Education
PhD English
(Currently Enrolled), Expected: May 2010
The Pennsylvania
State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition
MA
English, May 2006
The
Pennsylvania
State University, State College, Pennsylvania
BA
English, May
2004
Haverford
College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Awards,
Scholarships, Prizes
Center for
Democratic Deliberation Fellowship (Penn State, 2008-2009)
Wilma R.
Ebbitt Graduate Award in Rhetoric (Penn State, 2007)
University Fellowship (Penn State, 2005-2006)
Augustus Tabor Murray Humanities Fellowship (Haverford, 2004)
Terry M. Krieger Memorial Prize (Best Thesis in English)
(Haverford, 2004)
Conference
Presentations
"Kenneth Burke on Motion and
Action: The Problem of Dualism." Triennial Conference for the Kenneth Burke Society.
Villanova, PA 2008
"The Audiences of Eighteenth
Century Periodicals." Rhetoric Society of America
Conference. Seattle, WA 2008
"The Physicality of Memory
Technology" Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY 2007
"The
Function of Rhetorical Silence: Quaker Worship From Seventeenth Century
Radicalism to Eighteenth Century Conventionalism" East-Central American
Society For Eighteenth Century Studies. Gettysburg, PA 2006
"Not So Simple
Tales: The Historicity and Ambiguity of Equiano's
Anecdotes" South West/Texas American Culture Association and Popular
Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM 2005
Service
Composition
Assistant, Academic Year 2007-2009
Assistant
to the
Conference Chair, 20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, July 2007.
Undergraduate Member, Search
Committee, Rhetoric and Composition, Haverford College 2004
Teaching
Experience
English 005, Writing
Center Tutor (one semester, 17 students)
English 015,
Rhetoric and Composition (4 sections)
English 202D,
Business Writing (2 sections)
(For
brief course descriptions and sample syllabi, see my teaching page)
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