Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor of English, Department of English and Creative Writing
Susquehanna University
August 2017 – Present
Education
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, emphasis in Disability Studies, minor in Media Studies
Florida State University, 2017
- Dissertation: “Understanding, Perception, and Accommodation of Disability in the Writing Center”
- Areas of Expertise: writing center theory and research, multi-literacy centers, disability studies, digital activism, media and network studies, research methods.
- Dissertation Committee: Dr. Kristie Fleckenstein, Chair; Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey; Dr. Rhea Lathan; Dr. Donna Nudd.
Masters of Arts in English–Rhetoric and Professional Communication, specialization in Cultural Studies
New Mexico State University, 2012
- Master’s Capstone Essay: “Boundaries of the Body: Dismantling the Rhetoric of Citizenship and the ‘American Obesity Epidemic’”
- Committee: Dr. Jenn Almjeld, Chair; Dr. Sarah Hagelin; Dr. Menal Hamzeh
Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Journalism and Mass Communication & Women’s Studies
New Mexico State University, 2010
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University Department of English and Creative Writing
August 2017 – Present
Instructor, Susquehanna University Summer Publishing and Editing Institute
Summer 2018
Graduate Assistant Instructor, Florida State University Department of English
August 2012 – May 2017
Graduate Assistant Instructor, New Mexico State University Department of English
August 2010 – May 2012
Instructor, Girlhood Remixed, New Mexico State University Department of English
Summer 2012
Courses
Media
ENGL 390: Writing & Editing Podcasts, Susquehanna University (New Course)
ENGL 390: Digital Publishing, Susquehanna University (New Course)
ENGL 190: Introduction to Modern Publishing, Susquehanna University (Course Revision)
ENC 3416: Writing and Editing in Print and Online, Florida State University
Composition
ENGL 100: Literary Writing and Thinking, Susquehanna University
HON 100: Thought, Susquehanna University (Personalized Course)
ENGL 100: Writing & Thinking, Susquehanna University (Personalized Course)
ENC 1145: Writing About Media Culture, Florida State University
ENC 1145: Writing About Public Service and Community Action, Florida State University
ENC 1102: First-Year Writing, Reading, and Research, Florida State University
ENC 1101: First-Year Composition and Rhetoric, Florida State University
ENGL 211: Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, New Mexico State University
ENGL 111: Freshman Composition and Rhetoric, New Mexico State University
Technical & Professional Writing Courses
ENGL 299: Professional and Civic Writing (Spring 2019), Susquehanna University
ENGL 218: Technical and Scientific Communication, New Mexico State University
Tutor Preparation
LAE 5946: Teaching English as a Guided Study, Graduate Tutor Preparation Course (TA to Dr. Stephen McElroy), Florida State University
ENC 3931: Peer Tutoring in the Reading-Writing Center, Undergraduate Tutor Preparation Course, Florida State University,
Summer Institutes
Susquehanna University Publishing and Editing Institute (2018)
Dissertation Bootcamp, Florida State University Reading-Writing Center & Digital Studio (2016)
Girlhood Remixed Technology Camp for Girls, New Mexico State University (2012)
Tutoring
Writing Center & Digital Studio Tutor, Florida State University Reading-Writing Center
January 2013 – May 2013
Writing Center Consultant, New Mexico State University Writing Center
August 2010 – May 2012
Online Teaching & Tutoring
ENC 2135: Research, Genre, and Context: Writing for Situation, Florida State University
Coordinator & Tutor, RWC-Online, Florida State University Department of English
June 2014 – May 2016
Online Writing Consultant, New Mexico State University Writing Center
August 2011 – May 2012
Administration
Assistant Director, Florida State University Reading-Writing Center & Digital Studio
June 2014 – May 2016
- Assisted the Director in maintaining two spaces: The Reading-Writing Center (RWC) and the Digital Studio (DS).
- Assisted in redesigning and implementing training for graduate assistant tutors.
- Taught ENC 3931: Peer Tutoring in the Reading-Writing Center, a training course for undergraduate peer tutors.
- Designed and facilitated RWC-Online, which offers online consultation to distance students.
- Designed and hosted Dissertation Boot Camp for PhD candidates in English Studies.
- Oversaw day-to-day operations, including ongoing training, scheduling, planning special events, performing outreach presentations and workshops, and data collection.
Assistant Program Coordinator, New Mexico State University Computer Science
August 2010 – December 2010
- Collaborated with program coordinator of the NSF-funded NSF GK-12 Discover Science through Computational Thinking (DISSECT) program to design training curriculum for graduate fellows.
- Maintained WordPress-powered website for GK-12 DISSECT.
- Maintained social networking presence for GK-12 DISSECT and NMSU Department of Computer Science.
- Assisted in data collection and reporting for NSF-funded grants.
- Created promotional materials for GK-12 DISSECT for a variety of audiences, including prospective fellows, K-12 teachers, and media outlets.
Intern, Public Relations, Comcast West Division Englewood, C.O.
Summer 2009
- Created and maintained social networking presence for Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship program.
- Drafted materials for a variety of audiences, including employee newsletters and press releases.
- Performed outreach to numerous opinion leaders in the Western United States on behalf of Leaders and Achievers.
- Tracked media and compiled reports related to Comcast across the Comcast West Division, including print, broadcast and online media outlets.
Research Assistant, New Mexico State University Department of Computer Science
January 2009 – May 2010
- Drafted and circulated promotional and recruitment materials for the Center for Research Excellence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CREST).
- Assisted in planning and hosting CREST summer programs.
Editorial & Writing
Graduate Fellow, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, University of Michigan, August 2014-May 2015
Non-Fiction Submissions Reader, Southeast Review, Florida State University, 2012-2013
Digital Media Editor, DIN Magazine, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Spring 2011
Staff Writer, The Merge, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Spring 2010
Copy Editor, The Round Up, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2009-2010
Service
University Service
Susquehanna University Living Learning Community Advisory Board (2018-)
Susquehanna University Advisory Committee on Academic Technology (2018-)
Move-In Day Volunteer (2018)
Departmental Service
Secretary of FSU Reading-Writing Center/Digital Studio Committee (2015)
Officer of FSU Graduate English Student Organization (2014-2015)
Member of FSU First Year Composition Committee (2012 – 2014)
Member of FSU On Writing Revision Editorial Board (2012 – 2013)
Disciplinary Service
Outside Reviewer for Bloomsburg University English Department 5-year Review (2018)
Discussion Leader, CCCC Research Network Forum (2018)
Reviewer, Writing Lab Newsletter, International Writing Center Association (2016-)
Awards and Scholarships
Recipient of Winifred and Gustav Webber Fellowship in the Humanities, Susquehanna University (2017 & 2018)
Recipient of CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award (2018)
Recipient of CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award (2016)
Recipient of Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, PCA/ACA (2015)
Recipient of Philomena Gates Award, FSU English Department (2012-2016)
Recipient of Outstanding Writing Center Consultant Award, NMSU (2012)
Professional Activities
Participant in Washington Center National Institute on Learning Communities (2018)
Participant in Teaching for Transfer Workshop, Susquehanna University Center for Teaching and Learning (Fall 2017)
Participant in the NMSU Borderlands Writing Project (Summer 2011)
Member of NMSU English Department Peer Observation Group (2010 – 2012)
Member of NMSU English Graduate Student Organization (2010, 2011)
Member of NMSU Women’s History Month Public Relations Council (2009)
Publications
Peer Reviewed
“#MeToo: A Case Study in Re-Embodying Information.” Under peer review with Computers and Composition 2018.
“Inhabiting the Border.” Teaching Writing with Bordered Writers: Lessons from Hispanic Serving Institutions, edited by Isabel Baca, Yndalecia Isaac Hinojosa, and Susan Wolff Murphy, Forthcoming 2018 from SUNY Press.
“Entanglements that Matter: A New Materialist Trace of #YesAllWomen.” with Dustin Edwards in Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric, edited by Laurie Gries and Collin Brooke, Utah State University Press, 2018.
Editorial Review
“Introducing the Social Justice & Gaming Blog Carnival.” with Paula M Miller. The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2015).
“Wiki Wednesday: A Wikipedian’s Tale.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2015).
“Wiki Wednesday: #GWWI & The Wikipedia Gender Gap.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2014).
“#WriteMyCommunity: NDoW Showcase and Interview with Kathleen Yancey.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2014).
Presentations
National and International Conferences
“When Worlds Collide: Researching Transgressive Everyday Writing in/from Institutional Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, proposed for 2019.
“Interfacing the Writing Center: Transforming Inclusive Writing Center Theories into Inclusive Writing Center Praxis.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2018.
“Cultivating (Graduate)Writers: Encouraging Institutional Support, Meta-Awareness, and Writerly Habits in Dissertation Boot Camps.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017.
“Universal Design and the Writing Center: Disability Studies and Threshold Concepts for Writing Center Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016.
“Engaging Disability the Writing Center.” International Writing Center Association Conference, October 2015.
“Fatness and Freakery: The Visual Rhetorical Construction of Obesity.” The American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association National Conference, May 2015.
“Life in the Margins: A Case Study of Digital Marginalia in Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence” with Jeff Naftzinger, Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2015.
“Reclaiming Pathos for the Disabled Rhetor: Authenticity, Empathy, and Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Disease Activism” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 2014.
“We are Anonymous: Engaging Hacktivism in Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2014.
“Reclaiming the ‘Headless Fatty’: Multimodality and Embodied Activism in Online Spaces.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, September 2013.
“What Should We Call Me?: Re-Naming and Re-Framing Work in the Writing Center” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, July 2013.
“Imagining the Online Writing Center through New Literacy Studies.” International Writing Center Association Conference, October 2012.
“Big (Fat) Burlesque Backlash: Burlesque Bodies as Rhetorical Agents of Social Change.” Sarah Lawrence College Women’s History Month Conference, January 2011.
Regional & Local Conferences
“Integrating Person-First and Identity-First Language in the Service Learning Classroom.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 2014.
“#WriteMyCommunity: National Day on Writing Digital Showcase.” Florida State University Digital Symposium, February 2015.
“Life in the Margins: A Case Study of Digital Marginalia.” with Jeff Naftzinger Florida State University Digital Symposium, February 2105.
“Collaborative Portfolios in First-Year Composition.” Florida State University Digital Symposium, March 2014.
“Giant of Lannister: Tyrion Lannister, (Dis)ability, and Identification in HBO’s Game of Thrones.” Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Association Conference, February 2013.
“Boundaries of the Body: Dismantling the Rhetoric of Citizenship and the American Obesity Epidemic.” New Mexico State University Graduate Arts and Research Symposium, April 2012.
“The Girl(?) Who Was on Fire: Gender Performativity in Post-Apocalyptic Panem.” Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Association Conference, March 2012.
Workshops & Roundtables
“Undergraduate Writing Programs in Liberal Arts Colleges.” With Jacob Craig, Alba Newmann Holmes, Jan Osborn, and Carie King. Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, accepted for October 2018.
“Hello from the Other Side: Integrating Reading in Writing Centers” with Joe Cirio and Aimee Jones. International Writing Center Conference, October 2016.
Invited Campus Presentations
“What is Academic Writing?.” Honors Encounters in Honors Living Learning Community. Susquehanna University. September 2018.
“Engaging Disability and Universal Design in the Writing Center.” Reading-Writing Center Staff Meeting/Professional Development. Florida State University. Spring 2015 & Fall 2015.
“Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism in First Year Composition.” Composition Pedagogy for Incoming Graduate Assistants Presentation. Florida State University. June 2014 & June 2015.
“Traditional American Tattoos: Writing our Bodies, Ourselves, and Each Other.” First Year Composition Presentation. Florida State University. February 2014.
“Engaging Grammar(s) in First Year Composition.” Composition Pedagogy for Incoming Graduate Assistants Presentation. Florida State University. August 2013.
Professional Affiliations
National Council for Teachers of English (2014-)
Conference on College Composition (2013-)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (2013-)
Rhetoric Society of America (2014-)
Popular Culture/American Culture Association (2015)