Administration

Administrative Appointment · Committees · Reading & Advising · Conference/Research Group Work

Administrative Appointment

Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2023–Present)
Associate Director (Fall 2019–Summer 2023)
• Charged with “enhancing the culture of writing across UVA,” using up-to-date research in writing pedagogy and faculty support, primarily using Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) frameworks for strategic program development.
• Work with institution-wide committees and offices to foster effective and satisfying writing practices that work with individual programs and Schools, while also coordinating with the university as a whole.
• Work with the Office of Institutional Research and Analytics to conduct assessments of student writing across disciplines, in individual courses and as part of larger programmatic evaluations.
• Design and administer customized workshops on writing as an instructional tool in content courses across the university.
• Present regularly to senior leadership and faculty in each School and across the College regarding ongoing writing work within their units.
•. Administer the annual Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Writing and the bi-annual Graduate Instructor Seminar in the Teaching of Writing, training faculty and graduate students across disciplines in best practices for writing instruction in content courses.
•. Meet regularly with faculty (individually and in small groups) for course and/or curriculum development.

Committees and Working Groups

Pilot group member, MS 365 and Copilot (generative AI plugin), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Summer 2024-Present)

Working group member, AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.         (Fall 2024-Spring 2025)

Planning Committee member, Writing and Rhetoric Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2023–Present)

Hiring Committee member (general faculty lines), Writing and Rhetoric Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Spring 2023)

Pedagogy Committee member, Writing and Rhetoric Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2019–Spring 2023)

QEP Committee member (“Creating a Culture of Writing”), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2019–Spring 2022)

English Department Steering Committee member, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2020-Spring 2022)

CTE Summit Committee member, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)

Committee Chair, English Department Chapel Committee. Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX.(Fall 2012)

Committee Member, English Department Creative Writing Committee. Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX. (Fall 2011–Fall 2012)

Conference/Research Group Work

Project Lead, Edits on the Record. Grant-funded project, University of Virginia Libraries. Charlottesville, VA; Summer 2023-Present.

Panel Chair, How Nursing Faculty Teach Writing: A Multi-Year Project to Embed WAC across a BSN Curriculum. International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC). Clemson, SC; June 2023.

Workshop Co-leader, Teaching Writing with Your Local Archives: Designing Archival Writing Courses to Improve Student Access, Citizenship, and Representation. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Virtual due to Covid-19; Mar. 2022.

Session Chair, Bibliography, Publishing Studies, and Textual Criticism. South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA). 2018-2021.

Committee Member, VT Veterans Studies Research Group. Interinstitutional; housed at Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, VA; Fall 2013–2018.

Leadership Team Member and Site Coordinator, NEH Summer Institute: Veterans in Society; Blacksburg, VA, and Washington, DC; Summer 2016.

Panel Chair, Writing Nonfiction, with Style. South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA). Atlanta, GA; Nov. 2014.

Conference Vice-Chair, Veterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourse. VT Veterans Studies Research Group. Virginia Tech. Roanoke, VA; Apr. 2014.It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.