ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor of Business Communication, Finance and Management Information Sciences, Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2009-Present.

  • Graduate Instructor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2003-2009.

EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Philosophy in English
    Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2009
    Dissertation: "Rhetoric for Becoming Otherwise: Life, Literature, Genealogy, Flight"

  • Master of Arts in English
    Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2005

  • Bachelor of Arts
    Majors: English and Philosophy/Religion; Minor: Art
    Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, IA, 2001

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Castaneda's Ecstatic Pedagogy: The Teachings of Don Juan." Configurations. 16.2 (2009): 245-266.

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

  • "Transformative Access and the Technological Commons: Toward an Ethics of Interface." Article Manuscript. 25 pages.

  • "The Sublime Rhetoric of Crowds: Edmund Burke, Power, Exemplary Events." Article Manuscript. 28 pages.

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Twitter as Heraclitean War Machine: Real-time Revolutions and Aggregating Utopian Flows." 14th Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 2010. [PROPOSED]

  • "Computer-Mediated Careers: Social Networking, Digital Exposures, and the Composition of Professional Identities." Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. October 2009.

  • "Technology and Composition: Access, Ethics, Interface." Rhetorics and Technologies. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. July 2007.

  • "Goodbye Blue Monday: Hacker Utopianism Meets Open-Source Capitalism." Computers and Writing 2007. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. May 2007.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH

  • Business Communications (FMIS 3141): 3 sections

    • upper division course covering principles of business communication and their application to oral, written, and nonverbal communication

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

  • Advanced Technical Writing (ENGL 418): 4 sections

    • upper division advanced professional writing course focusing on advanced editing, design, and usability techniques
    • Key Features: collaborative writing and editing, e-portfolio and web design, rigorous graphic design instruction and critique

  • Technical Writing (ENGL 202c): 8 sections

    • upper division professional writing course for majors in Engineering and the sciences
    • Key Features: service learning projects, usability testing, genre based instruction (definitions, descriptions, reports)

  • Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15): 4 sections

    • lower division course introducing rhetorical principles and persuasive writing at the college level
    • Key Features: rhetorical theory and stasis theory, classical rhetorical models, visual rhetoric, collaborative teaching/ linked courses

WRITING PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

  • Graduate Instructor Mentor, Composition Program, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2007-2008.

    • Mentored group of 5 first-year graduate instructors: observed classroom instruction, led monthly training exercises and discussion groups, filed comprehensive evaluations for each instructor

  • Composition Program Assistant, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2007.

    • Collaborated with Director, Associate Director, and Staff Assistant in the daily operation and oversight of over 200 composition courses serving over 4000 students per semester; primary courses included First-year Composition, Writing in the Humanities, Writing in the Social Sciences, Technical Writing, and Business Writing;
    • Specific Duties: collected and reviewed composition course syllabi; assisted graduate instructor training program; developed recommended text-book lists; maintained Composition Program instructional materials library; designed and presented teacher training workshop events; administered student grade appeal process

AWARDS

  • Graduate Instructor Teaching Award (PhD), Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2008.

  • Wilma R. Ebbitt Graduate Award in Rhetoric, Pennsylvania State University, 2007.

  • Edwin Erle Sparks Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2004-2005.

SERVICE

  • Committee for Awards, Recognition, and Excellence (CARE), Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2009-Present.

  • Faculty Mentorship Program, Office of Disability Resources, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2009-Present.

  • Undergraduate Advisor (40 students), Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2009-Present.

  • Composition Committee, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2007.

TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

  • Web Designer, Dr. Carla Mulford personal website. Pennsylvania State University, 2007-2008.

  • Wiki and Listserv Administrator, Composition Program, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2007.

  • Web Designer, English Department. Buena Vista University, 2000-2001.

  • Web Designer, Career Services. Buena Vista University, 1997-1998.


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