Publications

Articles
“Confessions of First Time Virtual Collaborators: When college tutors mentor high school students in cyber-space.”  Writing Lab Newsletter. (June 2005).

“Queering the Writing Center.”  Writing Center Journal 25.2 (Spring/Summer 2005).

“AIDS Resistance & Remembrance:  MTV’s Tribute to and Reframing of Pedro Zemora.”  Cultural Studies:  A Research Annual, 2 (1997): 109-128.

“(Re)figuring Homosexuality, ‘Real Minorities’ and Civil Rights:  A Textual Analysis of Colorado for Family Values’ Amendment Two Tabloid.”  Cultural Studies:  A Research Annual, 2 (1997): 129-141.

“Prejudice toward Persons Living with a Fatal Illness” (with Richard L. Dukes). Psychological Reports, 76.3 (1995): 1107-1114. 

“Visualizing deviance in (Post)Reagan America: Magic Johnson, AIDS and the ‘Promiscuous’ World of Sport” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Critical Sociology, 20.3 (1994): 123-147. 

Reviews
Rev. (with Pat Belanoff) On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America (New York: Lang, 2005) by Elliot Norbert, Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001) by Richard H. Haswell (Ed.), (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002) by Brian Huot, and What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003) by Bob Broad.

Rev. of Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring by Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner.  Writing Lab Newsletter. (May 2004).

Rev. of Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane by Arnie Zane.  Ed. Jonathan Green. Dance Research Journal, 32.1 (2000): 144-145.

Rev. of The Constructed Body by Julien S. Murphy and AIDS TV by Alexandra Juhasz. Signs, 24.3 (1999): 777-779.

In Progress
Manuscript. And Justice for All?: Refiguring Civil Rights Rhetoric in the Contemporary U.S. In progress for submission in winter 2005.

Essay, “Dr. Strangelove Revisited: Or How to Stop Worrying Writing Program Culture and Love Assessment.” To be submitted to WPA: Journal of Writing Program Administration.

Essay, “Dangerous Liaisons with Assessment: Reflections on a Pilot Project for State-Mandated Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication.” To be submitted to Assessing Writing.

Essay, “Writing Centers & the Politics of Creativity and Social Justice.” Chapter in Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work. Kevin Dvorak and Shanti Bruce (Eds). Hampton Press (June 2006).

Essay. “Building Capital in the Writing Center: Mentoring as a Means for Acquiring Cultural, Educational, and Linguistic Power.” In progress for submission to College Composition and Communication.

Essay. “A Queer Eye for the Straight Law.”

Invited Presentations & Workshops
International Writing Centers Association Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.  July 10-15, 2005. Invited leader.

“Using Peer Mentoring Principles to Respond to Student Writing.” Port Jefferson (NY) School District Teacher Development Conference. March, 2004.

“Capital Formation and the assessment of student writing.”  Invited lecture at Eastern Connecticut State University, Department of English, October, 2003.

Papers and Presentations at National/International Conferences
“Writing centers and politics of community, identity, and social justice.” Paper presented at the Working Class Studies Association, Stony Brook University, June, 2006

"Coming out in the Center: Theorizing disclosure and surveillance when the public meets the private in teaching one-to-one." Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Conference:  PRIVACY (and Secrecy), Kansas State University, March, 2006.

“Holistic versus Primary Trait Writing Assessment: Results and Implications from a Case Study.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco. March, 2005.

“Notes from an Accidental Tourist: On joining the writing center discourse community.” Paper presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, KY, October, 2004.

“Changing models for teacher training: The possibilities and limitations of collaborative pedagogy” (with Anne Beaufort, Michael Boecherer, and Monica Sanning). Panel at Writing Program Administrators Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, July, 2004.

“Queer Eye for the Straight Law.” Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association. Boston, May, 2004.

“Growing Graduate Student Teaching and Educational Capital” (with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, and Ann Larson). Panel discussion at the joint meeting of the International Writing Center Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Hershey, PA, October, 2003.

“Mentors mentoring mentors: Using videotaped sessions to assess and grow one-to-one pedagogy” (with Christine Crowe and Rachel Silverman).  Panel discussion at the joint meeting of the International Writing Center Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Hershey, PA, October, 2003.

“The myth of the happy family: Cross-cultural conflict in the writing center” (with Patricia Stephens).  Workshop presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March, 2002.

“Sup/planting our roots: New directions in basic communication instruction.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.

(with Jody Dee Morrison).  “Post-Ellen Media Queers:  From Lesbian Chic, to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” to Sexual Eunuchs.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, November, 2001.

“Facilitating community and voice through asynchronous email tutoring.”  Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March, 2001.

“Struggling with/over student voice in a non-aural context.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Seattle, November, 2000.

“Covering Amendment Two:  The Press and Its Engagement of Competing Logics of the Political Field.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May, 1997.

“AIDS Resistance, Remembrance and Dismembrance:  MTV’s Tribute to and Retribution of Pedro Zemora.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Chicago, May, 1996.

“The Production of a Queer Spectacle:  Reading and Reappropriating Queer Visibility in a Colorado for Family Values Amendment 2 Campaign Commercial.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November, 1995.

“The Politics of Double Talk:  Colorado for Family Values and Their Campaign for the (Re)formation of Homosexuality and Civil Rights.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November, 1994.

(with Cheryl L. Cole). “Magic Johnson and the Persistence of AIDS Discourses:  The Production of Deviant Bodies and Identities.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August, 1994.

(with Cheryl L. Cole and Jay Coakley). “Magic Johnson, AIDS, and Surveillance Debates.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, March, 1993.

(with Cheryl L. Cole). “The Construction of Gender, Race, and Sexual Practices: AIDS and the ‘Promiscuous’ Sport World.”  Paper presented at the La Ville en Rose Lesbiennes et Gais a Montreal Histoires, Cultures, Societies, Conference, Montreal, Quebec, November, 1992.
Revisions presented at the University of Ottawa, January, 1993; Temple University, January, 1993; University of Southern Maine, April, 1993; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, May, 1993; University of Iowa, November, 1993.

(with Cheryl L. Cole). “AIDS “Demonstrations,” ACT UP, & Magic Johnson: How About A Day Without Sport?” Paper presented at the annual meetings for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Toledo, November, 1992.

(with Cheryl L. Cole). “A Different Face of AIDS?  Magic Johnson and the Persistence of AIDS Discourses.” Paper presented at the Theory, Culture, & Society meetings, Champaign, IL, August, 1992.

Papers and Presentations at Regional Conferences

(with graduate student Leon Marcelo). “De/Facing the Center: Towards a Critical Awareness of Identity Politics & Writing Centers Practice & Personnel.”  Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Souhegan High School, Amherst, NH, 2006.

(with graduate students Leon Marcelo and Kerri Koch). “Bridging Experiences to Build Better Tutors: Using Mixed Methods for Tutor Development.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2005.

(with graduate and undergraduate students Mary O’hara, Celeste Capaldi, Kerri Koch, and Sarah Goshman). “Facing the center: Centering, De-centering, and Changing the face of the Writing Center.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.

(with Ann Caniff, Ellen Moore, and Marie Rianna).  ““Facing” Connections between Town and Gown: A Case Study in eTutoring Collaboration between a Local High School and University.” Panel at the Northeast Writing Center Association, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, April, 2004.

“Virtual mentoring of tutors: Understanding and Evaluating Performance through Online Self-Assessment.” Presentation at Metro-New York City Writing Center Consortium, Barnard College, October, 2004.

(with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine Crowe). “Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part I: Beginnings: Understanding and negotiating student, tutor and writing center expectation of interaction.” Presentation at the State University of New York Council on Writing, Suffolk County Community College, April, 2003.

(with graduate students Susan Crane, Rachel Silverman, Christine Crowe). “Assessing and reflecting on writing center process: Part II: What did we just do? Reflecting on pedagogical choices in tutoring sessions.” Presentation at the State University of New York Council on Writing, Suffolk County Community College, April, 2003.

(with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Pam Cobrin, Mary Wislocki, Lauren Fitzgerald, and T. Kenny Fountain).  ““Others” Like Us/Them: (De)Constructing “the Other” in “Our” Writing Centers.” Paper and workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Nashua, NH, April, 2003.

(with graduate students Christine Crowe and Rachel Silverman). “Towards a teleology of mentors mentoring mentors.”  Workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Nashua, NH, April, 2003.

(with Patricia Stephens). “Transformation through triangulation in the writing center: student, faculty, and writing center collaborative learning and curriculum development.” Workshop presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March, 2003.

“A rhetoric response to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.”  Freshman Orientation Summer Reading Faculty Response Panel, August, 2002.

(with Patricia Stephens, Allia Matta, Ann Larson, and Anna Rita Napoleon). “Diversity in action: Confronting notions of “difference” among students, tutors, and pedagogical choices.” Workshop presented at the Northeast Writing Centers Association, Smithfield, RI, March, 2002.

“(Re)figuring Homosexuality, “Real Minorities” and Civil Rights:  A Textual Analysis of a Colorado for Family Values Campaign Document.”  Paper presented at the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Colloquium Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, March, 1995.

(with Richard L. Dukes, Julie Bickham, Catherin Cole, Liz Grutt, Jill Kochenberger, Kathryn Nielson, Gloria Wenzel). “Prejudice Toward Persons Living with an Illness.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, April, 1994.