EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture, 2012.
Dissertation: "Spatializing the Writing Center: The Production of Social Space through Ideologies, Interactions, and Agents"

 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
M.A. in English literature, 1996.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
B.A. in English and history, summa cum laude, 1992.


CONTINUING EDUCATION
Online Learning Consortium (formerly The Sloan Consortium), Newburyport, MA.
OLC Online Teaching Certificate, 2014.
Specialization in Online Design.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Belmont University English Department, Nashville, TN
Associate Professor, tenured. August 2018 to present. 
Assistant Professor. August 2013 to July 2018.
Continuing Instructor. August 2011 to July 2013.
Lecturer. August 2008 to May 2011.
Adjunct Instructor and Writing Center Tutor. August 2002 to May 2008.

 Undergraduate Teaching
  • BEL 1015 — First Year Seminar
  • Bridges Summer Autobiography Project
  • ENG 103 — Composition Writing Laboratory
  • ENG 210 — Writing Affiliate (Religion)
  • ENG 221 — American Literature I
  • ENG 1010 — First Year Writing
  • ENG 3010 — Third Year Writing
  • ENG 3960 — Internship
  • ENW 2015 — Rhetoric of Human Rights
  • ENW 2210 — Writers in Context
  • ENW 2510 — The Art of the Essay
  • ENW 2310 — Introduction to Rhetoric 
  • ENW 3020 — Theories of Writing
  • ENW 3560 — Reading and Writing in the Genres
  • ENW 3570 — Professional Writing
  • ENW 3660 — History of Rhetoric
  • ENW 3670 — Perspectives on Literacy
  • ENW 3980 — Practicum in Pedagogy
  • ENW 4010 — Writing Seminar: The Portfolio
  • ENW 4370 — Advanced Studies in Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Conspiracy
  • ENW 4895 — Modern Tribes: Marking Memberships with Writing and Rhetoric
Graduate Teaching
  • ENG 6300 — Special Topics: Ecocomposition
  • ENG 6300 — Special Topics: Materialism, Writing, and Technology
  • ENG 6420 — Composition Theories
  • ENG 6420 — Modern Tribes: Marking Memberships with Writing and Rhetoric
  • ENG 6460 — Writing and Identity: Composing and New Media
  • ENG 6700 — Thesis Prospectus and Research
  • ENG 6800 — Thesis

Nashville State Community College English Department, Nashville, TN
Adjunct Instructor. June to July 2012, June to July 2010, June to July 2008, August 2002 to July 2003, July 2000.
  • DSPW 0700 — Basic Writing
  • English 1010 — Composition I
  • English 1020 — Composition II
  • English 2010 — Literature: Fiction
  • English 2120 — Survey of American Lit II

Vanderbilt University Department of Teaching and Learning, Nashville, TN
Teaching Assistant. August 2007 to December 2008.
  • English Education 2370/3370 — Teaching English in Secondary Schools.

Aquinas College Liberal Arts Program, Nashville, TN
Adjunct Instructor. June to August 2004, January to July 2003, July to August 2000.
  • English 111 — Composition I
  • English 112 — Composition II
  • Business 205 — Professional Communication

Vanderbilt University English Department, Nashville, TN
Teaching Assistant / Instructor of Record. August 2000 to May 2002.
  • English 100 — Composition
  • English 104 — Introduction to Fiction
  • English 105 — Introduction to Drama

University of South Alabama Department of English, Mobile, AL
Lecturer. August 1996 to August 1999.
  • English 101 — Composition I
  • English 102 — Composition II
  • English 215 — British Literature I

Spring Hill College Lifelong Learning Program, Mobile, AL
Adjunct Instructor. January 1997 to June 1999.
  • English 011 — English Grammar and Composition
  • English 121 — Composition I and Introduction to Literature
  • English 123 — Composition II and Introduction to Modern Literature
  • English 240 — Introduction to Poetry
  • Spring Hill Summer — Three-week, summer writing seminar

University of Virginia Department of English, Charlottesville, VA
Writing Center Liaison. September 1995 to May 1996.


PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
  • Dalton, Bridget, Kristin Robinson, Jason F. Lovvorn, Blaine E. Smith, Tara Alvey, Elaine Mo, Paola Uccelli, and C. Patrick Proctor. "Fifth-Grade Students' Multimodal Compositions: Modal Use and Design Intentionality." The Elementary School Journal, vol. 115, no. 4, 2015, pp. 548-569.
  • Lovvorn, Jason F. "'Knowing the Why': Personal Writing and Its Value in the Service-Learning Classroom." Serve InDEED: Tennessee Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 14-17.
  • Lovvorn, Jason F., Linda Holt, and Charmion Gustke. "This Isn't Your Mother's English Class: Using Service-Learning Experiences to Improve Writing in the Composition Classroom." Serve InDEED: Tennessee Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 5-9.
  • Lovvorn, Jason. F., Linda Holt, and Charmion Gustke. "Service-Learning Liberations: Transformation through Personal Writing, Community Partnership, and Student Advocacy." Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal, vol. 2, 2011, pp. 116-134.
  • Leander, Kevin M., and Jason F. Lovvorn. "Literacy Networks: Following the Circulation of Texts and Identities in the Schooling and Online Gaming of One Youth." Cognition & Instruction, vol. 24, no. 3, 2006, pp. 291-340.
Book Chapters
  • Lovvorn, Jason F. "Writing Center Discourses in Theory and Practice: A Comparative Case Study." Empowering Students Through Multilingual and Content Discourse, edited by Stacie Finley, Pamela Correll, Cathy Pearman, and Stephanie Huffman. IGI Global, 2023, pp. 139-158.
  • Lovvorn, Jason F., and Kevin M. Leander. "Following Texts, Bodies, and Objects in Everyday Practice: Thinking with Actor Network Theory." Data Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory in Literacy Studies Research: A How-To Guide, edited by Michele Knobel, Judy Kalman, and Colin Lankshear. Myers Education Press, 2020, pp. 181-198.
  • Lunsford, Lauren, Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, and Jason F. Lovvorn. "Dialogism in the Digital Age: Online Discussion Boards as Constructivist Platforms." Advanced Research and Practice in K-12 Online and Blended Learning, edited by Tina L. Heafner, Richard Hartshorne, and Richard Thripp. IGI Global, 2019, pp. 459-476.
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  • Lunsford, Lauren, Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, and Jason F. Lovvorn. "Online Discussion Boards in the Constructivist Classroom." Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Education in K-12 Environments, edited by Tina L. Heafner, Richard Hartshorne, and Teresa M. Petty, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 325-340.
  • Lovvorn, Jason F. "Theorizing Digital Storytelling: From Narrative Practice to Racial Counterstory." Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, and Identity, Knowledge, edited by Debra S. Journet, Beth A. Boem, and Cynthia E. Britt, Hampton Press, 2011, pp. 97-112.
  • Tiedemann, J P, Jim S. Furman, Julie E. Justice, Jason F. Lovvorn, and Victoria J. Risko. "How Literacy History is Told: Approaches and Lenses for Historical Access." 54th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, edited by Beth Maloch, James.V. Hoffman, Diane L. Shallert, Colleen M. Fairbanks, and Jo Worthy, NRC, 2005, pp. 392-402.
Proceedings
  • Lovvorn, Jason F., and Sue Trout. "Hunger Games in the Classroom: Engaging Student Learning through Pop Culture Narratives." Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, February 10-12, Blacksburg, VA, Virginia Tech, 2016, pp. 272-273. 
  • Trout, Sue, and Lovvorn, Jason F. "Beyond Page One of Google: Getting Students to Research and Write Toward Deep Learning." Proceedings of the 36th Original Lilly Conference, November 17-20, 2016, Oxford, OH, Miami University.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
  • "Bridging the Departmental Divide: Helping Students Learn Across Disciplines." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2023. (accepted for presentation with Sue Trout, Pete Kuryla, and Meg Tully)
  • "The Kids Are STILL Not Okay: Best Practices for In-Person Teaching Post-COVID." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2022. (with Sue Trout) 
  • "Border Agent: A New Materialist Perspective on Alberto Rios." College English Association Conference. Birmingham, AL. April 2022.
  • "How Can We Get Them to READ?! Top Pedagogies and Practices for Better Student Readers." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2021. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Affect and Learning through Service: A New Materialist Framework." Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education. Nashville, TN. March 2021.
  • "Community Center Matters: New Materialist Narratives of Service-Learning Pedagogy." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Nashville, TN. February 2020.
  • "Mid-Semester Interventions When Teaching Falls Flat: Improvising with Radical Redesign." Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment Virtual Conference. Hosted by Northeastern State University. February 2020. (with Sue Trout and Andrea Stover)
  • "Radical Redesign: What to Do When Teaching Just Isn’t Working." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2019. (with Sue Trout and Andrea Stover)
  • "Avoiding Genre Trouble: Best Practices to Promote Civility in College Classrooms." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2018. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Rhetorics of Alignment in a Post-Truth Age." The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2018.
  • "Putting in an Oar: Using Assessment Dialogue to Create Programmatic Change." Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. Knoxville, TN. July 2017.
  • "Precarious Things: Service Literacies and Social Change." Literacy Research Association Conference. Nashville, TN. December 2016.
  • "Beyond Page One of Google: Getting Students to Research and Write Toward Deep Learning." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2016. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Mobilizing Service: Materiality, Affect, and Writing." The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2016.
  • "Service, Scaffolding, and Student Success: Using Experiential Learning to Improve Research Writing in the Composition Classroom." Student Success in Writing Conference. Savannah, GA. March 2016. (with Linda Holt)
  • "Hunger Games in the Classroom: Engaging Student Learning through Pop Culture Narratives." Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Blacksburg, VA. February 2016. (with Sue Trout)
  • "What’s Hidden in Your Curriculum? An Alternative Assessment for Student Learning." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2015. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Zombies in the Classroom? Popular Culture as a Student Engagement Strategy." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2014. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Service-Learning and the Rhetoric of Engagement." The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2014.
  • "Transformational Community Partnerships: Examining the Components of a Reciprocal Relationship." Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education. Auburn, AL. March, 2014. (with Linda Holt, Charmion Gustke, and Donovan McAbee)
  • "Open Sourcing the College Composition Teacher: Using MOOCs for Professional Development and Pedagogical Improvement." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 2014.
  • "From Service to Story: How Service-Learning Improves Student Writing." Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism and Service-Learning. Franklin, TN. March 2014. (with Linda Holt)
  • "Getting Students to Care in the Common Core Classroom: Service-Learning as an Engagement Strategy." Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2013. (with Linda Holt and Charmion Gustke)
  • "This Isn't Your Mother's English Class: Using Service-Learning Experiences to Improve Writing in the Composition Classroom." Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism and Service-Learning. Franklin, TN. March 2013. (with Linda Holt and Charmion Gustke)
  • "Economies of Labor and Spatial Production in the Writing Center.” The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2012.
  • "Locating the Writing Center: Actors, Networks, and Spatial Analysis." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April 2012.
  • "Liberating Student Voices through Personal Reflection." Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education. Hattiesburg, MS. March 2012.
  • "What’s in a Name? The Writing Center, The Writing Studio, and Authorship of Place." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Tuscaloosa, AL. February 2012.
  • "Digital Storytelling, Critical Race Theory, and the Rhetoric of Social Counterstory." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 2011.
  • "The Social Space of the Writing Center." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Madison, WI. February 2011.
  • "Revising Writing Process and Collaboration in Writing Centers." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.
  • "What's the Story? Narrative Forms and Rhetorical Affordances in MMOG Play." The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2008.
  • "Examining Participation in the Writing Center: Collaboration, Texts, and Actor Networks." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. March 2008.
  • "Design, Mobility, and Personal Narrative: A Case for New Media Practices in Writing Instruction." Georgetown University Round Table, Washington D.C. March 2008. 
  •  "Arguing the Self in College Composition." National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association Conference). Austin, TX. November 2007.
  • "Foregrounding the “I” in Rhetoric: Personal Narrative and Rhetorical Possibility." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 2007.
  • "Discursive Bodies, Digital Stories, and Rhetorical Challenges." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Nashville, TN. February 2007.
  • "Narrative Knowledge and Social Action through Digital Storytelling." National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association Conference). Los Angeles, CA. November 2006.
  • "Stories Seldom Spoken: Digital Storytelling as Rhetorical Practice and Social Activism." The Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2006.
  • "Voices in the Writing center: Examining Multeity through Discourse Analysis." The American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. April 2006.
  • "From Race to Rhetoric to Narrative Research: A Case for Critical Race Theory and Digital Storytelling." The National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Chicago, IL. February 2006.
  • "Literacy, Technology, and Actor Networks." First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL. May 2005. (with Kevin M. Leander)
  • "Complicating Collaboration in the Writing Center: A Textual and Spatial Analysis." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Columbus, OH. February 2005.
  • "How History is Told: Approaches and Lenses for Historical Access." National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association Conference). San Antonio, TX. November 2004. (with Victoria J. Risko, Jim S. Furman, Julie E. Justice, and J P Tiedemann)
  • "Theorizing A Tale in the Desert: The Place of Narrative in Massively Multiplayer Online Games." Gigabytes, Ghouls & Graduate Students. New York, NY. October 2004.
  • "Gaming and Schooling: An Interpretation of Learning within Space-Time." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. April 2004. (with Kevin M. Leander)
  • "An Examination of Weblogging as a Pedagogical Tool." National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Berkeley, CA. February 2004. (with Eric Bowen and J P Tiedemann)
  • "Confused Spaces: Puritan Performance and Confession in the Salem Witchcraft Trials." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA. November 2001.
  • "The Beer Man Cometh." Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writers Conference. Daphne, AL. April 2001.
  • "Time out of Body, Body out of Time: Chronicles of Subjectivity in Spenser’s Castle of Alma." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. November 2000.
  • "The ‘pleye’ of Confession in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. Asheville, NC. September 2000.
  • "Revisiting ‘redneck’: Using the r-word in Polite Society." Southern Writers, Southern Writing Conference. Oxford, MS. July 1998.
  • "Monsters, Murders, and Moral Pessimism: The Cenci as a Reflection of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Between Text and Context Conference. Charlottesville, VA. April 1995.


INVITED PRESENTATIONS
  • "The Kids Are STILL Not Okay: Best Practices for In-Person Teaching Post-COVID." Roundtable Session. Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2022.
  • "Teaching Beyond the Pandemic: Trauma and Mental Health in Our Classrooms." Belmont University Teaching Center Lunch Discussion. October 2022. (with Sue Trout)
  • "'What Are You Going to do With That?': Career & Calling with a Liberal Arts Degree." Belmont University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. November 2021. (with Nathan Webb, Ted Peetz, Hope Buckner, Christopher Suttle-Ware, Grace Cleland, and Kate Ellsworth) 
  • "Symposium Wrap-up: Rooted in Reading." Belmont University Twentieth Annual Humanities Symposium. October 2021. (with Maggie Monteverde, Annette Sisson, Andrea Stover, and Natalia Pelaz)
  • "Reading for Success in the College Classroom." Belmont University Twentieth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2021. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Matt Haig's The Midnight Library." Belmont English Alumni Book Club. September 2021.
  • "Service-Learning Benefits: A Faculty Framework." Belmont University New Faculty Orientation. August 2021.
  • "Robert Macfarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey." Belmont English Alumni Book Club, June 2020.
  • “Radical Redesign: What to Do When Teaching Just Isn’t Working” Roundtable Session. Lilly International Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, OH. November 2019. (with Sue Trout)
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  • "The Belmont University English Internship Program." The University of Tennessee English Summit. May 2019. (with David Curtis) 
  • "Lilly Conferences: A Key Opportunity for SOTL." Belmont University Teaching Center Lunch Discussion. February 2019. (with Sue Trout)
  • "Past Writings and Writing the Past." Belmont University Seventeenth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2018. (with Sue Trout)
  • "First Year Writing and Third Year Writing." Belmont University Fall Faculty Workshop. August 2017.
  • "Leif Enger's Peace Like a River." Belmont English Alumni Book Club. August 2017.
  • "Why Service-Learning? A Faculty Perspective." Belmont University New Faculty Orientation. August 2017.
  • "Persuasive Things (or) Is the World Trying to Tell Us Something?" Belmont University Department of English Spring Speaker Series. March 2017.
  • "Why Things Matter: Being Posthuman in the Humanities." Belmont University Fifteenth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2016.
  • "Seeing is Believing: Textual Analysis, Digital Tools, Visual Rhetoric." Belmont English Department Digital Humanities Colloquium. September 2016.
  • “Service-Learning: A Faculty Viewpoint.” Belmont University New Faculty Orientation. August 2016.
  • "Symposium Wrap Up: Reflecting on Cuisine in Culture and Community." Belmont University Fourteenth Annual Humanities Symposium. October 2015. (with Sue Trout, Maggie Monteverde, Annette Sisson, and Francesca Muccini)
  • "The Concise Cheeseburger." Belmont University Fourteenth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2015. (part of panel presentation, "The Burguerillas: Finding the Best Burger in the World," with Joel Overall, Jayme Yeo, Mitch McCoy, Natalia Pelaz, Robbie Pinter, and Susan Finch)
  • "Deepening Student Learning and Engagement Through Writing." Belmont University Teaching Center Workshops. August 2015. (with Bonnie Smith Whitehouse)
  • "Service-Learning and Perspective Transformation." Belmont University New Faculty Orientation. August 2015.
  • "Symposium Wrap-Up: Reflecting on Worlds Enough and Time." Belmont University Thirteenth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2014. (with Maggie Monteverde, Mark McEntire, Natalia Pelaz, Andy Davis, and Davon Ferrara)
  • "Writing in a Material World: Writing Contexts, Service-Learning, and Student Engagement." Teaching. Writing. Learning. Institute: 21st-Century Approaches & Assignments. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. September 2014.
  • "Zombie Rhetoric (or) How the Walking Dead Can Teach Us About The Living." Belmont University Department of English Spring Speaker Series. April 2014.
  • "Technology and Pedagogy." Belmont University Teaching Center New Faculty Seminars. October (24 and 25) 2013. (with Aimee Cabrera)
  • "Integrating Teaching, Service, and Scholarship through Service Learning." Belmont University Teaching Center Lunch Discussion. September 2013. (with Linda Holt, Charmion Gustke, and John Gonas)
  • "Humanities Symposium Wrap Up Panel." Belmont University Twelfth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2013. (with Cynthia Cox, Regine Schwarzmeier, Gary McDowell, and Mélanie Walton)
  • "Who Am I in the Service-Learning Classroom? Student Connection and Perspective Transformation." Belmont University Twelfth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2013. (with Linda Holt, Charmion Gustke, and Donovan McAbee)
  • "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Planning for Presentations and Publication." Belmont University Teaching Center Workshops. May (8 and 9) 2013. (with John Gonas and Eric Hobson)
  • "Civic Engagement and Service-Learning at Belmont University." Presentation at Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University. February 2013.
  • "Teaching/Learning Conferences and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." Belmont University Teaching Center Lunch Discussion. February 2013. (with Jamie Adam, Linda Jones, Mark Chirico, Shelby Longard, and Kevin Trowbridge)
  • "Humanities Symposium Wrap Up Panel." Belmont University Eleventh Annual Humanities Symposium. October 2012. (with David Curtis, Regine Schwarzmeier, Cynthia Cox, Gary McDowell, and Mélanie Walton)
  • "Digital Race Theory? Racial Narratives, Digital Storytelling, and Civility." Belmont University Eleventh Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2012.
  • "Sloan-C Fellows." Belmont University Teaching Center Lunch Discussion. September 2012. (with Lauren Lunsford and Kevin Trowbridge)
  • "Community Advocacy through Service Learning: Literacy, Social Justice, and Citizenship." Belmont University Tenth Annual Humanities Symposium. September 2011. (with Linda Holt and Charmion Gustke)
  • "A Tale of Two Turns: Time, Space, and Technocultural Imaginings." Belmont University Ninth Annual Humanities Symposium. October 2010.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Service to Field
  • Editorial Board of College Teaching, 2020.
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  • Reviewer for Literacy Research Association, Area 6: Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes, 2020.
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  • Reviewer for Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement, 2017. 
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  • Reviewer for AERA Writing and Literacies SIG, 2012 to 2013 and 2015 to 2016.
  • Reviewer for Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal, 2012 to 2013 and 2015.
  • Reviewer for Routledge, 2012 to 2013.
  • Session Chair at Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2009.
  • Reviewer for 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 2006.
  • Editorial Staff of Cognition and Instruction, 2005 to 2007.
  • Reviewer for National Reading Conference (now the Literacy Research Association), Area 12: Other Topics, 2005 to 2007.

Research Affiliated
  • Research Assistant. Vanderbilt University Department of Teaching and Learning, January to December 2004 & January to July 2008.
  • Research Assistant. Vanderbilt University English Department, 2003.
  • Assistant Archivist. Kevin B. Perdue Folklore Archive at The University of Virginia, February to May 1996.


ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
  • Otto C. Bassler Award for Outstanding Dissertation, Department of Teaching and Learning, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, May 2012.
  • Sloan-C Fellowship, Belmont University Teaching Center (Pedagogy and Technology Initiative), October 2011.
  • Peabody Graduate Honor Scholarship, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, March 2003.
  • University Fellowship, Vanderbilt University English Department, April 1999.
  • Writing Center Liaison Position, University of Virginia Writing Center, March 1995.
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Scholar, University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, May 1992.
  • Sigma Tau Delta and English Department Award for the Outstanding Senior in English, University of Alabama English Department, April 1992.
  • Lee David and Florence Weinberg Black Scholarship in History, University of Alabama History Department, April 1991.
  • May Strickland Undergraduate Scholarship in English, University of Alabama English Department, February 1991.
  • Presidential Scholarship, University of Alabama, 1987 to 1992.
  • Alumni Honors Scholarship, University of Alabama, 1987 to 1992.
  • Robert C. Byrd State Department of Education Scholarship, 1987.
  • Walmart Foundation Scholarship, 1987.
  • Crawford C. Haynes Valedictorian Scholarship, 1987.
  • Academic Honor Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta (English), Kappa Delta Pi (education), Phi Alpha Theta (history), Alpha Lambda Delta (freshman honorary), Phi Eta Sigma (freshman honorary).


PROFESSIONAL SITES