CURRICULUM VITAE
PAUL HEILKER
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
24061
Paul.Heilker@vt.edu
EDUCATION
Blue
Ridge Writing Program Fellow—National Writing Project, Virginia Tech,
2010.
Ph.D.
in English—Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Texas Christian University,
1992.
M.A.
in English—Concentration in Teaching, Colorado State University, 1988.
B.A.
in English—Literature (major); Journalism (minor); Teaching Certification
(minor); State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1985.
ACADEMIC
EMPLOYMENT
Faculty
Member, Presidential Global Scholars Program, Honors Program, Virginia Tech,
2012—Present.
Director,
PhD Program in Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Tech. 2011—Present.
Co-Director,
PhD Program in Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Tech. 2006—2011.
Associate
Professor of English, Virginia Tech.
2000—Present.
Coordinator,
University Writing Program, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
Virginia Tech. 2003—2004.
Director,
First-Year Composition, Virginia Tech. 1994—2004.
Assistant
Professor of English, Virginia Tech. 1994—2000.
Assistant
Professor of English, Loyola University of Chicago. 1992—1994.
PUBLICATIONS
Work in Progress
Keywords in
Writing Studies. Edited with Peter
Vandenberg. Under contract with
Utah State University Press.
Manuscript to be delivered January 2013.
Books
The Essay:
Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form.
Urbana, IL: National Council
of Teachers of English, 1996. pp.
xx; 206.
Keywords in
Composition Studies. Edited with Peter
Vandenberg. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann Educational Books, 1996.
pp. xii; 243.
Chapters Published in Edited Scholarly Collections
"The
Rhetorics of Online Autism Advocacy: A Case for
Rhetorical Listening." With
Jason King. Rhetorics and Technologies: New Directions in Communication. Ed. Stuart Selber. Columbia, SC: University of South
Carolina Press, 2010. 113-133.
"Creating
Active Citizens: Fostering Effective Student Writing and Speaking." Teaching
Excellence at a Research-Centered University: Energy, Empathy, and Engagement
in the Classroom. Eds. E. Scott
Geller and Philip K. Lehman.
Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007. 131-138.
"Researching
Like a Writer: The Personal Essay as Research Paper." Research
Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Eds. Wendy Bishop and Pave Zemliansky.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2004. 49-56.
"Cognitive
Travelogue: The Essay as Travel Narrative." The
Subject is Story. Eds. Wendy
Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann,
2003. 124-135.
"Learning
to Walk the Walk: Mentors, Theory, and Practice in Composition Pedagogy." Composition Pedagogy in Perspective: Landmarks and Horizons. Eds. Christina R. McDonald and Robert L.
MacDonald. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 2002.
259-267.
"B,
Box, Beast, Beyond." Writing What We Teach. Ed.
David L. Starkey. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. 166-175.
"What
I Know Now: the Personal and the Emotional in Teaching English." Great
Beginnings: Reflections and Advice for New Language Arts Teachers and the
People Who Mentor Them. Ed. Ira
Hayes. Urbana, IL: National Council
of Teachers of English, 1998: 73-80.
"Rhetoric
Made Real: Civic Discourse and Writing Beyond the Curriculum." Writing
the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner,
Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters.
Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1997. 71-78.
"The
Rhetoric of Spirituality in Popular Meditation Books." The Spiritual Side of Writing. Eds. Regina Foehr
and Susan Schiller. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann Educational Books, 1997.
107-117.
"Critical
Thinking, the Thesis/Support Form, and the Essay." Reading
and Writing Nonfiction. Ed.
Philip Anderson. Schenectady: New
York State English Council, 1994.
87-101.
Articles Published in Refereed Scholarly Journals
"Autism,
Rhetoric, and Whiteness." Disability Studies Quarterly 32.3
(October 2012).
"Autism
and Rhetoric." With Melanie Yergeau. College English 73.5 (May 2011):
485-497.
"On
Genres as Ways of Being." Writing on the Edge 21.2 (2011): 19-31.
"The
Disappearance of Style from College Composition: A Cultural
Perspective." Studies in American Culture 33.1 (2010):
53-69.
"Comment
and Response: Two Comments on ÔNeurodiversity.Õ" College
English 70.3 (2008): 319-321.
"Twenty
Years In: An Essay in Two Parts." College
Composition and Communication 58.2 (2006): 182-212.
"Official
Feasts and Carnivals: Student Writing as Public Ritual." Teaching
English in the Two-Year College 29.1 (2001): 77-84.
"On
Not Teaching (or Confessions of a New Writing Program
Administrator)." Writing on the Edge 7.1 (1996): 23-33.
"Writing
Process and the Writing of Essays."
Issues in Writing 6.1 (1994):
51-74.
"Discipline
and Punish and Process and Paradigms (or Foucault, Visibility,
(Dis)Empowerment, and the Construction of Composition Studies)." Composition
Studies 22.1 (1994): 4-13.
"'Nothing
Personal': Twenty-Five Forays into the Personal in (My) Composition
Pedagogy." The Writing Instructor 12.2 (1993): 55-66.
"Revision
Worship and the Computer as Audience."
Computers and Composition 9.3
(1992): 59-69.
"Public
Products/Public Processes: Zoellner's Praxis and the
Contemporary Composition Classroom."
Rhetoric Review 10.2 (1992):
232-238.
"Textual
Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay, and the Politics of Identity in
Composition (or The Struggle to Be a Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude)." Writing on the Edge 3.2 (1992): 64-76.
"The
Struggle for Articulation and Didion's Construction
of the Reader's Self-Respect in Slouching Towards Bethlehem." The
CEA Critic 54.3 (1992): 26-36.
"The
Bi-Polar Mind and the Inadequacy of Oppositional Pedagogies (or The Dead Poets
Society Revisited)." Freshman English News 19.3 (1991): 5-9.
"'Listener
Response': An Introduction to
Active Aesthetic Reading for the Sophomore Literature Survey." College
Literature 18.2 (1991):
135-140.
Literary Nonfiction
"On
Running." The Truth About the Fact: An International Journal of Literary
Nonfiction 6.1 (2011): 106-116.
"Inertia," "Philadelphia," and "Profusion." Connotation Press 1.3 (2009): http://connotationpress.com/index.php/creative-nonfiction/224-paul-heilker-inertia
INVITED
PRESENTATIONS
"On
Outcomes, Exigence, and Genres: My First 25 Years in Composition." Keynote Address. The Two-Year College Assocation-Southeast
Annual Conference. Virginia Beach,
VA, 23 February 2012.
"Exploring (with) the Essay." The Two-Year College Assocation-Southeast
Annual Conference. Virginia Beach,
VA, 23 February 2012.
"Multiple Uses of Writing: WAC/WID,
Assessment, and Faculty Agency."
Keynote Address. Virginia
Community College System English and ESL Peer Group Conference. Richmond, VA, 28 October 2010.
"New Genres, Being, and Curriculum
Mapping." Virginia
Community College System English and ESL Peer Group Conference. Richmond, VA, 28 October 2010.
"On
Autism, Rhetoric, Genres, and Being." University of Northern Colorado, Neal
Cross Lecture Series. Greeley, CO,
12 February 2010.
"What
Should We Be Doing in First-Year
Composition Courses?" University of
Northern Colorado, Neal Cross Lecture Series. Greeley, CO, 11 February 2010.
"Genres
as Ways of Being." Plenary
Address. Spilman
Symposium on Issues in the Teaching of Writing, Virginia Military
Institute. Lexington, VA, 26
September 2009.
"Place,
Space, and the 21st Century Essay."
Summer Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition. Ann Arbor, MI, 6 June 2009.
"Why
the Essay?" Lynchburg College,
Lynchburg, VA, 29 January 2007.
"A
Moratorium on the Thesis-Driven Essay." Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, 29
January 2007.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
"Entropy, Androids, Empathy, Autism, Humanity." Worlds
Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick.
Dortmund, Germany. 18
November 2012.
"Essaying
and Being." Writing: Paradigms,
Power, Poetics, Praxis. Salzburg,
Austria. 10 November 2012.
"Reconsidering
Literature and Composition: Then and Now." Conference on College Composition and
Communication. St. Louis, MO, 23
March 2012.
"The
Essay, Communication, and Conflict."
Global Conference on Communication and Conflict. Prague, Czech Republic, 4 November 2011.
"Autism,
Rhetoric, and Whiteness." Global
Conference on Images of Whiteness: Exploring Critical Issues. Oxford, United Kingdom, 14 July 2011.
"The
Rhetorics of Autistic Identity: Diseased, Disabled,
Diverse, Shiny, Supremacist."
Contemporary Identities: Paris International Conference. Paris, France, 15 April 2011.
"Institutional
Inception: Carving out Research Center Space through Acts of Definition." Conference on College Composition and
Communication. San Francisco, CA,
13 March 2009.
"The
Ethics of Socially Responsible Research: Moving Beyond Paralysis." Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA, 23 May 2008.
"Rhetoric
and Autism." Conference on College
Composition and Communication. New
Orleans, LA, 3 April 2008.
"The
Rhetoric of Online Advocacy by Aspies for
Freedom." Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition.
University Park, PA, 9 April 2007.
"The
Virginia Tech Medical Rhetoric Research Group." Virginia Tech Dean's Forum on Health,
Food, and Nutrition. Blacksburg,
VA, 5 November 2007.
"Neurodiversity and 'The Students' Right to Their Own
Language.'" Fourth Annual
Scholarship on Diversity Conference.
Blacksburg, VA, 16 March 2007.
""Cognitive
Travelogue: The Essay as Travel Narrative." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition. Louisville, KY, 7
October 2006.
"The
On-Campus Transition Program: A Teacher's Perspective." Educating Students in the Autism
Spectrum for Life in the 21st Century.
Roanoke, VA, 4 October 2006.
"'Leverage
Resources from Outside Sources': Standardization, Budget Cuts, and the Move
Toward Corporate Sponsorship."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY, 22 March 2003.
"Graduate
Student Representation in CCCC: The View from the Executive
Committee." College
Composition and Communication Convention.
Chicago, IL, 22 March 2002.
"Black
Helicopters: Stealth Forces at Work on Writing Instruction at a
University." College
Composition and Communication Convention.
Denver, CO, 15 March 2001.
"Official
Feasts and Carnivals: Student Writing as Public Ritual." College Composition and Communication
Convention. Minneapolis, MN, 14
April 2000.
"Classical
Epistolary Theory, the Ars Dictamanis,
and Contemporary Monetary Petitions from Non-Profit Organizations." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial
Convention. Pittsburgh, PA, June
1998.
"A
Rhetoric of Healing: Student-Composed Meditation Books." College Composition and Communication
Convention. Phoenix, AZ, March
1997.
"Traumatic
Awakenings: Becoming Theoretically Aware as a Composition Teacher." Modern Language Association
Convention. Washington, D.C.,
December 1996.
"The
Meanings of Theory and the Evolution of Composition." Thomas R. Watson Conference on
Composition and Rhetoric.
Louisville, KY, October 1996.
"Rhetoric,
Social Action, and Student Writing."
Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, IL, December 1995.
"The
Essay: Counterpractice, Anti-Method, Heresy." South Atlantic Modern Language
Association Convention. Atlanta,
GA, November 1995.
"'Interrogation
Without End': Foucault and the Composition Program as a Site of Inquiry." Modern Language Association
Convention. San Diego, CA, December
1994.
"Contexts
for Nonfiction: The Epistemologies of Genre." CEA Session on Nonfiction. Modern Language Association
Convention. San Diego, CA, December
1994.
"Critical
Thinking, the Thesis/Support Form, and the Essay." Midwest Modern Language Association
Convention. Chicago, IL, November
1994.
"Grammar
B: An/Other Look." South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Convention.
Baltimore, MD, November 1994.
"The
Heteroglossia of Composition Studies: Bakhtin and the Keywords Project." College Composition and Communication
Convention. Nashville, TN, March
1994.
"Fifteen
Forays into the Personal in (My) Composition Pedagogy." Fourth Annual Texas Christian University
Symposium on Teaching Composition.
Fort Worth, TX, February 1994.
"The
Essay: A Discursive Form for Valuing Teaching as Inquiry/Research." Modern Language Association
Convention. Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, December 1993.
"The
Reality Check: Focused, Timely, Useful Feedback." Roundtable on Evaluating Teaching. Modern Language Association
Convention. Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, December 1993.
"Veering
Toward the Radically Particular: The Future of Composition Studies." Midwest Modern Language Association
Convention. Minneapolis, MN,
November 1993.
"Blinding,
Demeaning, and Cheating Ourselves: Composition as Academic Preparation." Midwest Modern Language Association
Convention. Minneapolis, MN,
November 1993.
"The
Essay: An Alternative Form for Composition Instruction." The Chicago Area English Articulation
Conference. Chicago, IL, October
1993.
"Discipline
and Punish and Process and Paradigms (or Foucault, Visibility, and the
Construction of Composition Studies)."
Wyoming Conference on English.
Laramie, WY, June 1993.
"Amnesty
International: A Desperately Real Rhetorical Situation for Student
Writers." College Composition and
Communication Convention. San
Diego, CA, April 1993.
"Academic
Freedom, the Thesis/Support Form, and the Essay." Modern Language Association
Convention. New York, NY, December
1992.
"Kineticism Incarnate: Reconsidering the Nature of the
Essay." CEA Roundtable on
Nonfiction. Modern Language
Association Convention. New York,
NY, December 1992.
"Writing
Process and the Writing of Essays."
University of New Hampshire Conference on "Writing Process: Retrospect
and Prospect." Durham, NH, October
1992.
"Literacy,
Assimilation, and Resistance."
Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, CA, December 1991.
"Toward
a Rhetoric of Anti-Travel Writing."
CEA Roundtable on Nonfiction.
Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, CA, December 1991.
"Wife-as-Coin
and the Paradoxical Economics of Infidelity in The Merchant's Tale." South Central Modern Language Association
Convention. Fort Worth, TX,
November 1991.
"'Listener
Response': An Introduction to
Active Aesthetic Reading for the Sophomore Literature Survey." College English Association Convention. San Antonio, TX, April 1991.
"Public
Products/Public Processes: Zoellner's Praxis and the
Contemporary Classroom." College
Composition and Communication Convention.
Boston, MA, March 1991.
"Textual
Androgyny and the Politics of Identity in Composition." The National Graduate Student Conference
on English Studies. Lincoln, NE,
November 1990.
"Revision
Worship and the Computer as Audience."
Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University Park, PA, July 1990.
"The
Bi-Polar Mind and the Inadequacy of Oppositional Pedagogies (or The Dead Poets
Society Revisited)." The Wyoming
Conference on English. Laramie, WY,
June 1990.
"What
Student Writers Say About Motivation."
Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. Chicago, IL, March 1990.
GRADUATE
COURSES
ENGL 5104, Blue Ridge Writing
Project Invitational Summer Institute, Summer I 2010, Summer I 2011, Summer I
2012.
ENGL
6304, Disciplinary Issues, Virginia Tech, Fall 2007, Fall 2011.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Hunter Thompson and the American Dream, Virginia
Tech, Summer II 2010.
RW
6514, Studies in Rhetoric—Modern Rhetoric, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Theories of Satire, Virginia Tech, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—World Englishes,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5314/5244/5974/5174, The Twentieth-Century Essay, Virginia Tech, Fall 1996, Fall
2000, Fall 2002, Summer 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2013.
ENGL
5054/5454, Composition Theory, Virginia Tech, Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1998,
Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—The Role of Ethos
in Nonprofit Grantwriting, Virginia Tech, Fall 2007.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Thomas Browne and the Early English Essay,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Contemporary Composition Theory: Race,
Disability, and Orientation, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Studies in Writing Across the Curriculum,
Virginia Tech, Spring 1997.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Theories of Writing Processes, Virginia Tech,
Fall 1996.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—Basic Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Virginia Tech,
Spring 1996
E
402, The Teaching of College Composition, Loyola University of Chicago, Spring
1994.
E
401, The Teaching of Writing, Loyola University of Chicago, Fall 1993.
E
501, Independent Study—Computers and Composition, Loyola University of
Chicago, Fall 1993.
E
409, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Loyola University of Chicago, Fall 1992.
PH.D.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Franny Howes,
Fall 2012—Present.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Cynthia Fields, Fall 2012—Present.
Director,
Dissertation Committee for Libby Anthony, Fall 2010—Present.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Heidi Lawrence, Fall 2010—Present.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Amy Reed, Virginia Tech, Fall 2008—Present.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Brian Gogan, Virginia
Tech, Fall 2008—Spring 2011.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Tyra O'Bryan, Syracuse University, 2007—2010.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Sarah Allen, University of South Carolina.
2004—2006.
Co-Chair,
Dissertation Committee for Robert Prickett, English
Education, Virginia Tech, 2003—2006.
Member,
Dissertation Committee for Rhonda Catron, English Education, Virginia
Tech, 1999—2001.
M.A. THESIS
PROJECTS DIRECTED
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Students' Right to their Own Language:
A Critical Reassessment," Gracemarie Mike,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2011.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Representations
of Contemporary Pregnant Women: The Conflicting Rhetoric of 'Yummy
Mummies,'"
Lindsay Ehrlich, Virginia Tech, Spring 2011.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Concept of Audience in First-Year
Composition Pedagogy," Tess Sell, Virginia Tech, Spring 2011.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Teaching for Social Justice in Composition:
The Bracher Debate," Heather Draxl,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Feminist Pedagogies in Composition,"
Elizabeth Prisley, Virginia Tech, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the American Dream," Matthew Fisher,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2010.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Composition Instruction and Weight Training:
An Exploration," Bryan Friel, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2009.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"A Pedagogy of Productive Conflict for
First-Year Composition," Jeffrey Spicer, Virginia Tech, Spring 2009.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Representation of Race in The Journal
of Basic Writing," Rachel Milloy, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2009.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Web-Based Medical Advocacy by Breast Cancer
Patients," Kara LaFleur, Virginia Tech, Spring
2008.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Instructional Technology and Basic Writing
Courses," Miranda Jones, Virginia Tech, Spring 2005.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The History of Scholarship on Textbooks in
Composition Studies," Megan O'Neill, Virginia Tech, Spring 2005.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Toulmin Model
of Argument in Composition Studies," Deidre Williamson, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2005.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Reviving Expressivism
in First-Year Composition Courses," Mary Beth Pennington, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2004.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Visual Intelligence and Visual Learning in
Composition Pedagogy," Danielle Anderson, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Uses of Film in Composition
Pedagogy," Robert Prickett, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2004.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Scott Russell Sanders, Wendell Berry, and
the Importance of Place," Blair Morris, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Coming to Voice as a Black, Female
Academic," Danielle Warthen, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2004.
ENGL
5994, Thesis—"Imitation in First-Year Composition," Tyra Twomey, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Making Writing Process Public," Emily
Lewis, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Portfolio Assessment in First-Year
Composition," Julie Mengert, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Behavioral Conditioning and Writing
Pedagogy," Teggin Chamberlain, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2003.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Visual Rhetoric in First-Year Writing
Courses," Allen Brizee, Virginia Tech, Spring
2002.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Bartholomae/Elbow
Debate in Composition Studies," Sarah Allen, Virginia Tech, Spring 2002.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Personal Essay and Critical Work,"
Adam Monroe, Virginia Tech, Spring 2002.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Service-Learning in Composition Courses,"
David Rutkowski, Virginia Tech, Spring 2001.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"The Filipino Essay," Aileen Salonga, Virginia Tech, Spring 2001.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Studies in Civic Discourse," Davina Copsy, Virginia Tech,
Spring 1998.
ENGL
5974, Independent Study—"Post-Writing: A Neglected Aspect of Writing
Process," Michael Attisano, Virginia Tech, Fall
1996.
UNDERGRADUATE
COURSES
ENGL
3104: Introduction to Professional Writing, Virginia Tech, Spring 2012.
ENGL
4974: Independent Study: "The History of University English
Departments," Matthew Skowronski, Spring 2012.
UH 2984: Discourse and Global Society, Presidential Global Scholars
Program, Honors Program, Center for European Studies and Architecture, Virginia
Tech, February 2012.
ENGL
1106, The Writing Project, Virginia Tech, Spring 1996, Spring 1999, Spring
2001, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Summer
2009, Spring 2011.
ENGL
3754, Advanced Composition, Virginia Tech, Fall 1994, Spring 1996, Spring 1998,
Fall 1999, Spring 2006, Fall 2010.
ENGL
H1204, Honors Composition, Virginia Tech, Fall 2009.
UH
4994, Undergraduate Honors Research—Autism in Film, Virginia Tech, Fall
2007.
ENGL
4974, Independent Study—The Contemporary American Essay, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2007.
ENGL
1105, Critical Literacy, Virginia Tech, Fall 1994, Summer 1997, Fall 1997,
Summer 1998, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Fall 2004, Fall 2006.
ENGL
4784, Senior Seminar, The Contemporary American Essay—Theory, Criticism,
Composition, Virginia Tech. Summer
1996, Summer 2000, Summer 2004.
ENGL
4784, Senior Seminar, New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel, Virginia
Tech. Summer 1999, Summer 2002.
ENGL
4974, Independent Study—Writing Portfolio, Virginia Tech, Fall 1995.
E
310, Advanced Writing, Loyola University of Chicago, Fall 1993, Spring 1994.
E
201, Writing II (Research/Argumentation), Loyola University of Chicago, Fall
1993, Spring 1994.
E
101, Writing I, Loyola University of Chicago, Fall 1992, Spring 1993, Fall
1993, Spring 1994.
ENGL
2803, Research and Argumentation, Texas Christian University, Fall 1990, Spring
1991, Fall 1991, Spring 1992.
CO
301, Writing in the Humanities, Colorado State University, Fall 1988, Spring
1989.
CO
150, Freshman Composition, Colorado State University, Fall 1986, Spring 1987,
Fall 1987, Spring 1988, Fall 1988,
Spring 1989.
CO
101, Fundamentals of Composition (Basic Writing), Colorado State University,
Fall 1986, Spring 1987.
SERVICE /
OUTREACH
Professional Service
Member,
Leadership Team, Blue Ridge Writing Project, 2012—Present.
Member,
Advisory Board, Composition Studies,
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Spring 2006—Present.
Manuscript
Reviewer, College Composition and
Communication, 2003—Present.
Advisory
Board Member, Spilman Symposium on the Teaching of
Writing, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA. 2002—Present.
Manuscript
Reviewer, Teaching English in the
Two-Year College, 2001—Present.
Manuscript
Reviewer, The Writing Instructor,
2001—Present.
Manuscript
Reviewer, College English,
2000—Present.
Manuscript
Reviewer, Composition Studies,
1996—Present.
Member,
Newcomers' Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Fall
2007—Spring 2011.
Member,
Committee on Disability Issues, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Fall 2006—Spring 2011.
Chair,
Resolutions Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spring
2010.
Chair,
National Taskforce on Multiple Uses of Writing, Conference on College
Composition and Communication. Spring 2005—Spring 2008.
President,
Phi Beta Kappa, Mu of Virginia Chapter, Virginia Tech, 2006—2007.
Member,
Nominating Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
National Council of Teachers of English, 2005—2006.
Vice
President, Phi Beta Kappa, Mu of Virginia Chapter, Virginia Tech,
2005—2006.
Editorial
Consultant, Ally & Bacon/Longman, Prentice Hall, Bedford/St. Martin's,
Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Heine and Heine, Thomson Learning. 1996—2005.
Member,
Mentoring Taskforce, Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2003—2004.
Publicity
Officer, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Virginia Tech. 1996—2003.
Executive
Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication, National
Council of Teachers of English.
1997—2000.
Editorial
Board, Best Practices in Cyber-Serve,
Service-Learning Center, Virginia Tech.
1997—1999.
Chair,
John D. Wilson Essay Prize Contest Committee, Mu of Virginia, Phi Beta Kappa,
Virginia Tech. 1996—1998.
Professional
Writing Consultant, Anderson and Associates, Surveyors and Engineers,
Blacksburg, VA. Fall 1996.
University
Service
CLAHS
Representative, University Curriculum Committee for Liberal
Education, Fall 2011—Present.
Advisor
and Writing Coach for Honors Students Preparing Major Scholarship and Grant
Applications, Summer 2011—Present.
Member,
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Graduate Curriculum Committee, Fall
2008—Spring 2011.
Member,
University Teaching Alumni Award Selection Committee, 2007—2010.
Faculty
Coordinator, Sporn Award Student Selection Committee,
Spring 2007.
Member,
University Library Committee, 2004—2007.
Principal
Investigator and Taskforce Coordinator, SCHEV Oral Communication and Critical
Thinking Assessments, 2004—2005.
Coordinator,
University Writing Program, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
Virginia Tech. 2003—2004.
Ex-Officio
Member, University Core Curriculum Committee, Virginia Tech. 2003—2004.
Ad
Hoc Committee, SCHEV Information Literacy Assessment (with Nan Seaman's and
John Muff), Spring 2004.
Member,
Common Book Steering Committee, Virginia Tech (Provost's Office: Ron Daniel,
Chair). 2000—2004.
Presenter,
University GTA Training Program, Virginia Tech, 1995—2004 (Don McKeon,
Coordinator).
Co-Director
(with Marlene Preston), SCHEV Writing Competency Assessment, Virginia Tech:
2001—2002.
Consultant
to the Computer Requirement Steering Committee (Provost's Office: Ron Daniel,
Chair). Helped develop means of
assessing first-year students' basic computer skills, 1998—2001.
Co-Convener,
Task Force on Common Experiences, First-Year Experience Initiative, Coordinated
by Ron Daniels, Associate Provost, Virginia Tech, 1998—1999.
WING
Planning Committee, Residence Education, Residential and Dining Programs, Lynne
Spoonful, Chair, Virginia Tech,
1998—1999.
Coordinator,
"University Statement on Plagiarism," created in collaboration with
the University Honor System. Spring 1998. http://www.english.vt.edu/~1styear/plagiarism.html
Advisory
Committee, New Faculty Development Program, Provost's Office, Virginia Tech,
1995—1996.
Search
Committee for Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, Virginia Tech, Summer
1995.
Committee
on Assessment, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, Virginia Tech. Spring
1995.
Department
Service
Director,
PhD Program in Rhetoric and Writing, English Department, Virginia Tech. 2011—Present.
Co-Director,
PhD Program in Rhetoric and Writing, English Department, Virginia Tech. 2006—2011.
Member,
Professorial Personnel Committee, Virginia Tech, 2002—2006,
2010—Present.
Member,
Graduate Committee, Virginia Tech, 2006—2008, 2009—Present.
Chair,
PhD Committee, Fall 2009—Present.
Member,
Instructor Promotion Committee, Fall 2009—Present.
Member,
Technology Committee, Fall 2008—Present.
Commencement
Coordinator, English Department, Virginia Tech. Spring 2001—Present.
Chair,
Faculty Mentoring Team for Kelly Pender, Virginia Tech, Fall 2006—Fall
2009.
Member,
Ph.D. Task Force, English Department, Virginia Tech. Fall 2002—Spring 2009.
Member,
Grant Proposal Review Committee, Center for the Study of Rhetoric in
Society. Fall 2007—Spring
2009.
Member,
Taskforce on Vertical Composition Curriculum, Fall 2007—Spring 2008.
Member,
Custom Textbook Authoring Team, Fall 2007—Spring 2008.
Author,
Peer Review of Teaching for Kelly Pender, Spring 2007.
Member,
Thesis Committee for Nathaniel Bowles: "The Harmony of the Spheres from Dante
to Sun Ra." 2006—2008.
Author,
Peer Review of Teaching for Julie Manger, Fall 2006.
Member,
Thesis Committee for Daniel Grubb: "Hunter Thompson and the Rhetoric of Gonzo
Journalism." 2005—2006.
Member,
Thesis Committee for Matthew Beale: "Playing the Writing Game: Gaming the
Writing Play." 2005—2006.
Author,
Peer Review of Teaching for Carlos Evia, Spring 2006
Chair,
Search Committee for Director of the Center for Rhetoric in Society, English
Department, Virginia Tech.
2003—2005.
Member,
Faculty Mentoring Team for Sheila Carter-Tod, English
Department, Virginia Tech, 2002—2006.
Member,
Faculty Mentoring Team for Eva Brumberger, English
Department, Virginia Tech, 2003—2006.
Author,
Peer Review for Bob Hicok, Fall 2005.
Author,
Peer Review for Michael Bliss, Spring 2005.
Director
of First-Year Composition, English Department, Virginia Tech. 1994—2004.
Chair,
Composition Committee, English Department, Virginia Tech. 1994—2004.
Member,
Instructor Search Committee, English Department, Virginia Tech. April 2004.
Member,
Instructor Search Committee, English Department, Virginia Tech. August 2003.
Member,
Search Committee for Full Professor and Two Assistant Professors in Creative
Writing. English Department,
Virginia Tech. 2002—2003.
Member,
M.A. Task Force, English Department, Virginia Tech. 2002—2003.
Member,
Ad Hoc Taskforce on Work and Family Issues, English Department, Virginia Tech,
Spring 2003.
Member,
Instructor Search Committee. April
2003.
Member,
Instructor Search Committee. August
2002.
Member,
First-Year Writing Taskforce, English Department, Virginia Tech, Summer 2002.
Judge,
Alfred E. Nobler Essay Contest, English Department, Virginia Tech. 1996—2002
Member,
M. A. Thesis Committee for Shannon Lewis, master's student in English, Bernice
Housman, Chair. 2000—2001.
Committee
on Teaching, English Department, Virginia Tech. 1996—2000.
Faculty
Advisor, English Graduate Students Organization, Virginia Tech.
1996—1999.
Peer
Reviewer for Lisa Bloomer, English Department, Virginia Tech. Spring 1999.
Joint
Ad Hoc M.A. Curriculum Committee, English and Communication Studies
Departments, Virginia Tech. 1997—1998.
RTA
in Technical/Professional Communications Hiring Committee, Virginia Tech.
1997—1998.
Peer
Reviewer for Patricia Radicchio, English Department, Virginia Tech. Spring
1998.
Freshman
"Rhetoric" Task Force, English and Communication Studies Departments,
Virginia Tech. Spring 1996.
Committee
on Writing Programs, Loyola University of Chicago. 1992—1994.
English
Department Computer-Aided Instruction Committee, Loyola University of
Chicago. 1992—1994
Committee
on Writing Program Assessment, Loyola University of Chicago. Spring 1993.
Conference
Organizing Committee, Texas Christian University. Spring 1991.
Textbook
Selection Committee, Texas Christian University. Spring 1990.
Composition
Committee, Colorado State University.
1989—1990.
English
Graduate Studies Committee, Colorado State University. 1988—1989.
Public
Service
Participant,
K-18 Contact Reach Out Grant (English Department, CEUT, Service-Learning,
University Writing Program, Montgomery and Floyd County Public Schools: Nancy
Metz, Coordinator).
1998—2000.
Guest
Lecturer, Radford High School and Blacksburg High School. Instructing college-bound, senior
English students on effective peer editing and preparing for college-level
writing courses. 1996—1999; 2010.
Website
Creator and Manager, St. Jude Catholic Church. 1996—1999.
http://mfrl.org/compages/stjude
Editor/Desktop
Publisher, The St. Jude Times,
quarterly parish newsletter for St. Jude Catholic Church, Radford, VA. 1995—1999.
AWARDS AND
HONORS
College
of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Student
Advising, 2008.
University
Sporn Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory
Subjects, Virginia Tech, 2006.
Member,
Academy of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, 2006—Present.
"The
Rhetoric of Online Advocacy by Verbal Autistics." Principal Investigator: Paul
Heilker. Summer Research
Stipend. Center for the Study of
Rhetoric in Society. Virginia
Tech. Summer 2006. $1500.00
Center
for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Curriculum Development Grant:
Fundamental Multimedia Composing Procedures for Freshman Composition, Virginia
Tech, 1994.
College
of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend: Keywords in Composition Studies, Loyola University of Chicago,
1993.
Ida
M. Green Doctoral Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 1989-90.
Phi
Kappa Phi, Colorado State University, 1989.
Phi
Beta Kappa, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1985.
Graduated
cum laude, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1985.
New
York State Regents' Scholarship, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1980
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Conference
on College Composition and Communication
Rhetoric
Society of America
National
Council of Teachers of English
The
National Honor Society of Phi Beta Kappa