit," June 24, 2017. Invited presentation and workshopfor Mapping Terrains and Navigating Bridges: Preparing Students to TransferWriting Knowledge, hosted by Macomb Community College, Warren, Mich.
"Veering Operations," May 8, 2017. Invited presentation and workshop, Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Reading and Writing with Worknets," May 4, 2017. Invited workshop for theAdvanced Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University.
"Standing on the Shoulders of Networks," March 3, 2017. Invited presentation andworkshop, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
"In Walks a Snowflake," January 20, 2017. Invited keynote for the 2017 AcademicSuccess Partnerships Scholars' Banquet, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,Mich.
"Teaching with Canvas," Sept. 1, 2016. Workshop for faculty, instructors, andgraduate assitants in English Language and Literature, Eastern MichiganUniversity.
"Mapping Worknets," May 5, 2016. Invited workshop for the Advanced WritingAcross the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Disciplinary Discourse Networks 1984/2014," March 4, 2016. Invited presentationand workshop for the Peck Composition Series, Middle Tennessee State University,
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Murfreesboro, Tenn.
"Mapping Worknets," May 7, 2015. Invited workshop for the Advanced WritingAcross the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"Meandering Pathways, Strange Turns: Visualization Methods for HeureticalDiscipliniography," April 17, 2015. Invited plenary presentation and workshopfor the second annual Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Worskhop, SyracuseUniversity
"Blogging as Curiosity Habit," September 12, 2014. Invited presentation (Skype)for the Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Winnipeg, MB
"Mapping Worknets," May 8, 2014. Invited workshop for the Advanced WritingAcross the Curriculum Institute, Eastern Michigan University
Co-facilitator, Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern MichiganUniversity, April 29-May 3, 2013 (Included "Writing in a Digital Age" workshop,April 30)
"Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-rich Timelines with Timeline JS," April4, 2013 Invited Digital Future Workshop for the Center for 21st Century Studies,Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Using Google Docs for Collaborative Work," May 10, 2012 Invited workshop for the Communication Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern
Michigan University
"Blogs as Scaffolding for Research Writing," May 1, 2012 Invited presentation (WI Spotlight) for the Writing Across the Curriculum
Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"A Quick Rhetoric of QR Codes," Nov. 8, 2011 Invited Tech Talk for the Art Department, Eastern Michigan University
"Technological Support for Collaborative Work," May 5, 2011 Invited workshop for the Communication Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern
Michigan University
"Google Reader Across the Curriculum," April 27, 2011 With Becky Morrison, invited workshop for the Writing Across the Curriculum
Institute, Eastern Michigan University
"How to Curate a Digital Antilibrary: An Introduction to Google Reader," Dec. 2,2010
Technovations workshop for the Nelson Faculty Dev. Center, Eastern MichiganUniversity
"The Found-Kept Web: A Delicious Workshop," April 28 & May 5, 2010 Invited workshop for the Writing Across the Curriculum Institute, Eastern
Michigan University
"Graduate Studies and Professional Ethos, Blogwise," May 2, 2009 Invited speaker (via Skype), Creating, Composing, Curating: Converging Sites of
Composition FYC Professional Development Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Podcasting: Sonic Composing," October 22, 2008 Guest presenter, CCR720: Interdisciplinary Influences on Composition and
Rhetoric: Computers and Writing, Syracuse Univ.
"Tech Camp: A Workshop on Web Writing, Image Work, and Video Production," June 17-19, 2008, Co-Facilitator, The Writing Program, Syracuse University
"Social Bookmarking in Action ," August 20, 2007 CCR Community Day Panel, "Scholarship in Action: Scholarly Perspectives II,"
Syracuse Univ.
"Blogging as a Graduate Student," October 20, 2005 Gateway Focus on Teaching Luncheon Series, "Technology to Support Student
Motivation," Syracuse Univ.
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"Quick and Dirty Research: RSS and Aggregation," August 24, 2005 Writing Program New TA Orientation, Syracuse University
"The Photographemic Map as Writable Space," August 22, 2005 CCR Community Day Panel, "Mapping Spatial and Material Conditions," Syracuse
Univ.
"Technology and the Writing Classroom," April, 1999 Composition workshop, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
Teaching
COURSES Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mi. WRTG120: Composition I: Writing the College Experience (Fall 2017)
WRTG121: Composition II: Researching the Public Experience (2 sections |syllabi)
WRTG326: Research Writing (4 sections | syllabi) WRTG328: Writing, Style, and Technology (15 sections | syllabi)
WRTG444: Writing for the World Wide Web (1 section | syllabus) WRTG499: Ind. Study: Composition as Craft (Honors Thesis) (syllabus)
WRTG499: Ind. Study: Inquiring into Digital Humanities (Honors Thesis)(syllabus)
WRTG499: Ind. Study: Digital Writing Pedagogy (Honors Thesis) (syllabus) WRTG500: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Written Communication (syllabus)
WRTG505: Rhetoric of Science and Technology (2 sections | syllabi) WRTG516: Computers and Writing: Theory and Practice (3 sections | syllabi)
WRTG527: Visual Rhetoric (syllabus) WRTG540: Visual Rhetoric and Information Design (2 sections | syllabus)
WRTG596: Teaching Composition on the College Level (4 sections | syllabi) WRTG699: Ind. Study: Felt Optics: Intersections in Affect Theory and Visual
Rhetorics WRTG699: Ind. Study: Rhetorical Genre Studies (syllabus)
UWC Faculty Consultant, Winter 2011
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. WRT105: Analysis, Argument and Academic Writing (3 sections | syllabi)
WRT195: Studio 2 for Transfer Students (1 section | syllabus) WRT205: Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing* (3 sections| syllabi )
WRT220: Writing Enrichment WRT302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing (1 section | syllabus)
WRT307: Advanced Writing Studio: Professional Writing (2 sections | syllabi) Writing Consultant, Writing Center, 2008
Park University, Parkville, Mo. EN105: Writing Strategies and Concepts* (3 sections)
EN105DL: Writing Strategies and Concepts (Online) (9 sections) EN106: Writing Purposes and Research* (4 sections)
EN106DL: Writing Purposes and Research (Online) (9 sections) EN306B: Prof. Writing in the Disciplines: Business Communications (Online) (2
sections) LS211DL: Introduction to the Humanities (Online) (10+ sections )
ML315C: Reading and Culture for International Students (1 section) PK115: Basic Skills: Writing I (2 sections)
PK116: Basic Skills: Writing II (2 sections) PK117: Principles of Composition in Review (1 section)
Writing Tutor, Academic Support Center, 2000
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. ENG110: Freshman Composition (2 sections)
ENG225: English II* (2 sections) ENG305WI: Theory and Practice of Composition (1 section)
* Taught in both conventional classrooms and computer labs. For further information: Teaching Dossier.
THESES & PROJECTS Advisor, Master's Project, "Assembling Adelon," by Brianne Radke, MA in WrittenCommunication (Teaching of Writing), 2017
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Advisor, Master's Project, "What Visual Rhetorics Need from Cultural Rhetorics:A Study of Social Justice Murals," by Ja'La Wourman, MA in Written Communication(Professional Writing), 2017
Advisor, Master's Project, "Locating Safe Spaces," by Thomas Passwater, MA inWritten Communication (Teaching of Writing), 2017
Reader, Dissertation, "Visualizing Words and Knowledge: Arts of Memory from theAgora to the Computer," by Seth D. Long, PhD in Composition and CulturalRhetoric, Syracuse University, 2015
Advisor, Master's Project, "Mapping Rhetorical Action in Controversies: Kairosand Advanced Imaging Technology," by Lisa Pignotti, MA in Written Communication(Professional Writing), 2015
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "The Show Was Yesterday: Redefining Writing andResearch Process Through Mixing and Sampling," by Gabriel Green, BA in WrittenCommunication, 2015
Advisor, Master's Project, "Stases Theory into Practice: A RhetoricalPerspective on Content- Management Systems and Writing Practices in a CorporateSetting," by Dan Lyons, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), 2014
Advisor, Master's Project, "Toward a Rhetoric of Amusement Park Maps," byDanielle Newby, MA in Written Communication (Professional Writing), 2014
Advisor, Master's Project, "The Mode and the Message: A Case Study of an OnlineOpen Letter to RIM," by Ila Coltas, MA in Written Communication (ProfessionalWriting), 2013
Advisor, Master's Project, "Technical Composition," by Jana Rosinski, MA inWritten Communication (Teaching of Writing/Professional Writing), 2013
Advisor, Master's Project, "Visualizing Present Tense: Graphing and Mapping aCorner of the Discipline," by Joe Torok, MA in Written Communication (Teachingof Writing), 2013
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "A Craft-based Composition: Expanding andForegrounding Materiality in Writing," by Chelsea Lonsdale, BA in Language,Literature, and Writing (LLW), 2012
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "A Case for Mutual Engagement: On theConsequences of Professor as Terminal Audience," by Adam Nannini, BA inLanguage, Literature, and Writing (LLW), 2012
Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, "Explorations of a Geek," by Erin C. Stratos, BAin Language, Literature, and Writing (LLW), 2011
Reader, "Something to Talk About: Rhetorical Exchanges on 'Professors StrikeBack,' from Ratemyprofessors.com," by Bushra M. Malaibari, MA in WrittenCommunication, 2010
CERTIFICATES CITI Program (Stage I RCR/IRB - Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research & Investigators, Students, and Faculty Mentors), Eastern Michigan Univ., July 2017
Future Professoriate Program (FPP), Syracuse University, 2006-2008
Online Instructor Certificate, eCollege, April, 2004
Grant Writing Certificate, Prairie Lands Writing Project, November, 2001
Online Instructor Certificate, VCampus Corporation, August, 2001
National Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, July, 1999
Service
PROFESSIONAL Advisory Board, Rhetoric I/O, 2013-
Board, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012-
Editorial Board, Enculturation, 2010-
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Online Coach, 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April-May 2017
Facilitator, Institutional and Professional, Think Tank for Newcomers, CCCC,2017
Co-organizer, WIDE-EMU Conference, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,Mich., 2016
Linked Women Pedagogues Co-design Participant, Florida State University, 2016
Research Network Forum Table Leader, Conference on College Composition andCommunication, Houston, Texas, April 2016
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication Committee, 2016
Reviewer, Special Issue on Multimodal Composition, Journal of Global Literacies,Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, April 2015
CCCC Task Force on Cross-Generational Connections, 2013-2016
Stage II Reviewer, NCTE/CCCC, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., 2013, 2014, 2017
Online Coach, 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April-May 2014
Review Board, Xchanges, 2011-2014
CCCC Nominating Committee, 2013-2014
Co-Chair, Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists, NCTE/CCCC,2011-2014
Co-organizer, WIDE-EMU Conference, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,Mich., 2013
Online Coach, 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April2013
Co-organizer, WIDE-EMU Conference, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Mich.,2012
Facilitator, Information Technologies, Think Tank for Newcomers, CCCC, 2010-2013
Co-organizer, WIDE-EMU Conference, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti,Mich., 2011
Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2011
Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, Mich., 2007
Co-director, VRRL Conference, SUNY-Cortland, Cortland, N.Y., 2006
CAMPUS Research and Sabbatical Leave Committee, English Language & Literature, EasternMichigan Univ., 2017-
Gateway to Completion (G2C) Steering Committee/Task Force, Eastern MichiganUniversity, 2016-
Graduate Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2016-
Chair, First-year Writing Program Committee, English Language & Literature,Eastern Michigan Univ., Sept. 2012-
Written Communications Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2009-
Rhetoric and Writing Committee, Eastern Michigan University, 2011-
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Associate WPA, 2016-2017
College of Arts & Sciences Subcommittee on College Response to Racism, EasternMichigan University, 2016-2017
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Technical Communication, 2014-2015
Graduate Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2012-2015
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Campus Literacy Task Force, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich., 2012-2013
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing—Technical Communication, 2012-2013
Honors College Advisory Council, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich.,2011-2013
Curriculum Committee, English Language & Literature, Eastern Michigan Univ.,2010-2013
Library Liaison, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Eastern MichiganUniv., 2009-2012
Reader, TRUEMU Essay Contest, Eastern Michigan Univ., 2012
Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 10,2011
University Writing Center Faculty Consultant, Winter 2011
Interviewer, Presidential Scholars Competition, Eastern Michigan Univ., Dec. 4,2010
HASTAC Mentor, 2010-2011
Computer Refresh Program (CRP) Committee, College of Arts & Sciences, EasternMichigan Univ., 2010
Mentor, Online Instructor Mentor Program, Park University, Parkville, Mo., 2007-2009
Co-coordinator, CCR Graduate Collective, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.,2005-2007
Review Committee on the Candidacy of Professor Collin Gifford Brooke forPromotion and Tenure, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2006
Graduate Committee, CCR, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., 2005-2006
Reader, Writing Competency Test, Park University, Parkville, Mo., 1998-2004
Facilitator, GKCWP Student Writing Project, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, July,2001
Facilitator, Student Writing Project, Carver Elementary, Kansas City, Mo., June,2001
President, English Graduate Student Association, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City,1999-2000
COMMUNITY Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Whiteriver, Ariz., 2001,2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Okmulgee, Okla., 2016 Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Shiprock, N.M., 2013, 2014,
2015 Volunteer, Little Panthers Basketball, South Point Scholars, Ypsilanti, Mich.,
2014 Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Tuba City, Ariz., 2012
Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Santa Fe, N.M., 2010 Mentor, Native Vision, Sports and Life Skills Camp, Bernalillo, N.M., 2004,
2005, 2008
Youth Coach and Div. Coordinator, SPCAA Basketball and Soccer, 1998-2004
Greater Kansas City Writing Project Advisory Board, Technology Liaison, 2000-2004
Technology Digital cartography: geoJSON,Mapbox
Video: YouTube; Vimeo; Processingconversions between VHS, MPEG, AVI,
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Proficiencies Courseware: Canvas, eCollege,BlackboardImages: Photoshop, Picmonkey,GimpBlogs: WordpressRSS Aggregation: FeedlyGeneral: OpenOffice and MSOffice Suite, Google DocsConcept mapping: CMap Tools,GliffyVector graphics: AdobeIllustrator, Flash, Pencil,InkscapeDocuments: Adobe, Quark Xpress,Scribd
MOV and streaming formats; iMovie;iShowU HDBasic web design: XHTML, XML, CSSSound: Audacity, Garage BandWikis: PMWiki, MediaWikiCitation management: ZoteroProgramming: PHP, R (beginner)Databases: MySQL
Memberships American Association of University Professors, EMU-AAUP, 2009-
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, ATAC, 2007- Conference on College Composition and Communication, CCCC, 1998-
Council of Writing Program Administrators, CWPA, 2012- Michigan Council of Teachers of English, MCTE, 2010-2011
Modern Language Association, MLA, 2008-2009 National Council of Teachers of English, NCTE, 1998-
Rhetoric Society of America, RSA, 2007-LE
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