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Beth L. Brunk-Chavez

Director of First-Year Composition

The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
(915)747-5797
blbrunk@utep.edu

Selected Works

Education

Ph.D. English: Rhetoric/Composition and Literature
The University of Texas at Arlington, May 1999
"Writing out of Captivity: The Liberating Rhetoric of Women's Autobiography"
Director: Dr. C. Jan Swearingen

M.A. English: Literature
The University of Texas at El Paso, May 1995
"Returning Literature to the Composition Classroom: A Classroom Application"
Director: Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf

B.A. Journalism and Mass Communications: Advertising Administration
New Mexico State University, May 1992 with honors

Publications

Published Refereed Articles and Chapters
"Predicting Success: Increasing Retention and Pass Rates in College Composition" with Elaine Fredericksen. Writing Program Administrator 32.1

"The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use." with Shawn Miller. Technological Ecologies: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Eds. Dickie Selfe, Heide McKee and Danielle DeVoss. co-author with Shawn Miller. Logan: Computers and Compostion Digital Press, 2009.

"Decentered, Diconnected, and Digitized: The Importance of Shared Space." Co-author with Shawn Miller. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy 11.1 (2007): http://english.ttu.edu/Kairos/

"What's So Funny about Stephen Toulmin? Using Political Cartoons to Teach the Toulmin Analysis of Argument." Teaching English at the Two-Year College 32.2 (2004): 179-85.

"Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo.” Studies in American Culture 26.2 (2003): 71-87.

"The Journey Out: Conceptual Mapping of the Writing Process." Co-authored with Janette Martin. Academic Exchange Quarterly 6.3 (2002): 193-97.

"En Otras Voces : Multiple Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." Hispanofila 133 (2001): 137-50.

Submitted
Co-author with Helen Foster. “Grant Funding and Disciplinary Legitimacy” to CCC

In progress
Explorations —a composition textbook. Under contract with Mc-Graw Hill. Co-author with Helen Foster.

Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Review for Art of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the 21 st Century by Kurt Spellmeyer. Composition Studies 33.1 (2005): 140-43.

"Voicing Concerns, Sharing Lives: The Rhetorical Power of Narrative." Review for Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative by Elaine J. Lawless and Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader edited by Carol Mattingly. Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. 4.2 (2002)

Review for The Masculinized Woman in America : 1890-1935 by Laura Behling. Newsletter for Popular Culture Association in the South. Fall 2001.

Four entries for the Dictionary of American Literary Characters . 2 nd ed. Ed. by Fred Grayson (entries on Beloved, The Joy Luck Club, Song of Solomon, and Love Medicine ). Facts on File Library of American Literature. 2001.

Textbook Publications
Companion Website for Nancy V. Wood's Perspectives on Argument. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2000.

Co-author with Nancy V. Wood. Instructor's Manual for College Reading. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 2000.

Co-author with Nancy V. Wood. "Suggestions for Teaching with 'The Rhetoric'." Chapter Two in Instructor's Manuals for Perspectives on Argument . 2 nd and 3 rd eds. and Writing Argumentative Essays 1 st and 2 nd eds . By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998.

"Handouts to Facilitate Classroom Management." Chapter Six in Instructor's Manual for Perspectives on Argument. 2nd and 3rd eds. and Chapter Five in Instructor's Manual for Writing Argumentative Essays . By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998.

"Toulmin Analysis of 'What's Happened to Disney Films?'" Perspectives on Argument . 2 nd ed. By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998. 150-51.

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Colloquia and Workshops

“Pedagogy and Technology." Teaching with technology discussion/workshop for History PhD students. April 2008.

“Discussion and Social Networking." Course redesign workshop. January 2008.

"Focus." IMPACT Fellow Presentation. May 2007.

"Collaboration, Technology, Pedagogy, and Writing." Women's Studies Brownbag. April 2007.

"Teaching Writing Online." CETaL Workshop. April 2006.

"Welcome to the 21st Century: Pull Up a Keyboard." Department of English. November 2005. Co-presenter with Esther Al-Tabaa.

Conference Presentations

“The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Technological Culture of Use.” The Thomas R Watson Conference: The New Work of Composing.” Louisville, KY. October 2008.

“Course Redesign as a Catalyst for Renewed Faculty/Professional Development.” Writing Program Administrators Conference. Denver, CO. July 2008.

"The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use: Workshop" Computers and Writing. Detroit , MI. May 2007. co-author with Shawn Miller.

“Planning for a Comprehensive Assessment.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York , NY . March 2007.

"The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use." Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 2007. co-author with Shawn Miller.

"Planning for a Comprehensive Assessment." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 2007.

"Decentered, Disconnected, and Digitized: Why Students Successfully Adapt to the Online Environment." Computers and Writing. Lubbock, TX. May 2006. co-author with Shawn Miller.

"Creating a Hybrid Academy: Building an Effective Model for On-line Teaching." Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference. West Layfayette, IN. February 2005. co-author with Esther Solis Al-Tabaa, Shawn Miller, Sunay Palsole.

"Challenging the Canonical Structure of Power: Renovation or Demolition?" Rhetoric Society of America . Austin, TX . May 2004.

"DOA at the DOE? Rhetoric and Composition Seeks Legitimacy at the Department of Education." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX . March 2004.

"Pre-tenure/Postpartum: The Rhetorics and Challenges of Motherhood in the Academy." Intersections: Critical Locations of Feminist Rhetorical Practice-Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Columbus, OH. October 2003.

"Shaking Down the Patterns of Patriarchy: The Rhetoric within The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." American Women Writer's Association. Fort Worth, TX. September 2003.

"The New Model of Womanhood: It's Lesbian, It's Menopausal, and It's On Trial by the SEC." Popular Culture Association of the Southwest. Albuquerque, NM. February 2003.

"Teaching the Rhetorical Traditions Without Precedent in the Formation of a Writing Minor." Rhetoric Society of America. Las Vegas, NV. May 2002. co-author with Shelley B. Aley.

"Crafting a Model of New Womanhood: Too Much of a Good Thing?" Feminist Literacies: Resisting Disciplines--Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Decatur, IL. October 2001.

"Perhaps These Walls Do Speak: Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo." Popular Culture Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2001.

"What's So Funny about Stephen Toulmin?: Using Cartoons to Teach the Toulmin Analysis of Argument." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March 2001.

"And Then Things Began Spiraling Out of Control: VH1's Behind the Music and the Integration of Life and Song." Popular Culture Association of the South. Nashville, TN. October 2000.

"'What Do You Mean the Narrator Might Not Be Reliable?' Invitations to Teaching Ethos." Rhetoric Society of America. Washington D.C. May 2000.

"'If I Could Be Like Mike': Introducing Ethos through Advertising." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. April 2000.

"Fleeing Captive Spaces: Autobiography and (or as the) Rhetoric of Emancipation." Challenging Rhetorics: Cross Disciplinary Sites of Feminist Discourse-Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Minneapolis, MN. October 1999.

"The Rhetoric of Women's Autobiography: The Hidden Seen, the Silenced Heard." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. March 1999.

"The Mark on the Body: Bodies as Texts, Bodies as Agents in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Women Warrior." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1998.

"Spinning the Same Yarn into New Patterns: The Limitations and Possibilities of Narrative in the Composition Classroom." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. April 1998.

"The Mark on the Body: Bodies as Texts, Bodies as Agents in Toni Morrison's Beloved." South Central Women's Studies Association. Houston, TX. March 1998.

"The Conversion Narrative as Social Criticism: Victorian Novels Hard Times and The Water Babies." Western Conference on British Studies. Fort Worth, TX. October 1997.

"Reclaiming Rhetorical Power in the Realm of Religion: The Book of Margery Kempe." From Boundaries to Borderlands: Intersections of Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Corvallis, OR. August 1997.

"The Conversion Narrative of Victorian Novels Hard Times and The Water Babies." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1997.

"Rhetorical Power in the Realm of Religion: The Book of Margery Kempe." Graduate Student Research Symposium. Arlington, TX. November 1996.

"The Voice of 'This Creature': A Rhetorical Glance at The Book of Margery Kempe." English Graduates for Academic Development. Commerce, TX. July 1996.

"En Otras Voces: Multiple Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1996.

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Graduate Student Mentoring

2009

Director, Dissertation. Hector Carbajal.

Reader, Dissertation. Anita August.

Director, Dissertation. Cristina Ramirez.

Reader, Dissertation. Robert Tinajero.

Director, Practicum. Jennifer Rhea Maya. "The Guilt or Innocence of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: A Mock Trial Examining a Woman's Guilt or Innocence. " Spring.

2008

Director, Thesis. Annete Arrigucci. Topic: Electronic Distributed Assessment

Reader, Carolyn Drapes. "University Writing Center Web Site Project: Process Report and Process Narrative." Spring

Reader, Thesis. April Reneau, Music, “Determining Basic Voice Clarification of high School Choir Students.” Spring.

Rosanna Reyes, Thesis, Topic: Race and Desperate Housewives. Communication. Summer.

2007
Reader, Thesis. Victor Barajas, MAIS. "Immigration." Spring.

Reader, Thesis. Jean Schiltzkus, Communication. "Angels with Guns: A Rhetorical Analysis of Contemporary Mediated Action Heroines." Spring.

2006
Director, Practicum. Shawn Miller, RWS. "Mediated and Distance Learning: Digital Development Handbook." Summer.

Reader, Thesis. Zoraya Davidson, RWS. "Media and Visual Communications Literacy Course Curriculum." Summer.

Reader, Thesis. Doreen Heep Redenius, Communication. "Personal Trainers' Leadership Sytles, Motivational Language, and Perceived Quality of Relationship between Clients and Trainers." Spring.

2005
Reader, Thesis. Annalisa Perez. "A Step Towards Effective Communication Between Science and Engineering and the Arts and Humanities. Quantitative Application of Pentadic Ratios to Communicate Scientific Effectiveness to the Humanities." Spring.

Reader, Thesis. Iris Hale, English Education."Helping Teens 'Tick' Through the Power of Imagination." Spring.

2004
Reader, Practicum. Alfred Chavez, RWS. "Child Care Services Student Manual." Fall.

Director, Practicum. Elizabeth Carrillo, RWS. "A Case Study of Nontraditional Basic Writers." Summer.

Director, Thesis. Daniel Duarte, RWS. "Electronic Writing Technology and the Third Sophistic." Spring.

2003
Director, Practicum. Elizabeth Manzutto-Carney, RWS. "Rhetorical Issues in Producing Newsletters: The Folio." Spring 2003.

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Academic Honors and Awards

UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. 2009.

Outstanding paper in Rhetoric and Composition: "The Voice of 'This Creature': A Rhetorical Glance at The Book of Margery Kempe." English Graduates for Academic Development Conference. Commerce, TX. July 1996.

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Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching with technology, technological literacies, writing pedagogies, assessment, history of rhetoric/historiographies

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Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, August 2002-present
Undergraduate
Research and Critical Writing
Honors Research and Critical Writing
Advanced Composition I
Advanced Composition II
Writing About Literature
Special Topics in Writing: Editing

Hybrid Courses
Advanced Composition II
Research and Critical Writing
Special Topics in Writing: Editing

Graduate
M.A.
Argumentation and Persuasion
Rhetorical Theory
Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Ph.D.
History of Rhetoric II

Assistant Professor, James Madison University, August 1999-June 2002
Reading and Composition I
Reading and Composition II: Critical Thinking and History packages
and On-line
Rhetorical Traditions
American Literature Survey: Beginnings to Civil War
American Literature Survey: Civil War to Present

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, August 1995-August 1999
Developmental Writing
Expository Writing
Argumentative Writing
American Literature Survey
University Success
Upward Bound: Grammar Workshop

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso, August 1993-May 1995
Expository Writing
Research and Critical Writing

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Grants Awarded

Brunk-Chavez, B., Shaffer, N., Varela, S., Storey-Gore, T, & Meeuwsen, H.J. (2008). Professional Development Modules Project in Reading Comprehension. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2008-2010: $245,389.

“Study to Understand and Prevent Dropout and Failure in First Semester Composition at a Minority Serving University” The University of Texas at El Paso, 2007-2008: $1000

"An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching First-Year Writing." University Research Institute. The University of Texas at El Paso, 2003-2004: $2000.

"Development of a Professional Website to Support Teaching and Scholarship." Digital Media Center. The University of Texas at El Paso. 2003 Summer Academy: $2000.

"Curricular Development and Integration Grant for Cluster One, Package D" with Dr. Chris Arndt (History) and Dr. Esther Yook (Communications) by General Education: James Madison University. May 12, 2000.

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Professional Services and Activities

Discipline
Proposal Review for CCCC
2001
Article Review for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
2000-2001
PCAS/ACAS Newsletter Co-editor
2001-2002

University and College
Instructional Support Services Search Committee
2007
Faculty Senator
2004-2005

Departmental
Associate Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
2007-2008
Library Liason, Development of Rhetoric and Composition holdings
2003-2004
Composition Assessment
2004, 2005, 2007
Hybrid Coordinator
2002-2004
Professional Writing and Rhetoric Committee, UTEP
2002-2007
Composition Committee, UTEP
2002-2007

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Academic Experience

Writing Center Tutor, Fall 1997-Summer 1999
Provided tutoring, training, and computer assistance for The University of Texas at Arlington students and performed administrative duties

Research Assistant, 1998-1999
Composed questions for readings and co-authored Instructor's Manual for Prentice Hall college textbook College Reading by Nancy V. Wood

NEH Summer Institute Assistant, Summer 1998
Assistant to Kenneth Roemer for "Voices Reaching Back, Creating Anew: Five Twentieth Century American Indian Texts."

Research Assistant, Summer 1997
Co-authored and formatted Instructor's Manuals for Prentice Hall college textbooks Perspectives on Argument and Writing Argumentative Essays by Nancy V. Wood

Technical Writer, Office of Comptroller, UTEP, 1994-1995
Wrote manuals profiling financial services offices and defining specific job tasks

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Professional Memberships

Coalition of Woman Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America

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Education Publications Colloquia Conference Presentations Graduate Student Mentoring Academic Honors Teaching & Research Interests Teaching Experience Grants Professional Service & Activities Academic Experience Professional Memberships	. Beth L. Brunk-Chavez Director of First-Year Composition The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968 (915)747-5797 blbrunk@utep.edu Selected Works Education Ph.D. English: Rhetoric/Composition and Literature The University of Texas at Arlington, May 1999 "Writing out of Captivity: The Liberating Rhetoric of Women's Autobiography" Director: Dr. C. Jan Swearingen M.A. English: Literature The University of Texas at El Paso, May 1995 "Returning Literature to the Composition Classroom: A Classroom Application" Director: Dr. Kate Mangelsdorf B.A. Journalism and Mass Communications: Advertising Administration New Mexico State University, May 1992 with honors Publications Published Refereed Articles and Chapters "Predicting Success: Increasing Retention and Pass Rates in College Composition" with Elaine Fredericksen. Writing Program Administrator 32.1 "The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use." with Shawn Miller. Technological Ecologies: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Eds. Dickie Selfe, Heide McKee and Danielle DeVoss. co-author with Shawn Miller. Logan: Computers and Compostion Digital Press, 2009. "Decentered, Diconnected, and Digitized: The Importance of Shared Space." Co-author with Shawn Miller. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy 11.1 (2007): http://english.ttu.edu/Kairos/ "What's So Funny about Stephen Toulmin? Using Political Cartoons to Teach the Toulmin Analysis of Argument." Teaching English at the Two-Year College 32.2 (2004): 179-85. "Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo.” Studies in American Culture 26.2 (2003): 71-87. "The Journey Out: Conceptual Mapping of the Writing Process." Co-authored with Janette Martin. Academic Exchange Quarterly 6.3 (2002): 193-97. "En Otras Voces : Multiple Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." Hispanofila 133 (2001): 137-50. Submitted Co-author with Helen Foster. “Grant Funding and Disciplinary Legitimacy” to CCC In progress Explorations —a composition textbook. Under contract with Mc-Graw Hill. Co-author with Helen Foster. Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries Review for Art of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the 21 st Century by Kurt Spellmeyer. Composition Studies 33.1 (2005): 140-43. "Voicing Concerns, Sharing Lives: The Rhetorical Power of Narrative." Review for Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative by Elaine J. Lawless and Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader edited by Carol Mattingly. Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. 4.2 (2002) Review for The Masculinized Woman in America : 1890-1935 by Laura Behling. Newsletter for Popular Culture Association in the South. Fall 2001. Four entries for the Dictionary of American Literary Characters . 2 nd ed. Ed. by Fred Grayson (entries on Beloved, The Joy Luck Club, Song of Solomon, and Love Medicine ). Facts on File Library of American Literature. 2001. Textbook Publications Companion Website for Nancy V. Wood's Perspectives on Argument. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. Co-author with Nancy V. Wood. Instructor's Manual for College Reading. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 2000. Co-author with Nancy V. Wood. "Suggestions for Teaching with 'The Rhetoric'." Chapter Two in Instructor's Manuals for Perspectives on Argument . 2 nd and 3 rd eds. and Writing Argumentative Essays 1 st and 2 nd eds . By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998. "Handouts to Facilitate Classroom Management." Chapter Six in Instructor's Manual for Perspectives on Argument. 2nd and 3rd eds. and Chapter Five in Instructor's Manual for Writing Argumentative Essays . By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998. "Toulmin Analysis of 'What's Happened to Disney Films?'" Perspectives on Argument . 2 nd ed. By Nancy V. Wood. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 1998. 150-51. Top of page Colloquia and Workshops “Pedagogy and Technology." Teaching with technology discussion/workshop for History PhD students. April 2008. “Discussion and Social Networking." Course redesign workshop. January 2008. "Focus." IMPACT Fellow Presentation. May 2007. "Collaboration, Technology, Pedagogy, and Writing." Women's Studies Brownbag. April 2007. "Teaching Writing Online." CETaL Workshop. April 2006. "Welcome to the 21st Century: Pull Up a Keyboard." Department of English. November 2005. Co-presenter with Esther Al-Tabaa. Conference Presentations “The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Technological Culture of Use.” The Thomas R Watson Conference: The New Work of Composing.” Louisville, KY. October 2008. “Course Redesign as a Catalyst for Renewed Faculty/Professional Development.” Writing Program Administrators Conference. Denver, CO. July 2008. "The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use: Workshop" Computers and Writing. Detroit , MI. May 2007. co-author with Shawn Miller. “Planning for a Comprehensive Assessment.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York , NY . March 2007. "The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Culture of Use." Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 2007. co-author with Shawn Miller. "Planning for a Comprehensive Assessment." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 2007. "Decentered, Disconnected, and Digitized: Why Students Successfully Adapt to the Online Environment." Computers and Writing. Lubbock, TX. May 2006. co-author with Shawn Miller. "Creating a Hybrid Academy: Building an Effective Model for On-line Teaching." Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference. West Layfayette, IN. February 2005. co-author with Esther Solis Al-Tabaa, Shawn Miller, Sunay Palsole. "Challenging the Canonical Structure of Power: Renovation or Demolition?" Rhetoric Society of America . Austin, TX . May 2004. "DOA at the DOE? Rhetoric and Composition Seeks Legitimacy at the Department of Education." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX . March 2004. "Pre-tenure/Postpartum: The Rhetorics and Challenges of Motherhood in the Academy." Intersections: Critical Locations of Feminist Rhetorical Practice-Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Columbus, OH. October 2003. "Shaking Down the Patterns of Patriarchy: The Rhetoric within The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." American Women Writer's Association. Fort Worth, TX. September 2003. "The New Model of Womanhood: It's Lesbian, It's Menopausal, and It's On Trial by the SEC." Popular Culture Association of the Southwest. Albuquerque, NM. February 2003. "Teaching the Rhetorical Traditions Without Precedent in the Formation of a Writing Minor." Rhetoric Society of America. Las Vegas, NV. May 2002. co-author with Shelley B. Aley. "Crafting a Model of New Womanhood: Too Much of a Good Thing?" Feminist Literacies: Resisting Disciplines--Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Decatur, IL. October 2001. "Perhaps These Walls Do Speak: Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo." Popular Culture Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2001. "What's So Funny about Stephen Toulmin?: Using Cartoons to Teach the Toulmin Analysis of Argument." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March 2001. "And Then Things Began Spiraling Out of Control: VH1's Behind the Music and the Integration of Life and Song." Popular Culture Association of the South. Nashville, TN. October 2000. "'What Do You Mean the Narrator Might Not Be Reliable?' Invitations to Teaching Ethos." Rhetoric Society of America. Washington D.C. May 2000. "'If I Could Be Like Mike': Introducing Ethos through Advertising." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. April 2000. "Fleeing Captive Spaces: Autobiography and (or as the) Rhetoric of Emancipation." Challenging Rhetorics: Cross Disciplinary Sites of Feminist Discourse-Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Minneapolis, MN. October 1999. "The Rhetoric of Women's Autobiography: The Hidden Seen, the Silenced Heard." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. March 1999. "The Mark on the Body: Bodies as Texts, Bodies as Agents in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Women Warrior." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1998. "Spinning the Same Yarn into New Patterns: The Limitations and Possibilities of Narrative in the Composition Classroom." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. April 1998. "The Mark on the Body: Bodies as Texts, Bodies as Agents in Toni Morrison's Beloved." South Central Women's Studies Association. Houston, TX. March 1998. "The Conversion Narrative as Social Criticism: Victorian Novels Hard Times and The Water Babies." Western Conference on British Studies. Fort Worth, TX. October 1997. "Reclaiming Rhetorical Power in the Realm of Religion: The Book of Margery Kempe." From Boundaries to Borderlands: Intersections of Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Corvallis, OR. August 1997. "The Conversion Narrative of Victorian Novels Hard Times and The Water Babies." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1997. "Rhetorical Power in the Realm of Religion: The Book of Margery Kempe." Graduate Student Research Symposium. Arlington, TX. November 1996. "The Voice of 'This Creature': A Rhetorical Glance at The Book of Margery Kempe." English Graduates for Academic Development. Commerce, TX. July 1996. "En Otras Voces: Multiple Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." Arlington Humanities Colloquium. Arlington, TX. April 1996. Top of page Graduate Student Mentoring 2009 Director, Dissertation. Hector Carbajal. Reader, Dissertation. Anita August. Director, Dissertation. Cristina Ramirez. Reader, Dissertation. Robert Tinajero. Director, Practicum. Jennifer Rhea Maya. "The Guilt or Innocence of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: A Mock Trial Examining a Woman's Guilt or Innocence. " Spring. 2008 Director, Thesis. Annete Arrigucci. Topic: Electronic Distributed Assessment Reader, Carolyn Drapes. "University Writing Center Web Site Project: Process Report and Process Narrative." Spring Reader, Thesis. April Reneau, Music, “Determining Basic Voice Clarification of high School Choir Students.” Spring. Rosanna Reyes, Thesis, Topic: Race and Desperate Housewives. Communication. Summer. 2007 Reader, Thesis. Victor Barajas, MAIS. "Immigration." Spring. Reader, Thesis. Jean Schiltzkus, Communication. "Angels with Guns: A Rhetorical Analysis of Contemporary Mediated Action Heroines." Spring. 2006 Director, Practicum. Shawn Miller, RWS. "Mediated and Distance Learning: Digital Development Handbook." Summer. Reader, Thesis. Zoraya Davidson, RWS. "Media and Visual Communications Literacy Course Curriculum." Summer. Reader, Thesis. Doreen Heep Redenius, Communication. "Personal Trainers' Leadership Sytles, Motivational Language, and Perceived Quality of Relationship between Clients and Trainers." Spring. 2005 Reader, Thesis. Annalisa Perez. "A Step Towards Effective Communication Between Science and Engineering and the Arts and Humanities. Quantitative Application of Pentadic Ratios to Communicate Scientific Effectiveness to the Humanities." Spring. Reader, Thesis. Iris Hale, English Education."Helping Teens 'Tick' Through the Power of Imagination." Spring. 2004 Reader, Practicum. Alfred Chavez, RWS. "Child Care Services Student Manual." Fall. Director, Practicum. Elizabeth Carrillo, RWS. "A Case Study of Nontraditional Basic Writers." Summer. Director, Thesis. Daniel Duarte, RWS. "Electronic Writing Technology and the Third Sophistic." Spring. 2003 Director, Practicum. Elizabeth Manzutto-Carney, RWS. "Rhetorical Issues in Producing Newsletters: The Folio." Spring 2003. Top of page Academic Honors and Awards UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. 2009. Outstanding paper in Rhetoric and Composition: "The Voice of 'This Creature': A Rhetorical Glance at The Book of Margery Kempe." English Graduates for Academic Development Conference. Commerce, TX. July 1996. Top of page Teaching and Research Interests Teaching with technology, technological literacies, writing pedagogies, assessment, history of rhetoric/historiographies Top of page Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, August 2002-present Undergraduate Research and Critical Writing Honors Research and Critical Writing Advanced Composition I Advanced Composition II Writing About Literature Special Topics in Writing: Editing Hybrid Courses Advanced Composition II Research and Critical Writing Special Topics in Writing: Editing Graduate M.A. Argumentation and Persuasion Rhetorical Theory Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing Studies Composition Theory and Pedagogy Ph.D. History of Rhetoric II Assistant Professor, James Madison University, August 1999-June 2002 Reading and Composition I Reading and Composition II: Critical Thinking and History packages and On-line Rhetorical Traditions American Literature Survey: Beginnings to Civil War American Literature Survey: Civil War to Present Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, August 1995-August 1999 Developmental Writing Expository Writing Argumentative Writing American Literature Survey University Success Upward Bound: Grammar Workshop Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso, August 1993-May 1995 Expository Writing Research and Critical Writing Top of page Grants Awarded Brunk-Chavez, B., Shaffer, N., Varela, S., Storey-Gore, T, & Meeuwsen, H.J. (2008). Professional Development Modules Project in Reading Comprehension. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2008-2010: $245,389. “Study to Understand and Prevent Dropout and Failure in First Semester Composition at a Minority Serving University” The University of Texas at El Paso, 2007-2008: $1000 "An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching First-Year Writing." University Research Institute. The University of Texas at El Paso, 2003-2004: $2000. "Development of a Professional Website to Support Teaching and Scholarship." Digital Media Center. The University of Texas at El Paso. 2003 Summer Academy: $2000. "Curricular Development and Integration Grant for Cluster One, Package D" with Dr. Chris Arndt (History) and Dr. Esther Yook (Communications) by General Education: James Madison University. May 12, 2000. Top of page Professional Services and Activities Discipline Proposal Review for CCCC 2001 Article Review for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 2000-2001 PCAS/ACAS Newsletter Co-editor 2001-2002 University and College Instructional Support Services Search Committee 2007 Faculty Senator 2004-2005 Departmental Associate Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies 2007-2008 Library Liason, Development of Rhetoric and Composition holdings 2003-2004 Composition Assessment 2004, 2005, 2007 Hybrid Coordinator 2002-2004 Professional Writing and Rhetoric Committee, UTEP 2002-2007 Composition Committee, UTEP 2002-2007 Top of page Academic Experience Writing Center Tutor, Fall 1997-Summer 1999 Provided tutoring, training, and computer assistance for The University of Texas at Arlington students and performed administrative duties Research Assistant, 1998-1999 Composed questions for readings and co-authored Instructor's Manual for Prentice Hall college textbook College Reading by Nancy V. Wood NEH Summer Institute Assistant, Summer 1998 Assistant to Kenneth Roemer for "Voices Reaching Back, Creating Anew: Five Twentieth Century American Indian Texts." Research Assistant, Summer 1997 Co-authored and formatted Instructor's Manuals for Prentice Hall college textbooks Perspectives on Argument and Writing Argumentative Essays by Nancy V. Wood Technical Writer, Office of Comptroller, UTEP, 1994-1995 Wrote manuals profiling financial services offices and defining specific job tasks Top of page Professional Memberships Coalition of Woman Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition Conference on College Composition and Communication National Council of Teachers of English Rhetoric Society of America Top of page .