Suzanne Webb email: portfolio: webbsuza@gmail.com webbsuza.com/academics Education PhD, Rhetoric & Writing, Nonfiction, December 2012 Master of Arts, Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing, August 2008 Bachelor of Arts, Creative Writing Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Wichita State University, May 2005 Associate of Science, Computer Science/Multimedia Butler Community College, May 2002 Appointments Instructor of Writing, Department of English, Washington State University, Tri-Cities, 2009-present Instructor of Composition, Department of English, Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI, August 2008-December 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures, Michigan State University, January 2006-August 2012 Editorial Assistant, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, MSU, 2009-2010 Publicity Coordinator, Summer Seminar in Rhet/Comp, Fall 2007-2010 Program Assessment, Broad School of Business and FYW, Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center,, Spring 2009 University Committee on Liberal Learning, WIDE, Spring and Summer 2008 Editorial Assistant, NCTE/Erlbaum Research Series in Composition and Literacy, Rhetoric & Writing,, 2007-2008 Assistant to the Director, First Year Writing, Summer 2007, 2008 Assistant to the Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Writing, 2007-08 Researcher, University Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum, (WIDE), Fall 2007 Committee Member, Sustainable Agriculture Grant, WIDE, 2006-2009 Copy Editor, LonCAPA, WIDE, Summer 2006 Publicity Coordinator, The Salt Palace, Darren DeFrain, Wichita, Kansas, Fall 2005 Publications Home is Calling Echoes of Home: Bringing Home to Work, forthcoming Gettin Professionally Developed: Learnin Graduate School Literacies through the McNair Scholars Program Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students 1
Fountainhead Press, forthcoming Things Dad: The Kansas Years Harlot of the Arts, Issue 6, April 15, 2011 Remix, Play, and Remediation: Undertheorized Composing Practices Writing (and) The Digital Generation, Editor: Heather Urbanski, Co-authors Andréa Davis, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, and Dundee Lackey, McFarland Publishing, 2010 Charms & Chasms Calliope: Annual Anthology of Women Who Write, 2009 Grand Theft Audio: A Webtext Computers and Composition Online, with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, adapted from Computers & Writing Online, 2008 Media Convergence: Negotiating Copyright as Composers Computers and Composition, Special Issue on Media Convergence, Vol. 25:1, Co-authored with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, February 2008 Designing Writing: A Book Review Computers & Composition Online, Spring 2007 Social Alienation and The American Dream McNair Scholars National Research Journal, 2005 Teaching Experience Teaching Philosophy ONLINE COURSES Instructor, Washington State University, Tri Cities Campus, Fall 2010-present Professional & Technical Writing (ENG402) Research Writing: Nonfiction & Inquiry (ENG201) Introductory Writing (ENG101) Instructor, Lansing Community College, Summer 2010-Spring 2013 Business Writing (WRIT127) Technical Writing (WRIT124) Composition II (WRIT122) Graduate Teaching Assistant,, Summer 2010, 2012 Writing: Science & Technology / Making Change (WRA110) Instructor, Butler Community College, Summer 2004 Introduction to Multimedia Design (IN124) FACE-TO-FACE COURSES GTA, First Year Writing,, Spring 2006, 2007, 2009 Evolution of American Thought: David Foster Wallace, Researcher (WRA150) American Law & Justice: The Rhetoric of Drug & Alcohol Laws (WRA115) Preparation for College Writing (WRA1004) GTA, Professional Writing,, Summer and Fall 2008 Intro to PW / The State of the State of Michigan (WRA202) Intro to PW / Rhetoric, Research, & Redesign (WRA202) Instructor, Lansing Community College, Spring 2009-Fall 2012 Technical Writing (WRIT124) 2
Composition II: The Art of Argument (WRIT122) Composition I: Expository Analysis (WRIT121) GTA, Wichita State University, Fall 2005 English Composition (ENG101) Instructor, Butler Community College, Fall 2005-2005 Introduction to Multimedia Design (IN124) Web Graphics (IN115) HYBRID COURSES Instructor, Lansing Community College, Spring 2011 Composition II (WRIT122) Graduate Teaching Assistant,, Spring 2009-Fall 2010 Evolution of American Thought: David Foster Wallace, Researcher (WRA150) Writing: Science & Technology / Writing Matters (WRA110) Writing: Science & Technology / Writing for the Real World (WRA110) Conference Presentations NATIONAL The Inquiry Process of Learning about Inquiry Processes Graduate Research Network, Computers & Writing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011 If a Traditional Academic Essay Falls in the Forest, Does Anybody Hear It? Graduate Research Network, Computers & Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 2010 Remixing Writing Classrooms: Accessing Tools and Techniques Computers & Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 2010 Remembering David Foster Wallace: Essayist Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Denver, CO, April 2010 Sound and Silence: Picturing Landscapes of Creative Nonfiction through Anthologies Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Denver, CO, April 2010 Gettin Professionally Developed: Learnin Graduate School Literacies Through the McNair Scholars Program Expanding Literacies Graduate Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 2009 Remix, Play, and Remediation: The New Work of Composing Thomas R. Watson, Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, October 2008 Using Digital Technologies to Meet Audience Needs Extension Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, October 2007 Show And Tell: Multimedia Composition as a New Writing Space for Pedagogy and Research Computers & Writing 2007, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 2007 Folksonomies: It s Time to Reach for an Information Cloud, Not A Card Catalog When Conducting Scholarly Research Computers & Writing 2007, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 2007 Negotiating Textual Appropriation in the Remix Culture: Voices from the 3
Copyright Food Chain Computers & Writing 2007, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 2007 Where s Roger Waters Pulitzer Prize? Panel Chair, National Popular Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA, April 2007 REGIONAL Living with David Foster Wallace Society for the Study of Midwestern Language,, East Lansing, MI, May 2011 Life Writing: 2 nd Grade to Infinity MCTE Conference, Lansing, MI, October 2008 Charms & Chasms Society for the Study of Midwestern Language Conference,, East Lansing, MI, May 2008 Writing Non-Fiction: The Memoir Young Authors Conference, Infinity Project,, East Lansing, MI, March 2007 Type, Color, and That Kind of C.R.A.P.: Typography, Color Theory, and the 4 Principles of Graphic Design Guest Lecturer, WRA1004,, East Lansing, MI, Fall 2006 Social Alienation and The American Dream National Graduate Research Week, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, \ February 2005 Keynote Speaker Media Convergence and/in Grand Theft Audio Computers and Composition Online, co-keynote with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, February 2008 Invited Engagements On Empathy, Civic Engagement, Fundamental Impulses, and Democracy Washington State University, Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, November 2012 Living with David Foster Wallace: An Inquiry Process of Inquiry Processes Washington State University, Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, October 2011 Unplanned Obsolescence (the Essay Formerly Known as Goin Nowhere) Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, The Center for Poetry, Fall Reader s Series,, East Lansing, MI, October 2010 Graduate Teaching Orientation / First Year Writing Adapting the Guidebook s Suggestions for WRA110,. East Lansing, MI, August 2009 Personal Statement Writing McNair Scholars Program, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, October 2005 4
Workshops Led & Conducted Proposing, Proposals, and RFPs: A Workshop Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, November 2012 Resumes & Cover Letters: Nourishment for Living Documents Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland, WA, October 2011 Writing as Radical Hybridity: An Interdisciplinary Writing Workshop A Writer s Workshop, CCCC, Atlanta, GA, with Daisy Levy and Matt Novak, April 2011 Grand Theft Audio: Negotiating Copyright & Fair Use Digital Humanities Showcase,, East Lansing, MI, October 2010 Making Fliers with Microsoft Word The Power of We, Desktop Publishing Workshop,, East Lansing, MI, August 2008 & 2009 Interactivity, Design, and Implementation of Organizational Web Writing Bold Designs for a Better Michigan: Extension Conference WIDE Research Center Panel, Grand Rapids, MI, October 2006 Academic Service NATIONAL LEVEL Co-director, Feminism & Rhetorics 2009 Conference,, East Lansing, MI, October 2009 Conference Organizing Committee, Conference on Cultural Rhetorics, 2006-2007 UNIVERSITY LEVEL Publicity Committee, Graduate Employees Union,, East Lansing, MI, 2007 COLLEGE LEVEL Teaching Circles, "Exploring Assessment Models in Writing Instruction" Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI, February 2010 Edges: College of Arts & Letters Graduate Research Conference, Organizing Committee, 2007, 2008, 2009 Business, Technology and Workforce Development Advisory Board, Butler Community College, Andover, KS, Spring 2004-Fall 2005 PROGRAMMATIC LEVEL MA Representative, Rhetoric & Writing Graduate Advisory Committee (RWGAC),, East Lansing, MI, 2007-2008 President, Writing, Rhetoric, and Praxis (WRAP),, East Lansing, MI, AY 2007 Community Outreach Presenter, The Power of We, Summers 2008, 2009 Presenter, Young Author s Conference, Writing Non-Fiction The Memoir, February 2007 Publicity, Commonground Fest, Lansing, Michigan, July 2006 Participant, Project Green, International Community Service Fair, MSU, April 22, 2006 Reader, Wichita Radio Reading Service (WRRS), November 2001-December 2005 5
Honors, Achievements & Teaching Awards Varg-Sullivan Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Letters, Best Published Article in the Letters Things Dad, College of Arts & Letters,, April 2012 Outstanding Researcher Award (Graduate Student) Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, May 2011 First Place Essay Charms & Chasms. Women Who Write. Louisville, KY, July 2009 Outstanding Faculty Member BCC Order of the Purple, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS, May 2004, May 2006 McNair Scholar Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, August 2003-May 2005 WSU, Research & Creative Forum 2 nd Place, Performance, Wichita, KS, April 2004 Scholarships, Grants & Fellowships Dissertation Completion Fellowship College of Arts & Letters,, Spring 2012 PEO Continuing Education Grant Recipient Wichita State University, Fall 2004 HALA Scholarship Wichita State University, Fall 2004 Irving Cook Scholarship Butler Community College, 2001-2002 Richard B. Miller Presidential Scholarship Butler Community College, 2001-2002 Professional Skills & Experience TECHNICAL SKILLS Word, PowerPoint, Excel Dreamweaver, Publisher Blackboard, WebCT, ANGEL, Desire2Learn Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter EDITING, TYPOGRAPHY, & DESIGN Designer, Feminisms & Rhetorics 2009: Conference Program,, East Lansing, MI, October 2009 Co-Editor, Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Fountainhead Press X Series on Professional Development, with Andréa Davis, 2008 Co-Designer, The Guidebook for Tier I Writing,, East Lansing, MI, July 2008 Typographer/Designer, Media Management Services, Wichita, KS, 1998-2005 6
Typographer, Studio 1, Wichita, KS, 1987-1990 Typographer/Assistant Production Manager, Setter & Associates, Wichita, KS, 1987 Typographer, Wichita Press & Lithography, Wichita, KS, 1985-1986 Press Operator/Typographer, Koch Industries, Wichita, KS, 1983-1985 CERTIFICATIONS Michigan Virtual University, Online Teaching Certification, Fall 2008 Butler Community College, Online Teaching Using WebCT, 2003 References Dr. William Hart-Davidson, Committee Chair Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Writing Co-Director, WIDE Research Center hartdav2@msu.edu Dr. Jeff Grabill Department Chair, Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures Co-Director, WIDE Research Center Professor, Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures East Lansing MI 48824 grabill@msu.edu Dr. Malea Powell powell37@msu.edu Dr. Leonora Smith smithleo@msu.edu Dr. Julie Lindquist Director, First Year Writing Program lindqu11@msu.edu 7