Experience

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  Marquette university

  Aug 2002 - May 2004

  Graduate teaching assistant

  Courses Taught:Eng 001: Academic Literacy (3)Eng 002: Public Literacy (4)

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  Arizona state university

  Aug 2004 - Jul 2008

  While serving as Assistant Writing Programs Director, I helped to administer the rhetorically based curriculum of ASU’s Writing Programs, which—at the time—served over 17,000 students annually and offered over 500 courses each semester. While serving in this role, I assumed many responsibilities, including scheduling, planning, and facilitating professional development workshops and orientations for new instructors; co-revising The New Teacher Handbook and the Teaching Assistant Handbook; soliciting and editing material for Writing Notes, the program’s bi-annual newsletter; compiling and distributing pedagogical resources; reviewing syllabi to ensure that the documents met the learning outcomes for first-year composition courses; attending and participating in Writing Program Committee meetings; and shadowing the Writing Programs Director in order to learn and to assimilate the necessary skills that one must possess to successfully serve as a WPA. Show less Courses Taught:WAC 101: Introduction to Academic Writing (1)Eng 101: First-Year Composition (4)Eng 102: First-Year Composition (3 and 2 online)Eng 105: Advanced Composition (1)Eng 194: Special Topics: Human Disease Learning Community (1)Eng 194: Learning Community English (1)Eng 215: Writing for Academic Disciplines (1 online)Eng 216: Writing Persuasively on Public Issues (1 and 1 hybrid)Eng 217: Exploratory Writing (1)Eng 218: Writing about Literature (1)Eng 294: Special Topics: Human Disease Learning Community (1)Eng 301: Writing for the Professions (1 online) Show less

  • Assistant Writing Programs Director

    Jul 2007 - Jul 2008

  • Teaching Associate

    Aug 2004 - May 2008
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  Gateway community college

  May 2005 - Dec 2006

  Adjunct faculty

  Taught as an adjunct faculty while completing doctoral studies. Courses Taught:Eng 101: First-Year Composition (2)Eng 102: First-Year Composition (2)

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  Elmhurst university

  Aug 2008 - now

  In this role, I manage departmental budget, strategically appropriating money to add tangible resources, facilitate professional development opportunities, strengthen the work environment of the department, and fund curricular innovations. Additional duties include hiring, mentoring, and evaluating faculty; developing partnerships with external constituencies, such as school districts and businesses; conducting programmatic assessment; communicating with interested constituencies; managing course enrollments; advising traditional and transfer students; evaluating degree articulations; fostering intra-departmental partnerships; and engaging in short- and long-term personnel and curricular needs. In collaboration with the writing program director, I also oversee the university’s first-year writing program, hire part-time faculty, and help coordinate course assignments. Show less In this role, I teach a wide range of writing-intensive courses from first-year composition, ancient rhetoric, business and technical writing, multimedia writing, and capstone courses. I also teach frequently in the honors program. I also possess significant experience in curriculum development, designing new curriculum for professional writing, digital and multimedia writing, rhetoric and literature, and information literacy. Moreover, I advise and mentor students, partnering with students to conduct research and co-directing the Creative and Scholarly Endeavors program, which is Elmhurst College's rigorous program for undergraduate research. Undergraduate Courses Taught:Eng 105: Composition I (7 times)Eng 106: Composition II (11)Eng 201: Composition III (4)Eng 245: Literature as Argument (1)Eng 303: Writing in the Professions (15)Eng 303: Writing in the Professions—Accelerated Adult Program (2)Eng 341: Literature for Social Change (2) Eng 403: Advanced Professional and Multimedia Writing (3) Eng 410: Advanced Writing Seminar (2)Eng 468: Internship (4)Eng 495: Honors Independent Research (1) FYS 100: Facebook, iPods and a New American Identity (1)FYS 101: Prague, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam City-as-Text (1 study-away)Hon 104: Honors Composition II (3)Hon 326: Literature for Social Change (1) Hon 329: Introduction to Academic Research (1)Hon 350: Honors Directed Reading (3)Hon 404: Honors Capstone: Issues in Mental Health (1) Graduate Courses Taught:Eng 511: Topics in Rhetoric (1) Eng 521: Current Issues in Writing Studies (3)Eng 541: Research Capstone I (2)Eng 542: Research Capstone II (2) Show less I administer the college’s internal grant funding process with the objective of enhancing faculty scholarship and teaching; design, coordinate, and facilitate professional development, courses, seminars and workshops for faculty; make budgetary appropriations for faculty development; oversee all programs offered by CST; and chair the college’s Faculty Development Committee. Select professional development opportunities that have been coordinated and facilitated under my leadership include faculty forums on diversity, inclusivity, and equity; retention and student persistence; Universal Design for Learning; and platforms for instructional technology. Professional development courses that have been created and facilitated under my leadership include the following: CST 101: Teaching Online at Elmhurst University; CST 500: Developing and Teaching Resilient Courses; CST 505: Integrating Online Technology Tools to Support Active Learning; and CST 510: Advanced Resilient Course Design. Moreover, I facilitate orientation sessions for part-time faculty and coordinate forums where faculty share their research with the community. In my director role, I also co-direct the university’s Creative and Scholarly Endeavors (CASE) program, a robust undergraduate research and mentorship experience. I interface with executive administration and the board of trustees, promoting CST initiatives, advocating for additional resources, and educating them on pedagogical practices. Show less

  • Chairperson, Department of English

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Professor

    Mar 2019 - now

  • Director of the Center for Scholarship and Teaching

    Aug 2018 - now

  • Associate Professor

    Mar 2014 - Mar 2019

  • Assistant Professor

    Aug 2008 - Mar 2014