Recent Professional Development by Faculty

Christine Denecker

Publications:

"Multimodal Composition: Technology as Heuristic." For Computers and 

        Composition Online: An International Journal. Eds. Kristine Blair

        and Lanette Cadle. Spring 2010.

Review of A Teacher's Guide to Change: Experiencing, Understanding

        and Leading Change Inside and Outside the Classroom. The

        NERA Researcher. Eds. Jennifer Kobrin and Kevin Meara. June 2009.

“[Re]Fresh[ing] Perspectives: Multimodal Composition and the AYA Language

         Arts Teacher” Computers and Composition Online

        at http://homepages.findlay.edu/denecker/DMACarticle

“Clancy Ratliff: Scholar-Blogger (Interview).” Computers and Composition

        Online http://homepages.findlay.edu/denecker/clancyinterview

Review of Teaching Rhetorica: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice. College 

        English Association Forum. Ed. Janine Utell. Spring 2008.

Review of New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse.

        College English Association Forum. Ed. Janine Utell. Fall 2007.

"So You Want to Be an English Teacher? Technology, Literacy, and 

        Language Arts." College English Association Forum. Ed. Janine

        Utell. October 2006.

Conference Presentations:

Council of Independent Colleges/Collegiate Learning Association Summer

        Meeting. Jersey City, NJ, August 2009.  Presented as part of the 

        conference's Opening Plenary Panel on the challenges of implementing

        curricular reform as a result of CLA testing data.

SEED Conference, Findlay, OH, May 2009. Presented as part of a panel

        explaining the growth of Findlay's Teaching, Learning, Technology

        Center to a Center for Teaching Excellence.

Annual Meeting of the Higher Learning Commission. Chicago, IL, April, 2009.

        Presented "Forestalling Arrested Development: One University's

        Experience Evaluating the Assessment Process" with Louann Cummings.

Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA,

        March 2009. Presented "The Ripple Effect: Using Institutional Roles

        Outside the Department to Effect Writing Program Change."

Watson Conference. Louisville, KY, October 2008. Presented as part of a

        panel on "Redefining the Boundaries of 'The Academy': Bridging

        Secondary and College Writing Programs Using Multimodal Composing

        Strategies."

American Folklore Society. Louisville, KY, October 2008. Presented an

        article entitled, "Uncle Remus Revisited: A Rhetorical and Multimodal

        Look at the Folktales of Joel Chandler Harris and Beyond."

College English Association of Ohio. Cincinnati, OH, October 2007. 

        "Working Together, Teaching A Part: High School and College Teachers

        Collaborating in a Dual Enrollment Program."

Feminisms and Rhetorics, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.  "No Words

        but Hers: Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit."
             
Nicole Diederich

Conferences:

“Teaching College Writing Online: Challenges and Opportunities from 

        the Teacher and Tutor’s Perspective.” Submitted to the Ohio Digital 

        Commons Conference.  Columbus, Ohio. March 2008.

“Working Together, Teaching A Part: High School and College 
        
        Teachers Collaborating in a Dual Enrollment 
        
        Program"  College English Association of Ohio, October 19, 2007.

“Constructing the Past and Future While Analyzing the Present at the 

        Writing Center,” for the 29th Annual Conference of the East Central 

        Writing Centers Association in Bowling Green,
    
        Ohio, March 15, 2007.

“The ‘Place’ of the Writing Center and Its Director: Case Study of a

        Writing Center at an Evolving, Private University,” for College English 

        Association of Ohio Fall Conference in Bowling Green, Ohio, October 
    
        27, 2006.

Dave Essinger

Fiction:

“Love Scene, Shot with Mosquito and Ant.”  The Dirty Napkin, Spring 2009.

“Walking Sophie.”  34th Parallel, Summer 2008.  

“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, forthcoming from Main St. Rag Press, Fall
    2009: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/CEssinger_2.html ; video at
    http://tinyurl.com/pbcp4h

Conference Presentations:

"Imagery and Images." Winter Wheat.  November 2007.

Marianna Hofer

Book Publication:

A Memento Sent by the World, Word Tech 

    Communications  LCC, December 2008.

Gary Johnson

National Endowment of the Humanities:

I received a Summer Stipend in 2006 from the National Endowment

        for the Humanities from my work on allegory in modern and

        contemporary narrative fiction.

In 2005 I participated in an NEH Summer Seminar in Columbus.

Publications:

"Consciousness as Content: Neuronarratives and the Redemption of Fiction."

        Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature,
 
        March 2008.

Conferences:

Presented papers for the past three years at The Society for the Study of

        Narrative Literature Conference.

Judith Lanzendorfer

Publications:

“Folklore Motifs and Diminishing Narrative Time as a Method of Coherence in 

        Morte Darthur.” Festschrift for Dr. Dhira Mahoney. 
 
        January 2008.

Conference Presentations:

“Teaching College Writing Online: Challenges and Opportunities from the 

        Teacher and Tutor’s Perspective”. Submitted to the Ohio Digital
 
        Commons Conference. Columbus, Ohio, March 2008.

“Undressing Gareth: The Liminality of “Nakedness” in Malory’s Tale of Sir 

        Gareth and  Slander and Strife.” American Folklore Society
 
        Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, October 20, 2007.

“What Grandma Mary Taught Us: Don’t Hang on to the Past”, American 

        Folklore Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 19 October 2006.

“Development of an On-Line English 106 Composition Class.” Developing,
 
        Teaching, and Assessing On-line Classes in the Humanities Ohio Digital 

        Commons in Education Conference Columbus,  Ohio. March 7, 2006.

Professional Service:

Convener for Medieval Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 

        2004, 2006-2007.

Christine Tulley

Edited Collections:

Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social 

        Action.  Co-edited with Kristine Blair and Radhika Gajjala. Cresskill, NJ:
 
        Hampton Press. 2008.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

"Remediating the Book Review: Toward Collaboration and Multimodality

        across the English Curriculum." 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/

“(Multimodal) Writing Methods for Non-Traditional Preservice Writing
 
        Teachers.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 

        2008.

“Just One Big Slumber Party on the ‘Net.” Virtual Identities: The 

        Construction of Selves in Cyberspace. Eds. Caroline Maun and Laura 

        Corrunker. Spokane, WA: Eastern Washington University Press. 

        2008.

Ronald Tulley

Publications:

"Technological Transformations of Autobiography and Autobiographical Texts"

      An article to be published in The International Journal of the Book:

      Vol. 7, Num. 2 (Forthcoming, December 2009).

"Is That an Autobiography? Channeling Wittgenstein's Family Resemblances

     in Self-Life Writing" The Journal of Biography and Autobiography:

     Vol. 2, Num. 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 Evolution of 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.htm