BOOKS
SELECTED ARTICLES
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
ADMINISTRATION
HONORS, OFFICES & EDITORIAL BOARDS
BOOKS
Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing, (with John Trimbur) Longman, 5th ed, 2004.
Picturing Texts with Lester Faigley, Cynthia Selfe, and Anna Palacik, W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell their Stories, Heinemann 1999.
SELECTED ARTICLES
“A Matter of Life and Death: Popular Debate in a Culture of Consent,” College English (in press).
“From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing,” College Composition and Communication 54.1 (2002): 11-39.
“The Word on the Street: Public Discourse in a Culture of Disconnect.” Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 2.2 (2002): 6-18.
"Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation," Ed. John Trimbur, Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. U of Pittsburgh P, 2001. 209-228.
"The Communication Battle, or, Whatever Happened to the Fourth C?" (with John Trimbur), College Composition and Communication, 50.4 (1999): 682-698.
"Cultural Studies and Composition," (with John Trimbur). Ed. Gary Tate, et al. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 71-91.
"Stuart Hall and the Problem of the Postmodern in Composition Studies," JAC: The Journal of Composition Studies, 18.3 (1998): 519-525.
"Moments of Argument: Agonistic Inquiry and Confrontational Cooperation," (with Dennis Lynch and Marilyn Cooper), College Composition and Communication48.1 (1997): 61-85.
"Dropping Breadcrumbs in the Intertextual Forest, or, We Should Have Brought a Compass," (with Diane Shoos) in Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, edited by Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, University of Utah Press, 1999. 115-126.
"Reading and Writing Back to the Future," (with Saralinda Blanning), Ed. Toby Fulwiler and Art Young, When Writing Teachers Teach Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman/Boynton-Cook, 1995. 163-75.
"Reconstructing Tonto: Cultural Formations and American Indians in 1990s Television Fiction," (with Susan Sanders) Cultural Studies 9.3 (1995): 427-52.
"Semi-Documentary/Semi-Fiction: an Examination of Genre in Strangers in Good Company," The Journal of Film and Video, 46.4 (1995): 24-30.
"Collaboration for a Change: Collaborative Learning and Social Action," (with Marilyn Cooper and Susan Sanders). Ed David Bleich, Tom Fox, and Sally Barr Reagan. Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning and Research. Albany: SUNY Press,1994. 31-45.
"Twin Peaks and the Look of Television: Visual Literacy in the Writing Class," (with Diane Shoos and Joseph Comprone), Journal of Advanced Composition 13.2 (1993): 459-75.
"Issues of Subjectivity and Resistance: Cultural Studies in the Composition Classroom," (with Diane Shoos). Ed. James Berlin and Michael Vivion, Cultural Studies and the English Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Heineman, 1993. 200-210.
"Top Gun as Postmodern Aesthetic," (with Diane Shoos) PostScript 9.3 (1990): 21-35.
"The Culture of the Bath: Cigarette Advertising and the Representation of Leisure," (with Diane Shoos) Reader 23 (1990): 50-66.
"Voices of Participation: Three Case Studies of Engineering Students in an Art Appreciation Class," (with Art Young). Ed. Peter Elbow, Pat Belanof and Sheryl Fontaine, Nothing Begins with N: New Investigations of Freewriting, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP,1990. 111-35.
"The Struggle with Empowerment: Hearing the Voices of Dissent," Ed. Donald Daiker and Max Mohrenberg Theory and Practice in Teaching Writing, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook 1990. 212-19.
"The Politics of Social Construction and the Teaching of Writing," The Journal of Teaching Writing 8.1 (1989): 1-10.
"Teaching the Nightmare World of The White Hotel," Proteus -- A Journal of Ideas 6.1 (1989): 57-60.
"William Hogarth's Moral Message: The Politics of Eighteenth-Century Middle-Class Reality," Ed. Frederick Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Eighteenth-Century Woman and the Arts, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. 179-88.
"Roland Barthes and Structures of Interpretation: Teaching Writing as a Way of Knowing," College Teaching 35.2 (1987): 62-66.
"Working with Peer Groups in the Composition Classroom," College Composition and Communication 35.3 (1984): 320-26.
"The Word on the Street: Newsletters and Grassroots Activism," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April 2000.
“Working the Streets,” invited lecture to Temple University Literature, Literacy, and Culture program, October 2003.
“A Matter of Life and Death: Popular Debate in a Culture of Consent,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 21, 2003.
“The Rhetoric of the Visual—Lynching Photographs and the Popular State of the Death Penalty Debate,” Invited lecture to the University of Illinois Writing Studies Group, September 20, 2002. Also delivered as an Invited Lecture to the University of Toledo, November 2, 2002.
“Witness to Voyeur: A Visual Rhetoric of the Death Penalty Debates,” Rhetoric Society of America, May 2002, Las Vegas.
“What Exactly is a Visual Argument and What is it Doing in A Writing Class?” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 22, 2002, Chicago.
“Word and/into Image: The Places of the Visual in the Teaching of Writing,” Visual Communication Conference, March 29-31, 2001, Rochester, NY.
“Composition and Rhetoric in the Service of the People,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 16, 2001, Denver.
“Documentary Migrations: Genre, Technology, and the Case of Dead Man Walking,” (with Diane Shoos), Visible Evidence IX. December 21, 2001, Brisbane, Australia.
"They Felt That They Could Then Be Interpreters: WPA Stories to Live
and Work By," Feature Presentation at NCTE sponsored Stories in the Classroom,
Tucson, April 1999.
"Mapping the Future in Our Past: Composition for the 21st Century," Invited presentation to TCU English Department, Fort Worth, September 1998.
"I Didn't Understand a Word You Said, But You Were the Smartest One Up There," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, April, 1998.
"Reading the Image. Rewriting the Script: The Politics of the Image in the Composition Classroom." Invited lecture to the Department of English, Purdue University. April, 1997.
"The Truth We See: Documentary and Docudrama as Fiction and History," with Diane Shoos, presented at the Global Conference on Language and Literacy, National Council of Teachers of English, Heidelberg, Germany. July, 1996.
"Classroom Projects in Composition and Cultural Studies," Half-day Workshop, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March 27, 1996.
"Hoop Dreams, An American Dream, and the Promise of Schooling," roundtable presentation, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March 28, 1996.
"Cultural Studies in the Composition Class," Invited lecture and workshop for the faculty and graduate students of the Clemson University Department of English, Sept. 1995.
"Naming the Narrative," a presentation for the roundtable,"What's Cultural Studies Got to Do with it?" scheduled for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C., March 1995.
"What is Cultural Studies?" with Joe Trimmer, a presentation scheduled for the National Literature Project Network Special Topics Seminar in Orlando, Florida, November 19, 1994.
"Touching Loyalties: What's Wrong with the Washington Redskins?" Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, March 18, 1994.
"Learning from Mrs. Friday, Andrew Galbraith, and a Bear," Keynote address to the Midwest Writing Centers Association, Kansas City, Missouri (October 1991).
"Responsibility and Authority -- The WPA and Cross-Curricular Programs," Conference of Council of Writing Program Administration, Oxford, Ohio (July 1989).
ADMINISTRATION
Ph D Advisor 1998-2001, MTU Dept. of Humanities
Director of GTA Education 1992-1996, MTU Dept. of Humanities
Director of First-year English 1983-89 MTU Dept. of Humanities
Coordinator of Writing Tutors, 1978-83 MTU Dept. of Humanities
HONORS, OFFICES, AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Humanities, MTU, 2000
CCCC Richard Braddock Award (with Dennis Lynch and Marilyn Cooper) 1998
Visiting Pearce Professor of Professional Communication 1997-98, Clemson
College Composition and Communication Nominating Committee, 1997
Executive Board, Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1995-
Co-Editor, The Writing Center Journal (Spring, 1990-Spring, 1994)
Executive Board, National Writing Centers Association (1980-83; 1991-1994)