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Dale L. Sullivan Professor of English Department of English NDSU, Dept. 2320 P.O. Box 6050 Fargo ND 58108-6050 Phone 701.231.7144, E-Mail [email protected]
Educational Background: • Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1988. Dissertation: A Rhetoric of Children's Literature. Director: S. Michael Halloran. Focus on C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia and his reading theory. • Master of Arts in English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 1979. Masters thesis on C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. • Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City, Kansas, 1977. Major-English; Minor-French. Magna Cum Laude.
Professional Experience: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. Tenured, Professor of English, July 2003 to present. • Returned to faculty, June 2010. • Department Head, July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2010. Assumed faculty status fall 2010. o Responsible for scheduling classes; hiring, directing graduate studies; overseeing budget; evaluating faculty, lecturers, staff; assigning advisors, writing annual reports. o Worked with faculty to fully reform of English Curriculum, 2004- 05. o Worked with Director of Writing and General Education Committee to reform writing requirements at university—from traditional first-year sequence to vertical writing sequence. This process involved the development of several new discipline-specific writing courses. o Worked with Provost and English faculty to bring languishing writing center under direction of English department. It is now flourishing. o In consultation with faculty, rewrote our department’s proposal for a Ph. D. in Rhetoric, Writing & Culture. Ph.D. has now been approved by the State Board of Higher Education o Encouraged the development of online classes and participation in distance and continuing education. Developed and taught two
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distance education courses (English 320, practical writing, and English 333, Fantasy and Science Fiction). o Oversaw the search and hiring process for faculty and lecturers.
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. Tenured, Full Professor in Rhetoric. Department Head, May 13, 2002 to June 2003. • Pulled together the first accurate budget analysis for the department of Rhetoric in many years and traced revenue flows in comparison with other departments in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences. • Worked out agreements with scientists in College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences to work with graduate students in Rhetoric. • Restructured the internship program in the department of Rhetoric. • Served as advocate for faculty and staff: negotiated reclassification on behalf of staff member to improve her status; negotiated change of three- year renewable contract on behalf of faculty member to tenure-tract position. • Interviewed candidates and hired new assistant to the head. Took workshops in basic accounts monitoring procedures for UMN and in being a department head. • Relieved of active duty late September 2002 (but continued technically as department head) because of a disagreement with the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences.
Michigan Technological University: Houghton, MI. Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication and Director of Scientific and Technical Communication. Fall 1997-May 2002, tenured 2001. • Director of Scientific and Technical Communication, an undergraduate degree program, chair of STC committee, director of industrial relations (Fall 1999 to May 2002). • Taught undergraduate and graduate courses, served on graduate students' Masters and Ph.D. committees. • I gave up tenure at Northern Illinois U. but retained rank of Associate Professor to make the move to MTU.
Northern Illinois University: DeKalb, IL. Assistant Professor of English (promoted to Associate 1995, tenured 1996), and Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator. Fall 1994 to Summer 1997. • Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty. Developed a "Writing Consultants Across the Curriculum" Program, a newsletter, and an extensive WWW archive. • Gave several WAC workshops for Faculty.
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• Taught graduate courses in the history of rhetoric and in rhetorical theory, and undergraduate advanced writing courses. • Served on University Assessment Committee, English Department Council, English Department Writing in the Major Committee, and English Department Assessment Work Group. • Served as consultant to University General Education Committee, and worked with science and technology literacy program for high schools in Rockford, IL.
University of Nebraska at Kearney: Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate 1994) of English. Director of Writing Programs, Fall 1991 to Spring 1994. • Graduate Fellow of the University of Nebraska, 1993; Graduate Faculty, 1992. • Taught graduate courses in the teaching of writing, and undergraduate writing classes, both first-year classes and advanced-writing classes. • Developed a new writing curriculum for the undergraduate major. • Administered the University Writing Center and trained new TAs. • Served on Faculty Senate, English Department Writing Committee, and English Department Graduate Committee.
Michigan Technological University: Houghton, MI. Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in Humanities Department, Fall 1988 to Summer 1991. Graduate Faculty. • Taught HU 631 (Rhetorical Criticism), HU 543 (History of Rhetoric), HU 542 (Modern Rhetorical Theory), HU 520 (Rhetoric of Science), HU 470 (Special Projects), HU 411 (Reading and Technical Comm.), HU 333 (Technical and Scientific Comm.), HU 303 (Modern Masters: C. S. Lewis), HU 202 (American Experience in Lit. II), HU 201 (American Experience in Lit. I). • Served on department Graduate Committee, 1990-91; on department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1990-91; on STC Committee 1989-90. Mentored TAs teaching Technical Communication. Directed undergraduate STC program, Fall 1989, during director's sabbatical. Participated in NSF Grant to develop Writing-Intensive Engineering courses 1989-91.
Gordon College: Wenham, MA. Director of Writing, Fall 1987 to Spring 1988. • Worked with faculty in other disciplines to develop Writing Across the Curriculum. • Directed the writing center. • Taught En 417 (Modern Grammar), Cr 110 (First-year Writing).
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Troy, NY. Teaching Assistant, Fall 1985 to Spring 1987. • Writing Center Tutor, 1985-86, Summer and Fall 1986. • Writing Consultant to Chemical Engineering Design, 1986. • Writing Consultant to Electrical Engineering, 1985-86. • Taught Rhetoric and Writing.
Kansas Technical Institute: Salina, KS. Assistant Professor, Spring 1980 to Summer 1985. • Taught Technical Writing, Written Communication, Oral Communication, Developmental English, Literature and Technology, Professional Writing Seminar.
Wichita State University: Teaching Assistant, Fall 1977 to Spring 1979; Lecturer, Fall 1979. • Taught Composition 101, Composition 102, Developmental English.
Visiting Appointments Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO. Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor. Spring semester 2011. • Taught English 301: Posthumanism and The Myth of the Superman. • Gave two campus-wide lectures. • Reviewed and responded research projects in development by faculty members.
Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Visiting Lecturer, September 2008-December 2008. • Gave several invited lectures, met with faculty and doctoral students to discuss their research projects, conducted research into agriculture and extension communication practices in Denmark, and team taught a Ph. D. seminar on knowledge communication.
Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Netherlands. Visiting Professor, April 2006. • Taught literature class on children’s fantasy on two sides of the Atlantic.
Awards: • Educator of the Year Award, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, North Dakota State University, 2010. • Winner of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year 2000 in Technical Communication Quarterly.
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Publications and Presentations: Edited Volumes • Co-editor with Bruce Maylath and Russel Hirst. Revisiting the Past through the Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia: Selected Papers from the 50th Meeting of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011. • Guest Editor of Special Issue of The Journal of Communication and Religion. Conversations about Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian and Rhetorician. 28.2 November 2005. (All articles were peer reviewed). • Co-editor with Jerry Savage Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job. Allyn & Bacon, 2001. (The whole book was sent out for peer review by the publisher).
Refereed Articles • "Stoic Rationality and Divine Madness in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces." VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. 26 (2009): 41-52. • “Reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together in the Contexts of Monastic Literature and The Communion of Saints.” The Journal of Communication and Religion 28.2 (November 2005): 188-205. • “After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Epideictic Exhortation to Responsible Action.” Journal of Communication and Religion, 26 (2003): 28-50. I edited this issue of JCR. • Primary author with Michael Martin as second author. "Habit Formation and Story Telling: A Theory for Guiding Ethical Action." Technical Communication Quarterly 10 (Summer 2001): 251-272 • Primary Author with Christian Anible as second author. "The Epideictic Dimension of Galatians as Formative Rhetoric: The Inscription of Early Christian Community." Rhetorica 18 (Spring 2000): 117-145. • "Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in Science." Technical Communication Quarterly 9 (Spring 2000): 125-146. Winner of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year 2000 in Technical Communication Quarterly. • "Beyond Discourse Communities: Orthodoxies and the Rhetoric of Sectarianism." Rhetoric Review 18 (Fall 1999): 148-164. • “Identification and Dissociation in Rhetorical Exposé: An Analysis of St. Irenaeus’ Against Heresies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (1999): 49-76. • "Francis Schaeffer's Apparent Apology in Pollution and the Death of Man." The Journal of Communication and Religion 12 (1998): 200-229. • "Displaying Disciplinarity." Written Communication 13 (1996): 221-250. • "Migrating Across Disciplinary Boundaries: The Case of David Raup's and John Sepkoski's Periodicity Paper." Social Epistemology 9 (1995): 151-
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164. Reprinted in Scientific & Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Policy. Eds. James H. Collier with David M. Toomey. Sage, 1997, 330- 349. • "Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy in The Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." Rhetorica 12 (1994): 237-264. • "Exclusionary Epideictic: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication of Fleischmann and Pons." Science Technology & Human Values 19 (1994): 283-306. • "A Closer Look at Education as Epideictic Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 23 (1993): 70-89. • "The Ethos of Epideictic Encounter." Philosophy and Rhetoric 26 (1993): 113-133. • "The Epideictic Character of Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 339-349. • "Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius as Epideictic Rhetoric." The Journal of Communication and Religion 15 (1992): 71-86. • "The Decline of Imitation in Nineteenth Century Rhetoric." Platte Valley Review 20 (1992): 45-62. • "Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 317-332. • "The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 5 (1991): 229-245. • "The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's Algeny." Rhetoric Review 9 (1990): 134-148. • "Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice." Journal of Advanced Composition 10 (1990): 375-386. Reprinted in Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication, ed. Paul M. Dombrowski, Baywood, 1994, 223-234; also reprinted in Central Works in Technical Communication, eds. Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart Selber, Oxford UP, 2004, 211-219. • "Attitudes toward Imitation: Classical Culture and the Modern Temper." Rhetoric Review 8 (Fall 1989): 5-21. • "The Computer as a Two-way Medium in the Technical Writing Classroom." The Technical Writing Teacher 14 (Spring 1987): 143-150.
Refereed Proceedings • "Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic." Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic, Graphic, Electronic. (Refereed proceedings of the Rhetoric Society of America.) Ed. Victor J. Vitanza and Michelle Ballif. Arlington, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, 1990, 171-187.
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Refereed Book Chapters • “Forged in the Fire: A Study of Generic Dynamics in the Acts of the Apostles.” Rhetorics in the New Millennium: Promise and Fulfillment (Studies in Antiquity & Christianity). Eds. James D. Hester and J. David Hester. New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2010. 168-192. • “The Need for Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer Cases.” Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication. Eds. George F. Hayhoe and Helen M. Grady. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2009. 177-183. Reprint of paper first published in the 2005 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings. 353-358. • First author with Michael S. Martin and Ember R. Anderson. “Moving from the Periphery: Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for the Technical Communicator.” Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication, Volume I. Ed. Teresa Kynell-Hunt and Gerald J. Savage. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 2003. 115-136. • "Afterword: Talking to the People Who Know." Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job. Ed. Gerald J. Savage and Dale L. Sullivan. Allyn & Bacon 2001. I was co-editor of this book. • "Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific and Technical Communication: Academic Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L. Keene. Society for Technical Communication, 1997. 167-181.
Invited Publications • “A Call for Reaffirming a Humanist Understanding of Technology.” Programmatic Perspectives 5 (Spring 2013). Available at http:// http://www.cptsc.org/pp/vol5-1/sullivan.pdf. • “Growth and Community: A Few Thoughts on the Organics of Professional Communication.” Programmatic Perspectives Journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 1.1 (March 2009). 2007 Keynote of CPTSC. Available at http://www.cptsc.org/pp/archive1- 1.html. • “Mediating Controversial Technology: The Case of Monsanto’s Attempt to Introduce Genetically Modified Wheat in North Dakota.” Hermes— Journal of Language and Communication Studies 37 (2006): 23-45. Invitation by Peter Kastberg, editor. • “Rhetorical Invention and Lutheran Doctrine?” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7 (Winter 2004) 4: 603-614. Invitation by Martin Medhurst, editor. • "Worries about the New Literacies." (Review of Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt's Expanding Literacies.) Sigdoc 23 (November 1999) 4: 30-35. Invitation by Robert Johnson, book review editor.
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Book Reviews • "Extending the Rhetoric of Science into the First-Year Composition Classroom." (A review of Michael J. Zerbe’s Composition and the Rhetoric of Science. The Review of Communication 8.3 (July 2008): 292-295. • Review of Michael Carter’s Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction. College Composition and Communication 56 (December 2004): 346-348. • Review of John T. Battalio's Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods, Practice, and Pedagogy. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (Spring 2000): 112-114. • Review of Robert R. Johnson's User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts. Technical Communication Quarterly 9 (Winter 2000): 97-99. • Review of Edward Schiappa's The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29 (Fall 1999): 89-92. Also published online at The American Communication Journal, October 1999.
Proceedings • “Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer Cases.” 2005 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings. 353-358. • "Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resist the Introductory Course?" 2000 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. • "Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implications for Academic Program Development in Technical Communication." 1999 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. • "What is Keeping Practitioners and Academics from Meeting in the Middle?" 1998 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. 49-50. • "Developing a Technical Writing Program at Kansas Technical Institute," 1983 Proceedings of The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 81-83.
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ERIC Documents • "Legitimizing Technical Communication: 1985 and 1998." ERIC ED 420 882, 1998. • "Connections with Industry and the Liberal Arts: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching Technical Writing: Bibliography of Articles and Papers in Technical Communication." ERIC ED 254 860. RIE 1985. • "Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching Technical Writing." ERIC ED 254 859. RIE, 1985.
Other Publications • "What Kind of Place is the Writing Classroom?" Response to Gregory Clark's "Rescuing the Discourse of Community." College Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 384-386. • One of several authors and editors. Manual for Report Writing in Engineering Design: Guidelines for Advanced Engineering Students. Michigan Tech. University, 1992.
Keynote Addresses: • Keynote Address Hyperprofessionalism Conference. Sponsored by the Science, Technology, and Medicine Research Group, Aarhus University, Denmark. “The Emergence of the Rhetoric of Science: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundary Crossing and Disciplinary Speciation.” December 10, 2008. • Keynote Address 2007 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. “Growth and Community: A Few Thoughts on the Organics of Professional Communication.” October 2007, Greenville, NC.
Invited Lectures: • “Must We Exterminate the Martians? C.S. Lewis' Response to the Futurists.” Missouri University of Science & Technology. April 21, 2011. • “Contesting the Word ‘Sustainability’: An Exercise in Linguistic, Rhetorical, and Political Analysis.” Missouri University of Science & Technology. February 22, 2011. • “The Roles of Theory Articles and Case Studies in Defining an Emerging Discipline,” for the Knowledge Communication Research Group, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark. December 11, 2008. • “Reading Michael Leff's ‘In Search of Ariadne's Thread’ as Epideictic Rhetoric," sponsored by the Language and Communication Department, Arhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark. November 25, 2008.
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• “When Rhetoric Meets Science,” sponsored by the Rhetoric Department, Aesthetics Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark. November 20, 2008. • “Reading Michael Leff's ‘In Search of Ariadne's Thread’ as Epideictic Rhetoric," sponsored by the Rhetoric Department, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. November 7, 2008. • “Stories and Technical Communication Culture,” Milwaukee Chapter of Society for Technical Communication. January 11, 2000.
Conference Papers: • "C.S. Lewis’ Taming of Charles Williams’ Lion: A Comparison of Platonic and Gnostic Doctrines in The Place of the Lion and That Hideous Strength." November 2015. National Communication Society. Chicago, IL. • “Dissolving Borders: The Eucharist as Epideictic Rhetoric.” May 2014. Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX. • “The Epideictic Rhetoric of St. Paul’s Boasting in 1 & 2 Corinthians.” July 2013. International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chicago, IL. • “Leaving the Flesh Behind: Rhetorical Constructions of a Posthuman Superman.” May 2012. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. • “Must We Exterminate the Venusians? An Analysis of J. B. S. Haldane’s, Olaf Stapledon’s, and C. S. Lewis’s Views on the Issue.” November 2011. Religious Communication Pre-Conference, New Orleans, LA. • “St. Paul, Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Power.” September 2011. 54th Conference of the Languages & Culture Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota, Fargo, ND. • “Paul and the Beginnings of Ecclesiastical Law.” July 2011. International Society for the History of Rhetoric, XVIII Biennial Conference, Bologna, Italy. • “Translating Apparent Progress into Insanity: C. S. Lewis’s Satirical Portrayal of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in Out of the Silent Planet.” May 2010. Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology Preconference, Minneapolis, MN. • “ ‘Sustainability’ in Terminology Clusters of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society and Monsanto: Discovering Political Ideologies through Cluster Analysis.” May 2010. Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. • “C. S. Lewis’s Satirical Depiction of J. D. Bernal’s The Social Function of Science.” November 2009. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. • “Rhetoric of Science.” Part of panel titled “Complementary Disciplines and Their Potential Contribution to Programs in Professional Communication.” 2009 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Aarhus, Denmark. • “Sustainability as a Rhetorical God Term.” XVII European Symposium on
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Languages for Specific Purposes. August 2009. Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark. • “The Mystery of Godliness: Margaret Atwood’s Father/God Images in The Blind Assassin.” 2009 Red River Conference on World Literature, April 2009, Fargo, ND. • “Disciplining the Word,” with Katie Gunter. 2008 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA. • “Sophistic Rationality and Divine Madness in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces.” 2007 National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL. • “St. Paul’s Therapy of Desire.” 2006 Society of Biblical Literature Conference, November 2006, Washington DC. • “Humanities in the 21st Century.” North Dakota Arts and Humanities Summit, October 2006, Fargo, ND. • “Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis’ Fictional Autobiography.” 2006 Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, October 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba. • “Paulo Freire’s Basis for Intervention in Public Life.” 2006 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 2006, Memphis, TN. • “You Don’t Need That: Secret Meetings and Doctored Contracts,” 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2006, Chicago. • “Researchers’ Role in Creating Public Awareness,” 2005 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Lubbock, TX. • “Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in Controversial Technology Transfer Cases,” 2005 International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland. • “Hebrews and the Rhetoric of Perfection and Change.” 2005 Inquiries into Rhetoric and Christian Tradition, Chicago, IL. • “Reflections on S. Michael Halloran’s ‘Eloquence in a Technological Society.’” 2004 National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. • “Retreating/Advancing to Monastic Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Adaptation of Monastic Rule in Life Together,” 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Austin, TX. • “Directing Desire in the Sub Culture of Early Christianity: A Preliminary Study of Desire in Hebrews and Philippians,” 2003 National Communication Association, Miami. • “Position on Rhetoric as Therapy,” 2003 Alliance of Rhetoric Societies Conference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies, Evanston, IL. • “The Role of Narrative in Preserving Folk Knowledge and in Enabling the Reflective Practitioner,” with Ember R. Anderson, 2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York. • “Eating Together: An Exploration of Epideictic Rhetoric and Food,” 2002 National Communication Association, New Orleans.
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• “Novelty and Heresy in the Debate on Nonthermal Effects of Electromagnetic Media,” with Carolyn R. Miller, 2002 Rhetoric Society of American Conference, Las Vegas. • "After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Epideictic Exhortation to Conspiracy," 2001 National Communication Association, Atlanta. • "Overt and Occult Neutralization Techniques in Scientific Apologia," 2001 National Communication Association, Atlanta. • "Planning, Delivering, and Assessing Communication Modules in an Engineering Enterprise Program," 2001 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Pittsburgh. • "Who Are the Educated?" in the Most Significant Passage in the Surviving Texts of Isocrates Panel. 2000 National Communication Association, Seattle. • "Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resist the Introductory Course?" 2000 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Menomonie, Wisconsin, October 2000. • "Herbert Wichelns and Richard Young: Divergent Agendas for Rhetorical Criticism," Rhetoric Society of America 2000, Washington, D.C. • "Taking Advantage of Authorized Speech to Build Legitimacy: An Analysis of David M. Raup’s Presidential Address to the Paleontological Society, 1977," 1999 National Communication Association, Chicago. • "Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implications for Academic Program Development in Technical Communication," 1999 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Santa Fe, NM. • “Comments on Edward Schiappa’s The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece,” 1999 Central States Communication Association, St. Louis. • “Achieving Legitimacy and Authority through Social Knowledge,” 1999 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Pre-Conference, Atlanta. • "Polemic Rhetoric in Galatians and James," co-presented with Christian Anible. 1998 National Communication Association Conference, New York. • "What is Keeping Us from Meeting in the Middle." 1998 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Lewes, DE. • "Legitimizing Technical Communication, 1985 and 1998." 1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 1998, Chicago. • "Recontextualization and Performance: The Epideictic Exposé of St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies." 1997 National Communication Association Conference, November 19-23, 1997. Chicago. • "Computer Literacy and Syntactic Fluency." 1997 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 12-15, 1997. Phoenix. • "Using the Computer Revolution to Promote WAC." 3rd National Writing
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Across the Curriculum Conference. February 6-8, 1997. Charleston, SC. • "Defending and Explaining Orthodoxy." 1996 Speech Communication Association Conference, November 1996. San Diego. • "Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in the Physical Sciences." Seventh Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, May 1996. Tucson, Arizona. • "The Formation of Orthodoxy through Rhetorical Expose': An Analysis of St. Irenaeus' Against Heresies." 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1996. Milwaukee. • "The Case of the Sandhill Cranes: Bringing the Outdoors into Class." 1995 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March. Washington, D. C. • "A Case Study of Ecological Literacy." 1995 Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1995. Washington, D. C. • "Orthodoxy without Hierarchy: Methodology in the Evangelical Bible Study Movement." Speech Communication Association, November 1994. New Orleans. • "The Interdisciplinary Ethos of David M. Raup." Society for the Social Studies of Science, October 1994. New Orleans. • "The Epideictic Voices of Maxine Hairston." Rhetoric Society of America. May 1994. Virginia Beach. • "Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy: Creating Ethos through Identification and Allegiance." American Society for the History of Rhetoric. November 1993. Miami. • "Boundary Work: A Rhetorical Analysis of G. K. Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy." The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, Rocky Mountain-Great Plains 1993 Regional Meeting. April 1993. Omaha. • "The Rhetoric of Modern Evangelical Christianity: An Analysis of Haddon Robinson's Biblical Preaching as a Rhetoric." 1992 Conference of the Speech Communication Association. October 1992. Chicago. • "Vilifying Science through Alter Ideologies: Fictional Characterizations of Scientific Community and Ethos." 1992 Conference of the Society for Literature and Science. October 1992. Atlanta. • "Celebrating Orthodoxy: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication of Fleischmann and Pons." 1992 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 1992. Minneapolis. • "Ethos as Allegiance in the Rhetoric of Science." 1992 Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 1992. Cincinnati. • "Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch as Epideictic Rhetoric." 8th Biennial Conference of The International Society
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for the History of Rhetoric. September 1991. Baltimore. • "Imitation and Ethos: Classical Rhetoric in Technical Communication." 1991 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1991. University Park, PA. • "The Epideictic Functions of Criticism." 1991 Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 1991. Boston. • "Narrative Instruction and Celebration in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia." 1990 Speech Communication Association Conference, November 1990. Chicago. • "Kairos and Exhortation as Alternatives to Aristotelian Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Meaning of Kairos in the New Testament." 1990 Conference of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, American Chapter. October 1990. Chicago. • "Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic." 1990 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 1990. Arlington, TX. • "The Epideictic Functions of the Rhetoric of Science." 1990 Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 1990. Chicago. • "The Epideictic Rhetoric of Quintilian, Hugh Blair, and C. S. Lewis." 1989 Speech Communication Association Conference. November 1989. San Francisco. • "The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's Algeny." "1989 Society for Social Studies of Science Conference. November 1989. Irvine, CA. • "The Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice." 1989 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1989. University Park, PA. • "Education as Conversation: Empowering Freshmen with Textual Power." 1988 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1988. University Park, PA. • "The Problem of Rhetorical Invention and Technical Communication." 1986 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1986. University Park, PA. • "Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimize the Profession of Teaching Technical Writing." 1985 Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 1985. Minneapolis. • "Two Possible Futures of Teaching Writing across the Curriculum." 1984 Southwest Regional Conference for Teachers of English in Two-Year Colleges. November 1984. Oklahoma City.
Professional Service: Professional organizations: offices and duties • Local arrangements chair for the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North
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Dakota Conference, September 2007. • Member of the Steering Committee for the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Spring 2000-2002. Co-Chair of 2002 Conference and Webmaster for the Conference. • Member of the Steering Committee of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1997-1999; 1992-93. • Chair of the committee judging dissertations submitted to the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation of the Year Award Competition, 1996-97. • List Owner for steeringashr-l, a listserv for the steering committee of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2001-02. • List Owner for aarst-l, a listserv for the American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, 2001-02. • Web Master for American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Fall 1999-2002. • Web Master for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Fall 1998-Spring 2000.
Reviewer for academic programs, tenure and promotion, journals, textbooks, and conferences • External reviewer for candidate for promotion and tenure at Case Western Reserve University, Summer 2013. • External reviewer for candidate for tenure at Brigham Young University, Spring 2012. • External reviewer for promotion and tenure case for candidate for University Professor, Robert Morris University, 2010-11. • External reviewer for Department of English Literature and Language, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2011. • External reviewer for candidate for distinguished researcher award at University of Central Florida, January 2008. • External reviewer for candidate for promotion to full professor for candidate at Robert Morris University, Pittsburg, December 2007. • External reviewer for tenure candidate at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Fall 2007. • External member of assessment, search committee for Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Summer 2007. • External reviewer for the Professional Writing program within the English department of York University, Toronto, Ontario, March 2007. • External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Metropolitan Sate, Spring 2004
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• External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Butler University, Summer 2003 • External Reviewer for candidate for Full Professor at North Carolina Sate University, Fall 2003 • External Preliminary Reviewer for proposed Ph.D. program courses for University of Central Florida, Fall 2000. • External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Illinois Institute of Technology, Spring 2000 • External Reviewer for candidate for tenure and promotion at Ohio University, Fall 1996 • Referee reader for FACHSPRACHE (2008-present), Journal of Communication and Religion, (2006-present), Quarterly Journal of Speech, (2006, 2002), Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1996-present), for College Composition and Communication (2000-2011), Technical Communication Quarterly (1989- 2011), for Reader (1988-91), for Science Technology & Human Values (1995), for Journal of Advanced Composition (1996). • Reviewer of papers and panels for American Society for History of Rhetoric pre-conference and for panels submitted to NCA, 1993, 1998, 1999. • Reviewer of papers submitted to Rhetorical Theory subdivision of CCCC for 1994 conference. • Reviewer of two proposed scientific and technical communication textbooks for Pearson Publishers, 2000&2001 and for another publisher in 1994.
Invited panelist, participant, respondent, or writer • Respondent, "Apologetics, Apologia and Argument: Engaging Culture through Religious Discourse, " NCA 2000. • Respondent , "C. S. Lewis in the Next Millennium," NCA 1999. • Respondent, "Is there a Christian Theory of Rhetoric," NCA, 1998. • Invited participant, "Pre-Conference of the Commission on Spiritual Rhetoric," NCA, 1997. • Invited participant, "Religious Consciousness in Prophecy and Kerygma," SCA, 1993. • Invited participant, "A Conference on Writing in Engineering Design," Houghton, MI, 1992. • Invited participant, "Practical Conference on Communication," Knoxville, TN, November 1993. • Invited writer, “Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific and Technical Communication: Academic Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L.
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Keene. Society for Technical Communication, 1997. 167-181. Research travel funded by the Society for Technical Communication.
Panel organizer of the following sessions at conferences “C. S. Lewis and Alien Voices: Using Reason and Imagination in the Search for Serenity.” 2011 RCA pre-conference. “Rhetorical and Metaphorical Power in the Language of Religion.” 2011 LCMND conference. “Complementary Disciplines and Their Potential Contribution to Programs in Professional Communication.” 2009 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication; “Writing in New Fields” (2 panels), IPCC 2005; "Radical Christian Rhetoric of Resistance: An Introduction to the Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," NCA 2001; "Rhetorical Criticisms: Are Speech Communication and Composition Scholars Doing the Same Thing?" RSA 2000; "Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacy in the Rhetoric of Science," NCA 1999; "Polemics within the Church," NCA 1998; "Defining Rhetorical Competence and Computer Literacy," CCCC 1997; "Establishing a Presence on Campus for a New WAC Program," 3rd National WAC Conference 1997; "Epideictic Rhetoric, Community, & Change," SCA 1993; "Exploring the Ethos of Science," CCCC 1992; "Epideictic Rhetoric and the Discourse of English Studies," CCCC 1991; "Narrative Argument in the Writings of C. S. Lewis," SCA 1990.
Panel chair for following panels at professional meetings "Graduate Programs," CPTSC 2001; "Mythopoesis, Nomos and Physis: A volatile Mixture," NCA 1999; "The Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacy in the Rhetoric of Science," NCA 1999; "Rhetoric and Culture," NCA 1998; "Examining the Intersections of Rhetoric and Technical Communication," CCCC 1994; "Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of Environmental Policy," CCCC 1993; "Two Holders of Harvard's Boylston Chair of Rhetoric: Channing and Hill," CCCC 1988.
Member of the following professional organizations (I have let several memberships lapse recently because of the availability of journals online.) •National Communication Association •Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication •Rhetoric Society of America •Religious Speech Communication Association •National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (lapsed) •Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (lapsed) • Society for Biblical Literature (lapsed) • IEEE International Professional Communication (lapsed) • Society for Technical Communication (lapsed) •American Society for the History of Rhetoric (lapsed)
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Departmental, University, and Community Service Since 1991, selections North Dakota State University • Mentor in Provost’s university mentoring program, Fall 2012. • External member of the Communication Department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee as they considered the new chair’s promotion to full, Fall 2012. • Member of a post-hoc Academic Misconduct Committee, Fall 2011. • Member of the University Program Review Committee, Fall 2011-present. • Member of AHSS College Awards Committee, 2010-present. • Member of the English Education Committee, Fall 2012. • Member of Department of English Curriculum Committee, 2010-present. • Member of Department of English Presentations Committee, 2010-2012. • Department Head, English, 2003-2010. • Writing Across the Graduate Curriculum Committee Chair, 2007-2008. • North Dakota University System committee on common course numbering in English, 2005-2010. • Chair of the English Department Scholarship Committee Chair, 2004- 2010. • Planning committee for North Dakota Humanities Summit, 2005-06. • English Department Curriculum Committee Chair, 2004-05. • English Department Assessment Committee Chair, 2003-04. • English Department Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-2005, Spring 2009 (assumed responsibility because I was department head and we didn’t have an active Director of Graduate Studies.
University of Minnesota • Department Head, Rhetoric Department, May 2002 to June 2003 (by title), active duty May to September • Director of Internship Program for Rhetoric Department, May 2002 to present. • Member of STC’s academic-industrial relationship sub group for the Twin City chapter. Responsible for developing an internship initiative between STC and academic programs in Technical Communication.
Michigan Technological University • Directed Scientific and Technical Communication (Fall 1999-Spring 2002),
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Chair the STC Committee, and direct industrial relations with technical communication program. • Advised Student Chapter of Society for Technical Communication (Beginning Fall 1999-Spring 2002). • Served on Humanities Department Steering Committee, (1999-2002). • Served on communication search committee, 2000-2001. • Served on search committee for media faculty, 1998-99. • Served on committee that developed and delivered communication modules to the Engineering Enterprise project in the Engineering College • Designed and maintain the web site pages and for the STC Degree Program. • Served as the Faculty Advisor for the NASA-Tech Briefs Website, a website that published digital supplements for NASA-Tech Briefs Photonics and NASA-Tech Briefs Electronics. This project was supervised directly by a Ph.D. student; a team of graduate and undergraduate students researched, wrote, and published the material on the site. 1998- 99. • Supervised GTAs who teach HU333 (Scientific and Technical Communication), 1997-1999, Michigan Technological University. Worked with them and others to develop an assessment instrument and policy for the course and to rewrite a manual on the teaching of technical communication.
Graduate Committees • Chair of three Ph. D. comprehensives and dissertation committees at NDSU, one completed, two in progress. • Directed two Ph. D. dissertations at Michigan Tech. • Served on twelve Ph.D. Committees at Aarhus School of Business, North Dakota State University, Michigan Tech, and University of Nebraska Kearney. • Directed two Masters theses at North Dakota State University. • Served on twelve Masters Committees at North Dakota State University, Michigan Tech, and University of Nebraska Kearney.
Local Community Service, selected • Member of the steering committee and web master for My Sister’s Farm, a market/local foods buying group in Fargo-Moorhead (2007-2011) • Member of the steering committee for Buy Fresh Buy Local, the Red River chapter. A group that is active in building a local food network (2008). • Founder and manager of Fargo Local Foods, a loose organization devoted to coordinating local food efforts (2007-Fall 2012).
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• Member of the South Agassi Resource Council, local affiliate of the Dakota Resource Council—work with local foods initiative action, Summer 2007. • Selection Committee member for Copper Country Habitat for Humanity, Spring 2000 to Spring 2002. • Invited Consultant for Science and Technology Literacy Program; Rockford Public Schools. Rockford IL. Spring 1996-Spring 1997. • North Central Accreditation Visiting Team. Grayslake Community High School. Grayslake, IL. March 1997.
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