Please see my current CV for a complete list of service activities.
Professional Development
Recent Workshops and Training:
Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium. November 2024.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Northern Illinois University: “Teaching Digital Literacy with Adobe Express.” November 2024.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Northern Illinois University: “Best Practices for Synchronous Online Sessions.” November 2024.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Northern Illinois University: “Exploring Kaltura Features.” September 2024.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Northern Illinois University: “Supporting Underprepared Students in Your Courses.” August 2024.
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Northern Illinois University: “Implementing Linguistic Justice in Writing Assessment with Dr. April Baker-Bell.” September 2023.
Recent Pedagogical Presentations and Training for
Faculty:
Developed
an
online, self-paced
Writing
Intensive course for faculty across campus
who
will teach a General Education Writing Intensive course at Saint
Xavier University. This course
ensures
that the basics of good writing instruction introduced to students in
first-year composition
(such
as multiple drafts, peer review feedback, individual faculty-student
conferences, and basic rhetorical concepts) will continue to be built
upon in writing courses offered by departments outside of English.
Course
consists of readings, discussion boards, and peer review exercises.
Spring
2021.
Course Outline (pdf)
with links to training materials and readings.
Extracurricular Contributions
Advising, mentoring: Responsible for advising undergraduate Writing majors on course work; informally mentored Writing majors on career goals. Saint Xavier University, 2016 – 2023.
Clubs, activities, service – recent:
Judge, Spring First-Year Composition Awards. Northern Illinois University, 2024.
Proposal Reviewer, Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium, 2024.
Faculty Advisor, SXU Storytellers (Creative Writing Student Organization), Saint Xavier University, 2020 – 2023.
Reviewer, Composition Forum. 2014 – present.
Community outreach
That Shakespeare Life, Episode 156: Rules for 17th Century Hunting with Karen Kaiser Lee. Hosted by Cassidy Cash. April, 2021. Invited podcast talk. Podcast is ranked within the Top 100 History Podcasts in the United States by Apple Podcasts.