Curriculum Vita – rhetprof

CONTACT INFORMATION

William P. Banks
Professor of English (Rhetoric, Writing, and Profession Communication)
Director, University Writing Program
Director, Tar River Writing Project

University Writing Program
East Carolina University
1009 Joyner Library | Mail Stop 516
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Office Phone: 252.328.6674
banksw@ecu.edu
http://www.rhetprof.net

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English Studies
Illinois State University, December 2003
Emphases: Composition/Rhetoric — Ethos and the Construction of Students, Student/Teacher Interactions, Rhetorical Theory, Queer Theory, Computers and Composition, English Education

Dissertation: Performing the Not-Me: Ethos in Four Student Portfolios
Committee: Janice W. Neuleib, Kenneth J. Lindblom, Julie M. Jung

M.A. in English
Georgia Southern University, August 1996
Emphases: Minority Literatures, Composition and Rhetoric, Writing Centers
Thesis: “(En)Gendered Performances and the Problematics of Identity Construction in Contemporary Gay Literature”

B.A. in English
Georgia Southern University, August 1994
Minor: Philosophy and Religion

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theories of Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, Cultural Rhetorics, Histories of Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Computers and Composition, National Writing Project, English Education

PUBLICATIONS

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Unless otherwise noted, collaboratively authored/edited work should be interpreted as all authors’/editors’ having made an equal contribution to the final product with no priority given to order of authorship. In Writing Studies, author order does not normally indicate effort contributed to the project, and frequent co-authors often take turns with whose name goes first.
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Books

Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment. (Co-authored monograph with Stephanie West-Puckett & Nicole Caswell). Utah State UP, 2023. (262 pages)
- *Winner: 2024 Conference on College Composition & Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Best Book*
- *Honorable Mention: 2024 Conference on College Composition & Communication Outstanding Book Award*
- *Honorable Mention: 2024 Conference on College Composition & Communication Advancement of Knowledge Award*
- *Nominated: 2024 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award*
- *Nominated: 2024 Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Book Award*
- Reviewed: Jackson, N. Claire. Journal of Writing Assessment. Reading List. (Summer 2024).
- Reviewed: Lee, Yvonne R. The Peer Review 8.2 (Summer 2024).
English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities. (Co-edited with Susan Spangler). Parlor Press. 2021. (345 pages)
- Reviewed: Ramsby, Freddie Harris. Composition Forum 48 (Spring 2022).
Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects. (Edited with Matthew B. Cox and Caroline Dadas). Utah State UP. 2019. (223 pages)
- *Award: 2020 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship*
- Reviewed: Miller, Katrina L., for Composition Studies 48.1 (Spring 2020).
- Reviewed: Johnson, Gavin P., and Cody Jackson, for Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 22.3 (2020).
Curricular Innovations: LGBTQ Literature & the New English Studies. (Edited with John Pruitt). Peter Lang. 2019. (148 pages)
Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature. (Edited with John Pruitt). Peter Lang Publishers. 2018. (138 pages)
Reclaiming Accountability: Using the Work of Re/Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessment to Improve Writing Instruction and Writing Programs. Eds. Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle Eble, and William P. Banks. Logan: Utah State UP. 2016. (344 pages)
- *Award: Council of Writing Program Administrators’ 2018 Best Book Award*
- Reviewed: Learned, Nicholas J. Journal of Writing Assessment Blog: The Reading List. (June 2018).
- Reviewed: Collins, Maggie. Composition Studies 45.2 (Fall 2017): 260-263.
- Reviewed: Velazquez, Ashley. Assessing Writing 34 (2017): 100-102.

Edited Journals

Co-Editor (with Jonathan Alexander). Computers and Composition 21.3 (September 2004). Theme: “Sexualities, Technologies, and the Teaching of Writing.” (6 essays)
- *Winner of the Ellen Nold Award (see Honors and Awards below)*
Co-Editor (with Susan Antlitz, Ron Fortune, and Jim Kalmbach). Kairos 7.3: “Beyond Normal: Webtexts from Computers and Writing 2002.” December 2002. (Includes 35 Web-texts from the C&W conference, revised based on editors’ suggestions)

Articles

“Engaging Assessment Counterstories through a Cultural Rhetorics Framework.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett and Nicole Caswell). College Composition and Communication 75.1 (September 2023): 186-203.
“Queering Crisis: Hope for an Alternative Academy.” Composition Studies 50.3 (Fall 2022): 137-40.
“Writing Program Administration: A Queer Symposium.” (with Michael Faris, Collie Fulford, Timothy Oleksiak, Trixie Smith, and GPat Patterson). WPA Journal 43.2 (Spring 2020): 11–43.
“Valuing Editorial Collaborations as Scholarship: A Survey of Tenure and Promotion Guidelines.” College English. 81.4 (March 2019): 339–366. (Co-authored with Michelle F. Eble, Tracy Ann Morse, and Wendy Sharer).
“’See As Thou Was Wont to See’: Queer(y)ing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Those Other Adolescent.” Ohio Journal of English Language Arts 55.1 (Spring/Summer 2015): 31-37.
“Queering Outcomes: Hacking the Source Code of the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 36.1 (Fall/Winter 2012): 204–208.
“Cruising the Texts: Negotiating Sexual Difference in First-Year Readers.” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (December 2009): 269 – 296. (Co-authored with Jonathan Alexander, Martha Marinara, and Samantha Blackmon).
“Literacy Bridges: Learning to Read Poetry by Creating Picture Books.” Illinois English Bulletin. 96.3 (2009): 11 – 22.
“Literacy, Sexuality, and the Value(s) of Queer Young Adult Literatures.” English Journal 98.4 (2009): 33 – 36.
“The Values of Queer-Jacketing: What Happens When Student-Writers Go Gay?” MEAT Journal 1.2 (Winter 2005 – 2006): np.
“Sexualities, Technologies, and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Overview.” Computers and Composition 21.3 (September 2004): 273 – 93. (Co-authored with Jonathan Alexander).
“Written Through the Body: Disruptions and ‘Personal’ Writing.” College English 66 (September 2003): 21 – 40.
“Just Off the Mark: A Story of Pedagogical Reflection.” Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 8.1 (Fall 2002): 35 – 51.
“Beginning at the End: Encouraging Literacy by Rethinking the Developmental Model of an Oral Interpretation Course.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 30 (September 2002): 48 – 59.
“Sculpting: Helping Students Move from Summary to Analysis in Their Writing.” Illinois English Bulletin 89.3 (Summer 2002): 13 – 24.

Book Chapters

“Toward a Queer Validity: Delighting in the Messy Methods of Writing Research.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). In Learning from the Mess: Method/ological Praxis in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, edited by Ashley J. Holmes and Elise Verzosa Hurley. WAC Clearinghouse/U of Colorado P. 2024. 19-38.
“The Body’s Turn in Rhetorical Studies.” In Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice, edited by A. Abby Knoblauch & Marie Moeller. Utah State UP. 2022. vii – xii.
“Virtual Literature Circles: Re-Embodying Discussion in Online Literature Courses.” In English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities, edited by William P. Banks and Susan Spangler. Parlor Press. 2021. 128–141.
“Moving English Studies Online.” (with Susan Spangler). In English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities, edited by William P. Banks and Susan Spangler. Parlor Press. 2021. 1–23.
“Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Thoughts on In(queer)y.” (with Matthew B. Cox and Caroline Dadas). Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects. Utah State UP. 2019. 3–23.
“Queer Pedagogies, Queer Literacies: LGBTQ Texts Across the English Studies Curriculum.” (with John Pruitt). Curricular Innovations: LGBTQ Literature & the New English Studies. Peter Lang. 2019. 1-12.
“Approaching LGBTQ Literatures: Frameworks for Pedagogical Inquiry.” (with John Pruitt). Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature. Peter Lang. 2018. 1-12.
“Beyond Modality: Rethinking Transmedia Composition through a Queer/Trans Digital Rhetoric.” Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing & Rhetoric. Eds. Jonathan Alexander and Jaqueline Rhodes. London: Routledge. 2018. 341-351.
“Queering Assessment: Fairness, Affect, and the Impact on LGBTQ Writers.” (with Nicole Caswell). Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity. Eds. Mya Poe, Asao B. Inoue, and Norbert Elliot. Ft. Collins: Colorado State UP. 2018. 355 — 379.
“The Braid of Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity: Eighteen Assertions on Writing Assessment with Commentary.” (with Michael Sterling Burns, Nicole I. Caswell, Randall Cream, Timothy R. Dougherty, Norbert Elliot, Mathew Gomes, J. W. Hammond, Keith L. Harms, Asao B.Inoue, Josh Lederman, Sean Molloy, Casie Moreland, Karen S. Nulton, Irvin Peckham, Mya Poe, Kelly J. Sassi, Christie Toth, and Nicole Warwick.) Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity. Eds. Mya Poe, Asao B. Inoue, and Norbert Elliot. Ft. Collins: Colorado State UP. 2018. 381 — 427.
“Sponsoring Homonormativity: Sexual Literacies in Queer YA Literature.” (with Jonathan Alexander). Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship. London: Lexington Books. 2017. 119 – 150.
“After Homonormativity: Hope for a (More) Queer Canon of Gay YA Literature.” (with Jonathan Alexander). Beyond Borders: Queer Eros and Ethos (Ethics) in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature. Eds. Darla Linville and David Lee Carlson. New York: Peter Lang. 2016. 101-121.
“UnCommon Connections: How Building a Grass-Roots Curriculum Helped Reframe Common Core State Standards for Teachers and Students in a High Need Public High School” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core Standards in Research and Writing. Eds. Randall McClure and James Purdy. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. 2014. 353 – 381.
“What Is the National Writing Project?” A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Rita Malenczyk. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. 2013.
“Experiencing Ourselves as Writers: An Exploration of How Faculty Writers Move from Dispositions to Identities” (with Kerri B. Flinchbaugh). Working with Faculty Writers. Anne Ellen Geller and Michelle Eodice, eds. Logan: Utah State UP. 2013. 228-245.
“Digital Partnerships for Professional Development: Rethinking University-Public School Collaborations.” (with Theresa Van Sickle) Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models, Applications. Eds. Melody A. Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. 153-163.
“Queer Eye for the Comp Program: Towards a Queer Critique of WPA Work.” (with Jonathan Alexander) The Writing Program Interrupted: Making Space for Critical Discourse. Eds. Donna G. Strickland and Jeanne Gunner. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2009. 86-97.
“Embracing the Conflicts: An Argument Against Separating Writing Studies from English Studies.” Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre. Eds. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Pr, 2009. 100-121.
“Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writing Instruction at Illinois State Normal University: Credentials, Correctness and the Rise of a Teaching Class.” (with Ken Lindblom and Rise Quay) Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Eds. Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, June 2007.
“Digital Spaces, Online Environments, and Human Participant Research: Interfacing with Institutional Review Boards.” (with Michelle Eble) Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Eds. Danielle DeVoss and Heidi McKee. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Pr, March 2007.
“Drama: General.” Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Ed. Timothy J. Murphey. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.

Brief Essays

“Avoiding Plagiarism at Illinois State.” The CATalyst: Newsletter from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Summer 2003. 5.

Book Reviews

Review of Glenn, Cheryl and Roxanne Mountford, editors. Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics. Southern Illinois UP, 2017. Peitho 22.1 (2019): 163 – 68.
Review of Gonçalves, Zan Meyer. Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005. JAC 26.1-2 (2006): 353 – 60.
Review of Farmer, Brett. Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, and Gay Male Spectatorship. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Journal of Psychoanalysis in Culture and Society (JPCS) 6.2 (2001): 345-49.

Other Reviews

“Featured Session K: ‘The Performative “I”’ by Dr. Della Pollock.” For CCCC 2003 Interactive Review at academic.writing. April 2003.

Pedagogical Materials

“Preparing Your Writing Portfolio.” Chapter Supplement to The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, Custom Edition for East Carolina University. New York: Longman, 2005. np.

Works in Progress

Making Literacy: Pedagogies for Engaged Reading and Writing. (Co-authored with Stephanie West-Puckett, Michael Flinchbaugh, Ashley Hutchinson, Jennifer Smyth, Debra Pagona, Rebecca Bulvanovski, Daniel Niece, and Robert Puckett). Manuscript being prepared for Teachers College Press.
Queer Rhetorics: Toward a Politics of Queer Language. Monograph in Process. Estimated Completion Fall 2025.

Creative Writing

“The Boys in Brogans” (poetry) Druid’s Cave: A Journal of the Creative Arts. Illinois State University. Spring 2003. 17 – 18.
“the pool” (poetry) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1996. Awarded “Best Poem.”
“snowman” (poetry) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1996.
“Examined Life” (poetry) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1996.
“Enoch” (short story) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1996.
“homophobia” (poetry) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1994.
“A Dialogue Between Adon and Lucy” (theatrical vignette) The Miscellany. Georgia Southern University. April 1994.

HONORS & AWARDS

East Carolina University 5 Year Research & Creative Activity Award. 2023. (2 awarded annually)
CCCC Stonewall Service Award. 2021. (1 awarded annually)
CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. Book Category. 2020. (1 awarded annually)
Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, Illinois State University English Department. 2019. (1 awarded annually)
Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Best Book Award 2018 for Reclaiming Accountability: Using the Work of Re/Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessment to Improve Writing Instruction and Writing Programs.
Research and Creative Activity Award. English Department. East Carolina University. Fall 2018. (2 awarded annually)
East Carolina University Scholar-Teacher Award. East Carolina University. $1,000. Spring 2016. (10 awarded annually)
Harriot College of Arts & Sciences Scholar-Teacher Award. East Carolina University. Fall 2015. (3 awarded per year)
Bertie E. Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award. English Department. East Carolina University. $500. Fall 2015. (2 awarded per year)
Ellen Nold Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Computers and Writing. Fall 2005. (1 Awarded Per Year)
University Teaching Award (Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student). Illinois State University. Spring 2002. (2 Awarded Per Year)
Taimi Maria Ranta Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Ph.D. Student. Department of English. Illinois State University. Fall 2001. (1 Awarded Per Year)
Anna Keaton English Education Scholarship for Outstanding Essay by a Graduate Student. Department of English. Illinois State University. Spring 2001. (1 Awarded Per Year)
Foundation Fellowship for Incoming Graduate Students. Illinois State University. Fall 1999.
Best Poem: “the pool.” Miscellany Fall Poetry Contest. Fall 1995.
Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, inducted 1993.
- President, 1995-1996
- Secretary, 1994-1995

GRANTS & CONTRACTS (Total Funding to Date: $3,296,500.00)

2017

NCQuest Grant: “Project LASERRS (Language Arts and Special education Empowering Reading and wRiting): Promoting Reading and Writing through Collaboration.” $300,000. (not funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- SEED Grant: “Developing Teacher Leadership Cohorts in Eastern NC.” $15,000. (funded)

2016

NCQuest Grant: “Project LASERRS (Language Arts and Special education Empowering Reading and wRiting): Promoting Reading and Writing through Collaboration.” $300,000. (not funded)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): “AppAbroad.” Ben Lauren (MSU), Principal Investigator. (not funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- “New Pathways Initiative.” $10,000 (not funded)

2015

ECU’s Quality Enhancement Project: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum.” $431,500. (funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- SEED I Grant: “Developing Leadership.” $10,000. (funded)
- Intersections/ASTC Grant: “Remix, Remake, Curate.” $30,000. (funded)

2014

ECU’s Quality Enhancement Project: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum.” $431,500. (funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- SEED I Grant: “Developing Leadership.” $10,000. (funded)
- Intersections/ASTC Grant: “Remix, Remake, Curate.” $30,000. (funded)
- Destination Transformation (Nash Co Public Schools). $7,700. (funded)
- Learning Challenge Grant: “Pop-Up Maker Spaces.” $20,000. (funded)

2013

ECU’s Quality Enhancement Project: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum.” $431,500. (funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- SEED I Grant: Developing Leadership. $20,000. (funded)
- SEED III Grant: High Need Schools. $20,000. (funded)
- Project Connect. $5,000. (funded)
- Destination Innovation (Nash Co Public Schools). $12,000. (funded)

2012

ECU’s Quality Enhancement Project: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum.” $240,000. (funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project.
- SEED I Grant: Developing Leadership: $20,000. (funded)
- SEED III Grant: High Needs School: $20,000. (funded)
- “Digital Is …” Project Funding: $2,000 (funded); $5,000 (funded)

2011

ECU’s Quality Enhancement Project: “The Vertical Writing Curriculum.” $140,000. (funded)
Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project. $35,000. (funded)

2010

Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project. $51,000. (funded)
“The Queer Work of Writing Instruction: Inclusions/Exclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics in First-Year Composition.” College Research Award. Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences. (not funded)

2009

Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project. $50,500.

2008

Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project. $43,000.
“The Queer Work of Writing Instruction: Inclusions/Exclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics in First-Year Composition.” College Research Award. Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences. (not funded)

2007

Tar River Writing Project. Funded by the National Writing Project. $30,000.
“The Queer Work of Writing Instruction: Inclusions/Exclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics in First-Year Composition.” College Research Award. Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences. (not funded)

2006

“The Queer Work of Writing Instruction: Inclusions/Exclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics in First-Year Composition.” College Research Award. Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences. (not funded)

2004

“Trading Up: New Technologies for Teacher-Consultants.” Funded by the National Writing Project. $3,000.

2000

Invited Scholar on a College of Arts and Sciences Small Grants for Research Project. “The Teaching of Writing at Illinois State University 1857 – 1957: A Collaborative Study Based Upon Materials Available in the ISU Archives.” Proposed by Prof. Kenneth Lindblom.

ADMINISTRATION & PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP

Director, University Writing Program. East Carolina University. July 2012 – Present.
Director, Tar River Writing Project. East Carolina University. June 2012 – Present.
Founding Member, Editorial Board. Technical Communication and Social Justice. February 2021 – Present.
Member, Editorial Board. College English. March 2022 – Present.
Member, Reviewer Board. The WAC Journal. Summer 2019 – Present.
Chair, National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation. Fall 2019 – Fall 2021.
Interim Director, University Writing Program. East Carolina University. August 2010 – June 2012.
Co-Director, Tar River Writing Project. East Carolina University. February 2007 – May 2012.
Associate Director, First-Year Writing Program. Department of English. East Carolina University. Fall 2006 – Spring 2010.
Director, First-Year Writing Studio. Department of English. East Carolina University. Fall 2004 – Spring 2010.
Executive Director. Queer Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. (formerly Gay and Lesbian Professionals Caucus) Spring 2006 – Spring 2009.
Co-Chair. Queer Caucus of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. (formerly Gay and Lesbian Professionals Caucus). Spring 2004 – Spring 2006 (2^nd term); Spring 2002 – Spring 2004 (1^st term).
Assistant Writing Program Administrator. Department of English. Illinois State University. Fall 2000 – Spring 2003.
Associate Chair. Computers and Writing 2002: “Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces.” Illinois State University. Normal, IL May 15 – 19, 2002.
Assistant Director. University Writing Center. Georgia Southern University. Fall 1998 – Spring 1999.
Graduate Admissions Specialist. College of Graduate Students. Georgia Southern University. Summer 1997 – Spring 1999.
Associate Editor. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Spring 1997 – Spring 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor, East Carolina University, Department of English. August 2017 – Present.
Associate Professor, East Carolina University, Department of English. August 2009 – July 2017.
Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Department of English. August 2003 – July 2009. (Associate Graduate Faculty Status awarded Fall 2004.)

Special Teaching Projects/Courses

Tar River Writing Project
Summer Study Abroad (London): British Children’s Literature and Contemporary British Drama (grad/undergrad)

Graduate Courses

English 8630: Seminar in Cultural & Community Rhetorics
English 8615: Seminar in Rhetorical Theory (Queer Rhetorics)
English 8601: Advanced Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
English 8600: Seminar in Writing Studies & Pedagogy (Topics: Literacy 3.0: Writing Digital Activism; Digital Rhetorics, Cultural Rhetorics)
English 7975: Developmental English in the Two-Year College
English 7960: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
English 7950: Issues in Teaching Composition (Writing Across the Curriculum)
English 7666: Teaching English in the Two-Year College Internship
English 7665: Special Topics in Rhet-Comp (Ethos & Critical Agency)
English 7630: Cultural Rhetorics & Writing
English 7620: History of Rhetoric II: Modern Rhetorics
English 7601: Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
English 7600: Research Design in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication
English 7365: Gay and Lesbian Literatures (Special Topics)
English 6625: Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice
English 6480: LGBTQ+ Theories and Literatures
English 6000: Critical Writing in English Studies

Undergraduate Courses

Women’s Studies 5000: Gay & Lesbian Drama
English 4950: Children’s Literature
English 4885: Digital Writing
English 4540: Special Topics Seminar: Persuasive Writing
English 3950: Children’s Literature
English 3890: Critical Writing
English 3820: Science Writing
English 3810: Advanced Composition
English 2730: Functional Grammar
English 2201 (formerly English 1200): Composition II (Writing about Education)
English 1100: Composition I
English 1100.199: Composition I (English as a Second Language)

Independent Study/Directed Reading

English 7265: “Queer Young Adult Literature” (Justin Littlefield)
English 7665: “High School Writing Centers” (Sharon Holland)
English 7665: “Writing Program Administration” (Stephanie West-Puckett)
English 7665: “Writing Program Administration” (Kerri Flinchbaugh
English 7665: “Writing Program Administration” (Matthew Herrmann)
English 7665: “Writing Assessment” (Suzanne Nichols)
English 7601: “Qualitative Research in Rhetoric and Composition” (Ashley Moody)
English 4250: “Rhetorics of Childhood” (Jovon Hawkins)

Graduate Instructor, Illinois State University, Department of English. Fall 1999 – Summer 2003.

English 400: Pro-Seminar in the College Teaching of Writing (assisted Drs. J. Neuleib and C. Lamonica)
English 297: The Teaching of Writing: Secondary (co-taught with Dr. R. Chase)
English 246: Advanced Exposition
English 128: Gender in the Humanities (Topic: Rhetorics of Adolescence)
English 128: Gender in the Humanities (Topic: Queer Rhetorics)
English 101: Language and Composition I

Adjunct Instructor, Lincoln College at Normal, General Studies Department. Spring 2000 – Fall 2002.

Communications 302: Techniques of Persuasion
Theater 106: Introduction to Theater
Speech 103: Oral Interpretation

Instructor, Georgia Southern University, Department of Writing and Linguistics. Fall 1997 – Spring 1999.

English 1101: First-Year Composition I
English 1101: First-Year Composition I — Distance Learning (Vidalia High School Senior English)
English 1102: First-Year Composition II (Writing about Literature)
English 1102: First-Year Composition II — Distance Learning (Vidalia High School Senior English)
RGTE 0199: Regents’ Test Review
GSU 1210: University Orientation I

Instructor, Georgia Southern University, Department of English and Philosophy. Fall 1996 – Spring 1997.

English 099: Regents’ Test Review
English 151: First-Year Composition I
English 152: First-Year Composition II (Writing about Literature)
English 290: Introductory Readings in Literature (Gay and Lesbian Drama)
Enrichment 120A
GSU 110: University Orientation I

Adjunct Instructor, Continuing Education, Intensive English Program for International Students. Georgia Southern University. Spring 1995 – Fall 1997.

Intermediate Grammar
Advanced Composition
Advanced Reading

Adjunct Instructor, Ogeechee Technical Institute, General Studies Department. Fall 1995 – Fall 1996.

English 097: Developmental English
English 101: General English
English 111: Business English
English 112: Business Communications

Graduate Assistantship, Georgia Southern University, Department of English and Philosophy. Fall 1994 – June 1996.

Responsibilities include tutoring a wide range of students, including LD/ADHD and international students; teaching experience in a variety of first-year writing and sophomore literature classes.

ADVISING & MENTORING

Doctoral Students

Hales Shettles (Advisor — August 2024 — Present).
Bree Rivers (Advisor — August 2020 — Present).
Kasen Christensen (Committee Member — In Progress).
Steven Amador (Committee Member — In Progress).
Anie Patterson Partin (Committee Member — In Progress).
Elizabeth Gange’ (Advisor — August 2022 — Spring 2024).
Morgan Banville (Committee Member — April 2023). Am I Who I Say I Am? The Illusion of Choice: Biometric Identification in Healthcare. *Winner: 2024 CCCC Best Dissertation Award.
T. Passwater, Syracuse University (Outside Reader — April 2022). Receiving a Queen: A Queer and Trans Classical Reception Historiography of Elagabalus.
Kerri B. Flinchbaugh (Director/Advisor – March 2020). Supporting Teacher-Writers Engagement with Troublesome Knowledge: Evidence of Transfer in Writing across the Curriculum Professional Development.
Brandon Hardy (Committee Member — May 2019). Constellating Identities and Workplace Genres in Writing Center Discourses.
Carleigh DeAngelis Davis (Committee Member – June 2018). Memetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era.
Wonderful Faison, Michigan State University (Outside Reader – March 2018): What Makes a Space Raced: Exploring Writing Centers as Racialized Spaces.
Stephanie West-Puckett (Director/Advisor – June 2017). Materializing Makerspaces: Queerly Composing Space, Time, and (What) Matters. *Winner: 2018 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Best Dissertation.
Brent Simoneaux, NC State University (Outside Reader – April 2016). Queer Literacies.
Tabitha Miller (Director/Advisor – August 2014). The Students’ Voice in Developmental Education.
Elizabeth Dennis (Director/Advisor – January 2014). Advanced Placement English and First-Year Composition: An Analysis Using Activity Theory with Implications for Transfer.
Frank Hurley (Director/Advisor – July 2013). Visualizing Images in Writing: Pedagogical and Professional Implications of Image Analysis.
Travis Webster, Michigan State University (Outside Reader – May 2012). What Ex-Ex-Gays Can Teach Us About Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Rhetorics.
Carolyn Dunn (Committee Member – April 2010). Dissertation: Power & Place: A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication.
Troy Hicks, Michigan State University (Outside Reader, Comp Exam – Sept 2005)

Master’s Students

Rheanna Elliott (Director/Advisor — November 2024). CAP. “Supporting International Students in the Composition Classroom.”
Jacqueline Derritt (Committe Member — December 2024). CAP. “Integrating Global Rhetorical Traditions into the First-Year Composition Classroom.”
Sam Hirte (Director/Advisor — April 2024). CAP. “Beyond Borders: Exploring Intersectional Queer Identities and Notions of Home in the Diaspora.”
Rachael Lolar (Committee Member — March 2024). CAP. “A Comprehensive Look at My TPC Journey.”
Keagan Holder (Committee Member — December 2023). CAP. “British Children’s Literature Intersecting with Anthropomorphism.”
Joshua Shusterman (Director/Advisor — May 2023). CAP. “Literature Through Gaming: A Brief Reflection.”
Nora Brooks (Director/Advisor — April 2023). CAP. “Super Woman Schema – A Glimpse into the Mental Health of Black Women.”
Rachel Barlow (Director/Advisor – July 2022). Thesis: “Sister Sledge Said It Best—’We are Family’: Chosen Family in LGBTQ+ Young Adult Literature.”
Brent Cameron (Committee Member — June 2022). Thesis: “The Power of Story: Rhetorical Empathy and Antiracist Organizational Change.”
Jamal McMillion (Committee Member – April 2022). Thesis: “Breaking the Chains of Christian Coloniality: The Synergy of Postcolonial and Critical Race Theory.”
Alexander, Alison (Committee Member – November 2021). CAP: “A Survey of African American Literature – An Honors Elective Class for High School Students.”
Arianna Holloman (Committee Member – July 2021). CAP: “Micoaggressions, Advocacy or Complacency?”
Lori Anderson (Committee Member – June 2021). CAP: “Where is Home: A Focus on How to Teach Identity Struggles through Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Other Immigrant Literature.:
Cody Pollard (Committee Member – March 2021). CAP: “Workplace and Hobby Literacies: On Relating to Nontraditional Students during Traditional Education.”
Katie Souter (Director/Advisor – December 2020). CAP: “Audience is the Thread that Binds: MTL, TPC, and Things Fall Apart.”
Courtnee Bishop (Committee Member — January 2020). Thesis: “Acting ‘White’: The Unspoken, Understood Hierarchy of Blackness.”
Jameson Cody Smith (Committee Member — June 2019). Thesis. “The Folkloric Image of the Good Girl and Its Effects on Women in the Age of the Internet.”
Chrystal Rich (Chair — May 2019). Project: “Reimagining the First-Year Writing Curriculum: Integrating Critical Reading Instruction Through Reflection Improves Diverse Student Literacy.”
Reneé Boettner (Committee Member — April 2019). Project: “(Un)Veiling Myths of Middle Eastern Women: Crafting a “Women in Middle Eastern Literature” Course for the Community College.”
Alexis Gines (Chair — April 2019). Project: “Multicultural Literature in High School: Designing MTL Curriculum for Future Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Students.”
Stephanie Santiful (Committee Member — April 2019). Project: “The Importance of Including LGBTQIA+ Characters in Youth Entertainment Media.”
Sharieka Botex (Committee Member — March 2019). Thesis: “It’s Not Me, It’s You: Considering the Worthy Sacrifice Hip Hop Artists May Need to Make to Reclaim the Heart of Hip Hop, Its People.”
Alicia Ferguson (Committee Member — November 2018). Thesis: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Familial Expectations in Three Multicultural Novels.”
Frances Norge (Committee Member – Summer 2018). Thesis: “Student Retention at Tidewater Community College: A TPC Approach to Creating a Comprehensive Document to Help Students Defeat Their Obstacles and Stay in School.”
Gabrielle Carrero (Committee Member — Summer 2018). Thesis: “An Argument for Writing Assessment Literacy for Multilingual and L2 Writers: Deconstructing Linguistic Bias.”
Nadine Moore (Chair — Spring 2018). Thesis: “A ‘Black Body Electric’ — African American Rhetoric(s) and the Hip-Hop Aesthetic: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, Beyoncé Knowles’ Lemonade, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me.”
Siobhan Brewer (Chair — Spring 2018). Project: “Intersectionality and Literature: The Importance of Multicultural Literature in the Community College.”
Emily Tucker (Committee Member — Spring 2018). Project: “Training Resources in Writing Center Spaces: The connection of Rhetoric, Technical Communication, and Writing Center Spaces.”
Tiffany Graham (Committee Member — Spring 2018). Project: “’Unsettled Things in ‘The American Novel’: A Community College Multicultural Teaching Unit.”
Stephen Poole (Committee Member – April 2017). Project: “Studies in Mexican Literature: An Online Graduate Course.”
Sterling James (Committee Member – May 2017). Thesis: “First Year Composition: The Effects of Race and Gender on Graduate Teaching Assistants.”
Pamela Henderson (Committee Member – April 2017). Project: “Creating a Multicultural Learning Space in the Public Secondary School Classroom: Parallel Texts That Offer a Multicultural Lens to the European Canon.”
Constance Haywood (Committee Member – April 2017). Project: “Embodied Glass Ceilings: Professionalism, the Rhetorics of Workplace Grooming Policies, and Black Women’s Stories.”
Joshua Gardner (Committee Member – April 2017). Project: “Stronger Together: Feminists, Rhetoricians, Politicians.”
Emma Calow (Chair – April 2017). Project: “Hip-Hop in Norn Iron: Community, Culture, and Conflict.”
Ami Raggio (Committee Member – July 2016). Thesis: “Mohsin Hamid, Precarity, and the (Re)Education of Western Audiences in Post-9/11 West Asian Literature.”
Rexford Rose (Committee Member – April 2016). Thesis: “Queering the Writing Center: Shame, Attraction, and Gay Male Identity.”
Justin Littlefield (Chair – April 2016). Thesis: “Understanding Homosexual Identities in Modern Young Adult Literature: An Analysis of Rainbow Boys, Openly Straight, and Boy Meets Boy.”
Zachary Clark (Chair – April 2016). Project: “Applying Composition Theory to Creative Writing Pedagogy: Creative Writing Towards Social Justice.”
Bridgett Bowen (Committee Member – December 2015). Project: “Creating and Implementing a Middle Eastern Literature Curriculum in the Secondary Education Classroom.”
Logan T. Dupree (Committee Member – November 2015). Project: “Did the Hawaiian People Ever Desire the American Dream?”
Thomas Cox (Committee Member – April 2015). Project: “Exploring Rhetorical Issues in Culture, Community, and Identity in Family and Classroom.”
Celestine Davis (Director – December 2014). Project: “An Overview of Writing Pedagogy: Matters of identity, Audience, and Intent.”
Anne Benenhaley (Committee Member – November 2014). Thesis: “’Darkness, Dirt, Deviance’—and Daddy: Patrilineal Relationships and the Negotiation of Womanhood in the Literature of Middle Eastern and Arab-American Women.”
Wonderful Faison (Director – May 2014). Thesis: “Teachers Use of Own Languages (TUOOLS): Exploring the Use of African American Rhetorical Strategies in the Composition Classroom.”
Beverly Hayse (Committee Member – May 2014). Project: “The Perpetual Foreigner: A High Level Unit Design Plan for an Elective Introduction to Multicultural Literature Course for High School Students.”
Sharon Z. Holland (Director – December 2013). Project: “Confessions of a New Writing Center Director.”
Jessica Jones (Committee Member – November 2013). Thesis: “Politics of the Textual Body: Embodied Issues of Gender and Power in Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story, Faqir’s Pillars of Salt, and Winterson’s Written on the Body.”
Charles Yuhas (Director – July 2013). Project: “On Educators Applying the Notion of Exceptionalism to African American Students in the Community College Classroom.”
Celeste Melendez (Committee Member – July 2013). Thesis: “Soul Folk, Unzipped: The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica.”
Jeffrey Gilbert (Director – August 2012). Thesis: “‘How Do I Reach These Keeeds?’ A New Teacher Uses Personality Type to Rethink Cognition, Motivation, and Engagement.”
Allison Query (Director – July 2011). Thesis: “Writing in My Language: Students’ Perceptions of Informal Writing in the Composition Classroom.”
Janah Adams (Committee Member – June 2011). Thesis: “Secreted Behind Closed Doors: Rethinking Cather’s Adultery Theme and ‘Unfurnished’ Styles in My Mortal Enemy.”
Jennifer Pearson (Committee Member – April 2011). Thesis: “Representations of Native American Characters in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga.”
Kimberli Alphin (Committee Member – December 2010). Project: “The Effects of Font Size and Style on the Comprehension of Reading Materials in Middle School Students.”
Janie Clayton (Committee Member – December 2010). Project: “Redesigning a World Literature Course for the Community College.”
Tracey Connette (Committee Member – November 2010). Thesis: “Sherman Alexie’s Reservation: Relocating the Center of Indian Identity.”
Debbie Lee (Committee Member – August 2010). Project: “The Voices of Everybody Here: Reconciling Standard Written English and Language Diversity in the Classroom.”
Teresa Howell (Committee Member – August 2010). Thesis: “Code-Switching: Teaching Writing to Speakers of AAVE.”
Amy Snook (Committee Member – June 2010). Thesis: “The Counter-Colonial Writing of Fanny Parkes and E. M. Forster.”
Virginia Smith (Committee Member – June 2010). Thesis: “Practial Pedagogy for the Use of Filmic Adaptations of Canonical Texts.”
Kate Yuhas (Committee Member – April 2010). Project: “How Does the Linguistic Concept of Politeness Function Differently in Computer-Mediated Communication?”
Lorie Caron (Director – March 2010). Project:
Spencer Daniels (Committee Member – July 2009). Project: “Allegory, Humors, and Religious Despair: Faustus as a New Tragic Hero.”
Lisa Devries (Committee Member – August 2008). Thesis: “‘A Coyote Nailed to a Fencepost’: Queer Methods of Tricksterism in Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World.”
Stephen Hinman (Committee Member – May 2008). Project: “How Does Gay Male Discourse Function to Construct and Maintain Gay Identity in Various Social Contexts?”
McArthur, Elizabeth (Committee Member – Dec 2007). Topic: “Readability Formulas.”
Mica Pierson (Committee Member – November 2007). Project: “Discouraging Writing Teachers from Judging Students Based on Dialect.”
Amanda Lingerfelt (Committee Member – April 2007). Project: “Creating a Magazine Style Guide from Scratch: A Critical Analysis.”
Robert E. Derr (Committee Member – June 2007). Thesis: “Multicultural and Postcolonial Theory at Work in Children’s Literature: An Examination of Selected Works by Jean Bothwell.”
Samantha Cox (Director, Exam Chair – September 2006). Thesis: “Crises of Identity and Rebirth in Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Changeover: Exploring Female Coming of Age Through Kristeva’s Psychoanalytic Theories.”
Suzanne Nichols (Director, Exam Chair – May 2006). Thesis: “Writing Assessment: The Neglected Pedagogy.”
Tommi Powell (Committee Member – May 2006). Thesis: “Gordimer’s Girls and the Repression and Exploitation of Their Sexuality as seen in Burger’s Daughter and A Sport of Nature”
Julia T. Martin (Exam Committee Member – November 2006). Topic: “Workplace Learning Theory and Training Strategies: Review of Training for Newsroom Reporters.”
Anthony Holsten (Committee Member – August 2005) Thesis (Creative: Novel): Remembering Johnny

Graduate Student Supervision/Mentoring

Leslye Pearson — Graduate Assistant — University Writing Program (Spring 2023 – Present).
Bree Rivers — Graduate Assistant — University Writing Program (Fall 2022).
Sarah Barefoot – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Fall 2021 – Summer 2022)
Alexis McCloskey – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2022)
Anie Patterson – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2022)
Adam Symborski – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2019 – Spring 2022)
Barbara Stevenson – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2021 – Fall 2021)
Brent Cameron – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2021)
Zachary Singletary – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2018 – Spring 2021)
Morgan Banville – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Fall 2020)
Alicia Hatcher – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Summer 2020)
Cody Pollard – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Katelyn Lane – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Fall 2017 – Spring 2019)
Sharieka Botex – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2019)
Zackary Clark – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Summer 2015)
Rexford Rose – Graduate Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Summer 2015)
Matthew Herrmann – Graduate Assistant – University Writing Program (Spring 2012 – Summer 2013)
Brooke Exline – Graduate Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Fall 2012)
Chris Bethel – Graduate Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Spring 2012)
Samantha Settimio – Graduate Assistant – TCR: The Common Reader (Fall 2011 – Spring 2012)
Christa Carnes – Graduate Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Fall 2011)
Austin Hart – Graduate Assistant – TCR: The Common Reader (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
Janah Adams – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009)
Celestine Davis – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project/LEEAP (Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008)
Therese Pennell – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Spring 2009)
Nicole Keech – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Spring 2008)
Susan Winder Moses – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Fall 2007)
Christine Cranford – Research Assistant – “Queer Representations in First-Year Writing” (Spring 2007, Fall 2006)
Jeanette Morris – Research Assistant – Tar River Writing Project (Spring 2007)
Jerry Mathes – Research Assistant – “Teaching of Writing at ECU, 1907 – 1957” (Summer 2005)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Plenary/Keynote Addresses, Invited Talks, Session Chair/Respondent

Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Baltimore, MD. April 9, 2025. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Spokane, WA. April 2, 2024. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Invited Speaker: “Our Language, Ourselves: 10 Years Later” (w/ Nikki Caswell). Southeatern Writing Centers Association Webinar. September 22, 2023.
Planning Committee: “All Colors of the Rainbow: Creating Literature for Our Community.” Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center, ECU. November 4, 2023.
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Chicago, IL. February 2023. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/ (Canceled Due to Low Participation)
Co-Chair: Computers and Writing Conference: Practicing Digital Activisms. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. May 14-17, 2022. http://cwcon2022.org/
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Milwaukee, WI. March 2022. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Co-Chair: Computers and Writing Conference: Practicing Digital Activisms. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. May 14-17, 2020. https://candwcon.org/2020/ (Postponed due to COVID)
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Milwaukee, WI. March 2020. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Kansas City, KS. March 2018. https://ccccqrn.home.blog/
Respondent/Chair: “Embodied Rhetorics and the Affordances of a Fat Studies Pedagogy.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.
Co-Chair: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.
Research Facilitator: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Houston, TX. March 2016.
Research Facilitator: Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015.
Invited Featured Session: “Constructing Queer Digital Spaces: An Overview, a History, a Future” (with Jonathan Alexander). Computers and Writing. May, 2012.
Respondent: “Rainbow Arches: Gateways or Barriers to LGBTQ Stories and Identities?” Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 23, 2012.
Respondent: “Embracing the Disruptions: Approaches to Doing Queer Methodologies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 8, 2011.
Respondent: “Toward a Queer (Re)Mix: Rethinking Rhetoric and Sexuality.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 2010.
Respondent: “Charting New Routes: GLBTQQ Discourses in Professional Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 13, 2009.
Plenary Address: “Digital Literacies, Digital Ethics: Writing in(to) the 21^st Century.” Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA. February 6, 2009.
Invited Moderator: “Reflecting on Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s): Looking Back, Looking Forward.” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Biennial Conference. Little Rock, AR. October 2007.
Invited Presenter: “WPA 2005 Technology Institute.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Workshop, Institute, and Conference. Anchorage, AK. July 7, 2005.
Invited Speaker. “Gay and Lesbian Literature for/about Young Adults.” Conference of Illinois Teachers of English. Illinois State University. April 11, 2003.

National/International

“Developing Concurrent Enrollment and Dual Credit Courses for Equitable Student and Instructor Support.” National Council of Teachers of English. Boston, MA. November 2023.
“Making Writing Assessment Abundantly Queer.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Spokane, WA. April 2024.
“Gaming Assessment: Reclaiming Equity and Fairness in Our Classroom Assessments.” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
“Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment.”Writing Research Across Boarders. Trondheim, Norway. February 2023.
“Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Chicago, IL. February 2023.
“Queering Student Voices in Writing Assessment.” Queer Studies Conference. Asheville, NC. April 2018.
“Integrating Academic Writing: A Model for Curricular and Institutional Change.” 9^th Conference of the European Association for Teaching Academic Writing. London, UK. June 2017.
“Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods to Change the Field.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.
“’Ain’t No Walls behind the Sky, Baby! Funk, Flight, Freedom’: College Writing in the 21st Century.” National Writing Project Fall Meeting. Atlanta, GA. November 2016.
“Research, Pedagogy, Presence: Diversifying Technical Communication Programs.” (with Nicole Caswell, Temptaous McCoy, Cecilia Shelton, & Janine Butler). Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Annual Meeting. Savannah, GA. October, 2016.
“Object-Oriented Research Methods and Methodologies for Open, Participatory Learning.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). Computers and Writing Conference. Rochester, NY. May, 2016.
“Embracing Failure to Disrupt Success Narratives in Writing Assessment.” (with Nicole I. Caswell). Conference on College Composition & Communication. Houston, TX. April, 2016.
“Queering the Writing Project.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. November, 2015.
“Exploring Technofeminist Approaches to Professional Development with Writing Project MOOCs.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). Feminisms & Rhetorics. October, 2015.
“Cyborg Gaze: Making Identities and Images in the Computers & Writing Community.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett and Robert Puckett). Computers & Writing Conference. Stout, WI. May, 2015.
“Hacking Normativity: Participatory Disruption, Diffusion, Dampening.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett, Kim Thompson, and Rex Rose). Queer Studies Conference 2015. April, 2015.
“Queerly de/Composed: Bits, Bytes, and Bodies in Digital Spaces.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett, Jason Palmeri, and Brent Simoneaux). Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March, 2015.
“Hacking, Remixing, and Fixing Narrative Bugs in the Web.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett, Robert Puckett, Jennifer Smyth, and Danielle Lewis). National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Washington, DC. November, 2014.
“Don’t Just Say, ‘Yes’; Say, ‘Yes … And’: Literacy Improvisation for Reframing Consultant Professional Development in the Writing Center.” (with Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh, Erin Herrmann, and Thomas Passwater). International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. October, 2014.
“Making Space: Reading and Writing Bodies in the Writing Center.” (with Trixie Smith and Matthew B. Cox). International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. October, 2014.
“Working with Content Curators: Writing About Writing Across the Disciplines.” (with Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh and Erin Herrmann). Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference. Normal, IL. July, 2014.
“Hacktivist Pedagogies: Workshop. (with Stephanie West-Puckett). Computers and Writing Conference. Pullman, WA. June, 2014.
“Hacking the Common Core: Maker-Centered Connected Learning in English Language Arts.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett). Writing Research Across Borders: An International Conference. Paris, France. February, 2014.
“Creating an (Un)Common Core: Maker-Centered Connected Learning in ELA.” (with Stephanie West-Puckett, Robert Puckett, Danielle Lewis and Ben Worthington). National Council of Teachers of English. Boston, MA. November, 2013.
“Reframing College and Career Readiness in the Common Core State Standards.” (with Carrie Sippy, Meaghan Rand, Kerri Flinchbaugh, and Stephanie West-Puckett). WPA Summer Conference. Savannah, GA. July 2013.
“Re/framing Professionalization and Collaboration: The Interconnected Work of WPA and the National Writing Project” (with Kerri B. Flinchbaugh and Stephanie West-Puckett). WPA Summer Conference. Albuquerque, NM. July 2012.
“Experiencing Ourselves as Writers: Rethinking Professional Development for Moving Faculty Writers from Dispositions to Identities” (with Kerri B. Flinchbaugh). International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Savannah, GA. June, 2012.
“Digital Composing/Resisting Possibilities in Public Schools” (with Stephanie West-Puckett and Robert Puckett). Computers and Writing. May, 2012.
Invited Featured Session: “Constructing Queer Digital Spaces: An Overview, a History, a Future” (with Jonathan Alexander). Computers and Writing. May, 2012.
Chair/Respondent: “Rainbow Arches: Gateways or Barriers to LGBTQ Stories and Identities?” Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 23, 2012.
“The Vertical Writing Curriculum: Using Reaccreditation to Integrate and Align Writing Instruction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 22, 2012.
Facilitator. “Navigating Digital Worlds.” Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 21, 2012.
“Creating a Framework for Audience Analysis: Contesting the Boundaries Between Ethos and Pathos in Civic Discourse.” (with Michelle Eble and Barbara L’Epplattenier). Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 9, 2011.
Chair/Respondent. “Embracing the Disruptions: Approaches to Doing Queer Methodologies. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 8, 2011.
“Developing and Responding to Teaching Demonstrations in the Invitational Summer Institute.” (with Jennifer Sharpe) National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL. November 19, 2010.
“Mixing Methods in the Research Methods Course: Why, What, and How?” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 2010.
Chair/Respondent. “Toward a Queer (Re)Mix: Rethinking Rhetoric and Sexuality.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 2010
“Hearing LGBTQ Voices in the Classroom.” National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 20, 2009.
“Writing in the Digital Age: What Do We Know about Good Student Writing and the Environments or Ecologies that Support that Work?” National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 19, 2009.
“Digital Is …” National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 18, 2009.
“Hope for Another History: On the (Im)Possibility of Queer Histories of Rhet-Comp.” Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference: Enabling Complexities.” East Lansing, MI. October 9, 2009.
Chair/Respondent. “Charting New Routes: GLBTQQ Discourses in Professional Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 13, 2009.
Facilitator. “Research on the Effects of Digital Technologies.” Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 11, 2009.
Facilitator. “Researching Educational Interactions: Institutional and Individual Identities and Ethical Issues.” Qualitative Research Network. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 2, 2008.
“More Than a Web Page: Building Writing Project Communities.” National Writing Project Annual Meeting. New York, NY. November 2007.
“Queer Resistance: Conducting Empirical Research on Lesbian and Gay Issues in First-Year Comp.” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Biennial Conference. Little Rock, AR. October 2007.
(Moderater). “Reflecting on Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s): Looking Back, Looking Forward.” Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Biennial Conference. Little Rock, AR. October 2007.
“Digital Writing Research(ers) & Institutional Review Boards: Mapping the Issues for Organizational Position Statements.” (with Michelle Eble, Gail Hawisher, Heidi McKee, James Porter, Clancy Ratliff, Cynthia Selfe, Pam Takayoshi) Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 2007.
“How Queer Can Writing Program Administration Be? New Research from the Field.” (with Jonathan Alexander, Samantha Blackman, and Martha Marinara) Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 23, 2007.
“Queer Eye for the Comp Program: Towards a Queer Critique of WPA Work.” (with Jonathan Alexander) Convention of the Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006.
“Going Public in the Digital Age” (Roundtable). (with Glen Bledsoe, Cathie English, Michelle Rogge-Gannon, and Sandra Shattuck) National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN. November 17, 2006.
“What’s Queer about Writing Program Administration? New Research from the Field.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2006.
“Copyright . . . Copyleft: A Conversation About the Sharing of Practice in the Digital Age.” (with Symmetris Gohanna) National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. November 18, 2005.
“Writing in Digital Spaces.” (with Paul Allison, Michelle Rogge Gannon, and Lindsay Sorben) National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. November 17, 2005.
(Invited Presenter) “WPA 2005 Technology Institute.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Workshop, Institute, and Conference. Anchorage, AK. July 7, 2005.
“Writing Research in Digital Spaces: Issues, Challenges, and Possibilities.” Computers and Writing. Stanford, CA. June 2005.
“Literacy Practices of Gay Boi Bloggers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 17, 2005.
Session Chair. “LGBT Discourse Communities and Digital Technologies in Diverse Contexts” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 17, 2005.
“The Significance of Privilege: Using Peggy McIntosh’s ‘White Privilege’ in Language Arts Classrooms.” (with Susan Spangler, Rachel Spangler, and Catherine Ross). National Council of Teachers of English. Indianapolis, IN. November 19, 2004.
“Let’s Hear It for the (Gay) Bois: Nonfiction texts for Gay Male Adolescents.” National Council of Teachers of English. San Francisco, CA. November 21, 2003.
“Romeo and Juliet through Drama-in-Education: A Gay/Straight Love Story.” (with Paula Ressler and Catherine Ross). National Council of Teachers of English. San Francisco, CA. November 21, 2003.
“*sexuality/technology/writing*: Some Directions for Transforming Our Discipline.” (with Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhoades). Computers and Writing 2003. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. May 2003
“*sexuality/technology/writing*: A Moderated List-Serv Discussion” (with Jonathan Alexander). Computers and Writing Online Conference 2003. May 12 – 18, 2003.
Workshop: “Queering the Classroom: Playing with Themes and Methods in Writing Classes.” (with Martha Marinara, Barbara L’Eplattenier, Trixie G. Smith, Victoria Shannon, Tammie Kennedy, Walt Turner, David L. Wallace, Diane Penrod, and Traci Gardner). Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 19, 2003
“‘Between the Gesture and the Space’: Student/Teacher/Department Negotiations of ‘Controversial’ Courses.” (with Catherine Ross) Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA. November 22, 2002.
“Teaching Revision through Literature: Using Writing to Retell Literary Tales.” (with Bethany Bielfeldt, Claire Lamonica, Janice Neuleib, and Sarah Parlier). National Writing Project Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. November 22, 2002.
“The Online Professional I: Writing and Response in the NWP E-Anthology.” (with Peter Booth, Shirley Brown, Tim Matthew, Mary-Lynn Monroe, Michelle Rogge Gannon, Shari Williams, and Shelbie Witte). National Writing Project Fall Meeting. Atlanta, GA. November 22, 2002.
“We Know Drama: the National Writing Project Connects K-College Teachers Online in the E-Anthology.” (with Michelle Rogge-Gannon and Shirley Brown). Computers and Writing 2002 Conference. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. May 18, 2002.
Moderator. “Poster Session.” Computers and Writing 2002 Conference. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. May 18, 2002.
Full-Day Workshop: “For Those New to Teaching with Technology: Concepts, Skills, and Planning.” (with Dickie Selfe [chair], Kristin Lee Arola, Cheryl E. Ball, Kris Blair Bowling, Christine Tulley, Stuart Blythe, Tracy Bridgeford, Penny Dallas, Amy Graham, Christine Grohowski, Carolyn Handa, Dawn Hayden, Mary Hocks, Nancy Hoft, Karla Kitalong, Michael Moore, Charles Moran, Anne Herrington, Pamela Takayoshi, Michelle Trim, Kathleen Blake Yancey). Computers and Writing 2002. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. May 15, 2002.
“The Threat of Queer(ed) Pedagogies: Writing Teachers Confront Rhetorics of Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 21, 2002.
“Youth Literacy Programs: Models and Designs from across the NWP Network.” (with Sarah Stevens, Freeda Richardson, Diane Holt-Reynolds, Joan M. Hoffmann, Lorna Hershinow, Shel Hershinow, Janis Cramer). National Writing Project Fall Meeting. Baltimore, MD. November 16, 2001.
“We Know Drama: Teacher Stories from the E-Anthology.” (with Shari Williams, Michelle Rogge-Gannon, Mary-Lynne Monroe, Karen McComas, Shirley Brown). National Writing Project Fall Meeting. Baltimore, MD. November 16, 2001.
“Advertising History: Thinking about the Stories our ‘Little Narratives’ Tell.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March 16, 2001.
“Participating in the Virtual NWP, Part 2.” National Writing Project Fall Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. November 17, 2000.
“Listening to Student Silences: A Case for More Careful Attention to Student Texts.” Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. Milwaukee, WI. November 17, 2000.
“Learning Communities: An Instructor’s Perspective.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. April 13, 2000.
“‘When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough’: Teacher Transparency in Classroom Discussions of Gender/Class Issues.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. March, 1999.
“Passing: Presentational Gender Performance in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Kentucky. Louisville, KY. February, 1997.
“Camping Colonialism: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert .” Conference on British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, Ga. April, 1996.
“Passing as Betrayal: The Case of Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars and Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Graduate Student Conference: Theoretical Approaches to Marginalized Literatures. University of Montana at Missoula. April, 1996.
“From the Stage to the Director’s Chair: Inadequate Transcendence in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood.” Conference on British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, Ga. April, 1995.
“Recognizing the Masks: One Way to Read Gay Literature.” Graduate Student Conference: Theoretical Approaches to Marginalized Literatures. University of Montana at Missoula. March, 1995.

Regional

“Inclusive Assessment: A Queer Proposal for Writing Centers.” (with Nicole Caswell). Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference. Richmond, VA. February 23, 2018.
“Welcoming ‘Unwelcomed’ Emotions and Reframing Failure as a Productive Activity.” (with Nicole Caswell). Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference. Columbus, GA. February 18, 2016.
“Administering and Teaching Advanced Writing Courses” (with Nikki Caswell, Matthew Cox, Michelle Eble, Tracy Morse, and Wendy Sharer). South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference. Durham, NC. November 9, 2012.
“(Re)framing Collaboration and Professionalization: The Interconnected Work of WPA’s and the National Writing Project.” (with Kerri B. Finchbaugh and Stephanie West-Puckett). Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Fall Meeting. Little Switzerland, NC. September 18, 2012.
“Troubling Assessments in Writing Across the Curriculum.” Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Fall Meeting. Little Switzerland, NC. September 21, 2010.
“Promises and Perils of Sophomore Composition.” Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Fall Meeting. Little Switzerland, NC. September 22, 2009.
“Writing Courses Online: Dare We Go There?” Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Spring Meeting. Charlotte, NC. February 13, 2009.
“Digital Literacies, Digital Ethics: Writing in(to) the 21^st Century.” Conference Keynote Address. Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference. Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA. February 6, 2009.
“Ethos, Agency, and Young Writers in the Blogosphere.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Charlotte, NC. November 12, 2006.
“Sexuality and Visual Rhetoric in the Advanced Writing Curriculum.” (Chair/Organizer) South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Charlotte, NC. November 11, 2006.
“‘Freedom’s Just Another Word . . .’: Location and Limitation in English Department Writing Programs.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Roanoke, VA. November 13, 2004.
“Preparing to Teach FY Comp: Professional Development in the Writing Program.” Thirty-Eighth Annual Community College and University English Articulation Conference. Allerton House. Monticello, IL. April 15, 2002.
“Selves in the Mirror: An Exploration of Teacher and Student Reflection.” Thirty-Sixth Annual Community College and University English Articulation Conference. Allerton House. Monticello, IL. April 10, 2000.
“‘She was fabulous!’: Camp, AbFab, and the Second British Invasion.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South. Augusta, GA. October, 1998.
“Reconciling Identity: The Case of Tom Spanbauer’s The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South. Columbia, SC. October, 1997.
“Beware of Falling Masks: What Happens When ‘Even Drag is a Drag.’” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South. Savannah, GA. October, 1996.
“‘Lookie! Magic Goop’: Camp as Mask in Contemporary Gay Drama.” Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association in the South. Richmond, VA. October, 1995.
“Songs of Oppression: ‘Memorializing Language’ and the Oral Tradition in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon.” Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association in the South. Charlotte, NC. October, 1994.

State/Local

“Draw the Circle Wide: Queering the Music of Our Faith.” (with Byron Aynes, Brad Collier, Morgan Lane, and Alida Lee.) Love One Another: A Regional Faith Symposium on LGBTQ Community. March 16, 2024.
“Remix, Remake, Curate: Making Science and Poetry in the MOOC.” (with Danielle Lewis, Ashley Hutchinson, Robert Puckett, Stephanie West-Puckett, and Jennifer Smyth.) North Carolina English Teachers Association Conference. Asheville, NC. October 3, 2015.
“Pop-Up Maker Spaces.” (with Danielle Lewis, Ashley Hutchinson, Robert Puckett, and Stephanie West-Puckett.) North Carolina English Teachers Association Conference. Asheville, NC. October 3, 2015.
“What Do You Mean ‘Students Can’t Write?’: A Roundtable Discussion.” (with Todd Finley, Jennifer Sharpe-Salter, and Jonathan Bartels) North Carolina English Teachers Association Conference. Winston-Salem, NC. November 2008.
Invited Speaker. “Gay and Lesbian Literature for/about Young Adults.” Conference of Illinois Teachers of English. Illinois State University. April 11, 2003.
Workshop: “Putting Course Materials on the Web.” Third Annual IATE/ISWP Day of Reunion and Renewal: Teaching with Technology. Illinois State University. February 22, 2003.
“Page to Stage: Working with the State Standards on Oral Communication and Performance” (with Julie Fraser). Illinois Association of Teachers of English Fall Conference. Springfield, IL. October 25, 2002.
“Safety and Curriculum: LGBT Concerns in the English Classroom” (with Jyl Josephson, Catherine Ross, and Pat Meyer). Conference of Illinois Teachers of English (formerly HISED). Illinois State University. April 12, 2002.
“New Opportunities for Middle and High School Teachers in the ISU English Department” (with James Kalmbach). Conference of Illinois Teachers of English (formerly HISED). Illinois State University. April 12, 2002.
“A Techno-Inspired Rhetoric Course: English 128.” Conference on Teaching with Technology. Faculty Technology Support Services. Illinois State University. March 27, 2002.
Chair. “Safe Schools for Gay and Lesbian Students.” Heads of Illinois Secondary English Departments (HISED) Conference. Illinois State University. April 20, 2001.
“The Teaching of Writing at Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1957: A Collaborative Study of the ISU Archives.” (with Rise Quay and Kenneth Lindblom) Illinois State Historical Society. Illinois History Symposium. December 2, 2000.
“A Panel Discussion on Writing Center Pedagogy.” Conference on Student Success in First-Year Composition Classes, Department of Writing and Linguistics, Georgia Southern University. Statesboro, GA. February, 1999.

WORKSHOPS DEVELOPED/FACILITATED

College/University-Level Professional Development

Troubleshooting Your Writing Intensive Course. Offered Regularly, Fall 2017 – Present.
New to Writing Intensive? A WAC Workshop. Offered Regularly, Fall 2017 – Present.
Critical Friends: A Grant Writing Workshop. Offered Regularly, Fall 2018 – Present.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 9-12, 2025 & March 12-15, 2025. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: Catherine Denial’s A Pedagogy of Kindness. Spring 2025. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: José Antoio Bowen & C. Edward Watson’s Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Spring 2025. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: José Antoio Bowen & C. Edward Watson’s Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Fall 2024. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 3-6, 2024. 14 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: April Baker-Bell’s Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy. Spring 2024. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: Michelle Eodice et al.’s The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching, and Writing in Higher Education. Fall 2023. 15 participants.
East Carolina University. Office of Faculty Excellence Panel Discussion: “Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT): Opportunities and Challenges.” April 3, 2023.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 5-8, 2023. 12 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: April Baker-Bell’s Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy. Spring 2023. 12 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: James Lang’s Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. Fall 2022. 19 participants.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 6-9, 2022. 14 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: Susan Blum’s Ungrading. Spring 2022. 22 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: Flower Darby & James Lang’s Small Teaching Online. Fall 2021. 15 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: Flower Darby & James Lang’s Small Teaching Online. Spring 2020. 20 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: John Warner’s Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. Fall 2020. 15 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: John Warner’s Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. Spring 2020. 12 participants.
University Writing Program Graduate Student Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. January 5-8, 2020. 11 participants.
University Writing Program Book Group: John Warner’s Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. Fall 2019. 12 participants.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 3-6, 2019. 10 participants.
Writing and Learning Community: Digital Literacies. Fall 2018 – Spring 2019.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 4-, 2018. 10 participants.
University Writing Program Faculty Writing Retreat. Trinity Center. Pine Knoll Shores, NC. March 5-8, 2017. 10 participants.
“Strategies for Writing a Successful CCCC Proposal” (with Patricia Dunn, Lori Ostergaard, and Jeff Ludwig). Department of English. Illinois State University. April 10, 2002.
Professional Issues Seminar for Student Teachers. (English Education) Illinois State University. January 22 – 28, 2002.
“Working from the Web: A Practical Method for Getting Your Course Materials Online.” Writing Program. Department of English. Illinois State University. January 10-11, 2002.
“Managing a Mailing List.” (with Steve Bonham) Center for Excellence in Teaching. Georgia Southern University. January 21, 1999.
“Utilizing Computer Labs.” New Faculty Workshop. Department of Writing and Linguistics. Georgia Southern University. August, 1998.
“Writing Center Pedagogy and Procedure.” New Faculty Workshop. Department of Writing and Linguistics. Georgia Southern University. August, 1998.
“Making Memos That Matter.” Human Resources (taught for support staff). Georgia Southern University. February, 1998.
“Using the Internet for Research”: A preparatory workshop in Georgia Southern’s Computer Center, designed to help students use the Internet for more effective research projects, especially argumentation. (Offered repeatedly)
Regents’ Test Review: a two-day workshop discussing what the Regents’ test is and how to pass it, taught to several different classes at Georgia Southern each semester. (Offered repeatedly)

K-12 Professional Development

“Digital Is … Re/Composing: Developing 21st Century Literacies Across the Common Core” (Open Institute). Tar River Writing Project. June 18 – 29, 2012.
“Teacher Inquiry Project: An Advanced Institutes for TRWP Teacher Consultants.” Tar River Writing Project. September 2011 – March 2012.
“Teacher Inquiry Project: An Advanced Institutes for TRWP Teacher Consultants.” Tar River Writing Project. September 2010 – March 2010.
“Teacher Inquiry Projects: An Advanced Institute for TRWP Teacher Consultants.” Tar River Writing Project. September 2009 – April 2010.
“Responding to Student Writing in Online Environments.” Tar River Writing Project. Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools. Online Modules. November 3 – 24, 2008.
“Writing into the Graduation Project.” Tar River Writing Project. Williamston High School, Williamston, NC. March 31 – April 21, 2008.
“Teacher Research Institute: An Advanced Institute for TRWP Teacher Consultants.” Tar River Writing Project. September 2008 – April 2009; September 2007 – April 2008.
“Writing and Technology: A Professional Writing Retreat.” Sponsored by the National Writing Project. Philadelphia, PA. August 4 – 7, 2005. (Invited Facilitator)
“Technology Matters: An Advanced Institute for Technology Liaisons.” Sponsored by the Marshall University Writing Project, National Writing Project. Huntington, WV. July 18 – 24, 2005; July 6 – 11, 2004. (Invited Facilitator)
Young Writers Workshop: “Writing the Web” (with Bethany Bielfield and Sarah Parlier). Sponsored by the Illinois State University Writing Project, National Writing Project. July 2003.
Young Writers Workshop: “Page to Stage” (with Bethany Bielfield and Sarah Parlier). Sponsored by the Illinois State University Writing Project, National Writing Project. January – February, 2002; July 15 – 20, 2002.
Young Writers Workshop: “Reflections: A Creative Writing Workshop” (with Michael D. Carruth). Sponsored by the Illinois State University Writing Project, National Writing Project. Summer 2001.

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Professional/External

National Council of Teachers of English/Conference on College Composition & Communication

Chair, Qualitative Research Network. CCCC. Fall 2017 – Present.
NCTE College Steering Committee. Member: Nov 2023 – Present.
Richard Ohmann Award Committee. NCTE. Chair: 2024.
NCTE Research Foundation. Chair: Nov 2019 – Nov 2021; Member: Nov 2017 — Nov 2021.
CCCC Stonewall Service Award. Member: 2024-25; 2023-24; 2021-22. Chair: Fall 2023; Member: Fall 2018.
CCCC Stage 2 Reviewer – 2021, 2015.
CCCC Stage 1 Reviewer – 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Dissertation Award Selection Committee. 2017-18; 2016-17.
Resolutions Committee – Spring 2015.
Nominating Committee – Spring 2014.
CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence (Chair) – Fall 2013 – Spring 2014.
CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication (Chair) – Fall 2012 – Spring 2013.

Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)

Nominating Committee – Fall 2013.

Computers and Writing Conference (CW)

Conference Proposal Reviewer — Fall 2023
Conference Advisory Committee — Fall 2022 – Summer 2023.
Conference Proposal Reviewer — Fall 2022
Conference Co-Chair 2022
Conference Co-Chair 2020 (Canceled due to COVID)
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2018
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2017
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2016
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2015
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2014
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2013
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2005
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2004
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2003
Conference Proposal Reviewer – Fall 2002

North Carolina English Teachers Association (NCETA)

Board Member/NCTE Liaison: Spring 2023 – Present.
Board Member/Writing Project Liaison: Fall 2015 – Spring 2022.

East Carolina University: University Service

Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (Ex Officio) – Fall 2011 – Present.
Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Resource Office Advancement Council — Chair: Spring 2023 – Present; Member, Fall 2017 – Spring 2023.
Digital Learning Advisory Committee — Fall 2020 – Present.
Distance Education and Learning Technology (DELT) Committee — 2019 – 2022. Vice Chair (2021-22).
Honors College Advisory Committee – 2015-2019.
QEP Steering Committee – Summer 2011 – Spring 2019.
QEP Council – Fall 2011 – Spring 2019.
- Working Group: Writing Center Expansion (Co-Chair) – Spring 2012.
- Working Group: Sophomore Writing Course (Co-Chair) – Spring 2012.
- Working Group: Writing Across the Curriculum (Chair) – Fall 2011.
Search Committee (University Writing Center Director) – Fall 2011 – Spring 2012.
Search Committee (Assistant Director, UWP) – Summer 2011.
Honors College Advisory Committee – Fall 2009 – Spring 2011.
Writing Across the Curriculum Committee (Chair) – Fall 2010 – Spring 2011.
SACS Working Group: Administrative Offices – Fall 2010 – Spring 2011.
HCAS Curriculum Committee. Fall 2006 – Spring 2011.
Search Committee (University Writing Program Director). Fall 2008 – Spring 2009.

East Carolina University: Department of English

Undergraduate Committee. Fall 2020 – Present.
Composition Committee. (Ex-Officio) Fall 2006 – Present.
Research and Creative Activity Award Committee. Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019.
Bertie E. Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award Committee. Fall 2016 – Summer 2020.
English Department Workload Committee. (Ad Hoc) Fall 2014 – Spring 2017.
Student Scholarships and Awards Committee. Fall 2015.
Executive Committee. Fall 2009 – Summer 2011.
Personnel Committee. Fall 2006 – Summer 2010.
- Chair, Spring 2010.
Student Scholarships and Awards Committee. Fall 2009 – Spring 2010.
Doctoral Steering Committee (Ad Hoc) Fall 2008 – Spr. 2009.
Doctoral Admission Committee (Ad Hoc) Fall 2006 – Spr. 2009.
Graduate Committee. Fall 2005 – Spring 2008; Fall 2011 – Summer 2020.
Composition Committee. Fall 2004 – Spr. 2006.
Search Committee (Rhetoric and Composition: Assistant and Associate) Fall 2005 – Spr. 2006.
Core Revision Committee (Ad Hoc) Fall 2003 – Spr. 2005.
Search Committee (Discourse Studies) Spring 2004.

Illinois State University: University Service

University Teaching Committee (Chair: Douglas Hesse). Fall 2002 – Present. Responsible for planning university teaching workshops and demonstrations, evaluating teaching portfolios for university teaching awards, and making recommendations to the Provost regarding pedagogy and instruction at Illinois State University.

Illinois State University: Department of English

Graduate Committee (Chair: Ronald Strickland). Fall 2002 – Spring 2003.
English Education Committee (Chair: Paula Ressler). Fall 2001 – Spring 2003.
Computers and Writing 2002 Conference Planning Committee. Fall 2001 – Spring 2002.
Writing Committee (Chair: Janice Neuleib). Fall 2000 – Spring 2001.
Technology Committee (Chair: Kim Stone). Fall 1999 – Spring 2000.

Georgia Southern University: University Service

Cultural Diversity Week Committee. January 1998 – May 1998.
Religious Awareness Week Committee. January 1997 – May 1997.
Black Awareness Month Committee. October 1996 – February 1997.

Georgia Southern University: Department of Writing and Linguistics

Technology Committee (Chair: Ellen Hendrix). Fall 1996 – Spring 1998.
Departmental Identity Committee (Chair: Laura Milner). Fall 1997 – Spring 1998.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Council of Teachers of English (since 1996)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (since 1996)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (since 1998)
National Writing Project (since 1998)
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition (since 1999)
Carolinas Writing Program Administrators (since 2004)
North Carolina English Teachers Association (since 2005)
Modern Language Association (2005 – 2008)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (2005 – 2008)
Illinois State Writing Project (2000 – 2004)
Illinois Association of Teachers of English (IATE) (2000 – 2004)