• 1986-94: Director of Expository Writing, University of Washington, responsible both for the administration of the University’s first-year writing program and for the training of graduate teaching assistants in the teaching of English composition.

• 1979-2002: Director/Instructor, University of Washington London Theatre and Concert Tour.

• 1996-2001: Mentor, Department of English, University of Washington, working with second year teaching assistants in the planning and teaching of English 111, Writing Through Literature.

• 1998: University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Development Grant, for planning and teaching a demonstration section for a new writing based Junior Seminar for English Majors. (Taught as English 302, Fall, 1999.)

• 1998-present: Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

• 1998-2001: University of Washington Walter Chapin Simpson Humanities Center Curriculum Forum. Chair, 1998-9; Member, 1999-2000; Co-chair, 2000-2001.

• 1999: Planning and Mentoring Staff: University of Washington Institute for Teaching Excellence. (Week-long Residential Faculty Development program initiated in June, 1999.)

• 1999-2000: Mentor, University of Washington Faculty Fellows program.

• 1999-2000: Co-mentor with Professor Anne Curzan, Teaching Assistants’ Workshop on the Teaching of Literature (Fall and Winter quarters).

• 1999-2004: Member, Executive Committee, Division on Teaching as a Profession, Modern Language Association.

• 2000: Karen Shabetai Award for Distinguished Teaching: University of Washington Department of English.

• 2000-1: Curriculum Development Grant, University of Washington Walter Chapin Simpson Humanities Center, for Shakespeare in Rome (and Hollywood), with Alain Gowing, Classics. Offered as Humanities 210, Winter, 2001.

• 2000-present: Faculty Director, Puget Sound Writing Project, a professional development project building expertise among K-12 teachers throughout Western Washington school districts in the teaching of writing.

• 2001: Leader, Teachers as Scholars seminar for K-12 teachers: Love as Theatre: The Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Walter Chapin Simpson Humanities Center, January-February, 2001.

• 2002-3: Member, Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Writing Committee.

• 2003-present: College of Arts and Sciences Director of Writing.

• 2003-present: Member, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Council.

• American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards.

• Discussion Coordinator, The Carnegie Teaching Academy: Overview, Updates, Resources and Opportunities. San Diego, January, 1999.

• University of Washington, Institute for Teaching Excellence. The Scholarship of Teaching, June, 1999.

• Western Washington State University, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Developing Course Portfolios (co-presenter with Carnegie Scholar Deborah Wiegand, University of Washington, Chemistry Department). November, 1999.

• Pacific Lutheran University, Faculty Development Seminar: Making Teaching Visible: Course Portfolios as a Measure of Student Learning. February, 2000.

• Linking Classroom Practice to Student Understanding: Documentation and Assessment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (coordinated with other Carnegie Scholars), American Association for Higher Education, New Orleans, February, 2000.

• Testimony from the Front Lines: Making a Difference, National Communications Association Conference, Seattle, November, 2000.

• Seminars on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Office of Professional and Instructional Development, University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI, March, 2001.

• Keynote Speaker, Southwest Missouri State University, Carnegie Academy Campus Program. Presentations on Opening the Black Box, on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and on developing Course Portfolios. Springfield, MO, April, 2001.

• University of Washington, Institute for Teaching Excellence. Teaching as Scholarly Activity, June, 2001.

• Presenter, University of Washington, Faculty Development Workshop: Understanding and Assessing Student Learning, Cathy Beyer and Gerry Gilmore, coordinators, August, 2001.

• Speaker/Presenter, Capital University Faculty Development Seminars: Making Learning Visible: Understanding and Assessing Student Learning; Exploring the Mystery: Letting Students in on How We Learn; and Introducing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Columbus, OH, September, 2001.

• “Documentation and Assessment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Linking Classroom Practice to Student Understanding.” Workshop for the American Association for Higher Education Conference. Phoenix, AZ, January, 2002.

• “Teaching as Scholarly Activity.” University of Washington, Institute for Teaching Excellence. June, 2002.

• Session Chair: “Defending, Teaching, and Assessing First-Year Composition” Western States Composition Conference, October 25, 2003.

• Session Presider, “Ethical Issues in Teaching and Learning” and “Preparing the Future Professoriat.” Modern Language Association, December 29-30, 2002.

• “From 100 to 200: Or 5 Things I wish I’d known when I moved to the literature classroom.” Practical Pedagogy Seminar, May 12, 2003.

• “Strategies for Working with Large Classes: Or, What Else Can You Do Besides Lecture?” Practical Pedagogy Presentation, April 15, 2004.

• Presenter, “Writing-Integrated Classrooms.” Discovery Seminars Orientation, May, 2004.

• Co-ordinator and Presenter, “Using Effective Writing Strategies in the Classroom.” Provost’s Annual Faculty Workshop on Teaching and Learning, September 8, 2004.

• Developer and Head Co-ordinator, The College of Arts and Sciences 4x4 Writing-Integrated Course Design Workshops, Fall-Winter 2004-5.

• From 2005 to 2008, many UW Campus presentations to departments and colleagues, as well as continued work with Faculty Fellows, Discovery Seminars, and the 4x4 Initiative.
  

• American Association for Higher Education, The Black Box of Learning: Demystifying Teaching in the College English Classroom, Washington, D.C., March, 1999.

• American Speech-Hearing Pathology Association, Making Teaching Visible: Documenting Classroom Practice with Course Portfolios, San Francisco, November, 1999.

• Last Lecture Series, University of Washington, Inside the Black Box: Learning and Not Learning in the College English Classroom. Seattle, May 2000.

• University of Washington, Department of English Pedagogy Seminar, Opening the Black Box: Learning and Not Learning in the College English Classroom. Seattle, October, 2000.

• National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Effective Mentoring for College Literature Teaching: A Roundtable. Milwaukee, November, 2000.

• National Communications Association Conference, Course Portfolios as a Model for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, November, 2000.

• Modern Language Association, Learning, Mislearning, and Not Learning in a College English Classroom, Washington, D.C., December, 2000.

• “Creating Bi-directional Interaction between K-12 and University-Level Teachers.” National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Baltimore, November, 2001.

• “Whose poem is this Anyway? Teaching and Learning Spenser in a survey course, Or, three things I wish I’d understood better many years ago.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December, 2001.

• “My Troubles with Perry: Developmental Scheme or Humanities Curriculum?” Second Annual Joint UK & USA Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. London, May, 2002.

• “Reading Reading: The Most Important Thing I Teach,” Presentation for University of Washington English Department Showcase Event, October 24, 2002.

• “Teacher-training and the Challenges of the Literature/Composition Classroom.” Western States Composition Conference, October 25, 2002.

• “Showing More with Less: the Single Assignment-focused Course Portfolio,” presentation at the Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Collaborating for Change, Washington, D.C., March 13-14, 2003.

• “Doing it in the Classroom: Teaching as Research.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, San Diego, December, 2003.

• "The Glory Dimmed: Research meets the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. London, May, 2004.

• "When 'The Center Cannot Hold': Maintaining Administrative Coherence while Re-centering Writing." Panel Presentation at the Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY, October 7, 2004.

• “Who Will Teach Whom? Working with Teachers in the National Writing Project.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2004.

• “New Trends in the Teaching of Writing: There and Here.” Olympia Community College, Paulsbo, Washington. October 7, 2005.

• “SoTL as Retro-fit: Deepening Faculty Development through Local Publication of Assignment Portfolios,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. October 15, 2005.

• “Shakespeare, Plutarch, and Elizabeth Taylor: Revisiting Shakespeare and Rome.” University of Washington Classics Department, Annual Conference for Teachers in the Schools, April 22, 2006.

• “Supporting Development of Writing-Integrated Courses through the 4x4 Initiative.” 2nd Annual Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Washington, April 25, 2006.

• “Playing the Writing Card: Fostering Change in Teachers’ Practice at an American Research-oriented State University through Writing-based Course Design.” 6th Annual International Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, London, May, 2006.

• “WPAs at the Crossroads: Connecting High School and College Writing.” Council of Writing Program Administrators’ 21st Summer Conference, Chattanooga, July, 2006. (With Anis Bawarshi)

• “Surprised by Assessment: or How I came to love ‘The Grid.’” Gonzaga University Faculty Convocation, February, 2007

• “Bridging the Gap: High School Goes to College.” Ballard High School, March, 2007.

• “Connecting to College Writing.” Seattle Public Schools, April, 2007.

• “Access and the Seattle DOE Summit,” NCTE, New York, November, 2007.

• “Have They Kept Doing It? Sustaining Faculty Change in a Learning-based Course-Design Initiative.” Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Sydney, Australia, June, 2007.
  

• “Great Expectations: Introducing Teaching Portfolios to a University Writing Program,” ERIC (1992).

• “Challenging the Commonplace: Teaching as Conversation in Spenser’s Legend of Temperance,” in Approaches to Teaching The Faerie Queene, David L. Miller, ed. MLA, (1994), 82-92.

• “The Elizabethan Age Portfolio: Using Writing to Teach Shorter Elizabethan Poetry.” For Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, Patrick Cheney and Anne Prescott, eds, MLA, (2000), 145-149.

• “Whose Poem Is This Anyway? Teaching Spenser Through the Stanza Workshop” Pedagogy 3 (2003), 197-204.

• “My Troubles with Perry: Developmental Scheme or Humanities Curriculum?” in David
  Gosling and Vaneeta D’Andrea, eds., International Conference on the
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Proceedings 2001 and 2002. London:
  Educational Development Centre, 2003. Pp. 118-121.

Reviews:

• Bushnell, Rebecca, A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Sidney Journal 17 (Fall 1999), 76-80.

• “Engaging Literature: Difficulty as an Entry to Reading and Writing,” a review of Mariolina Salvatori and Patricia Donohue, The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty. Pedagogy 6 (2006), 155-159.

• “Classrooms as Laboratories in the R-1 University: Cracking the Problem of How Best to Value Teaching.” Pedagogy (forthcoming, 2008). A review of Bernstein, Daniel, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory. Making Teaching Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching. Anker (2006).
  

• Fostering a Scholarship of Teaching, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Menlo Park, CA, (1999).

• Close Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio (1999), on The National Teaching and Learning Forum Website: www.ntlf.com/html/lib/carnegie/84webster.htm