Curriculum Vitae
Ocotober2018LauraAnne Carroll-Adler
Professional Interests:Rhetoric and Composition Theory and Practice
Thresholds: Intersections between Literature and
Rhetoric.
Digital Media/Web 2.0 and Discourse Studies
Rhetoric and Gender Studies
Conference Presentations
College Composition and Communication (4Cs)
“The Digital Activists Are Coming: Social Media and the Rhetoric of Public Discourse after Ferguson” (Houston, TX. April 2016)
“Teaching through Footnotes: Paratextual Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom” (Louisville, KY. March 2010)
“Still Leading Them to Water: Writing Centers, Tutorial Courses, and Student Outcomes.” (San Francisco, CA. March 2009)
“Fashioning a Scholar Online” for the panel “Forging a Scholarly and Professional Identity Online: Blogging as Discovery and Externalization of Self.” (New York, NY. March 2007)
Computers & Writing Conference
“Race, Writing, and Web.20: Introducing Students to Online Discussion” (Menemonie, WI May 2015)
“Writing About Computers--Searching for Questions” (Frostburg, MD. June 2013)
International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
“The Craft of Process Reporting: Writing and Guided Self-Reflection” (Minneapolis, MN. June 2014)
“Enlarging the Future: Studying the Art of Apology in the Multi-Disciplinary Composition Class” (Savannah, GA June 2012)
College English Association
“An Art, a Craft, or Betwixt and Between?: Using the Divide between Rhetoric and Literature in Composition Class” (Baltimore, MD. March 2014)
“Ne’er so Well Expressed: Wit and Wisdom, Comedy and Composition” (Savannah, GA. April 2013)
“Understanding Paratext: Moderating the Author/Reader Boundary in the Composition Class” (Richmond, VA March 2012)
“Discovering Rhetoric through Relics: Museum Design in the Writing Class” (St. Petersburg, FL March 2011)
Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference
“Putting Culture in its Place.” (Phoenix, AZ. October 2011)
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Conference
“Adorning Beauty: Sir Philip Sidney's Portrait Tournament in The New Arcadia” (Honolulu, HI November 2017)
“Static Virtue or Active Drama: Portraying Exemplary Women in the Early Modern Era.” (Portland, OR November 2015)
“The Princess and the Parable: Disney Stages a Morality Play in The Big Easy.” (Riverside, CA October 2014)
Published Reviews
Book Reviews:
Memes in Digital Culture (2016) by LimorShifman inTechnoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society
Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web (2015) ed. Martha McCaugheyinComputers and Writing Online
Conference Reviews
Computers and Writing Conference (2015) in Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
CCCC (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017) in Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Professional Activities
Social Media—Creator and Administrator, Southern California Rhetoric and Composition Working Group Page, Facebook. Curation of items of pedagogical and theoretical interest to instructors in the field.
Reviewer, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2018
Proposal Review/Stage I Reviewer for CCCC,2015.
Judge, Norman Mailer Writing Award for Middle School and High School Teachers, 2014-16
Judge, History Day L.A., Individual Papers and Group Websites, 1997-2014
Editorial Board, The Writing Instructor, 1993-96.
Screened submissions for publication for graduate student journal. Participated in board meetings on planning and designing issues for the journal.
Selected and edited articles and wrote introductory “Letter” for two issues:
Searching for Literacy
Who Reads This Stuff, Anyway?: Audience and Composition Instruction
Service, Professional Organizations
Conference Panel Moderator/Chair
- PAMLA, Nov. 2016—Presiding Officer. “Drinking from the River Mnemosyne: Memoir, Truth, Rhetoric”
- CCCC, March 2015, for panels on “The Networked Rhetorical Situation” and “Rethinking Basic Writing”
- IWAC, June 2014, for panel on “Theorizing WAC Contexts”
- CCCC, March 2014, for panels on “CopyCats: Open-Source Approaches to Plagiarism” and “Openings in Approaches to Teaching Writing with Technology”
- CCCC, March 2013, for panel on “Sustainability, Food Justice, and Biocentric Rhetoric”
- IWAC, June 2012, for panel on “Creating Effective Writers: How Writing Fellows can Support Transfer Students.”
- CCCC, April 2008, for panel on “Negotiating Teacher Preparation and Teaching Identities.”
Welcoming Committee Volunteer, CCCC 2015, 2016, 2017
Social Media Correspondent, CCCC 2014.
Contributor, “Practical Poet,” for The Writing Instructor Memorial Issue for Prof. Ross Winterowd, Dec 2011.
Teaching Experience:
Mentoring:
Instructor, Writing 501, for new Teaching Assistants
Course Coordinator for Writing 140
Position:
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing, University of Southern California 2017--
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing, University of Southern California 2010-17
Lecturer, Writing Program, University of Southern California2005-2010
Part-Time Lecturer, Writing ProgramUniversity of Southern California2000-2005
Associate Adjunct Professor of English, College of the Canyons, 2002-2007
Assistant Lecturer, Writing Program, University of Southern California1992-2000
Teaching Assistant, English Department, UCLA1985-1987
Course Level:
Graduate
Writing 501, USC: Theory and Practice in Teaching Expository Writing.
Advanced/Upper Division:
Writing 340, USC: Advanced Writing. Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Concentration
Intermediate Composition/Literature
English 4, UCLA
English 102, College of the Canyons
Writing 102, 112; USC
First-Year Composition:
Writing 150, USC
Writing 130/140, USC
English 3, UCLA
English 101, College of the Canyons
Developmental Composition/Reading:
Summer Bridge Program, USC
Writing 120, 121 USC
English B, UCLA
English 90 College of the Canyons
University/Writing Program Service:
Faculty Mentor, 2014-2015
Undergraduate Writing Conference, Judge, Moderator, Professional Writing, Spring 2014, Spring 2017
Undergraduate Writing Conference, Judge, Creative Writing, Spring 2011
Undergraduate Writing Conference, Moderator, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2016
Facilitator, Mid-semester evaluations for incoming Assistant Lecturers, Fall 2009.
Reader, Writing Program Critical Reasoning Studies, 2005-2006, 2009-2010.
Meeting with SAAS tutors to discuss 095 students, Spring 2008
Committee Work
- Professional Workshops Committee, co-chair, 2017, 2018
- Website Committee, 2016-17
- Faculty Development Committee, 2016-17
- Merit Review Committee, Fall 2008, Fall 2015, Fall 2018
- Personnel Committee, 2012-2013.
- Publications Committee, Spring 2011
- Professional Development Committee, Spring 2011
- Served on Committee to develop a summer program for at-risk students in writing and reading to prepare at-risk students for college level work—Fall 2005
- Faculty Advisory Committee, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
Education:
Ph.D., English, University of Southern California, 2000
Fields of concentration: Renaissance, Rhetoric and Composition, Gender Studies.
M.A., English, UCLA, 1987
B.A., English, UCLA, 1982
Professional Development Courses and Programs Attended
Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California
- “Using Writing to Assess Critical Reasoning,” Jan. 2011.
- “Creating Assignments that Matter,” March 2011.
- “Active Learning,” Sept. 2012.
- “Going Old School: Using the Chalkboard Effectively for Teaching and Learning,” Feb. 2013.
- “CET-CST Joint Event - Leveraging the Web: Social Media for Students and Scholars,” Feb 2014.
USC Center for Scholarly Technology
Annual Teaching with Technology Conferences, May 2011, May 2012, May 2014.
California State University, Long Beach, English Department
The Role of Rhetoric and Social (and other) Media in 21st Century Universities. Workshop presented by Prof. Andrea Lunsford and Norton Publishers. October 2012
Institute of Teaching and Learning, College of the Canyons.
Education 088 and 090--Weekend and online courses covering the basics of technology use in the classroom (EDU 088) and online teaching strategies (EDU 090).