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Recent Professional Development by Faculty
Christine Denecker
PublicationsEdited Collections Preparing Writing Teachers for the Multimodal Age: Professional Development Models. Edited collection with Christine Tulley. Under contract with Computers and Composition Digital Press. December 2011. Book Chapter"The Role of Narrative in Articulating the Relationship Between Feminism and Digital Literacy" with Kristine Blair and Christine Tulley. Accepted for publication in Stories that Speak to Us. Eds. Cynthia Selfe, Scott DeWitt, and Louie Ulman. 2011.Articles"Meeting Them Where They Are: Millennials, Technology, and Academic Etiquette" with Cara Davies. International Journal of Applied Science and Technology. Ed. Jorge J. Santiago-Aviles. September 2011."Multimodal Composition: Technology as Heuristic." Computers and Composition Online: An International Journal. Eds. Kristine Blair and Lanette Cadle. (Spring 2010).“[Re]Fresh[ing] Perspectives: Multimodal Composition and the AYA Language Arts Teacher." Computers and Composition Online: An International Journal. Eds. Kristine Blair and Lanette Cadle. (Spring 2008). “Clancy Ratliff: Scholar-Blogger (Interview).” Computers and Composition Online: An International Journal. Eds. Kristine Blair and Lanette Cadle (Spring 2008). "So You Want to Be an English Teacher? Technology, Literacy, and Language Arts." College English Association Forum. Ed. Janine Utell. (October 2006).Editorial EssaysThe Shadow of Turning: A Journey for Answers of Biblical Equality. The JUMP. Ed. Justin Hodges. November 2011.In Search of Ghosts: Mystory and Pedagogical Possibilities. The JUMP. Ed. Justin Hodges. September 2010.Prefessional ServiceThe JUMP, co-editor, 2010-present. Nicole DiederichArticles
"Novel Approaches to Old Works: CLA in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Classroom." English Notes (Spring 2011): 3, 9-15."Gothic Doppelgangers and Discourse: Examining the Doubling Practice of (Re)marriage in Jane Eyre." Nineteenth Century Gender Studies 6.3 (Winter 2010)."Who's Punching Whose Ticket: A Reading of D.H. Lawrence's 'Tickets Please.'" Short Story NS (New Series) 16.2 (Fall 2008): 55-62."Effect of Writing Centers and Targeted Pairings on Students Repeating First-year Composition." Second Author: Sandra J. Schroeder. The Learning Assistance Review (TLAR) 13.2 (Fall 2008): 17-26.Conferences"Team Teaching: Responding to the Call to Diversity the Campus Community" for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 16-17, 2011. With Erin Laverick."Leaving the Ivory Tower: Experiential Learning in Three Situations at The University of Findlay" for College English Association of Ohio 2011 Spring Conference in Athens, Ohio, April 15, 2011. With Marianna Hofer, Judith Lanzendorfer, and Stephanie Springer."'Strategies for Exploring New Horizons': Changing our Pedagogy and Adapting to Student and Administrative Needs" for College English Association of Ohio 2010 Spring Conference in Columbus, Ohio, April 16, 2010. With Christine Denecker, Judith Lanzendorfer, and Teresa LaRocco."Thoughts on Retaining Qualified Writing Center Consultants," for the East Central Writing Centers Association 2009 Conference in West Lafayette, Indiana, April 3, 2009.
Dave Essinger
Fiction/Prose
"Off Trail." Creative nonfiction. Forthcoming from Weber--the Contemporary West.“Love Scene, Shot with Mosquito and Ant.” The Dirty Napkin, Spring 2009.“Walking Sophie.” 34th Parallel, Summer 2008. http://34thparallel.blogspot.com/search?q-sophie.“The World at Large.” Quarter after Eight, Spring 2008.“A Jar Full of Bees.” The Pinch (formerly River City), Spring 2006.“We Spend a Night In.” Pindeldyboz, online, 23 August 2006: at http://www.pindeldyboz.com/denight.htm.
Video“Dark Flower.” Videopoem, from Main St. Rag Press, Fall 2009: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/CEssinger_2.html; video at http://tinyurl.com/pbcp4h.Recent Conferences AttendedBread Loaf Writers' Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and others.Marianna Hofer Book PublicationBarns, [chapbook] O2 Press, 1982.A Memento Sent by the World, Word Tech Communications LCC, December 2008. University Award2011 David L. Allen Award for Teaching ExcellenceGary JohnsonHonors and Awards2008: Visiting Scholar: James Madison University2006: Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities from my work on allegory in modern and contemporary narrative fiction.2005: Participation in an NEH Summer Seminar in Columbus, OH.Recent PublicationThe Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. The Ohio State University Press (forthcoming).Judith LanzendorferPublications"Folklore Motifs and Diminishing Narrative Time as a Method of Coherence in Morte Darthur." Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of Dhira Mahoney. Eds. G. Donavan and A. Obermeier. Belgium: Brepoles, 2010."Cinderella," "Morte Darthur," and "Wife of Bath." Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore. Ed. Josepha Sherman. New York: ME Sharpe, 2008.Conference Presentations"Leaving the Ivory Tower: Moving from the Classroom to Fieldwork in English 300: The English Language" for College English Association of Ohio 2011 Spring Conference in Athens, Ohio, April 15, 2011."Strategies for Exploring New Horizons": Changing our Pedagogy and Adapting to Student and Administrative Needs" for College English Association of Ohio Spring 2010 Conference in Columbus, Ohio, April 16, 2010.Forum: Folklore as Ethics of Place in Shakespeare's English for American Folklore Society 2008 Conference in Boise, Idaho, October 2009."Teaching College Writing Online: Challenges and Opportunities from the Teacher and Tutor's Perspective" for the Ohio Digital Commons Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March 2008.Digital Community: Establishing and Exploring Internet Folk Communities for American Folklore Society 2008 Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, October 2008."Undressing Gareth: The Liminality of "Nakedness" in Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth and Slander and Strife" for American Folklore Society and Association Canadienne d'Ethnologie et de Folklore in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, October 2007.
Professional Service
Convener of the Medieval Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2004, 2006-2007.Teresa LaRoccoConference Presentations"Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) in the English 145: College and Professional Reading Classroom" for the College English Association of Ohio Spring Conference at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio, April 2010."Service Learning in the Composition and Literature Course" for the College English Association of Ohio Fall Conference at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, October 2006."The Hidden Spaces of the Shadow Children" for the College English Association National Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2005."Using Young Adult Books Written as Journal and Letters to Jump Start Student Writing" for the National Conference of Teachers of English, ALAN Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003."Using Young Adult Literature as an Introduction to the Great Depression" for the Ohio Reading Association in Columbus, Ohio, October 2001."Physical Disabilities and other Medical Themes in Adolescent Novels" for the National Conference of Teachers of English, ALAN Workshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2000.
Christine TulleyEdited CollectionsWebbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action, co-edited with Kristine Blair and Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University. Hampton Press. 2008.Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters"IText Reconfigured: The Rise of the Podcast." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 25.3. July 2011."Remediating the Book Review: Toward Collaboration and Multimodality Across the English Curriculum," co-authored with Kristine Blair. Pedagogy 9.3. Fall 2009."Image Events Guerilla Girl Style: A Twenty Year Retrospective." Enculturation 7.1. Guest Eds. Joe Wilferth and Kevin DeLuca. Fall 2009."Taking a Traditional Composition Program 'Multimodal': Web 2.0 and Institutional Change at a Small Liberal Arts Institution." Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2009. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Tulley09/."Negotiating Digital and Traditional Literacies: Training Non-Traditional Preservice Writing Teachers." Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2008. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Negotiating/default.html"A Snapshot of Complexity: Knowledge-making and Negotiations in E- Rhetoric." Journal of Composition Theory (special issue on Mark C. Taylor's The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture). Eds. David Blakesley and Thomas Rickert. Winter 2004."'Mentors and Masters' Women's and Girl's Narratives of (Re) Negotiation in Web-Based Writing Environments." Co-authored with Kristine Blair and Angela Haas. Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing. Eds. Gail Hawisher and Cynthis Selfe. September 2002.Book Chapters"The Role of Narrative in Articulating the Relationship between Feminism and Digital Literacy," co-authored with Christine Denecker and Kristine Blair (forthcoming). Stories that Speak to Us: Curated Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Eds. H. Louis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press."Whose Research Is It, Anway? The Challenge of Deploying Feminist Methodology in Technological Spaces," co-authored with Kristine Blair. Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Eds. Danielle DeVoss and Heidi McKee. Hampton Press, 2007. Winner of Computer and Composition's Best New Book for 2008 Award."E-Writing Spaces as Safe, Gender-Fair Havens: Aligning Political and Pedagogical Possibilities," co-authored with Kristine Blair. Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction. Eds. Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Winner of Computer and Composition's Best New Book for 2003 Award.Professional ServiceKairos, Praxis Section co-editor, 2010-present.Ronald TulleyPublications"Technological Transformations of Autobiography and Autobiographical Texts" The International Journal of the Book: 7.2 (December 2009)."Is That an Autobiography? Channeling Wittgenstein's Family Resemblances in Self-Life Writing" The Journal of Biography and Autobiography 2.1 (May 2008)."Tugging at the Ivy: Acknowledging the Emergence of a Permanent Instructor Class at the Four-Year, Research University" Journal of The World Universities Forum 1.1 (March 2008).“Is There Techne in My Logos? On the Origins and Evolutionof the Ideographic Term Technology” The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society 2.6 (January 2008).
“Midnight in the Anglo-American Metropolis: The Commonalities of Interpreting Urban Space, Envisioning Ruins and Visualizing Landscapes in the Tradition of Samuel Johnson and James Howard Kunstler” The International Journal of the Humanities 4.9 (April 2007).Professional Service"Improving Your Technical Writing Skills" Professional Seminar Series taught exclusively for Conoco Phillips, Houston, Texas. (December 2007-June 2008).DOES Newsletter: A bi-monthly newsletter written and designed for the Case Western Reserve University Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety (December 2004-present). http://case.edu/finadmin/does/web/News/Newsletter.html.
