Assistant Professor: Rhetoric & Composition Studies
Carlisle Hall - Rm 100B
(ph): 817.272.3112
Years of Service at UT Arlington:
Assistant Professor, 2007 - present
Education:
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
MA, Auburn University, 1997
BA, Trenton State College, 1992
Current Research:
In the short term, I am working on essays about so-called “nonacademic” writing and the role that a reconfigured version of the argumentum ad ignorantiam plays in scholarship. I am also pursuing three long-term projects: (1) A book entitled Ignorance and the (In)Dispensability of Knowledge: New Directions for Composition Studies, Critical Theory, and Rhetoric; (2) an anthology of essays entitled Meaning: Essential Readings across and beyond the Disciplines, 1838-present, which I would also like to supplement with a website of related resources; and a book, not yet titled, that will extend the theorization of meaning consequentialism that I developed in Meaning, Language, and Time.
Recent Publications:
Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2006. (Winner of the 2006 W. Ross Winterowd Award for “most outstanding book in composition theory.”)
""Is There in Truth No Composition?” JAC 26 (2006): 299-310.
Composition and Rhetoric Studies and the ‘Neglected’ Question of Meaning: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse.” JAC 23 (2003): 725-764.
Literature Reviews Re-Viewed: Toward a Consequentialist Account of Surveys, Surveyors, and the Surveyed.” JAC 23 (2003): 351-377.
“A Pedagogy of Charity: Donald Davidson and the Student-Negotiated Composition Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 52 (2001): 574-611.
Department/University Committees:
Composition Studies Search Committee (Chair)
Graduate Studies Committee
Member, First-Year English Committee
Member, GTA Committee
Recent Awards and Grants:
W. Ross Winterowd Award (2006) for Meaning, Language, and Time
Faculty Development Leave (Spring, 2006)
Professional Memberships:
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
UT Arlington - Department of English
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