Chris Mays

Department of English Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 617904240 cmmays@ilstu.edu

Education
PhD in English Studies, May 2014 Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Dissertation: Building Complexity, One Stability at a Time: Rethinking Stubbornness in Public Rhetorics and Writing Studies. Julie Jung (Director) Committee: J. Scott Jordan, Patricia Roberts-Miller, Amy E. Robillard, and Kirstin Hotelling Zona MA in English, May 2008 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Thesis: The Failure to Meet The Challenge of Our Time: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Demise of Bill Clintons Plan For National Health Care. Kimberly Emmons (Director) BA in English, January 2000 University of Illinois at Chicago

Honors and Awards

Winner, Best Graduate Paper Ancient Origins, Modern Applications: (Re)Incorporating Isocratean Pedagogical Thought Federation Rhetoric Symposium, February 2010 Recipient, Award of Distinction on All Comprehensive Exams Pedagogy, Specialization, and English Studies Exams, May 2011May 2012 Nominee, Taimi Ranta Award for Outstanding Teaching by a PhD Candidate Illinois State University English Department, 2013 and 2014 Selected Graduate Student Representative, Bedford Publishing Consultant Panel (Served as Reviewer for The Bedford Book of Genres, by Amy Braziller and Elizabeth Kleinfeld) Illinois State University, June 2010

Travel Grant Recipient, Illinois State University English Department 2014: for the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, San Antonio, TX 2013: for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV 2012: for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO 2011: for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA 2010: for the Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Denton, TX

Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications
Priming Terministic Inquiry: Toward a Methodology of Neurorhetoric (co-authored with Julie Jung). Rhetoric Review 31.1 (2012): 4159.

Publications Under Review

From Flows to Excess: Rethinking Stubbornness through a Rhetoric-Systems Approach. (under review at Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture) The Resistance to Flexibility in Authorship Discourse: Boundaries, Systems, and David Sedaris. (under review at Rhetoric Review) Writing Complexity, One Stability at a Time. (under review at College Composition and Communication

Invited Response Essay

Whos Driving this Thing, Anyway?: Emotion and Language in Rhetoric and Neuroscience. JAC: A Journal of Cultural Theory (forthcoming).

Book Review
Review of The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain. Ed. Melissa Littlefield and Jenell Johnson. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 2013. 268 pages. (review forthcoming in IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning).

Internal Publication
JAC Training Manuel for Editorial Assistants (co-authored with Moria Torrington). August 19, 2013.

Conference Presentations
National
The Ninth Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society: Attitudes Toward Technology/Technology's Attitudes. St. Louis, MO, July 1720, 2014 He Has Always Been More than Modern: Burkean Rhetoric as Posthumanist Inquiry. 2|Page

Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (Preconference for the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America Conference): Science and Social Justice. San Antonio, TX, May 22, 2014 Rethinking Minds, Bodies, and Language: Relational Causality and/in Rhetoric Studies. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. San Antonio, TX, May 2226, 2014 Rhetoric, Systems Theory, and the Im/possibility of Common Writing Standards. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV, March 1317, 2013 Reasserting Rhetoric: Theoreticall y, Pedagogically. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA, May 2427, 2012 Setting the Terms of Debate, Dynamically: The Convergence of Public Argumentation and Complex Systems Theory. Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO, March 1721, 2012 Rhetoric as/in a Complex System. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA, April 69, 2011 Metaphors We Live (Dangerously) By: Why Appropriating Lakoff and Johnson Isnt That Simple. Federation Rhetoric Symposium. Denton, TX, February 1114, 2010 Ancient Origins, Modern Applications: (Re)Incorporating Isocratean Pedagogical Thought.

Regional
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Cleveland, OH, November 1013, 2007 An Organic Solution to A Foolish Form of Government: Fascist Themes in The Plumed Serpent.

Local
Illinois State CTLT Annual University-Wide Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Normal, IL, January 5, 2011 Passion as a Barrier to the Invention of Alternative Teaching Narratives.

Other Presentations
Co-Presenter, Illinois State Graduate Writing Program Bi-Annual Symposium. August 2012 CHAT [Cultural-Historical Activity Theory] and Genre Studies: More than Just a Map (co-presented with Kellie Sharp-Hoskins). Illinois State English Graduate Forum on the IRB [Institutional Review Board]: Preparation for Projects Involving Human Subjects. March 2012 Adapting Your Teaching Internship Project for an IRB Application.

Co-Presenter, English 384: Theory for Sustainable Cultures. October 2011 Notes toward an Infinite Other; or, Levinas Enmeshed (presented with Julie Jung). 3|Page

Invited Speaker, English 495: Cultural Studies in Technical Communication. March 2011 Imag(in)ing the Brain: Representations of Our Most Elusive Organ. Co-Presenter, Illinois State English Department Faculty Lecture Series. November 2010 Priming Terministic Inquiry: Toward a Neurorhetorical Theory and Methodology (presented with Julie Jung).

Service
Department
Editorial Assistant: August 2010present JAC: A Journal of Cultural Theory Course and Curriculum Development Assistant: Spring 2013 ENG 483: Studies in Cultural Rhetorics Course title, description, and curriculum template adopted by Illinois State English Department and ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fall 2013 Co-Founder and Co-President: Fall 2010Fall 2012 Rhetoric Society of Illinois State University (student chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America) Volunteer Panel Member: February 2011 Illinois State Writing Program Forum: Genre Studies Q&A Series Elected Graduate Student Representative: Fall 2009Spring 2010 Illinois State Writing Program Committee Research Assistant: Summer 2009 University of Texas Rhetoric and Writing Assessment Project

University
Professional Development Skill Course Attendee: September 23, 2013 Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 6 [Web Design Technology], Advanced Level. Illinois State University Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Professional Development Skill Course Attendee: September 16, 2013 Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 6 [Web Design Technology], Introductory Level. Illinois State University Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Participant and Co-Developer: Summer 2012 Interdisciplinary Summer Reading Group: Systems Theory and Sustainability. Illinois State University Departments of English and Psychology Teaching Methods Workshop Attendee: July 2011 Smarter Teaching for How Students Learn. Illinois State University Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology 4|Page

Invited Regional Conference Attendee: June 2010 Getting Ahead in Cognitive Science: The Forward-Looking Nature of Perception, Action, and Cognition. Institute for Prospective Cognition, Illinois State University Psychology Department

Profession
National Conference Workshop Participant: March 2012 Feminist Mentoring Workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication Manuscript Reviewer: June 2010 The Bedford Book of Genres, by Amy Braziller and Elizabeth Kleinfeld Bedford-St. Martins (published in 2014) Editorial Board Member and Web Editor: Fall 2008Spring 2009 Praxis: A Writing Center Journal

Professional Memberships
Rhetoric Society of America Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology National Council of Teachers of English

Teaching and Tutoring

Instructor
Illinois State University: Fall 2009Fall 2013 Rhetorical Theory and Applications (ENG 283): Three times Advanced Composition (ENG 246): Three times Course Title: Rhetoric and Professional Writing (Twice) Course Title: Theorizing Rhetorical Invention in Mass Media (Once) Texts and Contexts (interdisciplinary course) (IDS 121.19): Three times Course Title: Persuasion, Propaganda, and the Rhetoric of American Social Policy Composition for ISU Presidential Scholars (ENG 145.12) Writing in the Academic Disciplines (ENG 145) Composition as Critical Inquiry (ENG 101)

University of Texas at Austin: Fall 2008Spring 2009 Rhetoric and Writing (RHE 306) Case Western Reserve University: Fall 2007Spring 2008 Introductory Composition (ENG 150) Course Title: Persuasion, Argument, and Worldview

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Academic Writing Studio (ENG 183)

Writing Center Experience

Writing Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center: Fall 2008Spring 2009 University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Tutor, The Writing Center: Fall 2006Spring 2008 Case Western Reserve University Writing Lab Tutor: Fall 2005Spring 2006 Clackamas Community College

Relevant Doctoral Coursework

ENG 500: The Biology of Persuasion: Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Rhetorical Theory (Independent Study) Dr. Julie Jung ENG 500: Obstacles to Rhetorical Invention in Public Argumentation (Independent Study via Skype) Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller (The University of Texas at Austin) ENG 483: Rhetoric, Systems, Agency Dr. Julie Jung ENG 350: Visible Rhetoric Dr. Angela Haas ENG 495: Contested Authorship Dr. Amy E. Robillard ENG 495: Studies in Ecocriticism, Ecological Theory, and Environmental Justice Dr. Kirstin Hotelling Zona ENG 483: Tropological Analysis (Seminar in Rhetoric and Style) Dr. Julie Jung ENG 590: Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition Dr. Bob Broad ENG 540: Seminar in Linguistics and Language Dr. K. Aaron Smith ENG 510: Seminar in English Studies Pedagogy Dr. Sarah Hochstetler ENG 342: Sociolinguistics Dr. K. Aaron Smith 6|Page

E 387: Greatest Hits in Composition Studies (taken at The University of Texas at Austin) Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller E 387R: Classical Rhetoric (taken at The University of Texas at Austin) Dr. Jeffrey Walker E 387M: Visual Rhetoric (taken at The University of Texas at Austin) Dr. Lester Faigley E 387M: Rhetorical Theory and Ethics (taken at The University of Texas at Austin) Dr. Diane Davis CMS 390P: Contemporary Rhetoric (taken at The University of Texas at Austin) Dr. Richard Cherwitz

References
Dr. Julie Jung Associate Professor, English Illinois State University, Normal, IL jmjung@ilstu.edu Dr. Angela Haas Assistant Professor, English Illinois State University, Normal, IL ahaas@ilstu.edu Dr. Patricia Roberts-Miller Professor, English University of Texas, Austin, TX redball@mindspring.com Dr. J. Scott Jordan Professor and Chair, Psychology Illinois State University, Normal, IL jsjorda@ilstu.edu Dr. Kirstin Hotelling Zona Associate Professor, English Illinois State University, Normal, IL krhotel@ilstu.edu Dr. Amy E. Robillard Associate Professor, English Illinois State University, Normal, IL aerobil@ilstu.edu

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