Andrea
Muldoon, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor / Co-Director of Writing Center
Curriculum Vitae
ANDREA DEACON MULDOON
Assistant Professor of English,
University of Wisconsin-Stout
126-B Harvey Hall 1681
Redhead Avenue
muldoona@uwstout.edu (715)
688-6262
(715) 232-1298
EDUCATION
Ph.D., May
2004, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Field: English (Rhetoric and
Composition)
Dissertation: “Writing the Field: Scholarly
Journals and the Construction of Identity, Knowledge, and
Professionalization
in Rhetoric and Composition Studies”
Committee: Dr. Alice Gillam (Chair), Dr. Bruce Horner, and Dr. Charles Schuster
M.A., 1999,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Field: English (Rhetoric and Composition)
Thesis: “Closing the Book on the
‘Standard Story’: Reconceptualizing Platonic Rhetoric
for
Composition Studies”
B.A., 1996,
Major: English/Secondary Education b
Teaching
and Research Interests: composition theory and pedagogy, disciplinary politics
and identity, basic writing theory and pedagogy, classical rhetoric, writing
program/writing center administration, professional writing, 18th/19th
century American literature
TEACHING AND TUTORING POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of English,
Courses
Designed and Taught:
- English 101: Freshman English–Composition:
mass media focus (D2L)
- English 102: Freshman
English–Reading and Related Writing: argument focus (D2L)
- English 247: Critical Writing:
advanced argument/cultural studies focus (D2L)
- English 320: Business Writing (I’ve
taught both face-to-face sections and fully online sections)
- English 415/615: Technical
Writing (D2L)
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998-2003
Courses
Designed and Taught:
- English 095: Fundamentals of
Composition: Exploring Literacy
- English 101: Introduction to
College Writing
- English 102: College Writing
and Research: Investigations of Mass Media and Culture
- English 205: Business Writing
(Blackboard)
- English 206: Technical Writing
(taught in computer lab)
- English 223: American
Literature: Colonial Times Through Nineteenth Century
- English 240: Rhetoric,
Writing, and Culture: Representations of Womanhood on Television
- English 243: Women's
Literature: 19th Century American Women Novelists (Blackboard)
Private Volunteer Tutor, ESL composition student, UW-Milwaukee, 2001.
Paid Tutor,
Paid Tutor,
WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Co-Director of
Along with Co-Director
Kristin Risley, planned and organized the creation of a new, university writing
center; devised annual
personnel and operational budget for the center of $18,000; interviewed and hired
10 undergraduate peer tutors and 1 administrative assistant; planned,
organized, and conducted a 2-day summer orientation session for all tutors;
established daily operating procedures and policies for the Center; supervised
and facilitated the physical set-up of Center, including: set-up and ordering
of computers, phone, tutoring tables, desks, and all other office supplies and
furniture; wrote a successful proposal to receive $3,600 of “Access to
Learning” grant money for software and clerical salaries for the 2006-2007
academic year; developed and distributed promotional materials for the Center,
in print and online.
Director of Stout Writing Relays: (A day-long writing competition for
high school students across Wisconsin and Minnesota, designed to promote and
recruit students to UW-Stout’s Technical Communication Major), Department of
English and Philosophy UW-Stout, 2005-2006.
Served as primary
coordinator of event: organized several subcommittees of Department members to
help carry out various planning tasks; worked closely with admissions office on
campus to recruit students and teachers for the event; carried out all fiscal
responsibilities involved in the event, including: writing a budget, setting up
university accounts to process student registration fees and donations from
sponsors, and coordinating the use of various accounts for specific purchases,
per university guidelines and regulations.
Basic Writing Coordinator, Department of English,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001-2002.
Supervised 15-member
teaching staff and 29 sections of basic writing; revised curriculum, selected
course reader, and developed standard formal essay assignments; led semester
orientations, practice portfolio assessment sessions, and teaching workshops
for instructors; initiated and organized faculty/student basic writing reading
group; organized and facilitated end-of-semester large scale portfolio
assessment; compiled year long statistics on portfolio pass/fail rates for
English 095 students; met with individual students to discuss portfolios.
Composition Program’s Co-Coordinator of Mentoring and
Professional Development, Department of English, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000-2001.
Along with the Coordinator
of First Year Writing, planned and conducted orientation for new first-year
composition instructors; held weekly mentoring sessions with new instructors to
discuss assignment design, pedagogical theory, and classroom strategies;
participated in semester-long course in teaching composition; scheduled and
supervised end-of-semester portfolio assessment; co-coordinated the annual
Virginia Burke Writing Contest for UW-Milwaukee's first-year writing program.
Project Coordinator and Program Assistant, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peer Mentoring Center, 1998-2000.
Helped train junior and
senior peer mentors in writing, technology, and communication; assisted in
drafting Center’s original mission statement; supervised daily Center
operations; organized faculty orientations and class visits; coordinated
student workshops, Center publicity, and special events.
PUBLICATIONS
“Navigating
‘The Storm, The Whirlwind, and the Earthquake’:
Re-Assessing Frederick Douglass, the Orator.” The Rocky Mountain Review of
Language and Literature 57.1 (2003): 65-83.
“A Classical
Framework for a New ‘Visual Renaissance’: Bridging the Divide Between the Written and the Visual in Computer-Based
Composition.” Issues in Writing 12.1 (2001): 43-68.
“Ain't That
Review of ALT
DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, Ed. Christopher Schroeder,
Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell. Composition Forum
12.2 (2003): 161-67.
Review of Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, Ed. Gary
A. Olson. BWE: Basic Writing E-Journal 5.1 (2004).
Review of Historical
Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and The Formation of a Discipline, Ed. Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo.
Composition Studies 33.2 (2005), online exclusive review:
http://www.compositionstudies.tcu.edu/bookreviews/online/33-2/onlineexclusives/muldoon.html
Review of Virtual
Peer Review: Teaching and Learning About Writing in
Online Environments, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch. M/MLA Journal 38.2 (2005),
Forthcoming.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“So I’m a Professor, Now What?: Theorizing Survival and Success of Junior Faculty.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
“Practicing
What We Preach?: Examining Student Resistance to
Response Through Our Own Professional Resistance.” Midwest Modern Language
Association (M/MLA) Annual Convention,
“Transitioning From High School Writer to
College Writer on a Laptop Campus: Strategies for Success.” Wisconsin Council of Teachers
of Language Arts Conference: Literacy.com: Teaching English/Language Arts in a DotCom World,
“Navigating the Conversation: Scholarly Exchange in Professional,
Academic Journals.” 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
Conference,
“Researching the Voices of Composition Research: A Study of Published
Voices in Rhetoric and Composition’s Key Disciplinary Journals.” Writing
Research in the Making: An Interdisciplinary Conference,
“Publishing
or Perishing: Scholarly Journals and the Politics of Knowledge Making and
Participation in Composition Studies.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication,
“Material
Conditions and Institutional Material in Writing Program Administration:
Reform, Resistance, and Reflection.” Thomas R. Watson
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
“Putting
Training into Practice: A Closer Look at ‘Civic-Minded’ Texts and Resources in
First Year Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
“A
Classical Framework for a New Visual Renaissance: Bridging the Divide Between the Written and the Visual in Computer-Based
Composition.” 66th Annual Convention of the Association for Business
Communication,
“Mentoring Graduate Administrators: A Graduate Student Perspective.” Midwest
Writing Centers Association Conference,
“Ain't That
“Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of
“Reconceptualizing the Role of Graduate Student Tutors:
Putting Practice Into Theory.” Midwest Writing Centers
Association Conference,
“Complicating the ‘Peer’ in Peer Tutoring.”
INVITED CAMPUS/COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
PRESENTATIONS
“So You’ve
Assigned the Major Paper: Now What?: Strategies for
Student Success in Any Discipline.” Teaching and
“Composition Journals and the Politics of Publication.” First-Year
Composition Forum, UW-Milwaukee, February 2004.
“The Goals and Expectations of English 090 and 095 at UWM.”
Milwaukee-Area
“The Benefits of Belonging to the
“Creative Teaching Ideas for English 101.” Teaching Assistant Training
Workshop, UW-Milwaukee, August 1999.
“The
UW-Milwaukee Peer Mentoring Center: Our First Year in Review.”(with Nancy Karls); Freshman
Scholars Faculty Development Retreat, UW-Milwaukee, May 1999.
EDITING, PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Research
Assistant, Dr. Charles Schuster,
Researched and wrote author
biographies for Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for
Writers, by Keith Gilyard, Deborah Holdstein, and Charles Schuster, Pearson/Longman, 2004.
Research
Assistant and Copy Editor, Dr. Gerald Alred,
Served as copy editor of The
Business Writer's Handbook and Handbook of Technical Writing (St.
Martin’s Press, 2000); compiled customer surveys and research and helped copy
edit The Technical Writer’s Companion, 3rd ed. (
Technical
Writing Intern, Quad/Tech International,
Designed and formatted
company operation and reference manuals; collaborated with team of
illustrators, engineers, and other technical writers.
AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS
Professional
Development Grant from UW-Stout Research Services, 2006
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004 academic
year.
Preparing Future Faculty Grant,
Frederick J.
Hoffman Award, (for best graduate paper in UWM English Department, 2000-2001).
NCAA
Committee on Women’s Athletics, 1995-1999; selected as one of ten college student athletes in the nation to serve a four-year
appointment on an NCAA Association-Wide Committee.
GTE Academic
All-American 3rd Team; selected by the College Sports Information
Directors of America, 1995-96.
WWIAC
(Wisconsin Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) Division III Scholar
Athlete of the Year for Tennis, 1995-1996.
Golden Key
National Honor Society, inducted in 1995.
Kappa Delta
Pi, International Honor Society in Education, inducted in 1994.
DEPARTMENT/CAMPUS SERVICE
Director of Recruitment for Technical Communication Program,
Primary
author/researcher of proposal to establish a writing center at UW-Stout:
proposal was presented and accepted by Chancellor Charles Sorensen, 2005.
Elected
member, UW-Stout Positive Action Committee, a university-wide committee
designed to hear and make recommendations to the Chancellor regarding faculty
grievances and grievances against faculty, 2005-
New Faculty
Student
Advisor, UW-Stout Technical Communication Program, 2005-
Member,
UW-Stout Technical Communication Advisory Board, 2005-
Faculty
Panelist, UW-Stout Campus Preview Panel for Prospective Students, 2005 and 2006
Participant,
weekly meetings to discuss issues (recruitment, curriculum, program goals,
etc.) related to UW-Stout’s Technical Communication Program, 2004-2005
Member,
UW-Stout Freshman English Committee, 2004-
Member,
UW-Stout Advanced Writing Committee, 2004-
Appointed member, Travel Fund Committee, UW-Milwaukee Composition Program,
2003-2004.
Elected graduate representative, Advisory Committee for Rhetoric and
Composition Graduate Studies, UW-Milwaukee, 2002-2003.
Appointed member (one of two students), Search and Screen Committee for
UW-Milwaukee Dean of Letters and Sciences, 2001.
Appointed member, Composition Advisory Committee: Classroom Observer of
New Instructors, UW-Milwaukee, 2000-2002.
Co-Chair,
Virginia Burke Freshman Writing Contest Committee, UW-Milwaukee, 2000-2001.
Secretary,
Appointed member, Peer Mentoring Advisory Committee, UW-Milwaukee,
1998-2000.
Elected member, Rhetoric and Composition Curriculum Committee,
UW-Milwaukee, 1999-2000.
Elected member, Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium Committee,
UW-Milwaukee, 1998-1999.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES (ATTENDED)
UW-Stout
Professional Development Workshop, “A Script Response to Students’ Papers Without a Pen,” 2006
UW-Stout Professional Development Workshop, “Annum Horribilis? Second Year Survivors Look Back on
the First Year Faculty Experience,” 2006
UW-Stout
New Instructor Workshop on Technology, “Digital Learning Environments –
Strategies for Success” (3 days), 2004
UW-Stout
Technical Communication Professional Development Retreat, 2004
UW-Stout
Workshop on Technology, “Critical Thinking and Technology,” 2004
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Conference
on College Composition and Communication
National
Council of Teachers of English
Member of wcenter, national writing center listserv
Conference
on Basic Writing
Golden Key
National Honor Society
Last update: Monday, January 30, 2006