CURRICULUM

VITAE

Janine Morris
Department of English and
Comparative Literature
University of Cincinnati,
PO Box 210069,
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221-0069

E-mail: morri2j8@mail.uc.edu
https://morrisjanine.wordpress.com/

EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Cincinnati, expected April 2016.
Committee: Laura Micciche (Chair), Russel Durst, Gary Weissman
Dissertation: Contexts of Digital Reading: How Genres Affect Reading Practices
Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2013.
Master of Arts, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor, 2010.
Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor, 2008.
Other Training
Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research, Dartmouth College, 2014.
College of Allied Health, Online Teaching Strategies course, University of Cincinnati, 2013.
Digital Media and Composition Institute, The Ohio State University, 2012.
TESL/TESOL Certification, Oxford Seminars, 2010.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Cincinnati, 2011-Present
Courses designed and taught:
English 101: Research Argument (FYC)
English 102: Research (FYC)
English 1000: Introduction to English Composition (FYC) (https://engl1000uc.wordpress.com)
English 1001: Research (FYC)
English 289: Advanced Composition
English 2989 and 2089: Advanced Composition (online)
English 2000: Digital Composition (http://digitalcomposinguc.wordpress.com)
English 2002: Women in Rhetoric (http://womeninrhetoric008.wordpress.com)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Windsor, 2009-2010
Courses taught:
English 100: Composition (FYC)
English 302: Writing the Arts

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Assistant to the Writing Program Administrator (2012-2013), University of Cincinnati
Assist with planning and facilitating graduate instructor orientation; act as a teaching mentor for
graduate students; participate and co-lead pedagogy workshops; serve on departmental
composition faculty meetings; co-edit the Student Guide.
EDITORIAL WORK
Editorial Assistant, 2013-Present
Composition Studies, national peer-reviewed journal
Proofread and copyedit articles to ensure they are error-free, written in clear and precise
language, and conform appropriately to the journals publication style.
Assist in maintaining journals web presence (on national listservs, Twitter, and Facebook) and
use CQ5 web software to upload past articles to the journals website.
Collaborate and communicate regularly with journal editor about the direction of future articles
and perform copyediting tasks under publication deadlines.
Editorial Review Board Member, 2012-Present
Queen City Writers, online journal for undergraduate writers (http://qc-writers.com/)
Read and copyedit articles under consideration for publication.
AWARDS
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Cincinnati McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, 2015
Awarded annually to one Doctoral and one Masters student per college.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
A Genre-Based Approach to Digital Reading. Pedagogy 16.1 (2016): forthcoming. Print.
e.plurbius plures: DMAC and its keywords. With Casey Boyle, Stephanie Vie, Laura Micciche,
Melanie Yergeau, Caroline Dadas, Christian Smith, and Lisa Blankenship. Computers and
Composition 36 (2015): 1-15. Print.
Writing New York: Using Google Maps as a Platform for Electronic Portfolios. With Dale Jacobs
and Hollie Adams. Composition Studies 38.2 (Fall 2010): 111-129. Print.
Reviews
Multimodal Literacies and Graphic Memoirs: Using Alison Bechdel in the Classroom. Composition
Studies 43.1 (2015): 193-200. Print.
Books under review: Are You My Mother? and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Keywords: Ecology. Community Literacy Journal 9.2 (Spring 2015): 85-91. Print.
D.26: (Re)Opening the Ditto Device: DIY Publishing as Crafting Agency. Kairos: 2014 the CCC
Review. Web. <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/praxis/tiki-index.php?page=CCCC2014_D26>
A.15: Composing Cultures and Copyright. Kairos: 2012 the CCCC Review. Web.
<http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/praxis/tiki-index.php?page=CCCC_2012>
In-House publications
Student Guide for English Composition 1001, With Hannah J. Rule, Michelle Holley, and Carla Sarr.
Plymouth: Hayden-McNeill, 2014. Print.
Whitepaper
A Report on the 2012-13 Composition and Rhetoric Category of the MLA Job Information List. With
Christina LaVecchia, Carla Sarr, and Jim Ridolfo. Rhetmap: Mapping Rhetoric and
Composition. September, 2013. Web. <http://rhetmap.org/reports/a-report-on-the-2012-13-cr%20category-of-the-mla-jil/>
Works in Progress
Imagining Literacy: Quantitative and Qualitative Pictures of Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
(with Kelly Blewett and Hannah Rule) to be submitted to College English Association (CEA)
Critic November 1, 2015.
Pinterest Invention in the Writing Classroom to be submitted to Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric,
Technology, and Pedagogy, January 2016.
Looking Back to See Ahead: (Re-)Considering Collaboration and Digital Scholarship to be submitted
to Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and
Composition, April 2016.
I just read, man: Promoting Critical Reading in the Writing Classroom to be submitted to
Composition Forum, July 2016.
INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Writing Desire in Hannah Arendt: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Biography. The Association for
Psychoanalytic Thought: Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. Cincinnati, OH, February 2014.
Guest speaker, Professionalization, Introduction to Graduate Studies, UC, 2013-2015.
Guest speaker, Undertaking a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, ENGL500: Introduction to Rhetoric
and Writing, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH, 2014.
Facilitator, Plagiarism workshop, Gen-1 Theme House, UC, 2012-2013.
Co-facilitator and co-organizer, Teaching Intermediate Composition workshop for new instructors,
UC, 2013.
Planned and led graduate professionalization workshops focused on preparing for qualifying exams;
applying for funding; finding and applying to conferences, English Graduate Organization, UC,
2012-2014.

PRESENTATIONS
Reclaiming Composition and Rhetoric: Andrea Lunsfords Feminist Historicizations. CCCC,
Houston, TX, 2016.
Collaborative Makings Now and Then: Lunsford and Ede, Collaboration, and Digital Partnerships.
Feminisms and Rhetorics, Tempe, AZ, October 2015.
Facing the Unimaginable: Understanding Student Digital Reading Practices. College English
Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, March 2015.
A Genre-Based Approach to Digital Reading. CCCC, Indianapolis, IN, March 2014.
Linking Feminisms: Exploring Blogger Communities Inside and Outside Academia. Feminisms and
Rhetorics. Stanford, CA, September, 2013.
Technology and the Instructor: Private Use and Public Concern for Copyright. CCCC, Las Vegas,
NV, March 2013.
Crawling Through the Web: Using Social Networks as Sites for Research. RNF Workshop
Presentation, CCCC, Las Vegas, NV, March 2013.
Teaching Copyright and Fair Use: Implications for Writing Instructors. University of Cincinnati
English Graduate Organizations Works in Progress Conference, Cincinnati, OH, May 2012.
Where I Write Me: Assessing the Potentials of Blogging and Voice. RNF Workshop Presentation,
CCCC, St. Louis, MO, March 2012.
The Spectacle of Lady Gagas Gender Performance. Mid Atlantic Popular/American Culture
Association Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA, October 2010.
Its Bigger than Coffee: Starbucks Mediation of Consumer Identity. Midwest Popular Culture
Association and Midwest American Culture Association, Minneapolis, MN, October 2010.
Isolating the Body: Confronting Idealized Representations of Corporeality in Literature. Conference
for the Society of Disability Studies, Philadelphia, PA, June 2010.
Tools Beyond the Text: Supplementing the Syllabus to Achieve Student Engagement. Oakland
University Teaching and Learning Conference, Oakland, MI, May 2010.
Visual Violence, Bodies as Depositories, and Performative Metaphors in the Plays of Adrienne
Kennedy. McGill Graduate Group for Feminist Scholarships Conference, Performing
Feminism(s): Gender and Sexuality on Display, Montreal, Quebec, May 2010.
Encouraging Interaction: Collaboration in the Classroom. Presentation for the Centre for Research in
Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, April 2010.
Google Maps Identity Search: Identity and Self-Construction. University of Cincinnati English
Graduate Organization Conference on Composing Ourselves, Cincinnati, OH, April 2010.
Feeding an Image: Identity Formation and the Experience of Consumption. Humanities Research
Group Graduate Colloquium on the Exigencies of Experience, Windsor, Ontario, April 2010.
Remixing Google Maps as Portfolios: The Cartography Mix. CCCC, Louisville, KY, March 2010.
Collaboration, Community, and Confidence? Examining the Benefit of Graduate Student Societies.
Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Lansing, MI, October 2009.
Encouraging Interaction: Collaboration and Gender in the Classroom. University of Windsors
Feminist Research Group Conference, Windsor, Ontario, May 2009.
GRANTS AND SUPPORT
Graduate Enrichment Award, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, 2012
($2,400), 2014 ($1,375), and 2015 ($645).

Graduate Student Governance Association Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship ($2,000), University of

Cincinnati, 2014-2015.
Graduate Summer Fellowship, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, 2013
($3,000) and 2014 ($3,000).
University Research Council Graduate Student Research Fellowship ($3,000), Office of Research,
University of Cincinnati, 2014.
Pat Belanoff Summer Research Fellowship ($1,000), University of Cincinnati, 2013 (awarded annually
to one graduate student in the English department).
Bedford/St. Martins scholarship for Digital Media and Composition Institute ($500), The Ohio State
University, 2012.
Graduate Student Fellowship ($1,500), Centre for Research in Reasoning Argumentation and Rhetoric,
University of Windsor, Fall 2009, Winter 2010.
SERVICE
National Service
CCCC Taskforce on Developing a Database of Writing Programs, April 2014-Present.
University
UC Libraries Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Initiative Group, 2014-Present.
IT Governance, E-Learning Committee, 2013-2014.
Graduate Student Governance Association, English Department Representative, 2012-2014.
Graduate Student Governance Association Research Award Review Committee, 2012-2014.
Department
Composition Advisory Committee, 2012-2014.
English Graduate Organization (EGO), Secretary (2012-2013), Vice President (2013-2014). Recipient of
the University-wide best Graduate Organization Award (2013-2014).
Conference Co-chair, Being Undisciplined: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, April
2013.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 2014-Present
National Council of Teachers of English, 2009-Present
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2009-Present