CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of English
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-624-6509
barth@pitt.edu
Education / Academic Honors / Academic Positions / Publications - Books, Textbooks, Journals, Reviews / Pittsburgh Press Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture / Grants / Technical Reports / Recent Invited Papers, Keynote Addresses, Presentations / Courses Taught / MFA Manuscript Committees /PhD Dissertation Committees / Professional Services / Departments and Writing Program Evaluations /
1975 - PhD, Rutgers University (English). Dissertation: "The Early Novels of Thomas Hardy" (Julian Moynahan, Director)
1969 - BA, Ohio Wesleyan University (English)
2006 - CCCC Exemplar Award
Conference on College Composition and Communication. “The CCCC Executive Committee presents, as occasion demands, the CCCC Exemplar Award to a person whose [career] … represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching and service to the entire profession. The Exemplar Award seeks to recognize individuals whose record is national and international in scope….”2005 - MLA: Mina Shaughnessy Award for Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching. From the announcement: “The prize is awarded for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy or literature with strong application to the teaching of English”; “[an] inspiring and invaluable collection of essays….”
1997-2002 - Elected Member, Modern Language Association Executive Council
1995 - Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh
1992 - Distinguished Alumnus, Ohio Wesleyan University
1985–89 - Elected Officer, Conference on College Composition and Communication
(Chair, 1987-88)1987 - Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press Association of America, for "Teaching Writing as Learning and Process."
1982 - Fulbright Lecturer, American Studies; Universidad de Deusto; Bilbao, Spain.
1981 - Richard B. Braddock Award (Award for best article in College Composition and Communication in 1980).
2005-06 - Visiting Professor, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
1999 - 2000 - Visiting Professor, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
1995 - Chair, Department of English
1989–90 - Visiting Professor, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
1988 - Writing Coach, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
1987 Professor, University of Pittsburgh
1981–87 - Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
1979 - Center Associate, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh.
1980–89 - Director of Composition, University of Pittsburgh
1975–81 - Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
1973–75 - Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Rutgers College
Assistant Director of Freshman English, 1974–75
Books
Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching (Hardcover: Palgrave/Macmillan; Softcover: Bedford/St. Martins), 2005.
Awards: MLA Shaughnessy Award
“Best Books of 2005,” Writing on the EdgeThe Teaching of Writing: The Eighty fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, ed. with Anthony R. Petrosky (Chicago: NSSE and The University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts: Reading and Writing in Theory and Practice, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1986). Chapter 1, "Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts," reprinted in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers, Theresa Enos, ed. (New York: Random House, 1987).
Textbooks
Ways of Reading: Words and Images, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 2003).
Reading the Lives of Others: History and Ethnography, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 1994).
Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 1987). The textbook was singled out as innovative and ground breaking in a College English essay by Lynn Bloom, "The Essay Canon" (CE, March 1999) and in a follow-up article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.Ways of Reading, 2nd edition, 1990.
Ways of Reading, 3rd edition, 1993.
Ways of Reading, 4th edition, 1996.
Ways of Reading, 5th Edition, 1999.
Ways of Reading, 6th Edition, 2002.
Ways of Reading, 7th Edition, 2005.
Resources for Teaching, with Anthony R. Petrosky. (Boston: Bedford Books, 1993). (To accompany each edition of Ways of Reading.)
Chapters in Books (not including Reprints)
“Composition,” Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, David Nicholls, ed. New York, MLA, forthcoming.
“Foreword.” Critical Passages: Teaching the Transition to College Composition, Kristin Dombek and Scott Herndon. New York: Teachers College P, 2004. ix-x.
“Discourse and Politics in Composition Studies: Watson Conference Oral History #5", in History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition, 1963-1983. (Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999), 283-295.
"What is Composition? And If You Know What That Is, Why Do We Teach it?" in Composition in the 21st Century, Lynn Bloom, Donald Daiker and Edward White, eds. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996), 11-29.
"The Argument of Reading," in Argument Revised; Argument Redefined: Negotiating Meaning in the Composition Classroom, Barbara Emmel, Paula Resch and Deborah Tenney, eds. (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996), 199-213.
"Writing Errors," in Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, Allan Purves (ed.). Urbana: NCTE, 1995.
"'I'm Talking About Allan Bloom': Writing On a Computer Network," in Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities. Bertram Bruce, Joy Kreeft Peyton and Trent Batson, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 237-263.
"Around 1980," in PRE/TEXT: The First Decade, Victor Vitanza, ed. (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), 287-299.
" Producing Adult Readers, 1930 1950," in The Right to Literacy, (New York: MLA Publications, 1990), pp. 13-29."Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities," with Carolyn Ball and Laura Dice, in Developing Discourse Practices in Adolescence and Adulthood, Richard Beach and Susan Hynds, eds. Vol. 39, Advances in Discourse Processes. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990), pp. 337-59.
"The Reading of Reading: I. A. Richards and M. A. Adler," in Audits of Meaning, Louise Z. Smith, ed. (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1988), pp. 55 71.
"Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education," in A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers, Theresa Enos, ed. (New York: Random House, 1987).
"Words from Afar," in The Teaching of Writing, David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 1 8.
"Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings and Misunderstandings," in Only Connect: Uniting Reading and Writing, Thomas Newkirk, ed. (Montclair, NJ: Boynton Cook, 1986), pp. 89 119.
"Errors, Expectations and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy," in The Territory of Language, Donald McQuade, ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986).
"Inventing the University," in When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing Process Problems, Mike Rose, ed. (New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1985), 134 166.
"Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination," in Sentence Combining: Toward a Rhetorical Perspective, Donald Daiker, Andrew Kerek, and Max Morenberg, eds. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), 303 321.
"Against the Grain," in Writers on Writing, Tom Waldrep, ed. (New York: Random House, 1985), 19 29.
"Basic Writing: A Review," with Glynda Hull, in Research in Composition and Rhetoric: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, Michael G. Moran and R.F. Lunsford, eds. (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1984), 205 303.
Journals, Periodicals, Conference Proceedings
“James F. Slevin,” ADE Bulletin, Fall 2006.
“Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature,” PMLA, October 2002, 1272-1278.
“Composition: 1900-2000,” PMLA, December 2000 (Special Millennium Issue), 1950-55.
“The Life of the Author,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture. (Fall, 2001), 590-592. This is a response to three reviews of Ways of Reading.
“Stop Making Sense: An Interview with David Bartholomae,” Writing on the Edge, Fall, 1999.
“ Improving Your Writing,” What’s the Word, MLA radio show, released to PBS stations, Fall 1999."The Future of English," Critical Quarterly, Spring 1997, pp. 3-7.
"On Poetry, Language, and Teaching: An Interview with Charles Bernstein," (with Paul Bove, Colin MacCabe, and Lynn Emanuel), boundary 2, Fall 1996, pp. 45-67.
"Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment," (with the committee), ADE Bulletin, Fall 1996, pp. 2-13.
"Writing With Teachers" and "Response to Peter Elbow," CCC, February 1995, pp. 62-72; 84-87.
Reprinted in:
Inkshedding: Voices on Writing, Sargent/Paraskevas (eds). Thomson/Nelson, forthcoming December 2004
Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Victor Villanueva (ed). NCTE: 1997.
" Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae," Issues in Writing, Fall 1993/Winter 1994, pp. 4-24.
"The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American University," Journal of Basic Writing, Spring 1993, 4-21.
Mentioned in "Back to Basics," The New Republic, Feb. 8, 1993, 18.
Reprinted in:
Landmark Essays in Basic Writing, Kay Halasek and Nels Highberg (eds.). Lawrence Erlbaum (2000).
"Interview with David Bartholomae and John Gage," Componere, publication of the English Department, University of Oregon. Fall, 1993, 111-117.
"A Reply to Stephen North's 'Personal Writing, Professional Ethos, and the Voice of Common Sense'," PRE/TEXT, Spring/Summer, 1990, Nos. 1&2, pp. 122-130.
"Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC," College Composition and Communication (February 1989), pp. 38-51.
Reprinted in: Views from the Center: The CCCC Chair’s Addresses, 1977-2005, Duane Roen, ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006.
"Inventing the University," Journal of Basic Writing, 5 (Spring 1986), 4 23. Abridged and reprinted from chapter in When a Writer Can't Write, Mike Rose, ed.).
Reprinted in:
Perspectives on Literacy, Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll and Mike Rose, eds. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988 and 2nd edition, 2000).
"Teaching Writing as Learning and Process," with Glynda A. Hull, Educational Leadership, 43 (April 1986), 44 53. Selected for Educational Leadership on Tape (April 1986).
Reprinted in:
Readings on Research from "Educational Leadership", 1987.
"Signs of the Self: The Problem of Autobiography", Letras de Deusto(October 1983).
"Washington Irving, primer hispanista norteamericano," with Joyce Dunlop Bartholomae, El Correo Espanol (July 15, 1983), 47.
"Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins," Forum (Fall 1982), 35 46.
Reprinted in:
Forum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Composition, Patricia L. Stock, ed. (Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1983).
"The Study of Error," College Composition and Communication (October 1980), 253-69.
Reprinted in:
Teaching Writing: Landmarks and Horizons, Christina R. McDonald and Robert McDonald, eds. The essay is introduced by John Trimbur. SIU Press, 2005.
Conversations About Writing, Elizabeth Sargent (ed.), Canada: Nelson Thompson, 2004.
Composition Pedagogy in Perspective: Landmarks and Horizons, 1965-1999, Calendar Island Publishers, 2002.
On Writing Research: CCCC Braddock Essay's, 1975-1998, Lisa Ede (ed). Boston, Bedford Books, 1999.
Teaching Academic Literacy, Katherine Weese, S. Fox and S. Greene, eds. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999).
The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook (2nd ed), Gary Tate and Edward P.J. Corbett, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; 3rd edition, 1994; 4th edition, 2000)
Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Writers (Revised 2nd Edition), Richard L. Graves, ed. (Montclair, NJ. Boynton/Cook, 1984).
Composition Review, James Collings, William McCleary and Thomas Morrissey, eds. (State University of New York and Research Foundation, State University of New York, 1982).
LRDC Reprints, Learning Research and Development Center, (University of Pittsburgh, 1981/82).
with WPA Board of Consultant Evaluators, "Writing Program Evaluation: an Outline for Self Study," WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (Winter 1980)."Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills," Journal of Basic Writing, (Spring/Summer 1979), 85 109.
Reprinted in:
A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers, Theresa Enos, ed. (New York: Random House, 1987).
Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing and First Year Composition.. (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002)
"Language in Use: Theories of Reading and Writing," Proceedings of the Conference on the Integration of Composition and Reading, Elois Scott, ed. (Gainesville, FL, 1979).
"Teaching Composing," Papers from the University of South Carolina 1977 Conference for Teachers of Composition. Ed., with Erika Lindemann, Rick Coe, Susan Miller and Joseph Comprone (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina through funds from NEH, 1978).
"In Defense of Basic Writing," Moreover (February 1977).
"Teaching Ourselves to Teach Basic Writing," PCTE Bulletin 35 (April 1977), 9 21.
Reprinted in:
Selection II (Bloomington, Indiana: English Curriculum Study Center, 1977).
Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition, Susan Miller (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), CCC, December 1991, pp. 510-512.
Essay Review: The Making of Knowledge in Composition, Stephen North (Boynton/Cook, 1977) in Rhetoric Review (Spring 1988, pp. 224 230).
Less Than Words Can Say, Richard Mitchell (Little Brown, 1979) in College Composition and Communication (February 1981).
Essay Review: Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing, Mina Shaughnessy (Oxford University Press, 1977), in Linguistics, Stylistics and the Teaching of Composition, Donald McQuade, ed. (Akron, OH: L&S Books, 1979), 209-220.
Writing: Process and Product, Susan Miller (Winthrop, 1976) in College Composition and Communication 28(February 1972), 67-69.
Series Editor (with Jean Ferguson Carr): Pittsburgh University Press Series, “Composition, Literacy and Culture”
Series Editor, University of Pittsburgh Press: Composition, Literacy and Culture Series Edition with Jean Ferguson Carr
Lester Faigley, Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Winner of the MLA Mina Shaughnessy Award; Winner CCCC Outstanding Book Award
John Brereton, The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925. Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award
Thomas Miller, The Formation of College English. Winner of the MLA Mina Shaughnessy Award.
Sharon Crowley, Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Winner of MLA Shaughnessy Award.
Jacqueline Jones Royster, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women. Winner MLA Shaughnessy Award.
Susan Miller, Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Commonplace Writing. Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award.
Paul Kameen, Writing/Teaching: Toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy. Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award.
Suresh Canagarajah, A Geopolitics of Academic Writing. Winner of the Gary A. Olson Award for the Best Book in Rhetoric and Theory, JAC.
Mary Soliday, The Politics of Remediation. Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award, 2004.
Richard Miller, Writing at the End of the World. Winner of the NCTE/CEA James Britton Award.
2000 - Basque Government (Spain): 1,050,000 pesetas (approx. $6,000) to develop a curriculum and materials for writing courses in English
2000 - Basque Government: 900,000 pesetas (approx. $5,000) to develop a curriculum and purchase materials for a course in American Film and American Literature for the faculty in English Philology.
1989 - Annenberg/CPE, "ENFI Project" (computer networks for composition instruction), $10,000.
1989–93 - Mellon Foundation, "Varieties of Reasoning," Principal researcher with Robert Glaser, Lauren Resnick and 8 other research teams at LRDC, $1,650,000.
1984 - Digital Equipment Corporation, "Computer Assisted Instruction in Basic Writing." Principal researcher with Robert Glaser and Alan Lesgold. ($340,000 equipment grant)1984 - "Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (with Anthony R. Petrosky: $28,000 from National Writing Project and Pittsburgh Board of Education).
1983–86 - Ford Foundation, "Using Cognitive Research and Computer Technology to Improve Writing Skills in Low Performing College Students," Principle Researcher, with Robert Glaser and Alan Lesgold. ($415,912)
1982 - Sole Source Contract, The National Assessment of Educational Progress, to develop test specifications and items for The 4th National Assessment of Writing, $10,000 (with Anthony Petrosky).
1978–79 - NCTE Research Grant for "A Study of the Composing Process of Basic Writers" ($2,436).
1977 - National Endowment for the Humanities. With Erika Lindemann (Principle researcher), Joseph Comprone, Susan Miller and Rick Coe. $40,000 from NEH to run an Institute for Teachers of Composition. This program received notice in articles in Change and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
with Anthony Petrosky, "Close analysis, evaluation and response: A domain description." The 3rd National Assessment of Reading and Literature. Denver: The National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1977.
"Literary Structures and Devices," prepared for The 3rd National Assessment of Reading and Literature. Denver, 1978.
with the committee. Test Specifications: Third National Assessment of Reading and Literature (Denver: Educational Commission of the States, 1980).
with the committee, Writing Objectives: l983 84 Assessment (Denver: Education Commission of the States, 1982).
with Anthony Petrosky, "To Detroit, possibly: Assessing students' performance in conventional literary forms." The 4th National Assessment of Writing. Denver: Education Commission of the States, 1983.
"Project Report: Computer Assisted Instruction in Composition." PACE Meetings, Digital Equipment Corporation. October 1984.
RECENT INVITED PAPERS, KEYNOTE ADDRESSES, SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
2006 Universidad de Deusto: Keynote Address, Spring Conference. “Language and Literature in the University Curriculum: a View from the US”
2006 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. “The Scholarship in Composition: 1965-2005”
2005- University of Michigan. Sweetland Faculty Seminar. “Inventing the University, Again”
2004 - Texas A&M/Commerce: “Living in Style”: Keynote Address: EGAD Conference
Ohio Wesleyan University: “Everything Was Going Quite Smoothly Until I Stumbled on a Footnote,” The Inaugural David Osborne Lecture.
2003 - ADE: “The Writing Program and English Studies”MLA: “Listen Carefully: A Tribute to Andrea Lundsford”
Harvard: “The Harvard Study of Writing”
2002 - Cornell University, Cornell Consortium for Writing in the Disciplines,
“ Speaking in Tongues.”MLA Conference on the Relation Between English and Foreign Languages in the Academy, “Departments of Language and Literature.”
AACU, “The MLA Staffing Report and the Faculty in English”
2001 - University of Michigan, Sweetland Writing Seminar: “Genres of Student Writing”
Cornell: Knight Writing Seminar, “The Harvard Project”; “A Thrice Told Tale”
1999 - Keynote Address, Southeast Conference of Writing Centers, "The Sentence"
University of California/Davis, "Composition, the University and the Culture of Distraction"
Lehigh University: Seminar and Public Lecture, “Practical Criticism: Composition and the Undergraduate Curriculum”
Cornell University: “The Simple Truth: Writing and Assessment”
ADE, “The Economics of English; or, on the Institutional Money Map, You are Here.”
1998 - University of Southern Maine, Libra Distinguished Lecturer Series, "Writing on the Margins: Student Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum"
Cornell, John S. Knight Summer Seminar. "Composition and Its Institutional Context."
University of Michigan. Sweetland Writing Seminar, "The Value of Student Writing" and "Responding to Student Writing."
1997 - University of Michigan, lecture and seminar to inaugurate the new Sweetland Writing Center and undergraduate Writing Program
Oakland Community College (Michigan), "Ways of Reading"
Associated Departments of English, "Writing and Literature in the English Department"
Cornell University: "Writing about Reading"
Cornell University, "Student Writing and the Culture of Distraction"
1996 - University of North Dakota, "Ways of Reading," "Conversation with Steven Dilks"
Houston Area Community College, "Ways of Reading"
Watson Conference, University of Louisville, Plenary Lecture, "Professionalism, Curriculum, Politics"
University of Washington, "Writing and Schooling"
Cornell University, "Writing and the Undergraduate Curriculum"
AAHE: "Faculty Evaluation in English"
ADE: "Outcomes Assessment and the English Department"
1995 - Temple U, Conference on Writing in the Discipines, Plenary Lecture, "History as Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum"
1994 - Holy Cross College/Worcester Polytechnic U: "Composition and Cultural Studies"
SUNY/Buffalo: lecture and colloquium, “What is Composition”
VMI; Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing, “Writing and Revision.”
Humbold State University: Criticism, Composition and English Studies," lecture and seminar.
1993 - Keynote address, WPA Conference on Composition in the 21st Century, Miami University, "What is Composition?" Also as invited lectures at:
Indiana University
University of IllinoisUniversity of Goteborg, Sweden: Plenary Address (plus seminar), ASLA (Swedish Association for Applied Linguistics), "The Role of Revision in the University Language Curriculum,"
CCCC Winter Workshop: "Revision as Negotiation"
University of Oregon, "Freshman English and the University Curriculum," lecture and seminar.
University of Chicago: Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning, “Revision as Negotiation" and "Working with Texts"
1992 - "Working with Texts: Student Representations of Tradition, Power and Authority, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT."Writing Theory/Critical Theory," Plenary Speaker, Spring Rhetoric Conference, University of Southern California
"Ways of Reading," Farmington High School, Farmington, CT.
"The Englishing of America: Who Does What To Whom and Why in Writing Courses," Keynote Address, Conference on Teaching, University of Arizona.
Faculty, Spring Institute, "Teaching Writing and Social Difference," (two seminars, "Revision as Negotiation,""Writing from Texts"), University of Chicago
"Constructing Adult Readers," Purdue University
"Revision as Negotiation," Keynote Address, Oregon Conference on Composition and Teaching, Portland State University.
"The Practice of Writing and the Critique of the Author," faculty seminar and public lecture, University of Minnesota.
"The Teaching of Writing," Faculty seminar, Weber State University
"Beyond Dichotomies: Representing Current Research in Composition and Rhetoric," CMU
"The Tidy House," Keynote Address, 4th National Basic Writing Conference (noted in The New Republic)
1991 - "Working With Texts: Students Writers and Academic Readings"
Bowling Green State University
John Carroll University
Keynote Address, Northeast Conference on English in the Two-Year College, Baltimore"Working with Texts"--two plenary lectures, Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, WY
"The Reader, The Writer, The Text," Keynote Address, Northeast Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College, Baltimore.
Faculty Seminar, Wellesley College
"Writing Theory/Critical Theory," Center for the Study of Writing, UC Berkeley
Faculty Seminar, California State University/Chico
1990 - "Writing is What Gets Written," Keynote Address, Connecticut Council of Teachers of English
“ Tradition, Power and Authority," Northern Arizona University
Composition: I have designed and taught the full range of undergraduate courses, from Basic Writing to Advanced Composition: Prose Style.
Literature: Introduction to Critical Reading; American Literary Traditions; Senior Seminar; The Literature of the Outdoors; The Victorian Period
Graduate: Teaching Seminar; Introduction to Composition Studies; Figuring Writing; Contemporary Rhetoric
1997 Karen Roach (Fiction)
1996 Marilyn Annucci (Poetry)
1995 Kristin Herbert (Poetry)
1991 Ed Gelzheiser (Fiction)
1989 Mary Moodey (Fiction)
1987 Julie McCollister (poetry)
1985 Boyd Allen (Poetry)
1984 Garnett Kilberg (Fiction)
PhD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
(chaired committees in bold)
2005 Sergio Ramirez Franco (Spanish), “El negocio de la memoria: escritura y sujeto autobiographico en la literatura espanola (1970-2002).Tara Lockhart: “The Essay: Genre and Form” (In progress)
Jennifer Whately: “Dialogue in the Margins: Textual Interventions and the Teaching of Composition” (In progress)
2004 Fernando Feliu-Moggi (Spanish), “Caliban in the City of Light: Paris in the Latin-American Cronica from Modernismo to the Avant-Garde.”
2003 Chris Warnick, “Composition Textbooks and the Question of an Alternative Literacy”
(in progress)2002 Corey Clay Shouse (Spanish), “The Unwriting of the Lettered City: Fiction, Fragmentation and Postmodernity in Colombia”
1999 Julia Sawyer, “Telling Time: Temporality and the Educational Enterprise.” Chairman and Major Advisor. Educational Consultant, Pittsburgh.
Guillermina Walas-Mateo (Spanish), "Entre Dos Americas: Memorias de desplazamiento e identidades fronterizas en narrativas de Latinas de los 90."
1998 Gwen Gorzelski, "Echoes Half Heard: Community Activists, Collective Movements. Chairman and Major advisor. Assoc. Professor, Wayne State Univ.
1997 Aristides Escobar-Argana (Spanish), "Mas Alla de los Grandes Patriarchas: Nueva Representaciones en la Produccion Literaria Latinoamericana"
Manuel Perez-Saiz (Spanish), "La Decada Prodigiosa Escribe Novelas: La Narrativa Espanola de los Sesenta"
1996 Andrea Yanuzzi (Spanish), "De La Utopia Al Apocalipsis: Cultura Politica de Fin de Siglo y La Ciudad Ausente de Ricardo Piglia"
Stephen Sutherland, "In-Citing Change: The Pedagogical Politics of Revision and Citation," Chairman and Major Advisor. Assistant Professor, University of Missouri/Columbia; currently teaching with the Harvard Expos Program
Paula Kristofik, "The Signification of Chalk: Teacher/Students-in-the-Classroom, John Dewey and U.S. Progressive Education, and the Desire of Pedagogy." Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky U.
1995 Matthew Willen, "Composing Mountaineering: The Personal Narrative and the Production of Knowledge in the Alpine Club of London and the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1858-1900," Chairman and Major Advisor. Assistant Professor, Elizabethtown College.
Christine Ross, "The Natural Law of Standard English and the Practical Criticism of Emily Dickinson." Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine; now at Quipinniac College.
Linda Jordan, "Learning to Read in the Real Sense: Stories of Reading and American Schooling," Associate Professor, La Roche College
1994 Barbara McCarthy, "Riding the Break: Disciplinary Change in Contemporary English Studies." Assoc. Dean, Massachusetts Bay Community College.
Steve Parks, "A History of 'The Students Rights to Their Own Language' Resolution as Promulgated by the CCCC, 1974." Assistant Professor, Temple U.
Kathleen Welsch, "Nineteenth Century Composition: The Relationship Between Pedagogical Concerns and Cultural Values in American College, 1850-1890," Chairman and Major Advisor. Associate Professor, Clarion University.
1993 Richard Miller, "Representing the People: Theoretical and Pedagogical Disjunctions in the Academy," Chairman and Major Advisor. Associate Professor, Rutgers University.
Donna Dunbar-Odom, "Speaking for Others: Failed Claims of Liberatory Pedagogy," Chairman and Major Advisor. Associate Professor, East Texas State University
Samuel Gordon, "Carlos Pellicer: Su universo literario," (Spanish)
1990 Carolyn Ball, "Having the Right Kind of Life: Producing Personal Experience in the Writing Classroom."
1989 Minzhan Lu, "Representations of the 'Other': Theodore Dreiser and Basic Writers," Chairman and Major Advisor. Full Professor, U of Wisconsin/Milwaukee.
1988 Suzanne Maile Miller, "Collaborative Learning in Secondary Classroom Discussions of Expository Texts"
1987 James W. Parlett, "Confer: An ICAI System for Prewriting and Reflective Inquiry"
1987 Daniel Hibbs Morrow, "The Relation Between Feature Alternation and Error in Writing Among University Freshmen Who Select Features of Black American English in Speech"
1986 Marilyn DeMario, "Tea and Literacy: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Social Construction of Literacy by Basic Reading and Writing Students," Chairman and Major Advisor.
1984 Lionel Menasche, "Discourse Mode, Enabling Metaphors, and Styles of Closure in the Composing Process: Two Case Studies Based on Interruption Interviews."
Lynn Buncher Shelley, "The Writer and the Text: Deconstruction and the Teaching of Composition," Chairman and Major Advisor. Lecturer: Univ of Pittsburgh
1983 Glynda A. Hull, "The Editing Process in Writing: A Performance Study of Experts and Novices." Major Advisor. Full Professor, U of California, Berkeley, School of Education
1982 Karen Hjelmervik, "The Examination of Trends in the Written Products of Basic Reading and Writing Students over the Course of a Term."
Marilyn Thomas (Music), "Disparities for Ensemble and Electronic Tape."
1981 Katherine Lynch, "The Architecture of George Herbert's Devotion."
1980 Susan Wall, "Revision in a Rhetorical Context: Case Studies of First Year College Writers." Chairman and Major Advisor. Professor, Northeastern U.
1979 Ken Dowst, "The Rhetoric of Utopian Fiction." Assistant Professor, U of Iowa
Editorial Boards
1999 Pedagogy
1985 Journal of Basic Writing
1985–90 Written Communication
1988–93 College Composition and Communication
1992–98 College English
Professional Office2003–7 - ADE: Executive Council
President, 20062003 – ADE: Executive Council: President, 2006
1997 - 2002 MLA: Executive Council:
Elected to serve a 5-year term as a member of the 14 person Executive Council. The Executive Council has fiduciary responsibility for the association and meets three times a year to make decisions about association policy, finances and activities. The MLA has over 30,000 members in 100 countries representing teaching and research in English and Foreign languages and literatures.
1995 - 2000; Executive Committee: MLA Division on Writing
1988–89; Chair, Program Committee, 2nd MLA Literacy Conference
1987–88; Chair, CCCC (as part of a 4-year executive cycle)
NCTE, Executive Committee1986–87; CCCC, Associate Chair; Program Chair for national convention
1982–85; CCCC, Executive Committee
1977–82; WPA (Writing Program Administrators), Board of Directors
Other Notable Professional ServiceMLA: Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on MLA Style
MLA: Shaughnessy and Mildenberger Prize Committees
CCCC: Ad Hoc Committee on Exemplary Service
CCCC: Task Force on the Future of the Organization
CCCC: Nominating Committee
CCCC: Committee to Select CCC editor
MLA/ADE: Task Force on Assessment
Advisory Board, Western Pennylvania Writing ProjectBoard of Directors, Martha's Vineyard Institute on Writing and Teaching
Committee to Review the Editor, CCC
Evaluator, ENFI Project, Galludet University (funded by Annenberg Foundation)
Co Founder, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project
Consultant Evaluator, WPA
Bibliography Committee, Victorian Division, MLA
Reader for a variety of journals, publishers and university presses.
Editorial Boards: College English, Journal of Basic Writing, Pedagogy.
Department and Writing Program Evaluations/ Consultancies
University of Chicago; Harvard University; UC Berkeley; Duke University; NYU; Ohio State University; University of California/Santa Cruz; University of Colorado/Boulder; University of Michigan; University of California/Davis; University of Oregon; University of Washington; Louisiana State University; Mary Washington College; University of Houston; Missouri Western State College; BYU; University of Cincinnati; University of Delaware; Queens College (CUNY).
May 2005