Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (9/92-present)

Associate Professor with Tenure; Department of English

Director of the First-Year Writing Program

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire (9/82-6/92)

Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum (1986-1992)

Director of Freshman Writing Program (1988-1992)

Director of the Writing Center (1982-1990)

Morgan Park Academy, Chicago, Illinois (9/77-6/80)

High School English Teacher

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, Ph.D. in English

(Composition Studies and Literature), 1991

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, M.A. in English Language and Literature, 1977

Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, B.A. in English, 1975

Co-Edited Book:

Taking Stock: Reassessing the Writing Process Movement in the 90s. Co-edited with Thomas Newkirk. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1994.

Single-Authored Book:

Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1993.

Articles and Essays

"You Virtually Can’t Get There From Here," The Fourth Genre: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, forthcoming in Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002.

"Process Pedagogy," A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. Eds. Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick. New York: Oxford UP, 2001: 1-18.

"Yo Are Invited.. To Leave," The Fourth Genre: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1999: 44-51.

"Reading and Writing About Death, Disease, and Dysfunction, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation." Narration and Knowledge" Tales of the Teaching Life. Ed. Joseph F. Trimmer. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1997, 71-83.

"The Case for Double-Voiced Discourse," The Elements of Alternate Style: Essays on Writing and Revision. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1997: 44-53.

"Car Wrecks, Baseball Caps, and Man-to-Man Defense: The Personal Narratives of Adolescent Males." College English 58 (1996): 22-39.

"Teaching Against the Teaching Against Pedagogy: Reading Our Classrooms, Writing Our Selves." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 33-34 (1996): 68-84.

"How the Writing Process Movement Was Born and Other Conversion Narratives," Taking Stock: Reassessing the Writing Process Movement in the 90s. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1994.

"Reading Students, Reading Ourselves: Towards Redefining the Teacher’s Role in the Writing Class." College English 53 (1991): 333-348.

"In a Radically Different Voice: Gender and Language in the Trials of Anne Hutchinson," Early American Literature 25 (1990): 253-270.

"Writing Between the Lines." Vital Signs 2: Learning and Using Language Collaboratively. Ed. James Collins. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1990.

"Bridging Gaps: Analyzing Student Metaphors for Composing." College Composition and Communication 40 (1989): 444-58.

"Productive Tension in the Writing Conference: Studying Our Students and Ourselves," To Compose: Teaching Writing in High School and College, 2nd ed. Ed. Thomas Newkirk, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books, 1989.

"Faculty Training in Computers and Composition: Recommendations and Warnings," College Composition and Communication, 38 (1987): 195-98.

Interview

"Writing With Humor in the Classroom," Writing Teacher, May 1998, Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 4-6

"Car Wrecks, Baseball Caps, and Man-to-Man Defense: The Personal Narratives of Adolescent Males." Writing, Learning, Teaching: A Sourcebook. Ed. Richard Graves. Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999: 79-96.

"Reading Students, Reading Ourselves: Towards Redefining the Teacher’s Role in the Writing Class." The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, 4^th Ed. Eds. Corbett, P.J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.

"Using Computers for Collaborative Writing: An Interdisciplinary Project." Grant Writer and Project Director. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), Department of Education, 1988-91. Total Award: $113,000.

"The Establishment of a Writing Center." Project Director. Title III, Department of Education, 1982-85. Total Award: $140,000.

Faculty member, Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute on the Teaching of Writing, July 2001.

Special Citation for 1991 FIPSE Grant in Lessons Learned III: Exemplary FIPSE Projects, Winter 1996.

Keynote Speaker, "Using a Fake ID: Constructing a Teaching Self," Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric, University of Louisville, October 2001.

Keynote Speaker, "Compositing Our Selves: Composition and Creative Nonfiction," University of New Hampshire Conference on Writing and Rhetoric, September 2001.

Keynote Speaker, "I'm Afraid Our Time's About Up: Writing Instruction, Therapy, and Risk, University of New Hampshire Conference on Writing and Rhetoric, October 1996.

Invited Speaker, "Really Reading Student Essays: A Personal Narrative in Five Uneasy Pieces," Speakers' Series: Composition and Rhetoric, Florida State University, 1996.

Invited Speaker, "Is There a Text in this Text?" The Rhode Island Writing Project Speakers' Series. Rhode Island College, 1997.

Appointment to Editorial Board of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (monograph series of College Composition and Communication), Southern Illinois UP, 1998-present.

Appointment to Editorial Board of The Fourth Genre: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Michigan State UP, 1998-present.

Appointment to Editorial Board of Pedagogy, Duke UP, 1999-present.

Appointment to Area Committee on Writing of the Journal of the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 1996.

Consulting Reader, Heinemann Boynton/Cook Educational Publishers, 1989-1996.

Consulting Reader, College Composition and Communication, 1989-1993.

"Fear and Loathing of Fear and Loathing: Composition’s Love-Hate Relationship with Emotion," Conference of College Composition and Communication, forthcoming, Chicago, March 2002.

"On (Not) Policing the Workshop: Balancing Free Speech, Artistic License, and a Safe Environment." Conference of Associated Writing Programs, Palm Springs, April 2001.

"Confessions, Immersions, Meditations, and Rants: How to Teach Composition as Creative Nonfiction," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Denver, March 2001.

"The Benefits of Boredom, Countertransference, and Inactive Language: The Role of the Teacher’s Unconscious in the Writing Class," Education and the Unconscious, Santa Barbara, November 2000.

"Composition’s Misplaced Anxieties About Confessional Writing," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April 2000.

"Family Stories and Other Secrets We Keep From Ourselves." The University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, October 1999.

 "Referring Ourselves to the Counseling Center: A Psychodynamic Perspective on Boredom, Burnout, and Breakdown," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, March 1999.

"Illiteracy Narratives: What We Can learn From Our Own Resistances to Reading and Writing," Stories in the Classroom: Narration as Knowledge (sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English), Tucson, April 1999.

"Critical Theory and Composition Practice: Reading and Responding to Student Writing," National Council of Teachers of English, San Diego, November, 1998.

"Gender Wars in Cyberspace: A Teenage Girl's On-Line Writing Life ," University of Hawaii Conference on Computers and Writing, Honolulu, May 1997.

"What I'm Walling In, What I'm Walling Out: Personal Writing as Shibboleth."

Conference of College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, March 1997.

"Form and Theory Courses for Undergraduate Writers: Creative Nonfiction." Conference of Associated Writing Programs, Atlanta, April 1996.

"Responding to Our Students' 'Literature of Personal Disaster.'" Conference of College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March 1996.

"Personal Writing: Use and Abuse," National Council of Teachers of English, San Diego, November 1995.

"Reading Troubling Texts: Responding to the Painfully Confessional, the Politically Incorrect, and the Just Plain Dull," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Washington, DC, March 1995.

"Why We Need First-year Writing Programs: A Response to Critics," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Washington, DC, March 1995.

"Listening Between the Lines: New Ways to Read Our Students' Writing," National Council of Teachers of English, Orlando, November 1994.

"Clinical Composition: Responsible Response to Troubling Texts, University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, October 1994.

"Writing About Teaching," University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, October 1994.

"Writing the English Department," ADE Summer Seminar (Conference of the Associated Departments of English), Oxford, Mississippi, July 1994.

"Why We Should Spend Our Summer Vacation Reading About Embarrassing Moments, Car Wrecks, and Dying Pets: The Case for Autobiographical Writing," The Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, Wyoming, June 1994.

"Problems and Possibilities in Writing Program Administration: Student is to TF as TF is to Writing Director as Writing Director is to English Department," National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, 1993.

"The New Case for Non-linear, Co-Authored, Dialogic Texts," 6th Annual British Conference on Writing and Computers, Aberystwyth, Wales, 1993.

"Gender Studies and the Teaching of Writing: Reading and Misreading the Personal Narratives of Adolescent Males," Conference of College Composition and Communication, San Diego, 1993.

"Learning to Love Car Wrecks, Homesickness, and Dead Relatives: Improving Our Own Reading Process," University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, 1992.

"Learning to Read Student Texts: Transferring Literary Theory to Composition Practice," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, 1992.

"More Writing Between the Lines: Theoretical Assumptions of WAC Programs," The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1991.

"Beyond the Rhetoric of Collaboration: Competition in Composition." Conference of College Composition and Communication, Boston, 1991.

"The Case for Co-Authored, Non-Linear, Soft-Copied, Dialogic Texts." University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, 1990.

"The Most Important Effect of Computers in Composition: More Political than Pedagogical." The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1990.

"Not All Social Acts are Collaborative: Peer Competition in Freshman English," The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1990.

"Writing Between the Lines: Embedded Text in Collaborative Essays," University of Minnesota Conference on Computers and Writing, 1989.

"Analyzing the Metaphors Students Use to Describe Their Writing," Conference of College Composition and Communication, Seattle, 1989.

"Replacing the Carrot with the Couch: Freud's New Influence in Freshman Comp," Conference of College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, 1988.

"Other Views of the Composing Process: Outside the Writing Classroom," Chair, Conference of College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, 1987.

"Using Word Processing for Collaborative Composition: What, Why, and How," University of Pittsburgh Conference on Computers and Writing, Pittsburgh, 1986.

"Faculty Workshops in Computers and Writing: Practical Advice," UCLA Conference on Computers and Writing, Los Angeles, 1985.

I have worked as a writing consultant or workshop leader for a number of schools and organizations, including The Boston Globe; Brandeis University; Old Dominion University; Florida State University; Portsmouth-Exeter Mental Health Center; Brighton High School (Boston, MA); The University of New Hampshire; Rhode Island College; The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; The Carroll School of Management; Salem State College; North Shore Community College; Anna Maria College; Colby-Sawyer College; The Derryfield School; Oyster River Middle School (Durham, New Hampshire); and The New Hampshire College and University Council.