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http://heatherfester.com

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II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Teaching Assignments

Fall 2007	Adjunct Instructor, Basic English (4 courses) Lincoln University, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, MO 65102
2006-2007	Assistant Professor of English, Writing Specialist (8 courses) Saginaw Valley State University, English Department, MI  48710
Spring 2006	Adjunct Instructor, English Linguistics (1 course) Heidelberg College, English Department, OH  44883
2001-2006	Graduate Instructor, English Department (12 courses) Bowling Green State University, OH 43403

Non-Teaching Assignments

2004-2005	Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentor. General Studies Writing. Bowling Green State University.  Mentor to in-coming graduate teaching assistants.  Facilitated discussion of best teaching practices, assignment design, and classroom management with 9 graduate students in a one-on-one weekly conference setting.
Summer 2003, 2004	General Studies Writing Administrative Assistant. Bowling Green State University. Worked on instructional materials for incoming graduate assistants, redesigned Web site, and helped organize instructor retreat.
2003-2004	English Department Assistant. Bowling Green State University. Redesigned Web site and promotional video for English Department.
1999-2001	Writing Consultant and Peer Editor, Truman State University, Writing Center.  Met with students in conference setting and served on creative writing and publicity committees. As Peer Editor, provided feedback on student papers in a writing across the curriculum course, Computers and Natural Languages.
1999-2000	Linguistics Research Assistant, Truman State University, Dr. Mary Shapiro.  Assisted with linguistic transcription and analysis.

 

III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Taught

Lincoln University

• ENGL 90: Basic English (4 sections, Fall 07)

Saginaw Valley State University

• ENGL 300: Writing in the Professions
• ENGL 212: Academic Writing: The Medium and the Message
• ENGL 111: Introductory Composition
• Scheduled to teach (Fall 07): ENGL 262: Introduction to Journalism
• Scheduled to teach (Fall 07): MAS 520: Communication for Administrators
• All SVSU sections of writing above were taught in a computer lab or with computer lab components.

Heidelberg College

• ENG 382: Introduction to Linguistics

Bowling Green State University

• ENG 207: Intermediate Composition, BGSU, Spring 2006
• ENG 381: Grammar and Writing, BGSU, Fall 2004
• ENG 380: Linguistics for Grammar Teachers, BGSU, shadowed and assisted, Summer 2003
• English 112, Varieties of Writing, BGSU, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
• English 111, Introductory Writing, BGSU, 2001, 2002
• Experience teaching four sections of writing in a computer lab
• Proposal accepted for an ENG P112 writing topic course: The Medium and the Message

Curriculum and Faculty Development

Saginaw Valley State University

• Co-founded and organized New Faculty Learning Community, a brown bag lunch discussion group for first- and second-year faculty designed to promote faculty development, networking, and retention.  Co-founded with Criminal Justice Department Chair Holly Child, Fall 2006.
• Member of Administrative Science Council for teachers contributing to the Masters in Administrative Science Program.
• Participant on the Professional and Technical Writing Program Curriculum Review Committee, 2006-2007.

Bowling Green State University

• Service on Merit Review Procedures Revision Committee, part of the Central Advisory Committee for the English Department, Fall 2004.
• Worked on general education proposal for BGSU's 200-level intermediate writing course, collaborative project, Spring 2004.
• Participated in Digital Literacy and Communication Studio, led by Drs. Kristine Blair, Andrew Mara, and Judith Edminster and funded by an Ohio Learning Network Grant, 2004-2005.
• Helped organize conference hosted by English Graduate Student Association, Spring 2004.

Guest Lectures/Presentations

Saginaw Valley State University

• Asked to give a guest lecture on “Visual Rhetoric” in CW 516, Summer 2007.
• "Designing Effective Writing Assignments in Introductory Writing Courses."  Presented Friday, October 20, 2007, during First-Year Writing Program norming session. Saw and met the need for a workshop on designing effective writing assignments in the introductory writing course.  Presented and designed a handout with sample materials as tools to help instructors think through sequencing assignments, tying the assignments to course outcomes, and accommodating student needs with thorough assignment sheets.

Bowling Green State University

• ENG 380 (Linguistics): Guest lectures on "language development" and "dialects" (specifically Appalachian), Summer 2003.
• Developmental session and software demonstration for graduate students who were designing and publishing professional Web-based portfolios, co-hosted with Brennan Thomas, Fall 2003.
• "Surviving and Thriving in Graduate School," developmental session presented at the GradSTEP orientation for new graduate students, co-presented with Colleen Warwick, 2002.
• Accepted to teach “Composition and Cross-Training with Cinderella,” a week-long class that would explore fairy tale motifs in connection with culture, and “Don’t You Know It? You’re a Poet!” a week-long class designed to familiarize junior high students with the world of poetry, at the 2000 William Woods Summer Academy for gifted students in Fulton, MO.

Professional Development and Technical Competencies

Workshops,  Conference Attendance, and Training

• Ken Bain workshop on effective teaching, SVSU, Fall 2006
• V-Space/Sakai training, completed individually, Fall 2006
• Blackboard training, completed individually, Fall 2006
• Sweetland Writing Center’s Interdisicplinary Conference on Plagiarism, 2006
• Ohio Developmental Educators Conference, 2005

Software Competencies

• Design and publishing software: Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, FTP Clients
• Course management software: Blackboard, V-Space, Moodle
• Other: iMovie, Filemaker Pro, Microsoft Office Suite

 

VI. GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Writing Program Administration:

• Writing Program Administration
• Basic Writing Pedagogy
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• Advanced Writing Pedagogy
• Teaching Computer-Mediated Writing: Theory and Practice

Language and Multiliteracies:

• Practicum in Teaching Linguistics
• Language and Society
• Literacy Theory

Visual Rhetoric and Design:

• Popular Culture: Visual Culture
• Visual Rhetoric
• Internship in Web design for the English Department (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

  Literature:

• Teaching Literature
• Contemporary Studies in Fiction
• Theory and Methods of Literary Criticism

General:

• Research in Rhetoric and Writing
• Publication in Rhetoric and Writing
• Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
• Women in the Rhetorical Tradition
• Rhetorical History
• Rhetorical Theory
• Composition Pedagogy
• General Studies Writing Practicum
• Technical Writing Theory
• French for Graduate Students

VII. HONORS AND AWARDS

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• Funded to study French abroad at L’Institut de Tourraine in Tours, France, 2002
• Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
• Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta
• Selected as the Truman State University B.S. English Major of the Year, 1999-2000

 

VIII.  PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP

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Conference Presentations

• “Scholarship of Engagement and the Field of Composition and Rhetoric.” Accepted to present.  Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, LA, April 2-5, 2008.
• “New Assignments and Assessments for a New Age of Student-Writers and Teacher-Readers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York, NY, March 21-24, 2007.
• “Giving the Civic the Once-Over: A Social Etymology of 'Civic Virtue.’” Accepted to present. Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Memphis, TN, May 26-29, 2006.
• "Testing the Gold in the Fire: Theorizing Student Resistance in Basic Writers." CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March 16-19, 2005.
• "Rhetoric of Complaint: Returning Agency to Student Writing." Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 7-9, 2004.
• "'A Looking Glass for the Mind': Illustrations as Reflections of the Child in 19th Century American Elementary Textbooks." CCCC, San Antonio, TX, March 24-27, 2003.
• “The Rhetoric of Discontent: Returning Agency to Student Writing.” Ninth Annual Duquesne Graduate Student Conference on Theory and Praxis in Pittsburgh, PA, 2003.
• “‘Conseillyng and Comandement’: The Continuing Discourse on Authority between the Knight and the Wife of Bath.” International Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society Convention, Savannah, GA, March 2-5, 2000.
• “The Changing Cultural Metaphor: Evolving Social Symbols in the Sleeping Beauty Tale Type.” Accepted to present. Missouri Folklore Society Conference, Fulton, MO, October, 2000.
• “‘Stop, Collaborate, and Listen’: Collaboration in the Writing Center Conference.” Accepted to present. Midwest Writing Center Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 28, 2000.

 

Publications

• “Writing the Civic into the Curriculum.”  Quick Hits on Educating Citizens.  Eds. James Perry and Steven Jones.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
• Two poems, “Reaching Out” and “The Cherry Tree,” published in the 1999-2000 issue of the Truman State University literary magazine, The Windfall.

Proposals in consideration:

• Book review tentatively planned for Meaning Centered Grammar by Craig Hancock.
  

Areas of Scholarly Interest

• scholarship of engagement, teaching, and administration
• civic discourse
• writing administration and assessment
• multiliteracies and changing literacy instruction techniques
• visual literacy, rhetoric, and design
• new media writing and computer-mediated composition
• discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
• creative nonfiction