PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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Service, to both my university and to my discipline, is one of the most rewarding parts of working in higher education. In the 2020-2021 academic year, I served as Clemson University’s Assistant Director of First Year Composition. In this role, I assisted first-time graduate writing instructors with their teaching responsibilities. Additionally, I helped to redesign the Composition programs curriculum, created video content for the program’s YouTube channel, and compiled resources and lesson plans for program-wide distribution. I also enjoy serving on Clemson’s Advanced Writing Committee as well as its First Year Composition Committee. Additionally, in my PhD program’s chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America, I’ve served in various roles such as President, Professional Development Coordinator, Archivist, and Graduate Student Government Senator. In fact, during my year as our RSA chapter’s President, our organization won RSA’s “Outstanding Graduate Student Chapter” award (2020-2021 AY).
Additionally, my Service work stretches beyond Clemson and into the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition. I serve as the Assistant Communications Editor for Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum. I also help to create educational YouTube videos on the discipline of Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) on behalf of more than ten TPC academic journals and book series. I’ve helped organize professional conferences such as the Carolina Rhetorics Conference, have reviewed manuscripts for publishers such as Writing Spaces, Parlor Press, and The Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, and I’ve served on the Digital Presence Committee for WPA-GO. I was a HASTAC Scholar for the 2018-2020 term, and am currently a Bedford/St. Martin’s New Scholar.
National Leadership Roles
Assistant Communications & Social Media Editor— XChanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum
YouTube Editorial Team member, Technical and Professional Communication academic journals YouTube account (Ten reputable TPC scholarly journals participating)
Digital Presence Committee, WPA-GO, 2019-2020
Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboration (HASTAC) Scholar, 2019-2020
Conference and Event Organization
Carolina Rhetorics Conference, Planning Committee, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Departmental and University Service
Advanced Writing Committee, Clemson University Department of English, 2021-2022
First-Year Composition Committee, Clemson University First-Year Composition Program
President, Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson University chapter (Society of the Third Sophistic),2020-2021.
Professional Development Coordinator, Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson University chapter (Society of the Third Sophistic), 2019-2020. Thirteen professional development workshops planned, organized, and hosted. Six meetings coordinated between Clemson graduate students and Clemson English Department job candidates.
Archivist, Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson University chapter (Society of the Third Sophistic), 2019-2020. Twelve guest lectures, 6 dissertation and comprehensive exam defenses, and 4 program workshops recorded, edited, and archived.
Discussion leader & organizer, Digital Rhetoric Reading Group, Clemson University Rhetoric Society of America- 3 sessions, Summer 2020.
Summer Book Club Leader, Pearce Center for Professional Communication, Clemson University—”Technology, Language, & Leadership” track
Featured Interviews
Clemson Creatives Jam Session, Adobe Creative Jam (2019). Interview on digital learning and creativity, Christopher Stuart, Clemson University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaV6NNKxXs
ACADEMIC GRANTS
Micro-Grant, American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR), ($50), Spring 2020
Campbell Fund Grant, Campbell Chair in Technical Communication, Clemson University ($200), Spring 2020
Professional Enrichment Grant, Clemson University Graduate Student Government ($750), Spring 2020
Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Travel Grant, Clemson University ($700), Spring 2020
Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Travel Grant, Clemson University ($700), Spring 2020
Graduate Travel Grant, Graduate Research Network- Computers & Writing Conference, Lansing M.I. ($100), Summer 2019
Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Travel Grant, Clemson University ($700), Spring 2019
Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Travel Grant, Clemson University ($700), Spring 2019
Professional Enrichment Grant, Clemson University Graduate Student Government ($750), Spring 2019
Professional Enrichment Grant, Clemson University Graduate Student Government ($750), Fall 2018
Father Edward J. O’Heron Scholarship, English Dept., SUNY Cortland ($500), Spring 2014
Marion C. Thompson Memorial Scholarship, English Dept., SUNY Cortland ($500), Spring 2015
PUBLIC AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
The ReTold Histories of Clemson – Clemson University FYC documentary filmmaking public humanities
project (2018-2019 academic year): https://retoldhistoriesofclemson.home.blog/.
Stand Up!: The Academic UnEssay– SUNY Cortland FYC multimedia project (Fall 2017): https://cortlandcomp03.wordpress.com/unessays/.
Sparking Change– SUNY Cortland FYC multimedia project (Spring 2017)
Crystallize Review, senior editor and web designer- SUNY Cortland (2014-2015).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR)
- Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
- Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC)
- Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboration (HASTAC)
- Modern Language Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Rhetoric Society of America
- Seven Valleys Writing Project
- Sigma Tau Delta
- Society of the Third Sophistic (Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson University)
- WPA-GO
