CV

nicoleashantimcfarlane2012

Education

• PhD Clemson University. Rhetorics, Communication & Information Design. (May 2012)
  Dissertation: “The Racial Rhetoric of Cuteness as a Decorative Decorum”

• MA North Carolina A&T State University. English & African American Literature. (2004)
  Thesis: “Black Gay Masculinity as Literary Device in Contemporary Poetry”

• BA University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Political Science. (2002)

Research Interests

Digital, Visual, Spatial, Rhetorics; African American Rhetorics; Rhetorical Race Studies and Gender; Multimodal Composition and Pedagogy; Civic Engagement; Critical and Cultural Theory; Post-Critical Production and New Media Studies

Teaching Experience

Fall 2008-Summer 2010
Clemson University. Graduate Teacher of Record

• Accelerated Composition/English 103
• Technical Communication/English 314
• Speech Communication/Communication L201

Fall 2005-Summer 2008
Guilford College. Visiting Instructor of English

• College Reading and Writing: Many Voices/English 102
• Historical Perspectives: Understanding AIDS/English 151
• Adult Transitions/General Studies 101

Spring 2004-Summer 2005
North Carolina A&T State University. Graduate Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Instructor

• First-Year Composition/English 100
• First-Year Composition/English 100 (Higher Learning Institute)

Writing Center Administration Experience

2011 – present
Clemson University. Graduate Assistant Director Writing Center

• Publicize the Writing Center, including regular outreach efforts across the University
• Direct an instructional materials revision and redesign project
• Organize and maintain tutor work schedules
• Pilot multimodal tutoring assessments
• Assist the Director in writing grant proposals, planning and facilitating regular staff meetings, and training and observing tutors

2010 – 2011
Clemson University. Graduate Writing Center Coordinator

• Initiate a Writing Center assessment project for expansion into the Academic Success Center expansion
• Present Writing Center usage data to University committees
• Digitize the international student English aptitude test
• Research and help select the Writing Center tracking system software
• Host information sessions and workshops for students and instructors
• Facilitate weekly pedagogical & professional training meetings
• Handle maintenance and technical issues – IT, printers, ink cartridges, office supplies, furniture surplus and removal
• Renovate the Writing Center and create a more efficient and welcoming space
• Manage the checkout/check-in of digital projectors and audio/visual equipment
• Introduce an online tutoring chat system
• Launch a Writing Center Facebook group
• Monitor and maintain online appointment scheduler
• Develop the Writing Center’s University webpage

Writing Program Administration Experience

2005-2008
Guilford College. Writing Program Faculty Committee

• Collaborate in the design and implementation of curriculum assessments and placement
• Spearhead the development of multicultural course outcomes

2003-2005
NC A&T State University. Graduate Assistant

• Assist the English Department secretary in daily office administration
• Assist the Writing Program Director of First-Year Composition
• Coordinate the Higher Learning Institute for the Office of Summer Sessions

Presentations

• “Black Atlantic Oceans and Ontologies: Spatial Assemblages and Race” RSA. Upcoming May 2012

• “Remembered, Mystified, Forgotten: The Rhetoric of ‘Racial Regality’ in the Great Kings and Queens of Africa Posters.”  CCCC. April 2011

• “The Visuality of Race in Multimodal Composition Pedagogy,” and American Institutional Campaigns.”  CCCC. RNF. March 2010.

• “Hearing the Same Stuff, Listening in a New Way: Contexts and Practices for Renewing Student and Teacher Engagement in First Year Composition.”  NCTE.  November 2008

• “Ideology and Black Masculinity: The Political Economy of the Down Low Discourse” and “Black Motherhood and Competing Nationalisms in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee.” (dis)Junctions: Twelfth Annual Humanities Conference. University of California – Riverside.  April 2005

• “Exploring, Discovering, Becoming: Beyond Multiculturalism and Diversity at the Historically Black College/University (HBCU): Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist, and Non-Phobic Pedagogies in the HBCU First-Year Writing Classroom.” NCTE. November 2005

• “Redefining the ‘Historically Black’ of the Historically Black College/University: Graduate Studies and the Culture Wars in the African American South.” MLA. December 2005

Publications

• “Digital Memory and Narrative through ‘African American Rhetorics 2.0’.” Review of Digital Griots: African America Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age by Adam Banks for Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. April 2012.

• “Carl Owens: Biographical Entry.”  African American National Biography, Oxford University Press. 2008

Awards & Honors

• Visiting Scholars Award. European Graduate School Summer Study. Saas Fee, Switzerland. 2011
• Graduate Student Scholarship. International Writing Center Association Summer Institute. Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. 2010
• Graduate Student Scholarship. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. State College, Pennsylvania. 2009
• Honorable Mention Award. Ford Predoctoral Fellowship. 2008
• Faculty Development Award. Universidad de Guadalajara. Guilford College. 2007
• Kenan Faculty Development Award. Guilford College. 2007
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, College of Arts and Sciences. North Carolina A&T State University. 2005
• Hewlett-Packard Scholars Award. North Carolina A&T State University. 2004
• Woodland Hall Graduate Assistantship Award. North Carolina A&T State University. 2003
• Best Overall Scholar Award, Ronald McNair Research-Writing Internship. UNC-Charlotte. 2000

Professional Appointments & Service

2011 – present

• Carolina Rhetoric Conference Funding Committee (2011-2012 RSA Graduate Student Special Event Award)
• Academic Integrity Committee, Graduate Student Government Senate
• Graduate Council

2010 – 2011

• Writing Center Faculty Ad Hoc Committee
• Writing Center Faculty Ad Hoc Furnishing Subcommittee
• Rhetoric Society of America, Chapter Coordinator
• Colloquium on The Body, Coordinating Chair

2009 – 2010

• Freshman Summer Reading Facilitator

2008 – 2009

• Carolina Rhetoric Conference Submission Review Committee

2006 – 2007

• Guilford Community AIDS Project, Grant Proposal Reviewer
• Guilford College Anti-Racism Team

2003 – 2004

• Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Chapter President
• Ronald McNair Research Program, Graduate Advisor

Courses Taken

Fall 2008

• Histories of Rhetorics
• Visual Rhetorics
• Rhetorics of Communication and Information Technology

Spring 2009

• Cultural Research Methods
• Empirical Research Methods
• Topias and the Rhetorics of Science Fiction

Fall 2009

• Perspectives in Information Design
• Critical Issues in Mechanical Reproduction
• Roland Barthes, Photography, and Cinema

Spring 2010

• Late Martin Heidegger
• Applied Research Communication Studio I
• Applied Research Communication Studio II

Organizational Memberships

• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• International Writing Center Association
• Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Rhetoric Society of America