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References

Richard Marback

(Professor)
Associate Professor of English Wayne State University

Jeff Pruchnic

(Professor)
Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University

Jeff Rice

(Professor)
Assistant Professor of English/Director of Composition University of Missouri-Columbia

Education

Wayne State University

Sep 2006 - Present
Doctor of Philosophy (Anticipated completion May 2012), English (Rhetoric and Composition)

My research interests encompass a variety of fields within and beyond rhetoric and composition, including critical theory, digital theory, new media, histories of rhetoric and composition, rhetorics of popular culture, cultural studies, protest rhetoric, writing pedagogy, and digital culture.

Wayne State University

Dec 2008
Master of Arts, English (Rhetoric and Composition)

Master's Essay: "'So You Say You Want a Revolution' or, Re-Opening Corbett's Fist"

 

First reader: Richard Marback

Second reader: Jeff Pruchnic

Wayne State University

May 2004
Bachelor of Arts, English
  • Winner, Wayne State University Presidential Scholarship, 2002-2004
  • Winner, Department of English Distinguished Graduating Senior Award, May 2004
  • Winner, Department of German and Slavic Studies Book Award for Excellence in Achievement, November 2003
  • Dean's List 2002-2004

 

 

Conferences

"A Matter of Life and Death Panels: Carl Schmitt’s Anti-Rhetorical Politics"

  • Rhetoric Society of America.  Minneapolis, MN, scheduled for May 2010
  • Presented as part of panel "Scandalous!!! Reclaiming Controversy for Rhetorical Scholarship."

 

“Performativity and Politics: ‘Coming Out’ as a Rhetorical Stance”

  • Rhetoric Society of America.  Minneapolis, MN, scheduled for May 2010
  • Presented in workshop at the Graduate Research Network

 

"Invention: The Crowded House of Writing as a Social Process"

  • Conference on College Composition and Communication.  Louisville, KY, scheduled for March 2010.
  • Presented as part of panel "Don't Call It a Comeback: Remixing the Canons of Rhetoric."

 

Invited proposal reviewer.

  • Feminisms and Rhetorics.  East Lansing, MI, October 2009.

 

"1969: Re-opening Corbett's Fist: CCC and Social Change in the Sixties."

  • Conference on College Composition and Communication.  San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
  • Presented as part of panel " Choragraphies of Composition: Revisiting Five Key Moments in the 60 Year History of CCCC."

 

“‘Contrived Image and Staged Virtue’: Celebrity, Discursive Presence, and the Mediation of Ethos.”

  • Rhetoric Society of America.  Seattle, WA, May 2008.
  • Organized the panel “E!thos, e-Thos, and (eco)thos: New (Media) Varieties of Ethical Argument.”

 

"The Future of Computers and Writing"

  • Computers and Writing.  Detroit, MI, May 2007.
  • Roundtable participant.

 

Teaching Experience

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI, United States
Aug 2006 - Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant 
  • English 3010: Writing In and Across the Disciplines (2 sections)
  • English 1020: Dictionaries, Disciplines, and Discourses (2 sections)
  • English 1020: The Rhetorical Toolbox (2 sections)
  • English 1020: Thinking and Writing Hypertextually (2 sections)
  • English 1010: Writing Through Experience/Experience Through Writing (1 section)
  • Writing Workshop: Center for Chicano and Boricua Studies Summer Enrichment Program (1 section)

Departmental and University Service

Departmental Service:

 

  • Appointments Committee, 2008-9
  • Composition Committee, 2007-8
  • Undergraduate Commitee, 2006-7

 

Extracurricular Service:

 

  • Secretary, Student Association of Graduates in English, 2007-9
  • Tutor, University Writing Center, 2006-7
  • Rhetoric Reading Group, Wayne State University, Founding Member, 2008-present

Honors and Awards

  • School of Criticism and Theory Sponsored Fellowship, Summer 2009
  • Thomas R. Jasina Endowed Scholarship, Spring 2009
  • Graduate Travel Funding Award, Winter 2009
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 2006-present

Relevant Coursework

  • Rhetorical Theory
  • Writing Machines
  • Untimely Mediations (Directed study with J. Pruchnic)
  • Teaching of Writing
  • Bodies of Persuasion
  • Introduction to Film and Media Studies
  • Affect and Aesthetics
  • Media Reception Studies
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Teaching Practicum

Professional Associations

  • National Council of Teachers of English, 2007-present
  • Rhetoric Society of America, 2008-present