Joyce Monroe Simmons

Management Department [email protected] Florida State University (850) 644-5900 Tallahassee, FL 32306 Office RBA512

Education

PhD, English Language and Literature, Duke University, Durham, NC Areas of doctoral preparation: English Literature 1110-1499,1500-1599, 1600-1660, 1830-1899 Classical Latin Literature : Augustan and Silver Age

MA, English Literature, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Major area: Literature of the Renaissance Minor area: Medieval Latin Literature

BA, cum laude, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY Major: English Language and Literature Minor: Classical Latin Literature Phi Beta Kappa

Recent Professional Activity: Management Department, FSU

Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Florida Chapter, Florida State University President, 2008-9; 2009-10; 2010-11 Vice President, 2007-8 Phi Beta Lambda Business Fraternity Faculty Advisor, 2007-present

Invited Participant, McGraw-Hill/Irwin Focus Group: Incorporating Technology in Business Communication, Burr Ridge, IL March 2011. Participated in panel discussions and work sessions with other Business Communication faculty.

Reviewer, full-length manuscript review of a business communication text in development at McGraw- Hill/Irwin, December 2010

Invited Participant, McGraw-Hill/Irwin Business Communication Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, 11/2005. Participated in panel discussions and work sessions with other business communication faculty.

Consultant to a regional team of ENT surgeons on the preparation and organization of a series of professional journal articles, 2003-8.

Member, Management Department Strategic Planning Committee 8/06

Executive Coach, interpersonal communication skills, to a local business executive, 2003-5.

Course Coordinator, GEB 3213, Business Communication, 9/1997-5/2004: Developed course content, assignments, and teaching materials for instructors. Assisted new instructors and adjuncts with syllabus, planning and equipment. Researched and requested purchase of equipment and materials. Created a supplement of writing skills and exercises for GEB3213. Chaired search committee for two new business communication instructors, 2003. Interviewed prospective instructors.

Reviewer, for McGraw-Hill/ Irwin, of two business communication texts in development phase. Offered extensive written critique of two full-length manuscripts, 2003.

Guest Lecturer, FSU College of Engineering: Industrial Engineering Students, 2002-3.

Advisor, résumé preparation and interview skills, local church jobs ministry, 2004-present Advisor, to students past and present on job, internship, law school, and graduate school application statements

Teaching Experience

Florida State University, Research Associate, Business Communication Tallahassee,FL Teach Business Communication, 9/1997- present Tallahassee Community College, Adjunct Instructor Taught Freshman Composition Tallahassee, FL and Writing Argument and Persuasion, 9/1989- 5/1997. University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK Assistant Professor of English (Visiting), Taught Milton, Literature of the English Renaissance, Shakespeare, Studies in Renaissance Imagination, and Major British Writers, 9/1985-5/1987. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Visiting Assistant in English. Taught Freshman English 9/81-6/82. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Instructor, English. Taught Remedial Freshman English, 8/80-81. Southwestern College, Oklahoma City, OK Instructor, English as a Foreign Language, Taught English to international students, from basic conversation to English Composition I and II, 10/77-5/80. Towson State University, Towson, MD Adjunct Instructor of English. Taught Preparation for College Writing, a course in traditional English grammar and structure, 9/76-5/77. Publications

“Martial and Seneca: A Renaissance Perspective,” MedievaliaU et Humanistica,U 17(1991): 27-40.

“Martial in the Renaissance: Three „Lost‟ Commentaries Found,” UActa Conventus NeoU-ULatini

Torontonensis. U Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (1991): 689-696.

Review: SilentU But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patronesses, Translators, and U WritersU of Religious

Works,U ed. Margaret P. Hannay, in TulsaU Studies in Women‟s U LiteratureU U 5, no.2 (Fall, 1986) : 313-4.

Scholarly Presentations

November, 1990 “Collaboration in Classes in Argumentation and Persuasion,” SAMLA Convention, Tampa, FL.

August, 1988 “Martial in the Renaissance,” Seventh International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies, Toronto, Canada.

October, 1987 “Francis as Pilgrim in UAttowell‟s Jig,”U Conference on Christianity and Literature Edmond, OK.

October, 1986 “Martial and Seneca,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Convention, Greenville, SC.

March, 1986 “Marvell‟s Horatian Ode: A Poem of Stoic Exhortation,” Philological Association of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.