EDUCATION

Ph.D. — University of Texas at Arlington, 2000 (Rhetoric and Composition/Cultural Studies/Critical Theory)

Dissertation: "Writing Real Subjects: Composition and Cultural Studies in the Postmodern Age"
Director: Victor J. Vitanza

M.A. — University of Texas at Arlington, 1993 (Literature and Rhetoric)

B.A. — Berea College, 1987 (Philosophy and English)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Purdue University – Associate Professor of English (2007 – present)

Assistant Professor of English (2001 – 2007)

Western Oregon University – Assistant Professor of English (2000 – 2001)

University of Texas at Arlington – Graduate Teaching Assistant (1989 – 2000)

Tarrant County Junior College – Instructor, part-time (1997 – 98)

El Centro Community College – Instructor, part-time (1992 – 1994; 1997)

AREAS OF INTEREST

Histories and Theories of Rhetoric (Classical, Modern, and Postmodern), Critical Theory, Composition, Cultural Studies, Complexity Theory, Psychoanalysis, New Media and Digital Culture, Music

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007.

Essays:

"New Media and the Fourfold." With Jennifer Bay. JAC 28: 1-2 (2008) 209-44.

"Towards the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on Emplaced Invention." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.3

(2007): 251-73.

"The Distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, Worlding, and New Media Culture." With Michael J. Salvo. Computers and Composition 23 (2006): 296-316.

"In the House of Doing: Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience." JAC 24.4 (2004): 901-27.

"From the Nodular to the Linked: Mark C. Taylor and Our Emerging Culture of Complex Interactive Networks." With David Blakeley. Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and Network Culture. JAC 24.4 (2004): 821-30.

"Interview with Mark C. Taylor." With David Blakesley. JAC 24.4 (2004): 805-19.

"'Hands Up, You're Free': Composition and Pedagogy in a Post-Oedipal World." JAC 21.2 (Spring 2001): 287-320.

"'Avowing the Unavowable': On the Music of Composition." With Byron Hawk. Enculturation 2.2 (Spring 1999) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/

Chapters:

"Invention in the Wild: Locating Kairos in Space-Time." The Locations of Composition. Eds. Chris Keller

and Christian Weisser. SUNY Press, 2007. 71-89.

"Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music." Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, and Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. 157-63.

Multimedia Essays:

". . . And They Had Pro-Tools." With Michael J. Salvo. Computers and Composition Online. Special Issue on Sound and Multiliteracies (Fall 2006) http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/home.htm

"EnSample: Virtual Musics and Viral Assemblages" – multimedia project on writing and

sampling with Byron Hawk and Matthew Levy. Pre/Text Electra(Lite) 3.01 (1999) http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT3.1/

Response Essays, Reviews, and Pedagogical Publications:

Book Review: Jody Dean, Žižek's Politics. Quarterly Journal of Speech 94.2 (2008) (forthcoming)

"Enjoying Theory: Žižek, Critique, Accountability." JAC 22.3 (Summer 2002): 627-40.

Book Review: Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion (Jean Nienkamp). Enculturation 4.2 (2002) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/

Companion Website for Writing in an Electronic World (Beth Kolko, Alison Regan, Susan Romano). Allyn and Bacon/Longman (2001). [Supporting material: questions, exercises, links, etc.] http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kolko_awl/

"Engaging Modernisms, Emerging Posthumanisms, and the Rhetoric of Doing: A Response to John Trimbur, W. Ross Winterowd, and Susan Searls Giroux." JAC 20.3 (Summer 2000): 672-84.

"Review: Kismet—Curious Yellow." Pre/Text Electra(Lite) 3.01 (1999)

http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT3.1/

"Review: In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze—Deleuze Tribute CD." Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 1.2 (Fall 1997) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/

Works in Progress:

"Dwelling with New Media." With Jennifer Bay. In RAW: Reading and Writing New Media. Ed. Cheryl Ball and Jim Kalmbach. (forthcoming)

"Tarrying with the <Head>: The Emergence of Control through Protocol." In From A to <A>: Keywords for HTML and Writing. Ed. Jeff Rice and Bradley Dilger. (under contract)

"The Rhetorical Situation as Poker Match, or Identification at Play." (under review, Pre/Text)

Book Project in Progress

"Rhetoric and Ambience: Persuasion, Agency, and Environment" (prospectus drafted; early versions of several chapters in press; manuscript 40% drafted)

Guest-Edited Journal Issues and Online Discussion Forums:

JAC Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and Network Culture. With David Blakesley. JAC 24.4 (2004).

Enculturation Special Issue on Music, Writing, and Culture. 2.2 (Spring 1999) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/

Discussion leader (one of six) for Pre/Text Re/Inter/View on Empire (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri). February 2003 http://www.pre-text.com/ptlist/reinvw.html

AWARDS

James L. Kinneavy Award, 2001, for "'Hands Up, You're Free': Composition in a Post-Oedipal World" in JAC 21.2 (Spring 2001): 287-320.

Ellen Nold Award, 2007, for best article of the year in Computers and Composition Studies (for "The Distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, Worlding, and New Media Culture," co-authored with Michael Salvo).

Kairos Best Webtext Award, 2007, for best webtext of the year in the field of Rhetoric and Composition (for "...And They Had Protools," co-authored with Michael Salvo).

Gary A. Olson Award, 2007, for best book of the year published in rhetoric and cultural studies (Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject).

FELLOWSHIPS

Center for Humanistic Studies (Purdue University), Spring 2008

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate:

English 0300 Writing Mechanics

English 1301 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking I (Expository Writing)

English 1302 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking II (Argumentative Writing)

English 2303 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking III (Literary Writing)

English 2309 World Literature

English 2329 American Literature

English 1613 Expository Writing

English 1623 Introduction to Writing about Literature

English 091 Developmental Writing

English 101 Composition

English 102 Argumentative Writing

English 141 Introduction to American Literature

English 104 Fiction

English 105 Drama

English 106 Poetry

English 106 Introductory Composition (2 times)

English 406 Review Writing

English 440 The Teaching of Writing

Graduate:

English 680C Cultural Studies and Composition (3 times)

English 680I Institutional Discourses: The Contemporary University in Crisis (2 times)

English 626 Postmodernism, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy (4 times)

English 505 Practicum: Teaching First-Year Composition (2 semester course; taught 3 times)

English 531 Literary Theory: Cultural Studies

Writing 596 Rhetorical Invention

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Chair:

Completed: 1

In progress: 6

Co-chair:

Completed: 1

In progress: 1

Member:

Completed: 19

In progress: 12

EDITING, REVIEWING, AND OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Book Series Editor, Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition, Parlor Press (with three other editors)

Copy Editor, Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture (1996 – present)

http://enculturation.gmu.edu

Area Editor, The Writing Instructor (2001-present)

Guest Editor, Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 2.2 (Spring 1999), Special Issue on Writing, Music, and Culture http://enculturation.gmu.edu

Manuscript Reviewer, Southern Illinois University Press (2002); SUNY Press (2003); Longman (2004); Parlor Press (2004); Norton (2005)

Manual of Campus Resources for TASP Remediation, UTA (1998)

Faculty Consultant and Reader, AP Reading in English Language and Composition (ETS), Daytona Beach, FL (June 2002; June 2003; June 2004; June 2006; June 2007)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Rhetoric beyond Critique: Plans for Vitalization" Conference on College Composition and Communications. New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

"Dwelling and the Problem of Sufficiency." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2007.

"Ideology and Doxa: From Matters of Critique to Matters of Production." Conference on College Composition and Communications. New York, 2007.

"On the Leap: Reason, Faith, Legitimation." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, TN. May 2006.

"The Rhetorical Situation as Poker Match, or Identification at Play." Conference on College Composition and Communications. Chicago, IL. March 2006.

"Chora and Community in the Timaeus’ Tale of Two Cities." Conference on College Composition and Communications. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.

"TBA." Convergences: First Annual Symposium for Theory, Rhetoric, and Writing. North Carolina State University. November 2004.

"'Push th' Little Daisies': Some Thoughts on Marc Bousquet, WPAs, and Power." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2004.

"Parasitical Problems: Rethinking Composition as a Complex Adaptive System." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2004.

"Language, Music, and Affect, Or, Why Nietzsche Chills with Marc Bolan in the Eternal Garden." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 2004.

"Critical Subject to Come: Nachträglichkeit, Emergence, and Culture." South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference on Psychoanalysis. February 2003.

"The Costs of Accounting: Justifying Rhetoric in the Corporate University." Western States Composition Conference. Seattle, WA. October 2002.

"The Academy at Loose Ends: Identity-Scholarship-Network." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2002.

"Shangri-La-Ti-Da: Teaching, Technology, and the Corporate University." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Las Vegas, NV. May 2002.

"An Inquiry into Power in Deleuze's Society of Control." Western States Composition Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2001.

"From the Communications Triangle to the Lacanian Graph of Desire: Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Discourse." Research in progress presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communications. Denver, CO. March 2001.

"Disrupting The Matrix: Movie Industry Depictions of Virtual Reality and the Telos of Control." Computers and Writing Conference. Ft. Worth, TX. April 2000.

"Politica Phantasmagoria: Ideology in Criticism, Pedagogy, and Politics." Research in progress presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communications. Atlanta, GA. March 1999.

"Transforming Notions of Space: Mapping the Computer Classroom." Computers and Writing

Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville. May 1998.

"The New Science of Roland Barthes." Third Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. University of Texas at Arlington. April 1997.

"Negotiating the Implosion: Ethical Possibility in the Postmodern Classroom." Conference on College Composition and Communications. Phoenix, AZ. March 1997.

"The Sign of our Future Reign: Strange Days Are Here Again." Sixth Annual EGAD Conference. East Texas State University, Commerce. July 1996.

"Reproducing in Thrall: Literacy and the Problem of Critique." Conference on College Composition and Communications. Milwaukee, WI. March 1996.

"Reading Demonization: Problems Concerning Convention in Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS). Dallas, TX. November 1995.

"Natural's Not an It: Postmodernism and Alternative Rock." First Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. University of Texas at Arlington. April 1995.

"Hyperliteracy." Conference on College Composition and Communications. Washington, D.C. March 1995.

"Revolution and Youth in Milan Kundera's Life is Elsewhere and Immortality." Graduate Conference on Language and Literature. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. March 1994.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Advisor, Rhetoric and Composition (2004)

Acting Director of Rhetoric and Composition (Fall 2007)

ACADEMIC COMMITTEES

Policy Committee, Purdue (2006-present)

Introductory Writing Committee, Purdue (2001-present)

Grievance Committee, Purdue (2001- 2003)

2003 Computers and Writing Conference Planning Committee, Purdue (2002-03)

Ph.D. Preliminary Examination Committee, Purdue (2002)

Technology Textbook Advisory Committee, UTA (1998)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Rhetoric Society of America