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Education

PhD (Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design) Clemson University (May 2010)

MA (English Literature) San Francisco State University (May 2006)

BS (Biology, minors in English and Theology) The Master’s College (Dec. 2003)

Positions Held

Department of English TCU Assistant Professor of Rhetoric 2012 - current

Assistant Director of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media University of Kentucky (2010 - present)

Writing Center Coordinator Clemson University (2009 - 2010)

Graduate Teaching Assistant Clemson University (2006 - present)

Graduate Student Government Senator Clemson University (2007)

Production Editor Enculturation George Mason University (2009 - present)

Dean's Advisory Committee Clemson University (2007 - 2008)

Editor Interpretations San Francisco State University (2006)

Latin and AP Literature Instructor North Bay Christian Academy (2004 - 2006)

Co-Chair, Graduate Literature Association San Francisco State University (2005 - 2006)

Officer, Graduate Literature Association San Francisco State University (2004 - 2005)

Graduate Teaching Assistant San Francisco State University (Spring 2005)

Dissertation

Rhiz|comics: The Structure, Sign, and Play of Image and Text defended April 2010

My dissertation combines Gregory Ulmer’s postcriticism with multimodal composition resulting in a work that critiques the medium of comics in comics format. Six traditional text chapters forge a theoretical and practical foundation; punctuated by occasional visual interludes and three comic sections. I advocate teaching multimodal composition through comics’ interplay of image and text.

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Click here to access the entire dissertation via Proquest.

Publications

“Miller’s Tale: Translating 300 from Comic to Film.” PRE/TEXT, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4, Summer 2009. 75-95. pdf

“Helenistic Encomium: A Reflection on Comics and Rhetoric.” Kairos, Vol. 13 No. 2, Spring 2009. Online: http://www.technorhetoric.net/13.2/disputatio/helms/index.html.

“The Task of the Name: A Reply to Carol Poster.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2008. 278-287. pdf

“Forward.” Interpretations. San Francisco: San Francisco State University, Spring 2006. 9-10.

“Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth, Winter’s Tale, and Metamorphoses.” Interpretations. San Francisco: San Francisco State University, Spring 2005. 73-90.

“Total Interaction: Theory and Practice of a New Paradigm for the Design Disciplines.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 50, N0. 2, June 2007. 180-181. (Book Review)

“Readings and Re-readings.” RedFence.com, http://redfenceproject.com/NewDesign/articles_sp.pl?page1=1, September 25, 2006. (Book Review)

“Only Revolutions.” RedFence.com, http://redfenceproject.com/NewDesign/articles_sp.pl?onlyrev=1, September 30, 2006. (Book Review)

“Fragile Things.” RedFence.com, http://redfenceproject.com/NewDesign/articles.pl?fragile=1, July 8, 2007. (Book Review)

“Falling Man.” RedFence.com, http://redfenceproject.com/NewDesign/articles.pl?fallingman=1, October 19, 2007. (Book Review)

“Omega the Unknown.” RedFence.com, http://redfenceproject.com/NewDesign/articles.pl?omega=1, December 31, 2007. (Book Review)

Conference Presentations

“Hericlitean Apeiron and Boundless Readings.” Part of “The Task of Heraclitus: Responding to Carol Poster” panel delivered to the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, May 30, 2010.

“Composing a Multimodal Dissertation on Multimodal Composition.” Part of the “Digital Scholarship” panel delivered to the Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009. (Forthcoming)

“Augmented Pedagogy.” Part of the “Classroom 2.0: Teaching, Learning, and Theorizing Adobe Breeze” panel delivered to the Computers and Writing Conference, UC Davis, June 19, 2009.

“Clickers, iPhones, and Laptops: Managing the Challenges of an Interactive Classroom.” Delivered with Steven Ray to the New Media
Consortium Summer Conference, Monterey, June 12, 2009.

“Figure, Discourse: Postcritical Comics.” Part of the “Knowing, Doing, and Making Comics in Rhetoric and Composition” panel delivered to the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 12, 2009.

“Post-Critical Composition: A Call for Graphic Academic Discourse.” delivered to the Watson Conference, Louisville, October 16, 2008.

“Cold Fusion: Teaching Writing Across the Cool Media.” Part of the “Not just for fun: Tinker Toys, comics, and rock n’ roll” panel delivered to the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, May 31, 2008.

“300: From Cool Comic to Cool Film.” Part of the “Visual Rhetoric of Comics, 'Spectacle' and Mail Art” panel delivered to the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 4, 2008.

”iStr8ne: Electracy in We Are the Strange.” Part of the “Communication and Digital Culture VI: We Are the Strange” panel delivered to the Pop Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, March 21, 2008.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience Design," with Amanda K. Booher, Justin Hodgson, Xiaoli Li, and Mac McArthur. Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference, Boston, March 2007.

“Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth and Metamorphoses.” Part of the “Gendering Humanism: Public and Private Selves in English Renaissance Literature” panel delivered to the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 25, 2006.

“Foucault’s Pendulum as a Metaphor for Foucault’s Pendulum.” Delivered to the Association of Graduate Students in English Spring Conference: “(dis)locating power, (re)locating identity,” California State University Northridge, March 20, 2004.

“Cold Fusion: Teaching Writing Across the Cool Media.” Part of the “Not just for fun: Tinker Toys, comics, and rock n/ roll“ panel delivered to the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, May 31, 2008.

Interests

Hypertext and Digital Theory
Ulmer | Bolter | Lanham

Rhetorical Theory
Benjamin | Berlin | Burke | Deleuze | Derrida
Foucault | Heidegger | Lunsford | Ramus | Ong

Hypertext and New Media
Bolter | Hayles | Lanham
Manovich | McLuhan | Ulmer

Visual Rhetorics
Lyotard | Magritte | McCloud
Mitchell | Tansey | Taylor

Classical Rhetoric
Aristotle | Boethius | Heraclitus
Homer | Plato | Ovid

Courses Taught

Accelerated Composition Clemson University (2008 - 2009)

Technical Communications Clemson University (2007-2008)

Introduction to Human Communications Clemson University (2006-2007)

Age of Chaucer Assistant to Julie Paulson, San Francisco State University (Spring 2005)

AP Literature North Bay Christian Academy (2005-2006)

Latin II North Bay Christian Academy (2005-2006)

Latin I North Bay Christian Academy (2004-2005)

Course Work

Fall 2006

RCID 801: Histories of Rhetorics (Victor Vitanza)

RCID 811: Perspectives in Information Design (Sean Williams)

RCID 812: Critical Issues in Mechanical Reproduction (Todd May)

Spring 2007

RCID 802: Cultural Research Methods (Victor Vitanza)

RCID 803: Empirical Research Methods (Brian Denham)

RCID 804: Visual Rhetorics (Andrea Feeser)

Fall 2007

RCID 805: Rhetorics, Communication and Information Technology (Cynthia Haynes)

RCID 810: Pedagogy, Administration, and Assesment (Summer Taylor)

RCID 813: Special Topics: Writing Across the Curriculum (Art Young)

Spring 2008

RCID 813: Special Topics: Michel Foucault (Todd May)

RCID 880: Applied Research Communication Studio I (Victor Vitanza)

RCID 880: Applied Research Communication Studio II (Steve Katz)

June 2007

Graduate Summer Study European Graduate School Saas Fee, Switzerland

Differences in Writing & Social Life (Hélène Cixous)

Jean-Francios Lyotard: Hesitating Thought (Victor Vitanza)

Media Culture & Artificial Life (Wolfgang Schirmacher)

Cinema as Cultural Anthropology (Claire Denis)

Art, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy: The Matrixial Borderspace (Bracha Ettinger)

Media Art (Antony Gormley)

Invited In-house
Presentations

“The Watchmen: Comics and Visual Rhetoric” guest lecture in Victor Vitanza’s RCID 802: Histories of Rhetoric

“Structure, Sign, and Play: a text game” Serious Games Colloquium, January 28, 2008

“Comics and Technical Writing” Brown Bag Lunch presentation to teachers to Advanced Writing Teachers, November 12, 2007

Other Experience

Founded High School AP Literature Program North Bay Christian Academy (2005)

Founded High School Latin Program North Bay Christian Academy (2004)

Participant: Rusticatio Spoken Latin Program North American Living Latin Institute (2005)

Student Body Vice-President The Master’s College (2001-2002)

Professional
Organizations

Modern Language Association (2009)

National Council of Teachers of English (2007 - 2009)

Rhetoric Society of America (2008)

Popular Culture Association (2007-2008)

Renaissance Society of America (2006)

National Communication Association (2006)

Writing Across the Curriculum (2008)

Languages

Latin Classical and Ecclesiastical, proficient in reading, writing, and speaking.

Greek Homeric, Attic, Koine proficient in reading.

Computer Skills

Adobe Dreamweaver | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premier | Final Cut Pro | Adobe Breeze
Adobe Captivate | Microsoft Office