Ohio University

Graduate Writing and Research Center Tutor

This brief position allowed me to tutor graduate-level students for the last month I was at Ohio U, which I am grateful for the opportunity because tutoring high-level students that are doing engaging and interesting work is one of my pleasures. Best wishes to my colleagues at the writing center and thank you!

Ohio University

Postdoctoral Fellow

Teaching a 3/3 load of undergraduate student courses and my usual ongoing research, presentation, and publication schedule.

Moon City Press, Missouri State University

Managing Editor

While Managing Editor for MCP, I focused on acquiring bar codes, ISBNs, and assisting with other logistical aspects of the publishing process such as layout and design and editing.

Moon City Press, Missouri State University

Associate Editor

With series lists in “Arts and Letters” and “Ozarks History and Culture,” Moon City Press is a non-profit regional press that owes much to the energy and dedication of students and faculty at several universities in the Ozarks, including our home base in the English Department at Missouri State University.This collaboration makes the various aspects of publication possible.

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

English Dual Enrollment Coordinator

This position work with local and regional high schools to deliver TAMUK's English courses to their respective students. Some of my duties include classroom and teacher observations, curriculum design, and acting as a liaison between TAMUK and the high schools.

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Assistant Professor

I teach mostly Rhetoric and Composition courses in the Language and Literature Department, which include first-year writing (a year-long sequence at TAMUK). I also have support in developing options in Creative Nonfiction, such as flash nonfiction, and local histories in the diverse coastal region of Texas. This position is an exciting transition (and location) for me that offers multiple opportunities to grow as a teacher/scholar/researcher.

Et Alia Press

Editor of Local Histories

Incorporated in the spring of 2010, Et Alia is a private small press based in Little Rock, Arkansas, with publication interests in three areas: Emerging Artists, Health and Wellness, and Local Histories. Editors and contributing staff include Erin Pennington, Craig A. Meyer, Dr. George H. Jensen, Dr. Lanette Cadle, and Dr. James S. Baumlin. Et Alia plans to publish three to five books per year in small print-runs, basing editorial decisions on quality over market.

Emerging Artists gives voice to first-book novelists and creative writers working in highly literary genres. (Writers of formula-fiction need not apply.) Health and Wellness places special emphasis on physical, spiritual, and environmental wellbeing; the series also gives voice to practitioners of holistic and alternative medicine. Local Histories preserves and expands cultural memory in its diversity, especially valuing neglected and alternative histories.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

Review of _Original Minds_

Disability Studies Quarterly

A review of the Tom Weidlinger and Bullfrog Films production _Original Minds_ available on DVD.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

Review of _Original Minds_

Disability Studies Quarterly

A review of the Tom Weidlinger and Bullfrog Films production _Original Minds_ available on DVD.

Why We Dread Disability Myths

The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article is in response to another Chronicle piece entitled, "Why I Dread the Accommodations Talk" (Link: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Dread-the-Accommodations/239571). Our response is in concert with roughly 30 other Disability Scholars who provided insight, ideas, and support.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

Review of _Original Minds_

Disability Studies Quarterly

A review of the Tom Weidlinger and Bullfrog Films production _Original Minds_ available on DVD.

Why We Dread Disability Myths

The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article is in response to another Chronicle piece entitled, "Why I Dread the Accommodations Talk" (Link: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Dread-the-Accommodations/239571). Our response is in concert with roughly 30 other Disability Scholars who provided insight, ideas, and support.

Edgar Allan Poe: A Guide for Readers Young and Old

Moon City Press

This book was created through an Integrated Service-Learning set of (Missouri State Univ.) courses focusing on literacy in the Springfield, Missouri area and provides a dose of prose for most reading levels. This project was supported by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and was supporting the Springfield-Greene County Public Library system. I was honored to bring my editing experience to this project.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

Review of _Original Minds_

Disability Studies Quarterly

A review of the Tom Weidlinger and Bullfrog Films production _Original Minds_ available on DVD.

Why We Dread Disability Myths

The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article is in response to another Chronicle piece entitled, "Why I Dread the Accommodations Talk" (Link: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Dread-the-Accommodations/239571). Our response is in concert with roughly 30 other Disability Scholars who provided insight, ideas, and support.

Edgar Allan Poe: A Guide for Readers Young and Old

Moon City Press

This book was created through an Integrated Service-Learning set of (Missouri State Univ.) courses focusing on literacy in the Springfield, Missouri area and provides a dose of prose for most reading levels. This project was supported by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and was supporting the Springfield-Greene County Public Library system. I was honored to bring my editing experience to this project.

Disability and Accessibility: Is There an App for That?

Computers and Composition Online

As a discipline, Rhetoric and Composition continues to make adjustments related to Universal Design for Learning principles and ongoing research related to disability studies. Yet, this (sluggish) progress can be enhanced by the ongoing innovation of computer programs, applications (apps) for mobile technology. Thus, broadly, the author argues for increasing accessibility for disabled students in the composition classroom through the use of technology. More specifically, this essay considers mobile learning or m-learning that takes place through various applications and platforms that have potential and productivity within disabled communities and posits their importance to learning the communication skills critical once students matriculate and eventually graduate from the university system. Part of this rationale for increasing access and the discipline's adaptability is that more students are coming to the writing classroom with at least one disability, if not several, that affect learning and their potential throughout later life. Further, the sheer diversity of the student body and ongoing learning research suggests learning is more individualized than we may have previously realized. In short, the writing classroom must become more flexible and accommodating for all students regardless of differences. Finally, the author pushes forward the ongoing paradigm shift in education and away from a us/them model to a model that can provide access to all learners, increase participation, and provide accessible classrooms for students and position them to be as barrier-free as possible.

The Power of Dominant Narratives: Palestinian Self-Awareness and a Tutoring Challenge

The Dangling Modifier

"The New Political Rhetoric of Hip-Hop Music in the Obama Era."

Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 vol]; Praeger

"A Prince, Some Girls, and the Terms: A Canary in the Cave?"​

CCCC-IP Annual

This article is about intellectual property and how Richard Prince used pictures posted by the Suicide Girls, then he sold them for profit with permission. The article reviews the case and suggests potential ways to interact with sources. This article is hyperlinked and these links act as examples of a potential new direction in source management.

Speaking, Sometimes

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

A poem about speech dysfluency. This work, coming from my own stuttering perspective, reminds us of the importance of understanding and acknowledging all disabilities, not just the more common or visual ones.

Review of _The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention_ by Joseph G. Bock

Technoculture

Review of _Original Minds_

Disability Studies Quarterly

A review of the Tom Weidlinger and Bullfrog Films production _Original Minds_ available on DVD.

Why We Dread Disability Myths

The Chronicle of Higher Education

This article is in response to another Chronicle piece entitled, "Why I Dread the Accommodations Talk" (Link: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Dread-the-Accommodations/239571). Our response is in concert with roughly 30 other Disability Scholars who provided insight, ideas, and support.

Edgar Allan Poe: A Guide for Readers Young and Old

Moon City Press

This book was created through an Integrated Service-Learning set of (Missouri State Univ.) courses focusing on literacy in the Springfield, Missouri area and provides a dose of prose for most reading levels. This project was supported by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and was supporting the Springfield-Greene County Public Library system. I was honored to bring my editing experience to this project.

Disability and Accessibility: Is There an App for That?

Computers and Composition Online

As a discipline, Rhetoric and Composition continues to make adjustments related to Universal Design for Learning principles and ongoing research related to disability studies. Yet, this (sluggish) progress can be enhanced by the ongoing innovation of computer programs, applications (apps) for mobile technology. Thus, broadly, the author argues for increasing accessibility for disabled students in the composition classroom through the use of technology. More specifically, this essay considers mobile learning or m-learning that takes place through various applications and platforms that have potential and productivity within disabled communities and posits their importance to learning the communication skills critical once students matriculate and eventually graduate from the university system. Part of this rationale for increasing access and the discipline's adaptability is that more students are coming to the writing classroom with at least one disability, if not several, that affect learning and their potential throughout later life. Further, the sheer diversity of the student body and ongoing learning research suggests learning is more individualized than we may have previously realized. In short, the writing classroom must become more flexible and accommodating for all students regardless of differences. Finally, the author pushes forward the ongoing paradigm shift in education and away from a us/them model to a model that can provide access to all learners, increase participation, and provide accessible classrooms for students and position them to be as barrier-free as possible.

Working in Academe and Paying Attention to Disability: Faculty Members, Accommodation, and Access in Higher Education

Profession 2013, Modern Language Association (MLA)