Curriculum Vitae - Kent State University

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Member. Steering Committee, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1999-
2000.
Coordinator. Business Writing Courses. Kent State University, English Department,
1998-present.
Chair. Department Elections, Kent State University, English Department, 2000-2005.
Search Committee for Department Chair. Kent State University, English Department,
1999-2000.
Search Committee for Senior Faculty Member in Rhetoric and Composition.
Kent State University, English Department, 1999-2000.
Dissertation and Thesis Committees
Chair. Ph.D.Director. Kent State University, English Department, Rhetoric and
Composition
Lew Caccia. Risk Communication in the Workplace: An Analysis of
Communications Toolkits as Rhetorical Practice, Defended April 2009
(Co-Director). Assistant Professor/NTT/English Youngstown University.
Beth Tomlinson. Conceptualizing Audience in Digital Invention, Defended March
30, 2011. Pringle Fellow Fall 2010. Assistant Professor/Business
Communication West Virginia University.
Sigrid Streit. Gesture and Rhetorical Delivery: The Transmission of Knowledge in
Complex Situations, Defended June 22, 2011. Pringle Fellowship Spring
2009. Program in Writing and Rhetoric Stanford University.
Diana Awad. An Examination of the Literate Practices of Resident Physicians and
Attending Physician Preceptors in a Resident-Run Internal Medicine
Clinic, Defense March 30 2012. University Fellowship Spring 2012.
Writing Center Director, Carnegie Mellon University
Holly Wells. Picture a scientist: A Visual Rhetoric Approach to the Problem of
Gender Disparity in STEM Fields, Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas
Lutheran University, 2011-12. Defense Fall 2012.
Barbara Karman. 19 th Women and Humor: the Emergence of Feminist Humor,
Defense Fall 2012.
John Halsall. Cultivating Open and Affirming Ethoi: Queer Sociality, Religious
Discourse, and Rhetoric, Defense April 2013. Pringle Fellowship Spring
2013.
Hazel Emery. Basic Writers and Peer Review, University Defense Summer 2013.
Lauren Matus. Judging Knowledge: Portrayals of Literacy in the Selection of
International Literacy Prizewinners, Visiting Assistant Professor Ohio
University, 2011-12. Defense November 2012.
Philip Sloan. Writers Block and Identity, Defense Spring or Summer 2013.
Lea Povozhaev. The Rhetoric of Addiction. Defense Spring or Summer 2013.
Sara Lawrence. Writing Our Bodies: The Rhetoric of Self-Injury, Defense in 2014.
Member. Ph.D. Advising Committee. Kent State University, English Department,
Rhetoric and Composition