Ball State University – Assistant Teaching Professor (2019–Present)
Designing and teaching courses in professional and technical writing, digital writing, and college composition for the Professional Writing and Rhetoric Major / Minor, the University Writing Program, and the Honors College.
Serving on a variety of committees for the English Department, including those related to promotion, departmental document revisions, and the Writing Program.
Mentoring new graduate student teachers each year during their first semesters in the classroom.
Creating and leading workshops for the department on best practices related to grading and assessing writing based on current research.
University of Louisville – Graduate Teaching Assistant (2013–2019)
Independently designing and teaching courses in professional and technical writing, scientific writing, and college composition for the English Department.
Working with student writers as a consultant at the Writing Center.
Editorial Experience
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy – Section Editor (2016–Present)
Working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to assess and support authors’ submissions.
Maintaining accessibility across digital submissions according to HTML5 best practices.
Copyediting both text and digital markup.
Corresponding with authors throughout the submission process.
Collaborating with Kairos staff as digital submissions move through the various stages of editing.
Making Future Matters (A digital book published by Computers and Composition Digital Press / Utah State University Press) – Co-Editor (2018)
Worked with both rising and senior scholars to help them materialize digital arguments.
Corresponded with Computers and Composition Digital Press and Utah State University Press to ensure suitability for digital publication.
Developed a front-end design for the collection using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
Editorial Assistant at the Henry James Review (2014–15)
Corresponded with authors throughout the submission process.
Read submissions and assessed their suitability for publication in a leading academic journal.
Carried out multiple stages of print-based copyediting for accepted pieces using standard copyediting processes and markup.
Checked and ensured the accuracy of final proofs from John Hopkins University Press.
Community Organizations
Soup Kitchen of Muncie – Board Member: Grants Committee 2023–Present
Researching and writing grants to fund Soup Kitchen activities.
Engaging project management skills to help organize a small team of members involved in grant writing.
Attending board meetings to discuss and vote on Soup Kitchen affairs.
Education
Ph.D. – Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville (2019)
M.A. – English, University of Louisville (2015)
B.A. – English, Chapman University (2013)
Awards
Ball State Writing Program: Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (2022)
University Fellowship: Two-year course release for research awarded to most qualified doctoral students. University of Louisville (2016–17, 2018–19)
HASTAC Scholars Program: A fellowship for scholars working at the intersection of technology, research, and teaching. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (2017–19)
Faculty Favorite: Student Nomination for Excellence in Teaching. University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning (2015)
Selected Publications
“Disidentification and Documentation: LGBTQ Records as Emergent, Entangled Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 39, no. 2, March 2020.
“Reading Our Disciplinary Future(s): Toward a Mobilities Framework for Agency.” Mobility Work in Composition, edited by Bruce Horner, Megan Faver Hartline, Ashanka Kumari, and Laura Matravers, 2021.
“The World Outside the (Web)Text.” Making Future Matters, edited by Rick Wysocki and Mary P. Sheridan, Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2018.
Skills
Markup, Programming Languages, and Web Development Frameworks