CURRICULUM VITAE
Robin Redmon Wright, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio Home Phone: (210) 404-9257
College of Education and Human Development Work Phone: (210) 458-5640
Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching E-mail:
One UTSA Circle Fax: (210) 458-7281
San Antonio, Texas 78249 Cell: (936)232-8457
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Present Rank: Assistant Professor
Co-Coordinator of the Adult Learning & Teaching Graduate Program
Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Degrees and Certifications: Ph.D., 2007, Texas A&M University
Educational Human Resource Development,
Adult Education Specialization
Developmental Education Specialist Certification, 2001,
Appalachian State University, Kellogg Institute for the Training Certification of Developmental Educators
M.A., 1995, University of Tennessee
English Literature
B.A., 1993, University of Tennessee
English Literature
SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas
August 2007—Present Assistant Professor of Adult Learning and Teaching
Co-Director, Graduate Program in Adult Learning and Teaching
· Currently advise over 40 graduate students
· Program Design & Development
· Student Recruitment
· Curriculum and Course Design
A colleague and I were hired in 2007 to design and implement an M.A. in Adult Learning and Teaching. — We were fully accredited in spring, 2008. And, as of fall 2009, we are also responsible for a new Ph.D. concentration in Adult Learning and Teaching.
Member of Graduate Faculty; Design and Teach Master’s and Doctoral Classes including but not limited to:
· ALT 6203: The Student, Community, and Instructor in Adult Learning and Teaching (this is primarily a critical theory course)
· ALT 6603: Foundations and Contexts of Adult Education and Human Resource Development
· ALT 6623: Multicultural Issues, Diversity and Social Action in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
· ALT 6623: Assessment and Evaluation of Adult Education and Human Resource Development
· ALT 6103: Consumerism and Consumption in Adult Learning and Teaching
· ALT 6003: Popular Culture and Informal Learning in Adult Learning and Teaching
· ALT 6943: Internship in Adult Learning & Teaching
· ALT 6063: Research Topics in Adult Learning and Teaching
· ILT 7153: Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in Sociocultural Contexts
· Thesis Committee chair: Joseph Senesi (May, 2009 graduate)
· Thesis Committee: George Midla (December, 2008 graduate)
Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas
1999—2007 Director of the Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC)
· Directed the AARC, a multi-discipline learning assistance center employing four professional staff, one classified staff member, as well as over one hundred student tutors. The AARC facilitated 42,000 contact (tutoring) hours during the 06-07 academic year. I oversaw a budget in excess of $600,000 per year.
· Received the 2006 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s STAR AWARD, for the AARC’s successful implementation of the Closing the Gaps in Education initiative.
· Initiated and supervised a variety of student outcomes assessments such as 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year retention/grade studies, 4-year, 5-year, and 6-year graduation rates (AARC clients versus non-clients), student satisfaction surveys, paired t-tests, and numerous other statistical assessments in order to monitor client progress, tutor performance, and program effectiveness.
· Helped design and implement tutor training in four Master Level College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) Certified tutor training programs. Created and provided a variety of teaching / training workshops.
· Facilitated AARC’s certification at the distinguished level by the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE). AARC is the first, and only, tutoring program in the country to be certified at this level.
· Edited, wrote articles for, and published an 8-page, 4-color, bi-yearly AARC newsletter, The Beacon.
· Worked with the numerous offices and faculty across campus to promote AARC’s services and programs, coordinate efforts to improve student success, and increase retention.
· Conducted training workshops with both faculty and students.
Additional employment:
· Taught Composition and Rhetoric I and II for the SFA English Department.
· Taught SFA 101, a first year experience course for incoming freshmen.
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee
July 1998--Jan. 1999 Coordinator of Academic Programs for UT Athletics
· Sought out, interviewed, hired, trained, and supervised over seventy tutors from across the disciplines.
· Developed and put in place a tutor training program for both peer and para-professional tutors.
· Prepared detailed reports that summarized and evaluated all tutorial activities.
· Developed relationships with administrators and faculty in departments in all colleges in order to assess their requirements and seek tutors that could meet the approval of those administrators and faculty. Spoke to faculty groups to explain our tutoring program.
· Acted as Writing Center Coordinator, supervising a staff of English Department para-professionals in a fully staffed and equipped Writing Center. Those duties are listed below.
· Acted as advisor to student-athletes.
Aug. 1995--Jan. 1999 Writing Center Coordinator for UT Athletics
· Created a branch of the University’s Writing Center for the Department of Athletics to work with approximately 400 student-athletes.
· Supervised, scheduled, and trained Writing Center tutors.
· Acted as liaison between the Athletics Department and the English Department to implement the English Writing Labs for which students received one semester hour of college credit.
· Prepared regular reports on Writing Center activities and student-athletes’ compliance with requirements for the writing labs, English 103 and 104, for which I assigned a P/F grade.
· Wrote a regular column, “The Write Place,” for the departmental newsletter “Big Orange Slices.”
· Wrote a column for the English Department newsletter that addressed issues involving student-athletes and composition courses.
· Tutored student-athletes in writing across disciplines.
· Administered and diagnosed writing and reading proficiency tests given to incoming students.
1994--1998 Instructor, English Department
· Taught up to four English courses per semester including Rhetoric and Composition I and II, American Literature, British Literature, and Introduction to Creative Writing.
· Received the department’s Excellence in Teaching Award in the Instructor/Assistant Professor category in 1998.
· Consistently received high student and peer evaluations.
· Taught 1st Year Studies, a course designed to teach first year students how to navigate the college system, how to develop good study habits, how to take exams, how to manage their time, and so on. These duties included advising all undeclared students in the class until they declared a major.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
2006: Graduate Student Research Award, Adult Education Research Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
2006: Spotlight Researcher, 2006 Bright Ideas Conference for Excellence in Research, Scholarship & Artistry, Stephen F. Austin State University.
2003: College Reading and Learning Association’s (CRLA) Professional Development Scholarship.
2003: TxCRLA Ann Faulkner Professional Development Award.
2002-2003: Regents Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University.
2002: College Reading and Learning Association’s Professional Development Scholarship.
1998: Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award for an Instructor/Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee.
1994: Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee.
1993: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee.
1992-93: John C. Hodges Full Academic Scholarship for an outstanding English Major, The University of Tennessee.
PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation Wright, R. R. (2007). Adult education, popular culture, and women’s identity development: Self-Directed learning with The Avengers. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Chair: Jennifer A. Sandlin. Available on ProQuest.
Accepted and/or In-Press
Refereed Journal Articles Wright, R. R. (in press). Zombies, cyborgs and other labor organizers: An introduction to representations of HRD learning in popular culture. Advances in Developing Human Resources.
Refereed Journal Articles
Wright, R. R., & Sandlin, J. A. (2009). Popular culture, public pedagogy, and perspective transformation: The Avengers and adult learning in living rooms. International Journal of Lifelong Learning, 28(4), 533-551.
*Wright, R. R., & Sandlin, J. A. (2009). Cult TV, hip hop, shape-shifters, and vampire slayers: A review of the literature at the intersection of adult education and popular culture. Adult Education Quarterly 59(2), 118-141.
Wright, R. R. (2008). Research as quest: An autoethnographic exploration of embodied class, intellectual obsession, and the academy. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 5(2), Winter, 69-94.
Wright, R. R. (2003). Real men don’t ask for directions: Male student attitudes toward peer tutoring. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 34(1), 61-75.
Wright, G. L., Wright, R. R., & Lamb, C. (2002). Developmental mathematics education and supplemental instruction: Pondering the potential. Journal of Developmental Education, 26(1), 30-35.
Wright, R. R., (2001) Coaching critical thinking: Tutoring athletes toward self-sufficiency. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 31 (2), 157-170.
Book Chapters
Accepted and/or In Press Wright, R. R. (in press, 2010). Narratives from popular culture: Critical implications for adult education. In M. Rossiter, & M.C. Clark (Eds.) New directions in adult and continuing education: Narrative perspectives on adult learning. San Francisco: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Wright, R. R. (in press, 2010). What everyone needs to know about sex: Training peer tutors and mentors in gendered communication styles. In K. Agee & R. Hodges (Eds.) College Reading and Learning Association tutor and mentor training handbook, CRLA Press.
Book Chapters Wright, R. R. (2009). Unmasking hegemony with The Avengers: Television Entertainment as Public Pedagogy. In J. Sandlin, B. Schultz & S. Burdick, (Eds.), Handbook of public pedagogy: Education and learning beyond schooling. 139-150, New York: Routledge.
Wright, R. R. (2009). The intersection of critical theory and interdisciplinary learning: The emergence of a pedagogical soul. In Burke, P. (Ed.), Women and pedagogy: Education through autobiographical narrative, 119-125, Troy, New York: Educator's International Press, Inc.
Wright, R. R. (2007). The Avengers, public pedagogy, and the development of British women’s consciousness. In E. J. Tisdell & P. M. Thompson (Eds.), New directions in adult and continuing education: Vol. 115. Popular culture and entertainment media, 63-72, San Francisco: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Wright, R. R. (2007). Real men don’t ask for directions: Male student attitudes toward peer tutoring, in J. L. Higbee, et.al. (Eds.), 2007, Best practices in college reading and learning (pp. 47-62). Eldorado, KS: College Reading and Learning Assoc. Press. (Reprinted from Journal of College Reading and Learning, 34(1), 61-75.)
Work Under Review Wright, R.R., Coryell, J.A., Martinez, Harmon, J., M., Henkin, R., and Keehn, S. (under review). Rhyme, response, and reflection: An investigation of the learning experiences of self-identified adult poetry lovers.
Coryell, J. E., Wright, R. R., Pate, P. E., & Durodoye, B. (under review). Internationalization and the Academy: Inside the Processes, Insights, and Challenges of Three Diverse Institutions of Higher Education. Journal of Studies in International Education.
Partial List of
Work in Progress Sandlin, J. A., Wright, R. R. & Jarvis, P., Eds. (edited book proposal in process, to be submitted to Routledge). Radical adult education for a sustainable planet. Target submission date: May 1, 2010.
Wright, R. R. & Coryell, J. E. (in process for Journal of Higher Education). A literature review of research of internationalization and adult education.
Wright, R. R. (in process for New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development) Radical pedagogy in a conservative context: Teaching critical approaches to adult education.
Wright, R. R. (in process for Adult Education Quarterly) From the holler to the ivory tower: Exploring the lives of working-class academics.
Wright, R. R. (in process for Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education) Have Spacesuit—Will Travel: Finding Hope and Inspiration on the Journey to Academia—Popular Culture’s Influence on Scholars from the Working-Class.
Wright, R. R. (in process for Journal of Gender Studies) Learning gender in social context: The importance of popular culture in the circle of knowledge.
Wright, R. R., (in process for Adult Education Quarterly) Transformatively learning to transition: Stories of male-to-female transsexuals’ self-directed learning with The Avengers.
Wright, R. R., & Sandlin, J. A. (in process for Radical pedagogy for a sustainable environment) Bon Appetit! Critically examining the public pedagogy of popular cooking shows.
Pate, P.E.,Coryell, J.E., Durodoye, B., & Wright, R.R. (manuscript in preparation). Coming to Consensus: Internationalization at an Hispanic-Serving University.
Refereed International Published
Conference Proceedings Wright, R. R., Coryell, J. E., Pate, P. E., & Durodoye, B. (2009). The internationalization of an Hispanic-serving American university: Finding effective research strategies for policy, structure, and curricular change. In P. Coare & L. Cecil (Eds.) Really Useful Research: Critical Perspectives on Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research of the Education of Adults (SCUTREA), Cambridge University, United Kingdom, pp. 443-451.
Wright, R. R. (2008). “We gotta get out of this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do” (The Animals, 1965): Exploring the roots of working-class scholars. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research on the Education of Adults (SCUTREA), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 551-557.
Wright, R. R. (2007). Learning empowerment, resistance and female identity development from popular television: Transwomen tell stories of trans-formation. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference 48th National Conference and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education 26th National Conference Vol. 2, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada, pp. 517-522.
Wright, R. R. (2006). Popular culture, cult TV, and gender resistance: Informal learning from prime-time feminism. Proceedings of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA), Leeds, England, pp. 459-465.
Refereed National Published
Conference Proceedings Wright, R. R. (2010, accepted). Class, Popular Culture, and the Academy: Critical Comments of Scholars from the Working-Class. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Adult Education Research Conference, (AERC), California State University, Sacramento, June, 2010.
Coryell, J. E. & Wright, R. R. (2010, accepted). Exploring the Power of Poetry for Fostering Critical Reflection: Adult Poetry Readers and Self-Reflexivity. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Adult Education Research Conference (AERC), California State University, Sacramento, June, 2010.