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Syracuse University
Doctor of Philosophy, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric (2022)

Dissertation Title: “Algorithmic Dwelling: The Consequences of Ethos on Social Media Platforms”
Dissertation Committee: Krista Kennedy (Chair), Collin Brooke, Aja Martinez, Genevieve García de Müeller, Kristin Arola

The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Master of Arts in English Literature (2011)

Thesis Title: "Invasive Language – Epic Intertextuality in Keats’s Endymion"

Bachelor of Science in English Literature and Adolescent Inclusive Education (2009)

CERTIFICATIONS

Syracuse University
Certificate in Undergraduate Teaching (2019)

Albany University, State University of New York
Graduate Certificate in Online Learning and Teaching (2016)

Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Advanced Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Administration (2014)

Binghamton University

WRIT 312 - Surveillance and Social Media (2023-Present)
Lecturer in the Writing Initiative
Proposed, designed, and taught one asynchronous online and two in-person sections of an advanced writing course that examines the rhetorical impacts of surveillance systems and data aggregation with a specific focus on social media platforms. Students explore the theoretical and ethical aspects of algorithmic rhetorics and surveillance, rhetorically analyze legal documents, collect and examine social media platform information, and write data-driven arguments.

WRIT 212 - Writing for Transfer Students (2022-Present)
Lecturer in the Writing Initiative
Designed and taught three sections of a writing course for transfer students that addresses argumentative writing in academic contexts. This course treats writing and research as a process, emphasizes revision, and gives students the opportunity to investigate how to write research-driven texts in disciplines and contexts that interest them. Through a process of practice, observation, and reflection, students also learn how to plan and deliver effective presentations.

WRIT 211 - Introduction to Professional Writing (2022-Present)
Lecturer in the Writing Initiative
Designed and taught five sections of a writing course focused on analyzing and producing several common forms of professional communication, such as emails, memos, letters, job search materials, reports, proposals, and presentations. Students work on practicing writing processes, developing an appropriate style, learning professional problem-solving, completing collaborative projects, and integrating oral and written communication. Through critical rhetorical analysis students learn how to react to various genres and writing situations, including issues of audience, organization, visual design, style, and the material production of documents

Colgate University

First Year Seminar 170 - Writing Beyond the Page (2021-2022)
Visiting Instructor of Writing and Rhetoric
Designed and taught one sections of a first year writing course which focuses on rhetorical concepts, multimodal composition, and genre awareness in addition to media and academic literacies. Student assignments focus on remediation, critical analysis, reflection. First year seminar courses also include additional content meant to aid in the transition to college with instructors also serving as students’ academic advisor for the first two years.

Writing 370 - Surveillance Rhetorics (2020-2022)
Visiting Instructor of Writing and Rhetoric
Proposed, designed, and taught four sections of an advanced writing course with a focus on the rhetorical impacts of surveillance systems and data aggregation. Students explore the theoretical and ethical aspects of algorithmic rhetorics and surveillance, rhetorically analyze legal documents, collect and examine social media platform information, and write data-driven arguments.

Writing 103 - Rhetoric and Writing (2020-2022)
Visiting Instructor of Writing and Rhetoric
Designed and taught four sections of a first year writing course which focuses on rhetorical concepts, multimodal composition, and genre awareness in addition to media and academic literacies. Student sassignments focus on remediation, critical analysis, reflection.

Writing 250 - Kairos: The Art of Rhetoric (2020-2022)
Visiting Instructor of Writing and Rhetoric
Designed and taught a section of an intermediate writing course that provides a proper background in rhetorical, terms, concepts, principles, and practices across the rhetorical tradition. Students completed assignments that research rhetorical concepts, engage in rhetorical criticism, and explored historical and contemporary rhetorical practices. .

Syracuse University

Writing 302 – Digital Writing (2019-2020)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught a section of an advanced writing course focused on writing in digital environments. Students rhetorically analyzed digital interfaces, created websites to sustain digital writing on a topic of their choosing, and designed digital projects of their own.

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (2018-Present)
Orientation Mentor

Writing 205 – Critical Research and Writing (2017-2020)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught two in person sections and one asynchronous online section of an intermediate research writing course with a focus on research ethics, genres, and primary/secondary methods. Students completed sustained research projects around a course inquiry theme (Writing and Technology).

Writing 105 – Practices of Academic Writing (2016-2019)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught five sections of an introductory writing course focused on rhetorical and genre awareness, analysis, and argument. Student assignments focused on intertextuality and the remediation of multimodal texts.

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition Program (2018-2019)
Assessment Scorer

Writing 307 – Professional Writing (2018)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught two sections of an advanced writing course in technical and professional writing with a focus on ethical and critical issues concerning reader-centered writing. Students engaged with business genres, technical instructions, and feasibility reports.

Writing Center (Summer 2018)
Writing Consultant

Writing 104 – Writing at the College Level (Summer 2017)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed and taught one section of an introductory writing course for incoming first-year students participating in the Summer Start Program with a focus on study skills, research methods, and the expectations of writing intensive courses. Students completed collaborative projects that explored writing as a process and a community-driven practice.

Teaching Assistant Program (2017)
Teaching Assistant Mentor

Warrior Scholar Project (2017-2018)
Summer Program Tutor

College at Geneseo, State University of New York

Real World Geneseo (2015-Present)
Adjunct Instructor and Steering Committee Member
Develop and co-facilitate the winter retreat for the Office of Multicultural Affairs's Real World Geneseo Program. This four-day intensive retreat consists of diversity workshops and training for undergraduate students and counts as the first half of a credit bearing course continued in the Spring semester.

INTD 240: Student Development (2015)
Staff Instructor and Hybrid-Online Section Co-Designer
Designed and taught a section of an intermediate level leadership course required for all first year Resident Assistant student staff. Students focused on leadership and student development theory in addition to approaches for interpersonal communication and community development for undergraduate students.

Potsdam College, State University of New York

First Year 100 – First Year Success Seminar (2012-2014)
Instructor
Taught two sections of an introductory seminar course that focused on expanding discussions and topics students explored in their summer orientation programs. Course content included collaboration with various campus offices and centered around a common read novel and included the supervision of a teaching assistant.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
  • “From the Poor to the Rich: Predatory Inclusion and the Robinhood App.” with Andrew Ridgeway. Technical Communication. 70.4 (November 2023).
  • “Balancing the Halo: Data Surveillance and Algorithmic Opacity in Smart Hearing Aids.” with Krista Kennedy and Charlotte Tschider. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. 49.1 (July 2021).
  • “The Rhetorical Implications of Data Aggregation: Becoming a Dividual in a Data-Driven World.” with Charles Woods. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. 19 (May 2021).
  • “Algorithmic Dwelling: Ethos as Deformance in Online Spaces.” Rhetoric Review. 39.2 (May 2020). 216-229
  • “Seeking Glimpses: Reflections on Doing Archival Work.” with Hanson, Alex, Stephanie Jones, Thomas Passwater. DisClosure. 27 (2018).
PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
  • "Making Well-Informed Decisions: Data Collection, Health Information, and Undergraduate Writing Instruction." with Charles Woods. Composing Health Literacies. 2023.
  • “The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables.” with Krista Kennedy. Digital Ethics. 2019.
INVITED BLOG POSTS, BOOK REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Advisory Board Member, Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Citation Project – Phase 4: Students and Their Sources (SATS), supervised by co-principal investigators Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard, May 2017- January 2019.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
  • “The Politics of Algorithmic Data Collection in Medical and Educational Contexts.” Association of Internet Researchers, Montreal, October 2018.
  • “Listening for Structure, Watching for Process: A Study of Information Literacy from Digital Research to Final Paper – and the Challenges of Developing that Study.” Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA, September 2018.
NATIONAL CONFERENCES
  • “‘Just’ Algorithms? Trust, Ethos, and Digital Social Infrastructure.” Accepted for the 22nd Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Denver, CO, May 2024.
  • "A Hybrid Resource for Teaching and Learning about Privacy and Surveillance: The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective." Computers and Writing Annual Conference, Davis, CA, June 2023.
  • "Bamboozled: Rhetorics and Writing of Disinformation." Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, January 2023.
  • "The People Online: Populism and the Internet." 20th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 2022.
  • "Living and Learning Literacies: Digital Literacy (In)Action," Computers and Writing , Greenville, NC, May 2022.
  • Making Responsive Spaces as Teachers and Colleagues," a panel accepted for presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Virtual Annual Convention, April 2021. Session subsequently canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
  • "Living and Learning Literacies: Digital Literacy (In)Action," a panel accepted for presentation at the Computers and Writing Annual Conference, Greenville, NC, May 2020. Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
  • "You're (Un)Welcome Here: The Rhetorics of Inclusion in Digital, Academic, and Community Spaces," a panel accepted for presentation at the 19th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Portland, OR, May 2020. Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
  • “The Matter of Systems of Power: Affective Interfaces, Embodiment, and Algorithmic Politics.” Computers and Writing, East Lansing, MI, June 2019.
  • RSA19 Workshop Participant: “Whither Ethos?: From the Human to the Nonhuman, the Inhuman, and Beyond.” Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. June 2019.
  • “Ethos as a Site for Approaching Algorithmic Literacies and Digital Writing.” Research Network Forum at Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2019.
  • “Rhetorics of Surveillance in Government, Academic, and Medical Contexts.” Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, June 2018.
  • “Teaching Techn(e/iques): Methods for Creating Wonder in the Composition Classroom.” Computers and Writing, Findlay, OH, May 2017.
REGIONAL
  • “(Re)Learning Writing: Adapting Writing Instruction Alongside Students.” SUNY Council on Writing, Stonybrook, NY, October 2023.
  • “Adapting to Increased AI Usage in Writing Classes at Binghamton University.” SUNY Council on Writing, Stonybrook, NY, October 2023.
  • “What Counts as Success in Teaching College Composition? Rethinking Pedagogy.” SUNY Council on Writing, Syracuse, September 2017.
  • “VPNs, PirateBox, and TailsOS.” THAT Camp CNY, Syracuse, NY, April 2017.
INVITED TALKS AND TRAININGS
2023
  • Binghamton University: “AI in the Writing Classroom” (Brown Bag Discussion Series)
2021
  • Room 42 Podcast: "Season 1, Episode 21: Collisions in Patient Education: Surveillance, Medical Wearables, and Communication"
2020
  • The Big Rhetorical Podcast: "Episode 39: Emerging Scholar Series: Noah Wilson"
  • HASTAC: "From Cardi B to Stranger Things: Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom" (Webinar for the Digital Fridays Series)
2019
  • Syracuse University: “Arguments by an Organization's Algorithms” (Guest Lecture for WRT 255).
  • Syracuse University: “It’s Only a Simulation Right? Simulations as Systems Literacy” (Guest Lecture for WRT 426).
  • Syracuse University: “How Do We Understand Algorithms” (Guest Lecture for First Year Seminar).
2016
  • Geneseo AOP Training: Student Development and Student Mentoring.
2015
  • Geneseo GOLD Leadership: BaFa BaFa: Diversity Simulation.
  • Geneseo RA Training: Building Resonance.
  • Geneseo AOP Training: Student Mentoring.
  • Geneseo RA Training: Managing Conflict.
  • Geneseo RA Training: SAFE Zone Training.
2014
  • Brockport RA Conference: Sus-CHANGE-ability Presentation.
2012
  • Potsdam RA Training: Fix My Resume! Workshop.
2011
  • Brockport RA Conference: Creating Impactful Programs.
  • Brockport RA Conference: Marketing the RA Position to the Professional World.
2010
  • Brockport RA Conference: Tweet This! Technology and Residence Life.
  • Brockport RA Conference: The Ride Doesn’t Stop Here.
2009
  • Brockport RA Conference: Finding Fun in DysFUNctional Families.
  • Brockport RA Training: Unlocking the Seesaw: Balancing Professional and Personal.
2008
  • Brockport RA Training: Actively Being Passive.
  • Brockport Scholar’s Day: The Gods Must Be Crazy.

Administrative Positions

Binghamton University
Pedagogy Group Mentor (2022-Present)
  • Mentor Graduate Student TAs in the shared first year writing curriculum including conducting weekly meetings, grade norming, and classroom observations to provide feedback and recommendations.
  • Assist in the planning and facilitation of pre-semester TA orientation.
Binghamton Writes Editor (2023-Present)
  • Work with an editing team to publish annual edition of Binghamton Writes, a core text comprised of undergraduate student writing for Binghamton University's WRIT 111: Inquiry and Academic Writing course.
  • Work 1:1 with student writers as they further revise and edit their accepted submissions.
Syracuse University
Assistant Director of Teaching Assistant Education (2017-2018)
  • Mentored Graduate Student TAs in introductory writing instruction which included conducting classroom observations to provide feedback and recommendations.
  • Planned and organized TA pre-semester orientation.
  • Designed and developed support materials for new TAs which included learning monthly workshops to support TA instruction.
College at Geneseo, State University of New York
Area Coordinator, Writers House and Ontario Hall (2014-2016)
  • Supervised ten paraprofessional staff members in educational programming and community development.
  • Oversaw the development of a writing living-learning community and collaborated with faculty fellows to provide co-curricular programming. Managed the budgets for two residence halls.
  • Arranged and managed the Writers in Residence visiting author program for hall.
  • Facilitated staff training for the department. Managed and supervised Summer Conference Assistant team.
  • Served as the judicial officer for residence halls and received additional training to serve on campus conduct boards.
Potsdam College, State University of New York
Area Coordinator, Lehman Hall (2011-2014)
  • Managed a co-educational residence hall with 750 freshman, upperclassmen, international, and transfer students.
  • Supervised graduate assistant and directed sixteen paraprofessional staff members in educational programming and community development.
  • Served as advisor for student-run Resident Hall Activities (RHA) group.
  • Facilitated staff training and residential life programming and served as judicial hearing officer for residential building.
  • Created a building assistant program (LAMB) to complement RA staff and prepare RA candidates for spring semester positions.
The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Resident Director Intern, Morgan Hall (2009-2011)
  • Managed a co-educational residence hall with first year and transfer students and served as judicial hearing officer for residential building.
  • Directed two paraprofessional staff members in educational programming and community development.
  • Served as Residential Life/Learning Communities’ webmaster and technology support liaison.

University, Organizational and Community Service

DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY
(2023-Present) AI Writing Committee Member, The Writing Initiative, Binghamton University, SUNY
(2023-Present) Editor for Binghamton Writes, The Writing Initiative, Binghamton University, SUNY
(2020-2022) Faculty Advisor, Writing and Rhetoric, Colgate University
(2021) Judge, Lewis Orator Prize, Colgate University
(2017-2018) Major/Minor Committee Member, Writing Studies, Syracuse University
(2017-2018) Web Chair, CCR Graduate Circle, Syracuse University
(2015-2016) Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee Member, College at Geneseo, SUNY
(2014-2016) It’s On US Geneseo Faculty Advisor, College at Geneseo, SUNY
(2013-2014) Co-Chair, RA Selection Committee, Potsdam College, SUNY
(2013-2014) Co-Evaluator, Residence Life Program Evaluation Committee, Potsdam College, SUNY
(2013-2014) North Country RA Conference Steering Committee Member, Potsdam College, SUNY
(2010-2011) Mentor, Green Leadership Program, The College at Brockport, SUNY
(2010-2011) Brockport RA Conference Planning Committee Member, The College at Brockport, SUNY
(2010-2011) Leadership Conference Planning Committee Member, The College at Brockport, SUNY
(2007-2011) College Technology Council Member, The College at Brockport, SUNY
(2009-2010) Brockport Ski Club Safety Advisor, The College at Brockport, SUNY

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
(2019-2020) Assistant Director of Event Sponsorships and Advertising, Rhetoric Society of America
(2011-2018) Webmaster, College Student Personnel Association of New York State
(2014-2015) Webinar Coordinator, American College Personal Association, GSNP Standing Committee
All-University Doctoral Prize - College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University (2022)
Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work, Syracuse University (2022)
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Finalist, Syracuse University (2022)
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Syracuse University (2020)
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Syracuse University (2020)
HASTAC Scholar (2019-2021)
Graduate Research Network Travel Award Grant, Computers and Writing (2017, 2019)
Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant, Syracuse University (2019)
Student Organization Advisor of the Year, College at Geneseo, State University of New York (2016)
Title III Grant – Undergraduate Research, Potsdam College, State University of New York (2012, 2013)
English Department’s Morgan Award, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (2009)
Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (2009)
Alpha Chi Honor Society, The College at Brockport, State University of New York (2009)