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James I. Wynn

Office Address Home Address 145M Baker Hall 6822 Thomas Blvd. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15208 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 (202) 413-6117 (412) 268-9765 [email protected]

Education

2006 Ph.D. English literature and language, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Dissertation: “Life’s Rich Pattern: The Role of Probability and Statistics in 19th Century Argumentation for Theories of Evolution, Variation, and Heredity,” directed by Jeanne Fahnestock

2000 M.A. Literature, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Thesis: “A Cognitive Approach to Prepositional Usage in English as a Second Language Acquisition,” directed by Todd Oakley

1994 B.S. English language and literature, 1994, cum laude, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Employment

2006.2010 Carnegie Mellon University / Dept. of English / Pittsburgh, PA / Assistant Professor

2002.2005 University of Maryland / Dept. of English / College Park, MD / Lecturer and Teaching Assistant

2003 Johns Hopkins University / Dept. of Business Communication / Washington D.C. / Adjunct

2001.2002 Montgomery College / English as Second Langauge / Rockville, MD / Instructor

1998.2000 Case Western Reserve University / Dept. of English / Cleveland, OH / Teaching Assistant

1998.2000 Cuyahoga Community College / English as Second Langauge / Cleveland, OH / Instructor

1997-1998 ELS Language School/ Cleveland, OH / Associate Instructor

1995-1997 Peace Corps/ Bertold Brecht Language School / Pazardjik, Bulgaria / English as a Second Language Instructor

1 Publications

Evolution by Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology. West Lafayette: Parlor P. (Forthcoming, July 2011)

Refereed Journal Papers

“A New Species of Argument: The Role of Mathematics in Darwin’s The Origin of Species.” 19th Century Prose 38.1 (2011): 59-98.

“Arithmetic of the Species: Darwin and the Role of Mathematics in his Argumentation.” Rhetorica 27.1 (2009): 76-100.

“Alone in the Garden: How Gregor Mendel’s Inattention to Audience May have Affected the Reception of His Theory of Inheritance in ‘Experiments in Plant Hybridization’.” Written Communication 24.1 (2007): 3-27. (Nominated for a NTCE Technical and Scientific Communication Award for 2008 in the category of historical studies.)

Reviews

Review of Alan Gross’ The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.2 (2008): 234-37.

Review of Alan Gross’ Starring the Text in ISIS 98.2 (2007): 433-34.

Academic Honors, Awards, and Grants

2007 Berkman Faculty Development Grant ($3,500) for archival research work in England

2007 Falk Grant ($2,657) for archival research work in England

2004 University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence; Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award

2000 Fulbright research grant, Bulgaria, for field research into the influence of ethnicity and language on market transactions

Conference Papers

“It’s True but It Won’t Happen,” National Communication Association (NCA), San Francisco, CA Nov. 12-15, 2010. “Counted Out: The neutralization of science with probability in the debate over nuclear Safety,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference (RSA), Minneapolis, MN May 28-31, 2010 “From Analogy to Reality: The Importance of Mathematical Analogy in the Development of Gregor

2 Mendel’s Plant Hybridization Experiments,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference (RSA), Seattle, WA, May 23-26, 2008 “The Role of Mathematics in the Study of Heredity and Evolution,” 35th Annual Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures “In the Footsteps of Darwin,” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April, 10 2008 “Glory Days: Maintaining Disciplinary Identity in Mathematics in a Time of Decline,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York, New York, March 21-24, 2007 “Persuasion and the Birth of the Mendelian Genetic Paradigm,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference (RSA), Memphis, Tennessee, May 26-29, 2006 “Arguing With Numbers: Mathematics and Scientific Argumentation in Evolutionary Biology 1865-1965,” International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) Conference, Los Angeles, California, July 12-17, 2005 “Science Begotten: H.G. Wells, Evolution, and Fantasia,” MMLA Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 4-7, 2004 “A Cognitive Approach to Rhetorical Theory: Integrating Audience,” 24th Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), New York, New York, July 25-28, 2004 “Rhetoric and the 19th-Century African-American Novel: A Discussion of Argumentation in Frank Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends,” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, Pennsylvania, July 6-8, 2003 “Through the Looking Glass: Scientific Progress and Descriptive Adaptation in Microscopic Observation from 1665 to 1900,” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) New York, New York, March 19-23, 2003 “Through the Looking Glass: Scientific Progress and Descriptive Adaptation in Microscopic Observation from 1665 to 1900,” Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 8-10, 2002 “Market Forces and Language: The Effect of Economic Pressure on the Preservation of the Status of Turkish as a Language of Commerce in the Southern Rhodopies,” Bulgarian Fulbright Commission Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, May, 2002

Invited Talks

Featured Guest Speaker “The Science of Stories, the Stories of Science” Washington and Jefferson University, Washington, PA, March 5, 2010

Panel Participant: Supersession on Rhetoric of Science, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA 2008

Seminars and Colloquia

Workshop Director: Rhetoric Society of America, Biannual Summer Institute, “Science and Its Publics,” State College, PA, June 26-28, 2009

Courses Taught at CMU

 ENG 76-271 Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing (Fall/Spring 2006- present)

3  ENG 76-476/876 Rhetoric of Science (Fall 2006, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09)

 ENG 76-492/892 Rhetoric of Public Policy in the 19th Century (Spring 2007)

 ENG 76-492/892 Rhetoric of Public Policy and Nuclear Power (Spring 2009, ‘10)

 ENG 76-425/825 Rhetoric, Science, and the Public Sphere (Fall 2010)

Students Supervised

Ph.D. Committees (Chair)

 Daniel Dickson-Laprade (estimated date of graduation 2015)

Ph.D. Committees (Committee Member)

 Tom Mitchell

 Dan Baumgartner

Professional Service

University and College Service

Director of the Pittsburgh Consortium for Rhetoric and Discourse Studies 2010 Faculty Senate 2007-2009

Department Service

Graduate Committee 2007-2010 M.A. Admissions Committee 2010 Literary and Cultural Studies Search Committee 2008-09

Professional Activities

Participant: RSA biennial conference weekend workshop “The Rhetoric of Scientific Revolutions,” 2005 Participant: International Fulbright Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 2001 Session Moderator: Lowell, Jarrell, and Bishop Conference, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000

Professional Memberships

 Rhetoric Society of America  National Communication Association  Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology