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DEGREES

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2002

M.F.A University of Pittsburgh,1996

B.A. Southern Connecticut State University, 1993

INTERESTS

Composition pedagogies and theories, writing and digital technologies, avant-garde aesthetics, classical rhetoric

BOOK

Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

  • “The Literate Subject (and Some Objects) in Action.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA.  2019
  • “Writing with Posthumanist Aesthetics: Teaching Transactions for Transforming Texts.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, IL. 2019
  • “Practices for Exploring the Unknown: Fostering Intellectual Curiosity with Digital Tools.” Innovations in Pedagogy Summit. Center for Teaching Excellence. University of Virginia. May 3, 2017. Charlottesville, VA. Organizer. Presented with Steph Ceraso, Kelli Shermeyer, James Ascher, and Kerri Reichhardt. 2017
  • "Asked and Answered: Teaching Inquiry and the Rhetorics of Critique and Assertion.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2017. Portland, Oregon.
  • “Writing: A Digital Humanity.” Invited talk. “Day of Digital Humanities,” Washington and Lee University. August 31,2016. Lexington, VA.
  • “Multimedia Essay Writing.” Invited talk. Monticello Reading Council, Central Virginia Writing Project, UVa Young Writer’s Workshop and the Curry School Ed Council Present a Conference:Beyond Tradition: Reconsidering Writing Instruction and Student Writers. Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. 2015
  • “Cybernetic Developmental Networks with Writing Teachers.” Developmental Networks for Novice College Writing Teachers. Charles Paine, Patricia Sullivan, and James Seitz. University of New Mexico Mentoring Conference. Albuquerque, NM. 2014.
  • “Programs, Systems, and Circles: Shared Writing Program Administration.” Countering Contingency Conference. Adjunct Faculty Association, United Steelworkers. Pittsburgh, PA. 2013.
  • "Posthuman, Postprint, Postpublic, Postportfolio? Electronic Portfolios and Multimodal Composition in Theory and Practice.” 2012 College Conference on Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO.
  • “Multimodal Composition in the Writing Program.” Teaching 2.0: Faculty Perspectives and Practices. The Educational Technology Center. Northeastern University. Boston, MA. 2011.

SAMPLE OF GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

  • Faculty Seminar: The Teaching of Writing, co-taught with Jim Seitz
  • Graduate courses: Writing Pedagogy; Seminar in Writing and the Teaching of Writing; Topics in Writing: Aesthetics, Politics and Pedagogies; Key Concepts in Rhetoric and Composition; Intro. to Rhetoric [Center for the Liberal Arts at UVA]
  • Undergraduate courses: Advanced Writing: The Photographic Essay; Advanced Writing: Writing as Technology: Echols Scholars; Special Topics: Writing Digital Stories and Electronic Essays; Tutoring Peer Writers: Introduction to Academic Writing: Writing and Technology; The Writing Process; Junior/Senior Seminar: Rhetoric and Aesthetics: Studies in Fiction: Science Fiction