Laurie Cubbison
Department of
English
http://www.radford.edu/~lcubbiso lcubbiso@radford.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and
Composition.
Secondary emphases in Cultural Studies and Technical and Professional Writing.
Dissertation: Validating
Illness: Internet Activism in Response to Institutional Discourse
Committee: James Porter (Chair), Patricia Harkin, Patricia Sullivan, Johndan Johnson-Eilola
M. A. in English,
Eastern Kentucky University,
Emphases in British Literature and Creative Writing.
B. A. in
Summa cum laude, with a double major in English and Speech Communication.
Administration
Coordinator,
Graduate Teaching Fellow Mentoring Program, Radford University English
Department, 2001-present.
- Participated in interviews of prospective graduate teaching fellows.
- Assigned mentoring teams and supervised second-year GTFs.
- Edited program handbook and developed program website.
- Planned pre-semester orientation as well as semester program meetings.
Program assistant for Basic Writing, Purdue University English Department, 1998-2000.
- Administered the Developmental Writing program, supervising instructors and undergraduate tutors working in the program.
Teaching Experience
Practicum in Teaching Writing (Engl 655) – A practicum course mentoring second-year graduate teaching fellows.
Teaching
Expository Writing (Engl 651) – A
graduate course in rhetorical, composition, and pedagogical theory for graduate
teaching fellows.
Literary
Criticism (Engl 420) – An introductory
course in literary theory for English majors.
Grammar
and Style for Writers (Engl 403) –
An upper-division writing course focused on developing students’ own writing
style.
Introduction
to Poetry Writing (Engl 310) – An
upper-division creative writing course.
Expository Writing (Engl 101) – A first-year expository writing
course, for which I also supervised two graduate teaching fellows teaching for
the first time.
Teaching Developmental Writing (Engl 505D) – A graduate course in Basic Writing theory for Developmental Writing teachers teaching in a computer classroom.
Business Writing (Engl 420) – Helps students acquire the skills needed to communicate effectively in the workplace, using a computer classroom.
Technical Writing (Engl 421) – Helps engineering and technology students acquire the skills needed to communicate effectively in the workplace, using a computer classroom.
English Composition II (Engl 102) – Second half of the introductory composition sequence,
involving argumentative and research writing.
English Composition I (Engl 101)
– First half of the
introductory composition sequence, involving personal experience, expository
and argumentative essays.
Developmental Writing (Engl 100) – Designed to prepare students with limited writing experience for the demands of English Composition I.
Eastern
Basic Writing (Engl 090) – A remedial course in composition emphasizing selected sentence basics and fundamental rhetoric to prepare students for ENG 095 and ENG 101.
Developmental Composition (Engl 095) – An introductory course in composition to prepare students for ENG 101.
Intensive Writing Review (Engl 099) – An intensive review of writing skills for students who had failed the University Writing Requirement exam.
Tutoring – in the Writing/Reading Center and English Department Computer lab; introduced composition and study skills classes to word processing and the Internet; assisted in the development of an on-line writing lab.
Foundations of College Writing II (ENC 091) – Course in Developmental Composition.
Writing I (ENG 101) – First half of the introductory composition sequence.
Writing II (ENG 102) – Second half of the introductory composition sequence.
Publications
“Anime Fans, DVDs, and the Authentic Text.” The Velvet Light Trap. In press.
“Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom.” Virginia English Bulletin. 54.2 (2004) 74-75.
“Stuck in the Middle with Frodo and Neo.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. 1.3 (2003): 206-210.
Rev. of Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Lives of Ordinary Women with Chronic Illness, by Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck. Women’s Studies International Forum 26.2 (2003): 199-200.
“Three Generations: Middle Earth, A Galaxy Far Far Away, and Hogwarts.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. 1.1 (2002): 5-16.
“Building a Curriculum with Assessment in Mind.” Virginia English Bulletin. 51.1 (2001): 18-21.
“Configuring LISTSERV, Configuring Discourse.” Computers and Composition (December, 1999).
Rev. of Writing at Good Hope: A Study of Negotiated Composition in a Community of Nurses, by Jennie Dautermann, and Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best Evidence for Health Care Decisions, edited by Cynthia Mulrow and Deborah Cook. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 13 (1999): 472-475.
“Finding Support Online.” New Observations 120 (1999): 28.
“A Heuristic for Defining the Purpose of a Client's WWW Site.” Business Communication Quarterly 60 (1997): 95-98.
“What Does it Mean to Write from the Body?” Women and Language XX (1997): 31-34.
Presentations
“At Play in the Fields of the Author: Fan Fiction and
Intellectual Property.” With Kim Gainer. Originality, Imitation, Plagiarism: A
Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Writing.
“Goku’s Journeys: The Monkey King in Dragon Ball and Saiyuki.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts.
“Homage, Knock-off or Fan Fic: The Impulse to Rewrite
Classic Fantasy Literature.” Mythopoeic Conference.
“Scar Tissue: The Body as Document.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication.
“Broadcast Standards and Practices: How American
Networks Edit Anime for
English-speaking audiences.” Globalization and Cultural Diversity Conference.
Hotel Roanoke,
“Developing a Theoretical Model of Medical Discourse.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Palmer House, Chicago.
“Saving the Digital World: Children, Digimon, and
Baudrillard’s Hyperreality.” 26th Annual Colloquium on Literature
and Film.
“Pathos as a problem for support group activists.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Adam’s
“Naming Diseases/Labeling Patients.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication.
“Writing (on/for/out of) the Body: The Inclusion of Personal,
Professional, and Scientific Discourse in a Rhetoric of Chronic Illness.”
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference.
“Power, Professional Development, and the Apprentice
WPA.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Summer Conference.
“The Kevorkian Option: The Consequences of Interpellation for
People with Chronic Illnesses.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication.
“Therapeutic Rhetoric.”
“Constructing Personal
and Professional Identities on the Internet.” Conference on College Composition
and Communication. Palmer House, Chicago.
“Resisting Hystories: Elaine Showalter versus People with
CFIDS.” Women's INterVENTIONS in Science, Art, and Technology.
“Heborg/Sheborg: Cyborgs and Gender in Popular Culture.” From
Microchip to Mass Media: Culture and the Technological Age.
“Threading Narrative with Usenet Software.” International
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.
“Do Rhetors Dream of Electric Speech? A Bakhtinian Reading of
Usenet.”
Technology Experience
Taught English 101, 102, 310, 403, 420 and 651 in a multimedia
classroom at
Used WebCT course management software in the teaching of the
above courses at
Designed websitse for the Developmental Writing program for the Purdue University Introductory Writing Program and the Graduate Teaching Fellow Mentoring Program of the Radford University English Department.
Edited text and hypertext markup language code for two Internet-based instructional media projects: Women Artists of the American West and PWOnline.
Trained Developmental Writing teachers to teach in networked
computer classrooms and undergraduates in the use of word processing and the
Internet at
Taught business writing and technical writing in networked computer classrooms, using electronic mail and the World Wide Web as the basis for lessons in computer-mediated workplace communication.
Administered two international listservs: fop-l@vm.cc.purdue.edu (also known as fiction-of-philosophy) and cybermind@listserv.aol.com.
Honors and Awards
Nominated for the
Donald N. Dedmon Professorial Award for teaching in my second year at
Validating Illness: Internet Activism in Response to Institutional Discourse. Purdue Research Foundation. Two-year grant for dissertation work. 1998-2000.
Andrews Doctoral Fellowship.
First place,
Analytical/Investigative Article.
Professional
Writing Experience
Reviewed Critical Literacies for Allyn & Bacon, Longman. 2004.
Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings Companion Website, 2002-2003. Longman.
· Prepared “Thinking Piece” and “Working with Chapter Concepts” content for the companion website of the argument textbook based on my experience using the book for my “Reading, Writing, Research” course.
Professional
Writing Online. Online textbook authored by Johndan
Johnson-Eilola, James Porter, and Patricia Sullivan,
· Developed cases for inclusion in the textbook.
· Edited site content and hypertext markup language.
· Linked to Internet professional writing resources.
Women Artists of the American West. Online textbook edited by
Susan Ressler,
· Edited site content and hypertext markup language.
Winchester Sun.
· Covered local politics, health, education, and entertainment.
· Performed page layout for the health and entertainment pages.
Service
Elected as departmental representative to the Radford University Faculty Senate, 2005.
Elected as at-large representative of the
Elected to represent the Radford University English Department on the university’s Graduate Affairs Council.
Chair, General Education Writing Committee, Radford University English Department. 2000-present.
Member, Computers/Technology Committee, Radford University English Department. 2000-present.
Member, Highlander Guide/ Information Literacy Committee,
Graduate
Coursework
Rhetoric and Composition:
Introduction to Composition Theory (Purdue – Lauer)
Issues in Composition Studies: Classical Age to the Renaissance (Purdue –
Lauer)
Issues in Composition Studies: Modern Period (Purdue – Harkin)
Seminar on Empirical Research on Writing (Purdue – Sullivan)
Writing Across the Curriculum (Purdue – Weiser)
Seminar on Composition (EKU – Elias)
Modern Theories of Composition (EKU – Elias)
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies:
Postmodernism and Composition Studies (Purdue – Porter)
Cultural Studies and Composition (Purdue – Harkin)
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Purdue – Dienst)
History of Literary Criticism (EKU – Rosenberg)
Professional
Writing
Computers and Writing (Purdue – Johnson-Eilola)
Professional Writing Theory (Purdue – Smart)
PostCritical Methodologies (Purdue – Porter)
Computer-mediated Communication (Purdue – Witmer Penkoff)
Creative Writing:
Master’s Thesis – (EKU – Sweet)
Creative Writing Workshop (EKU – Brown)
Seminar in Creative Writing: Writing the Mystery Novel (EKU – Blythe)
British Literature:
Studies in a Genre: Comedy, Plays, Theory and Criticism
(EKU – Werner)
Topics in British Literature: The Fiction of James Joyce (EKU – G. W. Sutton)
Seminar in Medieval Literature (EKU – Hill)
Seminar in Renaissance Literature (EKU – Burkhardt)
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (EKU – Bright)
Teaching Practica:
Teaching Introductory Writing I & II
Teaching Developmental Composition
Teaching Business and Technical Writing
Professional Memberships
Council of Writing Program Administrators.
National Council of Teachers of English.
Modern Language Association.
References
James Porter, Professor.
Patricia Harkin, Associate Professor. University of Illinois-Chicago. (312) 413-9366.
Patricia Sullivan, Professor.
Irwin Weiser, Professor.
Moira Baker, Professor.
Rita Riddle, Professor.