CURRICULUM VITAE
(Selective)
PAUL HEILKER
English Department
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Ph.D. in
English--Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Texas Christian University,
1992.
Dissertation: "Rehabilitating
the Essay: An Alternative Form for Composition Instruction."
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
Co-Director, PhD
Program in Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Tech. 2006--Present.
Associate Professor of
English, Virginia Tech.
2000--Present.
Director, First-Year
Composition, Virginia Tech. 1994--2004.
Assistant Professor of
English, Virginia Tech. 1994--2000.
Assistant Professor,
Loyola University of Chicago. 1992--1994.
PUBLICATIONS
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
ÒCreating Active Citizens: Fostering Effective Student Writing
and Speaking.Ó Teaching
Excellence at a Resarch-Centered University: Energy, Empathy, and Engagement in
the Classroom. Eds. E. Scott Geller and Philip K.
Lehman. Boston: Pearson Custom
Publishing, 2007. 131-138.
With Sarah Allen and Emily Lewis. ÒResearching Like a Writer: The
Personal Essay as Research Paper.Ó
Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Eds. Wendy Bishop and Pavel 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.
ÒLearning to Walk the
Walk: Mentors, Theory, and Practice in Composition Pedagogy.Ó Composition Pedagogy in Perspective:
Landmarks and Horizons. Eds. Christina R. McDonald and Robert
L. MacDonald. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 2002.
259-267.
ÒB, Box, Beast, Beyond.Ó 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.
ÒCritical Thinking, the Thesis/Support Form, and the
Essay.Ó Reading and Writing
Nonfiction. Ed. Philip Anderson. Schenectady: New York State English
Council, 1994. 87-101.
Articles Published in Refereed Scholarly Journals
ÒTwenty Years In: An Essay in Two Parts.Ó College
Composition and Communication 58.2 (2006): 182-212.
"Pedagogical Heresy, Uncommon Sense." The Writing Instructor 2.1 (2002),
http://flansburgh.english.purdue.edu/twi/essays/heilker1.html
"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.
ÒWriting Process and the Writing of Essays.Ó Issues in Writing 6.1 (1994): 51-74.
ÒDiscipline and Punish and Process and Paradigms (or
Foucault, Visibility, (Dis)Empowerment, and the Construction of Composition
Studies).Ó Composition Studies 22.1 (1994): 4-13.
ÒÔNothing PersonalÕ: Twenty-Five Forays into the Personal
in (My) Composition Pedagogy.Ó The
Writing Instructor 12.2
(1993): 55-66.
ÒRevision Worship and the Computer as Audience.Ó Computers and Composition 9.3 (1992): 59-69.
ÒPublic Products/Public Processes: ZoellnerÕs Praxis and
the Contemporary Composition Classroom.Ó
Rhetoric Review 10.2 (1992): 232-238.
ÒTextual 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).Ó Writing
on the Edge 3.2
(1992): 64-76.
ÒThe Struggle for Articulation and DidionÕs Construction
of the ReaderÕs Self-Respect in Slouching Towards Bethlehem.Ó The CEA Critic 54.3 (1992): 26-36.
ÒThe Bi-Polar Mind and the Inadequacy of Oppositional
Pedagogies (or The Dead Poets Society Revisited).Ó Freshman English News 19.3 (1991): 5-9.
ÒÔListener ResponseÕ: An Introduction to Active Aesthetic Reading for the
Sophomore Literature Survey.Ó College
Literature
18.2 (1991): 135-140.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
ÒThe Rhetoric of Online
Advocacy by Aspies for Freedom.Ó Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition. State College, PA, 9
July 2007.
ÒDiseased, Disabled, or Diverse? Representations of Autistic
Identities.Ó Conference on College
Composition and Communication. New
York, NY, 23 March 2007.
ÒNeurodiversity
and ÔThe Students' Right to Their Own
Language.ÕÓ Fourth Annual
Scholarship on Diversity Conference.
Blacksburg, VA, 16 March 2007.
Ò"Cognitive Travelogue: The Essay as Travel Narrative." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition. Louisville, KY, 7
October 2006.
ÒThe On-Campus Transition Program: A TeacherÕs Perspective.Ó Educating Students in the Autism
Spectrum for Life in the 21st Century. Roanoke, VA, 4 October 2006.
ÒÔLeverage
Resources from Outside SourcesÕ: Standardization, Budget Cuts, and the Move
Toward Corporate Sponsorship.Ó
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.
ÒBlack Helicopters: Stealth Forces at Work on Writing
Instruction at a University."
College Composition and Communication Convention. Denver, CO, 15 March 2001.
ÒOfficial Feasts and Carnivals: Student Writing as Public
Ritual." College Composition
and Communication Convention.
Minneapolis, MN, 14 April 2000.
ÒClassical Epistolary Theory, the Ars Dictamanis, and Contemporary Monetary
Petitions from Non-Profit Organizations.Ó
Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Convention. Pittsburgh, PA, June 1998.
ÒA Rhetoric of Healing: Student-Composed Meditation
Books.Ó College Composition and
Communication Convention. Phoenix,
AZ, March 1997.
ÒTraumatic Awakenings: Becoming Theoretically Aware as a
Composition Teacher.Ó Modern
Language Association Convention.
Washington, D.C., December 1996.
ÒThe Meanings of Theory and the Evolution of
Composition.Ó Thomas R. Watson
Conference on Composition and Rhetoric.
Louisville, KY, October 1996.
ÒRhetoric, Social Action, and Student Writing.Ó Modern Language Association
Convention. Chicago, IL, December
1995.
ÒThe Essay: Counterpractice, Anti-Method, Heresy.Ó South Atlantic Modern Language
Association Convention. Atlanta,
GA, November 1995.
ÒÔInterrogation Without EndÕ: Foucault and the Composition
Program as a Site of Inquiry.Ó
Modern Language Association Convention. San Diego, CA, December 1994.
ÒContexts for Nonfiction: The Epistemologies of
Genre.Ó CEA Session on Nonfiction. Modern Language Association
Convention. San Diego, CA,
December 1994.
ÒCritical Thinking, the Thesis/Support Form, and the
Essay.Ó Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention. Chicago,
IL, November 1994.
ÒGrammar B: An/Other Look.Ó South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, MD, November 1994.
ÒThe Heteroglossia of Composition Studies: Bakhtin and the
Keywords
Project.Ó College Composition and
Communication Convention.
Nashville, TN, March 1994.
ÒFifteen Forays into the Personal in (My) Composition
Pedagogy.Ó Fourth Annual Texas
Christian University Symposium on Teaching Composition. Fort Worth, TX, February 1994.
ÒThe Essay: A Discursive Form for Valuing Teaching as
Inquiry/Research.Ó Modern Language
Association Convention. Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, December 1993.
ÒThe Reality Check: Focused, Timely, Useful
Feedback.Ó Roundtable on
Evaluating Teaching. Modern
Language Association Convention.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 1993.
ÒVeering Toward the Radically Particular: The Future of
Composition Studies.Ó Midwest
Modern Language Association Convention.
Minneapolis, MN, November 1993.
ÒBlinding, Demeaning, and Cheating Ourselves: Composition
as Academic Preparation.Ó Midwest
Modern Language Association Convention.
Minneapolis, MN, November 1993.
ÒThe Essay: An Alternative Form for Composition
Instruction.Ó The Chicago Area
English Articulation Conference.
Chicago, IL, October 1993.
ÒDiscipline and Punish and Process and Paradigms (or
Foucault, Visibility, and the Construction of Composition Studies).Ó Wyoming Conference on English. Laramie, WY, June 1993.
ÒAmnesty International: A Desperately Real Rhetorical
Situation for Student Writers.Ó
College Composition and Communication Convention. San Diego, CA, April 1993.
ÒAcademic Freedom, the Thesis/Support Form, and the
Essay.Ó Modern Language
Association Convention. New York,
NY, December 1992.
ÒKineticism Incarnate: Reconsidering the Nature of the
Essay.Ó CEA Roundtable on
Nonfiction. Modern Language
Association Convention. New York,
NY, December 1992.
ÒWriting Process and the Writing of Essays.Ó University of New Hampshire Conference
on ÒWriting Process: Retrospect and Prospect.Ó Durham, NH, October 1992.
ÒLiteracy, Assimilation, and Resistance.Ó Modern Language Association
Convention. San Francisco, CA,
December 1991.
ÒToward a Rhetoric of Anti-Travel Writing.Ó CEA Roundtable on Nonfiction. Modern Language Association
Convention. San Francisco, CA,
December 1991.
ÒWife-as-Coin and the Paradoxical Economics of Infidelity
in The MerchantÕs Tale.Ó South Central Modern
Language Association Convention.
Fort Worth, TX, November 1991.
ÒÔListener ResponseÕ: An Introduction to Active Aesthetic Reading for the
Sophomore Literature Survey.Ó
College English Association Convention. San Antonio, TX, April 1991.
ÒPublic Products/Public Processes: ZoellnerÕs Praxis and
the Contemporary Classroom.Ó College Composition and Communication
Convention. Boston, MA, March
1991.
ÒTextual Androgyny and the Politics of Identity in
Composition.Ó The National
Graduate Student Conference on English Studies. Lincoln, NE, November 1990.
ÒRevision Worship and the Computer as Audience.Ó Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition. University Park, PA,
July 1990.
ÒThe Bi-Polar Mind and the Inadequacy of Oppositional
Pedagogies (or The Dead Poets Society Revisited).Ó The Wyoming Conference on English. Laramie, WY, June 1990.
ÒWhat Student Writers Say About Motivation.Ó Conference on College Composition and
Communication Convention. Chicago,
IL, March 1990.
GRADUATE COURSES
RW 6304, Disciplinary Issues in Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia
Tech. Fall 2007.
Engl 5314/5244, The Twentieth-Century Essay, Virginia
Tech. Fall 1996, Fall 2000, Fall
2002, Summer 2006.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Instructional Technology and Basic
Writing Courses, Virginia Tech, Spring 2005.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The History of Scholarship on Textbooks
in Composition Studies, Virginia Tech, Spring 2005.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The Toulmin Model of Argument in
Composition Studies, Virginia Tech, Spring 2005.
Engl 5054, Composition Theory, Virginia Tech. Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1998, Spring
2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2008..
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Reviving Expressivism in
First-Year Composition Courses, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Visual Intelligence and
Visual Learning in Composition Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The Uses of Film in
Composition Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Scott Russell Sanders,
Wendell Berry, and the Importance of Place, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Coming to Voice as a Black,
Female Academic, Virginia Tech, Spring 2004.
Engl 5994, Research and Thesis--Imitation in First-Year
Composition, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
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--Making Writing Process
Public, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Portfolio Assessment in
First-Year Composition, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Behavioral Conditioning and
Writing Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
Engl 5994, Independent Study--Visual Rhetoric in
First-Year Writing Courses, Virginia Tech. Spring 2002.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The Bartholomae/Elbow Debate
in Composition Studies, Virginia Tech.
Spring 2002.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The Personal Essay and
Critical Work, Virginia Tech.
Spring 2002.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Service-Learning in
Composition Courses, Virginia Tech.
Spring 2001.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--The Filipino Essay, Virginia
Tech. Spring 2001.
Engl 5974, Independent Study--Studies in Civic Discourse,
Virginia Tech. Spring 1998.
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.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
English 3754, Advanced Composition, Virginia Tech. Fall 1994, Spring 1996, Spring 1998,
Fall 1999, Spring 2006, Fall 2007.
English 4974, Independent Study--The Contemporary American
Essay, Virginia Tech. Spring 2007.
English 1106, The Writing Project, Virginia Tech. Spring 1996, Spring 1999, Spring 2001,
Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007..
English 1105, Critical Literacy, Virginia Tech. Fall 1994, Summer 1997, Fall 1997,
Summer 1998, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Fall 2004, Fall 2006.
English 4784, Senior Seminar, The Contemporary American
Essay--Theory, Criticism, Composition, Virginia Tech. Summer 1996, Summer 2000, Summer 2004.
English 4784, Senior Seminar, New Journalism and the
Nonfiction Novel, Virginia Tech.
Summer 1999, Summer 2002.
English 4974, Independent Study--Writing Portfolio,
Virginia Tech. Fall 1995.
E 310, Advanced Writing, Loyola University of
Chicago. 1993--1994.
E 201, Writing II (Research/Argumentation), Loyola
University of Chicago. 1993--1994.
E 101, Writing I, Loyola University of Chicago. 1992--1994.
ENGL 2803, Research and Argumentation, Texas Christian
University. 1990--1992.
CO 301, Writing in the Humanities, Colorado State
University. 1988--1989.
CO 150, Freshman Composition, Colorado State
University. 1986--1989.
CO 101, Fundamentals of Composition (Basic Writing),
Colorado State University.
1986--1987.
SERVICE / OUTREACH
Professional Service
Member, Mentoring Committee, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Summer 2003--2004, 2007--Present.
National Taskforce on Multiple Uses of Writing,
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Taskforce Chair, Spring 2007--Present; Taskforce Member,
Spring 2005--Present
Member, Advisory Board, Composition Studies, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX,
Spring 2006--Present.
Member, Committee on Disability Issues, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, Fall 2006--Present.
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.
Advisory Board Member, Spilman
Symposium on the Teaching of Writing, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington,
VA. 2002-Present.
Manuscript Reviewer. College Composition and
Communication,
2003--Present.
Manuscript Reviewer. College English, 2000--Present.
Manuscript Reviewer. The Writing Instructor, 2001--Present.
Manuscript Reviewer, Composition Studies, 1996--Present.
Manuscript Reviewer, Teaching
English in the Two-Year College, 2001--Present.
Executive Committee, Conference on
College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of
English. 1997--2000.
University Service
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 Seamans and John Muffo), Spring 2004.
Member, Common Book Steering
Committee, Virginia Tech (Provost's Office: Ron Daniel, Chair). 2000--2004.
Co-Director (with Marlene
Preston), SCHEV Writing Competency Assessment, Virginia Tech: 2001-2002.
Coordinator, "University
Statement on Plagiarism," created in collaboration with the University
Honor System. Spring 1998.
http://www.english.vt.edu/~1styear/plagiarism.html
Department Service
Member, Graduate Committee, English Department, Virginia
Tech. 2006--Present.
Member, Ph.D. Task Force, English Department, Virginia
Tech. 2002--Present.
Member, Personnel Committee, English Department, Virginia
Tech. 2002--2006.
Commencement Coordinator, English
Department, Virginia Tech. Spring
2001--Present.
Chair, Composition Committee, English Department, Virginia
Tech. 1994--2004.
Committee on Teaching, English Department, Virginia
Tech. 1996--2000.
Faculty Advisor, English Graduate
Students Organization, Virginia Tech. 1996--1999.
ACADEMIC HONORS
University Sporn Award for Excellence in Teaching
Introductory Subjects, Virginia Tech, 2006.
Member, Academy of Teaching Excellence, Virginia
Tech. 2006--Present.
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 RegentsÕ Scholarship, SUNY at Stony Brook,
1980
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
The National Honor Society of Phi Beta Kappa