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Philippa M. Spoel

Department of English 20 Delia Court Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4T8 Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6 (705) 523-9989 (705) 657-1151, ext. 4345 [email protected] EDUCATION 1997 PhD in English (Rhetoric and Professional Writing), University of Waterloo

Thesis title: Disciplinary and Bodily Decorum in Eighteenth-Century British Elocution: A Rhetorical Study of Works by Thomas Sheridan, John Walker, and Gilbert Austin

1988 M. A. in English, University of Toronto 1984 Honours B. A. in English and Philosophy, University of Toronto ACADEMIC CAREER 2012-present Full Professor, Department of English, Laurentian University Cross-Appointment, School for the Environment Graduate Program Supervision/Teaching: - Science Communication Graduate Diploma - Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. - Interdisciplinary Human Studies PhD - Rural and Northern Health PhD 2000-2012 Associate Professor, Department of English, Laurentian University 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Laurentian University 1998-2000 Co-Director, Centre for Academic Writing, Laurentian University 1994-98 Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Counsellor, Laurentian University 1989-93 Instructor and Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo (part time) 1990 Researcher, Centre for Professional Writing, University of Waterloo (summer

position)

CURRICULUM VITAE

Philippa M. Spoel, C.V. 2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Teaching and Supervision Interdisciplinary Humanities M. A.:

• HUMA 5226: Discourses and Values of Health, Illness, and Medicine (2014) • HUMA 5226: Contemporary Environmental Discourses and Values (2011) • HUMA 5117: Core II – Discourses and Values of Risk and the Environment

(2009) • HUMA 5226: Language and Values in Healthcare Communication (2005) • HUMA 5126: Making and Communicating Knowledge Across Disciplines (2002,

2003) • HUMA 5326: Ethical Dimensions of Rhetoric (1998) • Thesis supervisor: Grace Kimpinski-Ferguson, “Genre and gender, mentoring and

mothering: self-help books ensure that single mothers make men out of boys” (2005-07, incomplete)

• Thesis committee member: Jeffrey Langer, “Life Stories: An Examination of Some Narratives of Four Men Serving a Life Sentence” (2013-2015)

• Thesis committee member: Jennifer Bennett-Pond, “Dying and Death in North America through the Lens of Dying at Grace, Kids Care, and Antonia’s Line: Cause to Question our Fear” (2005-07)

• Practicum supervisor: Ian Heft, Independent Living Sudbury Manitoulin (current); Jennifer Nault, Finlandia Rest Home (2011); Monica Jouppi, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (2009); Grace Kimpinski-Ferguson, Sudbury Women’s Centre (2006); Laura Young, Sudbury Community Midwifery Practice (2004); Mary Donato, Canadian Blood Services (2002); Connie Paquette, Sudbury Women’s Centre (1998)

• Leader, Thesis Proposal Workshop (2005, 2006, 2007, 2010) • Guest teacher, workshop on “Writing in the Humanities” for HUMA 5004:

Bibliography and Scholarly Methods (September 2001) • Guest lecturer, Rhetorical Theory, HUMA 5117 (February 1998) • Guest lecturer, Rhetorical Criticism, HUMA 5117 (November 2011)

Science Communication Graduate Diploma: • SCOM 5036: Theories and Principles of Science Communication (course

instructor 2005-2016) • SCOM 5016: Audiences & Issues (contributor 2005-2009) • SCOM 5066: Science Communication Practice (contributor 2006-2009) • SCOM 5116: Research Methods (contributor 2006-2015) • SCOM 5015: Research Project Course (co-instructor 2011) • SCOM 5015: Indivdiual Research Project Supervision: - Sarah Rogers, “Sustainable Agriculture in the Mass Media” (2006)

- Mojan Adibpour, “A Study of Pandemic Rhetoric by the Ontario Government during SARS” (2006-07)

- Laurie Buckland, “Conservation Photography as Science Communication: A Case Study of Subhankar Banerjee’s ‘Seasons of Life and Land,’ A

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Photographic Exhibit of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” (2007) - Heather Chertow, “Methods of Public Communication for the Human

Health Risk Assessment of the Sudbury Soils Study” (2007) - Stephanie Hawkins, “The Evolution of Visual Rhetoric in Popular Science

Magazines: The Case of Scientific American” (2007) - Jessie Sadler, “Community Perceptions of the Sudbury Soils Study”

(2009) - Holly Baker, “Physics in Children’s Written Media” (2010) - Jenn McCallum, “How do Canadian and National Parks Communicate

about Climate Change?” (2010) - Stephanie-Lynn Russell, “Deconstructing Documentaries: A Rhetorical

Analysis of Two Canadian Environmental Documentaries” (2010) - Sarah Bouchard, “Science Communication Strategies Used by the Crohn’s

and Colitis Foundation of Canada for Mixed Audiences and Purposes” (2010)

- Brandon Gray, “Traditional vs. New Wave Documentaries: What's Good for Science? A Rhetorical Analysis” (2011)

- Josh Osika, “Public Understanding of Human Genetics: What Do People Know and Where Did They Learn It?” (2011)

- Karen Lee, “What’s so funny? Communicating Science Through the Use of Humour” (2011)

- Jalyn Neysmith, “Bestselling Science: A Rhetorical Study of Popular Science Books” (2011)

- Leigha Benford, “Old MacDonald Has a Problem: A Rhetorical Study of Television Commercials Focused on Agriculture and Food Production” (2011)

• Leader, Orientation Writing Workshop (September 2005-2014)

PhD in Human Studies: • Instructor, HUST 6216: Independent Study Course on Environmental

Communication for Brent Cotton (fall 2013) • Instructor, HUST 6216: Independent Study Course on Rhetorical Theory for

Brent Cotton (winter 2013) • Instructor, HUST 6216: Independent Study Course on Rhetorical Criticism for

Kristeen McKee (2011-12) • Instructor, HUST 6216: Independent Study Course on Rhetorical Theory for Lee-

Ann Fielding (2010) • Instructor, HUST 6216: Independent Study Course on Discourse Analysis for

Lee-Ann Fielding (2011) • Guest lecturer, HUST 6056: Seminar in Interpretations and Values (2009) • Guest lecturer, HUST 6004: Seminar in Interdisciplinarity (2008) • PhD supervisor, Kristeen McKee (current) • PhD supervisor, Brent Cotton (current) • PhD supervisor, Tracy Mitchell-Ashley (current) • PhD Co-supervisor, Lee-Ann Fielding (current) • PhD committee member, Souhila Benabadiji (2012-2015) • PhD committee member, Daryl Anderson (2009-2015)


• Internal-external dissertation examiner, Karen McCauley, Constructing Life Narratives: How Novels and Policy Discourses Represent and Respond to Life Stories About People with Mental Disabilities (2010)

PhD in Rural and Northern Health:

• Dissertation committee member, Sylvie Rivard (current) • Dissertation committee member, Lisa Morgan (2011-2012) • Comprehensive examination committee member, Sylvie Rivard (2010) • Comprehensive examination committee member, Arshi Shaikh (2009) • Comprehensive examination committee member, Annie Boucher (2102) • Comprehensive examination committee member, Lisa Morgan (2012)

Other Graduate Teaching and Supervision:

• Reader, History M.A. Thesis: Lee-Ann Fielding, “Advice Literature for Mothers in English Canada in the Interwar Period” (2004)

Undergraduate Thesis Supervision:

• Reader, Fourth-Year Honours Thesis: Angelo Muredda, “‘A Place to Stand On’: Political Art and Cultural Space in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka Fiction” (2006)

Undergraduate Teaching (Laurentian and Waterloo):

Laurentian: • ENGL 1705: Introduction to Writing and English Studies, WAC (1994-95) • ENGL 2515: Composition and Rhetorical Theory WAC (1994-95, 1995-96,

1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04) • ENGL 3526/2526: Rhetorical Traditions (2003, 2006, 2009, 2011) • ENGL 2546: Rhetorical Principles (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) • ENGL 2526: History of Rhetoric I, WAC (1995, 1996, 1998, 2002) • ENGL 2527: Rhetorical Criticism (2004, 2006, 2009, 2010) • ENGL 2527: History of Rhetoric II (1996, 2002) • ENGL 2556: Principles and Practices of Professional Communication (2001,

2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010) • ENGL 3536: Environmental Communication (2010, 2012, 2017) • ENGL 4687: Rhetoric and Feminist Theory, WAC (1996) • ENGL 4786: Rhetoric and Professional Writing, WAC (1997) • ENGL 4687: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Communication in the Disciplines (1999,

2001) • ENGL 4786: Writing Theory and Pedagogy (1999) • ENGL 4686: Rhetoric of Science (2005) • ENGL 4687/4786: Visual Rhetoric (2007, 2009, 2012) • ENGL 4687: Environmental Rhetorics (2011) • ENGL 4686/7: Rhetorics of Health and Illness, and Medicine (2013, 2015)

Waterloo:

• Women's Literature (1992)


• Public Speaking (1992, 1993) • Technical and Business Writing (1989, teaching assistant)

Other Teaching Activities & Affiliations:

• Curriculum revisions, English progam in “Rhetoric and Media Studies” (ongoing)

• Presenter, Workshop for Graduate Students on Applying for Funding, September 2010.

• Guest lecturer, Rhetorical criticism for documentary film students, November 2009.

• Guest lecturer, Introduction to rhetoric, High School Liaison Session, Laurentian University, October 2009.

• Development team, Science Communication Graduate Diploma (1999-2004) • Leader, Workshop on resumes and letters of application, English Arts Club

(2003) • Course reviewer, ENGL 1705 - Envision (2002-03) • Identified twice (2002, 2004) in Maclean’ s Guide to Canadian Universities as

one of the “Popular Profs” at Laurentian • Co-developer, English curriculum program in “Rhetoric and Media Studies”

(2000-2001) • Coordinator, first-year English courses (1994-95) • Faculty advisor, Laurentian’s Writing Across the Curriculum programme

(advised approximately 50 faculty members across disciplines about designing and teaching writing in their courses) (1994-98)

• Contributor, writing assistant training workshops (1994-1999) • Guest teacher, special classes on writing in courses from Engineering (1995),

Computer Science (1995), Nursing (1996), and Modern Languages (1995) • Guest observer for WAC classes in Philosophy , History, and Political Science

(1997) • Guest teacher, class on eighteenth-century women’s poetry (Waterloo, 1993) • 2nd reader, 4th-year theses, English Department (1994-95, 1998-99) • Member, Laurentian Faculty Support Program (1995-96) • Participant, Laurentian’s Teaching and Learning workshops (1994-98)

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2014 Principal Investigator, LURF Grant: Mapping the Controversy: What’s at Issue in Public Discussion about the Proposed “Ring of Fire” Development. Value: $4,839.

2010 Co-investigator, University of Western Ontario Research Grant: Managing

Healthy Living in Everyday Life Project (Principal Investigator: Dr. Roma Harris, University of Western Ontario. Value $30,000.


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2010 Co-investigator, Laurentian University Research Grant: Managing Healthy Living in Everyday Life Project (Principal Investigator: Dr. Roma Harris, University of Western Ontario.) Value: $1,000

2009 Principal Investigator, SSHRC SIG 4A Award to continue research on The

rhetorical negotiation of healthcare knowledges, identities, and relationships through informed choice conversations in Canadian midwifery. Value $2,700.

2009 Principal Investigator, LURF grant to research Rhetorics of Public

Communication and Community Engagement in the Sudbury Soils Study. Value $4,560.

2008 Principal Investigator, SSHRC SIG 4A Award for research on The rhetorical

negotiation of healthcare knowledges, identities, and relationships through informed choice conversations in Canadian midwifery. Value $3,000

2008 Laurentian University Merit Increment 2007 Principal Applicant, LURF grant to support the publication of Rhetor: Journal of

the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Vol. 2. Value $1,110 2005 Principal Investigator, LURF-SSHRC grant for Pilot Study of the Practice of

Informed Choice in Midwife-Client Consultations. Value $4,000 2005 Laurentian University Merit Increment 2002 Principal Investigator (with co-investigators S. James and C. Schryer) for 3-year

SSHRC Research Grant to study The Textual Formation of a Healthcare Profession: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Regulatory Documents Governing Ontario’s Midwifery Profession. Value: $57, 435

1999 Principal Investigator, SSHRC Special Competition Grant to study The Rhetoric

of Midwifery in Ontario Value: $4,336 1998 University of Waterloo Grade Average Award for Outstanding Performance in the

Doctor of Philosophy Program 1997 Principal Investigator, Laurentian University Research Fund for interdisciplinary

research on The Role of Writing-to-Learn Activities in the Development of Discipline-Specific Knowledge (with Co-investigators R. Corbeil and R. Vanderlee). Value: $4,000

1993 Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Scholarship (for doctoral research) 1992 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship


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1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1990-94 Provost Doctoral Fellowship (University of Waterloo) 1990-92 Arts Faculty Scholarship (University of Waterloo) 1984 John A. Jessup Memorial Prize in Philosophy (University of Toronto) 1983 Trinity College Scholarship for General Achievement 1982 Hugh Stephenson Memorial Scholarship in Humanities (Trinity College) 1982 John Macdonald Scholarship in Philosophy (University of Toronto) SCHOLARSHIP Chapters in Academic Books

Harris, Roma, Philippa Spoel, and Flis Henwood. “Integrating the Imperatives of

Healthy Living in Everyday Life.” Relational Concepts in Medicine. Ed. Mario Deng, Federico Raia, and Maria Vaccarella. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012. 63-71. <https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/ebooks/medical-humanities/relational-concepts-in-medicine>

Spoel, Philippa. “How Do Midwives Talk with Women? The Rhetorical Genre of Informed Choice in Midwifery.” J. Leach & D. Dysart-Gale, Eds., Rhetorical Questions in Health and Medicine. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 97-128.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetorical Work of Informed Choice in Midwifery: Situated Knowledges and the Negotiation of Healthcare Decisions.” R. Harris, N. Wathen, & S. Wyatt, Eds. Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility. Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. 65-81.

Spoel, Philippa and Chantal Barriault. “Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication: The Rhetorical Challenge of Public Dialogue.” Writing (in) the Knowledge Society. Ed. D. Starke-Meyerring, A. Paré, N. Artemeva, M. Horne, and L. Yousoubova. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press and Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse, 2011. 87-112.

Spoel, Philippa. “Midwifery, Consumerism, and the Ethics of Informed Choice.” Bordering Biomedicine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Disease. Ed. Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus. Rodopi Publications, 2006. 197-213.

Spoel, Philippa. “Re-Inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions.” The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric. Ed. Christine Mason Sutherland and Rebecca Sutcliffe. Calgary, Alberta: U of Calgary P, 1999. 199-212.


Articles (Refereed) Spoel, Philippa and Colleen Derkatch. “Constituting Community through Food Charters:

A Rhetorical-Genre Analysis.” Canadian Food Studies 3.1 (2016), 47-70. http://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/issue/view/13

Shapiro, Ivor, Colette Brin, Philippa Spoel, and Lee Marshall. “Images of Essence: Journalists’ Discourse on the Professional ‘Discipline of Verification’.” Canadian Journal of Communication 41.1 (2016). http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2929

Derkatch, Colleen and Philippa Spoel. “Public Health Promotion of ‘Local Food’: Constituting the Self Governing Citizen-Consumer. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 21.2 (2017), 154-170.

White, William J., Philippa Spoel, Lisa Keränen, Lisa, and Rowan Howard-Williams. “Discourses of Environment and Disaster.” Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention 11.1 (May 2015): 1-9.

Spoel, Philippa and Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed. “Places and People: Rhetorical Constructions of ‘Community’ in a Canadian Environmental Risk Assessment” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 8.3 (2014): 267-285.

McKenzie, Pamela and Spoel, Philippa. “Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits.” Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing 25.1 (2014), 26-47.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “Rhetorics of Health Citizenship: Exploring Vernacular Critiques of the Government’s Role in Supporting Healthy Living.” Journal of Medical Humanities, Special Issue on Medicine, Health, and Publics, Ed. L. Keränen. 35.2 (2014), 131-147.

Spoel, Philippa, Pamela McKenzie, Susan James, and Jessica Hobberlin. “Standards and Stories: The Interactional Work of Informed Choice in Ontario Midwifery Care.” Healthcare Policy, Special Issue: Sociology Insights on Inequities in Health and Healthcare, Ed. Ivy L. Bourgeault. 9 (2013): 71-85. Honourable Mention, Best Article, CASDW Research Award 2014.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “Healthy Living: Metaphors We Eat By?” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, Special Issue on Medical Rhetorics 2.2 (2012). http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-2/healthy-living-metaphors-we-eat-by/

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “The Moralization of Healthy Living: Burke’s Rhetoric of Rebirth and Older Adults’ Accounts of Healthy Eating.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health. 16.6 (2012): 619-635.

Henwood, Flis, Roma Harris, and Philippa Spoel. “Informing health? Negotiating the Logics of Choice and Care in Everyday Practices of ‘Healthy Living’.” Social Science and Medicine. Social Science and Medicine. 12.2 (2011): 2026-2032.

Spoel, Philippa, David Goforth, Hoi Cheu, and David Pearson. “Public Communication of Climate Change Science: Engaging Citizens Through Apocalyptic Narrative Explanation.” Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on Science


Communication and Public Policy. 18.1 (2009): 49-81. *One of top 10 downloaded articles from TCQ in 2010.

Spoel, Philippa. “Communicating Values, Valuing Community through Healthcare Websites: Midwifery’s On-line Ethos and Public Communication in Ontario.” Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on On-line Health Information. 17.3 (2008): 264-288.

Spoel, Philippa. “A Feminist Rhetorical Perspective on Informed Choice in Midwifery.” Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Vol. 2. May 2007. http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rcarruth/journal.html

Spoel, Philippa and Susan James. “Negotiating Public and Professional Interests: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Debate Concerning the Regulation of Midwifery in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Medical Humanities. 27.3 (Fall 2006): 167-186.

Schryer, Catherine F. and Philippa Spoel. “Genre Theory, Healthcare Discourse, and Professional Identity Formation.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication (Special Issue on Medical Rhetoric) 19.3 (July 2005): 249-278. Nominated for the 2005 National Council of Teachers of English Award for Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.

Spoel, Philippa and Susan James. “The Textual Standardization of Midwives’ Professional Relationships.” Technostyle 19.1 (Fall 2003): 3-29.

Spoel, Philippa. “Rereading the Elocutionists: The Rhetoric of Thomas Sheridan’s A Course of Lectures on Elocution and John Walker’s Elements of Elocution.” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 19.1 (Winter 2001): 49-91.

Spoel, Philippa and Renée Corbeil. “Learning to Make Discipline-Specific Knowledge through Writing / Appronfondir des connaissances spécifiques à chaque discipline par l’écriture.” Technostyle 15.1 (Spring 1999): 20-53.

Spoel, Philippa. “Gilbert Austin’s Science of Bodily Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 28.4 (1998): 5-27.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetoric of Enlightenment Rhetoric: Strategies of Ethos in British Elocutionary Handbooks.” Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies. 7 (1996): 117-127.

Published Conference Proceedings, Reports, & Encyclopedia Entries

Spoel, Philippa. “Health Citizenship.” Encyclopedia of Health Communication, Vol 2. Ed. Theresa L. Thompson. Sage Publications, 2014. 565-567.

Marshall, Lee, Colette Brin, Ivor Colette, and Philippa Spoel. “Spatial, Temporal, and Visual Language in Journalists’ Accounts of the Professional Practice of Verification.” Transformations at the Edge: Writing Research, Discourse, and Pedagogy. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Discourse and Writing. Ed. Jo-Anne D. Andre. 2013.

Shapiro, Ivor, Coletter Brin, Lee Marshall, and Philippa Spoel. “Verification as a Battle for Professional Survival: Analyzing Journalists’ Discourse on a Core Aspect of Identity in a Time of Crisis.” Selected Proceedings of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.Dublin, June 2013. http://iamcr.org/congress/dublin2013/1099-vpr-dublin#JREhttp://casdwacr.wordpress.com/ 1-16.


Spoel, Philippa. “Exploring Informed Choice from a Consumerist Perspective.” Proceedings of The Midwifery Way: A National Forum Reflecting on the State of Midwifery Regulation in Canada, Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Dalhousie University, July 2004.

Spoel, Philippa. “Disciplinary Identity and the Historiography of Rhetoric.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. 6 (1997): 12-23.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Elocutionary Movement and the Rhetoric of Science.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. 4 (1991-92): 178-192.

Spoel, Philippa and Brad Mehlenbacher. “The Rhetoric of Context in Professional Writing Research.” Technical Report. Centre for Professional Writing, University of Waterloo, 1991.

Scholarly Editing, Reviews, and Assessments

External Examiner. PhD Dissertation: Patricia Anne Kelly, Textual Standardization and the ‘Common Language’ of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,Doctoral Dissertation, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, December 2012.

External Examiner. PhD Dissertation: Tami Oliphant, The Information Practices of Depressives: Constructing Credibility and Authority, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, November 2010.

Internal-external examiner. PhD Dissertation: Karen McCauley, Constructing Life Narratives: How Novels and Policy Discourses Represent and Respond to Life Stories About People with Mental Disabilities. Interdisciplinary Human Studies Program, Laurentian University, March 2010.

Editor. Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Vol. 2, 2007. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rcarruth/Journal/Journal.html.

“Editor’s Introduction.” Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Vol. 2, 2007. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rcarruth/Journal/Journal.html.

Book review. Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women. (Edited by Molly Meijer Wertheimer. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1997.) Rhetorica 17.1 (1999): 91-95.

External Reviewer. Dr. Aimee Roundtree, Texas State University. Application for promotion to Full Professor, August 2016.

External Reviewer. Quality Assurance Program Review, Interdisciplinary Studies, Lakehead at Orillia, November 2012

External Reviewer. SSHRC Standard Research Grant Applications (2008, 2011) External Reviewer. Killam Research Foundation Application (2006) External Reviewer. Fonds FCAR (1998) External Reviewer. Ontario High School Curriculum, English Courses for French

Schools (1999) Manuscript Reviewer. The Eloquence of Mary Astell. University of Calgary Press, 2003. Book Prospectus Reviewer. “Public Discourse/Personal Experience: On the Rhetoric of

Health and Illness at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century," Penn State University Press, 2013.

Peer reviewer for the following journals:


Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing Canadian Medical Association Journal Critical Discourse Studies Environmental Communication Ethnologies Information Research: an international electronic journal (2010) Journal of Sex Research Journal of Medical Humanities Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Rhetoric Society Quarterly Rhetorica

Social Science and Medicine Society Technology and Human Values Technical Communication Quarterly Technostyle Peer reviewer for the following scholarly associations: Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing

Articles in Professional Newsletters

“What’s “Real” in Writing and Reading Situations? A Collaborative Exploration.”

Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning 20.1 (2002).

“The Writing Dossier in Laurentian’s WAC / LIP Program.” Bulletin: Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 9.1 (1998).

Conference and Colloquium Presentations (refereed and invited)

Spoel, Philippa & Derkatch, Colleen. “Changing Rhetorics of Healthy Eating, Emerging

Forms of Health-Environmental Citizenship.” Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA, May 29, 2016.

Spoel, Philippa. “Environment, Risk, and Sustainability: Intersections and Divergences in Activist Discourses about Ontario’s Ring of Fire Mining Development.” Conference on Communication and the Environment, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CL, June 13, 2015.

Spoel, Philippa and Colleen Derkatch. “Constituting Community through Food Charters: A Rhetorical-Genre Analysis.” Canadian Association of Food Studies, University of Ottawa, June 2, 2015.

Spoel, Philippa. “Environment, Risk, and Sustainability: Intersections and Divergences in Activist Discourses about Ontario’s Ring of Fire Mining Development.” Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. University of Ottawa, May 31, 2015.

Spoel, Philippa. “Procedural Rights and Substantive Risks: First Nations’ Negotiation of Jurisdictional Issues in Ontario’s Ring of Fire Mining Development.” Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Chicago, IL, Nov 19, 2014.


Shapiro, Ivor, Colette Brin, Lee Marshall, and Philippa Spoel. “Verification as a Battle for Professional Survival: Analyzing Journalists' Discourse on a Core Aspect of Identity in a Time of Crisis.” Presentation to the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Dublin, June 2013.

Spoel, Philippa. “Healthy Eating and Local Foods: Mapping the Values of Local Food in the Rhetorical Constitution of ‘Good’ (Health) Citizenship.” Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Victoria, May 2013.

Marshall, Lee, Coletter Brin, Ivor Shapiro, and Philippa Spoel. “Spatial, Temporal, and Visual Language in Journalists’ Accounts of the Professional Practice of Verification.” Presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Discourse and Writing, University of Victoria, May 2013.

Harris, Roma, Flis Henwood, and Philippa Spoel. “Self-Care as a Relational Practice in the Pursuit of ‘Healthy Living’.” Conference on Critical Care: Advancing an Ethic of Care in Theory and Practice. University of Brighton, September 2012.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “Rhetorics of Health Citizenship: How Older Adults Intertwine the Public Discourse of Individual Responsibility with Critical-Collective Conceptualizations of Healthy Living.” Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Philadelphia, May 2012.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “Rhetorical Assumptions and Healthism Discourse: Citizen Perspectives on Public Communication about Healthy Living.” Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, May 2012.

MacKenzie, Pamela and Philippa Spoel. “Mapping Story-Telling Genres in Midwifery Care.” Genre 2012: An International Conference on Genre Studies, Ottawa, June 2012.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “Healthy eating metaphors we live by.” Society for the Social Studies of Science. Panel: Critical Perspectives on ‘Personal’ Engagements with ‘Public’ Health Discourses. Cleveland, November 2011.

Roma Harris, Philippa Spoel, and Flis Henwood. “Healthy ageing: The new evangelism?” Society for the Social Studies of Science. Panel: Critical Perspectives on ‘Personal’ Engagements with ‘Public’ Health Discourses. Cleveland, November 2011.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “The Moralization of Healthy Living: Discourses of Guilt and Virtue in People’s Accounts of Eating Healthily.” Keynote address. Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of New Brunswick, May 2011.

Spoel, Philippa. “Appeals to ‘community’ in the context of an environmental risk assessment.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New Brunswick, May 2011.

Spoel, Philippa, Roma Harris, and Flis Henwood. “The Moralization of Healthy Living.” Department of English Research Forum, Laurentian University, April 2011.

McKenzie, Pamela, Philippa Spoel, Susan James, and Jessica Buckingham. “Negotiating the Hybrid Genre of Informed Choice in Ontario Midwifery Care.” Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health. Ottawa, November 2010.

Harris, Roma, Philippa Spoel, and Flis Henwood. “Keep Fit, Eat Right and Stay


Informed: Health Evangelism and its Impact on Domestic Labour.” CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Conference, ‘Innovations in Gender, Sex and Health Research.’ Toronto, November 2010.

Henwood, Flis, Roma Harris, and Philippa Spoel. “Choosing health? Negotiating the logics of choice and care in everyday practices of ‘healthy living’” Invited presentation at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, November 2010.

Henwood, Flis, Roma Harris, and Philippa Spoel. “Ever more responsible? Information, technology and the ‘healthy living’ imperative.” Workshop on Technoscientific and Social Dynamics of Health and Health Care. Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SSTNET), European Sociological Association (ESA). University of Helsinki, October 2010.

Harris, Roma, Spoel, Philippa, and Hendwood, Flis. “Integrating the Imperatives of Healthy Living in Everyday Life.” 9th Global Conference on Making Sense of Health, Illness, and Disease. Oxford, September 2010.

Spoel, Philippa.“Ethos and the Discursive Construction of Trust in Midwifery.” Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.

Spoel, Philippa. “Rhetorics of public communication and community engagement in the Sudbury Soils Study.” Forum on Mining Companies and Soil Pollution: The Rhetoric and Science of Health and Ecological Risk Assessments, Laurentian University, November 2009.

Spoel, Philippa and Michael Buzdon. “Rhetorical Constructions of Community and Ethos in a Canadian Environmental Risk Assessment.” Conference on Communication and the Environment, University of Portland, June 2009.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetorical Work of Informed Choice in Midwifery: Situated Knowledges and the Negotiation of Healthcare Decisions.” Working to be Healthy Workshop: Negotiating Health Information and Technology in a Consumerist Age. SSHRC supported workshop, University of Western Ontario, May 2009.

Spoel, Philippa. “Reflections on the ‘usefulness’ of a rhetorical critique of informed choice conversations in Ontario midwifery.” Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, Carleton University, May 2009.

Spoel, Philippa, David Goforth, Hoi Chey, and David Pearson. “Public Communication of Climate Change Science: Engaging Citizens Through Apocalyptic Narrative Explanation.” European Conference on Communication Research and Education: Science and Environmental Communication Division, Barcelona, November 2008.

Spoel, Philippa. “Negotiating Healthcare Knowledges, Identities, and Relationships: The Rhetorical Process of Informed Choice in Ontario Midwifery.” English Department Research Forum, Laurentian University, February 2009.

Spoel, Philippa. “Rhetorical Studies, Public Dialogue, and Environmental Risk Communication: Exploring Conceptual Intersections.” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, May 2008.

Spoel, Philippa. “Shifting voices, shifting knowledges: The rhetorical co-construction of healthcare information and decision-making during midwife-client conversations.” Public colloquim on Rhetoric and Knowledge Making in Health and Medicine, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, February 2008.


Spoel, Philippa. “Public Engagement Rhetoric in an Environmental Risk Assessment.” Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology / National Communication Association. Chicago, November 2007.

Spoel, Philippa. “Rhetorics of Knowing in Midwifery Healthcare.” Society for the Social Studies of Science. Montreal, October 2007.

Spoel, Philippa. “Telling it Differently: Risk in Medical and Midwifery Discourses of Pregnancy and Birth.” Society for the Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, November 2006.

Spoel, Philippa and Chantal Barriault. “Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication: Scientific Results, Community Challenges.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 2006.

James, Susan and Philippa Spoel (co-authors). “Whose Team Are You On? Can a Rhetorical Analysis of Midwifery Regulatory Documents Assist the Profession to Balance Professional Relationships?” Canadian Association of Midwives, Halifax, November 2005.

Spoel, Philippa and Diana Wegner (co-authors).“The Dynamics of Identity Development: Discursive Hybridity, Agency, and Improvised Performance.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.

Spoel, Philippa and Stephanie Giroux.“The Rhetoric of Public Participation and Citizenship in the Romanow Report.” Wtih S. Giroux. Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.

Spoel, Philippa “The Interface of Ethos and Public Values in a Health Profession’s Website.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, San Francisco, March 2005.

Spoel, Philippa. “Exploring Informed Choice from a Consumerist Perspective.” The Midwifery Way: A National Forum Reflecting on the State of Midwifery Regulation in Canada, Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Dalhousie University, July 2004.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Meaning and Ethics of Informed Choice in Midwifery.” Conference on Making Sense of Health, Illness, and Disease, Oxford University, July 2004.

Spoel, Philippa. “‘Informed Choice’ in Midwifery: A Feminist Rhetorical Practice?” Presented as part of a special session on “The Rhetorical Performance of Boundary Work in Health and Medical Discourse.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, May 2004.

Spoel, Philippa. “A Feminist Epistemological Perspective on the Rhetoric of Midwifery Regulation.” Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Ohio State University, October 2003.

Spoel, Philippa and Susan James. “Uncovering Tensions in the Practice of Informed Choice.” Canadian Association of Midwives, Montreal, October 2003.

Spoel, Philippa “The Rhetorical Re-Invention of Midwifery: A Feminist Epistemological Issue”. Inventio: Rereading the Rhetorical Tradition, University of Waterloo, August 2003.


Spoel, Philippa and Susan James.“Making Sense of Ideological Conflicts in Midwifery Healthcare.” Conference on Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease, Oxford University, July 2003.

Spoel, Philippa and Laura Young. “Exploring Structures and Contexts of Conflict and Cooperation in a Professional Meta-genre.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Dalhousie University, May 2003.

Spoel, Philippa. “From Outsider to Insider: Arguments Concerning the Regulation of Midwifery in Ontario.” Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto, May 2002.

Spoel, Philippa and Susan James. “The Textual Standardization of the Midwifery Profession.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Toronto, May 2002.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Power of Genre to Regulate and Legitimate: The Case of Ontario’s Midwifery Legislation.” International Genre Conference, Oslo University College, May 2001.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetoric of Ontario’s Midwifery Legislation: Textual (Ir)resolution to Social Conflict.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Université de Laval, Québec, May 2001.

Spoel, Philippa. “Social Rank and Gender in Eighteenth-Century British Elocution.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1999.

Spoel, Philippa. “Writing to Learn (about) History: The Role of a Pedagogical Genre in the Development of Disciplinary Knowledge.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, June 1999.

Spoel, Philippa and Renée Corbeil. “Learning to Make Discipline-Specific Knowledge through Writing.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, May 1998.

Spoel, Philippa. “Writing to Learn Discipline-Specific Literacies.” Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning: Inkshed Conference XV, Halifax, May 1998.

Spoel, Philippa. “Re-Inventing Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, University of Saskatchewan, July 1997.

Spoel, Philippa. “Body Technologies and the Elocutionary Movement.” Women's Research Caucus, Laurentian University, October 1996.

Spoel, Philippa. “Constructing a Legitimate Science: The Visual Representation of Rhetorical Gesture.” Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Learned Societies, Brock University, May 1996.

Spoel, Philippa. “Disciplinary Identity and the Historiography of Rhetoric.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Learned Societies, Brock University, May 1996.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetoric of Enlightenment Rhetoric: Strategies of Ethos in British Elocutionary Handbooks.” Carleton University Centre for Rhetorical Studies,


April 1996. Spoel, Philippa. “Decorum, Pedagogy, and the Elocutionists.” University of Northern

British Columbia, February 1994. Spoel, Philippa. “Gilbert Austin and the Decorous Conduct of the Body.” Eighteenth-

Century Studies: Graduate Student Conference, Queen's University, October 1993.

Spoel, Philippa. “Thomas Sheridan and the Demystification of Natural Elocution (Revised).” University of Waterloo, August 1993.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetoric of Nature in Thomas Sheridan’s Lectures on Elocution.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Learned Societies, Carleton University, May 1993.

Spoel, Philippa. “Thomas Sheridan and the Demystification of Natural Elocution.” University of British Columbia, January 1993.

Spoel, Philippa. “Gilbert Austin's Scientific Rhetoric.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric, Pennsylvania State University, July 1992.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Elocutionary Movement and the Rhetoric of Science.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Learned Societies, University of P.E.I., May 1992.

Spoel, Philippa. “The Rhetoric of Context.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, March 1992.

Patterson, Randi and Philippa Spoel (co-authors). “Re-membering the Body of Rhetorical History.” With R. Patterson. Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Learned Societies, Queen's University, May 1991.

Spoel, Philippa. “Writing Our (Feminine) Selves.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Boston, March 1991.

Spoel, Philippa. “Writing Our (Feminine) Selves.” English Department Colloquium Series, University of Waterloo, February 1991.

Colloquia and Workshop Presentations / Participation

Roundtable participant. “Food: Sovereignty, Governance, Sustainability.” Food, Citizenship, and Environment: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Laurentian University, February 2015.

Panel participant. “How is Health Humanities Different from Medical Humanities--and Why Does the Difference Matter for Rhetorical Studies?” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 2014.

Invited Participant. Symposium on Discourses of Health, Medicine, and Society: Emerging Roles and Evolving Practices. University of Cincinnati, September 2013.

“Panel on Rhetorics of Health and Medicine.” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, May 2008.

“Strengthening Canada’s Science and Innovation Culture: A Sudbury Science Communication Forum.” Science North-Laurentian University, May 12, 2006.

“Interdisciplinarity and Method,” Interdisciplinary PhD in Human Studies, Roundtable, Laurentian University, March 2006.

“Rhetorical Principles for Principals.” Presentation to Principals’ Course, Lo-Ellen Park High School, October 2003.


“SSHRC and Knowledge Mobilisation.” Laurentian University, March 2003. “Roundtable on Writing Centres.” Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical

Writing, University of Ottawa, May 1998. “Writing-to-learn through an Email Discussion Group.” Interdisciplinary Workshop on

Writing-to-Learn Activities, Laurentian University, November 1998. “Future Possibilities for WAC.” Presentation at Fifth Annual Teaching and

Learning/WAC Seminar, Laurentian University, May 1997. “Roundtable on Writing Centres.” Canadian Association for the Study of Language and

Learning, University of Ottawa, May 1996. “The Rhetoric of Writing Competency.” Roundtable on Writing Across the Curriculum in

Canada. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March 1996.

“Responding to Student Writing.” WAC Faculty Workshop, Laurentian University, October 1995. “Teaching Wac Tactically.” Presentation at WAC Faculty Seminar, Laurentian

University, April 1995. Conference and Workshop Conceptions and Organization

Conference Organizer and Program Chair, Conference of the Canadian Society for the

Study of Rhetoric, Laval University, Quebec, May 2001. Conference Organizer and Program Chair, Conference of the Canadian Society for the

Study of Rhetoric, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2000. Co-organizer and facilitator, “Workshop on Assignment Design.” Faculty Workshop,

Laurentian University, April 2000. Co-organizer and facilitator, “Learning Objectives and Writing in Social Work.”

Laurentian University, April 1999. Co-organizer and facilitator, “Discipline-Specific Research and Writing Practices.”

Laurentian University, March 1999. Member of Planning Committee, “The First-Year Experience: Challenges and

Opportunities.” Sixth Annual Teaching and Learning Seminar, Laurentian University, May 1998.

Organizer, “Using Writing as a Tool for Learning in Different Disciplines.” Teaching and Learning/Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Laurentian University, March 1998.

Organizer and facilitator, “Writing-to-Learn Activities.” Teaching and Learning/Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Laurentian University, October 1997.

Co-organizer, “Active Learning: Principles and Practices.” Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning/Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar, Laurentian University, May 1996.

Organizer and facilitator, “Responding to Student Writing.” Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Laurentian University, October 1995.

Co-organizer and facilitator, “Writing Across the Curriculum Spring Seminar.” Laurentian University, May 1995.

Organizer and facilitator, “Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Workshop.” Laurentian University, January 1994.


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LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE

University Level Contributions: Leadership roles:

• Faculty Counsellor, Writing Across the Curriculum Program (1994-1997) • Coordinator and Leader, Scoring Sessions for Writing Competency Test (1994-1999) • Co-Chair, Senate Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum (1996-1997) • Chair, Dossier Working Group, Senate WAC Committee (1997-1998) • Co-Director, Centre for Academic Writing (1998-2000) • Chair, President’s Essay Committee (1998-2000) • Chair, Biology MSc Thesis Defenses (2002, 2011) • Humanities Steward, Laurentian University Faculty Association (2004-2006) • Vice-President, Laurentian University Faculty Association (2006-2008) • Acting Chair, Tenure and Promotion Evaluation Process, Geography Department / Département de géographie (2008-2009) • Chair, Comprehensive Examination, PhD in Rural and Northern Health (2011) • Chair, Certificate of Bilingualism Assessment Committee (2013-2014)

Membership roles:

• Member, Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (1994-1999) • Member, Senate Committee on Writing Competency (1994-1995) • Moderator, Cinéfest Panel, Laurentian University (1994) • Member, Senate Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum (1995-2000) • Member, Teaching and Learning Sub-committee on Development (1995-1997) • Member, Teaching and Learning Sub-committee on Policy Issues (1995-1996) • Member, Process Design Group for WAC Review (1996-97) • Member, Teaching and Learning Sub-Committee on Learning Council Proposal (1996-

1997) • Member, Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Selection Committee (1998-1999) • Member, Senate (1999-2000) • Anglophone Representative, Certificate of Bilingualism Assessment Committee (1999-2000, 2006-2013) • Participant, Student Recruitment Phonathon (2001-2003) • Member, Search Committee, Associate V.P. Research (2003-2004) • Member, Environmental Policy Committee (2005-2006) • Member, Faculty Promotions Committee – Library (2006-2007) • Member, Review Committee, Laurentian University Research Funds (2006-2013) • Member, Dean’s Writing Program Committee (2006-2008) • Member, Faculty Promotions Committee – Humanities (2008-2011) • Faculty Representative, LUFA Bilingualism Committee (2008-2010) • Member, PACE (President’s Action Committee on the Environment) (2008-2011) • Member, PACE Communications Sub-Committee (2008-2009) • Board Member, Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity (2010-2011)


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• Participant, Strategic Planning Focus Group on Women’s Issues (2002-2003) • Member, Search Committee, Associate V.P., Academic and Francophone Affairs

(2012-2013) • Member, Faculty of Arts Council (2014-17)

Department and Program Level Contributions: Leadership roles:

• Chair, English Department (2015-present) • Chair, English Department Ad Hoc Program Revision Committee • Chair, English Department First-Year Programme Committee (1994-1995) • Co-developer, English Department Program in Rhetoric and Media Studies (2000-2001) • Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee (2002-2004, 2011-2013)

Chair, English Department Communications Committee (2006-2007) • Co-organizer, English Department Career Workshop (2008-2010) • Chair, English Department Special Events and Communications Committee (2009-2010)

Membership roles:

• Member, English Department Council (1994-present) • Member, English Department Special Events & Liaison Committee (1994-1998, 2015-

17) • Member, English Department Curriculum Committee (1995-1999, 2001-2002, 2010-

2011, 2013-2017) • Member, English Department Faculty Hiring Committee (1998-1999, 2002-2003, 2004-

2005, 2012-17) Member, English Department Secretarial Hiring Committee (2007-2008)

• Member, English Department Chair Selection Committee (1999-2000, 2005-2006) • Member, English Department Communications Committee (2005-2006, 2015-17) • Member, English Department Communications & Mentoring Committee (2008-2009) • Member, English Department Appeals Committee (1997-1998) • Member, English Department Essay Competition Committee (1997-1998, 2015-16) • Member, Science Communication Program Committee (2006-present) • Member, Development Team, Science Communication Diploma (1999-2000, 2003-2006) • Member, Women’s Studies Committee (1997-1999, 2001-2002) • Member, Hiring Committee, Women’s Studies (1997-1998) • Member, Humanities M.A. Council (1999-2000, 2002-2004, 2006-2009, 2010-2011,

2012-2013) • Member, Humanities M.A. Curriculum Committee (1997-2000) • Member, Humanities M.A. Speakers Committee (2001-2002) • Member, Humanities M.A. Teaching Committee (2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2008-2009,

2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013) • Designer and Assessor, Humanities M.A. Language Test (2002-2004, 2005-2006) • Member, Admissions Committee, Midwifery Education Programme (2002-2007, 2009-

2011)


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• Assessor of personal letters and interviewer for applicants to Midwifery Education Programme (2001-2003)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: MEMBERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Special contributions:

• Member, Editorial Board, Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (2008-2013)

• Member, Program Committee, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (2008-09)

• Member, International Advisory Task Force, Rhetoric Society of America (2011-2013) • Editor, Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (2005-2007) • Member (non-practitioner), College of Midwives of Ontario (2003-2006) • Past-President, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (2001-2003) • President, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (1999-2001) • Vice President, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (1997-1999) • Editor, Newsletter of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (1997-1999) • Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (1995-1997)

Memberships:

• Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (2008-present) • American Society for the History of Rhetoric (1994-2003) • Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (2001-2008) • Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (1995-2009) • Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (formerly Canadian

Association for Teachers of Technical Writing) (1992-present) • Canadian Association of Food Studies (2014-present) • Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health (2010-2014) • Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (1990-present) • CANWCS (Canadian Writing Centres, 1999-2002) • Member, Environmental Communication Network (2011-2012) • International Environmental Communication Association (2013-present) • International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1994-2003) • Member, National Communication Association (2006-2009, 2014-15) • National Council of Teachers of English (1990-2000) • Rhetoric Society of America (2008-present) • Society for the Social Studies of Science (2007-present)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Treasurer and Parent Co-ordinator, Walden Nordic Youth Racer Program (2016-


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present) • Mentor, Sponsorship and Professional Communication, Lo-Ellen Robotics Team

(2013-14) • Food Coordinator, Lo-Ellen Robotics Team (2013-15) • Community Volunteer, Sudbury Fitness Challenge (2012-present) • Co-organizer and Communications Manager, Save Bennett Lake Campaign (2011-

2013) • Member, Youth Programs Planning Committee, Walden Cross-Country Fitness Club

(2011-2012) • Communications Manager, Junior Development Program, Walden Cross-Country

Fitness Club (2009-2013) • Funding Proposal Editor, Walden Cross-Country Fitness Club (2009-10) • Community Volunteer (fundraising, event organization, facility upkeep, etc.), Walden

Cross-Country Fitness Club (2008-present) • Community Volunteer, Sudbury Biathlon Club (2008-present) • Swim Meet Official, Sudbury Laurentian Swim Club (2005-08) • Street Representative, Lo-Ellen Park Residents Association (2005-07) • Co-founder, Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury (2006) • Membre, Conseil d’école, École publique Hélène-Gravel (2005-06) • Guest presenter, “Rhetorical Principles for Principals,” Principals’ Course, Lo-Ellen

High School (October 2003) • Membre, Comité de liaison, Garderie Touche à tout (2002-04) • Consumer panelist, Midwifery Intensive Student Workshop (2002) • Participant, Consumer Panel, Association of Ontario Midwives, Symposium (2001) • Northern Ontario representative, Ontario midwifery consumer network (2001-04) • Vice-présidente, Conseil de direction de la Garderie Touche-à-tout (2000-01) • Membre, Conseil de direction de la Garderie Touche-à-tout (1998-2000) • Présidente, Comité d’embauche, Garderie Touche-à-tout (2001) • Member, Sudbury Midwifery Consumer Advisory Group (1997-2000) • Invited Speaker, Midwifery Graduation Ceremonies (1998)

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