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Assessment & Program Development

Data Analysis on 4-Year Private Institutions in the US (using IPEDS data)

Outcomes Assessment Report (Biennial) – contact for access

5-year Academic Program Review – contact for access

Digital Writing & Narrative Design Program Proposal – contact for access

Selected Instructional Technology Bites

Timeline JS: Post about using Timeline JS in the classroom, with samples and information related to the timeline-building tool.

Using iMovie in the classroom for critical analysis (coming soon)

Using Twine in the classroom for critical analysis (more coming soon)

Handouts: Transcribing for public good. A collection of handouts used in an upper level literature class, for which one project was related to cleaning “dirty” OCR and getting a better sense of 18th century publication habits. This project has since been adapted for lower-level classes and was co-presented at a 2015 professional conference.

Wikipedia (authoring and analysis) Assignments and Class Activities: A collection of handouts and activities, used in core literature classes, and presented at another 2015 conference.

Wikipedia workshop with faculty colleagues

Audiobooks, Wikipedia, and TypeWright are discussed in this SOTL article, “Non-Fatal Inquiry: Love in Excess, Print, and the Internet Age” (MLA Approaches to Teaching)

Sample student podcasts from a 200-level online course are available here, uploaded by the creators: Podcasts

Websites as Arguments (coming soon)

Optimal Canvas Setup: 5-Part Blog Series. The Importance of Clarity, The First thing Students See, Modules, Due Dates and Ungraded Reading Assignments, Where’s the Feedback?

Chronicle of Higher Education ProfHacker: Teaching Carnival Blogs 5.05 and 5.01

Selected Professional Development

AAUP Summer Institute, sessions on Understanding University Budget, Advocacy Organizing, Impact of COVID-19 (Online) July 2021

ADE Summer Seminar North (Ann Arbor, MI) July 8-12, 2018

CIC Workshop for Department and Division Chairs (Williamsburg, VA) April 8–10, 2018

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Necessary Dialogues in the Classroom (Marymount University) August 18, 2020

Diversifying the Curriculum and Careers in English(MLA Association of Departments of English), July 9-12, 2018

Digital Pedagogy Lab (Online, University of Colorado, Denver), July 26-August 2, 2020

Quality Matters: Standards of Online Learning Certification, 2019

Marymount Writing Fellow, 2015, 2017

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer Seminar (TEI Seminar), June, 2014

Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria, BC, Canada), June 3-9, 2012

The Humanities and Technology Camp (Center for History and New Media), June 2011

THATCamp Bootcamp (Center for History and New Media), June 2011

The Humanities and Technology Camp (Center for History and New Media), June 2010

Summer Seminar in Disability, Gender & Culture (University of West Virginia), May 21-24, 2009

Promotion Portfolio

Feel free to browse my academic promotion portfolio from 2017. Note that some links may not be updated as time has passed.

Service to the Profession

Fulbright National Screening Committee Member: UK (2020, 2021, 2022)

Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium, Member and Conference Committee (2019-2023)

Digital Humanities Section Editor, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (2017-2022)

Marymount Delegate; Web and Publications Editor, Virginia Humanities Conference (2016-2022)

President and Convenor, Virginia Humanities Conference (2014-2015)

Marymount Delegate, Virginia Humanities Conference (2013-present)

“The Doctor Is in,” Professional Academic Mentorship at ASECS (2015, 2016)

18th Connect, Steering Committee Member (2015-2019)

Digital Humanities Quarterly, Reviewer (2015-present)

Anvil Publications, Reviewer (2014)

ASECS DH Caucus, Founding Member (2013-present)

NINES, Executive Committee Member (2012-2016)

ABO: An Interactive Journal of Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, Founding Web Editor (2011-2012)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Startup Grant Reviewer (2011)

Selected Service to the University

Academic Policy, Budget, and Planning Committee (2019-2021)

Chair, Department of Literature & Languages (2018-2021)

Chair, Faculty Employment and Benefits Committee (2017-2018)

Chair, Rank and Tenure Committee (2016-2017)

Faculty Employment and Benefits Committee (2016-2019)

Online Learning Strategic Taskforce (Spring 2015-2016)

Director, Graduate Program in English and Humanities (2011-2014)

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee (2013-2014)

Liberal Arts Core Assessment (2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018)

IT Services Director Faculty Hiring Representative (2013-2014)

University Technology Committee (2008-2012)

Instructional Technologist Hiring Committee (2012)

Faculty Awards Committee (2009-2012)

Hiring Committee Chair, English Department (Medievalist, 2010)

E-Portfolio Selection Committee (2010)

Hiring Committee Chair, English Department (Early Modernist, 2010)

Magnificat Literary Magazine Designer, Editor, Web Developer (2007-2012)

Chair, Academic Instructional Resources Committee (2008-2010)

Selected Honors, Grants & Awards

NEH Digital Humanities Level 3 Advancement Grant, Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English. Co-PIs Tonya Howe, John O’Brien (UVa), Christine Ruotolo (UVa Library). Total 3-year (July 2023-Dec 2025) outright funding: $303,104

VIVA Open Course Grant, “A Decolonial Survey of Literature”. PI Tonya Howe, Co-PI John O’Brien. 3-year outright funding: $27,000

School of Design, Arts, and Humanities Scholarship Award (2020)

VFIC H. Hiter Harris III Excellence in Instructional Technology Award (2019; $2,500)

Discover Summer Research Grant (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015; $4,000)

NEH Digital Humanities Level 2 Advancement Grant, Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. Co-PIs Tonya Howe, John O’Brien (UVa), Christine Ruotolo (UVa Library). Total 18-month (Jan 2018-June 2019; Outright Funding: $72,542)

VFIC Mednick Grant for Novels in Context project (2015, $5,000)

VFIC Mednick Grant for research at Yale University and the Lewis Walpole Library (2008; $5,000)

University of Michigan Initiative in Disability Studies UMInDS Dissertation Award (2005; $3,500)

Selected Student Mentorship & Advising

Mark (Joey) Robbins, “”Geno/Transphobia and Xenomorphs,” presented at the Virginia Humanities Conference, Virginia Wesleyan University, April 2019.

Elizabeth Ramos, “Fluidity in Chicano Poetry,” presented at the Virginia Humanities Conference, Virginia Wesleyan University, April 2019.

Sabrina Koumoin (BS, IT), NEH Student Research Assistant. Fall 2018-Spring 2019.

Kaitlyn Giblin, ““To nobody belonging, by nobody was noticed”: Navigating the Bounds of Feminine Authority and Female Authorship in Frances Burney’s Evelina,” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, November 2-4, 2017.

Amanda Bourne, “Imagining the Artist: Images of Virginia Woolf in Postmodern Narratives.” Presented at the International Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Leeds Trinity University, June 16-19, 2016.

—. Presented at the Virginia Humanities Conference, Virginia Military Institute, May 30, 2016.

—. Presented at the Marymount Student Research Conference, April 2016. Watch Video.

Elizabeth Ricketts, “‘Whatever Title Please Thine Ear’: Ambivalence and Mimicry in A Modest Proposal” Presented at Notre Dame University, American Conference for Irish Studies, March 30-April 2, 2016.

Richard Henkle, “With This Ring I Thee Wed: Marriage in Mary Pix’s The Beau Defeated (1700).” Presented at College of William and Mary, Graduate Research Symposium, March 21-22, 2014

Mary Kate Mulligan, “Women in Patricia Highsmith’s Novels,” presented at the Popular Culture Association of America professional conference, 2012

Adrianne Morris, “The Rolling Wheel of Capitalism,” presented at the Popular Culture Association of America professional conference, 2012

Martinelle Allen, “Another Brick in the Wall: The Rise and Fall of Guy Haines’ Psychological Prison.” Presented at the William and Mary Graduate Research Symposium, Williamsburg VA, 2013

Alyce Sustko, “Exploring Religion in Pottermania: Why American Consumers Love the Harry Potter Series.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association of America. Washington, DC, 2013

Mary Kate Mulligan, “Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am!: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Role in the American Suffrage Movement” Presented at the Popular Culture Association of America. Washington, DC, 2013

Master’s Thesis Advising

Mark (Joey) Robbins, “Metamodern Monstrosity,” Summer 2020

Kaitlyn Giblin, “Maternal Matrices: Motherhood and Authority from Burney to Bronte,” April 2019

Alyce Sustko, “Exploring Pottermania: The Influence of the Post-Modern Sacred in American Mass Culture,” April 2013

Martinelle Allen, “Representations of Tragic and Auspicious Passing in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Flight,” April 2013

Lindsay Murphy, “Canonized Rape Culture: Reading ‘Good Country People’ and ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” December 2012

Rawan Alnefaee, “Jane Eyre as the Reformed Pamela: A Contrastive Analysis of the Courtship Patterns in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela,” December 2012

Stephanie Szkutak, “Judith Leyster and the Impact of Gender and Gaze in Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting,” April 2010

Michelle Whittaker, “Hakuna Matata—No Worries: Walt Disney World and the Imagineering of the Family Vacation,” April 2010

Emily Dewey, “Rhetoric and Deformity in Shakespeare’s Soliloquies,” April 2009

Angela Michelle Bolger, “Joseph Conrad: The Darkness of it All,” April 2009

Laura Makransky, “Emasculating the Patriarchy: Sisterhood and the Sororal Bond in Jane Austen,” April 2008

Kris Mecholsky, “The Wandering Apostate: Catholic, Southern, and Noir Elements in the pre-Postmodernist Fiction of James M. Cain,” April 2008

Nileah Bell, “Harlem Renaissance in DC,” April 2008

Liana Houdershell, “The Monster You Know: Teaching Stephen King in Academia,” April 2007