description
Dr. Ellison and I have been leading job-market workshops for graduating PhD students since Fall of 2007. We were recognized for our mentorship in these volunteer positions.

accompanying materials

• job-seekers website created by Ball & Ellison

description
I received this award from the ISU chapter of Sigma Tau Delta for notable teaching in my English 350: Visible Rhetoric class, which was also my first semester at ISU.

accompanying materials

• none available

proposal description
For this Vectors–NEH institute, I plan to complete a full, first draft of the afterword to a digital, multimodal edited collection (of which I am co-editor) under consideration with Computers and Composition Digital Press (ccdigitalpress.org). The afterword of this e-book, The New Work of Composing, addresses how (and, to some extent, whether) composing and editing processes change when the intellectual work of the “book” is performed in a media-rich environment. I will examine (a) my own processes of composing the afterword, and (b) the composing (and revision) processes of a number of the book’s authors who are also producing born-digital work.

accompanying materials

• fellowship proposal (pdf)

abstract
This application is for a course re-assignment to co-edit and publish the first digital, new media book in the humanities, The New Work of Composing. Publishing books is considered the “gold standard” for tenure in the humanities, but the economic crisis in publishing pushes scholars toward digital publications. This is problematic because, according to a recent MLA survey, over half of humanities department chairs have no experience evaluating digital work for tenure. This is not surprising since there are currently no examples of digital, multimedia work. This project would fill that gap. Computers and Composition Digital Press, the first online-only academic press in the humanities, has requested our prospectus. My goals for the project are (1) to study how digital-media books and articles are composed/designed, peer-reviewed (by editors and tenure stakeholders), and revised for publication; and (2) to relate this research experience to my teaching and English department needs by proposing a class in digital scholarship. The course release will allow me time to collaborate on designing the collection’s interface, completing 2–3 sample chapters, and co-writing the introduction as well as to draft the course proposal. Research about editing the collection will be disseminated locally through seminars and brown-bags, as well as through national conferences and, after the book is published, via the press’s free, open-access website.

accompanying materials

• application/proposal

description
The CELJ is an international affiliate of the Modern Language Association. On behalf of Kairos‘s design team (Karl Stolley, Douglas Eyman, and Kathie Gossett), I submitted the 2008 redesign of Kairos for this award.

accompanying materials

• link to CELJ’s website with award winners
• application cover letter
• 1-page design description