Service
Administration
Director of the First-Year Composition Program, Northern Illinois University. Fall 2022-Present
Assistant Director of Writing Programs, Arizona State University (Director: Shirley K Rose) Fall 2012-Spring 2014
Organizational and Field Service
Editorial Board, Computers & Composition, 2024-
Nominating Committee Chair, Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2023-2025
Judge, Computers and Composition Ellen Nold Award, 2019 & 2022
Nominating Committee, Council of Writing Program Adminstrators, 2021-2022
Mentorship Committee, Writing Programs Administrators Graduate Organization, 2014-2015
Elections Committee, Writing Programs Administrators Graduate Organization, 2014-2015
Traval Grant Reviewer, Writing Programs Administrators Graduate Organization, 2014-2015
Manuscript Review
Computers & Composition, 2016-
Composition Studies, 2020-
College English, 2022
Written Communication, 2022
Computers and Writing Proceedings, 2022
University of Michigan Press, 2021
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2021
Computers & Composition Online, 2020
Special Issue of the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 2020
Edited collection Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression, Hate Speech, and Harassment, 2018
Pedagogy, 2017
Conference Service
Discussion Leader and Workshop Mentor, Computers & Writing Conference Graduate Research Network, 2015-2023
Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum at the Conference for College Composition and Communication, 2019
Proposal Reviewer, Computers & Writing Conference, 2013-2019
Proposal Reviewer, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, 2015
Assistant Chair, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, 2011
University Service
Ohio University
First Year Council, 2021-2022
University Curriculum Council Program Review Committee, 2021-2022
Reimagining General Education Advisory Group, 2019-2020
Written Communication Faculty Learning Community, 2018-2020
Maker Space Steering Committee, 2015-2017
College Service
Ohio University, College of Arts and Sciences
Technology & Soceity Theme Committee, 2015-2019
Computer Lab Committee, 2016-2017
Department Service
Northern Illinois University, English Department
Department Council, 2022-
First-Year Composition Committee (Chair), 2022-
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Committee, 2022-
Ohio University, English Department
Graduate Rhetoric & Composition Committee, 2016-2022
Composition Committee, 2016-2022
Graduate Placement Committee (Chair), 2020-2022
Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, 2020-2022
Diversity & Equity Committee, 2021-2022
Undergraduate Placement and Alumni Outreach Committee, 2021-2022
Undergraduate Committee, 2021-2022
Oustanding MA Essay Award Committee, 2021-2022
Tenure Track Evaluation Metrics Committee, 2021-2022
Administrative Committee, 2017-2020
Online Teaching Committe, 2018-2020
Group III Evaluation Committee, 2019-2020
Undergraduate Committee, 2018-2019
Online Best Practices Committee (Chair), 2017-2018
Graduate Committee, 2017-2018
Graduate Placement Committee, 2016-2017
Computer Coordinators Committee, 2015-2017
Group II Rhetoric & Composition Search Committee, 2016-2017
Post-Doc Selection Committee, 2015-2016
Arizona State University, Department of English and Writing Programs
Writing Programs Grievance Committee, 2012-2014
Peer Mentor, Graduate Scholars of English Association, 2012-2014
Writing Programs Newletter, Content Contributor, 2011-2013
Writing Programs Special Sections Committee, 2012-2013
Writing Programs Values Statement Committee, 2012
Writing Programs Committee, TA Representative, 2011
Writing Programs TA Survey Subcommittee, 2011
Writing Programs Communication and Visibility Ad Hoc Committee, 2011
Pusan National University, International Exchange and Education Center
English Conversation Committee (Chair), 2006
Mentoring Roles
Doctoral Dissertation Chair
Northern Illinois University
Melina Baer, Unititled dissertation on the history of FYC abolition
Hailey Neiling (co-chair with Jessica Reyman), Untitled dissertation on LGBTQ+ narratives online, 2026
Brandie Booker, Untitled dissertation on doula rhetoric
John Paul Dela Rosa, Untitled dissertation on social media disinformation, 2026
Michael Dufresne, Untitled dissertation on online learning, 2025
Ohio University
Courtney Mauck, “Tap to Add a Snap!”: What Snapchat Can Teach Us About Critical Digital Literacy in First-Year Writing, 2022
Garrett Cummins, Single Yet Multiple: Analyzing a Single Data Visualization in Three Online Contexts, 2022
Doctoral Dissertation Reader
Northern Illinois University
Rachel Kurasz, You Know I've Learned Something Today: South Park and Dialectical Rhetoric, 2024
Ohio University
Marwan Almuhaysh, Teaching First Year Writing in Suadi Arabia, 2024
Jill M. T. Manoukian, International Students from Distressed Locations: Perceived Needs, Resources and Teacher Awareness, 2023
Sarah Beach, Big Mood: Ambient Suffering and Depression Memes (School of Communication Studies), 2021
Sean Whelan, Bridging the Gap: Transfer Theory and Video Games in the Writing Classroom, 2020
David Johnson, Cultural Competencies, Racial Literacy, and Composition: Applying Antiracist Frameworks in First- and Third-Year Writing, 2020
Yavanna Brownlee, Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs: An Indigenous Rhetorics Model for Implementing Concepts of Relationship and Integrating Marginalized Rhetorics, 2018
Samuel D. Stinson, Writing with Video Games, 2018
Masters' Theses & Essays Chair
Northern Illinois University
Samira Rajabalipour, Untitled capstone on video games and transfer
Nick Shumaker, Untitled capstone on rhetorical genre charts
Rachel Martin, Next-Gen Composition: Maximizing Interaction and Communication with ChatGPT in FYC, 2024
Ohio University
Jennifer Whitfield, "AP English and Writing Transfer: Bridging Gaps Between High School and College Contexts," 2023
Navin Bhatt, "Barriers of Knowledge Transfer in the Cross-Cultural Semiotic Domain," 2023
Kennedy Jones, "Teaching for Transfer: A Strategy for Dual Enrollment Student Success," 2020
Christopher Barber, “Virtue Across Contexts: The Compatibility of a Virtue Ethics Composition Pedagogy with Writing Transfer Theory," 2019
Jordan Williams, "Writing for the Professions: The Role of Transfer in School Preparedness for Writing in the Workforce," 2018
Spencer Smith, To Build Maps of Writing and Critical Consciousness: Transfer in Writing Studies & Critical Pedagogy, 2017