Curriculum Vitae

 

Chris Drew

Delray Beach, FL 33445

(561) 237-7127

cdrew1@yahoo.com

 

Education

• ABD in Composition and Rhetoric

Temple University August 2007

 

Dissertation: “Composing Bodies, Composing Minds: Student-Athletes’ Reading and Writing”  Committee: Eli Goldblatt (Chair), Michael Smith, Susan Wells

 

Examination Areas: Rhetoric and Composition; Literacy Studies and Critical Education Theory

 

• M.A. in English with concentration in Rhetoric and Composition

Southern Illinois University – Carbondale; December 2003

 

Thesis: “From Black To White To ‘Other’: An (Auto) Ethnographic Look At Ebonics

And Race In The Classroom,” directed by Donna Strickland

 

• B.A. in English

Southern Illinois University – Carbondale; May 2001

• Associates Degree

Jacksonville College; Jacksonville, TX; May 1999

 

Academic Positions

• Instructor, English Department, Lynn University 2006-
• Adjunct Instructor, English Department, Temple University, 2004
• Graduate Teaching Assistant: English Department, Southern Illinois University, Fall 2002-Fall 2004
• Graduate Assistant: Center for Basic Skills, Southern Illinois University, Fall 2001-Spring 2002

 

Teaching Experience

• Basic Writing and Freshman Composition

Lynn University 2006 - present

• Freshman Composition

Temple University 2004

• Freshmen Composition and Analytical Writing

SIUC 2002-2003

• Writing Center Tutor

SIUC 2002

• Center for Basic Skills Mentor and Tutor

SIUC 2001-2002

 

Presentations

• “Historical Crossing: DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk as an Early Site of Racial Negotiation” at Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, 24 March 2007
• “Body, Thought, Text: ‘motor-mental coordinations in composition’“ at Conference on College Composition and Communication – Qualitative Research Network Forum, New York, New York, 21 March 2007
• “Dewey and Experiential Learning” at Conference on College Composition and Communication – Research Network Forum, Chicago, Illinois, 22 March 2006
• “What Composition Studies Can Learn From Student Athletes” at the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 18 March 2006
• “An Autoethnographic Examination of The Effects of Race in a ‘Raceless’ Classroom” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, California, 17 March 2005
• “From Black To White To ‘Other’: An (Auto) Ethnographic Look At Ebonics And Race In The Classroom” at Conference on College Composition and Communication – Research Network Forum, San Antonio, Texas, 24 March 2004
• “EMDP, Fashion and Emotions: Things to Consider for First Time GTAs” at the Southern Illinois University – Carbondale Pre-Semester Workshop, 14 August 2003
• “Fashion’s Functions: Searching for Optimal Homophily” at the Allerton Conference, Monticello, Illinois 16 April 2003
• Panel member for “Reparations: Another Handout or Hypocrisy at its Worst.”  Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, 26 February 2003

 

Awards

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award finalist at SIUC 2003

 

Publications

• “Sophistic Training and Experiential Learning: A methodology of mind-body syncretism” in Pedagogy 7:2 (2007): 303-308.
• “Affect, Labor, and the Graduate Teaching Assistant: Can Writing Programs Become ‘Spaces of Hope’?” in Works and Days: Information University: Rise of the Education Management Organization – with Matt Garrison, Steve Leek, Donna Strickland, Jen Talbot, and A. D. Waldron – 21.1/2 (Spring/Fall 2004): 169-186

 

Classes Taught

• English 099 Basic Writing
• English 50/101 Freshman Composition
• English 290 Analytical Writing

 

Advanced Academic Training

• RSA Summer institute 2007, Troy, New York Rennseleer Polytechnic University “Rhetoric of the World” with Sharon Crowley, Nan Johnson, Gwendolyn Pough and Ralph Cintron

 

Composition and Rhetoric Training

• History of the English Language with Dr. Anita Riedinger

• Research Methodologies with Dr. Rhonda Dively

• Classical Rhetoric with Dr. Gerald Nelms
• Teaching College Composition with Dr. Lisa McClure and Dr. Donna Strickland
• Rhetoric of Inquiry with Dr. Donna Strickland
• Modern English Grammars with Dr. Donna Strickland
• Research Methods in Composition with Dr. Eli Goldblatt
• Computer and Technology Literacy with Dr. Frank Sullivan
• Contact Linguistics in Anthropology with Dr. Paul Garrett
• Ethnographic Methodologies with Dr. Sonja Peterson-Lewis
• Composition and Literacy Theory with Dr. Eli Goldblatt
• Feminism and the Rhetoric of Science with Dr. Susan Wells

Professional Service

o       Critical Thinking Task Force. Lynn University Fall 2006

Professional Organizations

o       College Composition and Communication

o       National Council of Teachers of English

o       Rhetoric Society of America