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Conducted freshmen placement orientation sessions, coordinated handbook review, organized series of campus talks on writing instruction, and other duties pertaining to composition courses on the Marion campus.

Served on staff for The Digital Media Project (formerly known as Computers in Composition and Literature), which provides support for computer-assisted teaching and new media research within the English Department and in the Ohio State community at large.Writing Program Administrator, Dept. of English, First-Year Writing Program; Served as one of three graduate student administrators in a composition program that teaches approximately 6600 students in 320 sections of first-year writing annually. Also designed program website, edited in-house publications, and served as acting peer mentor for 4-person team of incoming graduate teaching associates.

Taught multiple sections of computer-assisted freshman composition courses, with emphases on rhetorical and critical analysis, and a thematic focus on technology as cultural construction.

Taught several courses in first-year composition focusing on visual culture/media studies and literacy studies. Also taught second-level writing courses entitled "The U.S. Experience" with a specific focus on visual culture and discourse analysis.Courses Taught:English 110—First-Year Writing: “Personal, Academic, and Public Literacies”English 110C*—First-Year Writing: “The Rhetoric of Visual Culture”English 367.01—Second-Year Writing: “The U.S. Experience—Reading the Image: Visual Representations of Subversion and the Status Quo in American Culture”English 367.01C—Second-Year Writing: “The U.S. Experience—Questioning the Role of Technology in American Culture

Phd, English

Doctor Of Philosophy, English Studies (History Of Rhetoric)

Dissertation Title: "Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing." Committee: Drs. Nan Johnson (Chair).

Master Of Arts, English Studies

B.A., English, French

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Mu Gamma, Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle