Vita

JOHN WEBSTER

 

Department of English

University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, WA  98195-4330
(206)  543-6203
cicero@u.washington.edu

 

EDUCATION:
B.A., UCLA, 1967, summa cum laude.
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974.

DISSERTATION:  “Language and Allegory in The Faerie Queene”

EMPLOYMENT:
Research Assistant, UCLA, 1963-64.
Reader, UCLA, 1966-67.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-70.
Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, 1972-74.
Assistant Professor, University of Washington, 1974-80.
Associate Professor, University of Washington, 1980--.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:
University of Washington Graduate School Research Salary Grant, Summer 1978.
ACLS Travel Grant, Summer 1979.
University of Washington Graduate School Research Salary Grant, Summer 1979.
University of Washington Research Salary Grant, Salary Grant, Summer 1984.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching:  Carnegie Scholar Award, 1998-99.
University of Washington, Arts & Sciences Curriculum Development Award, 1998.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Washington, 2000.
Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Curriculum Development Award, 2000
National Writing Project Site Support Grant, 2001-2  ($35,000)
National Writing Project Site Support Grant, 2002-3  ($38,000)
National Writing Project Site Support Grant, 2003-4  ($38,000)
National Writing Project Site Support Grant, 2004-5  ($40,000)
            National Writing Project Site Support Grant, 2005-6  ($48,000)
Student Technology Fee (STF) Grant, 2007, Odegaard Writing and Research Center  ($20,000)
University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

William Temple’s “Analysis” of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry,” an edition and translation from the Latin.  Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts and Studies.  (Binghamton, NY, 1984).

Articles:

“Oral Form and Written Craft in Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” SEL 16 (1976), 75-93.

“The Allegory of Contradiction in Everyman and The Faerie Queene,” in Spenser and the Middle Ages: Papers Delivered at the 11th Annual Medieval Conference 1976, ed. David Richardson, Xerox microfiche, (1976).

“The Beast of Comparison: Analogue and Source,” in Spenser and the Middle Ages, ed. David Richardson, Xerox microfiche, (1977).

“Gabriel Harvey’s Ciceronianus: An Emerging Renaissance Aesthetic,” in Spenser and the Middle Ages, ed. David Richardson, Xerox microfiche, (1978.)

“Old Paths and New Ways in Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” Spenser and the Middle Ages 1980, ed. Russell J. Meyer, Xerox Microfiche, (1980).

“‘The Methode of a Poet’: An Inquiry into Tudor Conceptions of Poetic Sequence,” ELR 11 (1981), 22-43.

“Oration and Method in Sidney’s Apologie: A Contemporary’s Account.”  MP, 79 (1981), l-15.

“Two by Two, or One by Four: The Structural Dilemma of Spenser’s Fowre Hymnes,” in Russell J. Meyer, Ed., Spenser at Kalazamoo 1982, (Clarion State College, 1982), pp.

“Temple’s Neo-Latin Commentary on Sidney’s Apology: Two Strategies for a Defense,” in ACTA of the Neo-Latin Congress at Bologna, 1979.  MRTS, (1983), pp. 317-24. 

“Writers Who Need Writers:  Intertextual Poetics in Tudor Humanist Fiction,” Sidney Newsletter, 10 (1990), 16-23.  (Review Article).

“Rhetoric,” in Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton, (University of Toronto Press, 1990).

“Logic,” in Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton, (University of Toronto Press, 1990).

“Pyrocles and Cymocles,” in Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton, (University of Toronto Press, 1990).

“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.

“Going International: Getting Ready to Write Through English 108,” Writing Matters, Spring, 2012.                         http://depts.washington.edu/engl/newsletter/2012-2/international.php

“On the Challenges of Working with the Writing of English Language Learners,” National Teaching and Learning Forum, 22 (2013), 7-9.

Contribution to Book:

“John Seton,” in Edward Malone, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2nd series, vol. 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660, a Bruccoli Clark Lehman book, Gale, 2003, pp. 284-9.

Reviews:

Shackleton-Bailey, D.R. ed. Marcus Tullius Cicero: Back From Exile, Six Speeches Upon His Return (American Philological Association, 1991), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (1992), 412-414.

Helgerson, Richard, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England.  Chicago, 1992, in Spenser Newsletter 24 (1993), 4-7.

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

Crane, Mary Thomas, Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth Century England.  Sidney Journal 17 (Fall 1999), 80-83.

Salvatori, Mariolina and Patricia Donohue. “Engaging Literature: Difficulty as an Entry to Reading and Writing,” a review of 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 9 (Winter, 2009), 185-9.   Review of Daniel Bernstein, Amy Nelson Burnett, Amy Goodburn, and Paul Savory.  Making Teaching Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching.  Anker (2006). 

Video:

Fostering a Scholarship of Teaching, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  Menlo Park, CA, (1999).
Doing Writing Differently.  Video of Workshop Presentation, April, 2012 http://depts.washington.edu/sswmedia/2012-04_webster_writing_differently/

Work in Progress:

Book:

Learning About Learning:  How People, and particularly Students, Learn.  Completion Fall, 2014

 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Conferences, Lectures, and Readings:
University Community College Conference: “Issues of Language and the Teaching of English,” February 13, 1974.
“Introducing Spenser,” Undergraduate English Association, March 1975.
Paper delivered May 4, 1976 at Eleventh Annual Medieval Conference, Western Michigan State University: The Allegory of Contradiction in Everyman and The Faerie Queene.
“Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus and the Faustbook Tradition,” Pacific Lutheran University, January 7, 1977.
“The Beast of Comparison: Analogue and Source.”  Commentary at the 12th Annual Medieval Conference, Western Michigan State University, May 7, 1977.
“Spenser, Harvey and C. S. Lewis: on the End of the Drab Age.” English Graduate Organization Lecture, February l, 1978. 
“Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser: An Emerging Renaissance Aesthetic.” Paper delivered at Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 10, 1978. 
Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 9, 1978. Presiding, Section 3.
“Gabriel Harvey’s Ciceronianus: An Emerging Renaissance Aesthetic,”  Paper at 13th Annual Medieval Conference, Western Michigan State Univ, May, 1978.  
“Oratory or Essay: Organizational Theory in Sidney’s Apology.” English Graduate Organization lecture, May l, 1979.  
“Oration or Essay: Organizational Theory in Sidney’s Apology for Poetry.” Paper delivered at 14th Annual Medieval Conference, WMSU, May, 1979.  
“Temple’s Neo-Latin Commentary on Sidney’s Apology: Two Strategies for a Defense.” Paper delivered at 4th International Congress for Neo Latin Studies, Bologna, August 1979. 
“Old Paths and New Ways in Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” Spenser Studies.
“‘By Diligent Inquest’: The Logic of The Faerie Queene,” paper delivered at Northwest Renaissance Conference, Seattle Pacific University, March 3, 1984.
“The Artful Shellgame:  Rhetoric, Eloquence and Oratory in Tudor Humanism,” UW Renaissance Colloquium, February 27, 1985.
“Rhetoric, Eloquence and Oratory in Sixteenth-Century England,” Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 29, 1985.
“Picturing Speech:  Sidney’s Apology,” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast conference, November 9, 1985.
“The Promise of Power:  Cicero and Teachers in the English Renaissance,” William Read Memorial Lecture, Classics Department, University of Washington, November 22, 1986.
“Cicero’s Dark Conceit:  Eloquent Indirection in the Brutus,” Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Banff, Canada, April 4, 1987.
“Whose Story is this Anyway?  Recent Approaches to Amoret’s Heart-rending  Tale,” 22nd International Congress for Medieval Studies, WMSU, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 1987.
“Making Margins Centers: Spenser’s Book VI as a Document of Power,” Paper delivered at Spenser at Kalamazoo, 1989: May 6, 1989.
“Arms or the Word: Humanist Aspiration in Cicero’s First Catilinarian.”  Guest Lecture for Classics 423, UW Classics Department, March 7, 1989. 
“Authorizing Power:  Sidney, Cicero and the Politics of Indirection.”  Paper presented at the University of Toledo Rhetoric Seminar, May 9, 1991.
“Authorizing Power: Sidney, Cicero and the Politics of Indirection.”  Paper presented at the Sidney Session, 26th Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan State University, May 10, 1991.
“Gifts of the Graces.”  Opening remarks for Spenser at Kalamazoo, 26th Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan State University, May 10, 1991.
“The Future of Sidney Studies.”  Panel presentation, 26th Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan State University, May 10, 1991.
“Rewriting the Hero: Quintilian’s Cicero in the English Renaissance.”  Paper presented at the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN., May 22, 1992.
Paper presented:  “Great Expectations:  Introducing Teaching Portfolios to a University Writing Program,” NCTE, Louisville, KY, November 23, 1992.
“(W)ri(gh)ting the Nation: Erotic Discipline in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.”  MLA, Washington, D.C., December 1996.
 “The Carnegie Teaching Academy: Overview, Updates, Resources and Opportunities.” Roundtable Coordinator, 7th AAHE Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards. San Diego, January 24, 1999.
 “The Black Box of Learning: Demystifying Teaching in the College English Classroom,” Pre-Conference Seminar Presentation, American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C., March 1999.
“Making Teaching Visible: Documenting Classroom Practice with Course Portfolios,” Keynote speech, American Speech-Hearing Pathology Association, San Francisco, November 18, 1999.
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Western Washington State University, November 23, 1999. (co-presenter with Deborah Wiegand, University of Washington, Chemistry Department.)
“Rhetorical Spenser: A Critical Response,” MLA presentation, Chicago, December 28, 1999.
 “Linking Classroom Practice to Student Understanding: Documentation and Assessment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.”  Workshop presentation, American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Reward, New Orleans, February 3, 2000.
“Making Learning Visible: Course Portfolios as a Measure of Student Learning,” Pacific Lutheran University, February 25, 2000.
“Inside the Black Box:  Learning and Not Learning in the College English Classroom,”  ASUW Last Lecture Series, Seattle, May 2000.
“Opening the Black Box:  Learning and Not Learning in the College English Classroom.  University of Washington, Department of English Pedagogy Seminar Seattle, October, 2000.
“Effective Mentoring for College Literature Teaching:  A Roundtable,” National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Milwaukee, November, 2000.
“Course Portfolios as a Model for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” National Communications Association Conference, November, 2000.
“Testimony from the Front Lines:  Making a Difference,” National Communications Association Conference, Seattle, November, 2000. 
“Learning, Mis-learning, and Not Learning in a College English Classroom,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December, 2000.
Seminars (with other Carnegie Scholars) on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Office of Professional and Instructional Development, University of Wisconsin.  Madison, WI, March, 2001.
 “OpeningtheBlackBox,” Keynote Address:  Carnegie Academy Campus Program at  Southwest Missouri State University.  Springfield, MO, April, 2001.
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” and  “Developing Course Portfolios.”  Southwest Missouri State University, Carnegie Academy Campus Program.  Springfield, MO, April, 2001.
“Teaching as Scholarly Activity.” University of Washington, Institute for Teaching Excellence.   June, 2001.
“Understanding and Assessing Student Learning,” Presenter, University of Washington, Faculty Development Workshop:  August, 2001. 
Speaker/Presenter, Capital University Faculty Development Seminars, Columbus, OH, September, 2001:  
“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.” 
“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.
“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.
“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. 
“Teaching as Scholarly Activity.” University of Washington, Institute for Teaching
Excellence.   June, 2002.
“Teacher-training and the Challenges of the Literature/Composition Classroom.” 
Western States Composition Conference, October 25, 2002.
                        “Session Chair:  “Defending, Teaching and Assessing First-Year Composition.” 
Western States Composition Conference, October 25, 2002.
“Reading Reading:  The Most Important Thing I Teach.”  Presentation at the University of Washington English Department Showcase Event, October 24, 2002. 
Session Presider, “Ethical Issues in Teaching and Learning,” Modern Language Association, December 29, 2002. 
Session Presider, “Preparing the Future Professoriat.”  Modern Language Association, December 30, 2002. 
“Elizabeth’s England,” Slide presentation for the Seattle Early Music Guild, February 16, 2003.
“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.
“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. 
“Doing it in the Classroom:  Teaching as Research.”  Paper presented at the Modern Language Association, San Diego, December, 2003. 
“Strategies for Working with Large Classes:  Or, What Else Can You Do Besides Lecture?”  Practical Pedagogy Presentation, April 15, 2004. 
“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, United Kingdom, May, 2004. 
“When ‘The Center Cannot Hold’: Maintaining Administrative Control while Re-centering Writing.”  Paper presented 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.
Developer and Head Coordinator, The College of Arts and Sciences 4x4 Writing-Integrated Course Design Workshops, Fall-Winter 2004-5. 
Coordinator and Presenter, “Using Effective Writing Strategies in the Classroom.”  Provost’s Annual Faculty Workshop on Teaching and Learning, September 8, 2004. 
“Writing-Integrated Classrooms.”  Discovery Seminars Orientation, May, 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.
Frequent presentations to faculty groups across campus in the role of Director of Writing for the College of Arts and Sciences (see Service as Director of Writing for the College of Arts and Sciences below)

Services to Other Educational Institutions:

Program Coordinator, Northwest Inter-institutional Council for Study Abroad, London, Autumn 1976 and Spring 1981.
Curriculum Consultant, Gonzaga University, February 2007.

Service to the University of Washington:

Member, Department of English Undergraduate Education Committee, 1974-75.
Chair, Department of English Undergraduate Education Committee, 1975-76.
Chair, Department of English Ad Hoc Committee on Lake Wilderness Retreat, Winter 1977. 
Editor, Department of English Newsletter, Spring 1977.
Freshman English Committee, 1977-78.
Study Abroad Screening Committee, Fall 1978.
Visiting Lecturers Committee, 1978-79.
Member, Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Academic Titles, 1979-80.
Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, Department of English, 1979-80, 1981-82.
Academic Coordinator, NICSA, 1981-82.
English Department Graduate Studies Committee, 1982-83; chair, 1983-84; 1984-85; 1987.
Lockwood Dissertation Fellowship Committee, 1983.
Member, Slavic Language and Literature Department Review Committee, 1985.
Senior Rhetoric and Search Committee, 1985-86.
English Department Expository Writing Committee, 1987.
English Department Executive Committee, 1986-87.
Ad Hoc Committee on Writing Assessment, 1986.
Member, Provost’s Task Force on Education Assessment, 1987.
Member, ESL Advisory Committee, 1987.
Member, Dean’s Ad Hoc Committee on Freshman Interest Groups, 1987.
On-Site Coordinator, London Program, Spring 1988.
Member, Dean’s Ad Hoc Committee on Class Size, 1989.
Member, Dean’s Ad Hoc Planning Committee for English/History CAI Lab, Summer, Fall 1989.
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1992-94.
Member, Expository Writing Committee, 1992-94.
Chair, Ad hoc Writing Program Review Committee, Fall-Winter, 1991-92.
Director, Expository Writing Program, 1992-94.
Member, Arts and Sciences Committee on Academic Computing, 1993-94.
Member, HACC Faculty Advisory Board, 1993-94.
Chair, English Department Placement Committee, 1995-96.
Member, University Committee on Graduate School Appointments, 1995-97.
Member, English Department Placement Committee, 1996-97.
Leader, “London Theatre and Concert Tour, 1996.
Chair, Department of Chemistry Teaching Assistant Program Review, 1997.
Coordinator, English 111 Training, 1997.
Member, Visiting Lecture Committee, 1997-98.
Leader, “London Theater and Concert Tour, University of Washington Distance Learning, 1998.
Selection Committee, Huckabay Fellowships, 1998.
Chair, Humanities Center Curriculum Committee, 1998-99.
Senator, Faculty Senate, 1999.
Planning and Mentoring Staff: University of Washington Institute for Teaching Excellence, January-June 1999.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Re-write Committee, August-September 1999.
Mentor, Faculty Fellows Program, September, 1999.
UW Representative, Northwest Schools and Scholars Initiative.  Leavenworth, WA, October 16-17, 1999.
UW Representative, Carnegie Academy Seminar on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Research Universities  Ann Arbor, November 13-14, 1999.
Member, Humanities Center Curriculum Forum, 1999-2000.
Director and Leader, University of Washington London Theatre and Concert Tour, March 10-25, 2000.
Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, 1999-2000.
Co-Mentor (with Anne Curzan), University of Washington, English Department Graduate Student Sponsored Seminar on the Teaching of Literature.  Fall and Winter Quarters, 1999-2000.
Mentor, Faculty Fellows Program, September, 2000.
Member, Dean’s Task Force on the First Year Experience, 2000-1.
Faculty Director, Puget Sound Writing Project, Department of English, University of Washington, 2000-2001.
Leader, Teachers as Scholars seminar:  “Love as Theatre:  The Drama of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Simpson Center for the Humanities, January-February, 2001.
Member and Chair, Executive Committee, 2000-01, University of Washington Department of English.
Organizer and Leader, “London Theatre and Concert Hall,” University of Washington Continuing Study Abroad, March 2002.
University Director, Puget Sound Writing Project, Department of English, University of Washington, 2001-2.
Faculty Lecturer, First-Year Student Orientation Program, August-September, 2002.
Member, UW, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on the Undergraduate Writing Curriculum, 2002-03.
Member, Steering committee, UW, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on the Undergraduate Writing Curriculum, 2002-3.
Member, Expository Writing Committee, 2003-4.
Chair, Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for Anis Bawarshi, 2003.
Leader, Teachers as Scholars seminar:  “Shakespeare’s Family Tragedies.”  Simpson Center for the Humanities, February, 2004. 
Organizer and Leader, “London Theatre and Concert Tour,” London, University of Washington Continuing Study Abroad, March 2004. 
College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Writing.  November, 2003 to September, 2004.
Director, Puget Sound Writing Project, 2004-5.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Council, 2004-5.
Presenter, Discovery Seminars Orientation, May, 2004.
Member and Chair, Writing Administrators’ Advisory Committee, 2004-5.
Reviewer for Royalty Research Fund Proposal, 2004, 2005. 
Member, Brotman Award Selection Committee, 2005.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Council, 2005-6.
Presenter, Faculty Fellows, September 2005.
University Coordinator, Puget Sound Writing Project, 2005-2007.
Organizer and Leader, “London Theatre and Concert Tour,” London, University of Washington Continuing Study Abroad, March 2006. 
Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, 2005-6
Member and Chair, Writing Administrators’ Advisory Committee, 2005-6.
Member, University of Washington Brotman Award Selection Committee, 2006
Member, University of Washington Common Book Selection and Implementation Committee, 2005-6
Leader, “Shakespeare’s Two Richards,” Teachers as Scholars seminar.  Simpson Center for the Humanities, February, 2006. 
Chair, Curriculum Planning Committee, CIDR TA conference, September 2005
Leader, Shakespeare’s Comedies.  Teachers as Scholars Seminar.   Seattle Arts and Lectures, Simpson Humanities Center, January, 2007.
College of Arts and Sciences representative, Washington State Higher Education Writing Committee, 2006-07.
Common Book Selection Committee, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, UW, 2005-07
Coordinator, The Meet Tracy Kidder Hour, February, 2007.
Seminar Leader, “How Can You Use Writing in New and Different Ways to Engage Students and Boost Learning?”  Faculty Fellows Workshops, UW, September 13, 2006
Workshop Coordinator, Provost’s Workshop on Using Writing in the Classroom, UW, April 5, 2007.
Presenter, “Writing-Integrated Course Design,” Discovery Seminars Workshop, May 11, 2007
Coordinator, 4x4 Workshops on Writing-Integrated Course Design, 2004-2008
Chair and Member, English Department 302 Review Committee, 2008.
Chair and Member, College Writing Council, 2007.
Chair and Member, College Writing Administrators Advisory Committee  2004-07
Chair and Member, Writing Centers Directors Committee  2005-07
Seminar Leader, “How Can You Use Writing in New and Different Ways to Engage Students and Boost Learning?”  Faculty Fellows, UW, September 2007. 
Member, Common book Selection Committee, UAA, 2007-8.
Member, Common book Implementation Committee, UAA, 2007-8.
Presenter, “Writing-Integrated Course Design,” Discovery Seminars Workshop, May 9, 2008
Member, English Department MATESOL Search Committee, 2010
Member, Provostial Search Committee, UW Tacoma, 2012-2012
Member, English Department Search Committee, L2 Writing, 2012-13
Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, 2012-4

Service as Director of Writing for the College of Arts and Sciences (2004-present)

This is a position charged with supporting the teaching of writing across the curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences.  As such, its principal roles have included:

Founder, Developer and Administrative Oversight Responsibility for The Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC), 2004 to present.  The OWRC is a peer-tutor staffed writing center serving thousands of students per year.  It has become the UW’s principal support for graduate and undergraduate student writers, domestic and international alike.

Founder, Curriculum Planner and Director of English 108, Writing Ready, the English Department’s First-year Student Bridge Program, held each summer since 2004 during the Early Fall Start quarter.  The program in 2013 fielded 20 sections and a total enrollment of 321 students, of whom 80% were international.

Chair of the Writing Administrators Advisory Committee (WrAAC).  WrAAC meets several times a year to provide coordination and mutual support for writing programs throughout the College and University.

Professional Development:  Provider of seminars on the teaching of writing to  administrators and faculty across campus, both within the College and without.  These include the 4x4 Project (2004-2009) as well as multiple departmental or college based seminars and faculty development workshop series. It has included workshops at Faculty Fellows since 2002.   

Proposer and Planner for the Entry-Points Initiative.  Begun in 2012 with pilots in several areas on campus, this program encourages faculty to redesign courses such that they are more appropriately available to the UW’s growing population of   international students.

Convener and coordinator of writing faculty and programs across the College of Arts and Sciences.  

Participant in extra-departmental Hiring Committees:

College of Engineering, CELT position, 2013.  Successful hire of Stephanie Pulford.  

Center  for Teaching and Learning, Consultant with International Student/ESL Focus, 2014 (in process).

Sponsor and organizer:  First Annual Writing Fair, January 30, 2014.  Over a dozen different writing support programs from all three UW campuses hosting faculty and staff from across the campus community.

Major Presentations:  All Campus Meetings.  Held periodically in Kane Hall, we have held four different events over the past 8 years—most recently in Winter Quarter of 2014: Writing for All:  A Campus Conversation on Working with Multilingual Students at a Global University.  Held in conjunction with the first Annual UW Writing Fair.

Service as Director of the Literary London Program

(2010 to present)

Charged with budgetary and administrative oversight of Literary London, run in Spring and Summer Quarters.  Development and oversight of program application, budgets, and assessment.  This has included teaching in the program in Spring, 2010 and 2013, and the Summer of 2014. 

Professional Organizations and Consulting:

Guest speaker and faculty consultant, Northwest Inter-institutional Council for Study Abroad (NICSA) Spring meeting, Bozeman, Montana, May 13-15, 1977.  “A Teacher’s View of NICSA.”
Reader, MLQ.
Reader, University of Missouri Press.
Reader, Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts and Studies.
Language Consultant, Jack R. Burns, Inc., 1983.
Language Consultant, Diamond and Sylvester, Attorneys-at-Law, 1984.
Member, Spenser Society Executive Committee, 1985-87.
Language Consultant, City of Bellevue, 1986-87.
Reader, Scott, Foresman, St. Martin’s Press, Norton Press, H.B.J.,1986-87.
Referee, Spenser Encyclopedia, 1986-87.
Reader/consultant, MacMillan, 1991.
Secretary/Treasurer, Spenser Society, 1992-95; 1995-96; 1996-97, 1997-98.
Reader/Consultant, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1993-94.
Reader/Consultant, St. Martin’s Press, 1993-94.
Reader, Cornell University Press, 1994.
Referee, MLA Press, 1995.
Reader/Judge, Spenser Society MacCaffrey Award, 1997.
Secretary/Treasurer Spenser Society, 1998-99.
Reader/Judge; Spenser Society, MacCaffrey Award Committee, 1998.
Member, MLA
Member, AAHE
Fellow, Carnegie Teaching Academy
Member, Executive Committee, Division for Teaching as a Profession, Modern Language Association, 1999-2004.
Secretary and Treasurer, the International Spenser Society, 1990-2000.
Secretary, Executive Committee, Division for Teaching as Profession, Modern Language Association, 2002-3. 
President, Executive Committee, Division for Teaching as Profession, Modern Language Association, 2003-4.
Member, National Council for Teachers of English
Member, Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
NCTE Representative to the Western States Summit, US Dept of Education, June, 2007
Manuscript Reviewer, PMLA.  Fall, 2007. 
Manuscript Reviewer, Writing Assessment Journal, 2013

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