Service

Administration

Blade Runner Poster for Technology and Society Theme

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

Quang Ly, A Learning Entanglement: The Crossing Points in Which Business Students Oscillate Between Cooperative Writing and Collaborative Writing in a High-Stake Group Project, 2021

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