Doctor of Philosophy, English Studies, 2005. Field: History of Rhetoric; Focus Areas: Canon of Delivery, Technologies of Writing. The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio).

Dissertation Title: "Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing."
Dissertation Committee: Drs. Nan Johnson (Chair), Evonne K. Halasek, H. Lewis Ulman, James Fredal

Master of Arts, English Studies, 2000. Focus: Rhetoric & Composition. The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio).

Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude), English Literature & French Minor, 1996. Augusta State University (Augusta, Georgia).

Teaching Positions:

The Ohio State University at Marion (Current)

Assistant Professor of English (Rhetoric and Composition).

Courses Taught:
English 110C—First-Year English Composition
English 109.01C—Basic Writing I
English 109.02C—Basic Writing II
English 276—Introduction to Rhetoric
English 398—Critical Writing
English 662—Literary Publishing

Georgia Institute of Technology

Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellow.
School of Literature, Communication, & Culture: 2003-04. Taught multiple sections of computer-assisted freshman composition courses, with emphases on rhetorical and critical analysis, and a thematic focus on technology as cultural construction.

Courses Taught:
English 1101--Freshman Communication I: "Questioning the Role of Technology in American Culture"
English 1102--Freshman Communication II: "Cyberpunks, H4X0RZ, Taggers, and Serial Killers: Subversives in Contemporary Film and Literature" [see syllabi]

The Ohio State University

Graduate Teaching Associate.
Dept. of English: AU 1999 - SU 2003. Taught several courses in first-year composition focusing on visual culture/media studies and literacy studies. Also taught second-level writing courses entitled "The U.S. Experience," with a specific focus on visual culture and discourse analysis.

Courses Taught ("C" denotes computer-supported course):
English 110--First-Year Writing: "Personal, Academic, and Public Literacies"
English 110C--First-Year Writing: "The Rhetoric of Visual Culture"
English 367.01--Second-Year Writing: "The U.S. Experience-Reading the Image: Visual Representations of Subversion and the Status Quo in American Culture"
English 367.01C--Second-Year Writing: "The U.S. Experience-Questioning the Role of Technology in American Culture"

English 781 Graduate Teaching Associate.
Dept. of English: SU 2001. Assisted Professor Kay Halasek with curriculum development, online course supplements, and teaching duties for introductory graduate course in composition theory and pedagogy.

Augusta State University

Guest Instructor.
Lamar Elementary School: Winter 1996. Participated in pilot internship entitled "Professional Writers in the Classroom." Taught quarter-long writing program to class of 30 fifth-grade students, with an emphasis on developing rhetorical awareness and stylistic exploration.

Administrative Appointments:

The Ohio State University

Staff Member, Digital Media Project (DMP).
Dept of English: AU 2004 - 2005. Served on staff for The Digital Media Project (formerly known as Computers in Composition and Literature), which provides support for computer-assisted teaching and new media research within the English Department and in the Ohio State community at large.

Writing Program Administrator.
First-Year Writing Program (FYWP), Dept. of English: AU 2000 - AU 2001. Served as one of three graduate student administrators in a composition program that teaches approximately 6600 students in 320 sections of first-year writing annually. Also designed program website, edited in-house publications, and served as acting peer mentor for 4-person team of incoming graduate teaching associates.

English Grader.
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering: WI 2000; AU 2001 - SP 2002. Graded English component of laboratory reports for three-course sequence in Materials Science. Also developed rubrics and writing-related handouts for course sequence that are still in circulation.

Augusta State University

Tutor and Consultant.
ASU Writing Center: 1993-1996. Aided students with writing assignments at all levels and from all disciplines of study. Assisted students with computer-related problems and acted as teaching assistant on occasion. Also spearheaded special projects for the Writing Center, such as a web site, the creation of an internship, and preparations for a regional writing center conference.

Publications:

Refereed & Edited Publications:

“Writing Our Way through Technology: A Proposal for Merging Process and Product in the Computer-Supported Classroom.” Technology in the College Classroom. Vol. 2: Humanities. Eds. Mark Girod and Jason Steed. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press, 2007. 55-70. With J Brian Chambley.

"Remixing Basic Writing: Digital Media Production & the Basic Writing Curriculum." Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2007, with Catherine C. Braun and Amie Wolf. Available WWW: <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/braun/>.

"Expanding Composition Audiences with Podcasting." Computers and Composition Online.  Spring 2007, with Doug Dangler and Time Barrow. Available WWW: <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/podcasting/>.

"Harbingers of the Printed Page: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Delivery as Remediation." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.4 (2005): 25-49.

"Five Ways of Looking at the Computer-Supported Composition Classroom (With Apologies to Wallace Stevens)." ACE On-Line: A Peer-Reviewed Journal of The Assembly on Computers in English. (1:1) Fall 2004, with J Brian Chambley. Available WWW: <http://faculty.gvsu.edu/patterna/aceonline/>. [Site Mirror]

Textbooks & Related Publications:

"Stop-Gap Measures: Approaches to Incorporating Smaller Technology-Based Assignments in a Visual Culture Curriculum." Resources for Teaching Rhetorical Visions. Theresa Kulbaga, Ivonne Garcia, and Deneese Owen, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008. 158 - 166.

Associate Editor, Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture. Brenda Brueggemann and Wendy Hesford, eds. New York: Prentice Hall, 2006.

Resources for Teaching Convergences. New York: St. Martin's P, 2002.

"From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Enter the Feminine." The Humanities Handbook. New York: Simon & Schuster Custom P, 1995. 273 - 275.

"The Simpsons: A Mirror of Society." Everything's an Argument. Eds. Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz, & Walters. 2 edition. New York: St. Martin's P, 2001. 154 - 156. [Originally in "The Great American Bologna Festival" and Other Student Essays (St. Martin's P, 1994); reprinted in "Free Falling" and Other Student Essays (St. Martin's P, 1997).]

Reviews, Columns, & Shorter Works:

Contributor, “Decade.” trAce Online Writing Centre. Simon Mills and Sue Thomas, eds. 2005, with J Chambley. Available WWW: <http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/decade/index.cfm>.

"So Be the News Already! A Review of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People." Currents in Electronic Literacy (9) Fall 2005: n. pag. Available WWW: <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall05/mccorkle.html>.

"Luther Presley." Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. Ed. W. K. McNeil. New York; London: Routledge, 2005. 305-06.

"Mahalia Jackson." Encyclopedia of the Blues. 2 vol. Ed. Edward Komara. New York; London: Routledge, 2005.

Ars Bellum, Ars Rhetorica: More Fragments and Meditations on Peacemaking Potentials in Postmodern Discourse Theory." Newsletter of the Association for Rhetoric, Writing, and the Transcendent (9:1) March 2005. 1 - 4.

"Review of Douglas Thomas' Hacker Culture" 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (19:2) Summer 2002. 53.

Contributing Editor, The Bedford Bibliography of Basic Writing. Gregory Glau et al., eds. New York: Bedford Books, 2002. Also available WWW: <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/basicbib/>.

Presentations:

"Old Rhetorics for New(ish) Media: From Gutenberg to Web 2.0" Conference on College Composition and
Communication, New Orleans, LA. 4 April, 2008. [Co-presenters: Jason Palmeri, and Envera Dukaj]

"Google Docs, Wikis and New Models of Collaborative Classroom Authorship." eTech|Ohio Conference, Columbus.
5 Feb. 2008. [Co-presenters: Dickie Selfe, Chris Manion, Doug Dangler]

“A Rationale for Using Burkean Theory to Analyze Digital Media.” Computers & Writing. Detroit. 19 May 2007. [Co-presenter: Doug Dangler]

"Multimodal Composing and the Challenge of Assessment." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, New York. 22 March 2007. [Co-presenters: Catherine Braun and Susan Delagrange]

“Dramatistic Analysis of Digital Media.” Workshop on "Keeping the Focus on Rhetoric" (with Susan Delagrange, Lisa Ann Robertson and Patricia Sullivan) for the OSU Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC), Columbus. 7 June 2006. [Invited presentation]

"Rhetorical Delivery and the Remediation of Hypertext." Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis. 27 May 2006.

“Digital Media Composing and the Basic Writing Curriculum.” Conference of the Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC). Columbus, OH. 21 April 2006. [Co-presenters: Catherine Braun and Amie Wolf]

"Give the Basic Writers Some: Incorporating Digital Media Production in a Basic Writing Curriculum." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. 26 March 2006. [Co-presenters: Catherine Braun and Amie Wolf]

"Reading New Media." Workshop Coordinators Anne Wysocki, Scott Dewitt, et al. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago. 24 March 2006.

"Theoretically Prepared: From the Job Market Through the First Years as an Assistant Professor Administrator." Workshop Coordinator Melissa Ianetta. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago. 24 March 2006.

"Writing Teachers Writing New Media." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco. 18 March 2005. [Co-presenters: Scott DeWitt and Jason Palmeri]

"What's the Matter With Print?" Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio. 26 March 2004.

"Visual Rhetoric and the Teaching of Composition (II)." Workshop Presenter, Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio. 24 March 2004.

"The Politics of Generic and Formal Reappropriation in Petey Wheatstraw." 29th Annual Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University. 31 Jan. 2004.

"From Ms. Pac-Man to Lara Croft and Beyond: Mapping Representations of Gender in Videogames." Co-presenter with Wendy L. Chrisman. Fourth Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Columbus, Ohio. 25 Oct. 2003.

"Visual Rhetoric and the Teaching of Composition." Workshop Presenter, Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City. 19 March 2003.

"Whose Body? The (En)Gendered Implications of Innovations in Interface Design." Third Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Millikin University. 19 October 2001.

"Through the Tunnel: A Defense of American Psycho." 25th Annual Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, 14 January 2000.

"Writing for Publication: Motivating Students and Improving Editing Skills." Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. Augusta, GA. April 1997.

"Scraps From the Cutting Room Floor: Circumcision's Role in Defining Masculinities." Augusta College Humanities Colloquium: Advanced Research in the Humanities. Augusta College, Augusta, GA. May 1996.

"Publishing Student Writers in the Freshman Composition Program." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Nashville, TN. March 1994.

"The Conversation That 'English' Ought to Be: A Rationale for Publishing Student Writers." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. College Park, PA. June 1993.

Chaired Sessions:

McGlaun, Sandee. "What a Doll" (Chair). Fourth Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Columbus, Ohio. 23 Oct. 2003.

"Vision/Revision in and of Historical Narratives: Subjectivity, Structure, Dialectics" (Chair). 25th Annual Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, 29 January 2000

"Tutor Networking Through Technology" (Chair). Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. Augusta, GA. April 1997.

Service & Extracurricular Projects:

Textbook reviewer, Seeing and Writing 3 (Eds. Donald and Christine McQuade, 2007).

Instructor of Record, OSU-Marion & Big Brothers/Big Sisters Mentoring Partnership Program. (2006 -).

Faculty Adviser, The Cornfield Review, print and online editions (OSU-Marion, 2006 -).

Judge, OSU-Marion Babich Writing Award (2006).

Textbook reviewer, Pop Perspectives: Readings to Critique Contemporary Culture (Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale, 2006).

Member, Digital Media Studies Concentration Proposal Committee (Dept. of English, 2006).

"So You Want to Teach With Pictures: Digital Image Editing and Portfolio Assessment." Workshop Facilitator. OhioWINS Summer Teacher Institute. 13 July 2005.

Member, 269C Course Proposal Team; course title: "Introduction to Writing with Digital Media" (2005 - 06).

Co-investigator, Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) project, 2005-present.

BETHA Institute for New Media and Writing Studies, August 2004. Invited participant in week-long program (Columbus, Ohio).

Member, NEH Summer Institute Grant Writing Team, Georgia Tech: "New Media and/in the Humanities" (2004).

Member, Marion L. Brittain Election Committee (2004).

Textbook reviewer, Seeing & Writing, 2nd ed. (2003).

Member, Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference Planning Committee (2003).

Member, OSU English Dept. Technology Committee (2002-2003).

Basic Writing Curricular Development Workshop Coordinator, OSU Mansfield (AU 2002).

Editorial contributor to First-Year Writing Program Handbook (in-house publication).

EnterTEXT (online graduate journal; co-editor, 1999-2001).

Spring Fellowship Roundtable (organizer, Spring 1999).

Choice Voice (freshman writing publication of ASU; editorial board member, 1993 - 95).

Awards & Scholarships:

Georgia Institute of Technology

Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellowship (2003-04)

The Ohio State University

Dept. of English, John Muste Best Dissertation Award (2005-06)

University Fellowship (1998-99)

Nominee, Graduate Associate Teaching Award (2003)

Augusta State University

Augusta College Scholastic Achievement Award (1993 - 1996)

Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Honor Society (1994-)

Augusta College Honors Committee member (1995 - 1996)

Patricia Lescher Scholarship (1995)

McCrary English Award (1996)

Georgia Governor's Scholarship (1992 - 1996)

Professional Organizations:

Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle

Phi Kappa Phi, ASU Chapter

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Assembly on Computers in English (NCTE)

References:

Available upon request.

Additional Work History:

Writing Rater for University of Georgia Test Scoring and Reporting Services, Athens, GA (November 1997 to September 1998). Part of a group that performed calibrated assessments of state-mandated writing proficiency tests for students in grades 5, 8, and 11.

Production Assistant for Athens Daily News, Athens, GA (June 1997 to September 1998). Responsible for assembling pages for daily newspaper. Position involved pasteup, copy editing, and layout design.

Arts/Entertainment Coordinator for The Metropolitan Spirit, Augusta, GA (July 1996 to June 1997). Wrote music and performing arts-related articles for weekly alternative paper; also, some feature writing and cover stories, as well as occasional freelance column writing since relocation. Additional responsibilities included spot photography, copy editing, proofreading, layout, and general production duties.