Selected Awards and Honors

• Recognition Award, NAACP Tri-State Conference, September 26, 2009 (“in appreciation of your commitment to excellence in education”).
• Recognition Award, College of Business Executive Team, USF, 2004 (“in appreciation of your dedication, hard work, and courage” in creating the College of Business).
• President’s Award for Faculty Excellence, USF, 2003 (university-wide, competitive award for excellence in scholarship and teaching; included a substantial permanent salary increase).
• Award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition, Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, 1994.
• Research and Creative Scholarship Award, USF Division of Sponsored Research, 1994.
• International Award for Distinguished Editor, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1994. http://www.celj.org/distinguished_editor

Selected Publications--Books

America’s Enfant Terrible: The Life and Times of Stanley Fish. In preparation. (Authorized biography of Stanley Fish.)

From Challenge to Hope: Education in the Post-9/11 Decade. Ed. with Lynn Worsham. Under review.

A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life. Under review.

The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders. Ed. with John Presley. Paradigm Publishers, 2009. Paperback edition 2011.

Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric, and Culture in a Posthuman Age. Ed. with Lynn Worsham. Hampton Press, 2008. Foreword by Cindy Selfe.

The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination. Ed. with Lynn Worsham. Paradigm Publishers, 2007. Foreword by Henry A. Giroux. (scholarly interviews).

Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise. Ed. with Lynn Worsham. State U of New York P, 2004. Afterword by Stanley Fish.

Critical Intellectuals on Writing. Ed. with Lynn Worsham. State U of New York P, 2003.

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric. State U of New York P, 2002. Foreword by Stanley Fish; Afterword by J. Hillis Miller.

Selected Publications--Journal Articles and Notes

“Struggling over Theory, Struggling over Identity.” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, and Politics 28.1–2 (2008): 585–87.

“Why Distrust the Very Goals with Which You Began?” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, and Politics 22 (2002): 423–28.

“Lynn Bloom: Composition’s Model Citizen.” Composition Forum 11.2 (2000): 37–39.

“The Death of Composition as an Intellectual Discipline.” Composition Studies 28.2 (2000): 33–41.

“Struggling over Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, and Politics 20 (2000): 554–55.

Courses Taught

Graduate:

• Stanley Fish and the Role of Rhetoric; Critical Theory; Ideology and Rhetoric; Alterity and the Politics of Difference; Rhetorics, Poetics, and the Future of English Studies; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Ethics in Reading, Writing, and Pedagogy; Culture and Literacy; Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Composition Theory; Philosophy, Literary Criticism, and Composition Theory; The Politics of Literacy; Marxism, Feminism, and Social Construction; Recent Developments in Composition Theory; Theory and Research in Rhetoric and Composition; Theories of Writing; Introduction to Critical and Cultural Theory; Professional Seminar; Survey of Composition Theory; Scholarly Writing for Publication; Composition Theory; Composition Research; Scholarly Research and Inquiry in Composi-tion; Problems in College English Instruction; Theory and Development of Writing Programs; Teaching Business Writing.

Undergraduate:

• British Novel through Hardy; British and American Literature by Women; African American Literature by Woman; British Literature Survey; Cultural Studies and the Popular Arts; Advanced Composition; Advanced Technical Writing; Technical Writing; Professional Writing; Expository Writing; First-Year English.

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