Northern Illinois University
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Professional Interests

• Rhetoric
• Computers and Writing
• Assessment
• Intercultural Communication

Selected Awards

• Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Technology Innovator Award, 2011.
• Patricia L. Francis Award for Outstanding Service to the Department of English, April 2008.
• The Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, May 2006.
• David Raymond Award for the Use of Technology in Teaching, March 2003.

Selected Publications

• With Tawanda Gipson and Christopher Parker: “Undergraduate Mentors as Agents of Engagement: Peer Advocates in First-Year Writing Courses.” First-Year Composition and Retention, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Heidi Estrem, Todd Ruecker, and Dawn Shepherd, editors. Utah State University Press, 2017.
• (Editor) Takako Day. Show Me the Way to Go Home: The Moral Dilemma of Kibei No No Boys in World War Two Incarceration Camps. (Middlebury, VT: Wren Song Press, 2014).
• With Randall McClure and Mike Palmquist, eds. “Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement in the Teaching of Writing” Computers and Composition 27.1 (March 2010)
• “Influencing Learning Through Faculty and Student Generated Outcome Assessment.” Chapter 12 in Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact, Barbara Cambridge, Darren Cambridge, and Kathleen Yancy, editors. Stylus Publishing, 2009.
• “The Administrator as Technorhetorician: Sustainable Technological Ecologies in Academic Programs.” Chapter 6 in Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment, Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe, editors. Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2009.
• With Carol Lipson (ed). Technical Communication and the World Wide Web. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005).
• With Susanmarie Harrington and Rebecca Rickly (eds). The Online Writing Classroom. (Cresskill, New Jersey: HAmpton Press, 2000).