PEGEEN REICHERT POWELL

Columbia College Chicago | 600 South Michigan Ave | Chicago, IL 60506 | 312-369-8231 | [email protected]

Education

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Ph.D. in English with double major in Composition/Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics, August 2001 Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; M.A. with distinction, English with concentration in Writing, 1995 University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota; B.A. magna cum laude, English and Spanish, 1991

Employment

Interim Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Columbia College Chicago, IL July 2017-present Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2011-present Associate Chair, English Department, January 2017-June 2017 Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, January 2014-June 2017 Assistant Professor, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Aurora University, Aurora, IL, 2005-2007 Assistant Professorial Lecturer, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL, 2004-2005 Mellon Lecturing Fellow, University Writing Program, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2001-2004 Part-time Instructor, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2000-2001 Assistant Director of the Writing Program, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1999-2000 Teaching Associate, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1996-2000 Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1995-1996 Teaching Assistant, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 1993-1995

Publications

Books

Retention and Resistance: Writing Instruction for Students who Leave. Utah State UP, 2014. Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal and Public Discourse. Edited collection, with Jocelyn Fenton Stitt. SUNY P, 2010.

Journal Articles

“An Ecology of Influence: CIWIC/DMAC Alumni at Columbia College Chicago,” with Suzanne Blum Malley, Ames Hawkins, Ryan Trauman, Corrine Calice, and Jonn Salovaara. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2015. “Retention Risks and Realities,” with Danielle Aquiline. Open Words: Access and English Studies. Fall 2009. “Retention and Writing Instruction: Implications for Access and Pedagogy.” CCC. June 2009. “Critical Discourse Analysis and Composition Studies: A Study of Presidential Discourse and Campus Discord." CCC. February 2004. “A Contributing Listener and Other Composition Wives: Reading and Writing the Feminine Metaphors in Composition Studies." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. January 1996. Chapters in Edited Collections

“Absolute Hospitality in the Writing Program.” Overcoming Writers’ Block: Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs. Eds. Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth Brunk Chavez. Utah State U P, 2017. “What is Retention?” with Heidi Estrem and Dawn Shephard. Rhetoric for WPAs 2nd Edition. Ed. Rita Malenczyk. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2016. “Interventions at the Intersections: An Analysis of Public Writing and Student Writing." Writing against the Curriculum: Antidisciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom. Eds. Ryan M. Claycomb and Randi Kristensen. Lexington Books, 2009. “Balancing Act: Discourses of Feminism, Motherhood, and Activism." Feminist Mothering. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2008. “Facing the Audience: Reconsidering 'Audience' Through the Chinese Concept Of 'Face.'" Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village. Ed. C. Jan Swearingen. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1999.

Book Reviews

Review of After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching by Paul Lynch. Composition Forum 32 (Fall 2015). Review of The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence by SuEllen Hamkins and Renee Schultz. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 10.1 (Spring/Summer 2008).

Works in Progress

Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition. I am the editor of this collection and author of the Introduction, “What is Writing?” under contract with MLA Publications.

Presentations (Selected, 2005-present)

Keynote address for a half-day workshop on retention. Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2017. Portland, OR. Presenter, “Writing by Any Other Name.” Modern Language Association. January 2017. Philadelphia, PA. Co-presenter, “Engaging Multiple Perspectives through Program-wide Investigations of Writing and Transfer Research.” Council on Writing Program Administration. July 2016. Raleigh, NC. Panel Chair, Decolonizing Retention. Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2016. Houston, TX. Co-presenter, “Threshold to What? Teaching Transient Knowledge about Writing” (with Hilary Sarat-St. Peter). Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2016. Houston, TX. Presenter, “New Media in the Writing Classroom: Responsibilities and Challenges.” NCTE. November 2015. Minneapolis, MN. [Proposal was accepted but because of cancelled flight due to weather, I did not present.] Presenter, “Welcome to My Home/Page: Hospitality in Face-to-face and Digital Classrooms.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2014. Indianapolis, IN. Presenter, “Seizing the Opportunity: A Kairotic Pedagogy and Curriculum.” Council on Writing Program Administration. July 2013. Savannah, GA. Keynote Speaker, “Mothers Who Deliver.” Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement Conference on “Communicating Motherhood/Mothers: Communicating High Culture to Pop Culture to New Social Media.” June 2013. Toronto, ON. Invited Speaker, “Beyond Retention: The Challenge of Educating Students who Leave.” October 2011. University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. Invited Participant and Presenter, “Retention in Higher Education: A Study of Discursive Change.” Conference on North American Critical Discourse Analysis. May 2011. Salt Lake City, UT.

Reichert Powell - 2 Presenter, “Off Balance and Out of Choices: Reconceiving the Work of Writing Instruction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. April 2011. Atlanta, GA. Presenter, “Retention and the Work of English: A Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Retention in Contemporary Higher Education.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. October 2010. Louisville, KY. Presenter, “Off Balance and Out of Choices: Reconceiving the Work of Writing Instruction.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. July 2010. Philadelphia, PA. Presenter, “Seduction and Betrayal: An Analysis of the Discourse of Retention.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2010. Louisville, KY. Presenter, “English Studies for the Drop-out: What Failures Can Teach Us about The Meaning of Success.” The Second Conference on the Future of English Studies. October 2009. Springfield, IL. Invited Speaker. “The Mothers Movement Moving Forward.” Maternal Activism/Activist Mothering Panel. Sponsored by the Association for Research on Mothering and Mother Outlaws. September 2008. Toronto, ON. Presenter, “Access to What?: Complicating a Composition Commonplace.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. April 2008. New Orleans, LA. Presenter, “Interventions at the Intersections.” Literacies—Personal, Professional, Academic. October 2007. The University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. Presenter, “Student Writers Confront the Ideology of Intensive Motherhood.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2006. Chicago, IL. Presenter, “Momoirs: The Politics of Emotion in Stories about Motherhood.” Midwest Modern Language Association. November 2005. Milwaukee, WI.

Workshops

Error in Student Writing. Columbia College Chicago First Year Seminar Teaching Academy Retreat, December 2011. Basic Writing: History, Theory, Practice. University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, October 2011 Reading Student Writing. Instructional Development Fest, Columbia College Chicago, Center for Teaching Excellence, September 2011 Reading Student Writing. Columbia College Chicago First Year Seminar Teaching Academy Retreat, August 2010

Professional Service

Editorial board member and reviewer, Open Words: Access and English Studies Reviewer, Composition Forum Reviewer, CCC Reviewer, WPA: Writing Program Administration Referee, Utah State University Press, 2015 Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum, CCCC, 2015 Program Reviewer, English Department, Aurora University, Spring 2015 Reviewer, NCTE 2014 Annual Convention Reader, Dissertation Committee, C. Dawn Goehl Zibricky, Lewis Unversity, 2012 Editorial board member and reviewer, Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism, a series with Lexington Books

Columbia College Chicago Service

Member, Columbia Core Committee, 2015-2017 Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, 2014-2017 Co-editor and co-author of Key Concepts, textbook written for use in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, 2014-2017 Member, Steering Committee for the Strategic Plan, 2014-2015 Member, Integrated First-year Experience Task Force, 2012-2013

Reichert Powell - 3 Member, LAS Core Curriculum Task Force, 2012-2013 President, Columbia College Faculty Senate, 2011-2013 Member of Faculty Development Committee, 2010-2011 All-College 2011 Faculty Retreat Planning Committee, 2010-2011 Committee Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Art & Design, Spring 2011 Presenter, Integrated First-Year Initiative, Columbia College Chicago, January 2011 Secretary of Faculty Senate Bylaws Committee, 2009-2011 Member of Student Affairs Committee of CCFO, 2009-2010 “Beyond Retention,” presentation to Columbia College faculty and staff as part of Retention Discussion Group, October 2009 Member of Professional Writing Committee, 2008-2016 Member of Self-study Committee who helped write the report for the HLC of the NCA, 2008-2009 Member of Faculty Senate Inquiry Group, 2008-2009 Adviser to the CTE on plagiarism workshops, 2008-2009 Chair of the committee to revise Introduction to College Writing, 2008-2009 Member of First-year Writing Committee, 2007-2014

Community Service

Board Member and consultant on academic program, Chicago Prize Hoops, Pilsen, IL, 2014-present

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association; since 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators; since 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC); since 1995 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); since 1995

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