Curriculum Vitae (Revised 03/23/2017)

Ellen Barton ellen.barton@wayne.eduProfessor, Linguistics Program 313-920-3314Department of EnglishWayne State University5057 Woodward, #10505Detroit, Michigan 48202

Education1985 Ph.D., Linguistics, Northwestern University1983 M.A., Linguistics, Northwestern University1980 M.A., English, DePaul University1976 B.A., English and Communication, University of Detroit

Academic Appointments2000 - present Professor, English Department, Linguistics Program, WSU 2015-2016 Professor in Residence, Kamanos Cancer Institute, WSU 2010 – 2015 Chair, Department of English, WSU 2007 – 2010 Director, Composition Program, WSU 2003-2010 Chair, Behavioral Institutional Review Board, WSU 1997 - 2002 Director, Linguistics Program, WSU1985 - 2000 Associate Professor (1992-2000), Assistant Professor

(1986-1992), Lecturer (1985-86), WSUWSU appointment 50% Linguistics, 50% Rhetoric/Composition

Awards and Grants2015-2020 Co-Investigator (5% effort), A Multilevel Intervention to Increase the

Participation of African Americans in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials [PACCT], Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI R01 CA200718-01, Susan Eggly, PI).

2009-2014 Co-Investigator (5% effort), Interventionist Procedures for Adherence to Weight Loss Recommendations in Black Adolescents, Wayne State University/Children’s Hospital of Michigan Pediatric Research Center (NIH/NHLBI U01 HL097889, Sylvia Naar-King, PI).

2014-15 Wayne State University Graduate Research Assistant Award (Luke Thominet)

2011-12 Wayne State University Graduate Research Assistant Award (Andrew Winckles)

2010 Wayne State University Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award

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2009 Braddock Award for Best Article in College Composition and Communication (2008): “Further Contributions from the Ethical Turn in Composition/Rhetoric: Analyzing Ethics in Interaction.”

2009 Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly (2008) “Researching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions in a Simple Interface Design (with Barbara Mirel and Mark Ackerman).

2006 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Health Communication Research (Srikant Sarangi, Director), Cardiff University, Wales, Summer, 2006.

2005 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Award for Best Article on Qualitative/Quantitative Research in Technical/Scientific Communication for “Discourse Methods and Critical Practice in Professional Communication: The Front-Stage and Back-Stage Discourse of Prognosis in Medicine,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2004).

2004 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Award for Best Article on Teaching Methods in Technical/Scientific Communication for “A Case of Multiple Professionalisms: Service Learning and Control of Communication about Organ Donation” (with Laurie Evans), Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2003).

2004 Wayne State University Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, 2004-2006.

2003 Research Consultant, SICU [Surgical Intensive Care Unit] Care at End-of-Life, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Washington University (NIH/NINR R01 NR05124, Timothy Buchman, PI).

2003 Fellow, Cancer Culture, and Literacy Institute, Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, January--December, 2003. (NIH/NCI R25 CA 90654-02, Cathy Meade, PI).

2002 NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Award for Best Article on Theory in Technical/Scientific Communication for “Design in Observational Research in Medicine: Toward Disciplined Interdisciplinarity,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2001).

2002-03 Wayne State University Graduate Research Assistant Award (Matthew Aldridge)

2000 Interdisciplinary Fellow, Institute for Human Values in Medicine (Robert Sade, Director), Medical University of South Carolina, January - May, 2000.

2000 Wayne State University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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1994 Wayne State University Career Development Chair.

Other WSU awards for research: WSU Sabbatical Leaves (W2016, 2002, 1994), Department of English Keal Fellowship (2015, 2009, 2003, 1991), Humanities Center (2004, 1998, 1995), Richard Barber Fund for Legal Studies (2004), University Research Grant (2002, 1998, 1989), Merrill-Palmer Institute (2003), Women of Wayne (2002), College of Liberal Arts (1998), College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs (1995, 1994).

PublicationsThe Discourse of Deliberation on Institutional Review Boards

Do Community Members Have an Effective Voice in the Ethical Deliberation of a Behavioral Institutional Review Board? With Luke Thominet, Ruth Boeder, and Sarah Primeau. Forthcoming, Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Ethics-in-Interaction in Health and MedicineAnalyzing Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Encounters. With Andrew Winckles.

In The Handbook of Language and Health Communication. Eds. Heidi Hamilton and Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. New York: Routledge, 2014. 600-614. (invited chapter)

Speaking for Another: Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Encounters. In The Handbook of Applied Linguistics: Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions. Eds. Srikant Sarangi and Chris Candlin. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. 215-234. (invited chapter)

Medical Encounters in OncologyA Disparity of Words: Racial Differences in Oncologist-Patient Communication

about Cancer Clinical Trials. With Susan Eggly, Andrew Winckles, Louis Penner, and Terrance Albrecht. Health Expectations 18 (2015): 1316-1326.

Strategies of Persuasion in Offers to Participate in Cancer Clinical Trials II: Appeals to Altruism. With Susan Eggly, Andrew Winckles, and Terrance Albrecht. Communication & Medicine 11 (2014): 223-233.

Strategies of Persuasion in Offers to Participate in Cancer Clinical Trials I: Topic Placement and Topic Framing. With Susan Eggly, Andrew Winckles, and Terrance Albrecht. Communication & Medicine 11 (2014): 1-14.

Ethical or Unethical Persuasion? The Rhetoric of Offers to Participate in Clinical Trials. With Susan Eggly. Written Communication 26 (2009): 295-319.

Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology. In The Discourses of Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Care

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Organizations. Ed. Rick Iedema. NY: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. 18-38. (invited chapter)

Discourse Methods and Critical Practice in Professional Communication: The Front-Stage and Back-Stage Discourse of Prognosis in Medicine. Special Issue on Critical Practice in Professional Communication (ed. Carl Herndl), Journal of Business and Technical Communication 18 (2004): 67-111.

NCTE Award for Best Article on Quantitative/Qualitative Research in Technical/Scientific Communication, 2005.

Design in Observational Research in Medicine: Toward Disciplined Interdisciplinarity. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 15 (2001): 309-332.

NCTE Award for Best Article on Theory in Technical/Scientific Communication, 2002.

Motivational Interviewing (Obesity)Building Motivation in African-American Caregivers of Adolescents with

Obesity: Application of Sequential Analysis. With Angela Jacques-Tiura, April Ialski-Carcone, Sylvie Naar, Kathryn Brogran Hartlieb, Terrance Albrecht). Journal of Pediatric Psychology 42 (2017): 131-141.

Exploring Ambivalence in Motivational Interviewing with Obese African American Adolescents and Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Analysis. With April Carcone, Susan Eggly, Kathryn Brogan, Luke Thominet, Sylvie Naar-King. Patient Education and Counseling 99 (2016): 1162-1169.

Provider Communication Behaviors that Predict Motivation to Change in Black Adolescents with Obesity. With April Carcone, Sylvie Naar-King, Kathryn Brogan, Terrance Albrecht, Tanina Foster, Tim Martin, and Sharon Marshall. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 34 (2013): 599-608.

End-of-Life Care and CommunicationAccounting for Medical Communication: Parents’ Perceptions of Communicative

Roles and Responsibilities in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. With Cynthia Gordon, Kathleen Meert, and Susan Eggly, et al. Communication & Medicine 6 (2009): 177-188.

Institutional Policies, Professional Practices, and the Discourse of End-of-Life Discussions in American Medicine. Special Issue on The Tension Between Professional and Institutional Discourse: A Study of Organizational Discourse with a Special Focus on Acute Health Care (ed. Rick Iedema), Journal of Applied Linguistics 2 (2005): 249-267. (invited article) [Appeared 2008]

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Situating End-of-Life Decision-Making in a Hybrid Ethical Frame. Communication & Medicine 4.2 (2007): 131-140.

Establishing Terminal Status in the End-of-Life Discussion. With Matthew Aldridge. Qualitative Health Research 17 (2007): 908-918.

Commentary on ‘Quality of Life to the End’. Communication & Medicine 4.1 (2007): 121-123. (invited commentary)

Trajectories of Alignment and the Situated Ethics of End-of-Life Discussions in American Medicine. Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Oral and Written Contexts. Eds. Francoise Salager-Meyer and Maruizio Gotti. NY: Peter Lang, 2006. 23-42. (invited chapter)

Structure and Variation in End-of-Life Discussions in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. With Matthew Aldridge, Thomas Trimble, and Justin Vidovic. Communication & Medicine 2 (2005): 3-20.

TelemedicineResearching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions in a Simple

Interface Design. With Barbara Mirel and Mark Ackerman. Technical Communication Quarterly 17 (2008): 358-378.

Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly, 2009.

Medical DiscourseGuest Editor. Special Issue on The Discourse(s) of Medicine, Journal of Business

and Technical Communication 19 (2005). Introduction: 245-248.

Medical Specialty Encounters. Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics. 2nd

ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. (invited entry, 8,000 words)

Medicine and Language. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. London: Routledge, 2004. (invited entry, 5,000 words)

Discourses of DisabilityDisability Narratives of the Law: Narratives and Counter-Narratives. Narrative 15

(2007): 95-112. (invited article)

The Explicit Construction of Legal Consciousness in Discourse: Rule-Based and Relational Orientations Toward the Law in the Discourse of a Disability Support Group. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004): 603-632.

Discourses of Disability in the Digest. JAC 21 (2001): 555-81.

Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way. In Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture.

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Eds. James Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. 169-99. (invited chapter)

Sanctioned and Non-Sanctioned Narratives in Institutional Discourse. Narrative Inquiry 10 (2000): 341-75.

The Presence of Interlocutors vs. The Sites of the Internet: The Restricted Range of Disability Narratives. Special Issue on The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy and Identity (eds. Gian Pagnucci and Nicholas Mauriello), Works and Days 33/34, 35/36. (2000): 85-115. (invited article)

Reprinted in The Future of Narrative Studies. Eds. Gian Pagnucci and Nicholas Mauriello. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007. 45-72.

The Interactional Practices of Referrals in Medical Discourse: Compliance and Expertise. Discourse Studies 2 (2000): 259-81.

Informational and Interactional Functions of Slogans and Sayings in the Discourse of a Disability Support Group. Discourse and Society 10 (1999): 461-86.

The Social Work of Diagnosis: Evidence for Judgments of Competence and Incompetence. In Constructing (In)Competence: Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social Interaction. Eds. Dana Kovarsky, Judy Duchan, and Madeleine Maxwell. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. 257-290. (invited chapter)

Literacy in (Inter)Action. College English 5 (1997): 408-37.

Negotiating Expertise in Discourses of Disability. TEXT 16 (1996): 299-322.

Rhetoric/CompositionFAQs About the Research Hour. In Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric

and Composition. Eds. Danielle DeVoss and John Gallagher. Under review. (invited chapter)

Serendipity and the Methodologically-Prepared Mind in Team Science. In Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research. Eds. Maureen Daly Goggin and Peter Goggin. In press, Utah State University Press.

Ethics from Praxis. With Richard Marback. In Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflections on Ethically Responsible Research. Eds. Katrina Powell and Pamela Takayoshi. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2012. 59-79. (invited chapter)

Further Contributions from the Ethical Turn in Composition/Rhetoric: Analyzing Ethics in Interaction. College Composition and Communication 39 (2008): 596-632.

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CCCC Braddock Award for Best Article in College Composition and Communication, 2009.

The Rhetoric of Hope in the Genre of Prognosis. With Richard Marback. In The Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Eds. Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008. 15-31. (invited chapter)

The Linguist in the English Department: Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. In English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s). Ed. Bruce McComiskey. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. 67-105. (invited chapter)

Guest Co-editor with Robert Brown. Special Issue on Personal Statements, Issues in Writing 15 (2004). (appeared Fall, 2005)

Co-authored Introduction: 1-4.Co-conducted Interview (with John Swales and Chris Feak): 5-30.

The Professional in the Personal: The Genre of Personal Statements in Residency Applications. With Jennie Ariail and Thomas Smith. Special Issue on Personal Statements (eds. Robert Brown and Ellen Barton), Issues in Writing 15 (2005): 76-124.

A Case of Multiple Professionalisms: Service Learning and Control of Communication about Organ Donation. With Laurie Evans. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 17 (2003): 413-438.

NCTE Award for Best Article on Teaching Methods in Technical/Scientific Communication, 2005.

Linguistic Discourse Analysis: How the Language in Texts Works. In What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analysis of Text and Textual Practice. Eds. Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004. 57-82. (invited chapter)

Resources for Discourse Analysis in Composition Studies. Style 36 (2002): 575-595. (invited article)

Co-editor with Gail Stygall. Discourse Studies in Composition. Written Language Series. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002.

Co-authored Introduction: 1-17

Inductive Discourse Analysis: Discovering Rich Features. In Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 19-42.

More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation. College Composition and Communication 51 (2000): 399-416.

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Evocative Gestures in CCCC Chairs' Addresses. In History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition. Eds. Beth Boehm, Debra Journet, and Mary Roser. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1999. 235-52.

Farther Afield: Rethinking the Contributions of Research. With Ruth Ray. In Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice. Eds. Chris Anson and Chris Farris. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998. 196-214.

The Awkward Problem of Awkward Sentences. With Ellen Halter, Nancy McGee, and Lisa McNeilley. Written Communication 15 (1998): 69-98.

Empirical Studies in Composition. College English 59 (1997): 815-27. (invited review article)

Leaving Science and Technology for Business and Management: Quality Control as a Discourse on the Move. With Barbara Dickson (Schneider). Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1996): 41-63.

Contrastive and Non-Contrastive Connectives: Metadiscourse Functions in Argumentation. Written Communication 12 (1995): 219-239.

Contesting Language. College English 57 (1995): 481-97. (invited review article)

Discourses of Technology. In Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Eds. Cynthia Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. NY: MLA, 1994. 56-75.

Evidentials, Argumentation, and Epistemological Stance. College English 55 (1993): 745-69.

LinguisticsCo-editor with Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, and Eugenia Casielles. The

Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.

Co-authored Introduction, 1-9Co-authored Epilogue, 323-353

Toward a Nonsentential Analysis in Generative Grammar. In The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles, and Ellen Barton. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. 11-31.

Nonsententials in Minimalism. With Ljiljana Progovac. In Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech. Eds. R. Elugardo and R. J. Stainton. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005. 71-93. (invited chapter)

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Interactional Sequences in Shared Book-Reading Between Parents and Children with Histories of Language Delay. With Judith Vander Woude. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 3 (2003): 249-273.

Specialized Repair Sequences: Shared Book Reading with Children with SLI [Specific Language Impairment]. With Judith Vander Woude. Discourse Processes 32 (2001): 1-27.

The Grammar of Telegraphic Structures: Sentential and Nonsentential Derivation. Journal of English Linguistics 26.1 (1998): 37-67.

Asymmetry in Theories of Extended Phrase Structure," CLS 26. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992. 49-59.

AdvPs and DegPs in Theories of Extended Phrase Structure. ESCOL '89. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. 14-25.

Nonsentential Constituents and Theories of Phrase Structure. Views on Phrase Structure. Eds. Katherine Leffel and Denis Bouchard. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991. 193-214.

Nonsentential Constituents: A Theory of Grammatical Structure and Pragmatic Interpretation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990.

Invited Talks and Workshops (2000 – present)Keynote Speaker: Analyzing the Discourse of Deliberation on Institutional

Review Boards: Do Community Members Have an Effective Voice? COMET [Communication, Medicine, and Ethics], Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, June, 2017.

Featured Presenter: Slouching Toward Sustainability: Mixed Methods in the Direct Assessment of Student Writing. “College Writing”: From the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar to Tomorrow, Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, Dartmouth College, August, 2016.

Keynote Speaker: Altruism in Offers to Participate in Cancer Clinical Trials. Symposium for Susan Wells, Department of English, Temple University, April, 2015.

Analyzing Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Decision-Making. Department of English, Illinois State University, March, 2014.

Discourse Analysis Workshop, Language and Rhetoric Graduate Student Group, University of Michigan, January, 2012.

ATTW [Association of Teachers of Technical Writing] Research Methods Workshop: Analyzing Data from Complex Institutional Contexts, March, 2012.

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Keynote Speaker: “If I Knew Then, What I Know Now,” Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication, March, 2010.

Ethics in Interaction in Offers to Participate in Clinical Trials: Why is This Research in an English Department? Department of English, University of Michigan, March, 2009.

Co-facilitated with Susan Wells. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute: Workshop on Medical Rhetoric (all new content). June, 2009.

Co-facilitated with Susan Wells. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute: Workshop on Medical Rhetoric, June, 2007.

Investigating Ethics in Interaction: Ethical Frameworks and Persuasion in Recruitment to Research. Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2008.

The Front-Stage and Back-Stage Discourse of Prognosis in Medical Oncology. English Language Institute, University of Michigan, November, 2006.

Faculty, Cardiff Summer School, Centre for Health Communication Research: Researching Ethics in Interaction. Cardiff University, Wales, May, 2006.

Ethical Decision-Making in EOL Discussions and Research Recruitment. Department of Oncology and Palliative Care, Marie Curie Institute, Cardifff, Wales, June, 2006.

Invited Colloquium Organizer, Communication in End-of-Life Consultations, COMET 2006, Cardiff University, Wales, June, 2006.Talk: Ethics in Interaction in End-of-Life Discussions in American Medicine.

Ethics in Interaction: Research Recruitment. Post-COMET ’06 Workshop: Responsibility and Decision-Making, Cardiff University, Wales, July, 2006.

Institutional Policies, Professional Practices, and the Ethics of End-of-Life Discussions. Department of English, Clemson University, January, 2006.

Constructing Legal Consciousness through Narrative in a Disability Support Group. Law, Disability, and Narrative, School of Law, Ohio State University, February, 2006.

Ethical Management of Uncertainty in Clinical Trial Enrollment in Oncology. Symposium on Interpretive Practices in Professional Communication, AILA 2005 International Association of Applied Linguistics), University of Wisconsin Madison, July, 2005.

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With Srikant Sarangi, Autonomy in Interaction: Decision-Making in Palliative Care. COMET 2005 (Communication, Medicine, and Ethics), University of Sydney, July, 2005.

Structure and Variation in End-of-Life Discussions. Linguistics Colloquium Series, Michigan State University, December, 2004.

Review of Minimal Risk Research. IRB (Institutional Review Board) Education Day, Michigan State University, April, 2004.

The Dilemma of Prognosis: Front-Stage and Back-Stage Discourse. Symposium on Dilemmas in the Discourse of Health Care. AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Washington DC, March, 2003.

Discourse Analysis and End-of-Life Discussions in the SICU: Preliminary Questions. Washington University Barnes Hospital Surgical Intensive Care Unit, St. Louis, MO, January, 2003.

Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Course: Discourse in Institutions and Professions. Michigan State University, June-July, 2003.

Contradictory Constructions of Disability Law in the Discourse of a Support Group. Law and Social Thought Symposium, University of Toledo, April, 2001.

Rights and the Right Thing to Do: Discourses of Disability in the Reader’s Digest and the Disability Rag. Department of English Colloquium Series, Miami University, April, 2000.

Discourses of Disability: Design, Methods, and Directions. Research Methods Seminar, Department of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH, April, 2000.

The Linguistic Analysis of Medical Discourse. Grand Rounds, Center for Health Care Research, Medical University of South Carolina, February, 2000.

Gender, Discourse, and the Medical Encounter. Women's Awareness Week, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, March, 2000.

TeachingWSU Graduate Seminars

Survey of Research in Writing (multiple times)The Teaching of Writing (multiple times)Research Methods in Composition Studies (multiple times)Discourse Analysis (multiple times)Conversation AnalysisRhetoric of DisciplinarityLinguistic Theory and Composition TheoryArticle Practicum

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Writing Program Administration and Assessment

WSU Undergraduate/Master’s CoursesEnglish Grammar (formerly Traditional Grammar) (multiple times)Structure of English (multiple times)Basic Concepts and Methods in English (multiple times)Linguistics and Education (multiple times)Writing Theory (multiple times)Freshman Composition Expository Writing (intermediate)Expository Writing (advanced)Introduction to Linguistic TheoryTheory of SyntaxPragmaticsPragmatics and Information StructureLanguage and Gender

Ph.D. Dissertations (Chair) and Placement/Position at GraduationWendy Duprey, Building a Model of the Individual Writer, 2016. (Writing

Center Tutor, University of South Florida and St. Augustine College)

Jule Wallis Thomas, Explicit Commentary and Student Revision in Genre-Based Pedagogy, 2016. (Lecturer, Wayne State University)

Michael McGinnis, Public Subjects: Public Subjects, Wayne State, Institutional Texts, and Public Rhetoric, 2016. (Lecturer, University of Alabama Huntsville)

Sandy Valensky, Composition in Review, 2010. (Professor, Baker College, System Director of General Education, retired)

Linda Mercer Learman, Reflective Instrumentalism in the Composition Classroom, 2008. (Adrian College, Assistant (now Associate) Professor, Department of English)

Kimme Nuckles, Non-Traditional Students: Age as a Factor in the Composition Classroom, 2004 (Professor, Baker College, Dean of General Education, retired).

Linda Brender, Writing at Riverside Health Services, 2004 (Macomb Community College, Assistant Professor, now Professor), Department of English).

Lisa McNeilley, Writing Women’s Studies: Students Engage in the Creation of Meaning, 2000 (not active in the profession).

Ellen Halter, Investigating Communities of Practice: Two Sites of Undergraduate Journalism, 1999 (University of Toledo, Lecturer, Department of English, retired).

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Nancy McGee, The Balance of Academic Accounting Discourse: Between Scientific Objectivity and Professional Judgment, 1998 (Macomb Community College, Assistant Professor (now Professor), Department of English).

Judith Vander Woude (Audiology and Speech Language Pathology), Co-Construction of Discourse Between Parents and Young Children with Specific Language Impairment during Shared Book Reading, 1998 (Calvin College, Assistant Professor, now Professor and Chair), Department of Communication Sciences).

Irah Charles, Context of Writing in a Community College Composition Class, 1993 (Professor of English and Associate Dean, Wayne County Community College, retired).

John Jablonski, A Rhetoric of Intermedial Argument: Implicit, Informal Features in Student Composition, 1992 (Ferris University, Assistant Professor, now Professor), Department of English).

Ph.D. and MA Committee MemberPh.D. (English) dissertation committees – 11 (4 currently in progress)Ph.D. (Communication) dissertation committee – 1Ph.D. (English) dissertation committee, University of Michigan – 1Ph.D. (Writing and Rhetoric), University of Texas Austin – 1M.A. Essays (Linguistics) -- 20M.A. Essays (English) -- 10M.S. Essay (Psychology) – 2

Administration and ServiceWSU Administration

Chair, Department of English Chair (2010-2015)

Chair, Behavioral Institutional Review Board (B3) (2003-2010)WSU HIC/Behavioral IRB Vice-Chair (2002-2003)WSU HIC/Steering Committee/Chairs’ Committee, (2002-2010)WSU HIC/Behavioral IRB Member (1994-2010)

Director, Composition Program (2007 – 2010)

Director, Linguistics Program (1997-2002)

WSU ServiceUniversity: Graduate School GA Allocation Committee (2017), OVPR/CMLLC

Workshop on Research Collaboration (2016), Professional Academic Development Seminar (2014), Chair Development Seminars Panelist (2011-122, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15), Graduate School Award Committee (2011-12, 2012-13), OVPR Research Enhancement Program for the Arts and

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Humanities Review Committee (2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15), OVPR NEH Summer Stipend Review Committee (2011-12, 2012-13, 2013. 2014-15), Member (management), WSU-Graduate Student Employee Organization Contract Negotiations (2012), Search Committee for VP of Enrollment Management (2011-12), Graduate School Committee on Scholarly Communication (2007-10), RAP (Review Advisory Panel) for the Certificate in Gerontology (2007), Search Committee for VP of Research (2006), Distinguished Faculty Fellowships Committee (2007, 2005), President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee (2001), Student Academic Preparedness Committee (1992-95).

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: External Chair Search Committee (chair), Department of Criminal Justice (2014-15); Internal Chair Search Committee (chair), CMLLC [Department of Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures] (2013-14); Interim Chair Search Committee (chair), Department of Anthropology (2011-12), External Chair Search (member), Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (2008-09), College Tenure and Promotion Committee 2006-07, 2008-09, 2009-10), Technology Committee (2006-07), Faculty Council (2001-02, 2002-03), English Department Chair Search Committee (2000-01, 1994-95), College Salary Committee (1997-98), English Department Chair Review (1993-94).

Department of EnglishChaired Tenure and Promotion, Appointments, Policy, and Salary as Chair of the English Department, 2010-2015Chaired Composition Committee as Director of Composition, 2007-2010Chaired Linguistics Committee as Director of Linguistics Program, 1997-2002

Graduate Committee (2016-17); Composition Research Committee (2016-17, 2015-16); Appointments Committee (2009-10, 2008-09, 2005-06, 2003-04, 2001-02, 1999-00, 2000-01, 1996-07, 1997-98, 1991-02, 1992-93, 1989-90, 1987-88); Tenure and Promotion (2006-07, 2007-08, 1996-97, 1997-98); Salary (2007-08, 2006-07, 2000-01, 1988-89); Graduate Committee (2007-08, 2001-02, 1988-89); Undergraduate Committee (2009-10); Policy (1992-93 (chair), 1986-87).

Professional ServiceAgency Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (Health Literacy Panel), National

Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Cancer Research UK [United Kingdom], Israel Science Foundation.

Editorial Boards, Journal Reviewer, Press Reviewer Editorial Boards and Reviewer: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Communication & Medicine, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Written Communication, Computers and Composition

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(Editorial Board, 1994-2004), Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Editorial Board, 2007-2009).Journal Reviewer: Communication & Medicine, Qualitative Health Research, JAC, Journal of English Linguistics, Language in Society, College English, College Composition and Communication, Pragmatics and Cognition. Press Reviewer: University of Chicago Press, Blackwell, Longman, Hampton Press, Wayne State University Press, Open University Press, SUNY Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Cengage Thomson-Wadsworth, Pearson, Georgetown University Press (GURT).

Abstract Reviewer: COMET (Communication, Medicine, and Ethics), CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication), GURT (Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics), AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics).

External Reviewer for Tenure and/or Promotion: Ohio State University, University of Alabama Birmingham (2), University of Utah, Missouri State University, Sultan Qaboos University (Oman), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Waterloo (Canada), Case Western Reserve University, North Carolina State University, Arizona State University, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Medical University of South Carolina (2), University of Kansas, Calvin College, University of Colorado Denver, Temple University.

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