Curriculum Vitae

Lisa Blankenship

Assistant Professor, Writing Program Director

Department of English, Baruch College, CUNY
Box B7/240 New York, NY 10010
lisa.blankenship@baruch.cuny.edu
Website: lisagblankenship.org

education Miami University, Ph.D. Composition and Rhetoric: August 2013

Dissertation: Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
Honorable Mention, 2014 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding
Dissertation Award
Committee: Kate Ronald (Chair), LuMing Mao, Cindy Lewiecki-Wilson,
Heidi McKee, David Cowan

University of Oklahoma, M.A. English: May 2008

Committee: Catherine Hobbs (Chair), Susan Kates, Chris Carter

University of Oklahoma, B.A. English: December 1995

publications Books

Forthcoming 2018: Banaji, Paige, Lisa Blankenship, Katherine DeLuca,

Lauren Obermark, and Ryan Omizo, Eds. The Rhetoric of Participation:
Interrogating Commonplaces in and Beyond the Classroom. Computers
and Composition Digital Press / Utah State University Press.

In progress: Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy.

Monograph exploring empathy as a rhetorical concept and a way for writers and
rhetors to engage across marked social differences in an era of polarization.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Boyle, Casey, Stephanie Vie, Laura Micciche, Melanie Yergeau, Janine Morris,
Caroline Dadas, Christian Smith, and Lisa Blankenship. E. Pluribus Plures:
DMAC and its Keywords. Computers and Composition (36) 2015: 1-15.

Blankenship, Lisa. Rhetorical Empathy in Dustin Lance Blacks 8: A Play on

(Marriage) Words. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 3.1 (Spring
2013).

Forthcoming: Blankenship, Lisa. From U.S. Progressive Era Speeches to Trans-

national Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addamss Labor
Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandess #EuEmpregadaDomstica (I, Housemaid). In
Feminist Connections: Rhetorical Strategies from the Suffragists to the Cyber-
feminists. Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette, Eds.
(9/17)
 teaching ENG 3960, Special Topics in Language: Digital Storytelling (Fall 2017)
Website: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/eng3960fall17/

ENG 2150, Writing II, Hybrid (Spring 2016)

Website: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/eng2150sp16kta/
Theme: Sources of Persuasion

ENG 7900, Seminar in the Teaching of Writing, Graduate (Fall 2015)

Website: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/baruchteachingpracticum2015/

ENG 2100, Writing I (Fall 2015)

Website: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/eng2100f15strb/
Theme: Race, Language, and Identity

ENG 2150, Writing II Honors, (Spring 2015)

Website: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blankenshipeng2150sp2015/
Theme: Sources of Persuasion

ENG 79000, Seminar in the Teaching of Writing, Graduate, (Fall 2014)

Website: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/baruchteachingpracticum2014/

ENG 2100, Writing I (Fall 2014)

Website: http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/eng2100fall14blankenship/
Theme: Rhetorical Strategies for Writers

administration/ National
service
Stage I Reviewer: Conference on College Composition and Communication
May 2017

External Reviewer: Amodern Journal, March 2017 - Present

Editorial Review Board: Journal of Basic Writing, January 2016 - Present

Editorial Review Board, PraxisWiki: Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology,

and Pedagogy, January 2015 - Present

External Reviewer: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

External Reviewer: Composition Forum

City University of New York

CUNY Writing Discipline Council Representative, August 2015 - Present

Baruch College, CUNY

Writing Program Director, August 2014 - Present

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 Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Co-Coordinator, January 2016 - Present

Retention and Student Success Cross Border Team, January 2016 - Present

Faculty Advisor, Refract Magazine, Dept. of English, September 2014 - Present

Member, Search Committee for Tenure Track Hire in Rhetoric, Composition,

and Second Language Writing, September 2015 - March 2016

Member, Search Committee for Lecturer Hire in TOESL and Writing Studies,
September 2016 - March 2017

Strategic Plan Ad Hoc Committee, Dept. of English, Fall 2014

refereed Constructing Ecologies: Faculty Development Beyond the English Department

presentations in an Age of Austerity, Conference on Writing Program Administration,
Nashville, Tennessee, July 22, 2017

Pushing Prosperity in the Face of Financial Austerity: Curriculum and Program

Revision Without Money, Conference on Writing Program Administration,
Nashville, Tennessee, July 21, 2017

An Accelerated Learning Program Model for ESL Writers

With Brooke Schreiber, CUNY CUE Conference
Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York, May 4, 2017

Narrative Argument and the Politics of Empathy. Conference on College

Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, March 2017

Rhetorical Empathy and Humans of New York

Rhetoric Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2016

Gender and (Anti)Social Media. Modern Language Association

Austin, Texas, January 2016

Changing the Subject: Rhetorical Empathy as a Pragmatic Practice

Conference on College Composition and Communication
Tampa, FL March 2015

The Real @Oxford Asians: Rhetorical Empathy and Social Media(tion)

With Kate Ronald, Ann Updike, Abby Dubisar, and Caroline Dadas
Writing Research Across Borders III International Conference
Paris, France , February 2014

Ethical Imperatives: Rhetorical Empathy and Constructions of Race

Conference on College Composition and Communication
Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2013

Changing the Subject: Rhetorical Empathy in Gay Rights and

Fundamentalist Discourse, Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2012
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 refereed Empathy in the Margins: Negotiating Difference in Public Discourse
presentations Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference Minnesota State University
October 2011

Rhetorical Empathy as a Queer Methodology

Conference on College Composition and Communication
Atlanta, Georgia, April 2011

Inventing and Deconstructing the Disciplines: Ethos as Identity in the

Business Writing Classroom
Miami English Graduate Student and Adjunct Association Annual
Conference Miami University, March 2011

Implanted in Business: A Writing Center Grafted to a Discipline

With Kate Ronald, Ann Updike, Abby Dubisar, and Caroline Dadas
European Writing Center Association International Conference
Paris, France, May 2010

Rethinking Polarized Discourse in Californias Proposition 8 Campaign

Conference on College Composition and Communication
Louisville, Kentucky, March 2010

Contradicting Terms: Rhetorics of Queer and Christian Identity in the

Composition Classroom. Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
Michigan State University, October 2009

Rogerian Rhetoric: Common Ground in a Pluralistic Culture

Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, California, March 2009

A More Perfect Union: Barack Obamas Rhetoric of Empathy

Race, Class and Gender Symposium, Miami University
Oxford, Ohio, February 2009

Web Design in Composition Classrooms

The New Work of Composing / Thomas R. Watson Conference
University of Louisville, October 2008

Subversive Faith: Lucretia Mott and the Religious Origins of

Early Feminist Rhetoric
Conference on College Composition and Communication
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008

The Declaration of Independence Revisited: Nationalism and Gender in the

Nineteenth Century U.S. Womens Movement
Textual Nationalism(s) Conference,
University of Oklahoma , October 2007

Teaching Audience Through Collaborative Web Design

with Genevieve Critel
Conference on College Composition and Communication
New York, New York, March 2007
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 invited presentations Invited Talk, Using Writing to Learn in Course Design
& workshops Annual Teach@CUNY Day CUNY Graduate Center, May 2, 2016

Workshop Facilitator, Incorporating Toulmin and Rhetoric in

First-Year Writing
First-Year Writing Workshop Series Baruch College, February 25, 2016

Workshop Facilitator, Responding to and Assessing Student Writing

First-Year Writing Workshop Series Baruch College, March 24, 2016

Invited Talk, Digital Media in First-Year Writing

CompComm (Composition Community) CUNY Graduate Center
March 7, 2016

Peer-Reviewed Participant, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute

Kenneth Burke and the War of Words
University of Wisconsin-Madison June 1-5, 2015

Presentation Leader, Using Low-Stakes Writing in Hybrid Courses.

Campus-Wide Hybrid Instruction Seminar Baruch College, March 2015

Workshop Facilitator, with Cheryl Smith and Stephanie Hershinow

Reflective Writers Letters as a Metacognitive Practice
First-Year Writing Workshop Series Baruch College, February 2015

Workshop Co-Leader, with Kate Ronald and Jason Palmeri

Faculty Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop (3 days)
Miami University, May 2013 & 2014

honors & grants Friend of SEEK Award, Baruch College, CUNY, May 2017

Honorable Mention, James Berlin Memorial Outstanding

Dissertation Award, March 2014 (National Award from the Conference
on College Composition and Communication)

College of Arts and Science Graduate Student Teaching Award

Miami University, April 2013

Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship

Miami University, Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Department of English Travel Grant, Miami University, May 2010

European Writing Center Association International Conference, Paris, France