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Vita of Dale L. Sullivan, 2012

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Dale L. SullivanProfessor of EnglishDepartment of EnglishNDSU, Dept. 2320

P.O. Box 6050Fargo ND 58108-6050Phone 701.231.7144, E-Mail [email protected]

Home Address:524 James StreetSpring Lake, MI 49456Cell phone: 701.388.8155, E-Mail [email protected]

Educational Background: Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

Troy, New York, 1988. Dissertation: A Rhetoric of Children's Literature.Director: S. Michael Halloran. Focus on C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narniaand his reading theory.

Master of Arts in English, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas,1979. Masters thesis on C. S. Lewis The Great Divorce.

Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City, Kansas,1977. Major-English; Minor-French. Magna Cum Laude.

Professional Experience:

Department Head, July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2010. Assumed faculty statusfall 2010.

Responsible for scheduling classes; hiring, directing graduate studies;overseeing budget; evaluating faculty, lecturers, staff; assigning advisors,writing annual reports.

Worked with faculty to fully reform of English Curriculum, 2004-05. Worked with Director of Writing and General Education Committee to

reform writing requirements at universityfrom traditional first-yearsequence to vertical writing sequence. This process involved the

development of several new discipline-specific writing courses. Worked with Provost and English faculty to bring languishing writing

center under direction of English department. It is now flourishing. In consultation with faculty, rewrote our departments proposal for a Ph.

D. in Rhetoric, Writing & Culture. Ph.D. has now been approved by theState Board of Higher Education

Encouraged the development of online classes and participation indistance and continuing education. Developed and taught two distance

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education courses (English 320, practical writing, and English 333,Fantasy and Science Fiction).

Oversaw the search and hiring process for faculty and lecturers.

Pulled together the first accurate budget analysis for the department ofRhetoric in many years and traced revenue flows in comparison with otherdepartments in the College of Agriculture, Food, and EnvironmentalSciences.

Worked out agreements with scientists in College of Agriculture, Food,and Environmental Sciences to work with graduate students in Rhetoric.

Restructured the internship program in the department of Rhetoric. Served as advocate for faculty and staff: negotiated reclassification on

behalf of staff member to improve her status; negotiated change of three-year renewable contract on behalf of faculty member to tenure-tractposition.

Interviewed candidates and hired new assistant to the head. Tookworkshops in basic accounts monitoring procedures for UMN and in beinga department head.

Relieved of active duty late September 2002 (but continued technically asdepartment head) because of a disagreement with the Dean of the Collegeof Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences.

Director of Scientific and Technical Communication, an undergraduatedegree program, chair of STC committee, director of industrial relations(Fall 1999 to May 2002).

Taught undergraduate and graduate courses, served on graduatestudents' Masters and Ph.D. committees.

I gave up tenure at Northern Illinois U. but retained rank of AssociateProfessor to make the move to MTU.

Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty. Developed a "WritingConsultants Across the Curriculum" Program, a newsletter, and anextensive WWW archive.

Gave several WAC workshops for Faculty.

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Taught graduate courses in the history of rhetoric and in rhetoricaltheory, and undergraduate advanced writing courses.

Served on University Assessment Committee, English DepartmentCouncil, English Department Writing in the Major Committee, andEnglish Department Assessment Work Group.

Served as consultant to University General Education Committee, andworked with science and technology literacy program for high schools inRockford, IL.

Graduate Fellow of the University of Nebraska, 1993; Graduate Faculty,1992.

Taught graduate courses in the teaching of writing, and undergraduatewriting classes, both first-year classes and advanced-writing classes.

Developed a new writing curriculum for the undergraduate major. Administered the University Writing Center and trained new TAs. Served on Faculty Senate, English Department Writing Committee, and

English Department Graduate Committee.

Taught HU 631 (Rhetorical Criticism), HU 543 (History of Rhetoric), HU542 (Modern Rhetorical Theory), HU 520 (Rhetoric of Science), HU 470

(Special Projects), HU 411 (Reading and Technical Comm.), HU 333(Technical and Scientific Comm.), HU 303 (Modern Masters: C. S. Lewis),HU 202 (American Experience in Lit. II), HU 201 (American Experiencein Lit. I).

Served on department Graduate Committee, 1990-91; on departmentPromotion and Tenure Committee, 1990-91; on STC Committee 1989-90.Mentored TAs teaching Technical Communication. Directedundergraduate STC program, Fall 1989, during director's sabbatical.Participated in NSF Grant to develop Writing-Intensive Engineeringcourses 1989-91.

Worked with faculty in other disciplines to develop Writing Across theCurriculum.

Directed the writing center. Taught En 417 (Modern Grammar), Cr 110 (First-year Writing).

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Writing Center Tutor, 1985-86, Summer and Fall 1986. Writing Consultant to Chemical Engineering Design, 1986. Writing Consultant to Electrical Engineering, 1985-86. Taught Rhetoric and Writing.

Taught Technical Writing, Written Communication, Oral Communication,

Developmental English, Literature and Technology, Professional WritingSeminar.

Taught Composition 101, Composition 102, Developmental English.Visiting Appointments

Taught English 301: Posthumanism and The Myth of the Superman. Gave two campus-wide lectures. Reviewed and responded research projects in development by faculty

members.

Gave several invited lectures, met with faculty and doctoral students todiscuss their research projects, conducted research into agriculture andextension communication practices in Denmark, and team taught a Ph. D.seminar on knowledge communication.

Taught literature class on childrens fantasy on two sides of the Atlantic.Awards: Educator of the Year Award, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social

Sciences, North Dakota State University, 2010.

Winner of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year2000 in Technical Communication Quarterly.

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Publications and Presentations:

Co-editor with Bruce Maylath and Russel Hirst. Revisiting the Pastthrough the Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia: Selected Papers from the50th Meeting of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota.

Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011. Guest Editor of Special Issue ofThe Journal of Communication and

Religion. Conversations about Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian andRhetorician. 28.2 November 2005. (All articles were peer reviewed).

Co-editor with Jerry Savage Writing a Professional Life: Stories ofTechnical Communicators On and Off the Job. Allyn & Bacon, 2001. (Thewhole book was sent out for peer review by the publisher).

"Stoic Rationality and Divine Madness in C. S. Lewis's Till We HaveFaces." VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. 26 (2009): 41-52. Reading Dietrich Bonhoeffers Life Togetherin the Contexts of Monastic

Literature and The Communion of Saints. The Journal ofCommunication and Religion 28.2 (November 2005): 188-205.

After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffers Epideictic Exhortation toResponsible Action. Journal of Communication and Religion, 26 (2003):28-50.

Primary author with Michael Martin as second author. "Habit Formationand Story Telling: A Theory for Guiding Ethical Action." Technical

Communication Quarterly10 (Summer 2001): 251-272 Primary Author with Christian Anible as second author. "The Epideictic

Dimension of Galatians as Formative Rhetoric: The Inscription of EarlyChristian Community." Rhetorica 18 (Spring 2000): 117-145.

"Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in Science." TechnicalCommunication Quarterly9 (Spring 2000): 125-146. Winner of the Nell

Ann Pickett Award for the best article of the year 2000 in TechnicalCommunication Quarterly.

"Beyond Discourse Communities: Orthodoxies and the Rhetoric ofSectarianism." Rhetoric Review18 (Fall 1999): 148-164.

Identification and Dissociation in Rhetorical Expos: An Analysis of St.IrenaeusAgainst Heresies. Rhetoric Society Quarterly29 (1999): 49-76.

"Francis Schaeffer's Apparent Apology in Pollution and the Death ofMan." The Journal of Communication and Religion 12 (1998): 200-229.

"Displaying Disciplinarity." Written Communication 13 (1996): 221-250. "Migrating Across Disciplinary Boundaries: The Case of David Raup's

and John Sepkoski's Periodicity Paper." Social Epistemology9 (1995): 151-

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164. Reprinted in Scientific & Technical Communication: Theory, Practice,and Policy. Eds. James H. Collier with David M. Toomey. Sage, 1997, 330-349.

"Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy in The Letter to the Grand DuchessChristina." Rhetorica 12 (1994): 237-264.

"Exclusionary Epideictic: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication ofFleischmann and Pons." Science Technology & Human Values19 (1994):283-306.

"A Closer Look at Education as Epideictic Rhetoric." Rhetoric SocietyQuarterly23 (1993): 70-89.

"The Ethos of Epideictic Encounter." Philosophy and Rhetoric26 (1993):113-133.

"The Epideictic Character of Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetoric Review11(1993): 339-349.

"Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius as EpideicticRhetoric." The Journal of Communication and Religion 15 (1992): 71-86.

"The Decline of Imitation in Nineteenth Century Rhetoric." Platte ValleyReview20 (1992): 45-62.

"Kairos and the Rhetoric of Belief." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78(1992): 317-332.

"The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science." Journal of Business and TechnicalCommunication 5 (1991): 229-245.

"The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin'sAlgeny." Rhetoric Review9(1990): 134-148.

"Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as aPractice." Journal of Advanced Composition 10 (1990): 375-386. Reprintedin Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication, ed. Paul M.Dombrowski, Baywood, 1994, 223-234; also reprinted in Central Works inTechnical Communication, eds. Johndan Johnson-Eilola and StuartSelber, Oxford UP, 2004, 211-219.

"Attitudes toward Imitation: Classical Culture and the Modern Temper."Rhetoric Review8 (Fall 1989): 5-21.

"The Computer as a Two-way Medium in the Technical WritingClassroom." The Technical Writing Teacher14 (Spring 1987): 143-150.

"Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic."Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic, Graphic, Electronic. (Refereed proceedings ofthe Rhetoric Society of America.) Ed. Victor J. Vitanza and Michelle Ballif.

Arlington, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, 1990, 171-187.

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Forged in the Fire: A Study of Generic Dynamics in the Acts of theApostles. Rhetorics in the New Millennium: Promise and Fulfillment(Studies in Antiquity & Christianity). Eds. James D. Hester and J. DavidHester. New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2010. 168-192.

The Need for Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation inControversial Technology Transfer Cases. Connecting People withTechnology: Issues in Professional Communication. Eds. George F.Hayhoe and Helen M. Grady. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2009.177-183. Reprint of paper first published in the 2005 IEEE InternationalProfessional Communication Conference Proceedings. 353-358.

First author with Michael S. Martin and Ember R. Anderson. Movingfrom the Periphery: Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for theTechnical Communicator. Power and Legitimacy in Technical

Communication, Volume I. Ed. Teresa Kynell-Hunt and Gerald J. Savage.Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 2003. 115-136.

"Afterword: Talking to the People Who Know." Writing a ProfessionalLife: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job. Ed. GeraldJ. Savage and Dale L. Sullivan. Allyn & Bacon 2001.

"Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific and TechnicalCommunication: Academic Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L. Keene.Society for Technical Communication, 1997. 167-181.

Growth and Community: A Few Thoughts on the Organics ofProfessional Communication. Programmatic Perspectives Journal of theCouncil for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 1.1(March 2009). 2007 Keynote of CPTSC. Available athttp://www.cptsc.org/pp/archive1-1.html.

Mediating Controversial Technology: The Case of Monsantos Attempt toIntroduce Genetically Modified Wheat in North Dakota. HermesJournal of Language and Communication Studies37 (2006): 23-45.Invitation by Peter Kastberg, editor.

Rhetorical Invention and Lutheran Doctrine? Rhetoric & Public Affairs7(Winter 2004) 4: 603-614. Invitation by Martin Medhurst, editor.

"Worries about the New Literacies." (Review of Mary Sue Garay andStephen A. Bernhardt's Expanding Literacies.) Sigdoc23 (November1999) 4: 30-35. Invitation by Robert Johnson, book review editor.

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"Extending the Rhetoric of Science into the First-Year CompositionClassroom." (A review of Michael J. Zerbes Composition and the Rhetoricof Science.The Review of Communication 8.3 (July 2008): 292-295.

Review of Michael Carters Where Writing Begins: A PostmodernReconstruction. College Composition and Communication 56 (December2004): 346-348.

Review of John T. Battalio's Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse:Methods, Practice, and Pedagogy. Rhetoric Society Quarterly30 (Spring2000): 112-114.

Review of Robert R. Johnson's User-Centered Technology: A RhetoricalTheory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts. TechnicalCommunication Quarterly9 (Winter 2000): 97-99.

Review of Edward Schiappa's The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory inClassical Greece. Rhetoric Society Quarterly29 (Fall 1999): 89-92. Also

published online at The American Communication Journal, October 1999.. Review ofComputers and Technical Communication, ed. Stuart A. Selber.

Journal of Business and Technical Communication 13 (April 1999): 226-229.

Review ofTheory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking theDiscipline, ed. Lee Odell." Technical Communication Quarterly3 (1994):423-425.

Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in ControversialTechnology Transfer Cases. 2005 IEEE International ProfessionalCommunication Conference Proceedings. 353-358.

"Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resistthe Introductory Course?" 2000 Proceedings of the Council for Programsin Technical and Scientific Communication.

"Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implicationsfor Academic Program Development in Technical Communication." 1999Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical and ScientificCommunication.

"What is Keeping Practitioners and Academics from Meeting in theMiddle?" 1998 Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technical andScientific Communication. 49-50.

"Developing a Technical Writing Program at Kansas Technical Institute,"1983 Proceedings of The Council for Programs in Technical and ScientificCommunication, 81-83.

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"Legitimizing Technical Communication: 1985 and 1998." ERIC ED 420882, 1998.

"Connections with Industry and the Liberal Arts: Attempts to Legitimizethe Profession of Teaching Technical Writing: Bibliography of Articles andPapers in Technical Communication." ERIC ED 254 860. RIE 1985.

"Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimizethe Profession of Teaching Technical Writing." ERIC ED 254 859. RIE,1985.

"What Kind of Place is the Writing Classroom?" Response to GregoryClark's "Rescuing the Discourse of Community." College Composition andCommunication 45 (1994): 384-386.

One of several authors and editors. Manual for Report Writing inEngineering Design: Guidelines for Advanced Engineering Students.Michigan Tech. University, 1992.

Keynote Address Hyperprofessionalism Conference. Sponsored by theScience, Technology, and Medicine Research Group, Aarhus University,Denmark. The Emergence of the Rhetoric of Science: An Exploration ofDisciplinary Boundary Crossing and Disciplinary Speciation. December10, 2008.

Keynote Address 2007 Council for Programs in Technical and ScientificCommunication. Growth and Community: A Few Thoughts on theOrganics of Professional Communication. October 2007, Greenville, NC.

Must We Exterminate the Martians? C.S. Lewis' Response to theFuturists. Missouri University of Science & Technology. April 21, 2011.

Contesting the Word Sustainability: An Exercise in Linguistic,Rhetorical, and Political Analysis. Missouri University of Science &Technology. February 22, 2011.

The Roles of Theory Articles and Case Studies in Defining an EmergingDiscipline, for the Knowledge Communication Research Group, AarhusSchool of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark. December 11, 2008.

Reading Michael Leff's In Search of Ariadne's Thread as EpideicticRhetoric," sponsored by the Language and Communication Department,

Arhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark. November 25,2008.

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When Rhetoric Meets Science, sponsored by the Rhetoric Department,Aesthetics Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark. November 20, 2008.

Reading Michael Leff's In Search of Ariadne's Thread as EpideicticRhetoric," sponsored by the Rhetoric Department, University ofCopenhagen, Denmark. November 7, 2008.

Stories and Technical Communication Culture, Milwaukee Chapter ofSociety for Technical Communication. January 11, 2000

Leaving the Flesh Behind: Rhetorical Constructions of a PosthumanSuperman. May 2012. Rhetoric Society of America Conference.Philadelphia, PA.

Must We Exterminate the Venusians? An Analysis of J. B. S. Haldanes,Olaf Stapledons, and C. S. Lewiss Views on the Issue. November 2011.Religious Communication Pre-Conference, New Orleans, LA.

St. Paul, Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Power. September 2011. 54thConference of the Languages & Culture Circle of Manitoba & NorthDakota, Fargo, ND.

Paul and the Beginnings of Ecclesiastical Law. July 2011. InternationalSociety for the History of Rhetoric, XVIII Biennial Conference, Bologna,Italy.

Translating Apparent Progress into Insanity: C. S. Lewiss SatiricalPortrayal of J. B. S. Haldane and J. D. Bernal in Out of the Silent Planet.May 2010. Association for the Rhetoric of Science and TechnologyPreconference, Minneapolis, MN.

Sustainability in Terminology Clusters of the Northern PlainsSustainable Agriculture Society and Monsanto: Discovering PoliticalIdeologies through Cluster Analysis. May 2010. Conference of theRhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.

C. S. Lewiss Satirical Depiction of J. D. Bernals The Social Function ofScience. November 2009. National Communication Association, Chicago,IL.

Rhetoric of Science. Part of panel titled Complementary Disciplines andTheir Potential Contribution to Programs in ProfessionalCommunication. 2009 Council for Programs in Scientific and TechnicalCommunication, Aarhus, Denmark.

Sustainability as a Rhetorical God Term. XVII European Symposium onLanguages for Specific Purposes. August 2009. Aarhus School of Business,Aarhus, Denmark.

The Mystery of Godliness: Margaret Atwoods Father/God Images in TheBlind Assassin. 2009 Red River Conference on World Literature, April2009, Fargo, ND.

Disciplining the Word, with Katie Gunter. 2008 Rhetoric Society ofAmerica Conference, Seattle, WA.

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Sophistic Rationality and Divine Madness in C. S. Lewiss Till We HaveFaces. 2007 National Communication Association Conference, Chicago,IL.

St. Pauls Therapy of Desire. 2006 Society of Biblical LiteratureConference, November 2006, Washington DC.

Humanities in the 21st Century. North Dakota Arts and HumanitiesSummit, October 2006, Fargo, ND. Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis Fictional Autobiography. 2006

Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, October 2006, Winnipeg,Manitoba.

Paulo Freires Basis for Intervention in Public Life. 2006 RhetoricSociety of America Conference, May 2006, Memphis, TN.

You Dont Need That: Secret Meetings and Doctored Contracts, 2006Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2006,Chicago.

Researchers Role in Creating Public Awareness, 2005 Council forPrograms in Scientific and Technical Communication, Lubbock, TX.

Technical Communicators as Facilitators of Negotiation in ControversialTechnology Transfer Cases, 2005 International ProfessionalCommunication Conference, Limerick, Ireland.

Hebrews and the Rhetoric of Perfection and Change. 2005 Inquiries intoRhetoric and Christian Tradition, Chicago, IL.

Reflections on S. Michael Hallorans Eloquence in a TechnologicalSociety. 2004 National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Retreating/Advancing to Monastic Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffers Adaptationof Monastic Rule in Life Together, 2004 Rhetoric Society of America

Conference, Austin, TX. Directing Desire in the Sub Culture of Early Christianity: A Preliminary

Study of Desire in Hebrews and Philippians, 2003 NationalCommunication Association, Miami.

Position on Rhetoric as Therapy, 2003 Alliance of Rhetoric SocietiesConference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies, Evanston, IL.

The Role of Narrative in Preserving Folk Knowledge and in Enabling theReflective Practitioner, with Ember R. Anderson, 2003 Conference onCollege Composition and Communication, New York.

Eating Together: An Exploration of Epideictic Rhetoric and Food, 2002National Communication Association, New Orleans.

Novelty and Heresy in the Debate on Nonthermal Effects ofElectromagnetic Media, with Carolyn R. Miller, 2002 Rhetoric Society of

American Conference, Las Vegas. "After Ten Years: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Epideictic Exhortation to

Conspiracy," 2001 National Communication Association, Atlanta. "Overt and Occult Neutralization Techniques in ScientificApologia," 2001

National Communication Association, Atlanta.

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"Planning, Delivering, and Assessing Communication Modules in anEngineering Enterprise Program," 2001 Council for Programs in Scientificand Technical Communication, Pittsburgh.

"Who Are the Educated?" in the Most Significant Passage in the SurvivingTexts of Isocrates Panel. 2000 National Communication Association,

Seattle. "Why Do Students Entering a Major in Technical Communication Resist

the Introductory Course?" 2000 Council for Programs in Scientific andTechnical Communication, Menomonie, Wisconsin, October 2000.

"Herbert Wichelns and Richard Young: Divergent Agendas for RhetoricalCriticism," Rhetoric Society of America 2000, Washington, D.C.

"Taking Advantage of Authorized Speech to Build Legitimacy: AnAnalysis of David M. Raups Presidential Address to the PaleontologicalSociety, 1977," 1999 National Communication Association, Chicago.

"Technical Communicators as Web Designers and Managers: Implicationsfor Academic Program Development in Technical Communication," 1999Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, SantaFe, NM.

Comments on Edward Schiappas The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory inClassical Greece, 1999 Central States Communication Association, St.Louis.

Achieving Legitimacy and Authority through Social Knowledge, 1999Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Pre-Conference, Atlanta.

"Polemic Rhetoric in Galatians and James," co-presented with ChristianAnible. 1998 National Communication Association Conference, New York.

"What is Keeping Us from Meeting in the Middle." 1998 Council forPrograms in Scientific and Technical Communication, Lewes, DE.

"Legitimizing Technical Communication, 1985 and 1998." 1998Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 1998,Chicago.

"Recontextualization and Performance: The Epideictic Expos of St.Irenaeus'Against Heresies." 1997 National Communication AssociationConference, November 19-23, 1997. Chicago.

"Computer Literacy and Syntactic Fluency." 1997 Conference on CollegeComposition and Communication, March 12-15, 1997. Phoenix.

"Using the Computer Revolution to Promote WAC." 3rd National WritingAcross the Curriculum Conference. February 6-8, 1997. Charleston, SC. "Defending and Explaining Orthodoxy." 1996 Speech Communication

Association Conference, November 1996. San Diego.

"Keeping the Rhetoric Orthodox: Forum Control in the Physical Sciences."Seventh Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, May1996. Tucson, Arizona.

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"The Formation of Orthodoxy through Rhetorical Expose': An Analysis ofSt. Irenaeus'Against Heresies." 1996 Conference on College Compositionand Communication, March 1996. Milwaukee.

"The Case of the Sandhill Cranes: Bringing the Outdoors into Class." 1995Conference on College Composition and Communication, March.

Washington, D. C. "A Case Study of Ecological Literacy." 1995 Conference on College

Composition and Communication, March 1995. Washington, D. C.

"Orthodoxy without Hierarchy: Methodology in the Evangelical BibleStudy Movement." Speech Communication Association, November 1994.New Orleans.

"The Interdisciplinary Ethos of David M. Raup." Society for the SocialStudies of Science, October 1994. New Orleans.

"The Epideictic Voices of Maxine Hairston." Rhetoric Society of America.May 1994. Virginia Beach.

"Galileo's Apparent Orthodoxy: Creating Ethos through Identification andAllegiance." American Society for the History of Rhetoric. November 1993.Miami.

"Boundary Work: A Rhetorical Analysis of G. K. Chesterton's HereticsandOrthodoxy." The American Academy of Religion and the Society of BiblicalLiterature, Rocky Mountain-Great Plains 1993 Regional Meeting. April1993. Omaha.

"The Rhetoric of Modern Evangelical Christianity: An Analysis of HaddonRobinson's Biblical Preachingas a Rhetoric." 1992 Conference of theSpeech Communication Association. October 1992. Chicago.

"Vilifying Science through Alter Ideologies: Fictional Characterizations ofScientific Community and Ethos." 1992 Conference of the Society forLiterature and Science. October 1992. Atlanta.

"Celebrating Orthodoxy: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication ofFleischmann and Pons." 1992 Rhetoric Society of America Conference.May 1992. Minneapolis.

"Ethos as Allegiance in the Rhetoric of Science." 1992 Conference onCollege Composition and Communication. March 1992. Cincinnati.

"Establishing Orthodoxy: The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch asEpideictic Rhetoric." 8

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Biennial Conference of The International Societyfor the History of Rhetoric. September 1991. Baltimore.

"Imitation and Ethos: Classical Rhetoric in Technical Communication."1991 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1991.University Park, PA.

"The Epideictic Functions of Criticism." 1991 Conference on CollegeComposition and Communication. March 1991. Boston.

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"Narrative Instruction and Celebration in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles ofNarnia." 1990 Speech Communication Association Conference, November1990. Chicago.

"Kairos and Exhortation as Alternatives to Aristotelian Rhetoric: TheRhetorical Meaning of Kairos in the New Testament." 1990 Conference of

The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, American Chapter.October 1990. Chicago.

"Establishing Orthodoxy: Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic." 1990Rhetoric Society of America Conference. May 1990. Arlington, TX.

"The Epideictic Functions of the Rhetoric of Science." 1990 Conference onCollege Composition and Communication. March 1990. Chicago.

"The Epideictic Rhetoric of Quintilian, Hugh Blair, and C. S. Lewis." 1989Speech Communication Association Conference. November 1989. SanFrancisco.

"The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin'sAlgeny." "1989 Society for SocialStudies of Science Conference. November 1989. Irvine, CA.

"The Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communicationas a Practice." 1989 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.July 1989. University Park, PA.

"Education as Conversation: Empowering Freshmen with Textual Power."1988 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1988.University Park, PA.

"The Problem of Rhetorical Invention and Technical Communication."1986 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. July 1986.University Park, PA.

"Connections with the Liberal Arts and Industry: Attempts to Legitimizethe Profession of Teaching Technical Writing." 1985 Conference on CollegeComposition and Communication. March 1985. Minneapolis.

"Two Possible Futures of Teaching Writing across the Curriculum." 1984Southwest Regional Conference for Teachers of English in Two-YearColleges. November 1984. Oklahoma City.

Professional Service:

Local arrangements chair for the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and NorthDakota Conference, September 2007.

Member of the Steering Committee for the Council for Programs inScientific and Technical Communication, Spring 2000-2002. Co-Chair of2002 Conference and Webmaster for the Conference.

Member of the Steering Committee of the American Society for theHistory of Rhetoric, 1997-1999; 1992-93.

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Chair of the committee judging dissertations submitted to the AmericanSociety for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation of the Year AwardCompetition, 1996-97.

List Owner for steeringashr-l, a listserv for the steering committee of theAmerican Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2001-02.

List Owner for aarst-l, a listserv for the American Association for theRhetoric of Science and Technology, 2001-02.

Web Master for American Association for the Rhetoric of Science andTechnology, Fall 1999-2002.

Web Master for The Council for Programs in Technical and ScientificCommunication, Fall 1998-Spring 2000.

External reviewer for candidate for tenure at Brigham Young University,Spring 2012. External reviewer for promotion and tenure case for candidate for

University Professor, Robert Morris University, 2010-11. External reviewer for Department of English Literature and Language,

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010-2011. External reviewer for candidate for distinguished researcher award at

University of Central Florida, January 2008.

External reviewer for candidate for promotion to full professor forcandidate at Robert Morris University, Pittsburg, December 2007.

External reviewer for tenure candidate at University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, Fall 2007. External member of assessment, search committee for Aarhus University,

Aarhus, Denmark, Summer 2007.

External reviewer for the Professional Writing program within theEnglish department of York University, Toronto, Ontario, March 2007.

External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Metropolitan Sate, Spring2004

External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Butler University, Summer2003

External Reviewer for candidate for Full Professor at North Carolina SateUniversity, Fall 2003 External Preliminary Reviewer for proposed Ph.D. program courses for

University of Central Florida, Fall 2000.

External Reviewer for candidate for tenure at Illinois Institute ofTechnology, Spring 2000

External Reviewer for candidate for tenure and promotion at Ohio

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University, Fall 1996

Referee reader for FACHSPRACHE(2008-present), Journal ofCommunication and Religion, (2006-present), Quarterly Journal ofSpeech, (2006, 2002), Rhetoric Society Quarterly(1996-present), forCollege Composition and Communication (2000-2011), Technical

Communication Quarterly(1989- 2011), for Reader(1988-91), for ScienceTechnology & Human Values(1995), for Journal of Advanced Composition(1996).

Reviewer of papers and panels for American Society for History ofRhetoric pre-conference and for panels submitted to NCA, 1993, 1998,1999.

Reviewer of papers submitted to Rhetorical Theory subdivision of CCCCfor 1994 conference.

Reviewer of two proposed scientific and technical communicationtextbooks for Pearson Publishers, 2000&2001 and for another publisher in

1994.

Respondent, "Apologetics, Apologia and Argument: Engaging Culturethrough Religious Discourse, " NCA 2000.

Respondent , "C. S. Lewis in the Next Millennium," NCA 1999. Respondent, "Is there a Christian Theory of Rhetoric," NCA, 1998. Invited participant, "Pre-Conference of the Commission on Spiritual

Rhetoric," NCA, 1997.

Invited participant, "Religious Consciousness in Prophecy and Kerygma,"SCA, 1993.

Invited participant, "A Conference on Writing in Engineering Design,"Houghton, MI, 1992.

Invited participant, "Practical Conference on Communication," Knoxville,TN, November 1993.

Invited writer, Two-Year College Programs." Education in Scientific andTechnical Communication: Academic Programs that Work. Ed. Michael L.Keene. Society for Technical Communication, 1997. 167-181. Researchtravel funded by the Society for Technical Communication.

C. S. Lewis and Alien Voices: Using Reason and Imagination in the Searchfor Serenity. 2011 RCA pre-conference. Rhetorical and Metaphorical Powerin the Language of Religion. 2011 LCMND conference. ComplementaryDisciplines and Their Potential Contribution to Programs in ProfessionalCommunication. 2009 Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical

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Communication; Writing in New Fields (2 panels), IPCC 2005; "RadicalChristian Rhetoric of Resistance: An Introduction to the Rhetorical Theoryand Practice of Dietrich Bonhoeffer," NCA 2001; "Rhetorical Criticisms: AreSpeech Communication and Composition Scholars Doing the Same Thing?"RSA 2000; "Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacy in the Rhetoric of

Science," NCA 1999; "Polemics within the Church," NCA 1998; "DefiningRhetorical Competence and Computer Literacy," CCCC 1997; "Establishing aPresence on Campus for a New WAC Program," 3rd National WACConference 1997; "Epideictic Rhetoric, Community, & Change," SCA 1993;"Exploring the Ethos of Science," CCCC 1992; "Epideictic Rhetoric and theDiscourse of English Studies," CCCC 1991; "Narrative Argument in theWritings of C. S. Lewis," SCA 1990.

"Graduate Programs," CPTSC 2001; "Mythopoesis, Nomos and Physis: A

volatile Mixture," NCA 1999; "The Interplay of Authorization and Legitimacyin the Rhetoric of Science," NCA 1999; "Rhetoric and Culture," NCA 1998;"Examining the Intersections of Rhetoric and Technical Communication,"CCCC 1994; "Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of EnvironmentalPolicy," CCCC 1993; "Two Holders of Harvard's Boylston Chair of Rhetoric:Channing and Hill," CCCC 1988.

National Communication Association Council for Programs in Scientificand Technical Communication Rhetoric Society of America ReligiousSpeech Communication Association National Council of Teachers of Englishand the Conference on College Composition and Communication (lapsed)Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (lapsed) Society for BiblicalLiterature (lapsed) IEEE International Professional Communication(lapsed) Society for Technical Communication (lapsed) American Societyfor the History of Rhetoric (lapsed)

Departmental, University, and Community Service Since 1991,

selections

Mentor in Provosts university mentoring program, Fall 2012. External member of the Communication Departments Promotion and

Tenure Committee as they consider the new chairs promotion to full, Fall2012.

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Member of a post-hoc Academic Misconduct Committee, Fall 2011. Member of the University Program Review Committee, Fall 2011-present. Member of AHSS College Awards Committee, 2010-present. Member of the English Education Committee, Fall 2012. Member of Department of English Curriculum Committee, 2010-present. Member of Department of English Presentations Committee, 2010-2012. Department Head, English, 2003-2010. Writing Across the Graduate Curriculum Committee Chair, 2007-2008. North Dakota University System committee on common course numbering

in English, 2005-2010.

Chair of the English Department Scholarship Committee Chair, 2004-2010.

Planning committee for North Dakota Humanities Summit, 2005-06. English Department Curriculum Committee Chair, 2004-05. English Department Assessment Committee Chair, 2003-04. English Department Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-2005, Spring

2009 (assumed responsibility because I was department head and wedidnt have an active Director of Graduate Studies.

Department Head, Rhetoric Department, May 2002 to June 2003 (bytitle), active duty May to September

Director of Internship Program for Rhetoric Department, May 2002 topresent.

Member of STCs academic-industrial relationship sub group for the TwinCity chapter. Responsible for developing an internship initiative betweenSTC and academic programs in Technical Communication.

Directed Scientific and Technical Communication (Fall 1999-Spring 2002),Chair the STC Committee, and direct industrial relations with technicalcommunication program.

Advised Student Chapter of Society for Technical Communication(Beginning Fall 1999-Spring 2002). Served on Humanities Department Steering Committee, (1999-2002). Served on communication search committee, 2000-2001. Served on search committee for media faculty, 1998-99. Served on committee that developed and delivered communication

modules to the Engineering Enterprise project in the Engineering College

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Designed and maintain the web site pages and for the STC DegreeProgram.

Served as the Faculty Advisor for the NASA-Tech Briefs Website, awebsite that published digital supplements for NASA-Tech BriefsPhotonicsand NASA-Tech Briefs Electronics. This project was supervised

directly by a Ph.D. student; a team of graduate and undergraduatestudents researched, wrote, and published the material on the site. 1998-99.

Supervised GTAs who teach HU333 (Scientific and TechnicalCommunication), 1997-1999, Michigan Technological University. Workedwith them and others to develop an assessment instrument and policy forthe course and to rewrite a manual on the teaching of technicalcommunication.

Chair of three Ph. D. comprehensives and dissertation committees atNDSU, in progress.

Directed two Ph. D. dissertations at Michigan Tech. Served on twelve Ph.D. Committees at Aarhus School of Business, North

Dakota State University, Michigan Tech, and University of NebraskaKearney.

Directed two Masters theses at North Dakota State University. Served on twelve Masters Committees at North Dakota State University,

Michigan Tech, and University of Nebraska Kearney.

Home study group leader, Grace Lutheran Church. Member of the steering committee and web master for My Sisters Farm, a

market/local foods buying group in Fargo-Moorhead (2007-2011)

Member of the steering committee for Buy Fresh Buy Local, the Red Riverchapter. A group that is active in building a local food network (2008).

Founder and manager of Fargo Local Foods, a loose organization devotedto coordinating local food efforts (2007-Fall 2012).

Member of the South Agassi Resource Council, local affiliate of the DakotaResource Councilwork with local foods initiative action, Summer 2007.

Selection Committee member for Copper Country Habitat for Humanity,Spring 2000 to Spring 2002.

Invited Consultant for Science and Technology Literacy Program;Rockford Public Schools. Rockford IL. Spring 1996-Spring 1997.

North Central Accreditation Visiting Team. Grayslake Community HighSchool. Grayslake, IL. March 1997.

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