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Linda S. Bergmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Associate Director, Writing Lab
Department of English
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
(765) 496-2814 (office) (765) 464-3735 (home)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Chicago, English, 1983
Dissertation: "American Historical Humor: The Tradition and the Contemporary Novel"
Committee: Robert Streeter, Director; James E. Miller, Jr.
M.A. English, University of Chicago, 1973
B.A. Oberlin College, English, 1972
WORK EXPERIENCE
Purdue University, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition (tenured) and Associate Director of the Writing Lab, Department of English, 2001-
University of Missouri-Rolla, Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Center, 1996-2001; tenured in 1998.
Taught in Writing and Literature and Science Minors and courses in writing and American literature.
Researched and published in nineteenth-century American popular nonfiction and culture and in writing program theory and practice.
Initiated and directed computer writing classroom and the Dr. Beverley Moeller Writing Studio, which offered peer tutoring services for students, consultations with faculty, and writing workshops for the university community.
Helped faculty across the disciplines develop Writing Emphasized and Intensive courses across the university curriculum to implement the General Education requirement.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of English, 1991-96
Taught first year composition and humanities courses and upper-level courses in literature and intercultural communication; pursued research in literature and writing.
Initiated and directed "Student-Centered Writing Program," which in 1995-96 employed 7
Graduate and 4 Undergraduate Writing Assistants, who provided instruction, tutoring, and grading to engineering laboratory courses and first year "Introduction to the Profession" courses; directed training and assessment and wrote proposals for both internal and external funding.
Instituted Writing Across the Curriculum Program.
Conducted faculty WAC workshops.
Created and directed writing center.
1975-1989: Instructor, Tutor, and Teaching Assistant positions at Columbia College Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago, Indiana University Northwest, and The University of Chicago; positions included teaching Humanities, American literature, English as a second language, developmental writing, first year and advanced composition, and "The Little Red Schoolhouse" program at the University of Chicago.
Editorial Consultant, Deltak, Inc., Oak Brook, Illinois, 1979-80; edited texts in management and computer skills and wrote instructions to technical writers for improving grammar, clarity, and stylistic consistency.
Nonfiction Editor, Chicago Review, 1978-80
HONORS
Florence Howe Award of the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, for "Widows, Hacks, and Biographers: The Voice of Professionalism in Elizabeth Agassiz's Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence," 1996.
Booz-Allen & Hamilton Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1995.
Faculty Service Award, African American Students United, Hiram College, 1991.
NEH Summer Seminar, "Walter Scott and the Romance of History," 1990.
University of Chicago, Humanities Division Fellowship, 1973-76.
University of Chicago, M.A. with Departmental Honors, 1973.
Oberlin College, B.A. with High Honors in English, 1972.
GRANTS
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Research Support Grant, 2002, “Writing A College Alive: Radcliffe and the Discourses of Higher Education in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century” ($1,085).
Co-PI, Council of Writing Program Administrators Research Grant, 2000, Student Perceptions of Writing Across the Curriculum at a Technological University ($1,600)
Co-PI, NSF IGERT Grant, 1999-2004 (My share was $100,000 over five years, to develop a series of courses in technical writing for engineering doctoral students.)
UMR Faculty Education and Training Awards, 1998 ($1,200), 1999 ($450), and 2000 ($750).
Illinois Institute of Technology internal grant competition awards, to fund Writing Across the Curriculum Projects in 1994-1995 ($19,300), 1993-94, and 1992-93; and to fund multimedia computer project, 1995 ($1,500).
NEH Summer Stipend, "Composing a Life in Science: Elizabeth Agassiz and the Papers of Louis Agassiz," 1993 ($4,800).
Faculty Summer Research Grant, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1992 ($2,750).
Ethics Across the Curriculum Fellow (NSF), Illinois Institute of Technology, 1992 ($2,000).
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND BOOKS
"Women's Ways Adapted, Adjusted, Lost: Feminist Theory Meets the Practices of Engineering Education." In Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation, ed. Gil Haroian-Guerin and Laura Gray-Rosendale. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, in press.
"WAC and the Ethos of Engineering: Conflict and Accommodation." Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 4.1 (2000): 4-15.
"Addressing Gender Issues in the Engineering Classroom" (with Connie Meinholdt and Susan Murray). Feminist Teacher 12 (1999): 169-183.
"Women of Letters: Personal Narrative in Public and Private Voices." In The Personal Narrative: Writing Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars, ed. Gil Haroian-Guerin. Portland, Maine: Calendar Island Press, 1999. 88-101.
"Missionary Projects and Anthropological Accounts: Ethics and Conflict in Writing Across the Curriculum," in Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies, ed. Sheryl L. Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. 144-159.
"Widows, Hacks, and Biographers: The Voice of Professionalism in Elizabeth Agassiz's Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 12.1 (1997): 1-21.
"Oedipus in Steerage: On the Pain of the Adjunct," in "Dossier on Shared Borders, Contested Boundaries: Part-Time Faculty, 'Others,' and the Profession." The Journal of the Midwest Modem Language Association 30.1-2 (1997): 46-50.
"Funny Papers: Initiation and Subversion in First Year Writing," The Journal of Teaching Writing 15.1 (1996):141-160.
"Academic Discourse and Academic Service: Composition vs. WAC in the Academy," CEA Critic 58.3 (1996): 1-10.
"Epic, Parody, and National Identity: George Washington in Nineteenth-Century American Humor," Studies in American Humor, NS 3, No. 2 (1995): 1-22.
"A Troubled Marriage of Discourses: Science Writing and Travel Narrative in Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz's A Journey in Brazil," Journal of American Culture 18 (Summer, 1995): 83-88.
"Woman against a Background of White: The Representation of Self and Nature in Women's Arctic Narratives," American Studies 34 (Fall, 1993): 53-68.
"Reshaping the Roles of Man, God, and Nature: Rhetoric in Darwin's On the Origin of Species." In Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technolog, and Literature, ed. Judith Lee and Joseph Slade. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990. 79-98. Rpt. in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, ed. Denise Kasinec. Detroit: Gale, 1997.
"The Contemporary Letter as Literature: Issues of Self-Reflexivity, Audience, and Closure." Women's Studies Quarterly 17 (Fall/Winter, 1989): 128-139.
"'The Why's and Wherefore's oft': History and Humor in The Sot-Weed Factor," Markham Review 12 (1983): 31-37.
REVIEWS
Review of Robert Perkins' Talking to Angels: A Life Spent in High Latitudes. ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment) 5.2 (1998): 134-135.
Review of Joseph Petraglia's Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 3.2 (1998): 91-94.
Review of Olive Schreiner's Letters, Volume I and Elinor Mead Howells' If Not Literature [letters]. Modern Philology 87 (May, 1990): 424-428.
Review of Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada. Chicago Review, 28 (1976): 200-205; excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 13 (1980): 479-480.
Review of Ronald Sukenick's 0ut. Chicago Review 25 (1973): 9-12; excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 4 (1975): 531-532.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary,” “Agassiz, Louis,” “Peary, Josephine Diebitsch,” and “Peary, Robert E.” In Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pamela Gossin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 6-7 and 321.
"Problem-Posing Learning in the Computer Writing Classroom" (with Lucas P. Niiler). In Interactive Learning: Vignettes from America's Most Wired Campuses, ed. David G. Brown. Bolton, MA: Anker, 2000. 229-232.
Tale # 32. In Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition through its Stories, ed. Richard H. Haswell and Min-Zhan Lu. New York: Longman, 1999. 42.
"Elizabeth Agassiz." In American Travel Writers, 1850-1915, ed. James Schramer and Donald Ross. Dictionary of Literary Biography 189. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 12-17.
"Exploration and Discovery" and "Popular Science." In Bibliography of the Relations of Literature and Science. Configurations 1 (1993), 2 (1994), 3 (1995),6 (1998), and 7 (1999).
"Plagiarism in the Composition Classroom." Perspectives on the Professions, July 1993; excerpted in The Council Chronicle (NCTE) 3.5 (June 1994): 15.
"Academic Discourse and Academic Service: Composition vs. WAC in the Academy." ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication Skills microfiche (ED 371 362), March, 1994.
"Jean Auel." In Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers. Ed. Lesley Henderson and James Vinson. London: St. James Press, 1990; updated for revised ed., 1993.
"Report on Literature and Science Session at "LA." Publication of the Society for Literature and Science 4 (Spring, 1989): 1-3.
Editor, (with Ellen Grinde). "Fiction, Et Cetera" (special nonfiction section). Chicago Review 32 (Summer, 1980).
Editor (with Ellen Grinde). "Recent Fiction, Et Cetera" (special nonfiction section). Chicago Review 31 (Spring, 1980).
"A Conversation with John Schultz," (interview, co-authored with Margaret Yntema). Chicago Review 28 (1977): 187-200.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Academic Research: Fields of Study and Inquiry (textbook project). Under contract for publication in 2003 by Addison, Wesley, Longman.
"Women's Ways Adapted, Adjusted, Lost: Feminist Theory Meets the Practices of Engineering Education," accepted for publication in Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation, ed. Gil Haroian-Guerin and Laura Gray-Rosendale, under contract with SUNY Press.
“How it All Happened,” in Creating Outcomes, ed. Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Karen Vaught-Alexander, et al. Collection of essays on the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ statement of outcomes for first year composition; the book is currently under consideration by NCTE Press.
WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
Invited Presentations
“Professional Writing: Five Steps to Clearer Prose,” Campus Writing Program Seminar, University of Missouri-Columbia, November 2000.
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Montevallo University, August 25-26, 1999.
Guest Lecturer, “Women in Nineteenth-Century American Science,” DePaul University
Women’s Studies Seminar, February 1995.
Guest Lecturer, "The Social Context of Darwin's On the Origin of Species," North
Central College Technology and Society Honors Seminar, May 1987.
University of Missouri-Rolla
“Professional Writing: Five Steps to Clearer Prose,” Writing Center Seminar, February 2001.
Homecoming short course, “Five Steps to Clearer Writing,” October 2000.
Invited Lecturer, Sigma Tau Delta, "Plagiarism and Plagiarisms," February1999.
Presenter, WAC Faculty Lunch Workshops, 1998-99.
Presenter, Academic Expectations Orientation Seminars, 1998&99.
Presenter, Rolla Writing Project (Gateway/National Writing Project Satellite) Summer Workshop, "Acknowledging and Bridging the Gap: High School to College Writing Instruction," June, 1998.
Workshop leader, UMR Writing Center Workshop for Students, "Writing Research Papers," April 1997 and April 1998.
Chancellor's Council Presentation on Communication Across the Curriculum, 1997.
Corporate Development Council Presentations on Writing Across the Curriculum, October 1996, and April 1997.
Director, Peer Tutor Training Program, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1996-97.
Illinois Institute of Technology
WAC Workshop Leader, "WAC in First Year Engineering Courses," August 1995.
Lecturer, Women in Science and Engineering Summer Programs for High School Students, Summers 1994, 1995, and 1996.
WAC Workshop Leader, "WAC and ESL," August 1994.
Guest Presenter, Ethics Across the Curriculum Summer Workshops, "Writing Assignments for Ethics Projects," June 1993 and June 1994.
WAC Workshop Leader, "Assigning and Evaluating Writing," August 1993.
Invited Lecturer, "Writing Across the Curriculum," College of Arts and Sciences Workshop on Quality, Creativity, Ethics, and Leadership, February 1993.
WAC Workshop Leader, "WAC and the Laboratory Report," August 1992.
Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology Bridge Program for Minority Students, Summer 1991.
Hiram College
Lecturer, Hiram College Pre-Orientation for Minority Students, Summer 1990.
WAC Workshop Leader, December 1989 and December 1990.
Columbia College Chicago
Guest Lecturer, "Editing and Proofreading," Writing Center Seminars, 1998 & 1999.
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND CONSULTANCIES
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (1996- )
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (1997- )
College English (2000- )
Manuscript Reviews for Modern Language Association (Research and Scholarship in Composition Series); Houghton-Mifflin; W.W. Norton; Allyn & Bacon; Longman
Grant Reviewer for University of Missouri Research Board (1999, 2000, and 2001)
Faculty Consultant, Educational Testing Service (Advanced Placement Exam, 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2001)
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION--National Conferences
“ ‘The Box Under the Bed’: Student Accounts of Learning to Write Across the Disciplines,” presented at the 5th annual National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, June 2001.
“The Value of WPA Work: Theory, Practice, Discourse–and the Person,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2001.
“The Outcomes Statement at an Engineering University,” NCTE International Conference on Literacy, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2000.
“From Civil War to Border War: Slavery and Race in A Journey in Brazil,” presented at the American Literature Association Conference, May 2000.
"Getting to Know Us: Theoretical Stance and Personal Process in Narratives of Teaching and Learning," presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2000.
"WAC and the Ethos of Engineering: Conflict and Accommodation," presented at the Fourth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Cornell University, June 1999.
"Personal Place, Public Presence, and Pedagogy: Elizabeth Agassiz and the Traveler's Voice," presented at the American Literature Association Conference, May 1999.
"Theory and Practice Re-Theorized: What the 'Folks in the Other Buildings' Have Taught Me about Writing," presented at the March 1998, Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication; I was also a discussion leader for the pre-conference workshop on the national first year composition outcomes project.
"Creating Correspondents: From Personal Narrative to Travel Writing in Elizabeth Agassiz's A Journey in Brazil," presented at "Snapshots from Abroad: A Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing," University of Minnesota, November 1997.
"Working Forum: Defining Outcomes for College Writing," at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, July 1997.
"WAC and FYC: When Does Disciplinary Accommodation Become Ethical Capitulation?" at the Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1997; 1 was also a participant in the Forum on Defining Outcomes in College Writing.
American Humor Association Roundtable on the Future of American Humor Studies, presented at the Meeting of the American Literature Association, June 1996.
"Biography as Dialogue: Representation and Conversation in Elizabeth Agassiz's Louis
Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence," presented at the Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1995.
“Letter Writing, Letter Reading: The Anticipation of Genre in ‘Private' Writing," presented at the CEA Roundtable on Contexts for Nonfiction at the Convention of the Modem Language Association, December 1994.
"Ichthyology, Ethnography, and Ideology: Rewriting Nature and Culture in Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz's A Journey in Brazil, presented at the Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, November, 1994.
"Composition vs. WAC: Letting Writing Go Across the Curriculum," presented at the session on New Directions for WAC: The Third Stage, at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1994. 1 also served as a discussion leader for the Pre-Conference Workshop, "Conflicts within Academic Feminisms: Negotiating Diversity, Negotiating Hierarchy."
"Exploring Nature, Exploring the Land: Mapping the American Polar
Narrative" and "Keeping it All in the Family: The ' Intimate
Biographer' in Elizabeth Agassiz's Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence,"
both papers presented at the Convention of the Modern Language Association,
December 1993.
"Adventure, Endurance, and Measurement: The Exploration Narrative as Popularization of Science," presented at the session on Popularizations of Science at the Convention of the Society for Literature and Science, October 1993.
"Funny Papers: Humor as a Means of Negotiating Between Discourse Communities in First Year Writing," presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 1993.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION--Regional Conferences
Chair and discussant, Travel Writing/Writing Travel session, at the Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 2000..
"Private Vision and Public Voice in Women's Travel Narratives: Elizabeth Agassiz's Private Letters and Published Journey," at the 1999 Meeting of the Midwest Modem Language Association. I also chaired the section on Teaching Writing in College and a special session on travel writing.
“:'General Ball' and Disciplinary Fields: WAC and the Composition Curriculum," at the 1998 Meeting of the Midwest Modem Language Association; I was also chair and organizer of two special sessions on travel writing.
"From Natural History to Nature Writing: Siting The Exploration Narrative," presented at the Meeting of the Midwest Modem Language Association, November1997; 1 was also chair and discussant of the Writing Across the Curriculum Section.
Discussant, Teaching Writing in College Section, and discussant, Women's Caucus Section on Professional Employment, at the Meeting of the Midwest Modem Language Association, November 1996.
"Professor, Patriarch, Professional: Imagining the Scientist in Late Nineteenth-Century
American Popular Writing," presented at the Science and Literature Section of the Meeting of The Midwest Modem Language Association, November1995; 1 was also chair and discussant of the Teaching Writing in College Section.
"First Year Composition: Preparation for Whom, Preparation for What?" presented at the section meeting on Teaching Writing in College at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modem Language Association, November 1993; 1 also served as discussant for two sessions on Science and Literature at this convention.
COURSES TAUGHT
Rhetoric and Composition
Theory of Written Communication
Teaching and Supervising Writing
First Year Composition I & 11
Computer Assisted Composition I & 11
Remedial/Developmental Composition
Grammar and Writing Skills
Research Writing
Intercultural Communication
Literature
Western Civilization I and 11
Introduction to American Literature, Colonial-1860
Introduction to American Literature, 1860-present
Nineteenth Century American Novel
American Autobiography
Comedy in Contemporary American Literature
The Age of Darwin
Contemporary Novel
Texts and Contexts: American Literature and Culture in 1876
UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Purdue University (2001- )
Advanced Writing Committee
University of Missouri-Rolla (1996-2001)
Interim Chair, English Department (2000-2001)
Committee to develop interdisciplinary major in Information Science and Technology (2000-2001)
Ad-Hoc Committee to develop coordinated student assistance program (2000- 2001)
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee (1999-2000)
English Department Recruitment and Scholarship Committee (1999-2001)
Steering Committee, Rolla Writing Contest (1999 & 2000)
Graduate Faculty Council (1998-2001)
Faculty Mentor for first year students, Center for Personal and Professional Development (1998-2000)
Instructional Technology Center Planning Committee (1997-98)
Women Students' Advisory Committee (1997-2001)
English Department Faculty and Chair Search Committees (1996-2001)
Communication Across the Curriculum Implementation Committee (1996- 2001)
Graduate Council Committee on Dissertation Standards (1996-2001)
Illinois Institute of Technology (1991-96)
Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
Committee to Develop Networked Computer Writing Classroom
Committee on Program Assessment
Steering Committee, Women's Center
Committee on First Year Instruction
Educational Software Committee
Newspaper Advisory Board
Director of Humanities Department Writing Contest
Hiram College (1989-91)
Chair, Writing Committee
Academic Program Committee
Minority Affairs Committee
Foreign Students Advisory Committee
Adviser to college newspaper; Chair, Newspaper Advisory Board; Media Board
Midwest Modern Language Association
Executive Committee, M/MLA (1997-2000)
Program Committee, 1999 and 2000 Meetings
Chair and section founder, Section on Travel Writing/Writing Travel
Chair and section founder, Section on Science and Literature
Secretary and Chair, Section on Writing in College
Secretary and Chair, Section on Writing Across the Curriculum
Society for Literature and Science
Program Committee, 1994 Convention
Elected Member-At-Large of Executive Committee, (1 993 -1996)
Bibliography Committee (1991-)
Editor, Membership and Speakers Bureau Directory (1988--90)
Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English
Reviewer for College English (1999-)
Instructional Technology Committee (1999-
Co-Founder of special interest group on teaching writing in engineering universities (1998-2001)
Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (1991-93)
Reviewer for CCCC conference presentation proposals (1991-93)
Council of Writing Program Administrators
“Outcomes Group,” later the Subcommittee on Outcomes for First Year Composition (1996-)
Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Executive Committee
Liaison between Midwest MLA and National MLA (1991-93; 1999)
Distinguished Paper at Midwest/MLA Award Committee (Chair, 1997; Judge, 2000)
College English Association of Ohio
Nominating Committee (1990-91)
Columbia College Chicago
Founding member, Women at Columbia (1988-89)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modem Language Association
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
National Council of Teachers of English
History of Science Society
Society for Critical Exchange
Society for Literature and the Environment