Service

Writing and Rhetoric

  • Co-wrote and awarded a Mellon Foundation Embedding Research into the Classroom Experience Grant for the Writing and Rhetoric Program. with Hannah Dickinson. 2015-2016.
  • Academic and Major/Minor Advisor. Ongoing.
  • Writing and Rhetoric Portfolio Advisor. Ongoing (beginning 2013).
  • Admitted Students’ Day. 2016, 2014, 2013.
  • Honors Advisor, spring and fall 2013; spring 2014.
  • Honors Field Examiner, Spring 2012; Spring 2014.
  • First-Year Writing Prize Selection Committee, 2014, 2016.
  • Review II Committees, 2012-2013. 2015-2016.
  • Review I Committees, 2014; 2016.
  • Job search committees (5 for both Visiting and Tenure-track faculty)
  • Curriculum review and revision, Ongoing. (beginning 2012).
  • SAC Revision. 2017-2018.

LGBT Studies

  • Academic and Major/Minor Advisor. 2011-spring 2017.
  • LGBT Studies Steering Committee. fall 2011-fall 2015.
  • Job search committees (3).
  • Successfully led initiative to re-write Standards and Criteria (SAC) for Program
  • Curriculum review and revision (2013-2015).

Colleges-wide

  • Committee on the Library, Ongoing (beginning fall 2015)
  • Fisher Center Steering Committee, Ongoing (beginning fall 2014).
  • Pride Faculty Advisor. 2012-2017.
  • Service-Learning Advisory Council, Ongoing (beginning 2012).
  • Senior Symposium Abstract Writing Workshop, Mar. 2013; Mar. 2014; Mar. 2016.
  • Posse Plus Retreat. Sticks and Stones: Language and Speech in a Diverse Society. Watkins Glen, NY. Feb 26-28.
  • Best Practices in Teaching “Speed Dating” Session. Fall Opening Institute. Collaborating to Support Student Learning. 27 2012).
  • Transgender Identities and Pedagogies Faculty Learning Community. Spring 2014.
  • Homosexuality in the Caribbean and the U.S., Panel discussion, Nov. 8, 2012.
  • Common Comma Errors, Presentation to Writing Colleagues, Oct. 21, 2012.
  • Strategies for Writing Instruction, Presentation to Writing Colleagues, Nov. 13, 2011.
  • Writing Colleagues Application Reviewer, fall 2011; spring 2012; fall 2012.

Disciplinary

  • Panel Chair. Geographic Considerations of Literacy, the Body, and Identity Construction. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 16, 2018.
  • Panel Chair. Embodied Communication and the Communicating Body. Sponsor: Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division. National Communication Association Annual Convention. Las Vegas, NV. Nov. 20 2015.
  • Discussion Leader. Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa , FL. March 18, 2015.
  • Special Interest Group (SIG). Undergraduate Consortium in Rhetoric and Writing. Conference on College Composition and Communication.