Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies (English), University of Pittsburgh (ABD, candidacy as of December, 2016)

Composition and Rhetoric
Tentative Dissertation Title: “Paper Programming: Handwritten Notebook Technologies and Genre Technics”
Dissertation Committee: Cory Holding (Chair), Annette Vee, Stephen Carr, & Alison Langmead.
Awards and Recognition: Graduate Writing Award in Pedagogy, Literacy, and Rhetoric (2014)

MFA in Creative Writing in the genre of Poetry, George Mason University

Concentration: Poetry
Thesis Title: Here Now, Myriads
Thesis Committee: Sally Keith (Director); Eric Pankey & Anna Habib
Degree Conferred: May 2010
Awards and Recognition: Thesis Fellowship (2009-2010), Poetry Exam passed with commendation (2009)

B.A. English Literature and Creative Writing, Muhlenberg College

Advisor: Linda Miller; Readers: Dr. Alec Marsh and Len Roberts
Thesis Title: The Ventriloquist’s Mouth
Degree Conferred: May 2004
Awards and Recognition: Excellence in Tutoring, High Honors in English

Positions Held

Administration

Fall 2016-present—Graduate Composition Program Assistant, University of Pittsburgh
2010-2013—Writing Center Assistant Director, Washington College
2008-2010—Writing Center Graduate Assistant Director, George Mason University

Teaching

Summer 2016—ENGCMP 400: Written Professional Communication (University of Pittsburgh)
Fall 2015 & Spring 2016—ENGCMP 420: Writing for the Public (University of Pittsburgh)
Spring 2015—ENGCMP 200: Seminar in Composition (University of Pittsburgh)
Fall 2014—ENGCMP 200: Seminar in Composition (University of Pittsburgh)
Fall 2012—English 101: Literature and Composition (Washington College)
Spring 2012—Co-Instructor, Education 490: Writing Theory and Pedagogy (Washington College)
Fall 2011—English 101: Literature and Composition (Washington College)
Spring 2011—English 101: Literature and Composition (Washington College)
Fall 2010—Co-Instructor, Education 490: Writing Theory and Pedagogy (Washington College)
Spring 2009—English 201 Reading and Writing About Texts (George Mason University)
Fall 2008—English 101 Composition (George Mason University)

Service

2015-2017—Composition Curriculum Committee, University of Pittsburgh
Fall 2016—End-of-Term-Review for Workshop and ESL Workshop in Composition
Spring 2016—Composition Assessment, University of Pittsburgh
2010-2013—Academic Resources Committee, Washington College

Editing

2011-2013—Creative Writing Editor, Washington College Review
2009-2010—Poetry Editor, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
2008-2009—Assistant Poetry Editor, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
2004-Sept. 2006—Editorial Assistant, UpToDate Inc., Waltham, MA
Sept. 2006-Aug. 2007—Development Editor, UpToDate Inc., Waltham, MA

Tutoring

2007-2008—Writing Center Tutor, George Mason University
2001-2004—Writing Center Tutor, Muhlenberg College
2001—2003—Writing Assistant, First Year Seminar Program

Additional Positions

2014-2015—Composition Reading Group Steering Committee, Pittsburgh, PA
2009—Organizer/Host, Where are they now? A Reading from Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Fall for the Book Festival, Fairfax, VA
2007-2009—Organizer/Host, The Candid Yak Reading Series, Fairfax, VA

Publications and Collaborative Exhibitions

2016—from Land, Pretty Owl Poetry, Issue 9, Spring 2016. Poems.
2013— “Education,” “How Not To,” “Traces,” “Over Again,” and “Evidence,” Opon, Issue One. Poems.
2012— “To Entertain,” “Luxury and Lack,” and “Cinncinatus of the West,” excerpt from Simultaneous Contrast, The Offending Adam, October 2012.
2012— “If it All Went / up in Smoke,” “Product,” “Quotations,” “Psalm,” and “Res Publica: ‘The Poet’s Lie'” Word For/Word Issue 19 Fall/Winter 2011/2012. Visual poems.
2011—”Comparative Darkness, Collaboration with visual artist Steven Skowron, exhibited as a part of Envisioning Otherness, curated by Susan Tichy and Helen Frederick. Fall for the Book, Fairfax, VA. Poems.
2011— “All Voyages Are Destructive” (Review of Pigafetta is My Wife, by Joe Hall), Gently Read Literature, September 2011 issue.
2011— “Landscape Architecture,” “Special Attention,” “Autobiographical Passage: Wanderings,” Fringe Magazine, Maps Feature, Issue 26.3. Poems.
2010—”Shoreline Ruins”, in Marginalia, Issue 5. Poem.
2010—”Decayless”, in DIAGRAM, Issue 10.4. Poem.
2010— Simultaneous Contrast: Investigating Presidential China Patterns, a sequence of 12 poems presented with work from ceramicist Stephanie A Rozene, DIS/ARMING Domesticity, National Council on Eduction For the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), Duke Gallery, The Community Arts Center, Wallingsford, PA. Poems.
2009—”To Entertain,” and “Luxury and Lack,” exbitied in collaboration with ceramic work by Stephanie A Rozene, The Material Word exhibit, Fall for the Book Festival, Fairfax, VA. Poems.
2008—”Staggered Shelves,” “Sequence,” exhibited in collaboration with ceramic work by Stephanie A Rozene, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI. Poems.

Conference Presentations

2016—”The Commonplace Book as Rhetorical Machine,” Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
2015—”Visualizing Reading: Transmedia Assignment Sequences,” Computers and Writing Conference, Menomonie, WI
2014—”The Case of the Grace Face: Gestures Toward a Theory of Embodied Genre,” Camp Rhetoric, State College, PA.
2012—”Shifting Focus: Addressing the Knowledge Domains of Writing Expertise in a Peer Tutoring Seminar,” International Writing Center’s Association Conference, San Diego, CA. co-presented with Dr. John Boyd, Washington College
2008— Looking In/ Looking Out: How research on the Local Complicates Theories of the Global; “Navigating the Cacophony of Discourses: A Tutor’s Perspective”, International Writing Center’s Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV

Other Speaking Engagements

2016—Summer Workshop for New Teaching Assistants (teacher training), pedagogy panel, Pittsburgh, PA.
2016—”The Commonplace Book as Rhetoric Machine,” English Department Project Forum, Pittsburgh, PA
2015—”Bringing Student Blogging Toward the Blogosphere,” Digital Brown Bag Series, Pittsburgh, PA
2015—”Teaching (with) Handmade Books,” Maker Series, University of Pittsburgh, co-presented with Noel Tague
2014—”‘The Case of the Grace Face’ and Digital Composition” Writing Now: Celebrating Graduate work in Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric, Pittsburgh, PA
2012—”Cole Swensen as a Live Thinker.” The Annual Tome Live Poet’s Society, North East, MD
2012—”Reading as a Writer in the Fields of Poetry and Composition,” Muhlenberg College English Alumni Conference, Allentown, PA

Summer Institutes and Workshops

2015—Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Madison, WI “Rhetoric’s Algorithms” workshop with Jim Brown and Annette Vee
2006—Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, workshop with Carl Phillips, Provincetown, MA
2005—Wesleyan University Writer’s Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Readings