PATRICK W. BERRY http://patrickberry.

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Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric 1303 Lancaster Avenue
Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition Syracuse, NY 13210
Syracuse University 217.819.9077
239 H.B. Crouse Hall Fax: 315.443.1220
Syracuse, NY 13244-1160 [email protected]

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, August 2018-Present
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, August 2011-Present
Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Syracuse University

EDUCATION
PhD in English with a concentration in Writing Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2011

Dissertation: “Beyond Hope: Rhetorics of Mobility, Possibility, and Literacy”

Dissertation committee:
Peter Mortensen (Chair), Anne Haas Dyson, Gail E. Hawisher, Catherine Prendergast, Paul Prior

MA, Department of English

City University of New York, Brooklyn College, February 1999

BA, Department of English, Honors Program

Long Island University, Brookville, NY, May 1991

AWARDS FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Research
Outstanding Book in Community Writing, Coalition of Community Writing, 2019, for Doing Time, Writing
Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison. Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.
This award is presented for the most outstanding book in community writing, which includes the
areas of service learning, community-based research, community literacy, ethnography and
memoir, community publishing, advocacy, and activist writing.

CCCC Research Impact Award 2013 for Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, with Gail E.
Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State
University Press, 2012. This award is presented annually for the empirical research publication
that most advances the mission of the organization or the needs of the profession.

CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award 2013 for Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times,
with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State
University Press, 2012. This award is presented annually for the empirical research publication
that most advances writing studies.
Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award
2008 Award for Kairos publication “Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A
Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity: A Collaborative Webtext,” 2007.
This award recognizes the creation of outstanding digital productions, digital environments,
and/or digital media scholarship.

Teaching
Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University, 2016
This award, sponsored by the Syracuse University Meredith Professors, recognizes excellence in
teaching by untenured faculty members.

Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Graduate Circle Faculty Mentorship Award

Syracuse University, Spring 2014
The Composition and Cultural Rhetoric graduate student group established this award to
recognize excellent teaching in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric doctoral program.

Course Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Fall 2013
This award provided support for an advanced undergraduate course entitled Rhetorical
Listening and Composition and was linked with a symposium of the same name.

Campus List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2005 and Spring 2009

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison. Southern Illinois
University Press, 2018.

Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe.
Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2012.
http://ccdigitalpress.org/transnational.

Journal Articles
“Writing for a Change: Writing for Chip.” Inquiry Praxis from Classroom to Community: The
Contribution of Chip Bruce. Invited. Ed. Ann P. Bishop. E-Learning and Digital Media 11.5 (2014):
506-09. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/elea.2014.11.5.506.

“Sustaining Narratives of Hope: Literacy, Multimodality, and the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High
School,” with Alexandra Cavallaro, Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. English
Education 46.4 (2014): 279-99.

“Doing Time with Literacy Narratives.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature,
Language, Composition, and Culture 14.1 (2014): 137-60.

“Moving Images of Literacy in a Transnational World,” with Gail E. Hawisher, Hannah Lee,
and Synne Skjulstad. Computers and Composition Online. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
http://www.cconlinejournal.org/digitalcomposing/hawisher.html.

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 “Critical Remediation: Locating Eliza.” Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.3 (2007).
http://technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/prior-et-al/about/abstract_berry.html.

“Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical

Activity,” with Paul Prior, Janine Solberg, Hannah Bellwoar, Bill Chewning, Karen J. Lunsford,
Liz Rohan, Kevin Roozen, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, Jody Shipka, Derek Van Ittersum, and Joyce
Walker. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.3 (2007).
http://technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/prior-et-al/introduction.html.

“Teachers, Capitalists, and Class in Pygmalion and The Millionairess.” The Independent Shavian
42.3 (2004): 51-59.

Chapters
“Rhetorical Pivots: Contending with the Purpose and Value of Higher Education in Prison.” After
Plato: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing. Ed. John Duffy and Lois Agnew. Utah State
University Press, forthcoming.

“Carceral Windows and the Promise of Literacy.” Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social
Action. Ed. Mary P. Sheridan, Megan Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, and Drew Holladay.
Lexington Press, 2018. 197-208.

“(Re)voicing Teaching and Learning in Paseo Boricua,” with Alexandra J. Cavallaro, Elaine
Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. Youth Community Inquiry: New Media for
Community and Personal Growth. Ed. Bertram C. Bruce, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Nama R.
Budhathoki. Peter Lang, 2014. 95-105.

“Transnational Literate Lives: An Emerging Research Methodology for a Globalized World,” with
Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, Shafinaz Ahmed, Vanessa Rouillon, Gorjana Kisa, and Mirza
Nurkic. Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. Ed.
Katrina Powell and Pamela Takayoshi. Hampton Press, 2012. 385-408.

“Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of Digital Media,” with Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E.
Hawisher. Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Ed. Dànielle N. DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee,
and Richard Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2009.
http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/tes.

“Ubiquitous Writing and Learning: Digital Media as Tools for Reflection and Research on Literate
Activity,” with Gail E. Hawisher, Paul Prior, Amber Buck, Steven E. Gump, Cory Holding, Hannah
Lee, Christa Olson, and Janine Solberg. Ubiquitous Learning. Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis.
University of Illinois Press, 2009. 254-64.

Review
Review of Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American
Punishment, 1700-1845, by Jodi Schorb. American Literacy History. 23 October 2015. 1-3.
http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/alhist/alhreview_series4.html.

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Edited Collection
Provocations: Reconstructing the Archive featuring Jody Shipka, Alexandra Hidalgo, Erin R.
Anderson, and Trisha N. Campbell. Ed. Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe.
Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2016.
http://ccdigitalpress.org/reconstructingthearchive.

Publicly Engaged Scholarship

“CCDP as a Case Study for Digital Publishing Efforts,” with Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, Tim
Lockridge, and Melanie Yergeau. Sweetland Digital Writing Collective. Invited, 2016.
http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2016/11/21/ccdp-as-a-case-study-for-digital-
publishing-efforts.

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

higher education in prison qualitative research methods transnational literacies
computers and writing professional writing and publishing literacy studies
rhetoric and ethics histories of rhetoric and composition contemplative practices

TEACHING
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio, Intertext, Spring 2012-2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015-2019

WRT 303: Advanced Writing and Research, Fall 2019

WRT 413: Rhetoric and Ethics, Fall 2014, Fall 2018

CCR 600: Composition Pedagogy at Syracuse University, Summer 2018

CCR 632: Composition On and Off the Page, Fall 2013, Fall 2017

CCR 632: Composition Pedagogy (for English TAs), Fall 2015, Fall 2016

WRT 114: Writing Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2016

CCR 611: Composition Histories and Theories, Fall 2011, Spring 2016

WRT 105: Practices of Academic Writing, Fall 2015

WRT 205: Critical Research and Inquiry, Spring 2012, Spring 2014

WRT 400: Rhetorical Listening and Composition, Fall 2013

CCR 732: Literate Lives, Digital Times, Spring 2013

WRT 307: Professional Writing, Fall 2012

WRT 302: Digital Writing, Fall 2012

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 WRT 400: Writing with Video and Across Media, Fall 2011

Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, NY

Practices of Academic Writing, Spring 2019

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Writing Analysis and Persuasion, Center for Gifted and Talented Youth, Summer 2011

Danville Area Community College with the Danville Correctional Center, Danville, IL
ENG 101: Process, Performance, and Publication, Spring 2011

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Informatics 303: Writing Across Media, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
Supported development of course exploring composition with sound, images, animation, and
other media while reconsidering theoretical perspectives on conventional rhetorical concepts
such as authorship, audience, process, revision, and design.

University of Illinois Writing Project, Summer 2008-Summer 2011

Taught community teachers how to compose and teach with digital media in university-
sponsored Summer Institute.

English 482: Writing Technologies, Spring 2010

Explored historical and theoretical accounts of writing as a material practice that is shaped
by technology.

English 380: Writing for a Change: For Business, for Life, Spring 2009
Designed and taught upper-level writing course that brought together writing process pedagogy
with professional writing at a medium-high security prison.

Tutor & Workshop Leader, Education Justice Project, Spring 2009-Spring 2010
Provided writing support to incarcerated students at the Danville Correctional Center.

English 481: Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Fall 2008

Teaching Assistant for Gail E. Hawisher
Worked with preservice teachers on composing with digital media.

Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar for Teaching Assistants, Spring 2006-Fall 2009
Assisted in the design and teaching of three-day workshop for teaching assistants
across campus.

English 402: Descriptive English Grammar, Spring 2007 and Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant for Gail E. Hawisher

Communications Workshop, Mid-America Earthquake Center, Spring 2006 and Summer 2007
Designed and co-taught (with Janine Solberg) two-day workshop for undergraduate research
assistantship winners.

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 English 505: Writing Studies 1, Social Contexts and Functions of Writing, Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant for Gail E. Hawisher
Instructed graduate students on how to create Web portfolios and use video
editing tools.

BTW 275: Writing Across Media, Fall 2005

Developed advanced professional writing course, since adapted for the Illinois Informatics
Institute, integrating new media theory with multimedia composing.

BTW 250: Introduction to Professional Writing, Fall 2004 and Spring 2005

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Crafting the Essay, Center for Gifted and Talented Youth, Summer 2008
Taught intensive Web-based course to students in grades 7-12 on ways of using the personal
essay to explore narration, description, and reflection.

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Digital Media Specialist, Digital Media and Composition, Summer 2007
Assisted rhetoric and composition scholars in exploring effective uses of digital media
in college composition classrooms.

City University of New York, Brooklyn College

CORE 6: Introduction to World Literature, Fall 1999

ENG 1: Composition 1, Spring 1999

ENG 4: Basic Writing, Fall 1998

New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS), New York, NY
Magazine Production and Manufacturing: Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Summer 1999
Designed course offering comprehensive study of magazine production from
prepress to press.

OTHER AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

Award, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute at Syracuse University, 2021
Syracuse University, NY
Awarded site for the 9th Biennial RSA Summer Institute with Charles E. Morris III, Chair of
Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies.

Facilitator, Visiting Professor Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Spring 2019
Awarded funding to bring Maisha T. Winn, Professor, Chancellor's Leadership Professor, and Co-
Director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center (TJE) at UC Davis, to Syracuse
University as the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities.

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Symposium Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center
Syracuse University, Fall 2017
Received funding for symposium on the theme of belonging with Jody Shipka and Paul Prior.

Symposium Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Spring 2017
Received funding to bring Gabriel Ramirez to campus for a public performance and workshop.

Participant, Path of Freedom. Prison Mindfulness Institute. Online Course, Spring 2016
Accepted to online course that teaches the Path of Freedom® curriculum, which is used in
prisons and youth-at-risk programs. http://www.prisonmindfulness.org/projects/path-of-
freedom.

Symposium Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Spring 2016
Received funding for symposium on networks.

Participant, Summer Session on Contemplative Pedagogy. The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.
Smith College, Northampton, MA, August 2015
Received funding from the Contemplative Collaborative to support contemplative pedagogy
initiatives.

Facilitator, Visiting Professor Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Spring 2015
Awarded funding to bring Gesa E. Kirsch, professor of English and director of the Valente Center
for Arts and Sciences at Bentley University, to Syracuse University as the Jeannette K. Watson
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities.

Symposium Award, Syracuse University Humanities Center

Syracuse University, Fall 2013
Received funding for symposium on Rhetorical Listening and Composition.

William P. Tolley New Faculty Summer Stipend. Syracuse University, Summer 2012

Fellowship, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
Awarded for innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities,
and the social sciences.

Certification in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2011

Fellowship, English Department

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010

Fellowship, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2009
Supported interdisciplinary dissertation research on teachers’ literacy narratives.

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Summer Humanities Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2008
Conducted archival research on Myles Horton and Paulo Freire’s spoken book at the
Wisconsin Historical Society.

Scholarship, “Popular Education and Organizing Workshop”

Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, TN, December 2008

Reading Group Award, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008
With Gail E. Hawisher, facilitated cross-campus reading group and lecture series around the
theme of digital literacies. Continued group with Hawisher and Amber Buck, 2008-2011.

Scholarship, Center for Working-Class Studies, “Teaching Immigration Across the Disciplines”
Youngstown University, Youngstown, OH, June 2007
Competitive tuition and housing scholarship awarded in conjunction with the Ohio Humanities
Council for summer workshop on teaching immigration across the disciplines.

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Conference Travel Award

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2007 and Spring 2008

Center for Writing Studies Conference Fellowship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2010

English Department Conference Travel Award

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, and Fall 2008

English Department Recruitment Fellowship

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2005

Scholarship, Institute for Writing and Thinking

Bard College, Summer 2004
Competitive tuition waiver for participation in summer workshop, “Thinking Through Narrative.”

INVITED NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

LION (Learning Inside Out Network). University of Alaska Fairbanks. Think Tank Leader and
Workshop Facilitator, November 2018. Invited.

“Prison Relations: Doing Time, Writing Lives.” Honors Program Conference. LIU Post, Brookville, NY.
December 2018. Invited.

“Working on Many Cylinders: Prison Teaching and the Contextual Now.” Program in Writing and Critical
Inquiry. University at Albany, State University of New York. Albany, NY. October 2017. Invited.

“Literacy, Rhetoric, and Responsivity in an Age of Mass Incarceration.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2014. Invited.

“Literacy, Rhetoric, and Hope in an Age of Mass Incarceration.” Literacy Studies Initiative. The Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH. November 2013. Invited.

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“This I Believe: Literacy, Prison, and Possibility.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting.
Vancouver, British Columbia. November 2012. Invited.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Watch Your Back: Carceral Rhetorics and the Promise of Literacy.” Rhetoric Society of America Biennial
Conference, Portland, OR. May 2020.

“Digital Activism, Restorative Justice, and the Prison Industrial Complex.” Computers and Writing. East
Carolina University, Greenvale, NC. May 2020.

“Prison Archives and Public Memory: Disrupting the Commonplaces of Incarceration.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI. March 2020.

“Involvement and Detachment: Confronting the Paradox of Community Engagement (and Research) in
Prison.” Conference on Community Writing, Philadelphia, PA. October 2019.

“Rhetorical Pivots: Ethics, Prison Education, and the Rewriting of Lives.” Rhetoric in Society 7. Ghent
University, Belgium. September 2019.

“Rhetorical Listening: Contending with the Purpose and Value of Higher Education in Prison.” 2018
National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Indianapolis, IN. November 2018.

“Resisting the Romance of Prison Writing.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2018.

“Rhetorical Pivots: Listening to Literacy Narratives In and Out of Prison.” Rhetoric Society of America
Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN. June 2018.

“Prison Circuits: To Discern, Learn, and Compose (or Connect).” Computers and Writing. George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA. May 2018.

“Literacy Inside Out: What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Educator in Prison?” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO. March 2018.

“Prison Writing and the Contextual Now.” Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Estes Park,
CO. June 2017.

“Computers and Composition Digital Press: Sustaining Possibilities.” Computers and Writing. University
of Findlay, Findlay, OH. June 2017.

Respondent to “(Re)Generation: Creating Spaces to Wander,” with Jody Shipka, Kristen Arola, and
Jacqueline Rhodes. Town Hall. Invited. Computers and Writing. University of Findlay, Findlay,
OH. June 2017.

“Literacy Myths and Hope Behind Bars.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Portland, OR. March 2017.

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“Getting Out: Inmate Students, Literate Activity, and the Promise of a Third Space.” Thomas R. Watson
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2016.

“The Romance of Prison Writing and Public Responsibility.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Houston, TX. April 2016.

“Released: The Digital After Prison.” Computers and Writing. Washington State University, Pullman,
WA. June 2014.

“Networking Both Ways: What Prison Can Teach Us About Literacy.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN. March 2014.

“Born-Digital Scholarship and Long-Form Publishing in Online Environments.” Roundtable with Anne
Ruggles Gere, Gail E. Hawisher, Debra Journet, Anthony O’Keeffe, Cynthia L. Selfe, Richard J.
Selfe, and Naomi Silver. Writing Research Across Borders. Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La
Défense. February 2014.

“What Can the Prison Teach Us About Literacy?” National Council of Teachers of English. Boston, MA.
November 2013.

“Barred Access: Computers and Writing in Prison.” Computers and Writing. Frostburg State University,
Frostburg, MD. June 2013.

“This I Believe: Literacy, Reflexivity, and Teacher Identity.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

NATIONAL WORKSHOPS
“Where Inside and Outside Meet: Naming Our Commonplaces in Prison-Based Teaching and Research.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI. March 2020.

“Performing Prison: Intentional Teaching, Research, and Writing Inside & Out.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.

“Activist or Educator? Rethinking the Transformative Potential of Education in Prison.” Workshop co-
chair with Laura Rogers. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City,
MO. March 2018.

“The Prison Next Door: What Types of Connections Do We Want to Cultivate?” Workshop co-chair with
Laura Rogers. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR. March
2017.

“Mini-Workshop: Markdown,” with Tim Lockridge and Derek Van Ittersum. Computers and Writing.
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY. June 2016.

“Disrupting the Cycle of Mass Incarceration: What Can Writing Really Do?” Workshop co-chair with
Laura Rogers. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX. April 2016.

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“Narrative Truth: The Risks and Rewards of Prison Research, Writing, and Teaching.” Workshop co-chair
with Laura Rogers. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL.
March 2015.

“Prison Networks: Broadcasting Why Prison Writing Matters.” Workshop, co-chair with Laura Rogers.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN. March 2014.

“Prison Stories and Ethics in Conducting Research.” Workshop: Making Lives Behind Bars Visible:
Literacy Programs and Activism. Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

“The Literacy Payoff: Promises from Prison.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2012.

“Prison IDs: Contradictory Visions of Literacy, Schooling, and Identity.” Rhetoric Society of America
Biennial Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. May 2012.

“Unlearning Publishing: Consolidation and Expertise in the Digital Age.” Computers and Writing. North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. May 2012.

“Raising the Bar: Publishing from the Prison Industrial Complex.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication, St. Louis, MO. March 2012.

“Ethnography of the Prison.” Workshop: Opening Prison Gates: Creating, Sustaining, Researching and
Extending Literacy Programs Behind Bars. Conference on College Composition
and Communication, St. Louis, MO. March 2012.

“Assessing Digital/Multi-Media Projects Professional Development Session,” with Jody Shipka. Syracuse
University Writing Program. Syracuse, NY. November 2012.

“Multimodal Extensions: Writing and Publishing Beyond the Page.” Syracuse University Writing Program,
Fall Conference. Syracuse, NY. August 2011.

“Beyond Subsistence: Flourishing in Graduate School—and After,” with Rebecca Moore Howard and
Stephen Parks. Community Day. Syracuse University Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Program. Syracuse, NY. August 2011.

“Teachers’ Chronicles of Literacy: Then and Now.” Computers and Writing. University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI. May 2011.

“Literacy Narratives and Prison Relations.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Atlanta, GA. April 2011.

“Time and Doing Time with Literacy Narratives.” Workshop: Prison Writing: Pedagogy, Representation,
Research and Action. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
April 2011.

“Time and Doing Time with Literacy Narratives.” Modern Language Association Convention.
Los Angeles, CA. January 2011.

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“More Than Words: Prison Matters and Materials.” National Council of Teachers of English. Orlando, FL.
November 2010.

“Writing for a Change, Writing for Chip.” Chip Bruce: A Celebration of His Once and Future Work.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. September 2010. Invited.

“Virtual-less Home: Online Compositions from Prison.” Computers and Writing. Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN. May 2010.

“Reading, Writing, and Recidivism: Rhetorics of Literacy in the Prison Classroom.” Rhetoric Society of
America Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN. May 2010.

“Prison Business: A Contextual Approach to Teaching Professional Writing.” Association of Teachers

of Technical Writing, Louisville, KY. March 2010.

“Literacy Promises: Teachers, Composition, and the Prison.” Qualitative Research Network, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY. March 2010.

“The Ubiquitous Road: Horton and Freire’s ‘Spoken Book.’” Computers and Writing. University of
California, Davis. June 2009.

“The Road Less Traveled: Horton and Freire on the Edge of the Literacy Narrative.” The International
Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May 2009.

“Teachers’ Memoirs: Confronting Literacy Myths.” Keynote talk, with Harvey Graff. Expanding
Literacy Studies Conference. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. April 2009. Invited.

“Making Teachers, Making Literacies Across Modalities.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2008.

“Resituating the Literacy Myth.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,

New Orleans, LA. March 2008.

“Teacher Making and Literacy Narratives as Methodology.” Writing Research Across Borders. University
of California, Santa Barbara. February 2008.

“Revisiting Lives on the Boundary.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,

New York, NY. March 2007.

“Professional Writing and Social Class.” Working-Class Studies Special Interest Group. Conference on
College Composition and Communication, New York, NY. March 2007.

“Into and Out of Theory: Freire and Horton’s ‘Spoken Book.’” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition, Louisville, KY. October 2006.

“Replaying and Remixing Narratives of ‘Old’ Media.” Conference on Computers and Writing. Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX. May 2006.

“Narrating Literacy: Reading Professors’ Autobiographies.” Qualitative Research Network. Conference

on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. March 2006.

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“Technological ‘Corruption’ and the Myth of Female Authenticity.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s)
Conference. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. October 2005.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS @ SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

“Thoughtful Planning, Practical Preparations,” with Geghard Arakelian, Krista Kennedy, and Tessa
Brown. Community Day. Syracuse University Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Program.
Syracuse, NY. August 2016.

“For Those Who Can’t Be Here Today: Prison Mindfulness.” Contemplative Collaborative Brownbag with
Bonnie Shoultz and Syeisha Byrd. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. January 2016.

“The Romance of Prison Writing and Public Responsibility.” Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Symposium. Syracuse, NY. November 2015.

“Writing Across the Curriculum.” Future Professoriate Program (FPP) Colloquium, with Sandra Jamieson
and Tony Scott. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. September 2015.

“Writing Across the Curriculum.” Workshop. Study Abroad. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. August
2015. Invited.

“Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times.” Digital Scholarship Forum. Peter Graham Scholarly
Commons, Bird Library. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. October 2012. Invited.

“Why I Teach in Prison.” Conference on Activism, Rhetoric, and Research. Syracuse University, Syracuse,
NY. May 2012.

“Circulating Engagement and the Promise of the Digital.” Syracuse University Board of Visitors,
New York, NY. April 2012. Invited.

“Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times: Reflections on Multimodal Book Production.” Reflections
on Digital Culture. The Tolley Faculty Dinner Forum. Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center,
Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. April 2012. Invited.

SELECT COAUTHORED PRESENTATIONS

“Learning to Be Present: Mindfulness Practices for Writing, Research, and Creativity,” with Gesa E.
Kirsch. Contemplative Collaborative Brownbag Series. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
February 2015.

“Assembling the Teaching Portfolio,” with Rebecca Moore Howard and Kyle Stedman. Syracuse
University Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Symposium, Syracuse, NY. October 2014.

“Publishing Multimedia Scholarship: Thinking About Bookness,” with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L.
Selfe. Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, MA. January 2013.

“Exploring Digital Portfolios and Digital Literacy in the Invitational Summer Institute,” with Libbie
Morley. National Writing Project, 2010 Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL. November 2010. Invited.
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“(Re)voicing Teaching and Learning in Paseo Boricua,” with Alexandra Cavallaro. Community as
Intellectual Space Conference. Chicago, IL. June 2009.

“Computers and Composition Digital Press (CCDP): An Emerging Publishing Venue,” with Gail E.
Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Writing Conference. University of Georgia,
Athens, GA. May 2008.

“Who Matters: (re)figuring Accounts of Literacy,” with Jody Shipka. Computers and Writing.
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. May 2007.

“Re-designing Digital Literacies in the 21st Century,” with Gail E. Hawisher, Maria Lovett, Shafinaz
Ahmed, Sophie Dewayani, Yu Kyung Kang, and Vanessa Rouillon. Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New York, NY. March 2007.

“Supporting Digital Media and Research Across the Curriculum,” with Gail E. Hawisher and Synne
Skjulstad. Invited paper. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. February 2007.

“Triptych Discussion,” with Sibylle Gruber, Gail E. Hawisher, Janice R. Walker, and Joyce R. Walker.
Invited presentation. Computers and Writing Online Conference. AcadianaMOO. February 2007.

“Open Source Teaching: Narratives of Play and Inquiry in Professional Writing,” with Rebecca Bilbro.
English Articulation Conference. Allerton Park Conference Center, Monticello, IL. April 2006.

“Alternative Text(s): A Multi-Theoried Approach to Teaching Professional Writing,” with Hannah

Bellwoar and Janine Solberg. Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, Chicago, IL.
March 2006.

ADMINISTRATION & SERVICE

Chair, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2018-Present

Co-leader, Social Differences, Social Justice Cluster Hire Working Group

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2019-Present

Chair, Curriculum Committee. College of Arts and Sciences

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2018-Present

Senator, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2018-Present

Member, Senate Committee on Computing

Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Fall 2018-Present

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Member, Course Subcommittee, College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017-Present

Co-Leader, Composition, Labor, and Embodiment Working Group

CNY Humanities Corridor
Fall 2018-Present

Co-Chair, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute Steering Committee

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2019-Present

Faculty Advisor, Writing Rhetoric Student Organization (WRSO)

Fall 2014-Spring 2017; Fall 2019-Present

Member, NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017-Present

Faculty Mentor, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017-Present

Faculty Advisor, Auburn Correctional Facility, Writing Program, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2012; Spring 2014-Present

Member, CCCC Task Force on Cross-Generational Activities

Conference on College Composition and Communication
July 2013-Present

Proposal Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication

2014-Present

Member, Major Exam Committee, CCR Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Summer 2012-Present

HASTAC Steering Committee Member

Fall 2012-Present

Member, Executive Committee, Graduate Research Network, Computers and Writing Conference
Spring 2010-Present

SEM 100 and Shared Reading Working Group

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Summer 2018

Chair, Search Committees. Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition,

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017-Spring 2018

Member, 2018 Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship Review Committee

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 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2018

Member, Digital Humanities/Studies ILM Working Group

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017-Fall 2018

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017

Chair, Lower-Division Committee, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2017

Member, Contemplative Collaborative Steering Committee, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2014-Spring 2018

Digital Humanities Faculty Working Group, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Spring 2015-Spring 2018

Humanities Center Faculty Advisory Board

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2013-Spring 2017

College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2017

Director of TA Education, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition,

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fall 2015-Spring 2017

Program Coordinator, Contemplative Collaborative Brownbag Series, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Spring 2015; Spring 2016; Spring 2017
Organized brownbag series on contemplative practices that kicked off the Humanities Center
Spring Symposia.

Graduate Research Network Workshop Leader on Preparing for the Job Market,
Computers and Writing Conference (various locations)
2012-Present

Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing

2010-2015, 2017-Present

Member, SU Abroad Faculty Academic Advisory Council, Syracuse, NY

Spring 2017

Member, 2017 Humanities Center Syracuse Symposium Review Committee

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2016; Spring 2017
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Co-chair CCCC SIG: Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and Literacies
Spring 2016; Spring 2017; Spring 2018

Member, Major-Minor Committee, Syracuse University, Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and
Composition, Syracuse, NY Fall 2016-Spring 2017

Member, Syracuse University Academic Integrity Advisory Committee, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2015-Spring 2016

Member of Search Committee, Writing Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2015-Spring 2016

“Teaching with Genre: What, Why, How.” Graduate Student Symposium. Organized with Tony
Scott. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
October 2015

Member, Lower-Division Committee, Syracuse University Writing Program, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2011-Spring 2012; Fall 2014; Fall 2015-Spring 2016

Interdisciplinary Writing Group Coordinator and Participant, Humanities Center’s Jeanette K. Watson
Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Spring 2015
Developed and participated in interdisciplinary writing group with visiting professor Gesa E.
Kirsch.

Member, 2014 Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship Review Committee, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, Spring 2014

Faculty Advisor, Syracuse University Press Internship, Westcott Theater, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2013

Member, CCR Graduate Program Committee, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Fall 2013-Spring 2014

“We Make the Road by Walking: Exploring the Theory/History/Practice Divide.” Graduate Student
Symposium. Organized with Stephen Parks and Tony Scott.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
October 2013

Member, Transnationalizing WRT 105 and 205 Committee, Writing Program, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

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Lower-Division Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2012-Spring 2013

Speaker, Spring and Fall Receptions, with Stephen Secora, Syracuse University College Admissions
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
April 2012; November 2012

Member, Engaging Pedagogy Initiative, College of Arts and Sciences

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2012-Fall 2012

Faculty Advisor, Syracuse University Press Internship, Writing Program

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Summer 2012

Faculty Advisor, New City Community Press Internship, Writing Program

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Spring 2012

Mentor, RSA Proposal Workshop

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
September 2011

Technology Liaison, University of Illinois Writing Project

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summer 2009; Summer 2010; Summer 2011

Member, Writing Across Media Steering Committee

Summer 2008-Spring 2011

Member, Steering Committee

University of Illinois Writing Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2007-Spring 2011

Research Assistant to Peter Mortensen

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2006-Spring 2011

Member, Academic Team, Education Justice Project

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2009-Spring 2010

Member, Program Committee, Expanding Literacy Studies Conference

The Ohio State University
2008-2009

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Member of Web Redesign Task Force Committee, Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2007-Spring 2009

Assistant Director, Center for Writing Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2006-Spring 2008

Program Coordinator, Programs in Professional Writing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fall 2005-Spring 2006

Graduate Student Mentor, Center for Writing Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005-2011

Member, Textbook Committee. Programs in Professional Writing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring 2005

Reader, CUNY Writing Assessment Test

City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Spring 1998

DOCTORAL COMMITTEES
From the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Doctoral Program at Syracuse University:
Brian Bailie (completed 2014), Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash
Tessa Brown (co-chair with G. Pough; completed 2017), Lecturer, Stanford University
Jordan Canzonetta, (completed 2019), Assistant Professor, Lewis University
Seth E. Davis (co-chair with G. Pough; completed 2018), Assistant Professor, Curry College
Romeo Garcia (completed 2017), Assistant Professor, University of Utah
TJ Geiger (completed 2013), Assistant Professor, Lamar University
Tamara Bassam Issak (completed 2018), Assistant Professor, St. John’s University
Andre Habét, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University
Allison Hitt (co-chair with L. Agnew; completed 2015), Assistant Professor, Ball State University
Santosh Khadka (completed 2014), Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Benjamin Kuebrich (completed 2015), Assistant Professor, West Chester University
Seth Long (completed 2015), Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Jason Luther (completed 2017), Assistant Professor, Rowen University
David Maynard, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University
Jessica Michelle Pauszek (completed 2017), Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce
LaToya Sawyer (completed 2017), Assistant Professor, St. John's University
Chad Seader, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University
Rachael Shapiro (completed 2015), Assistant Professor, Rowen University

From Other Universities

Sally Benson, English Department, University of Arizona
Elizabeth Tinelli (completed 2016, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester), Associate
Professor, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

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FUTURE PROFESSORIATE PROGRAM MENTOR
André Habet, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2018-Present
Seth E. Davis, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2015-2016
Noah Wilson, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2017

HASTAC MENTOR
Jordan Canzonetta, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2016-2018
Allison Hitt, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2011-2014
Jason Luther, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2012-2015
Jessica Michelle Pauszek, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2015-2016

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Reviewer, November 2017-Present

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY

Reviewer, February 2017-Present

Computers and Composition Digital Press

Senior Editor, August 2016-Present

Written Communication
Reviewer, July 2015-Present

Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture

Reviewer, January 2015-Present

CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Reviewer, October 2015-Present

College Composition and Communication

Reviewer, June 2014-Present

College English
Reviewer, June 2014-Present

Computers and Composition

Reviewer, April 2012-Present

English Education
Reviewer, September 2012-Present

Research in the Teaching of English

Reviewer, October 2009-Present

Computers and Composition Digital Press

Associate Editor, May 2011-August 2016

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Computers and Composition
Associate Editor, 2006-2009

College Composition and Communication

Assistant Editor, 2005-2006

The Independent Shavian, New York, NY

Associate Editor, 1998-2007

Hearst Communications, New York, NY

Assistant Managing Editor, 2003-2004
Editorial Production Director, 1999-2002
Operations Supervisor, 1997-1999
Advertising Production Manager, 1995-1997
Assistant Advertising Production Manager, 1993-1995
Sales Associate, 1991-1993
Assistant to the Managing Editor, 1990-1991

TECHNOLOGY & DESIGN SKILLS

Web design: Dreamweaver
Desktop publishing: InDesign
Digital audio/video: Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, Premiere
Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, iPhoto, Lightroom

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Contemplative Collaborative
Education Justice Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
HASTAC
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Writing Project
Rhetoric Society of America

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