Committees Category
Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Co-chair, Masters portfolio committee. Daniel Dimitroff. (defense expected Spring 2010). Illinois State University.
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As of Fall 2009, Dimitroff has just begun his masters portfolio, an option in the MA in Professional Writing and Rhetorics program in the English Department. He will produce an online portfolio that connects the visual and technical communication practices of storm-chasers (about which he has produced several digital and print artifacts for classes at ISU) with cyborg theories and digital rhetoric. Expected graduation to be Spring 2010. Dimitroff is a full-time technical writer.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Susan Baxter. (2007, July). “Online Citation and New Media Scholarship: Kairos and the Case for Online Publication.” Utah State University.
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As chair of Baxter’s Masters thesis committee, I guided her through writing an article-length thesis with an accompanying 72-page appendix that included her data. She spent a semester archiving all citations within Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and then coding them according to genre type so that she could compare the ways Kairos webtexts cited particular genres with other studies on the ways print articles cited those same (or different) genres. As of 2009, Baxter currently works full-time as a technical writer.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Chair, Masters thesis committee. Melinda White. (2007, April). “Enlightenment Aisle Eight” [creative/multimedia]. Utah State University.
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As chair of White’s committee, I worked with colleagues on one of the department’s first creative, digital theses, “Enlightenment Aisle Eight.” White drew on electronic literature and hypertext theory as well as creative writing to make an interactive, multimedia thesis. She also wrote an analytical essay describing the theories she used and why. After graduation, White began the interdisciplinary PhD program in Media, Art, and Text where she also has served as an assistant editor to the online literary journal, Blackbird.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Carrie Lamanna. (2007, July). “Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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My role was to provide feedback to Lamanna during the dissertation defense, with specific attention to the relationship between her written chapters and her digital media chapters. (She was presenting some of the first all-digital chapters in a dissertation, so I was on hand to help explain their scholarly significance, if needed.) As of 2009, Lamanna is an assistant professor and Writing Center Director at Colorado State University. Her digital dissertation process opened a larger research study for her (with a colleague from UIUC, Kathie Gossett, with whom I work on Kairos) about digital dissertations in graduate schools and implementing digital media coursework into graduate curricula. They have presented at multiple conferences on this topic.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Dissertation reader (non-voting ex-officio). Jason Palmeri. (2007, June). “Multimodality and Composition Studies, 1960–Present.” Ohio State University.
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My role during the defense was to to ask questions as needed and provide feedback on publication venues for Palmeri’s dissertation. He has turned some of the background knowledge from his dissertation into a collaborative multimedia submission on invention to the digital book collection I am editing, and is turning the majority of the diss into print articles and/or a book. As of 2009, he is an assistant professor of English at Miamu University of Ohio.
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