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PAUL HEILKER

English Department

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA   24061

 

Paul.Heilker@vt.edu

     

EDUCATION

 

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  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  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