"Remembering Vietnam in Autobiography: For Shame," in Remembering
the Individual/Regional/National Past. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz,
Ed. Vienna: Stauffenburg Publishers, 1998: 245-254.
"Representing Shame," in Writing Lives: American Biography and
Autobiography. Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam, Eds. Amsterdam: VU
Uitgeverij, 1998.
"Romancing the Writing/Rewriting the Romance," in Postmodern Fiction:
The Pleasures of a Challenging Dissent. Maria Vittoria D’Amico,
Ed. Bari, Italy: Editrice Adriatica, 1998.
"The Detective and the Author: Paul Auster's City of Glass,"
in Beyond the Red Notebook: Paul Auster and the Postmodern Novel,
ed. Dennis Barone, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
"A Story in Love's Default: Andre Brink's States of Emergency,"
Modern Fiction Studies 37:4 (Winter 1991): 659-75.
"Allegory and Symbol: Reading Ina Rousseau's 'Do You Remember Helena
Lem?'" Studies in Short Fiction 28:4 (Fall 1991): 453-58.
"Being in the Midst: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler,"
Modern Fiction Studies 31:4 (Winter 1985): 702-709.
(forthcoming) "Seeing the News," Thomas R. Watson
Conference (Louisville, KY), October 2008.
“Varieties of New,” College Composition and
Communication Conference (New Orleans, LA), March 2008. (PDF,
HTML)
“Visualizing Information in Multimedia Compositions,”
Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (State College, PA),
July 2007.
"It's MySpace, But It's Their Template: Representing
Identities in Blogs and Social Networking Systems," College Composition
and Communication Conference (New York, NY), March 2007. (PDF)
"Self-Representation and Interactivity in New Media," Computers
and Writing Conference (Lubbock, TX), June 2006. (HTML)
" Digital Self-Representations: New Selves in New Media,"
Keynote Presentation at the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and
Writing Conference (Fargo, North Dakota), April 2006.
"Accounting for Differences in Assessing New Media," Computers
and Writing Conference (Palo Alto, CA), June 2005.
"Composition Beyond Words," Town Hall Panel Participant,
Computers and Writing Conference (Palo Alto, CA), June 2005.
"Using Weblogs for Collaborative Research," Social Science
Research in the Academy Workshop, USC's Annenberg School of Communication
(Los Angeles, CA), May 2005. (PDF)
"Remixing Rhetoric," College Composition and Communication
Conference (San Francisco, CA), March 2005.
"gotoAndPlay(): New Media Composing in Flash," Computers
and Writing Conference (Honolulu, HI), June 2004.
"Multimedia Composing" Town Hall Panel Participant, Computers
and Writing Conference (Honolulu, HI), June 2004.
"New Media Materials: The Matter of Software," College Composition
and Communication Conference featured panel (San Antonio, TX), March
2004.
"Teaching New Media: Visual and Verbal Transcoding," Computers
& Writing Conference (West Lafayette, IN), May 2003.
"The Database Self in New Media Autobiography," Invited Presentation,
Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY), March 2003.
"Student Projects in New Media," part of the New Media Exhibit
organized by Anne Frances Wysocki, College Composition and Communication
Conference (New York, NY), March 2003.
"Innovative Web Writing Assignments: Beyond the Web Paper,"
Computers & Writing Conference (Normal, IL), May 2002.
"Autobiographical Writing on the Web," Electronic Literature
Organization Conference (Los Angeles, CA), April 2002.
"Web Autobiography," Invited Presentation to University of California
Humanities Research Institute Group, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), May 2001.
"Technoautobiography," Digital Arts & Culture Conference
(Providence, RI), April 2001.
"At the Limits of Autobiography: Self Representations in Cyberspace,"
California American Studies Association Conference (Santa Barbara, CA),
April 2000.
"Digital Bodies: Autobiographical Writing on the World Wide Web," Wyoming
Conference on English (Laramie, WY), June 1999.
"Autobiographical Subject and Story on the World Wide Web," Electronic
Communications and Culture Area Session, Popular Culture Association
Conference (San Diego, CA), April 1999.
"Performing Confession: Indecent Exposures in the Autobiographical
Mode," American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference,
(Orlando, FL), April 1998.
"Representing Shame in Contemporary American Autobiography," Netherlands
American Studies Association Conference (Middelburg, Holland), June
1996.
"Romancing the Writer/Rewriting the Romance," European American Studies
Association Conference (Warsaw, Poland), March 1996.
"Voices from the Borderlands: Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldua and
a 'New' Multiculturalism," Fulbright-sponsored lecture at Charles University
(Prague, Czech Republic), December 1995.
"Remembering Vietnam in Autobiography and Fiction," Austrian American
Studies Association Conference (Vienna, Austria), November 1995.
"Rewriting the Romance: Anita Brookner, Fay Weldon and the Politics
of Perspective," Twentieth Century Literature Conference (Louisville,
KY), February 1995.
"Pedagogy and the Electronic Environment: E-Mail, Computer Graphics,
Hypertext," University of California Council of Writing Programs Conference
(Riverside, CA), November 1994.
"Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Writing," Popular Culture Association
Conference (Chicago, IL), April 1994.
"Cultural Studies and Pedagogy," University of California Council of
Writing Conference (Irvine, CA), November 1993.
"Hypercard Technology and Underrepresented Students," College Composition
and Communication Conference (San Diego, CA), April 1993.
"Reading for Pleasure: The Fiction of Fay Weldon," Twentieth Century
Literature Conference (Louisville, KY), February 1994.
"Allegory in Postmodern Fiction," boundary 2 Lecture Series
(Binghamton, NY), April 1987.
Local Presentations
"Assessing Learning Outcomes in the Engineering Writing Sequence"
(with LeeAnne Kryder), Evaluating Student Learning Outcomes (sponsored
by UCSB Office of Instructional Development), December 2002.
"Writing, Rhetoric, and the Web," Instructional Media Day
exhibit (sponsored by UCSB Office of Instructional Development), April
2001.
AND GRANTS
UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant (2002), Principal
Investigator (with L. Kryder): "Engineering Technical Communication
Curriculum Assessment and Enhancement" ($4,390).
UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant (2002), Principal
Investigator: "Mini-Grant Funding Partial Tuition for CIWIC Summer
Institute" ($1,000).
UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant (1995), Principal
Investigator (with M. Kerr): "Mini-Grant to Purchase Instructional
Materials for Engineering 2C" ($927).
UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant (1994), Principal
Investigator: "Writing for Engineers: Designing the Freshman Sequence"
($4,718).
Travel Grants:
University of California Professional Development Fund; Fulbright Association;
Anne Coffin Johnstone Memorial Fund.
Computers in Writing Intensive Classrooms (2002):
New Media Seminar, directed by Anne Frances Wysocki, Michigan Technological
University.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (1998):
"Literature in Transition: The Impact of Information Technologies,"
directed by N. Katherine Hayles, University of California at Los Angeles.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (1994):
"Life-Writing, Memory and Narrative," directed by James Olney, Louisianna
State University.
SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION
Editor, Inventio section of Kairos (2006-present)
Reviewer: evaluate manuscripts for IEEE Transactions
on Professional Communication (2007-present), and for Mosaic:
A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2002-present).
Reviewer, Best Paper Award for the 2007 IEEE Conference.
Reader: University of California Subject A Exam (1988-94;
1997-2003); GMAT Exam (1994); AP Literature Exam (1994).
Judge: UCSB Business Writing Contest (1996-2002);
Santa Barbara Society for Technical Communication’s Technical
Writing Contest (1998-1999).
UCSB Writing Program (selected):
Advisory Committee, 2005-present
Engineering Writing Committee,
1993-present (Chair, 1993-95, 1999-2004): design
and coordinate development of writing courses for students in
the College of Engineering.
Teaching Assistant Supervisor,
1992-1997, 2000-present: train and supervise Writing Program Teaching
Assistants.
Writing Program Appointments Committee,
1998-2000, 2002-present (Chair, 1998-2000): as
Chair, coordinated national search for candidates for Lecturer
position in the Writing Program.
Administrative and Personnel Committee,
1991-present: participate in formulation of program policy and
curriculum; participate in review of Writing Program personnel.
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UCSB (selected):
Unit 18 Representative to Academic Senate,
2003-2005
Academic Senate Council on Research and
Instructional Resources, 2002-2003.
California Virtual University Committee,
1997-98
Computing, Information Technology, and Telecommunications
Policy Committee, 1997-98 |
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English
