Education

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville , July 2006

M.A., English, Tennessee Technological University, August 2001

B.A., English, Tennessee Technological University, December 1997

Dissertation

Social and Cultural Differences in Utterance and Perception of Complaints

Committee: Joanna Wolfe (Director), Carol Mattingly, Karen Mullen, Dawn Heinekin, Bronwyn T. Williams

Awarded a University of Louisville's Dean's Citation

Publications

Under review. With Joanna Wolfe. “Biases in Interpersonal Communication: How Engineering

Students Perceive Gender Typical Speech Acts in Team Work.” Journal of Engineering Education.

With John Reeve, Mary Reeve, and Cynthia L. Selfe (essay). "Gaming as Literacy: Grow as You Go." Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections. Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, and James Paul Gee. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 10-17.

With Sylvia Church. "When Things Fail." Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers (New Directions in Computers and Composition). Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. Hampton Press, 2007.

“Literacy and Public Transportation (video essay).” Published on CD in Multimodal

Composition for the 21st Century: A Resource Book for Teachers. Hampton Press, Inc., February 2006.

With Joanna Wolfe. "Gender and Expressions of Dissatisfaction: A Study of Complaining in Mixed-Gendered Student Work Groups." Women and Language 29.2 (2006): 13-21.

National and Regional Conferences

Forthcoming. “Multimodal Composing: Attending to the Realities of Our Students.” Conference on

College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

"Rhetorical Teamwork: How Engineering Students Perceive Interpersonal Interactions." Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. New York , NY , March 2007.

"New Regions of Composing: Exploring Multimodality in the Writing Class." College English Association. San Antonio , TX , April 2006.

"Show and Tell: Sharing Multimodal Assignments and Student Projects." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco , CA , March 2005.

"Students, Teachers, and Researchers Becoming Aware of Their Own Literacy Processes: Three Perspectives Based on Empirical Research." National Council for Teachers of English. Indianapolis , IN , November 2004.

"Literacy and Public Transportation" (video). Showcase of Multimodal Composition Projects: Session II. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville , KY , October 2004.

"Attempts to Change the Status Quo." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio , TX , March 2004.

"The Online Classroom as Activity System: Learning Tools in Webbed Environments." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver , CO , March 2001.

"Moving Away from the Pop Quiz: Strategies to Get Students to Read and Participate in Discussion." The Tennessee Council of Teachers of English 2001 State Conference: Literary Reflections by the River. Chattanooga , TN , September 2001.

Research and Administrative Experience

Graduate Assistant, University of Louisville

Assistant Director of Composition. June 2004 to May 2006.

Teaching Assistant for Gifted Summer Program. June 2005. Worked as Dr. Joanna Wolfe's teaching assistant in a writing course offered for high school and junior high school students.

Assistant Director of The Thomas R. Watson Conference. January 2003-October 2004.

Graduate Research Assistant. September 2003-May 2004.

Specialized Areas and Areas of Interest

Composition pedagogy

Sociolinguistics

Gender studies

Research methods

Technical and professional communication;

Multimodal composition

Literacy and technology

American novel of manners, late 19th, early 20th centuries

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee at Martin

English Composition (Engl 112), Spring 2007

English Composition (Engl 111), Fall 2006, Fall 2007. *One section of the fall 2006 course was dual-credit, taught with distance-learning software.

Technical Communications (Engl 325), Fall 2006 & Spring 2007

Teaching Assistant, University of Louisville

Advanced Academic Writing (Engl 309), Fall 2005

Business Writing (Engl 306), Summer 2005

Advanced Freshmen Composition (Engl 105), Spring 2005

Scientific and Technical Writing (Engl 303), Fall 2004, Spring 2006

Introduction to Literature (Engl 250), Summer 2004

Intermediate College Writing (Engl 102), Spring 2003, Summer 2003

Introduction to College Writing (Engl 101), Fall 2002

Instructor, Tennessee Technological University

British Literature I: Survey of British Literature through the Eighteenth Century (Engl 2210), Spring 2002

Writing I: Emphasis on Writing and Research Processes (Engl 101), Fall 2001, Spring 2002

Writing II: Emphasis on Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing (Engl 102), Fall 2001, Spring 2002

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Tennessee Technological University

Writing I (Engl 101), Fall 1999 (in a mentored position), Fall 2000

Writing II (Engl 102), Spring 2000 (in a mentored position), Spring 2001

Service to the Department and University

University of Tennessee at Martin

Awards and Scholarship Committee, Fall 2006-present

Student and Alumni Relations Committee, Fall 2007-present

Department Web Page Consultant, Fall 2007-present

University of Louisville

English Graduate Organization, 2003-2004. Was a member of the executive committee. Helped to organize meetings and sub-committees.

Technology Committee, 2003-2005. Represented graduate students' interests on the English department's technology committee.

Tennessee Technological University

Graduate Student Mentor , 2002. Acted as a mentor for a graduate student who taught one 3-week unit in my class.

Member, Composition Committee, 2001-2002.

Member, Graduate School Executive Committee, 2000-2001.

Coordinator, Semester book sale for the Adjunct and Graduate Student Fund, Spring and Fall 2000.

Service Outside the University

Volunteer, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Nov. 2003-June 2006.

Volunteer, Volunteers of America , Study Buddies Program, Sept. 2005-Dec. 2005.

Professional Affiliations

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)

College Composition and Communication (CCC)

College English Association (CEA)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Phi Kappa Phi, 2000-2002