EDUCATION
Ph.D. Composition. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. December 2009
M.A. English. Binghamton University [SUNY]. May 1996
B.A. English, suma cum laude, honors in English. Wilkes University. May 1994
AWARDS, HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
CWPA Best Book Award, 2019. for Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. July 2019
Promoted to Professor at Kutztown University, July 2018
Promoted to Associate Professor at Kutztown University, June 2013.
Tenured at Kutztown University, May 2011.
Patrick M. Hartwell Memorial Scholarship for Composition Studies for 2008-2009 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. July 2008.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Binghamton University, Spring 1995 - Spring 1996.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2017
Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. The WAC Clearinghouse. Co-editor with Seth Kahn & Bill Lalicker; co-author of the Introduction; co-author of the chapter, “One Contract, Many Interpretations” with Bill Lalicker
“Don’t Rock the Boat: Curricular Choices of Contingent and Permanent Composition Faculty.” Academic Labor: Research and Artistry. Vol. 1 No. 1, 2017.
Invited review of Nancy Welch and Tony Scott’s Composition in the Age of Austerity. Composition Forum. Vol. 35, Spring 2017
“Amplifying Labor Research and Advocacy” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Vol 21 No. 1. Fall 2017.
“Privilege, Reflection, and Solidarity.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Vol. 20. No. 2. Spring 2017.
2016
“The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies/Political Economies of Composition Labor,” Co-authored with Anicca Cox, Timothy R. Dougherty, Seth Kahn, and Michelle LaFrance. College Composition and Communication. vol. 68 no. 1. September 2016. Special edition on The Political Economies of Composition Studies.
“Growing the Argument” Forum: Issues about Part-time and Contingent Faculty. Vol. 20 No. 1 Fall 2016.
"Faculty Alliances and Local Change for Labor Equity." Forum: Issues in Part-time and Adjunct Faculty. vol. 19. no.2 Spring 2016.
2015
“Contingency in Context.” Forum: Issues in Part-time and Adjunct Faculty. Vol. 19. No.1 Fall 2015.
2013
“The Ethos of Writing Program Administration.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Co-Authored with Ann Shivers McNair. 16.2 Spring 2013.
2012
“Who Is Teaching Composition?” Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2012.
“Crossroads, Not Cross Purposes: Contingency, Vulnerability and Alliances in the Contemporary Writing Program.” Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. Guest Co-Editors’ Introduction with Seth Khan and Sharon Henry. vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2012.
“Toward a Qualitative Study of Contingency and Teaching Practices.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. March 2012.
2011
“An English Teacher’s Manifesto Goes Awry.” Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. vol. 10 no. 1, 2011. New Community Press / Syracuse Press. New Community Press / Syracuse Press.
“Filling in the Blanks: They Say, I Say, and the Persistence of Formalism.” CEA Forum. Vol.38 No. 2 January 2010.
2007
Book review: College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction by Anne Beaufort. Composition Studies. Vol. 35 No. 2. 2007.
“The Ethics Of Identity: What Is a Compositionist?” CEA Forum. Vol. 36 No. 2. Summer/Fall 2007.
2005
“Bemoans, Belittles and Leaves.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Vol. 33 No. 1, September 2005.
PUBLIC WRITING
“Avoiding Groundhog Day on Contingent Labor.” Guest post for Inside Higher Education, 16 Jan. 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-avoiding-groundhog-day-contingent-labor.
Guest Blogger, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties Blog. “We Can Do Better.” October 2017
Invited blog post for the National Council of Teachers of English, “A Forum for Contingent Faculty.”
Literacy and NCTE: The Official Blog of the National Council of Teachers of English. Fall 2016
“Why APSCUF Contract’s Treatment of Adjunct Faculty Matters to Tenure-Line Faculty.” Raging Chicken Press. June 27, 2016. https://ragingchickenpress.org/2016/06/27/why-the-apscuf-contracts-treatment-of-adjunct-faculty-matters-to-tenure-line-faculty/
Guest Blogger, Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties Blog. “Campus Equity
Week: Attitudes Matter.” October 29, 2013.
http://www.apscuf.com/blog/item/260-campus-equity-week-attitudes-matter
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Editor of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, January 2015 to January 2021.
Editorial Board Member of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. 2013-2014.
Guest Co-editor, Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. Vol. 6 Issue 1, Spring 2012.
SELECTED PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS
International Conferences & Seminars
2020
"Fighting Exploitation of Contingent Faculty from Within: How Tenure-stream Allies Can Help to Create Equity on Campus." Workshop. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, Washington. January 2020.
"Training Academic Labor Activists" Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 2020.
2019.
“Roles and Responsibilities: Faculty Members at Work in Applied Humanities,” Round-table discussion. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois. January 2019.
Panelist, “Professional Respect and Disciplinary Authority: A Call for NTT Faculty Inclusion” with Paula Patch, Elon University; Seth Kahn, West Chester University of PA; & Natalie Dorfeld, Florida Institute of Technology. Conference of the Writing Program Administrators Association. Baltimore, MD. July 2019.
2018
Plenary Speaker, The Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication. The executive committee of this longstanding event invited me to be the plenary speaker and to participate in the subsequent workshop in March 2018. My talk is entitled, “The Roots of Our Labor: Situating Scholarship in Material Conditions.”
“Organizing from the Inside: Affecting Change for Adjuncts in Insecure Times” Modern Language Association Conference. Forum on Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues. New York, January 2018.
2017
“Dull Duty and Disciplinary Issues: A Roundtable with NCTE Editors.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, Oregon. March 2017.
“Integrating Labor Issues in Graduate Curriculum: On Making the Unspoken Spoken,” part of the panel“Preparing Graduate Students to Labor in the Field.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, Oregon. March 2017
“The Ethics of Graduate English Education in Precarious Times.” Part of the panel, “Pedagogy in Precarious Times.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.
2016
“Organizing Tenure-Track Faculty for Adjunct Equity.” Sponsored by the Labor Caucus. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Huston, Texas. March 2016.
“Workshop: First-Year Writing Assessment Strategies for General Education and Accreditation Expectations.” Respondent Conference on College Composition and Communication, Huston, Texas. March 2016.
2015
Chair, “From Wyoming (Resolution) to Indiana (Resolution): A Working Session on a Work in Progress” Sponsored by the Labor Caucus. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida. March 2015.
2014
“Responding to the Needs of Faculty Locally: Institutional Surveys as Tools for Reform.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. October 2014.
“A Case Study of Employment Status, Expertise, and Curricular Choices.” Writing Research Across Borders, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, February 2014.
“The Labor-Friendly Writing Program/Center.” Co-chair of all-day workshop t the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana. March 2014.
2009-2012
"You’re Perfect for the Job...For Now." Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 2012.
"Labor Organizing in Hard Times." Workshop leader at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. April 6-9, 2011.
"Composing Ourselves: Moving Our Work from the Margins." Paper presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 2010.
“When Teaching Is Generic: Connecting Composition Theory to Staffing Practices.” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 12, 2009.
Ph.D. Composition. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. December 2009
M.A. English. Binghamton University [SUNY]. May 1996
B.A. English, suma cum laude, honors in English. Wilkes University. May 1994
AWARDS, HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
CWPA Best Book Award, 2019. for Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. July 2019
Promoted to Professor at Kutztown University, July 2018
Promoted to Associate Professor at Kutztown University, June 2013.
Tenured at Kutztown University, May 2011.
Patrick M. Hartwell Memorial Scholarship for Composition Studies for 2008-2009 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. July 2008.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Binghamton University, Spring 1995 - Spring 1996.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2017
Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. The WAC Clearinghouse. Co-editor with Seth Kahn & Bill Lalicker; co-author of the Introduction; co-author of the chapter, “One Contract, Many Interpretations” with Bill Lalicker
“Don’t Rock the Boat: Curricular Choices of Contingent and Permanent Composition Faculty.” Academic Labor: Research and Artistry. Vol. 1 No. 1, 2017.
Invited review of Nancy Welch and Tony Scott’s Composition in the Age of Austerity. Composition Forum. Vol. 35, Spring 2017
“Amplifying Labor Research and Advocacy” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Vol 21 No. 1. Fall 2017.
“Privilege, Reflection, and Solidarity.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Vol. 20. No. 2. Spring 2017.
2016
“The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies/Political Economies of Composition Labor,” Co-authored with Anicca Cox, Timothy R. Dougherty, Seth Kahn, and Michelle LaFrance. College Composition and Communication. vol. 68 no. 1. September 2016. Special edition on The Political Economies of Composition Studies.
“Growing the Argument” Forum: Issues about Part-time and Contingent Faculty. Vol. 20 No. 1 Fall 2016.
"Faculty Alliances and Local Change for Labor Equity." Forum: Issues in Part-time and Adjunct Faculty. vol. 19. no.2 Spring 2016.
2015
“Contingency in Context.” Forum: Issues in Part-time and Adjunct Faculty. Vol. 19. No.1 Fall 2015.
2013
“The Ethos of Writing Program Administration.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Co-Authored with Ann Shivers McNair. 16.2 Spring 2013.
2012
“Who Is Teaching Composition?” Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2012.
“Crossroads, Not Cross Purposes: Contingency, Vulnerability and Alliances in the Contemporary Writing Program.” Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. Guest Co-Editors’ Introduction with Seth Khan and Sharon Henry. vol. 6 no. 1 Spring 2012.
“Toward a Qualitative Study of Contingency and Teaching Practices.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. March 2012.
2011
“An English Teacher’s Manifesto Goes Awry.” Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. vol. 10 no. 1, 2011. New Community Press / Syracuse Press. New Community Press / Syracuse Press.
“Filling in the Blanks: They Say, I Say, and the Persistence of Formalism.” CEA Forum. Vol.38 No. 2 January 2010.
2007
Book review: College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction by Anne Beaufort. Composition Studies. Vol. 35 No. 2. 2007.
“The Ethics Of Identity: What Is a Compositionist?” CEA Forum. Vol. 36 No. 2. Summer/Fall 2007.
2005
“Bemoans, Belittles and Leaves.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Vol. 33 No. 1, September 2005.
PUBLIC WRITING
“Avoiding Groundhog Day on Contingent Labor.” Guest post for Inside Higher Education, 16 Jan. 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-avoiding-groundhog-day-contingent-labor.
Guest Blogger, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties Blog. “We Can Do Better.” October 2017
Invited blog post for the National Council of Teachers of English, “A Forum for Contingent Faculty.”
Literacy and NCTE: The Official Blog of the National Council of Teachers of English. Fall 2016
“Why APSCUF Contract’s Treatment of Adjunct Faculty Matters to Tenure-Line Faculty.” Raging Chicken Press. June 27, 2016. https://ragingchickenpress.org/2016/06/27/why-the-apscuf-contracts-treatment-of-adjunct-faculty-matters-to-tenure-line-faculty/
Guest Blogger, Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties Blog. “Campus Equity
Week: Attitudes Matter.” October 29, 2013.
http://www.apscuf.com/blog/item/260-campus-equity-week-attitudes-matter
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Editor of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, January 2015 to January 2021.
Editorial Board Member of Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. 2013-2014.
Guest Co-editor, Open Words: Access and English Studies. Special Edition. Vol. 6 Issue 1, Spring 2012.
SELECTED PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS & SEMINARS
International Conferences & Seminars
2020
"Fighting Exploitation of Contingent Faculty from Within: How Tenure-stream Allies Can Help to Create Equity on Campus." Workshop. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, Washington. January 2020.
"Training Academic Labor Activists" Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 2020.
2019.
“Roles and Responsibilities: Faculty Members at Work in Applied Humanities,” Round-table discussion. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois. January 2019.
Panelist, “Professional Respect and Disciplinary Authority: A Call for NTT Faculty Inclusion” with Paula Patch, Elon University; Seth Kahn, West Chester University of PA; & Natalie Dorfeld, Florida Institute of Technology. Conference of the Writing Program Administrators Association. Baltimore, MD. July 2019.
2018
Plenary Speaker, The Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication. The executive committee of this longstanding event invited me to be the plenary speaker and to participate in the subsequent workshop in March 2018. My talk is entitled, “The Roots of Our Labor: Situating Scholarship in Material Conditions.”
“Organizing from the Inside: Affecting Change for Adjuncts in Insecure Times” Modern Language Association Conference. Forum on Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues. New York, January 2018.
2017
“Dull Duty and Disciplinary Issues: A Roundtable with NCTE Editors.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, Oregon. March 2017.
“Integrating Labor Issues in Graduate Curriculum: On Making the Unspoken Spoken,” part of the panel“Preparing Graduate Students to Labor in the Field.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, Oregon. March 2017
“The Ethics of Graduate English Education in Precarious Times.” Part of the panel, “Pedagogy in Precarious Times.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.
2016
“Organizing Tenure-Track Faculty for Adjunct Equity.” Sponsored by the Labor Caucus. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Huston, Texas. March 2016.
“Workshop: First-Year Writing Assessment Strategies for General Education and Accreditation Expectations.” Respondent Conference on College Composition and Communication, Huston, Texas. March 2016.
2015
Chair, “From Wyoming (Resolution) to Indiana (Resolution): A Working Session on a Work in Progress” Sponsored by the Labor Caucus. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida. March 2015.
2014
“Responding to the Needs of Faculty Locally: Institutional Surveys as Tools for Reform.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, Kentucky. October 2014.
“A Case Study of Employment Status, Expertise, and Curricular Choices.” Writing Research Across Borders, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, February 2014.
“The Labor-Friendly Writing Program/Center.” Co-chair of all-day workshop t the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana. March 2014.
2009-2012
"You’re Perfect for the Job...For Now." Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 2012.
"Labor Organizing in Hard Times." Workshop leader at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. April 6-9, 2011.
"Composing Ourselves: Moving Our Work from the Margins." Paper presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 2010.
“When Teaching Is Generic: Connecting Composition Theory to Staffing Practices.” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 12, 2009.
