Curriculum Vitae
MARY TRACHSEL
Business Address: Department of Rhetoric
171 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone:
319-335-0185
E-mail:
mary-trachsel@uiowa.edu
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Higher Education
University of Texas, Austin
1981-1987
English--Rhetoric/Composition
Penn State University
1976-1980
English--Am. Lit.
University of Iowa
1971-1975
English
Professional and Academic Positions
Chair, Rhetoric Department
Associate Professor, Rhetoric
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric
Writing Lab Director, English
Graduate Instructor, English
Part-time Instructor, English
Graduate Instructor, English
2004-2008
1996-present
1989-1996
1988-1989
1981-1987
1980-1981
1976-1980
PhD 1987
MA 1980
BA 1975
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
University of Texas
University of Texas
Penn State University
Penn State University
Honors and Awards
Iowa Humanities Festival Fellow, November 2013
Collegiate Teaching Award, Fall 2008
Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, Summer 2008
CLAS Summer Fellowship for tenured faculty, Summer 2003.
Irish American Cultural Institute Research Fellowship, Dept. of Irish Studies, University
College, Galway. Galway, Ireland. Fall 1993.
Professional Development
International Travel Grant ($500), Summer 2012 to attend conference in Oslo, Norway.
CROSSROADS Worksop on Democratic Dialogues, Summer 2010-2012
CLAS Curriculum Development Award ($4000) to design and pilot service-learning Global Awareness
Rhetoric curriculum, Summer 2007
I-SCHOOL Workshop on Teaching and Learning, Summer 2006
International Travel Grant ($675), Summer 2006 to attend conference in Entebbe, Uganda
Center for Teaching Service Learning Workshop, Summer 2006
Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Articulating the Animal. Fall 2005
International Travel Grant ($450), Summer 2005. To present paper in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
International Travel Grant ($500), Summer 2004, to present paper in Havana, Cuba
CLAS Instructional Technology Grant ($21,000) to purchase equipment to facilitate multimedia
instruction in Rhetoric classes, Spring 2004 (with Will Jennings).
Directorship of Summer Faculty Workshop on writing instruction in large classes, Summer 2002
Faculty Fellowship, Center for Teaching 2001-2002.
Office of Interdisciplinary Programs seed money for new interdisciplinary undergraduate course, Rhetoric
of Scientific Inquiry. ($2500) for developing course taught in Fall 2002, Fall 2003
NTitle Technology workshop and grant, Summer 1999
NEH Summer Seminar, “Responsibility and Social Identity,” Dept. of Philosophy,
University of Colorado, Boulder. Summer 1995
NEH Summer Institute, “Telling Tales.” Dept. of Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Summer 1994
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Memberships
International Primatological Society
International Society for Anthrozoology
Animals and Society Institute
Iowa Humane Alliance
TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
(since tenure)
Classroom teaching
Spring, 2014
Honors General Education Interp. of Literature
Fall, 2013
Semester leave without pay
Spring, 2013
Honors General Education Interp. of Literature
Fall, 2012
Honors Rhetoric (10:003)
Honors First-Year Seminar: Dogs Inside & Out
Spring, 2012
Honors General Education Interp. of Literature
Fall, 2011
Honors Rhetoric (10:003)
Professional Development Colloquium (10:350)
First-year Honors Seminar: Dogs Inside and Out
Spring, 2011
Interpretation of Literature (8G: 001)
Fall, 2010
Honors Rhetoric (10:003)
Professional Development Colloquium (10:350)
Independent Honors Research
First-year Honors Seminar: Animal Homelessness
Spring 2010
Interpretation of Literature (8:001)
Ethics of Care (8:340)
Fall 2009
Honors Rhetoric (10:003)
Colloquium: Teaching Rhetoric (10:350)
Spring 2009
Career Development Assignment
Fall 2008
Career Development Assignment
Spring 2008
First-year seminar (XXX:029)
Interpretation of Literature (8:010)
Fall 2007
First-semester Rhetoric (10:001)
Fall 2006
Professional Development Colloquium (10:350)
Spring 2006
Honors seminar: Humans and Other Primates
Spring 2005
First-year Seminar (610:029 )
Feminist Pedagogy (131:21)
Fall 2003
Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry (10:005)
Writing Fellows Seminar (143:102)
Spring 2003
Feminist Ethics (10:340)
Invention (8:140)
Fall 2002
Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry (10:005)
Fall 2001
First-year seminar (10:029)
Summer 2001 Research Writing in Biological Sciences (10:042)
Spring 2001
Poroi Seminar: Invention (160:200)
Fall 2000
First-year seminar (10:29)
Colloquium: Teaching Rhetoric (10:350)
Summer 2000 Research Writing in Biological Sciences (10:042)
Writing Dissertations (160:400)
Spring 2000
Poroi Seminar: Invention (160:200)
Fall 1999
Colloquium: Teaching Rhetoric (10:350)
Feminist Pedagogy (131:210)
Summer 1999 Rhetoric (10:003)
Spring 1999
First-year seminar (10:029)
12 undergraduate students
18 undergraduate students
20 undergraduate students
18 undergraduate students
18 undergraduate students
20 undergraduate students
10 graduate students
16 undergraduate students
19 undergraduate students
20 undergraduate students
12 graduate students
1 undergraduate student
7 undergraduate students
20 undergraduate students
7 graduate students
23 students
12 students
15 students
20 students
23 students
12 students
6 students
15 students
15 students
15 students
15 students
10 students
15 students
15 students
14 students
7 students
8 students
13 students
12 students
5 students
16 students
7 students
11 students
11 students
6 students
15 students
2
Fall 1998
Summer 1998
Spring 1998
Fall 1997
Spring 1997
Fall 1996
Feminist Ethics (10:340)
Poroi Seminar: Invention (160:200)
The Book in Society & Culture II (4-wk)
[Developmental Leave]
Rhetoric (10:001)
First-year seminar (10:029)
Feminist Ethics (10:340)
Nonfiction Writing (8W:100)
Politics of Literacy (7E:154; 7S:154)
First year seminar (10:029)
Colloquium in Teaching Rhetoric (PDP) (10:350)
Independent Studies
Fall 2012
10:199 Honors Project
Fall 2011
10:199 Honors Project
Fall 2007
10:198
Spring 2006
Special Instruction: Graduate
Fall 2001
Special Instruction: Graduate
Fall 1999
10:550 Special Instruction: Graduate
10:199 Special Project: Undergraduate
Spring 1996
10:550 Special Instruction: Graduate
10 students
10 students
11 students
8 students
17 students
9 students
17 students
16 students
11 students
11 students
1 student
1 student
1 student
1 student
1 student
1 student
1 student
1 student
Saturday and Evening Program
Spring 2008
10:2
Fall 2007
10:3
Spring 2007
10:2
Fall 2006
10:1
Spring 2006
10:2
Spring 2005
10:2
Fall 2004
10:1
Spring 2004
10:2
Fall 2003
10:1
Spring 2003
10:2
Fall 2002
10:1
Spring 2002
10:2
Fall 2001
10:1
Fall 2000
10:2
Fall 1999
10:2
Fall 1997
10:4
22 students
23 students
21 students
23 students
20 students
20 students
20 students
22 students
20 students
22 students
15 students
20 students
15 students
16 students
10 students
9 students
Non-classroom Teaching
Writing Fellows, co-director & commenting mentor, Spring 2014
ICRU student, Summer/Fall 2012
Writing Center Tutor, Fall 2010-present (including fall 2013)
Writing Workshop, Iowa Medical Classification Center. 2009-present
Guided Correspondence Rhetoric 10:3 (2005-2008)
Advising Rhetoric Instructors (Spring 2013)
Mentoring Writing Fellows (Since Fall 2003)
Graduate student committees since tenure
Degree
Name
Program
Objective
PhD
Nellene Bernardus
English
PhD
Sang Uk Joo
Sports Studies
Years
Outcome
2013
2012
2013
prospectus
comp exam
prospectus
3
PhD
Catherine Wilson
PhD
Kirsten Archer
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
PhD
Nik Dickerson
Lauren Whitehead
Laura Capp
Vicki Krajewski
Jo Morrisey
PhD
Samuel VanHorne
PhD
Seon No
PhD
PhD
Kathi Griffin
James Patterson
PhD
Courtenay Bouvier
MFA
PhD
Marilyn Knight
Gary Jarvis
PhD
Abby Ruby
PhD
Shell Fiejo
PhD
PhD
Jacque Smith
Soonyoung Lee
PhD
PhD
PhD
Sarah McCaughey
Deirdre McMahon
Kats Mendoza
PhD
Brenda Boleyn
PhD
Cynthia Miller
PhD
PhD
Darcie Davis-Gage
Sukritaya Jukping
PhD
Sheila Benson
PhD
Jason Ranker
PhD
Christine Johnson
PhD
Sarah Odland
Music Education 2013
2013
American Stud. 2012
2013
Sports Studies 2012
English Ed.
2011
English
2010
English Ed.
2010
Sports Psych.
2010
2011
2012
English Ed.
2008
2011
English Ed.
2008
2009
2011
English Ed.
2008
English Ed.
2007
2012
English Ed.
2006
2008
English
2005
History
2005
2008
Interdisc.
2005
2006
2008
Interdisc.
2005
2005
2008
English Ed.
2006
English Ed.
2005
2006
2007
English Ed.
2005
English
2004
Wom. Stud.
2004
2005
English Ed.
2004
2005
English Ed.
2004
2007
Couns. Ed.
2004
Soc. Found.
2004
2004
2007
Eng. Ed.
2004
2005
2006
Eng. Ed. 2003
2002
2003
2004
Sports Psych.
2004
2005
2006
Journalism
2003
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus.
dissertation
dissertation
comp. exam.
dissertation
comp. exam
comp. exam.
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
thesis
prospectus
comp. exam
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
dissertation
prospectus
comp. exam.
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
comp exam
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus
comp exam
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp exam
4
PhD
PhD
Kevin Quirk
Bruce Taylor
Am. Studies
English Ed.
PhD
James Sprengelmeier
English
PhD
Bonnie Sonnek
English Ed.
PhD
MFA
MFA
PhD
Jennifer Getting
Ann Bauer
Courtenay Bouvier
Elizabeth Pearce
Wom. Stud
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Journalism
PhD
Amy Schoultz
English Ed.
PhD
Jillian Duquaine
Wom. Stud.
PhD
Pam Coke
English Ed.
PhD
Mary Moran
English
PhD
PhD
PhD
Yolanda Majors
Taylor Lake
Elizabeth Henry
English Ed
Am. Studies
English
PhD
Jeonghee Choi
English Ed.
PhD
PhD
Elizabeth Clark
Jill Heinrich
English
English Ed
PhD
PhD
Anne Zalenski
Anne Stapleton
Soc. Found.
English
MA
PhD
PhD
Galen Reddin
Rose Peterson
Fiona Young
Comm. Ed
English Ed
Wom. Stud.
PhD
Monie Hayes
English Ed
PhD
Kara Schmadeke
English Ed.
PhD
Carol Tyx
English
Cert.
PhD.
PhD.
Rebecca Tomas
Traci Kyle
Kai-Lin Wu
Cntr for Book
English
English Ed.
2005
2003
2003
2002
2003
2004
2002
2003
2002
2003
2002
2002
2002
2002
2003
2004
2000
2001
2002
2000
2003
2005
1999
2001
2002
1999
2001
2006
2001
2001
1998
1999
2001
2003
2004
2001
1999
2001
2001
1996
2001
2001
2000
1999
2000
1997
2000
2004
1998
1999
2003
1998
2000
1999
1999
1998
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam.
thesis
thesis
comp. exam.
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam.
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
dissertation
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
dissertation
comp. exam, prospectus
dissertation
dissertation
comp exam
dissertation
comp. exam
comp. exam
comp. exam
prospectus
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
certificate
comp. exam
prospectus
5
PhD
Elmar Leuth
English
Cert.
PhD.
MFA
MFA
MFA
PhD.
Karri Harrison
Katherine McInerney
Marie Nasta
Mary Jones
Megan Knight
Katherine Prince
Cntr for Bk
English Ed.
English
English
English
English
PhD
MFA
PhD
PhD
Nancy Hayes
Ann Franzenburg
John Price
Anne Flammang
Comp. Lit.
English
English
English
PhD
MFA
PhD
Arlie Willems
Will Jennings
Michael Clarke
Math Ed
English
English
1999
1997
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1999
1997
1997
1997
1995
1997
1997
1997
1996
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
certificate
dissertation
thesis
thesis
thesis
comp. exam
prospectus
dissertation
thesis
dissertation
prospectus
dissertation
dissertation
thesis
comp. exam
Other Contributions to Instructional Programs
Designed panel with 3 former Rhetoric students to be presented at Animal Studies conference, University
of Eastern Kentucky, March, 2013.
ICRU assistantship, 2012-13
Honors student research project accepted to Undergraduate Research Forum, Depauw University, 2011
Scholarship Selection Committee, Honors Program 2011
Center for Teaching/International Programs Brown Bag meeting on international undergraduate student
instruction, 2011.
Panelist for Oakdale Prison Choir presentation, Graduate Engaged Scholarship & Teaching Program, 2011
Working group on Undergraduate Writing Certificate, 2010
Paper and discussion leader, Introduction to POROI graduate class, 2010
Took 2 first-year Honors Seminar students to International No More Homeless Pets Conference, Oct. 2010
Democratic Dialogues Continuing Discussion Group (CROSSROADS), Cntr, forTeaching, Curric. &
Instruction, 2010
Implemented and co-direct Oakdale Prison Writing Workshop 2009-Present
Member of mock interview team for Rhodes Scholar nominees, Honors Program. October 2008.
Honors ACES—class presentation and individualized instruction on personal statements, March &
April, 2008.
Invited presentation on teaching writing for Journalism Graduate Seminar. March 2006.
Workshop & editorial assistance—writing for publication. IBA seniors. Fall, 2003.
Co-initiator of Writing Fellows program and Honors Peer Tutoring course, 2003.
Discussion facilitator, Plagiarism Conference. January 2003.
Member of committee to revise 10:003 correspondence course, 2002-2004.
Workshops, discussion groups and consultations with faculty and teaching assistants from various colleges,
departments, and programs. Center for Teaching 2001-2002.
Participated in planning session hosted by Admissions for revising First-year at Iowa course. December
2001.
Invited presentation on Research and Professional Development for Women’s Studies Graduate
Colloquium, November 2001.
Designed Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry course, funded by Office of Interdisciplinary Programs, 2001.
Course to be taught in 2002 & 2003.
Designed and taught Writing for Biological Sciences course for Iowa Advantage Program 2000; revised
2001
Colloquium presentation on Feminist Pedagogy. Journalism Dept. October 1999.
Faculty leader of interdisciplinary group of graduate students writing dissertations and writing for learned
journals--through Poroi. Fall 1999
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Presentation to General Education Literature Program Committee Orientation for New Teaching Assistants.
“Bridging Rhetoric & Gen. Ed. Lit.” Fall, 1997 1999, 2000
Presented 3 lectures to Honors Rhetoric. Fall, 1996 & 1997
Designed & Presented 3-wk mini-course for Center for the Book seminar, The Book in Society and Culture
II. Spring 1999
SCHOLARSHIP
Refereed Publications
Book
Institutionalizing Literacy: The Historical Role of College Entrance Examinations in English. Carbondale,
IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Edited Collection
Against the Grain: A Volume in Honor of Maxine Hairston. Ed. David Jolliffe, Michael Keene, Mary
Trachsel, Ralph Voss. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. 2002.
Chapters and Articles
“Reviving Biophilia: Feeling Our Academic Way to a Future with Other Animals.” Dialogue and
Universalism. Feb/March, 2014, 1-15. Also in press in the collection, Animality in Culture, Science and
Everyday Life. Peter Lang.
“How to Do Things Without Words: Whisperers as Rustic Authorities on Interspecies Dialogue.” In Jason
Black and Greg Goodale, Eds. Arguments about Animal Ethics. Lexington Press. 31-52. 2010.
“Human Uniqueness in the Age of Ape Language Research.” Society and Animals18:4 (2010) 397-412.
**** “Theories of Specialized Discourses and Writing Fellows Programs.” Across the Disciplines, 2008.
(with Carol Severino).
*** “Panopticism? Or Just Paying Attention?” In Michelle Eble & Lynee Gaillet, Eds. Stories of
Mentoring: Theory and Praxis. Lauer Series, Parlor Press: West Lafayette, IN, 2008. 276-288. (with
Cinda Coggins)
“Husserl’s Intersubjectivity and the Possibility of Living with Nonhuman Persons.” Analecta Husserliana.
Yearbook of the World Society for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning. Volume XCIII.
2007, 33-51.
“Starting a Writing Fellows Program: Crossing Disciplines or Crossing Pedagogies?” The International
Journal of Learning. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Learning Conference. 2005. With Carol Severino.
“The Give and Take of Mentoring.” Against the Grain: A Festshcrift in Honor of Maxine Hairston. Ed.
David Jolliffe, Michael Keene, Mary Trachsel, Ralph Voss. Hampton Press, 2002. 159-171.
“Institutional vs. Personal Ethics.” The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice. Ed.
Michael Pemberton. Ablex Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Research, Practice Series. Brian Huot &
Kathleen Yancey, series editors. 2000. 167-90.
“Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity?” Reader 39, spring
1998, 1-22.
“Nurturant Ethics and Academic Ideals: Convergence in the Writing Center.” Writing Center Journal 16:1
(Fall, 1995) 24-45.
“Literate and Oral Constructs of ‘Authentic’ Irish Music.” Eire/Ireland 30:3 (Fall, 1995) 27-46.
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“What I Learned at School.” Echoes. McGraw-Hill, Custom College Series, 1994. Reprinted in 2nd
edition, 1996.
***“Windmills and Workbooks, Abstractions and Alternatives: Formal and Functional
Approaches to Literacy.” Language Arts 64 (1987) 855-868.
**”Literacy and Writing Assessment: A Diachronic Perspective.” Writing Assessment: Issues and
Strategies. Karen Greenberg, Harvey Weiner & Richard Donovan, eds. White Plains, NY: Longman,
1986. 13-34. (With Stephen P. Witte & Keith Walters)
“Learning is Doing: Teaching the Research Paper as a Group Project.” CCTE Proceedings, 1983, 23-33.
Invited Articles and Chapters
Review Essay. “Observing Animal Agency in Narrative Environments: A Review of Susan McHugh’s
Animal Stories: Narrating Across Species Lines. JAC (forthcoming).
Textbook Chapter. “Writing the Research Paper.” Maxine Hairston, Successful Writing, 6th edition. NY:
Norton Press, 1997.
Opinion Essay. “Research versus Teaching in Professional Roles.” fyi 30:17 (1993) 1,3.
Textbook chapter. “Writing the Research Paper.” Maxine Hairston, Successful Writing 5th edition. NY:
Norton Press, 1986. 387-401.
Textbook chapter. “Writing the Research Paper.” Maxine Hairston, Contemporary Rhetoric, 4th edition.
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 292-323.
Reviews
Daston, Lorraine & Gregg Mitman, eds. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism.
H-Network on Animal Studies [H-Animal@H-NET.MSU.EDU]. June, 2007.
Longworth, Polly. The World of Emily Dickinson and Robert McClure Smith, The Seductions of Emily
Dickinson. Southern Humanities Review (Spring, 1998).
J.L. Dillard, A History of American English and Philip Gleason, Speaking of Diversity: Language and
Diversity in Twentieth-Century America. History of Education Quarterly 33:3 (1993) 446-48.
Reprint
“Windmills and Workbooks, Abstractions and Alternatives: Formal and Functional Approaches to
Literacy.” Literacy and Power. Diane Vipond & Ronald Strahl, eds. Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1996.
Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations
International (recent)
Keynote Address:
Keynote Address: “Intersubjective Science: The Legacy of Ape Language Research” Relationships
Between Human and Nonhuman Primates. University of Warsaw, Artes Liberales, Poland, May 2014.
Panel presentation: “How Do We Teach 21st-century Literacy Skills to High School and College Students?”
Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 2014.
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Keynote Address: “Reviving Biophilia: Feeling Our Way with Other Animals. The Experience of
Animality in Science, Culture & Daily Life. University of Warsaw, Poland, October 2012.
Paper. “Writing Animal Studies from the Heartland: A History of Human-Animal Relations on the
University of Iowa Campus.” Rhetorics of Human Animal Relations. University of Oslo, May 2012.
Paper. “The Relational Stance from Field Observation to Laboratory Science: The Case of Ape Language
Research.” Sex, Gender, Species Conference, Wesleyan University, February 2011.
Paper. “Human Uniqueness in the Age of Ape Language Research.” San Diego State Univeristy Darwin
Symposium. San Diego, CA. November 2009.
Paper. “How to Do Things Without Words: Whisperers as Rustic Authorities on Interspecies Dialogue.”
International Society of Anthrozoology Conference. Kansas City, MO. October, 2009.
Poster. “Human Scientist-Animal Subject Relationships in Ape Language Research.” The Primate Mind:
Built to Connect with Other Minds. Erice, Sicily, Italy. June 2009.
Paper. “Relational Minds: Enculturated Apes and the Shared Construction of Identity.” International
Society of Anthrozoology Conference. Toronto, Canada. August 2008.
Paper. “Feminists Without Borders: International Dialogues in the Writing Center.” International Writing
Center Association and Peer Tutoring Conference. Minneapolis, MN. October 2005.
Paper. “Nonhuman Persons: How Ape-language Research Constructs the Identity of Language Competent
Apes.” 55th International Phenomenology Congress: Phenomenology of Life: From the Animal Soul to the
Human Mind. Nijmegen, Netherlands. August, 2005.
Paper. “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries with Writing Fellows.” 11 th International Literacy and
Education Research Network Conference on Learning. Havana, Cuba. June, 2004.
Paper. “Chimps and Children: Development of Language and Identity Across the Species Border.”
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education: Research, Theory and Practice. Tempe, AZ. January 2003.
Paper. “Writing Center Practice with Non-native Writers of English.” International Writing Centers
Association Conference. Savannah, GA. April 2002.
Paper. “Critical Thinking Meets Women’s Ways of Knowing.” Third Biennial International Feminism(s)
and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Decatur, IL. October 2001.
Paper. “We Are Not Alone: Human-Animal Relationships in Adolescent Literature.” Modern Critical
Approaches to Children’s Literature. Nashville, TN. March 1999.
Paper. “Horse Stories and Adolescent Female Readers: Alternatives to Romance or Variations on the
Theme?” Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature. Nashville, TN. April 1997.
Paper. “Texts and Performances: The Blending of Traditions in the History of Irish Music.” American
Conference on Irish Studies/Canadian Association of Irish Studies. Queens College, Belfast, Northern
Ireland. June-July 1995.
Paper. “Nurture and Conquest: A Narrative Analysis of Academic Labor in America.” International
Conference on Women in Higher Education. El Paso, TX. January 1994.
National and Regional (recent)
Chief Reader’s Report. National Advanced Placement Annual Conference. Philadelphia, July 2014.
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Presentation. “Home Sweet Biome.” Iowa Humanities Festival, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2014.
Chief Reader’s Report. National Advanced Placement Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. July 2013.
Panel. “Teaching with Animals.” Living with Animals Conference. Eastern Kentucky University, March
2013.
Paper. “The Place of Entry-level College Composition in Developing Academic Writing Skills.” College
Composition and Communication Conference. Las Vegas. March, 2013.
Paper. “Rhetoric of Inquiry: A Model of College-level Literacy.” National Conference of Teachers of
English. Las Vegas. November, 2012.
Chief Reader’s Report, National AP Conference. Orlando, Florida. July 2012.
Invited Talk. “Rhetorical Analysis and Argument.” Norwalk High School AP English Language Classes.
Norwalk, Iowa. October 2011; February 2013; October 2013
Chief Reader’s Report. National AP Conference. San Francisco. July, 2011.
Panel presentation. “Understanding AP and Maximizing its Value.” Iowa Association for College
Admissions Counselors. Des Moines, IA. May, 2011
Paper. “Animal-ness.” Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 2010.
Presentation. “Articulating the Animal: Tales from the Lab.” Writing Science at the Writing University
Conference. POROI, University of Iowa. October 2008.
Paper. “Writing Fellows and the Question of ‘Disciplined’ Academic Writing.” College Composition and
Communication Conference. New York. March 2007.
Paper. “Caring and Coexisting with Nonhuman Persons.” National Communication Association. San
Antonio, TX. November 2006.
Paper. “Who Cares.” Women’s Caucus, South Central Modern Language Association. Ft. Worth, TX,
October 2006.
Keynote Address. “Animal Culture is a Human Cultural Question.” Craft, Culture, Critique Conference.
University of Iowa. April 2006.
Paper. “Writing for Different Masters.” College Composition and Communication Conference.” Chicago.
March, 2006.
Paper. “Academic Piece Work as Peace Work.” Midwest Writing Center Association Conference. St.
Cloud, MN. November, 2004.
Panel proposer and moderator. “Fitting Peer Learning into the Academic Hierarchy.” Thomas R. Watson
Conference, “Writing at the Center.” Louisville, KY. October 2004.
Discussion leader. Statewide Articulation Conference. Newton, IA. February 2004.
Paper. “Critical Thinking Texts and Rhetorics of Bad Faith.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference.
Austin, TX. May 2004.
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Paper. “Panopticism or Just Paying Attention.” Conference on Composition and Communication. San
Antonio Texas. March 2004.
Paper. “Women’s Literacy, Addiction, and Spirituality.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication. New York, NY. March 2003.
Paper. “WritLarge: Summer Faculty Workshop on Writing-enhanced Large Classes.” Midwest Writing
Center Association Conference. Lawrence, KS. October 2002.
Paper. “Gendered Literacy: Gains and Losses.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. March, 2002.
Co-director. Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference. Iowa City, IA. September 2001.
Paper. “Outside the Center.” Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
October 2000.
Paper. “Writing Centers as ‘Safety Zones’ in Academia.” National Writing Center Association
Conference. Baltimore, MD October 2000.
Paper. “Critical Thinking and the Production of Reasonable Students.” Feminist Rhetorics Conference.
Minneapolis, MN. October 1999.
Paper. “Examining Writing Centers as Safe Places in the Hostile World of Academe.” Midwest Writing
Centers Association. Springfield, MO. October 1999.
Paper. “The Spirit of Mentoring in the Ethical Universe of Academe.” American Association of Higher
Education: Faculty Roles & Rewards.” Orlando, FL. January 1998
Paper. “Navigating the Ethics and Politics of Academic Labor.” National Conference on Women in
Higher Education. Ames, IA. November 1997
Paper. “Another War Between the Sexes: A Gendered View of the Literacy Paradox.” College
Composition & Communication Conference. Phoenix, AZ. March 1997.
Paper. “Authenticity Reconsidered.” Conference on American Pragmatism, John Dewey, and Teaching
and Learning in a Multicultural Society. Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Pedagogy. SUNY New
Paltz, NY. November 1995.
Paper. “An Ethic of Care: Emotional Labor in Education.” The Politics of Caring III. Atlanta, GA.
November 1995.
Paper. “Safe Places in Hostile Environments.” National Writing Center Conference. St. Louis, MO.
September 1995.
SERVICE
Department
Member. Review Committee for Will Jennings. Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Member. Review Committee for Pat Dolan. Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Member. Rhetoric Assessment Committee. Fall 2011-Spring 2012; Spring 2013.
Chair. Search Committee for STEM lecturer positions. Fall 2011.
Member. Review Committee for Bridget Tsemo. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
Chair. Search Committee for 2 lecturer positions. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
Chair. Review Committee for Takis Poulakos. Spring 2010
Chair. Review Committee for Bridget Tsemo. Spring 2010.
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Department Chair. Summer 2004-Spring 2008.
Reviewer. Will Jennings and Cinda Coggins-Mosher. Fall 2006.
Member. Technology Committee. 2004-2007.
Member. Review Committee for Vershawn Young. Spring 2004.
Chair. Review Committee for Will Jennings. Spring 2004.
Chair. Review Committee for Daniel Gross. Fall, 2003.
Member. Committee on Post-tenure Faculty Review Criteria. Spring 2003
Member. Morphing Textbook Committee. Spring 2003.
Member. Review Committee for Aimee Carrillo-Rowe. Spring 2003.
Chair. Review Committee for Megan Knight. Spring 2003.
Member. Review Committee for Takis Poulakos. Fall 2002.
Associate Chair. 1999-2000, Fall 2002-Spring 2004.
Chair. Five Year Hiring Plan Committee. Fall 200-Spring 2004..
Member. Lecturer Search Committee. Spring 2002.
Contest Judge. Annual Rhetoric Department Essay Contest. Every spring.
Member. Program Associate Search Committee. Spring 2002.
Chair. Review Committee for Patrick Dolan. Spring 2002.
Member. Annual Review Committee, Daniel Gross. Spring 2001.
Acting Department Executive Officer. Summer 2000.
Member. Annual Review Committee, Melissa Deem. Spring 2000.
Member Textbook Committee. Spring 2000, 2003.
Summer Department Chair and Director of Student Affairs. 1999.
Chair. Annual Review Committee, Melissa Deem. Spring 1999.
Elected Member. Executive Committee. Fall 1994-Fall 1996. Spring 1999. Fall 2003-Spring 2004; Fall
2009-Spring 2010
Writer/Editor. Alumni Newsletter for Cleo Martin Fund for Excellence in Teaching Rhetoric. Summer
1998.
Chair. Professional Development Program. 1999
Chair. Annual Review Committee, Diane Davis. Spring, 1998.
Staffing Supervisor. 1995, 1998, 1999.
Annual Review Committee, Melissa Deem. Spring 1997.
Associate Chair. Spring 1997.
Department Representative. Campus Communications Project. Fall 1996.
Committee D. 1996-1998.
Co-leader. Professional Development Program. Fall 1996.
Member. Textbook Committee. 1996, 1997.
Member. Search Committee for Tenure Track Position. Fall 1995-Spring 1996.
Member. Search Committee for Temporary Lecturer Position. Spring 1995.
Director of the Reading Lab. Spring 1995-Fall 1996, Summer 1997.
College
Representative from GECC. AACU Gen. Ed. and Assessment Conference. Seattle. Feb. 2010.
Member. Collegiate Teaching Award Selection Committee. Fall, 2009-Fall 2011
Member. General Education Course Committee. Jan.2004-Jan. 2005, Spring 2008, Fall 2009-2011.
Reviewer. First-year seminar proposals. April 2003.
Member. Educational Policy Committee. 2002-2005. Secretary, 2004.
Discussion leader. Fulbright Grants Workshop for Graduate Study and Research Abroad. August 2001.
Discussion leader. College of Liberal Arts Orientation for New Faculty. August 2001.
Faculty Presenter. Parent Orientation Sessions, “Success in Today’s Classroom.” Summer 2001.
Member. Task force on Interdisciplinary Cooperation among Rhetoric and Writing Disciplines. 2001present
Member. Standards for Success Committee. Spring 2001
Member. International Travel Awards Committee. 2000-2003.
Speaker. Graduate Instructor Workshop, English. Fall 2000, Fall 2001.
Member. Review Committee for Art & Art History. Spring 1999.
Member. Poroi Executive Committee. Spring 1998-2002.
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Member. Faculty Assembly. 1998-2003. Nominating Commmittee, 2002.
Member. Vice President for Research Advisory Committee in the Arts & Humanities. Fall 1997-Spring
1999.
Member. Center for the Book Certificate Program Admissions & Advisory Committee.
Spring 1996-Fall 2000.
Member. Faculty Welfare Committee. 1995-97.
Member. Elections Committee. Spring 1995.
University
Member. University of Iowa Press Editorial Board Advisory Committee. 2012-2015.
Fulbright Review Committee. Fall, 2012.
Faculty adviser. P.A.W.S. Student Organization. 2011-present.
Member. Obermann Seminar Proposal Review Committee. 2010.
Member. Review Committee for Rachel Williams, Teaching & Learning, Education. 2010.
Member. SST Subcommittee on One Community One Book. Spring 2008.
Co-chair. SST Subcommittee on Traditions. 2008.
Member. Review Committee for Office of University Relations. 2007-2008
Member. Student Success Team. 2007Member. Provost’s Task Force on The Writing University. 2006
Member. Subcommittee on Undergraduate Writing Major. 2006
Member. Council on Teaching. 2006-2008; 2009-2010; Chair, 2007-2008.
Member. Steering Committee, University Re-accreditation Project. 2006-2008.
Panel speaker. High School to Higher Education workshop on Academic Integrity. April 2004.
Member. Honors Scholarship Selection Committee. 2004-2008.
Faculty member. Council on the Status of Women. 2003-2004.
Speaker representing Center for Teaching. Provost’s Faculty Orientation, August 2001.
Mentor for new faculty member in Education, Betsy Palmer. 2000-2001.
Member. Search committee for Communications Coordinator position. School of Engineering. Spring
2001.
Member. Student Travel Funding Committee. 2000-2005
Member. Ad Hoc Regents University Committee on Alternative High School
Curriculum and College Admissions Standards. Spring 1996-Fall 1998.
Profession
Member. AP English Language Development Committee (College Board), 2010-present.
Member, College Board Advanced Placement Higher Education Advisory Committee, 2011-2014
Manuscript Reviewer. Humanimalia. 2012-present
Manuscript Reviewer. IEEE Spectrum, 2013
Manuscript Reviewer. Animals and Society. 2010-present
Manuscript Reviewer. Journal of Critical Animal Studies. 2009-present
Associate Editor. Journal of Critical Animal Studies. 2013.
Manuscript Reviewer. Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 2010-present
Symposium Organizer (with Theresa Mangum). “Apes in Iowa.” Funded, organized, participated in daylong sharing of research on nonhuman apes with scholars from the Midwest. U of Iowa, April
2008.
Speaker, “College Preparation.” Iowa City Alternative High School & City High. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Reviewer, graduating teacher candidates. Curriculum & Instruction, Education. U of Iowa. Dec. 2004.
2006
External Reviewer for hiring/tenure case, University of Illinois. Oct. 2004
Manuscript Reviewer, Research in the Teaching of English, 2003-present
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Massachusetts Press, 2004-2012
Manuscript Reviewer, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 2004-present
Co-director. Midwest Writing Centers Conference. September 2001.
Referee. Professing Rhetorics--Composition. Rhetoric Society of America Annual
Conference, 1999.
Speaker. Eighth Annual EICCD English Staff Development Day. Muscatine
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Community College. Muscatine, Iowa. Feb. 1999.
Executive Committee Member. Iowa Writing Project. 1993-2000.
Referee. Writing Assessment Division. College Composition and Communication
Conference. 1995.
Referee. National Council of Teachers of English. Annual State Writing Contest for
High School Juniors. 1995-present.
Textbook Reviewer.
Allyn & Bacon
Harcourt Brace
Mayfield
Pearson
Test Materials Reviewer ACT reading exams; ACT CLEP (1998-2009); College Board CLEP Exams,
2009. GMAT exam (2011-present)
Range Finding Committee College Board, SAT Written Exam, 2002-present
Test Reader/Rater
ETS Advanced Placement English Exam, 2000-2004
Table Leader
ETS Advanced Placement English Exam, 2005-2006, 2010
Question Leader
ETS Advanced Placement English Exam, 2007, 2008, 2009
Chief Reader Designate ETS Advanced Placement English Language Exam. 2010
Chief Reader
ETS Advanced Placement English Language Exam 2011-present.
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