ABD,
Composition and TESOL, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania
MA,
English with a concentration in Composition and Rhetoric, Ohio University
BA,
English, Texas State Universit
Academic Interests
Writing
Program Administration
Composition
Theory and Pedagogy
Teacher
education
Literacy
Theory
Writing
across the Curriculum Theory and Pedagogy
Writing
Center Theory and Pedagogy
Scholarly Activity
Publications
"Junior Faculty and Graduate Student
Administration Issues, WPA-CompPile Research Bibliography, No. 1." WPA-CompPile
Research Bibliographies. http://comppile.org/wpa/bibliographies/ Edgington_Gallaher.pdf, 2009, co-authored with Anthony Edgington.
"Economics:
Writing to Learn and Learning to Write," coauthored with Joe Horton and Bonnie
Selting, Journal of Private Enterprise, 18:2 (2003).
Conferences
Presenter, "What
Literacy as Social Capital at Guantanamo Bay Prison Can Mean for the
Composition Classroom," Writing
Democracy: A Rhetoric of (T)Here, Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Commerce, Texas, 2011.
Presenter, "Holding
onto the Known in the Tutor to Teacher Transition," joint conference of the
NCPTW and IWCA, Baltimore,
2010.
Co-author of "The
Impact of Participation in a Mentored Learning to Teach Experience on
Prospective College Composition
Teachers," presented by Tom Smith at The Association of Teacher Educators, Dallas, 2009
Presenter, "Dorm Literacy: The Writing Is on
the Wall," CCCC, New York, 2003
Presenter,
Poster Session: "FIGs/Clusters at UCA," Southern Learning Communities Conference, University of
Central Arkansas, 2002
Student Group Advisement
K.I.D.S.
(Kind Individuals Dedicated to Students)
Other Professional Experiences
Member
of NCTE/CCCC
Member
of Council of Writing Program Administrators
Secretary,
Mid-American Writing Program Administrators, Spring 2005-Fall 2007
