Curriculum VitaeSara J. Newman

Department of English P.O. Box 3026Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44240475 Janik Dr. (330) 678-4681Kent, OH 44242-0001 snewman@kent.edu(330) 672-1757

Education

Ph.D. Rhetoric University of Minnesota, 1998

M.A. History of ArtBryn Mawr College, 1980

B.A. English (Music minor) Smith College, 1978

Academic Appointments (since 1998)

Professor of English, Ph.D. program in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, Kent State

University, 9/2012 to presentGuest Instructor. Department of Geology. Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk, Russia.

Spring 2014.Associate Professor of English, Ph.D. program in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice,

Kent State University, 9/2004-present Assistant Professor of English, Ph.D. program in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice,

Kent State University, 1998 to 9/2004

Publications

Books

Writing Disability: A Critical History. “Disability and Society” Series, Lynne Rienner Publishers and FirstForumPress, 2012. (Reviewed by Dax Garcia in Review of Disability Studies 2014 10/1-2:106-108; Choice “Highly Recommended”.)

Aristotle and Style. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. (Reviewed by Lucia Calboli Montefusco in Rhetorical Review, February 2006, 4/1: 20-23.)

Book Chapters

“Rare Diseases: The Disability and Medical Model.” In Orphan Diseases in the Age of Health 2.0. Rajeev K. Bali, Lodewijk Bos, M Chris Gibbons, Simon Ibell, Eds. Springer Publishers/Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics series, 2013.

Journal Special Issues

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Special Issue of POROI, the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry. “Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of The Rhetoric of Science and Its Author Alan Gross.” Co-Editor, with David Beard and “Introduction” (December 2015).

Journal Articles

“Writing on the Spectrum: Autistic Integrity, Audience, and DSM-5.” With Beth Tomlinson. Composition Studies Fall 2017 (forthcoming).

“How to Write a Scientific Article in Earth Sciences for Publication in an International Journal.” With Yoram Eckstein. Science and Education.[КАК ПОДГОТОВИТЬ СТАТЬЮ В ЗАРУБЕЖНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ В ОБЛАСТИ НАУК О ЗЕМЛЕ УДК] (December 2014).

“Portrait of Sixteenth Century Disability? Quentin Matsys’ A Grotesque Old Woman.” Review of Disability Studies (December 2014).

“Building Student Involvement in a Distance-Education Environment.” With Jordan Canzonetta, «Уровневая подготовка специалистов: электронное обучение и открытые образовательные ресурсы» Tier Training. E-Learning and Open Education Resources. БАС (WAC) August 2014.

“Disability and Self Life Writing: Reports from the Nineteenth Century Asylum.” Special Issue of The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 5/3 (2011): 261-278.

“Gestural Enthymemes: Delivering Movement in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Medical Images.” Written Communication 26/3 (special issue on medicine and writing; July 2009): 273-294.

“J.M. Itard’s 1825 Study: Movement and the Science of the Human Mind.” History of Psychiatry 21/1 (March 2010): 67-78.

“Irreconcilable Differences? Medicine, Law, and Education in Democratic Policy Debates.” Disability Studies Quarterly (July 2009), http://www.dsq-sds.org/issue/current.

“An Early Sixteenth Century Optometrist’s Shop: Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen’s ‘Lx Siin Tiid’.” Hindsight: Journal of the History of Optometry 39/2 (April 2008):

58-67.

Cook, B. G., Rumrill, P. D., Beckett-Camarata, J., Mitchell, P. R., Newman, S., Sebaly, K. P., Steuernagel, G. A., Cook, L., & Hennessey, M. L. “The impact of a professional development institute on faculty members’ interactions with college students with learning disabilities.” Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal 14 (2006): 67-76.

“Metaphorical Medicine: Using Metaphors to Enhance Communication with Patients Who

Have Pulmonary Disease,” with Alejandro C. Arroliga, M.D, David L. Longworth,

M.D., James K. Stoller, M.D. The Annals of Internal Medicine (September 2, 2002): 376-380.

“Aristotle’s Notion of ‘Bringing-Before-the-Eye’: Its Contributions to Aristotelian and

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Contemporary Conceptualizations of Style and Audience.” Rhetorica XX/I (Winter 2002): 1-23.

“Aristotle’s Definitions of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric: the Metaphors and their Message.” Written Communication (Jan. 2001): 3-25.

“Recognizing a Rhetorical Theory of Figures: What Aristotle Tells us About the Relationship Between the Figures of Speech.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric IV (2000): 13-25.

“Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory as a Framework for Teaching Scientific and TechnicalCommunication.” The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 29/4(1999): 325-334.

Reprints

“Recognizing a Rhetorical Theory of Figures: What Aristotle Tells us About the Relationship Between the Figures of Speech.” In Advances in the History of Rhetoric. The First Six Years. Ed. Richard Enos and David Beard. New York: Parlor Publishing, 2007: 235-248.

Translations

Classic Text 67: “Study of several involuntary functions of the apparatus of movement, gripping, and voice,” Itard, J. M. G. “Memoire sur Quelques Fonctions Involontaires des Appareils de la Locomotion, de la Prehension et de la

Voix.” Archives Generales de Medicine 8 (1825): 385-407, History of Psychiatry 17/3 (September 2006): 333-351.

Book Reviews

Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric. By Michelle Baillif, Ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press in Journal of Business and TechnicalCommunication (December 2014).

Language and Emotion. By James Wilce (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Rhetorical Review 8:2 (2010), pp. 12-15,<http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/

oct10.html>Bound by the City. Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Reformation of the Polis.

By Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin, Eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009, in Polis (2010).

Patient Tales. Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry. By Carol Berkenkotter (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), in Rhetorical Review 7:2 (2009), pp. 1-7, <http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/june09.html>

Aristotle’s Ethics and Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law. By Frances J. Ranney. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2005. Rhetorical Review 5:3 (October 2007), pp. 17-21 (http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/oct05.html.)

Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle. By Ekaterina V. Haskins. (Studies in Rhetoric/ Communication; Thomas W. Benson, series editor) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Rhetorical Review 3:3 (October 2005),

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pp. 6-9 (http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/oct05.html.)Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing. By Judith Becker. Bloomington, IN:

Indiana University Press, 2004. The International Journal of Listening 18 (2004): 63-66.

Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric. Edited by Richard Leo Enos and Lois Peters Agnew. New Jersey: Hermagoras Press of Lawrence Erlbaum

Associates, 1998. Rhetoric Society Quarterly (28/3 Winter) 1999: 78-93

Encyclopedia Entries

“Bellevue Hospital,” Breslin, Mary Lou,” “Cultural Deprivation Theory,” “DSM,” “Faculty Psychology,” “Insanity,” “O'Toole, Corbett,” and “Psychiatric Drugs” in Encyclopedia of America Disability History. New York: Facts on File, 2009.

“E. M. Broner” in Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing, 2006.

Notes

“Advances Opening.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric V (2002): 1.

Non-Academic/Administrative

First Periodic Review Report on the Diversity Requirement. Kent State University, University Requirement Curriculum Committee, Fall 2008.

Current Projects

Remembering the Siberian Holocaust: The Twenty-First Century Memory Palace (manuscript in preparation; working title).

Do No Harm. Nineteenth Century American Medical Schooling: A Rhetorical Education (working title; manuscript in preparation).

Gilbert Austin and the Elocutionary Movement. With Sigrid Streit (in preparation for the “Rhetoric in the Modern Era” series at Southern Illinois University Press with strong encouragement after initial review from series editors, Art Walzer and Ed Schiappa).

Conference Participation

Invited Talks and PresentationsHonors College Lecture Series: Research Uncorked. Insanity, Institutionalization and

Nineteenth-Century American Medical Language, October 7, 2105Symposium on Life Writing. Hofstra University, March 2014. Honor’s College Faculty/Alumni Spotlight Series, September 30, 2010.Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric, University of Minnesota, October 22-24, 2009.Health Literacy Seminar. College of Communication, Kent State University, Feb. 3, 2009.

Panels and Presentations (since 2000)

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“Transforming Ableist Cognition through Disability Studies in Literature.” (Chair and Respondent).Why the Humanities and Neuroscience: Answers from the Cognitive and Neurosciences. Kent State University July 11, 2015, Kent State University.

“Assessing Alan Gross’s The Rhetoric of Science in the 21st Century. NCA conference, Chicago November 2014.

“Building Student Involvement in A Distance-Education Environment. With Jordan Canzonetta, «Уровневая подготовка специалистов: электронное обучение и открытые образовательные ресурсы» (Tier Training. E-Learning and Open Education Resources). Tomsk, Russian Federation, 20-21 March 2014.

Participant. Workshop on “The Rhetorics of Disability” (Michael Berube, Rachel Adams, Facilitators). Rhetoric Society of American Institute, Kansas City, June 7-9, 2012

“Magic, Medicine and Rhetoric in Europe, 1500-1800: Performance and the Sympathetic Message.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Chicago. July 2013.

“Re-Framing Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth Century America: Genre, Pedagogy, and the Medical Model of Disciplinary Practice.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Philadelphia, May 2012.

“Movement, Madness, and Medicine as Portrayed in 19th Century American Asylum Reports: A Composite Analysis.” 2011 Writing Research Across Borders II. Fairfax, VA, February 2011.

“Sympathy: Delivering Gesture in 18th Century Rhetorics.” National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, November 2010.

“The State of the Art in the Study of the History of Rhetoric” and “The Future” Eastern Communication Association Convention. Baltimore, April 22-25, 2010.

“Movement, Madness, and Medicine as Portrayed in ‘The Insane Hospital Reports’.” Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Convention, March 5-6, Louisville, KY, 2010.

“Muscles, Movements, and Emotions: Moving Discourses/Static Genres.” National Communication Association Conference. November, 2009.

“Moving on to a Rhetorical Understanding of Gesture.” National Communication Association Conference. November, 2009.

“American Society for the History of Rhetoric: Five Years Out.” National Communication Association Conference. November, 2009.

“Sympathy”: The Influence of Medical Definitions on Rhetorical Practice in the Eighteenth Century.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric

Conference. Montreal. July 2009.

“Movement in Nineteenth Century Elocutionary and Medical Texts and Images”National Communication Association Conference. November, 2007.

“The Rhetoric of Gesture as Illustrated in 19th Century French Scientific Texts.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference. Strasbourg, France, July 2007.

“The Founding Descriptions of Tourette Syndrome: Rhetoric, Definition, and the Science of the Human Mind.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 26-29, 2006.

“Irreconcilable Differences? Medicine, Law, and Education in Democratic Policy Debates.” Democracy Symposium. Kent State University, May 3-4, 2006.

“A New Translation of Philodemus.” National Communication Association Conference.

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November, 2005.“Is Aristotle’s The Rhetoric A Brilliant Heap of Fragments?” National

Communication Association Conference. November, 2005.Working Groups on Research Problems. American Society for the History of

Rhetoric, National Communication Association Conference. November, 2004.“Music as Enthymematic.” National Communication Association Conference.

November, 2004.“Links between Style and Argument in Aristotle’s Works.” Rhetoric Society of America

Conference, May 2004.Spotlight on the Scholarship. Rhetoric in the Modern Era: George Campbell and

Chaim Perelman. RSA/ASHR Collaborative Panel Rhetoric Society of America. May 2004.

Seminar on Agricola Seminar Rhetoric Society of America. May 2004.“’Metaphorical Medicine: Using Metaphors to Enhance Communication with Patients

Who Have Pulmonary Disease’: New Directions In Medical Research.” National Communication Association Conference. November, 2002.

“Aristotle and Lexis/Style.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May, 2002.“Aristotle and Style.” English Department Colloquium, April 26, 2002.“Aristotelian Style.” Pre-Conference of the American Society for the History of

Rhetoric, National Communication Association Conference. October 31, 2001.“Aristotle on the Relationship between Rhetorical and Poetic Language.” National

Communication Association Conference. November 9, 2000“Aristotle’s Notion of ‘Bringing-Before-the-Eyes’: Its Contributions to Aristotelian and

Contemporary Conceptualizations of Style and Audience.” National Communication Association Conference. November 11, 2000.

“A Revised Approach to Emotional Appeals: The Intersection Between 17th Rhetorical Theory and Art.” Rhetoric Society of America. May 27, 2000.

Workshops on Undergraduate Research

Participant. Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Conference/Workshop. Bridgewater State University, July 2006.

External Honors and Awards

NEH Fellowship 2016. Remembering the Siberian Holocaust: The Twenty-First Century Memory Palace (Primary Investigator; under review).

NIH Grant. IRB procedures that best promote ethical protection of human research subjects.(Investigator; under review).

Stipend. KEEP Language Arts Academy. Jennings Foundation. Summer 2012. ($1,200).NCTE Award in Technical and Scientific Communication: Best Original Collection of

Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication, for the July-October 2009. Written Communication special issue on Writing and Medicine, 2010.

Travel Grant. Francis Clark Wood Institute at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Spring 2009 ($500).

Travel Grant. Bakken Library and Archive. Summer 2008 ($400).Fellowship. Cordell Collection/Cunningham Library. Indiana State University. February

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2008. ($500).Award. Excellence in Teaching Award. Mortar Board, Fall 2006.Outstanding Dissertation Award. American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1998.

Internal Honors and Awards

Distinguished Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University, 2014-2015.Academic Year Research and Creative Activity Leaves. Kent State University, Research

and Graduate Studies Division, Spring 2015, Spring 2008, Spring 2003, Fall2000.Summer Teaching Development Grant, “Teaching Scientific Writing at the Graduate

Level,” with Pamela Takayoshi and Derek van Ittersum, Kent State University, University Teaching Council, Summer 2012 ($6,500).

Summer Research Award. Kent State University, Research and Graduate Studies Division, Summer 2012 ($6,500).

Grant. Kent State University, Research and Graduate Studies Division, Spring 2012, travel expenses related to bringing Alan Gross to campus for lectures on electronic and scientific communications ($450).

Research Award. Kent State University, Research and Graduate Studies Division, Summer 2007 ($2,500).

Award. Undergraduate Research. Kent State University, University Teaching Council, Summer 2006 ($465).

Workshop Award. Kent State University, University Teaching Council, 2004-5 ($2,000).Grant. Kent State University, Provost’s Office, 2004-5 ($1,000).Grant. Kent State University, Dean’s Office, 2004-5 ($1,000).Grant. Kent State University, English Department, 2004-5 ($1,000).Grant. Kent State University, Research and Graduate Studies Division, 2004-5 ($500).Stipend. Access to Higher Education, Kent State University, Center for Disability

Studies, Summer 2004 ($1,900).Support For Pre-Conference sponsored by the American Society for the History of

Rhetoric, Toerne Fund, Kent State University, English Department, Fall 2001.Stipend. Honors Alumni Council Faculty Development. Kent State University, The

Honors College, 1999-2000 ($200).

Editorial Work

Editorial Board. Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 2011-present.Associate Editor. Rhetorical Review. The Electronic Review of Books on the History of

Rhetoric. URL: http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/index.html, 2006 to 2011.Reviewer. Ancient Philosophy. 2010-presentReviewer. International Journal of Listening. May 2005-present.Reviewer. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2011-present.Reviewer. Polis. 2009-present.Reviewer. Rhetorica. 2008-present.Reviewer. Technical Communication Quarterly. 2009-present.Reviewer.  Written Communication, 2007-present.

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Academic Service, Related Professional Experience

National/State (since 2000)

External Reviewer. Tenure and promotion to associate Professor of Jessica Lamp, Department of English, Arizona State University, Fall 2015.

External Reviewer. Promotion to Full Professor of Lisa Hermsen, Department of English,

Rochester Institute of Technology, Fall 2014.Member. Development Committee for a consortial MA program in Health Ethics and

Medical Humanities (With NEOMED, SUMMA Health, Cleveland Clinic, and Hiram College), 2012-present.

Consultant/Teacher. Cleveland Clinic Office of Diversity, Teaching Medical Writing to High School Students, January 2012.

Teacher, NEOREMA, “Writing in the Health Sciences,” workshops for high school Pre-medical students through Cleveland Clinic, Spring 2012, Summer 2011.

Participant. Minding The Gap; consortium project between Kent State University, the University of Akron, 10 local school districts, the Six District Educational Compact and the Summit County ESC, 2012-14

Steering Committee, Kent Language Arts Academy (KEEP), 2011-12.Member. Ohio Board of Regents Graduate/Professional Fellowship Program selection

Committee. 2009.Member. Ohio Board of Regents Committee on the Transfer Assurance Modules. English

Literature, 2005-2007.Member. Review Panel for ASHR Conference at NCA Convention, 2010, 2009.Member. RSA Site Selection Committee, 2007-present.Member. Steering Committee. RSA Institute, 2005-7.Member. Review Panel for RSA Conference, 2006, 2008, 2010.Member. Review Panel for ASHR Pre-Conference at NCA Convention, 2005.Chair of Local Arrangements and Co-Program Director. First Biennial Institute,

Rhetoric Society of America, Held at Kent State University, May 2005.Member/Chair. Dissertation Award Committee, ASHR, 2003-2004.Representative/Participant for ASHR to Alliance of Rhetorical Societies, 2002-4.President. American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2001-2002.Vice President and Program Chair for 2001 Pre-Conference. American Society for the

History of Rhetoric, 2000-2001.

University/Department (since 2000)

Member. Honors College Committee on Assessing Freshman Honors Colloquia, 2015-16.Member. University Press Editorial Board Fall, 2014-15.Participant (nominated). Graduate Student Orientation (GSO), August 2012, 2013, 2014.Member. Honors College Policy Council, Kent State University, 2005-present.Chair. LRSP Search Committee, Spring 2013.

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Member. Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2012-2013.Member. Faculty Advisory Committee, 2015-2016; 2012-2013; 2001-2002.Member. Writing Program Committee, Kent State University, English Department, Fall

2014, 1999-2001, 2003-6, 2011-2013Member. NTT Search Committee, Salem Campus, Spring 2012; 2012-2013.Member. University Departmental Review Team for Honors College. Kent State

University 2009-2010.Member. Faculty Plagiarism Investigation. Kent State University and National Science

Foundation, 2009.Member. TT Search Committee, Salem Campus, Spring 2010.Chair. University Research Council. Kent State University, 2009-2010.Co-Chair, Literacy Rhetoric, and Social Practice Doctoral Program, Department of

English, Kent State University, 2008-2010.Celebration of Scholarship Committee. Kent State University, 2009-2010.Member. Undergraduate Research Committee. Kent State University, 2006-2009.Member. Committee on First-Year Writing. Department of English, Kent State

University, 2006-2008.Member. Committee on Third Tier Writing. Department of English, Kent State

University, 2007-2008.Chair. Distinguished Scholar Award Selection Committee. 2009.Member. Faculty Learning Community on Disability Issues (FLCDI), 2006-2009.Chair. Search Committee, NTT “Stretch” Specialist, English, Kent State University,

Summer 2008.Coordinator. Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, Kent State University,

2004-2008.Member. University Research Council. Kent State University, 2007-2010.Co-Chair. University Requirements Curriculum Committee. Kent State University,

2006-2009.Chair. University Diversity Subcommittee. Kent State University, 2006-2009.Member. Advisory Committee for Academic Assessment. Kent State University,

2006-2009.Member. Foreign Language Waiver Committee. Kent State University, 2005-2008.Member. College Curriculum Committee. Kent State University, Fall 2004-2008.Participant. Quality Access to Higher Education. Kent State University, Center for

Disability Studies, Summer 2004.

Member. Search Committee. Coordinator of Composition. Kent State University, English Department, 2003-4.Union Representative. English Department. Kent State University, 2002-2003. Member. University Scholarship Advisory Council, Kent State University, 2001-2004.Member. Student Awards Committee, Kent State University, 2001-2002,

2003-0004.

Dissertation and Thesis Committees

Chair. Ph.D.Director. Kent State University, English Department, Rhetoric and Composition

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Lew Caccia. Risk Communication in the Workplace: An Analysis of Communications Toolkits as Rhetorical Practice, Defended April 2009 (Co-Director).

Beth Tomlinson. Conceptualizing Audience in Digital Invention, Defended March 30, 2011.

Sigrid Streit. Gesture and Rhetorical Delivery: The Transmission of Knowledge in

Complex Situations, Defended June 22, 2011. PDiana Awad Scrocco. An Examination of the Literate Practices of Resident

Physicians and Attending Physician Preceptors in a Resident-Run Internal Medicine Clinic, Defense March 30 2012.

Holly Wells. Picture a Scientist: A Visual Rhetoric Approach to the Problem of Gender Disparity in STEM Fields. Defended September 28, 2012.

Barbara Karman. 19th Women and Humor: the Emergence of Feminist Humor, Defense March 31, 2013.

Lea Povozhaev. Addiction Rhetoric: Conceptual Metaphors in Conversational Illness Narrative. Defense June 4, 2014.

Philip Sloan. Assembling the Identity of the Writer. Defense July 1, 2014.Kathryn Byrne. Self-Efficacy as a Tutor Model in the Writing Center.” Defense

June 9th, 2015.Sarah Lawrence. A Rhetoric of Self-Injury:Establishing Identity and Representing

the Body in Online Self-Injury Forums. Defense anticipated in 2015-16.Lauren Matus. Judging Knowledge: Portrayals of Literacy in the Selection of

International Literacy Prizewinners. Defense anticipated in Fall 2015. Alexis Baker, Women and Representations of the Holocaust, Defense anticipated

in 2015-16.Sarah Delury. Online Advocacy and Rape Myths, Defense anticipated in 2015-16.

Chair. Ph.D.Director. Kent State University, English Department, LiteratureCarl Robinson. The Modern Language of Ring Sport: A Cultural Phenomena and

Its Literary Forms, Defended April, 2004. (Co-Director) Sarah MacDonald. Nineteenth-Century Women and Autobiography. (Co-Director)

Defense anticipated Spring 2016.Caleb Berkemeier. Nineteenth-Century Disability Literature and Theory (Co-

Director) Defense anticipated Spring 2016.Member. Ph.D. Advising Committee. Kent State University, English Department,

Rhetoric and CompositionKathryn Weiss. Reconceiving Material Rhetoric: Literacy beyond Language at

Kent State’s May 4 Memorial, Defended July 2006.Ken Marunowski. The Euro: Text Context and Presence, Defended May 2006.Stephenson Hunter. Kairos: Forecasting Opportunity, Defended November 2003.Jeffrey Perry. Institutional Cunning: Writing Assessment as Social Reproduction?,

Defended August 2008.Courtney Werner. Immigrant Terms and Stolen Identities: Unpacking New

Media’s Position in Rhetoric and Composition, Defense May 2012.Nicole Caswell. Reconsider Emotion: Understanding the Relationship between

Teachers’ Emotions and Teachers’ Response Practices, Defense June

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2012. Lindsey Steiner. The Available Means of Design: A Rhetorical Investigation of

Professional Multimodal Composing. Defense Spring 2013.Yvonne Teems. Aging and the Body, Defense October 2013.Matthew McCracken, Scientific Writing, April 2015.Chelsea Swick, Blogs about Secrets, ongoing.Gina Denardi, Writing Center Issues, ongoing.William Morris, Political Rhetoric, ongoing.Jessica Corey, Literate Artifacts and Psychosocial Compositions: Feminist

Activism's Composing, Archiving, and Revising of Social Narratives, Spring or Summer 2015.

Kelly McGreal, Rhetoric and Politics, ongoing.Barbara George, Sustainability/Environmental Rhetoric, ongoing.Megan Brenneman, Literacy and Public Memory.

Member. Ph.D. Advising Committee. Kent State University, English Department, LiteratureKathryn Blackbird. The Zeroes Taught Us Phosphorus: Trauma, Silence, and the

Recovery of Voice. August 2006, Defended July 2010.Paul Neel, The Rhetoric of Propriety in Puritan Sermon Writing and Poetics.

Defended Fall 2012.Seth Johnson. Michael Chabon, Defended December 2013.Ellen Kim. American Haiku, Korean Modernist Poetry, and Eastern Poetics,

ongoing.Audrey Berkemeier. Modernism, Virginia Wolff and Disability, ongoing.

Member. Ph.D. Exam Committee. Kent State University, English Department, Literature, Vi Dutcher. Classical Rhetoric, October 1999

Foreign Language Exam, Kent State University, English Department, Rhetoric and Composition and Literature.Amanda Denman, French, Summer 2012Yvonne Teems. French, Spring 2011.Courtney Werner. Spanish, Summer 2010.Nikki Caswell. French, Fall 2009.Hazel Emery. Spanish, Spring 2009.Beth Tomlinson. Spanish, Nov. 2008.Anthony Garrison. French, 2008.Jill Jaymes. French, 2005.Kathryn Weiss. German, 2003.

Graduate Representative/reader, Ph.D., Kent State UniversityHistory. Diary of Emily Nash: 19th Century Geauga County Layer of the Dead.

Molly Sergei. June 12, 2015.Psychology. Mohammed Shakeel Kalathil. Confabulations in

Schizophrenia. Defense October 14, 2014.Neomed. Natalie Bonfine. Stigma, Self-Concept and Stigma Resistance among

Individuals with Mental Illness. Defense March 2013.Psychology. Susanne N. Biehle. Coping from Pregnancy to Parenthood. Defense

April 2012.Education, Health, and Human Services. Yu-Hui Chou. A Study of Gendering

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Culture of New Taiwanese Children In Their Kindergarten Classrooms. Defense June 20, 2011.

Psychology, Elissa Lampe Deggelman. Coping and Quality of Life for Siblings of Children with Chronic Illness. Defense June 17, 2011.

Psychology. Taryn Myers, The impact of social comparison on body dissatisfaction in the naturalistic environment: The roles of appearance schema activation, thin-ideal internalization, and feminist beliefs.Defended March 17, 2010.

Outsider reader. M.A. Theses. Kent State UniversityPhilosophy. Daniel Robinson. Nietzsche on virtue. Defense March 29,

2015.MCLS. Courtney Carlson. Kent State University. Un afecto melansolico

maniaco: Translating a Historical Medical Text. Spring 2010.

Philosophy. Elizabeth Rager. Kent State University. Spring 2000.

Graduate Individual Studies

Audrey Lehr. Disability Literature/Jane Austin. Spring 2015.Jason Sharier, Metaphor, Fall 2014.Jesse Bradley, Disability and Sexuality, Summer 2014.Chris McCracken and Jessica Heffner, Fall 2013.Megan O’Connor, Disability Studies Issues, Spring 2013.Caleb Berkmeier, Disability Studies Issues, Spring 2013.Sarah Delury, Popular Science and Argument, Summer 2012.Ying Fu, Literature and Rhetoric, Fall 2010.Diana Awad Scrocco. Medical Rhetoric, Summer 2010.Lauren Matus. Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Fall 2009.Sigrid Streit. Gesture, Summer 2007.Kathryn Byrne. Pedagogical Theory: Business and Technical Writing, Summer 2005.Alison Krebs. Classical Rhetoric and Composition, Spring 2005.Melissa Selby. Teaching Business and Technical Writing, Spring 2005.Kamaria Wolf. Literacy Issues/Adaptive Technology and Low Vision, Fall 2004.Melanie McGurr. Teaching Advanced Writing, Spring 2000.

Undergraduate and Mentoring Experiences

Honors Individual Investigation. Seth Varnell, Spring 2015.Individual Study on Disability Literature, Erica Glenn, Fall 2014.Undergraduate Research Assistant, Heaven Burns, Honors thesis advisor.Individual Investigation. Rhetoric and Digital Media. Jennifer Ballou, Fall 2010.Individual Investigation. Literature and Art. Chelsey Swilik, Fall 2009.Undergraduate Research Assistant, Heaven Burns, Fall 2012.Undergraduate Research Assistants, Ashley Brink and Stephanie Ingram, Fall 2009.Undergraduate Research Assistants, Brent Miller and Joseph Kaklitch, Spring 2009.Honors Thesis Director, Kent State University, Honors College

Heaven Burns, Edith and Blank Canvas (screen plays), Spring 2014

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Stephanie Pike. Battling Ambiguity with Hockey Sticks: A Public Guide to Understanding the Science Behind the ‘Hockey Stick’ Debate.’ Environmental Studies. Spring 2012.

Amanda Lindsay. Post Colonial Analysis of Debates over Crazy Horse Monument. Defense Spring 2007.

Honors Thesis Reader, Kent State University Over 60 since 2003 in subjects across the curriculum (8 in AY 2014-15)

Portfolio Director. Writing Minor. Kent State University, English DepartmentAllison Krebs. 2002-2003.Hollie Morris. 2001-2002.Dawn Maich. Writing Minor. 2000-2001.

Portfolio Reader. Writing Minor. Kent State University, English DepartmentKristen Barton, 2009-2010.Terri Bollinger, Fall 1999.

Faculty Associate. Freshman Year Experience. Kent State University, Harbourt Hall and

Metcalf Hall, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 respectively.Mentor. “Learning to Lead Through Life.” Kent State University. The Freshman

Experience, Spring 2004Mentor. Frances Periodot. Chagrin Falls High School Senior final project, Spring 2004.

Courses Taught

Graduate“Introduction to the Field” (of Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice)“Rhetorical Theory: Greek and Roman”“Teaching College English”“Teaching Advanced, Business, Technical and Professional Writing” “18th, 19th and 20th Century Rhetorical Theory”“Rhetorical Methodology”“Domain Rhetorics: Medicine, Health, and Disability” “Scientific Communication” (for graduate students in the sciences)

Undergraduate“Freshman English I”“Freshman English II”“Freshman Honors Colloquium” (themes in medical humanities; art and

Literature; disability literature)“Business/Professional Writing”“Disability Literature’ (senior seminar)“Classical Rhetoric”“Expository Prose Writing”“Writing in Your Major”“Writing to Inform and Persuade”“Persuasion and the Literature of Science”“Public Speaking”

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“Western Humanities”“Introduction to Art History: Cave Painting to 1500”“Italian Renaissance Art”

Professional Organizations

American Society for the History of Medicine, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Disability History Association, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Rhetoric Society of America, Society for Disability Studies, Tourette Syndrome AssociationLanguages

French, German, Dutch (fluent translation into English); Ancient Greek (intermediate reading), Russian (intermediate reading)

References

Available by request

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