REBECCA DICKSON 317 UCB 303/

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1 REBECCA DICKSON Program for Writing and Rhetoric University of Colorado at Boulder 317 UCB 303/ Boulder, CO TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (1986-present) Courses taught for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (as Instructor or Senior Instructor): WRTG 1150: First-Year Writing and Rhetoric WRTG 1250: Advanced First-Year Writing and Rhetoric WRTG 3020 (topic-centered upper-level writing courses): Rhetoric of Sustainability Environmental Writing Myths of the American West Environmental Issues World War II: Pacific Issues Jane Austen in Print and on Film Sex, Slavery, and Suffrage: 19th-Century American Arguments WRTG 3030: Writing on Science and Society WRTG 3040: Writing on Business and Society Courses taught for the English Department (as graduate instructor and lecturer): Introduction to Fiction (first-year literature) Masterpieces in American Literature (first-year literature) Introduction to Women's Literature (first-year literature) Survey of American Literature (junior literature class) Great Short Fiction (junior literature class) Senior Seminar: American Women Writers Other CU-Boulder courses: NRLN 3020: Myths & Realities of the American West (Norlin Scholars program) ARSC 1001: The Contemporary Research University & Student Citizens ( CU 101 ) Jane Austen: From Novel to Film (Continuing Education Non-Credit Program) ARSC 1150: Writing in the Arts and Sciences (Sewall Academic Program) Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (Spring 1994) Visiting Professor, COURSES TAUGHT: American Renaissance Literature (junior level) EDUCATION Ph.D. English Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993 Dissertation: "Women Out of Touch: Kate Chopin's Disembodied Women" Specialty: Nineteenth-Century American Literature M.A. English Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988 B.A. History, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1982

2 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Critical Thinking Assessment Test Train-the-Trainer Training, 2015 Digital Training, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, 2014 Summer Institute Rhetoric Workshop, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, May 2013 Summer Institute Rhetoric Workshop, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, May 2012 Critical Thinking Assessment Test Training, 2012 Peak to Peak Project Sustainability Seminar (training on sustainability issues & curricular development) August 2011 Certified Mediator, March 2010 (certified by Mares-Dixon Associates) Certified National Outings Leader, Sierra Club (2005-present) Certified Wilderness First Aid, National Outdoor Leadership School (2004-present) Summer Institute Rhetorical Workshop, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, May 2010 National Political Training, Sierra Club, Washington, DC, 2005, 2007 Faculty Teaching Excellence Program Summer Institute, CU-Boulder, 2005 Newsletter and Editor Training, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA, 2004 PUBLICATIONS Non-peer reviewed books: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury, Metro Books (an imprint of Barnes and Noble), 2008; reprinted spring 2010; released in Australia and Canada summer Surviving the Day: An American POW Under the Japanese, co-written with Frank J. Grady; Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1997 Essays, non-peer reviewed: Jane Austen, Multi-tasker, Jane Austen Knits (a magazine published by Interweave Press), December, The Faith of Our Fathers, Post Road, Spring 2006 Why I m Still Here, feature article, Palo Alto Review, Fall 2006 My Favorite Things, Left Curve, Fall 2005 Essays, peer-reviewed: "Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and Narrative Control," Southern Quarterly, Spring 1999 "Misrepresenting Jane Austen's Ladies: Revising Texts (and History) to Sell Films" in Jane Austen in Hollywood (and on the BBC); Kentucky Univ Press, Lexington, 1998 SELECTED CONFERENCE AND GENERAL PRESENTATIONS Teaching Sustainability: Political Ecology and Picking Up Sticks, Conference on Community Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October People, Pesticides, and Pollinators, Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, CO, May, Invited speaker.

3 Honey Bees, Humans, and Pesticides, a panel forum and concurrent event during the Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, CO, April 2015 Pesticides, Pollinators, and Your Backyard, Highland City Club, Boulder, CO, April Invited speaker. Climate Change, the Rhetoric of Science, and the STEM Undergraduate, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015 Bees, Pesticides, and Your Backyard, Invited speaker, Sustainable Revolution Longmont, Longmont, CO, November 2014 Designing Writing Assignments for Your Courses, Graduate Teaching Program presentation, University of Colorado at Boulder, July Not the Victorian Era: Attitudes toward Sex during Jane Austen s Lifetime, Jane Austen Society of North America, Broomfield, CO, August The Rhetoric of Science, Summer Seminar III (rhetoric seminar), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 2012 Using The New York Times in a Writing Classroom, Metro State University of Denver faculty colloquium, Denver, CO, April Leadership and Decision Making in the Backcountry, invited speaker, national Sierra Club Outings Leadership Training, Allenspark, CO, May 2010 Jane Austen: Conservative? Feminist? Seller of Films, invited speaker, Jane Austen Society of North America, Denver-Boulder chapter, Aug 2008, Westminster CO Ecosystem Awareness and Backcountry Safety, International Sportsmen Expo, Denver, CO, January 2006 The Politics of Oil, invited speaker, Nomad Co-Housing Community, Nomad Theater, Boulder, CO, April 2003 Teaching in a Hostile Environment, 4Cs, New York City, March 2003 American Conservation and the Sierra Club, invited speaker, South Jeffco Rotary Club, Lakewood, CO, March 2003 Assignments that Engage: Three Approaches, Colorado Community College Conference on Composition, Fort Collins, CO, April 2002 "Allied POWs in Japan and the Medical Corps," invited speaker, Longmont United Hospital Continuing Medical Education Program, Longmont, CO, November 1999 OTHER WRITING EXPERIENCE AND CONSULTING Consulting and editing work for Bee Safe Neighborhoods, March 2014-present

4 Contributing writer, Peak and Prairie, Sierra Club publication, 2002-present Contributing writer, The Bugle, Sierra Club publication, 2002-present Consulting, writing, and editing for Workwell Occupational Medicine, 2008 Consulting and editing for Office Career Management, 2007 Editor, The Bugle, Sierra Club publication, Technical and ghost writing, Delphi Billing, Longmont, CO, AWARDS AND HONORS Arts and Science Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2015 Calderwood Grant, Program for Writing and Rhetoric, 2015 Boulder County Open Space Recognition of Service, 2015 (for student service projects) Charlie Oriez Environmental Political Activism Award, 2014 Boulder County Open Space Recognition of Service, 2014 (for student service projects) Program for Writing and Rhetoric Teacher of the Year award, 2013 Sierra Club-Rocky Mountain Chapter 2013 Group of the Year Award. This was awarded to the Sierra Club-Indian Peaks Group. I am the chair of the Indian Peaks Group. Boulder County Open Space Recognition of Service, 2013 (for student service projects) Boulder County Open Space Recognition of Service, 2012 (for student service projects) PLAN-Boulder County Environmental Award, 2012 CU Environmental Center s Campus Sustainability Award, 2012 (as chair of the Program of Writing and Rhetoric s Sustainability Committee) Newsletter of the Year Award, National Sierra Club, 2004 Sierra Club-Rocky Mountain Chapter Grassroots Leader of the Year Award, 2004 SERVICE, COMMUNITY AND STATE People and Pollinators Action Network, board member, 2014-present Sierra Club-Rocky Mountain Chapter Executive Committee member, Sierra Club-Rocky Mountain Chapter Conflict Resolution Team, 2014-present Sierra Club-Rocky Mountain Chapter Political Committee, 2004-present; Political Committee chair, Sierra Club-Indian Peaks Group, Executive Committee, 2004-present (chair, and 2011-present) Sierra Club-Indian Peaks Group, Political Committee, 2004-present Sierra Club National Outings Committee, 2006-present Sierra Club Colorado delegate to national conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005 Boulder County Democratic Party precinct leader, 1996-present Boulder County Democratic Party House District 10 vice chair, Climate Smart Steering Committee (city of Boulder ballot issue to tax residents on their electric use; the world s first carbon tax ); passed A Steering Committee (ballot issue to provide basic services for Boulder County residents; County Commissioners Will Toor and Ben Pearlman, co-chairs); passed SERVICE, CU-BOULDER PWR, Director Search Committee, July-August 2011; CU-Boulder Arts and Sciences Associate Dean David Boonin, chair PWR Director Search Committee, April-June, 2009; CU-Boulder Arts and Sciences

5 Associate Dean Graham Oddie, chair Peak to Peak Project, campus sustainability curriculum development group, ARSC 1001 Course Review Committee (CU 101), February 2008 UWRP Colorado High School Outreach initiative, SERVICE, PROGRAM FOR WRITING AND RHETORIC Tenure-track Professor Search Committee , Dr. Steve Lamos, Chair Conflict Resolution Coordinator, 1999-present Faculty Advisory Committee, (then known as PWR Executive Committee); ; (elected position) Personnel Committee, ; ; (elected position) Reappointment and Contracts, 2015-present (elected position) Program Committee, 2008-present Sustainability Committee 2010-present (chair, ; 2015-present) Ad hoc Merit Review Committee for Tenure-Track Faculty, April 2009 Interviewing Committee for Program Coordinator, spring 2007 Bylaws Committee, chair, (elected position) Student Services Committee, chair, Independent Study and Transfer Credit Coordinator, Associate Director Search Committee, 2003