Education:
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
BETHA Institute for New Media and Writing Studies,
August 2004. Invited participant in week-long program (Columbus,
Ohio).
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" [see
syllabus]
English 110C--First-Year Writing: "The Rhetoric of
Visual Culture" [see syllabus]
English 367.01--Second-Year Writing: "The U.S. Experience-Reading
the Image: Visual Representations of Subversion and the
Status Quo in American Culture" [see
syllabus]
English 367.01C--Second-Year Writing: "The U.S. Experience-Questioning
the Role of Technology in American Culture" [see
syllabus]
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 - present. Currently serving 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. [visit
DMP site]
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. [visit
FYWP site]
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:
"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 online at: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/patterna/aceonline/ and mirrored on my site here.]
Textbooks & Related Publications:
Associate Editor, Rhetorical Visions: Reading and
Writing in a Visual Culture. Brenda Brueggemann and
Wendy Hesford, eds. New York: Prentice Hall, forthcoming
2006. [Currently available as a custom-published reader
by Pearson, 2005]
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 Fall 2005 (9): <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.
Presentations
“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. [read presentation]
"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. [read presentation]
"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:
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, The [Next] Reader (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.
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.
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