Resume

• 2003

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Dissertation titled \"Radio Texts: The Broadcast Literature of Orson Welles

  Dylan Thomas

  Samuel Beckett

  and Tom Stoppard.\"\n\nAssistant Director of Undergraduate Writing Center (2008-10)\n\nManaging Editor of the online journal Praxis: A Writing Center Journal (2006-08)\n\nEnglish Department's Graduate Student Instructor Award (2007-08)\n\nTaught in Digital Writing and Research Lab

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  The University of Texas at Austin

• 1996

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Graduated with high honors. Completed honors thesis on the novels of Thomas Wolfe.

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  University of California

  Berkeley

  3.86 GPA

• Peer Mentoring

  Writing

  Rhetoric

  Academic Publishing

  Teaching Writing

  Analysis

  Online Publishing

  University Teaching

  Research

  Employee Training

  Grant Writing

  Copy Editing

  Podcasting in the Rhetoric Classroom

  Justin Tremel

  My co-author and I describe how we created podcasts as a way to deliver content to our writing students and also assigned students to create their own podcasts in lieu of traditional writing assignments.

  Podcasting in the Rhetoric Classroom

  A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre

  A chapter in Matthew Rubery's book Audiobooks

  Literature

  and Sound Studies. I argue that Orson Welles's adaptations of classic novels for the radio in the late 1930s helped to lay the groundwork for the modern-day audiobook.

  A Library on the Air: Literary Dramatization and Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre

  A peer-reviewed article that offers an interpretation of \"Embers

  \" a rarely studied radio play by Samuel Beckett.

  \"White World. Not a Sound\": Beckett’s Radioactive Text in \"Embers.”

  Andrea Saathoff

  Paige Normand

  My co-authors and I discuss a writing workshop for high school students offered by a university's writing center. Students learned composition strategies for traditional writing by creating digital

  multi-media content.

  Pagecasting in the UWC: Writing

  Digital Media

  and Community Outreach

  A chapter in Kevin J. Harty's book The Holy Grail on Film. I relate how the baseball movie The Natural incorporates two interconnected myths: the grail legend and the myth of baseball's founding in Cooperstown

  New York

  in 1839.

  Percival in Cooperstown: Arthurian Legend

  Baseball Mythology

  and the Mediated Quest in Levinson’s The Natural.

  In this peer-reviewed essay

  I analyze two of Orson Welles’s radio plays

  adaptations of ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn

  ’ arguing that Welles's radio work influenced his film Citizen Kane in previously unrecognized ways.

  Orson Welles’s Deconstruction of Media Celebrity: From Radio Dramatizations to Citizen Kane

  James

  Jesson

  Vinson & Elkins

  Community Legal Aid Society

  The University of Texas at Austin

  La Salle University

  ProConsul

  With one fellow editor

  managed all operations of an online academic journal:\n•\tDeveloped each issue’s theme and solicited articles\n•\tEvaluated submissions\n•\tManaged the workflow for approximately 10 editorial assistants\n•\tPublished each issue using the Drupal content-management system\n•\tUsed HTML to design each issue’s home page

  format text

  and insert images and links\n•\tMarketed the journal at academic conferences and upon the launch of each issue\n•\tInitiated a blog to promote the journal\n•\tWrote an editor’s column and other articles

  Managing Editor

  Praxis: A Writing Center Journal

  Austin

  Texas Area

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Web Development Project Manager\n•\tWorked with Web developer to design a new Web site for an expert-witness locator service\n•\tWrote content for the Web site\n•\tOversaw two other writers\n\nEditor of Company Newsletter\n•\tSolicited articles for a promotional newsletter\n•\tHelped authors develop and revise articles\n•\tWrote newsletter content

  Writer and Editor

  Phoenix

  Arizona Area

  ProConsul

  •\tCollaborated with two other assistant directors at the nation’s busiest university writing center (over 10

  000 sessions per year)\n•\tOrganized yearly orientation for new writing tutors\n•\tLed several staff-training programs\n•\tObserved and critiqued undergraduate and graduate-student tutors\n•\tPlanned and promoted public events\n•\tDirected the digitization of writing center resources\n•\tTutored undergraduate writers

  Assistant Director

  Undergraduate Writing Center

  Austin

  Texas Area

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Oakland

  CA

  •\tWrote pleadings

  judgments

  and other legal documents\n•\tPerformed legal research\n•\tScreened potential clients\n•\tBilled clients and maintained the company’s financial accounts\n•\tPlanned and oversaw the company’s move to a new office location

  Paralegal

  Community Legal Aid Society

  Worked up product-liability cases for a large corporate-defense firm:\n•\tLegal research\n•\tEvidence analysis\n•\tRecords requests\n•\tDeposition summaries\n•\tData entry and analysis using MS Access databases

  Legal Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  Vinson & Elkins

  Courses Taught (2005-08):\n•\tReading Literary Form\n•\tYouth Rebellion and the Rhetoric of American Identity (rhetoric of countercultures)\n•\tRhetoric and Composition\n\nTeaching Assistant (2003-05):\n•\tAmerican Literature\n•\tBritish Literature\n•\tWorld Literature

  Assistant Instructor

  Austin

  Texas Area

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the following areas:\no\tModern Drama\no\tShakespeare\no\tMedia and Cultural Studies\no\tRhetoric and Composition\no\tBusiness Writing\no\tEnglish and Irish Literature\no\tWestern Literature\no\tResearch Methods\n\nServe on:\no\tEnglish Department Board\no\tEnglish Department Composition Committee\n\nResearch interests:\no\tLiterature and Electronic Media\no\tLiterature of the Vietnam War\no\tLiterature and the Environment (Ecocriticism)\no\tComposition Pedagogy

  Associate Professor

  Greater Philadelphia Area

  La Salle University