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2018 CCCC Podcast

For the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Dr. Matthew Gomes invited me to define what embodied (or contemplative) writing pedagogy, and to explain the mindfulness exercises I planned to use in my workshop. I've saved that podcast and embedded it in video form (for ease of tracking). 

Kairos Book Review

After the semester ended, I spent the summer further developing an Adobe Muse site to publish a book review of Liza Potts’ book, Social Media in Disaster Response. That book review site published in Kairos, issue 20.1, Fall 2015.

Embodied Writing Pedagogy

 

Teaching a body is very different from teaching a mind. 

In composition studies, we train teachers to instruct students' minds. We rarely address the role of our bodies in the writing process, and yet the body is omnipresent. A sore neck makes for a bad writing day; Carpal Tunnel wrecks a writing career, and our students feel, perceive, and produce through and with their bodies regardless of our acknowledgement of them. My goal, as a composition studies scholar, is to bring attention to bodies in the writing process. As a trained yoga teacher, I bring mindfulness exercises and gentle movement patterns to certain classroom exercises in order to alleviate the effects of disembodied writing contexts. 

My dissertation research looks at the relationship between writing activity and physical activity in professional writers and first-year composition students. I am currently repurposing that manuscript for publication. 

3MT Speech

In Spring 2016, I delivered a presentation on my doctoral research in which I explained my entire dissertation to a general audience in less than 3 minutes using only one explanatory slide. This internationally-recognized form of presentation style, known as 3MT, requires participants to abide by many rules, all of which are available to the public to read here.

Digital Rhetorics

In 2014, I learned how to design and launch websites in a then-new software, Adobe Muse. For a seminar class I took, English 80703: Digital Rhetorics taught by Dr. Jason Helms, I researched social media use by writing programs, applying rhizomatic theories of networking learning to programmatic implementation and use of socially-networked communication platforms. Click here to view the full project.

Take 5

In Fall 2014, I had the great privilege of collaborating with other TCU graduate instructors on a Take 5 Video Project. Inspired by our field’s well-known Take 20 video, we scripted, we planned, and we even danced a little to convey our collective experiences on teaching writing. I appear in the center of the first rolling frame.

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