Sharon Cogdill C.V.

Curriculum Vitae (Labrum Culinae): my kitchen-sink c.v.

Sharon E. Cogdill, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita, Department of English: Victorian Studies and Digital Humanities

Ruby Cora Webster Hall, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 56301-4498 USA

@scogdill

scogdill@stcloudstate.edu

Current Projects

Papers in Process

  • Co-editor with Matthew Barton, Kyoko Kishimoto, and Michael Dando. Special Issue: Conlangs. Of the Journal of the Popular Culture Studies Association, expected date of publication, October 2023.
  • Matthew Barton, Kyoko Kishimoto, Edward M. Sadrai, Michael Dando, and Sharon Cogdill. “‘They are coming’: Revisioning of Klingons, Federation, Family, Race and Gender in Star Trek: Discovery” (forthcoming in the Journal of the Popular Culture Studies Association).

Education

  • Ph.D. 1983, Michigan State University. Director, Dr. Richard Benvenuto. Dissertation: “Thomas Hardy’s Conception of Consciousness and the Narration of his Novels”
  • Areas of Comprehensive Examinations: Victorian Literature, 1814–1914; 19th-Century American Literature; Writing and Composition Theory
  • B.A. 1972, State University of New York at Fredonia, summa cum laude. Texas Christian University, Honors Program (freshman, sophomore)

Scholarship and Research

Articles and Chapters in Journals and Edited Collections

  • Edward M. Sadrai, Michael Dando, Kyoko Kishimoto, Matthew Barton, and Sharon Cogdill. “Welwala at the Borders: Language, Space, and Power in The Expanse.” In In: Hawkes, J., Christie, A., Nienhuis, T. (eds). American Science Fiction Television and Space: Productions and (Re) configurations (1987-2021). Palmgrave MacMillan / Springer International Publishing, 2023: 21-38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10528-9_2.
  • Kyoko Kishimoto, Matthew Barton, Edward M. Sadrai, Michael Dando, and Sharon Cogdill. “’Am I Real?’: Hybridity, Multiplicity, and Self-Actualization in Star Trek’s Picard.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. 2021 Vol. 23, No. 3: 338–367.
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “‘As it was not ungrammatical, though of a chatty tendency, it seemed to please’: Lady Violet Greville, ‘Aristocratic Lady Journalist’ of the 1890s.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 1 (Winter 2017): 175–188).
  • “For Isis and England: The Golden Dawn as a Social Network.” In Perplex’d by Faith: Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts. Julie Melnyk and Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, eds. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015: 209–x.
  • Foss, Lisa, David Robinson and Sharon Cogdill. The webinar that we did on “Naturalizing Analytics” (2013) was so popular that The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) made it into a podcast, February 2015. (See https://portal.csrde.ou.edu/webinars/2014/)
  • Foss, Lisa, David Robinson, and Sharon Cogdill. “Naturalizing Analytics: Beginning to Engage the Entire Institution in Enrollment and Retention Analysis.” Proceedings of the 9th Annual National Symposium on Student Retention. San Diego, California, November 2013.
  • Wentworth, Brenda, Christopher Jordan and Sharon Cogdill. “Costuming Choices: Stylization and Leigh’s Selective Realism.” In Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh. Mark DiPaolo, ed. Continuum Press, 2013: 79–106.
  • Fanderclai, Tari, Judith Kilborn, Marion Williams, and Sharon Cogdill. “Backchannel: Whispering in Digital Conversation.” Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 2001. Online. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2001/0981/04/09814033.pdf.
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “Indiscipline: Obscenity in a Networked-Computers Environment.” In The Online Writing Classroom. Susanmarie Harrington, Rebecca Rickley, and Michael Day, eds. Instructional and Information Technology, ed., Zane L. Berge. Hampton Press, 2000: 81–103.
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “@go tuesday.” Kairos: The Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments. 1.2 (Summer 1996). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/binder2.html?coverweb/Cogdill/gotuesday.html DOI: 
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “Florence Farr’s Sphere Group: The Secret Society within the Golden Dawn,” Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism, Spring 1992; new series (Vol. 11, No. 1):8–12.
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “Computers and Writing,” in William H. Roberts and Gregoire Turgeon, About Language: A Reader for Writers. 3d ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “The Effect of Word Processing on the Writing Process of Professional Writers,” Proceedings of the Interchange Conference in Technical Writing, March 1991.
  • Cogdill, Sharon. “Annie Horniman’s Expulsion from the Golden Dawn,” Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism,Spring 1990; new series (Vol. 9, No. 1): 8–12.

(For writing made for hire, see “Professional Work with Print Publishers,” below.)

Invited Presentations

  • “The Other C-Word: Control.” Invited Panelist for a Town Hall Session, moderated by Michael Day, with Patricia Ericsson, Bradley Dilger, Susan Antlitz, Janice Walker, Richard Selfe and Jeremy Tirrell. 11th Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011
  • “MOO Pedagogy,” with Judith Kilborn, and Traci Gardner, for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Rhetoric Symposium, held online on the Arcadania MOO, as part of the Computers and Writing Online Conference, April 2002.
  • One of invited panel members for the GRN: Graduate-student Research Forum, with Jane Love, Lisa Gerrard, and Mike Palmquist. Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, Indiana, May 2001.
  • “New Faculty Survival Techniques, or the Care and Feeding of New Tenure Track Folks.” Keith Dorwick, Moderator. Netoric Project: The Tuesday Cafe. 24 October 2000.
  • Town Hall Meeting #2, “Computers and ?????: Trends and Issues Related to Our Name, Our Purpose, and Our Writing.” Computers and Writing 1999, Rapid City, South Dakota.
  • Plenary Session, “The State of the MOO,” with Jan Holmevik, Ken Fox, Erik Ostrom, Jay Carlson, Tari Fanderclai, and Janet Cross; moderated by Jane Love. Computers and Writing 1998, Gainesville, Florida.
  • First Keynote, “Just When You Think You’ve Seen It All: Using the Dark Side: Obscenity in Networked Instructional Writing Spaces.” At Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Rapid City, South Dakota, April 1998.
  • “Constructing a Course Web Site on the Internet,” with Robert Bender, Joan Fiscella, and Steve Gottlieb, invited for Assocation for Integrative Studies, September 1997, based on session delivered in 1996 (“Instructional Websites for Literature Classes”); invited back for September 1998 (Detroit, Michigan) conference as well: “The Web as an Instructional Tool: Theory and Praxis.” Also invited for 1999.
  • “Internet Resources in the English Curriculum,” Department of English, North Dakota State University, Fargo (August 1996).
  • “Internet Resources for Writers,” for The Writing Academy, Minneapolis (July 1996).

Papers Delivered

  • “Social News about the ‘Ball of the Century’: Reporting on the Prince of Wales’s Social Network.” Modern Language Association Conference, online/Toronto, Ontario, 2021.
  • “The Queen Speaks English: The Universal Translator, Hybridity, and ConLangs in Star Trek.” APCA/ACA conference, online/Minneapolis, MN, 2020.
  • “London’s Social World at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in London, 1887.” Western History Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 2019.
  • “The Social Networks at the Duchess of Devonshire’s 1897 Fancy-dress Ball.” Western Canada Victorian Studies Association, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2019.
  • “The Sioux Visit the Savage Club”: The Sioux, Black and Mexican-American People Who Worked for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, London, 1887.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, March 2019.
  • “From Lit to Journalism and the Power of Primary Sources,” as part of a roundtable, “Encounters: Making Our Old Century New Again.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, March 2019.
  • Kim, Hye Hyon, and Sharon Cogdill, “Writing Bodies in George Gissing’s New Grub Street and the Periodicals for Which They Labor.” Research Society of Victorian Periodicals/Western Canada Victorian Studies Association, Victoria, B.C., Canada, July 2018.
  • “Reporting on the Age as It Ends: The Prolific Journalism of Lady Violet Greville.” British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2017.
  • “Genre and Gabaldon.” Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Popular Culture Association, Chicago, IL, October 2016.
  • “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Kansas City, MO, September 2016.
  • “Spectating Uninvited: The Coverage of the Duchess of Devonshire’s Fancy-dress Ball, July 1897, in the British Press.” Seminar: Print Culture and the Mass Public: Dissemination and Democratization. Midwest Victorian Studies Association, U of MO, 8–10 April 2016.
  • “Spectating Uninvited: The Coverage of the Duchess of Devonshire’s Fancy-dress Ball, July 1897, in the British Press.” Seminar: Print Culture and the Mass Public: Dissemination and Democratization. Midwest Victorian Studies Association, U of MO, 8–10 April 2016.
  • The webinar that Lisa Foss, David Robinson and I did on “Naturalizing Analytics” was so popular that The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) made it into a podcast, February 2015.
  • “Data Analytics for the Writing Center: a (r)Evolutionary Collaboration.” International Writing Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2015.
  • “Constructing Subjectivities: Slaves in Pre-Civil-War Minnesota and Digital Badges.” Computers and Writing Conference, WI, June 2015
  • “Humanists and Hierarchy: Reconciling Critical Theory with Hierarchical Teams,” with Betsy Glade and David Robinson, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science / International TEI (Text-Encoding Initiative) Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2014
  • “Naturalizing Analytics: Beginning to Engage the Entire Institution in Enrollment and Retention Analysis,” with Lisa Foss and David Robinson. National Symposium on Student Retention conference, San Diego, California, November 2013. Papers are peer reviewed for conference; paper accepted also to the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 9th Annual National Symposium on Student Retention.
  • “For Isis and England: The Golden Dawn as a Social Network.” Midwest Victorian Studies Association conference, Cleveland, OH, April 2013.
  • “Artistes en Corsets: Performing the Past on Victorian Foundations,” with Brenda Wentworth, 19th-Century Studies Conference, Tampa, FL, Mar. 2010.
  • “Weaving and Fraying: Threading in Professional Synchronous Discussions,” with Judith Kilborn and John Walter. Computers and Writing, June 2004. Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • “Rethinking Threading: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis of Synchronous Discussion,” with Judith Kilborn and John Walter. College Composition and Communication Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.
  • “Wrap-up of the Conference: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies,” member of panel for the Association for Integrative Studies Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 2003.
  • “Narrating the Self: Creating a Readable Online Persona,” with Tari Fanderclai, Judith Kilborn, and John Walter. Computers and Writing, May 2003. [Not present for conference because of a family emergency but collaborated in the writing of the presentation.]
  • “Writing a Virtual Body: Readability on the MOO,” with Tari Fanderclai, Judith Kilborn, and John Walter. College Communication and Composition Conference, New York City, March 2003.
  • “Canonical Pop Cult: W.S. Gilbert’s Presence in the First Edition of the OED.” Victorian Studies Association of the Western U.S. (VISAWUS), ID, Oct. 2002.
  • “Dramaturgy and the Integration of Disciplinary Practices,” individual paper presentation for the Association for Integrative Studies Conference, Springfield, MO, Oct. 2002.
  • “Backchannel: The Pedagogical Use of Whispering in the Online Classroom,” with Tari Fanderclai and Judith Kilborn. Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, Indiana, May 2002.
  • “Interiorizing Technology: Bookworms, Netrats, and How We Imagine Virtuality,” in a session called “Representations of Technology in Film and New Media,” organized by Cynthia Selfe. Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, Indiana, May 2002.
  • “Teaching Multithreading in MOO: Intentionally Upgrading Classroom Discourse,” with Judith Kilborn. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, North Dakota State University, April 2002.
  • “Walking the Walk: Teaching Multi-threading in Synchronous Communication Classrooms,” with Judith Kilborn, Tari Lin Fanderclai, and John Walter. College Communication and Composition Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2002.
  • “The Antics of Ulysses; Or, Life Is a Journey: Heteroglossia and Student Competence in MOO.” Individual paper in a session called Composition: Theory and Practice. Midwest MLA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2002.
  • “Canonical Pop Cult: W.S. Gilbert’s Presence in the First Edition of the OED.” Victorian Studies Association of the Western U.S. (VISAWUS), Idaho, October 2002.
  • “Dramaturgy and the Integration of Disciplinary Practices,” individual paper presentation for the Association for Integrative Studies Conference, Springfield, Missouri, October 2002.
  • “Reflecting on the Conference, a Board-Sponsored Session,” member of panel for the AIS Conference, Springfield, Missouri, October 2002.
  • “This Course Dyscourse: MOOing Well, and What One Student’s Pathologies Can Teach Us about Teaching Online,” with Judith Kilborn. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Madison, South Dakota, April 2001.
  • “Comunity for Teacher Scholars as Foundation for Community for Student Scholars.” Individual presentation in a panel entitled “What Comes First When Teaching with MOO.” College Composition and Communication Conference. Denver, Colorado, March 2001.
  • Participant in a Roundtable Discussion Entitled “Composing a Virtual Community for Teachers: Lessons from MOOshop.” College Composition and Communication Conference. Denver, Colorado, March 2001.
  • “Web Validity,” with Judith Kilborn. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Madison, South Dakota, April 2000.
  • “Hoping to Help the Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data Evolve: Report on a Multi-institutional Study of Collaborative-writing Software.” With Tari Fanderclai. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 12-15, 2000.
  • “Literacy: The Naturalization of Technology.” National Symposium on New Information Technologies and Liberal Education, Furman University, May 5-7, 2000.
  • “Issues in Researching Electronic Collaboration,” a forum with Janice Walker, James Inman, Tari Fanderclai, Catherine Spann. Computers and Writing 1999, Rapid City, South Dakota, June 1999.
  • “Teaching ESL with MOO,” with John Grether. Computers and Writing ’99 Online, May 1999.
  • “MOOing in English,” with John Grether. TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), New York City, March 1999.
  • “Docile Body, Academic Body: Reflection and Virtual Success in the Classroom MOO.” Computers and Writing 1998, Gainesville, Florida, June 1998.
  • “Webbed Soaps.” International Computers and Writing Conference, Hawaii, June 1997.
  • “Validating Web Sources for First-year College Research.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Rapid City, SD, April 1996.
  • “Hypertext Theory and the New Epistolary Fiction.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, 1996.
  • “Unghettoizing Computers: English, the Humanities, the University.” International Computers and Writing Conference, Utah, May 1996.
  • “Mapping the Landscape: A Conversation on the Realignment of Knowledge(s) Initiated by Re-Placing Humans in the Natural and Virtual Worlds,” with Suzanne Ross. Association for Integrative Studies, Phoenix, September 1995.
  • “Writing on a Monitor, Reading on a Page: The Boundaries between Print and Electronic Literacies.” International Computers and Writing Conference, El Paso, Texas, May 1995.
  • “Putting It Away: Digital Text, Digital Nontext, Digital Libraries,” College Composition and Communication Conference, Washington, D.C., March 1995.
  • “Writing for the Screen, Writing Online Help.” Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, October 1995.
  • “Screen Literacy/Page Literacy,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1994.
  • Respondent for session “The Other in Literature,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1994. Presented Dracula paper, in progress, as response.
  • “Electronic Discourse,” in a session I arranged and chaired, “Many Speaking to Many,” Midwest Writing Centers Association, Kansas City, 1994.
  • “Women Constraining, Women Restraining: Footbinding and Corsetry,” Association for Integrative Studies, Pittsburgh, 1994.
  • “Technological Indiscipline: Obscenity on the Net,” International Computers and Writing Conference, Columbia, Missouri, 1994.
  • “Modernism and Hermeticism: Opals in the Pendant Dragon,” Sixteenth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film: The Context of Modernism 1880–1930, West Virginia University, 1991.
  • “The Effect of Word Processing on the Composing Processes of Professional Writers: What the Research Says,” Interchange, Third Annual Technical Writing Conference, March 1991.
  • “What Word Processing Can and Can’t Do for the Teaching of Writing,” Sixth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Bristol Community College, Fall River, Massachusetts, October 1990.
  • “Mysticism and W. B. Yeats,” 5th Annual Irish/Irish-American Conference, University of Lowell, March 13, 1988.
  • “The Family: The Feminist Novel and the New Right,” in Comparative Literature: Women’s Experience from Subversions to Empowerment at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, 1984.
  • “Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved: More Modern than Victorian,” in English II: English Literature After 1800 at M/MLA, 1982.

Arising from Administrative Work

  • “What Happens in the New Faculty Seminar.” Paper in a session called “Preparing Graduate Students in Rhetoric and Composition.” College Composition and Communication Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.
  • “Grad Students Get to be Grad Students, Junior Faculty Get to be Junior Faculty: Policies and Practices to Help Junior Faculty Professionalize.” Paper in a session called “Dialogic Duo: Graduate Students, Junior Faculty, and their Mentors,” with Joan Latchaw and Robert Yagelski. Computers and Writing Conference, May 2002.
  • “Conflict Resolution, Bargaining Units, and Students: Ways of Working with Conflict on Campus.” Panel presentation with Bob Inkster, Hudlin Wagner, and Philip Castille. Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Washington, D.C., November 2001.
  • “Using ADR in Colleges and Universities: Two Approaches,” with Caroline Chalmers, Theresia Fisher, and Hedlund Wagner. Minnesota State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education. Third Annual ADR Institute, October 2000.
  • “Planning Technology for the University,” with Leslie Valdes. The 1999 Conference on Advancing Women in Higher Education, Denver, Colorado, February 1999.

Dramaturgy

  • Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabbler, hypertext edition of the William Archer translation for student performances; dramaturg for SCSU Theatre Department production, Director, Brenda Wentworth. 2003.
  • S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, hypertext edition of the libretto for performers; dramaturg for SCSU Theatre Department production, Director, Andrew Vorder Bruegge. 2001.
  • Performer support and dramaturgical materials for Moises Kaufmann’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, SCSU Theatre Department production, Director, Brenda Wentworth. 1999.
  • S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s The Mikado, hypertext edition of the libretto for performers; dramaturg for SCSU Theatre Department production, Director, Andrew Vorder Bruegge. Received about 10,000-12,000 qualified hits a year (standard unix counter). 1998.

Local Presentations

  • “Elvish, Belter, Dothraki, Klingon, and Wakadan: ConLangs, Superfans, and Rhetoric.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Mankato, MN, 2019
  • “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Constructed Languages in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Madison, SD, October 2018
  • With Carol Mohrbacher, David Robinson and Emily Hennes. “Evolution and Process: Adventures in Developing a Writing-Center Administration Certificate.” Minnesota Conference on Writing and English (MnWE), May 2016
  • “Developing a Writing Center Certification Program: Hang-ups and Successes,” with Carol Mohrbacher, Kyle Mackedanz, and Sam Harvey. MNWe, March 2016
  • “VALUE Rubric Communities of Practice Meeting: Written Communication,” facilitator, with Steve Hornstein, David Switzer, Kristian Twombly, January Workshop Series 2016
  • “It Taken an eVillage: Doing Digital Exhibits in the Classroom” remake for librarians (rather than historians). St. Paul, MN, March 2015, with Keith Ewing, Betsy Glade, Melissa Prescott, Gordie Schmitt
  • “Resources for Teaching with Oryx and Crake,” Oryx and Crake Faculty Brown Bag Discussion, April 2015.
  • “Exploring the Potential of Oryx and Crake for the Classroom,” Oryx and Crake Faculty Brown Bag Discussion, March 2015
  • Facilitator, with Glenn Davis, Cindy Grewel, Christine Metzo, and Jennifer Quinlan, “Multimedia support for learning with the Common Reading Book Oryx and Crake,” January 2015 Workshop Days
  • “Digital Humanities at SCSU,” with Betsy Glade, SCSU Fall Convocation Teaching and Learning Fair.
  • “It Takes an eVillage: Doing Digital Exhibits in the Classroom” remake for librarians (rather than historians). St. Paul, MN, March 2015, with Keith Ewing, Betsy Glade, Melissa Prescott, Gordie Schmitt. Also presented this panel at the North Central History Conference, Sioux Fall, SD, October 2014
  • “Digital Humanities at SCSU,” with Betsy Glade. CETL, Fall Convocation, August 21, 2014“Digital Humanities at SCSU,” with Betsy Glade. CETL, Fall Convocation, August 21, 2014
  • “A Place at the Meaning-making Table: Articulating the Shape of Institutional Data through the Identity of Professional Communicators.” MnWE, Century Community and Technical College, White Bear Lake, MN, 3–4 April 2014
  • A Conversation about Blended Pedagogies,” with Judy Kilborn, Stephanie Houdek, and Brian Nyholm. CETL January Workshop Days, January 2014
  • “Medical Digital Humanities,” Survive and Thrive Conference, October 2013
  • “Continuing the Conversation on Technology for Teaching & Learning at SCSU: Current and Potential,” invited participant in keynote session for CETL Fall Convocation, September 2013
  • “What Data Analytics Can Tell Us About Our Students: Some Characteristics, Abilities and Patterns for Success,” with David Robinson, Miguel Martinez-Saenz, Brent Donnay, Chris Brown, Jered Magsam, and Richard Shearer. CETL Fall Convocation, September 2013
  • Invited Speaker in Keynote Panel Session “Continuing the Conversation on Technology for Teaching and Learning at SCSU: Current and Potential,” Fall Convocation, CETL, August 2013
  • Participant in “What Data Analytics Can Tell Us about Our Students: Some Characteristics, Abilities and Patterns for Success,” Fall Convocation, CETL, August 2013
  • Participant in session called “Integrating Medical Humanities into the Curriculum,” Fall Convocation, CETL, August 2013
  • “Still MOOing in English: Best Practice for Eliciting Authentic Language from English-language Learners in a Computer Lab Setting.” Midwest Regional TESOL Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 2002
  • “Internet2.” Panel discussion, with Randy Evans, Jim Bertram, Pat Kallevig, Tom Hergert, Paula Tompkins, and J. C. Turner. St. Cloud State University, 28 August 2002
  • “PDA Synching.” Panel discussion, with J. C. Turner and Karen Wenz. Workshop for Outlook Users. St. Cloud State University, 2 August 2001
  • “Technology in the Classroom,” with Judith Kilborn, for SCSU Faculty Forum day, April 2001
  • “Beyond Chat: Synchronous Communication Technologies in Classroom Practice.” Paper, SCSU conference, on a panel with Brian Miyagishima and Linda Davison. October 2000
  • On the SCSU Mediation program, with Theresia Fisher, Hedlund Wagner, and Carolyn Chalmers, for Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
  • “The MOO and Nonpresentational Pedagogy.” In a session “Technology in the Classroom,” which I also moderated. Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, St. Cloud State University, 20 October 2000
  • “‘Blessed Are the Peacemakers’ (Trends in Workplace Conflict Resolution).” Panel discussion, with Theresia Fisher, J. P. Auer, Steve McDeid, Buzz Snyder, and Rick Witt. Labor and Management Partership (LAMP) of Central Minnesota, 24 May 2000
  • “Teaching with Technology: What’s Left after the Bells and Whistles?” Panel discussion, with Jim Pehler, Gretchen Starks-Martin, and Paula Tompkins. Faculty Workshop, St. Cloud State University, 7 April 1999
  • “Electronic Classroom Operation: Using MOO.” Central Minnesota Instructional Technology Forum, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, April 1998
  • “First Steps into Real Talk and Virtual Spaces.” Individual presentation on a panel called “Thinking Collaboratively: New Approaches to Classroom Communication,” with Bruce Hyde, Jeff Ringer, and Jerry Wellik. Q-7 Statewide Conference: “The Integration of Multiple Perspectives to Promote Higher Order Thinking: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” St. Cloud State University, November 1996
  • “Reflecting upon Practice: Computers in the Classroom.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Conference, Alexandria, Minnesota, April 1996
  • “Reflecting upon Practice: Computers in the Classroom.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Conference, Alexandria, Minnesota, April 1996
  • “Electronic Discourse and Writing a Web Site.” East Central Writing Centers Association, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1995
  • “Setting up a Digital Library,” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Minneapolis, 1994
  • “In the Beginning” (excerpt from novel-in-progress), Salem State Writer’s Conference, June 1990
  • “George Gilder: Myth Maker for the New Right,” for Women’s Studies at the University of Lowell, November, 1986

Workshops and Seminars Delivered

  • “TeacherShop Live II: Advanced MOO Pedagogy”: A half-day workshop delivered at the Computers and Writing Conference, May 2002. With Kristina DeVoe and Judith Kilborn
  • “TeacherShop”: A multi-week workshop for teachers, offered as part of the Computers and Writing 2002 Online conference, with Tari Fanderclai, April-May 2002
  • “New MOOerShop”: A multi-week workshop for teachers, offered as part of the Computers and Writing 2002 Online conference, with John Walter, April-May 2002
  • Chairs and Directors Training: With Theresia Fisher. SCSU, organized by Provost Ali Malekzedeh
  • “MOOShop”: A multi-week workshop for teachers, offered as part of the Computers and Writing 2001 Online conference, with Tari Fanderclai, et al, April-May 2001
  • “MOOShop: Teaching and Building on a MOO”: An online workshop with writing teachers. With Tari Fanderclai, on connections.moo.mud.org:3333 (April, May 2001)
  • “MOOshop: Teaching and Building on a MOO”: An online workshop with writing teachers. With Tari Fanderclai, on connections.moo.mud.org:3333 (April, May 2000)
  • “Developing and Deploying a Cross-institutional Collaborative Writing Research Project”: An all-day preconference workshop. With Tari Fanderclai, Barry Maid, and Janice Walker. Computers and Writing 1999, Rapid City, South Dakota, June 1999
  • “MOOshop: Teaching and Building on a MOO”: An online workshop with writing teachers. With Tari Fanderclai, on connections.moo.mud.org:3333 (April, May 1999)
  • Workshop on MOOing: With Tari Fanderclai. Computers and Writing 1998, Gainesville, Florida, June 1998
  • “Computers in the Classroom”: An all-day preconference workshop for newbies. Dickie Selfe, coordinator, with others. CCCC96, Milwaukee (March 1996)
  • “Pulling It All Together”: A half-day post-conference workshop for newbies. With others. CCCC96, Milwaukee (March 1996)
  • “Using MOOs”: Eric Crump, coordinator, with others. International Computers and Writing (May 1995)
  • “Digital Manuscripts”: Editorial Services of New England (July 1993)
  • “The Effect of Computers on the Writing Processes of Pre-College Students,” for in-service training for the West Bay Collaborative staff members (writing faculty), Cranston Public Schools, Cranston, Rhode Island, March 1991.
  • “Electronic Production”: Digital Equipment Corp. (February 1990)
  • “Electronic Publishing”: Bookbuilders Advanced Technical Seminar (May 1989)
  • “Casting Off”: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. (October 1988)
  • “Editing”: Harvard Educational Review (June 1988)
  • “Technical Editing”: Data General Corp. (June 1987)
  • “Writing for Results”: Editorial Services of New England (May 1987)
  • “Electronic Publishing”: Editorial Services of New England (March 1987)
  • “Technical Editing”: Apollo Computer (January 1987)
  • “Electronic Publishing”: Editorial Services of New England (October 1986)

Internet Projects

Wikimedia Projects
  • Social Victorians: Parties, Performances, Weddings and Funerals, Threads and Knots Made Up of Eminent and Less-Than-Eminent Victorians at the End of the 19th Century. Wikiversity https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Social_Victorians
  • Tweeted Biddy as part of the community reading of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in the original 18 monthly installments exactly 150 years after they were published in All the Year Round, which was led by University of London’s Birkbeck Institute for Nineteenth-century Studies. The tweets have been Storified: https://storify.com/emmalcurry
  • Tweeted Mr. Podsnap as part of the community reading of Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend in the original 19 installments exactly 150 years after they were published, which was led by University of London’s Birkbeck Institute for Nineteenth-century Studies, 2014–2015
  • The “History” section of “Long S.” Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
  • “Arthur Collins (courtier).” Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Collins_(courtier) (This article was classified as a C-class article among the biography articles in about 2015. At first the C gave me pause, as if it were a grade, but of the 1,000,000 biography pages, 28,000 are classified as C-class, which puts it in the top 2.8%.)
  • Cogdill, Caitlin, and Sharon Cogdill. “Wikipedia’s Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon and the Gender Gap,” Wikimedia Blog 19 February 2014 (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/19/wikipedias-art-feminism-edit-a-thon/)
  • Queen Victoria’s Journals Editathon, 24 May 2013: One of two Americans participating in an Edit-a-Thon sponsored by the Bodleian Libraries to improve the Wikipedia pages linked to from Oxford University’s online edition of Queen Victoria’s journals. One of the approved editors of the sometimes-restricted Queen Victoria page
  • “The American Exhibition” (primary author, revised the article from a stub to its present form). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Exhibition
  • Edits and small contributions to a number of Wikipedia articles, all of which can be seen on my contributor page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Scogdill
Defunct But Interesting-at-the-Time Projects
  • LEO: Literacy Education Online, through the Write Place, St. Cloud State University. http://leo.stcloudstate.edu (1994–2010 or so), with Judith Kilborn and Keith Ewing. At its peak, this site received about 50,000 qualified “hits” a month (WebTrends analysis). Begun Summer 1994, with two successful tests in which handouts from The Write Place were translated into digital documents and made available on the Web; voted Second Most Useful Project for the Net at an early program in html at Syracuse (NY) University, 1994.
  • MOOing in English, with John Grether (1998). This was a large website intended as support for faculty, especially ESL faculty, and students using MOO (Multi-User Domain, Object-Oriented, essentially Dungeons and Dragons software) in the English-language classroom. “Headwaters” realm, including rooms The Agate Beach, American Culture (with exit “litter” from Agate Beach to American Culture), IEC, SCTC, 291, Greenhouse, Carrel, Lab, Elevator, Stairs, and Ingolstadt.
  • Interest-based Mediation Project for St. Cloud State University, its original website (1998).
  • First draft of Addison-Wesley’s support materials for their introduction-to-literature list of textbooks. (Summer 1997).
  • “Winter” realm, including rooms Winter, Warming House, underwater, and Sledding, on Connections (telnet://connections.moo.mud.org 3333). Walk to Winter. Also on Connections is the work of undergraduate students working under my guidance, including Frankie Raveill (Flax’s, Flax’s Whine Cellar, and Braincandy), Brian Hoskins (the Desert Basin), Maria Magdalena Escalas, and Paul Sams (Icehouse), Kim Batterton (The Magic Forest), Michelle Beckius (The Fire Swamp), among others. Also on Connections is work of graduate students Michelle Amundson (“The Ice Cave” and “The Mountain Cave”) and Janet Hagen and William Spath (the Agora, Logos, Ethos, and Pathos; and the sewer exit from Pathos), John Grether (American_Culture, IEC99, and related rooms), Naeko Naganuma (Atlantis), among others). The work of local faculty also appear: Judith Kilborn (The Grove of Reflection). “American_Pi” on Connections, with John Grether, a site for ESL instruction. This work on Connections has been the occasion for a number of online presentations to the computers and English community (1995-2004.)
  • “The Life of the Mind” and pendant rooms Right Eye and Left Eye on DaMOO.
  • “Laptop” on LinguaMOO.
  • Ekphrasis, SCSU MOO (1996-97).
  • “Latte” on MediaMOO

Teaching and Administrative Work

  • Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota (1993–2020)
    • Graduate Courses: 19th-Century British Literature; Introduction to Graduate Studies; Research Methods in Rhetoric and Writing: Interpretive and Qualitative Designs; Specialized Studies in Professional Communication — Digital Rhetoric and Curating Content; The Nineteenth-Century English Novel; Teaching College English: Literature; Specialized Projects in College Writing Pedagogy
    • Graduate/Undergraduate Courses: Digital Humanities; Advanced Theories of Rhetoric: Digital Rhetorics; Document Content and Design; Computers and English; Women in Literature
    • Undergraduate Courses: Capstone for the Major: Digital Humanities; Advanced Rhetorical Theory: Digital Rhetorics; 19th-century British Literature; The Romantic Age; Advanced Academic Writing; Introduction to English Studies; Introduction to Literature: The Doppelganger; Introduction to Rhetorical Writing (in a variety of versions)
    • Regularly co-taught Introduction to English Studies at the graduate and undergraduate level with Dr. Matthew Barton
  • Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Instructor, Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College (As graduate assistant assisted Richard Benvenuto in undergraduate courses in the Victorian Novel and Russell Nye in courses in American Literature.)

Administration

  • Interim Dean, College of Fine Arts and Humanities, SCSU (July 2008–July 2009)
  • Interim Dean, College of Social Sciences, SCSU (June 2005–July 2008)
  • Interim Lead Investigator, Claims of Discrimination, Harassment, and Hostile Environment, SCSU (November 2004–June 2005)
  • Interim Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs, SCSU (Summer 2004–January 2005)
  • Associate Dean, College of Fine Arts and Humanities, SCSU (1997–2004), with Dean Roland Specht-Jarvis

Additional Coursework and Formal Professional Development

  • AAC&U Online Scorers’ Calibration and Training, Summer 2016
  • DH&Guelph Summer Workshops, Omeka Workshop at the University of Guelph, Canada, May 2016
  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • Brown University, Rhode Island (with NEH-supported scholarship)
  • Digital Humanities Observatory, King’s College, Dublin (with NEH-supported scholarship)
  • Antiracism
    • Antiracism Organizing for Institutional Change (2004-2005, about 10 full days)
    • MCARI, Minnesota Collaborative Anti-racism Initiative
    • Leah Wing, training for mediation program in critical race theory (Spring 2003)
  • Mediation and Conflict Management
    • William Wilmot, advanced mediation workshop in large groups; long-term, persistent conflict; intake (Spring 2005); SCSU Mediation Program
    • Leah Wing (as above)
    • Janelle Soderquist, training for mediation program (Spring 2003)
    • Bureau of Mediation Services, State of Minnesota
    • Private Mediation Training Group: Interest-based Mediation Model in a Collective-bargaining Environment (1997–99)
  • Management Analysis Division, Minnesota Department of Administration: Performance Measurement Training (Outcome-based Performance Measures (1998)
  • Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), Seminar for New Deans (1998)
  • Harvard Extension: Data Structures (1984); Pascal Programming (1984)
  • Bookbuilders Guild Technical Seminars: Paper Manufacturing (1988), Four-Color Film Preparation (1984), Introduction to Paper (1984)

Grants

  • Provost Action Grant for 2013–2014, with Betsy Glade, to develop a certificate program in Digital Humanities for SCSU. Total grant: $8,871.00.
  • Scholarship grant to attend and participate in the DHSI Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 2011. Grant: $500.
  • Scholarship grant to participate in a workshop on Ontologies at the Text Encoding Initiative Conference, TEI, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2011. Grant: $500.
  • Pilot Project to Establish Regional Centers for Technological Expertise, with Dan Baun (Principal Investigator), Richard Josephson, et al. $950,000 requested; $1.485 million awarded. c. 1995.
  • SCSU Student Computer Use Fee Committee, “Request for Support for SCSU’s Write Place, approved, with Judith Kilborn, c. 1995.
  • SCSU Student Computer Use Fee Committee, “Request for Support for English Department Computer Lab, approved, c. 1995.
  • STTR, Department of Health and Human Services Small Business Research Program, Vertran, 30 November 1994, with Jay Johnson, Norm Braaten, Denise Winkelman. Requested $58,667. Awarded.
  • STAR (A System of Technology to Achieve Results), Minnesota Governors Advisory Council on Technology for People with Disabilities,Vertran Stand-up Wheelchair Project, 29 September 1994, with Jay Johnson, Norm Braaten, Denise Winkelman. Awarded $7,500.
  • Central Minnesota Community Foundation Grant, Vertran, 1 September 1994, with Jay Johnson, Norm Braaten, Denise Winkelman — awarded $3,000.
  • Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation, Vertran Stand-up Wheelchair: The Collaborative Efforts of SCSU and Jay Johnson, September 1994, with Denise Winkelman, Jay Johnson, Norm Braaten — awarded. $20,000 requested.
  • Central Minnesota Community Initiative Foundation, Vertran, 1 September 1994, with Jay Johnson, Norm Braaten, Denise Winkelman. Requested $2,500. Bush Faculty Development Grant, Digital Library, June 1994 — awarded $2,000.
  • Extramural Grant, St. Cloud State University, Digital Library, November 1993, with Dennis Guster — awarded $4,000.
  • President’s Initiative Fund, Vertran Wheelchair Project, October 1993, with Jay Johnson, Mary Powers, Norm Braaten, and Vertran project team — awarded $15,000.

Professional Work with Print Publishers

Development/Technical Editor/Ghost Writer

  • Publish It!, 2/e, Simone (Microsoft Press, 1993), awarded a national prize in 1994 for design and production
  • Software scripts for Economics, Parkin (Addison-Wesley, 1992)
  • The Official Guide to the Prodigy Service, Viescas (Microsoft Press, 1991)
  • Introduction to Computer Science Using Pascal, Riley (Boyd & Fraser, 1987)
  • Introduction to Computer Science Using Modula-2, Riley (Boyd & Fraser, 1987)
  • Data Structures Using Modula-2, Riley (Boyd & Fraser, 1987)
  • Database Management and Design, Pratt and Adamski (Boyd & Fraser, 1987)
  • Structuring Programs in Microsoft BASIC, Cox and Sullivan (Boyd & Fraser, 1987)
  • Applesoft BASIC Fundamentals and Style, Quasney and Maniotes (Boyd & Fraser, 1986)
  • Data Communications Software Design, Lane (Boyd & Fraser, 1985)
  • Fortran, Brainerd, Goldberg and Gross (Boyd & Fraser, 1985)
  • Advanced Structured COBOL: Batch and Interactive, Horn and Gleason (Boyd & Fraser, 1985)
  • Complete BASIC: For the Short Course, Quasney and Maniotes (Boyd & Fraser, 1985)
  • Pascal, Goldberg, Brainerd and Gross (Boyd & Fraser, 1984)
  • BASIC Fundamentals and Style, Quasney and Maniotes (Boyd & Fraser, 1984)

Production Manager

  • Editor and production manager for The Book of Virtues: 1997–98 College of Fine Arts and Humanities Compendium as well as 1998–1999 version
  • The Student Edition of MathCAD, 2/e, Anderson (Addison-Wesley, 1988)
  • The Student Edition of Minitab, Schafer and Anderson (Addison-Wesley, 1988)
  • The Student Edition of MathCAD, Anderson (Addison-Wesley, 1987)
  • Consultant to Production Manager
  • Excel User Guide (Microsoft Press, 1991)
  • Neurocomputing, Vol. 2 (MIT Press, 1990)
  • The Student Edition of dBASE IV, Senn and Krumm (Addison-Wesley, 1989)
  • Education Consultant to Project Manager for Editorial Services of New England, Inc., and IBM Corporation (1989)

Copyeditor and Proofreader

  • From Oz to Om: The Spiritual Journey Home, by Tracy Flynn Bowe. (Three Sisters, 2017)
  • The Land beyond Forever, by Tracy Bowe (Three Sisters, 2006)
  • Practical Typecasting: A Type Founder’s Compendium (Oak Knoll Books, 1992)
  • Expert Advisor: 1-2-3, Williams (Addison-Wesley, 1987)
  • The Excel Advanced User’s Guide, Loggins (Howard W. SAMS, a division of Macmillan, 1987)
  • Proofreader for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1991–1994)

M.A./M.S. Thesis Committees

(a partial list)

  • Advisor, 2020
    • Jon Cotner, “Picasso Baby: Hearing JAY-Z through the Ears of Gramsci, Or How Language Has the Power to Effect Change”
    • Casey Fuller, “A Plot against the Perfect Revenge”
    • Amy Gagne, “Increasing Engagement and Retention: Teaching Classic Literature through the Use of Geoinquiry”
    • Eva Mead, “Rhetsec (Rhetorical Security): Using Rhetorical Frameworks to Analyze Phishing as an Offensive Technique”
    • Jenna Saunders, “Let’s Talk: A Study of Dialogic Feedback in a First-Year Composition Classroom”
  • Member of committee, 2020
    • Sarah Steinfeldt, Nina Clark, Jared Larson, Stella Sandager
  • Advisor, 2019
    • Brilynn Janckila, “Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Not Like Other Girls: In Defense of Teenage Girls”
  • Member of committee, 2019
    • Ahmed Ahmed, Jason Badger, Ashley Croteau, Xue Jiang, Chad Kuehn, Dana Kuntz, Whitney Nasca, Regina Reese, Chinwe Roberts, Nathaniel Stoll
  • Advisor, 2018
    • Hye Hyon Kim, “The Struggling Fight of Poverty and Survival in the Publishing Field in George Gissing’s New Grub Street”
    • John Yu-Choh Chang, “Situating the Voice of Rhetoric for College Writing: A Paolo Freire Reading of Adichi’s Speech on ‘The Danger of a Single Story’”
  • Member of committee, 2018
    • Thana Aljumaah, Lauren Ergen, Faisal Hayow, Bhasker Roa Jakkula, Lauren Thoma
  • Member of committee, 2017
    • Lisa Bertrand, Megan Ceballos, Megan Dickinson, Janelle Krzykowski, Brian McCooley, Mara Martinson, James Powers, Benjamin Reigstad, Benjamin Stonehocker, Naomi Weyaus
  • Advisor, 2016
  • Advisor, 2015
    • Paul Lawrence
  • Member of committee, 2016
    • Mara Martinson, Jestine Ware
  • Member of committee, 2015
    • Leah Heilig, Tamara Wudinich
  • Advisor, 2014
    • Elizabeth Ferguson
  • Member of Committee, 2014
    • Erin Schaefer
  • Advisor, 2012
    • Alex Blenkush
  • Member of committee, 2010
    • Kurt Milberger
  • Member of Committee
    • Catherine Morin, Caitlin Hites, Nichole Held, Ania Cramer
  • Advisor, 2002
    • John Harrison, starred paper and creative project: hypertext fiction
  • Member of committee, 2001
    • Colleen Burke, “Discussion of Black Elk Speaks.” Hypertext thesis
  • Advisor, 1999
    • Christine Grossman, “Victor Frankenstein: A Case Study in Modernity”
  • Advisor, 1998
    • Christopher Oveson, “An Innocent Little Collection” (hypertext poetry and art)
  • Member of committee, 1998
    • Kellie Tatge, Harry Weseloh
  • Advisor, 1997
    • Joseph Gregory Brister, “The Semiotic Consciousness: Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and James Joyce.” Nominated for St. Cloud State University Best Thesis of the Year Award.
  • Member of committee, 1997
    • Janet Hagen, “The Satanic Verses Revisited: A Feminist Perspective.” Winner, St. Cloud State University Best Thesis of the Year Award.
  • Advisor, 1996
    • Dean Lappi, “A Historical Study of Anarchy in Relation to the Internet” and “The Wastebasket.” Starred papers (with creative option)
  • Advisor, 1995
    • Andrea Stary-Fine, “The Arthurian Legend in the Victorian Age.”
  • Member of committee, 1995
    • Kirstin Bratt, “The Emergence of Voice and Identity in the Context of the Neo-Colonial Experience: The Writings of Jamaica Kincaid”
  • Advisor, 1994
    • Michael LaFleur, “Changing Literacy”
    • Saundra Foderick, hypertext edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Service

… on Boards of Directors

  • 2003–2013, Secretary, St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, and member of the Board of Directors (member only, 2002–2003.
  • 1999–2003, at-large member, Board of Directors, Association of Integrative Studies
  • 2003–2005, member, Board of Directors, Theatre L’Homme Dieu
  • 2002–2003, Secretary, Board of Directors, Theatre L’Homme Dieu
  • 2000, member, Editorial Board, Online Writing Center Consortium

… to the Discipline

(list is incomplete)

  • 2014, Betsy Glade and Sharon Cogdill, Digital History Project Review of “African-American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.” Howard Dodson, Chief. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/. Journal of American History. December 2014
  • Chair and commentator for session “Amusement and Education in a Playful Public Sphere,” North American Conference on British Studies, Minneapolis, MN, November 2014
  • 2003–2004, member, Communication Technologies committee, Association of Integrative Studies
  • 2001, member, Program Committee, Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference, Madison, South Dakota, April 2001. Introduced keynote speaker Michael Joyce
  • 1999, member, Organizing Committee and Program Committee, 1999 Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, South Dakota
  • 1998, co-chair, Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, April 1998. Introduced keynote speaker R.U. Sirius
  • 1995–98, co-director and thus member of the board, Great Plains Region of the Alliance for Computers and Writing
  • 1995–96, chair, Computer Research Section, Midwest/Modern Language Association
  • 1994–95, secretary, Computer Research Section, Midwest/Modern Language Association
  • 1994–1995, associate Editor and Production Manager, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  • 1992, English and Technology Consultant to Wakefield High School computerized Writing and Publishing Program
  • 1983–84, chair, English II: English Literature After 1800, Midwest/Modern Language Association
  • 1982–83, Secretary, English II, M/MLA

… to the University

(list is incomplete)

  • 2018–2019, member, Student Complaint Review Committee, College of Liberal Arts
  • 2015–2017, contributor and participant in the Written Communication assessment project for the Minnesota and Multi-State Collaborative (attended meetings, provided feedback, and scored 100 artifacts) as well as the umbrella organization AAC&U
  • 2016, British Studies Committee
  • 2015–2016, contributor to SCSU HuskyData newsletters, mostly working with effective communication of the data
  • 2012–2016, co-facilitator with David Robinson, Graduate Analytics group, trying to help “quants” develop data for communicators in the university
  • 2014–2015, leader, CETL faculty Community of Practice looking at the AAC&U Values rubric for the assessment of the institutional outcome on written communication
  • 2014–2015, member, Faculty Learning Community on the Common Read author Margaret Atwood
  • 2012–2014, Write Place Graduate Student Writing Retreat, responded to graduate students’ and faculty writing in support of their large writing projects (organized by writing-center director Carol Mohrbacher)
  • 2011–2014, faculty co-chair with administrator co-chair Daniel Gregory and then in 2014 Patricia Hughes, Graduate School Planning Task Force
  • 2012–2013, member, CIO search committee
  • 2012, member, Judging Committee for Ronald G. Perrier Film Studies Scholarship
  • 2011, co-facilitator with Mark Jaede, Chairs Wisdom Collaborative, CETL workshop
  • 2008–2010, faculty member, Technology Planning Task Force
  • Administrator Co-Chair with Faculty Co-Chair, Community of Scholars Planning Task Force
  • 1998–2005, coordinator, co-coordinator and member of the SCSU Mediation Program and coordinator (alternative-dispute resolution program between SCSU MnSCU administrators and members of the various collective-bargaining units on campus, including Inter Faculty Association, MSUAASF, AFSCME, MMA, MSUAASF, and MAPE); Coordinator 1999-2001, Co-coordinator with Theresia Fisher 1998-1999
  • 1998–2003, general administrative duties at the university level include the following: Member, Task Force on Restructuring, Fall 2003; Member, Internal Review Committee, Spring 2003; College of Science and Engineering Interim Dean search committee, Spring 2003; Member, Research Committee, 1998-1999, including analysis of the place of Sponsored Programs in the organization of the university
  • 1998, writer of the first technology plan for the SCSU Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable for St. Cloud State University, as well as its website
  • 1997–2001, member, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable (TLTR) (as an administrator representing the College of Fine Arts and Humanities)
  • 1996–1997, quondam convener, Faculty Association Technological Resources Committee; member, University Animal Use and Care Committee
  • 1995–96, member, Faculty Association Computer Committee; member, University Animal Use and Care Committee
  • 1994–95, member, Faculty Senate Executive Council, Faculty Association Computer Committee
  • 1993–95, member: Vertran Standing Wheelchair Research Project, Animal Use and Care Committee
  • 1992, host and organizer, Writing across the Curriculum Conference: Writing in the Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • 1992, cohost, Writing across the Curriculum Teleconference, U Mass Lowell.

… to the English Department

… at St. Cloud State University

(list is incomplete)

  • English-department advisor: 2012–2014 BA Major/Minor, English Studies and Literature; 2011–12 BA Major/Minor, Rhetoric and Applied Writing
  • 2010?–20, member, Literature Caucus, Rhetoric Caucus
  • 2018–19; 2011–13, member, Faculty and Student Concerns Committee, Article 22 (Professional Development) & 25 (Promotion, Tenure, and Non-Renewal)
  • 2015–17, Curriculum and Scheduling, Graduate Steering, reading applications for adjuncts for the department
  • 2013–15, member, Professional Student Affairs Committee
  • 2014–15ff, Assessment Coordinator
  • 2011–12, Budget Committee
  • 1996-97, chair, Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; member, Graduate Steering Committee and Curriculum Committee
  • 1995–96, chair, Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; member, Graduate Steering Committee and Curriculum Committee
  • 1994–95, chair: Administrative Committee
  • 1993, LEO (Literacy Education Online, formerly Digital Library Committee), Administrative Committee, Committee on Committees, Relatively Long-Range Technological Needs Planning Committee

… at University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • 1987–92 Member: Advising Committee, Computer Committee
  • 1988–89 Convener: Computer Committee
  • 1987–89 Member: Freshman Writing Committee, Library Committee
  • 1987–92 member, Advising Committee, Computer Committee
  • 1988–89, convener, Computer Committee
  • 1987–89, member: Freshman Writing Committee, Library Committee

… to the Community

(list is incomplete)

  • 2014–present, Internal-communications Consultant for the Filia Foundation, Financial Officer, Grace Timmons
  • 1994-95, desktop-publishing consultant in elementary schools in St. Cloud, Minnesota
  • 1991–93, member: Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Committee of the Corporation for the Celebration of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, Massachusetts; member: Publicity Subcommittee
  • 1990–93, Technology Consultant to Principal, Ponagansett High School, Rhode Island
  • 1988–93, University of Lowell Writer’s Conference: hosted and interacted with Allen Ginsberg (which included a conversation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti to organize the books table), Tim O’Brien, Carolyn Chute, and others
  • 1992, consultant to Wakefield, MA, High School computerized Writing and Publishing Program
  • 1991–92, writer: program notes and pedagogical materials for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell
  • 1991, consultant for publications: Lighthouse School, Chelmsford, MA
  • 1991, technology consultant to West Bay Collaborative staff, Cranston, Rhode Island, Public Schools

Miscellaneous

  • 2016–present, communications consultant for the Filia Foundation
  • 2010–present, co-founder and member, research and writing group variously called “the Caribou group,” “the cool kids,” or, by others, “the brainy chicks club”
  • “Professional” Dissertation Nag or Thesis Nag for anybody who agrees to it. One successful doctoral candidate wrote the sweetest thing in his acknowledgements for his dissertation: http://www.vnsbrieven.org/VNS/DALF.xq?act=form&lang=en. Lisa Foss also acknowledged my support of her work in a very touching way.
  • Back in the day: Macintosh, DOS and Windows, VMS (VAX, Prime), UNIX (ULTRIX 4.4, Solaris, Atex), Wang, plus appropriate software; Internet and networking expertise
  • Languages: reading knowledge of French and German, very early contact with Persian (Farsi) and Vietnamese
  • Tattoo: Lyle Tuttle, San Francisco
  • 1980–81 Member, Women’s Advisory Committee to the Provost, Michigan State University
  • 1979–80 Graduate Student Representative to the M.S.U. Board of Trustees; Member, University Graduate Council and its Agenda Committee
  • 1979–80 President, M.S.U. Council of Graduate Students, with a voice but not a vote on the Board of Michigan State University
  • 1979–80 Graduate School Fellowship, M.S.U.
  • 1979–80 Listed in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and invited a number of times since