Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
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Texas A&M University-Commerce | PhD in Rhetoric and Composition | 2016 |
Northwestern State University | Masters of English | 2005 |
Northwestern State University | Bachelors in History and English | 2003 |
Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
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MSU Texas | Assistant Professor of Business and Technical Writing | 08/01/2017 | |
Arkansas State | Visiting Assistant Professor | ||
The Pennsylvania State University | Lecturer | ||
Western Michigan University | Assistant Professor |
Research and Presentations
Book Chapters
"Victimless Leather: Toward a New Materialist Ethics of Invention" in Reinviting (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley. Eds. Ryan Skinnell, Judy Holiday, Kendell Gerdes. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. July 2019..
"Sustainable Audiences: Navigating Literacies through Penn State's Sustaintability Project, Business Writing, and Community Outreach" in Writing, Democracy, and Activism: The Political Turn in the Trump Era. Eds. Deborah Mutnick, Jess Pauzeck, Steve Parks, & Shannon Carter. Routledge. Aug. 2019.
"Beyond Hearts and Minds: Posthumanism, Kairos, and Technical Communication in US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency" in Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication. Eds. Kristen R. Moore & Daniel P. Richards. New York: Routledge. 2018.
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
"Programmatic Outcomes in Undergraduate Technical and Professional Communication Programsâ w/ Lisa Meloncon, Jessica Laurer, Johanna Phelps. Submitted to Technical Communication Quarterly. Under review.
Contributor: âWhere We Are.â Composition Studies 47.1 (2019): 175-180.
Jill Bradbury, Geoffrey Clegg, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Pamela Kincheloe, Tonya Stremlau. (2018). âResponse to Carol L. Robinson, âGo Ask Alisoun: Geoffrey Chaucer and Deafland (deafness as authority)â. Literature Compass. 2018; e12503. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12503
Geoffrey M. Clegg. (2018). Unheard Complaints: Integrating Captioning Into Business and Professional Communication Presentations. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 81(1), 100â122. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490617748710
Geoffrey Clegg. âCiceroâs Rhetorical Invention and Its Relationship to Modern Theory: How Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Externalism Contribute to Understanding Invention.â Louisiana English Journal 28 (2009): 26-29.
Book Reviews
Rev. of Rhetoric Inc.: Fordâs Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism by Timothy Johnson. Community Literacy Journal, forthcoming.
Rev. of Employment and Disability: Issues, Innovations, and Opportunities by Susanne Bruyere. Disability Studies Quarterly, March 2021. https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7926
Rev. of Exploding Technical Communication: Workplace Literacy Hierarchies and Their Implications for Literacy Sponsorship by Dirk Remley. Programmatic Perspectives, Fall 2016.
Workshops
Facilitator. âMutality and Equity through Intergenerational Exchange.â Conference on College Composition and Communications. Workshop. Chicago, IL. March 2022.
Facilitator. âMind Mapping Across Cultural Rhetorics: Innovating Commonplaces for Intersectional Knowledge-Making.â Conference on College Composition and Communication. Workshop. Milwaukee, WI. March 2020.
National Conferences
Why Are We Here? Refractive Visual Rhetorics 4 Social Justice. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2022. Virtual.
Workplace Writing Special Interest Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2022. Virtual.
Labor Caucus Standing Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2022. Virtual.
Roundtable on Technology in the Classroom. Association for Business Communication. Tampa, FL. October 2021. Virtual.
Workplace Writing Special Interest Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual, March 2021.
Labor Caucus Standing Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual, March 2021.
Outside the Business College: Non-Tenure Track, Tenure Track, and Adjunct Issues in Business Communication. Association of Business Communication. San Diego. October 28, 2020.
Using Programmatic Outcomes in TPC Programs More Effectively. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). West Chester, PA, October 2019.
Review and Discussion of First Workplace Writing SIG at the CCCCâs. Association of Business Communication. Detroit, MI, October 2019.
Workplace Writing Special Interest Group. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Special Interest Group proposal for business and professional writing scholars. Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019.
Uncovering Ethiopiaâs Lost Rhetorical Heritage: Performance of Ethos in Zera Yacobâs Treatise. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019.
Platform Capitalism and Coding Campus: Promises Unfilled. American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2018.
Placing Writing Systems Scholarship within the English Studies Curriculum. South Atlantic MLA. San Antonio, TX, Oct. 2018.
Demagogue in Demand: Exploring Certainty and Truth in Jordan Petersonâs Dissent to Bill C-16. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.
Always On the Boundaries: Community Engagement, Activism, and Labor Outside of the Classroom. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Labor Caucus Panel. Kansas City, MO, March 2018.
Digital Possibilities for Writing About Writing Pedagogies.â Conference on College Composition and Communication. Labor Caucus Panel. Kansas City, MO, March 2018.
Reflecting Rhetoric: World Hijab Day and the Extensions of Rhetorical Performance and Community Literacy.â Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR, April 2017.
Unheard Complaints: Negotiating Spaces of Students' Perceptions of the Disabled Professional Writing Instructor. Association for Business Communication. Albuquerque, NM. Oct. 2016.
Creating Codes of Ethics/Conducts Statements. My Favorite Assignment Presentation. Association for Business Communication. Albuquerque, NM. Oct. 2016.
Where Business Majors Fear to Tread: Writing About Writing, Difference, and Inclusion in a WID Course.â International Writing Across the Curriculum. Ann Arbor, MI. June 2016.
The Echoes of Graduate Instruction: Tracing Rhetorical Power from a Rural Sphere. Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA, May 2016.
Can Writing About Writing Aid STEM Majors?: A Look at Genre Theory, Threshold Concepts, and the FYC Classroom. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX, April 2016.
Sustainable Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn Stateâs Sustainability Project, Technical and Professional Writing, and Community Outreach.â Poster Presentation for Writing Democracy Workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX, April 2016.
Beyond the Digital Professional Presence: Teaching Writing for and about Facebook in Business/Professional Writing Courses.â Association for Business Communication Conference. Seattle, WA, October 2015.
âDisruptions, Pauses, and Restarts: How Feminist Historiography Can Blur the Lines between Rural and Urban in the History of Composition and Rhetoric. Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. DeKalb, IL, March 2015.
Articulating Risk: Overcoming Writing About Writingâs Monolingual Bias in a Korean Immersion Program. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015.
Converging Histories: The Need for Researching Rural Technical Communication Programs and Writing Programs (1970-1990). Convergences Composition Conference, University of Central Arkansas/University of Arkansas Little Rock. Conway, AR. March 2015.
15 Years Of Feedback And Second Language Writing: What The Past Can Say About The Future. South Central Modern Language Association. Austin, TX. November 2014.
Connecting Irving to the Other: Using Tales of the Alhambra and Mahomet and His Successors as Cultural Analytics. American Literature Association. Washington Irving Society. Washington D.C. May 2014.
Quantum Echoes: How the Archives, Interdisciplinary Composition, and a Forward Thinking Professor Reshaped Graduate Level Writing. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. April 2014.
I Forgot The Title Of This Paper: Working Memory In 20th Century Linguistics. South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. November 2013.
Resisting the Singular, Acting Plural: Incorporating Dynamic Theoretical Approaches to the Composition Classroom. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. Las Vegas, NV. April 2013.
Directed and Undirected Resolution in Absurd and Nonsensical Humor. Third North East Texas Humor Research Conference. Dallas, TX. Feb. 2013.
Making Western Conceits Public: Bridging Intercultural Writing, Rhetoric, and the International Student in the Composition Classroom.â Student Success in Writing Conference. Savannah, GA. Feb. 2013.
The Function of Stance Markers in the Workplace: Comparison of Two Workplace Corpora in New Zealand and the United States. American Association of Applied Linguistics. Dallas, TX. April 2013.
Seoul Searching: Transitioning Basic Writers within the TAMU- Commerce/Konkuk University Frontiers Project.â TAMU-C Conference on Globalization and the Humanities. Commerce, TX. November 2012.
Permeable Boundaries: Rhetoric and Resistance in Emerson's 'The Lord's Supper' Speech. South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. November 2012.
Those That Came Before: Reviving Sarah Egertonâs 17th Century Polemic The Female Advocate.â Federation of Rhetoric Symposium, Women and Rhetoric: Influence, Inspiration, Inclusion. Denton, TX. April 2012.
In (Lip) Service to Diversity: Preparing Graduate Students for the Community College Classroom. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. St. Louis, MO. April 2012.
Irving's Ghishawah: Religious Blindness, Translation, and Ideology in Washington Irving's Mahomet and His Successors. 9th Annual Texas A&M University Pathways Symposium. College Station, TX. November 2011.
Toxic Discourse: The Summonerâs Tale and the Disfigured Soul.â Midwestern Conference on Language, Literature, and Media. DeKalb, IL. March 2011.
Defying the Self: Episolarity, Confidence, Gendered Action in Samuel Richardonâs Pamela. South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 2010.
Place as Authenticity: An Examination of the Sentimental Locus in Samuel Richardsonâs Clarissa.â Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Johnson City, TN. February 2010.
Homo Compositius: Towards a Systemic Governance of Environment in Technical Writing. Louisiana Association for College Composition. Monroe, LA. November 2009.
The Agonistic Relationship between Developmental English and the University: Need, Structure, and Resistance. Arkansas Philological Association. Eureka Springs, AR. October 2009.
Vitalism, Philology, and Spatial Dynamics: How Composition is Informed by Complexity.â Louisiana Association of College Composition. Alexandria, LA. November 2008.
Uncomfortable Silence: Race and Rhetoric in the Freshman Composition Classroom. Louisiana Council of Teachers of English. Baton Rouge, LA. October 2008.
Accessing the Classroom: Composing the Modern University by Locating the Material Culture of Students. Conference on College Composition and Communications. Research Network Forum. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
What Do You Mean By That? Pedagogy, Online Discourse, and Hermeneutics. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Roanoke, VA. November 2004.
Modern Serfdom and the Present Student: A Pedagogical Look at Consumer Culture and the Myth of Difference. Pop Culture Association of the South. New Orleans, LA. October 2004.
Blogginâ Molly. Conference on College Composition and Communications. Research Network Forum. San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
Vacancy and Visual Literacy: A Study of T.S. Eliot and Edvard Munch. Northwestern State University. Sigma Tau Delta Graduate Conference. Natchitoches, LA. December 2003.
Teaching
Courses Taught at Midwestern State University
Undergraduate
ENGL 1143: Academic Writing & Research
ENGL 2203: Introduction to Professional Writing
ENGL 2113: Intermediate Composition and Grammar
ENGL 2223: Professional Writing for Business (online and face-to-face)
Undergraduate/Graduate
ENGL 4523/5523: Introduction to Linguistics (online)
ENGL 4503/5503: Technical and Professional Editing (online)
Courses Taught at Western Michigan University
BCM 3700: Business Communications
Courses Taught at Pennsylvania State UniversityâUniversity Park
ENG 202D: Business Writing
ENG 202D: Business Writing (In partnership with the Penn State Student Farm Initiative)(SP16)
ENG 202D: Business Writing for International Students (pilot section)
Courses Taught at Arkansas State University
Undergraduate
ENGL 1003: Composition and Rhetoric I
ENGL 1013: Composition and Rhetoric II
ENGL 3013: Practical Writing (WID for Social Work majors)
ENGL 3043: Technical Writing
Graduate
ENG 5711: Preceptorship in Writing Studies
Texas A&M University Commerce
ENG 1301: College Reading and Writing
ENG 1301/100: College Reading and Writing w/ Lab Section (Korean Immersion Program)
ENG 1301/100: College Reading and Writing w/ Lab Section (Co-Requisite)
Louisiana State University Alexandria
ENGL 0092: Developmental Writing
ENGL 1001: Rhetoric and Composition I
ENGL 1002: Rhetoric and Composition II
ENGL 2002: Professional Writing (online and face-to-face)
ENGL 2052: Introduction to Fiction
ENGL 3002: Technical Writing (online and face-to-face)
Northwestern State University
ENGL 0920: Developmental English
ENGL 2060: American Literature Survey
Northern Illinois University
ARTH 291: Art History Survey I: ca. to 1400
ARTH 292: Art History Survey II: 1400âPresent
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT
Midwestern State University
English Education/Adolescent Literature Search Committee, Chair, 2021-22
Technical Writing Search Committee, member, 2021-22
Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2020â
Composition Committee, 2017â
Online Teaching Committee, 2020â
Composition Search Committee, 2019-2020
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Midwestern State University
Retention Taskforce, 2021-2022
EAB Committee, 2020â
504/ADA Grievance Committee, 2019â
Student Allocations Committee, 2019â
College Research Committee, 2019-2021
Publications Board, 2018-2020
American Democracy Project, 2018-2020
In-service: Dillard College of Business, âCurrent and Future Directions of Business Communication in the Classroom.â 11/16/2018.
Liaison: Dillard College of Business Administration
Pennsylvania State University
Program on Writing and Rhetoric Seminar: Working with International Undergraduates
Created a standalone section of ENGL 202D: Business Writing for international students
Arkansas State University
English and Philosophy Department Service
Reviewer: MA Exam Reading List in Composition and Rhetoric
Co-Faculty Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta (w/ Drs. Kristi Costello & Kate Kreuger)
ESL Liaison for the English Department
In-service Presentations for astAteâs Composition Boot Camp:
· âPeer Review Best Practices,â
· âDiscourse Analysis,â
· âWriting About Writing Curricular Integrationâ
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Malland (2014-2015, ENGL 1003)
Technical Writing Committee
Composition Committee
Freshman Textbook Selection Committee
Arkansas State University Service
ESL and Business Writing Presentation for the Department of Business: Co-presenter (w/ Dr. Kristi Costello)
ESL Portfolio Reviewer for Entering MBA Students
ITTC Faculty Seminar Speaker: âEntering New Beneficial Spaces: Working with International Students.â Feb. 2015
Texas A&M University Commerce
English Graduates for Academic Development, Vice-President 2011-2012
JUNTO Member, 2011-2014
AVID Committee Member, 2012
Writer, ENG 1301 âWriting Assignments Explanationâ Video, 2012
Judge, Celebration of Student Writing, 2013
Louisiana State University Alexandria
QEP Committee for Arts, English, and Humanities 2008-2009
Advisor for the student newspaper, The Sentry 2008-2009
Developmental Writing Committee Fall 2008-2010
English Department Writing Task Force 2008-2010
Dual Enrollment Program 2008-2010; 2012-2013
Writing Competency Trainer, Department of Education 2008-2010
Internet Technology Advisory Committee member 2009-2010
Continuing Education Committee member 2009-2010
Continuing Education Hiring Committee member 2009-2010
General Education Committee member 2008-2009
Northwestern State University
Writing Competency Reviewer 2003-2005
FYC Textbook Adoption Committee 2003-2004
Graduate Student Representative, Student Government Association 2003
SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE
Rhetoric Society of America
Digital Communications Officer, 2020â2024
Social Media Director: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
RSA Remote
Rhetoricsociety.org webmaster
Archivist Search Committee, 2021-2022
2021 Rhetoric Society Biennial Institute
Planning, working with virtual conference hosting, social media promotion, etc.
Archives Committee, 2020â2022
Conference on College Composition and Communications
2022 CCCC Stages 1 and 2 Reviewer, 2021
2021 CCCC Stages 1 and 2 Reviewer, 2020
2020 CCCC James Berlin Dissertation Award Selection Committee, 2019-2020
Research Network Forum, Executive Board Member, 2017-2018
CCCC Stage 1 Proposal Reviewer, 2017-2020
Technical and Scientific Communication Awards Selection Committee, 2018- 2019
Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017-2018 Committee, 2017- 2018
Disability Travel Award Committee, 2017-2018
CCCC@SJSU proposal reviewer, 2017
Roundtable Leader, Research Network Forum: 2015â
Newcomers Booth Volunteer: 2015-2018
Session Chair: 2014-2018
CCCC Local Committee Volunteer: 2016, 2017
Disabilities Standing Group (CCCC)
Member, 2016â
Mentor, 2017â
Mentored Manako Yabe through transition from PhD to job market, 2017-2019
Writing About Writing Standing Group (CCCC)
Webmaster team, 2016â
Updates website and maintains listserv.
At-large member, 2015-2016
Labor Caucus (CCCC)
Secretary, 2021â2023
Steering Committee, 2018-2021
At-large member, 2015-2017
Workplace Writing ABC/CCCC Joint Special Interest Group
Founding member, 2018â
Co-chair, 2018â
Listserv and Web Admin, 2018â
Council for Writing Program Administrators
Newcomers Committee member, 2015-2018
Council for Technical Professional and Scientific Communication
White Paper Committee member, 2017â
Outcomes Project member, 2017â
Assessment Committee member, 2017â
Association for Business Communication
Teaching Committee Member, 2015â
Teaching with Technology Committee, 2017-2019
Pearson Teaching with Technology Award Committee, 2017-2018
Chair of ABC Marketing Committeeâs CCCC Special Interest Group, 2018â
ABC Conference Proposal Reviewer, 2017â
Journal Editorial Staff and Peer Reviews
Chapter Reviewer, TPC Book Series, University of Colorado Press, 2020â
Article Reviewer, IEEE Transactions, 2020â
Article Reviewer, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 2020â
English Coordinator, E-JournaALL, EuroAmerican e-Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2018â
English Language Reviewer, 2013-2018
Book Review Editor for English, E-JournALL, 2014â
Article Reviewer, Association of Business Communication Western Bulletin, 2019â
Article Reviewer, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 2018â
Article Reviewer, Social Inclusion, 2018â
Article Reviewer, The CEA Forum, 2018â
South Central Modern Language Association
Chair, âAmerican Dialect Society,â 2014-2015
Chair, âRhetoric and Composition,â 2014 SCMLA Conference, Austin, TX
Secretary, âGeneral Linguistics,â 2014â2015
Secretary, âRhetoric and Composition,â 2013 SCMLA Conference, New Orleans, LA
Various
Session Chair, âProfession,â North East Texas Humor Research Conference, 2013. Dallas, TX.
Executive Council Member, Louisiana Council of Teachers of English, 2008 -2010.
Executive Council Member, Louisiana Association of College Composition, 2008.
Solicitations Editor, Louisiana English Journal, 2009-2010.
Professional Memberships
Association for Business Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Council of Writing Program Administration
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
College Composition and Communications
Rhetoric Society of America
South Central Modern Language Association
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing