Assistant Professor of English Education

THOMAS EATON

Curriculum Vita

Updated Fall, 2008

Assistant Professor of English Education

English Programs Liaison

Southeast Missouri State University

318N Grauel Hall, Department of English, Southeast Missouri State University,

Cape Girardeau, MO 63701.

(573) 979-0071, 651-2936,

Education, Certifications & Licenses

1988: B.A., English, University of Wyoming

1993: Secondary Education Certification, 7-12,

University of Wyoming.

2001: M.A., Southeast Missouri State University,

Rhetoric & Composition, Creative writing concentration.

2006: Ed.D. University of Missouri- Columbia, Educational
Leadership & Policy Analysis Doctoral Program. (May, 2006)

Dissertation: Pencil or pen? The permanence of the writing center on the accountability watermark. An organizational theory discussion and qualitative utilization-focused evaluation methodology exploring technocratic versus holistic conflict management within the university writing center structure. Available through DAI.

Thesis: SCRAWL: Journal of the Rural American Male. A creative thesis (collection) forwarded by an academic analysis of rural American masculine attitudes in the backlash of social agency. Directed by Dr. Susan Swartwout, Southeast Missouri State University,

License/Certification for Dispute Management, Civil Component, State of Missouri, The Center for Dispute Management, Awarded from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, June, 2004.

Department of Education PC Level I, 7-12 endorsement, teacher certification. August, 1997 – current, State of Missouri.

Certificate of Completion of Class 8 Diesel warranty training: Freightliner, Cummins, Detroit, and

Caterpillar corporations. October 1996. Certification awarded from Volvo Corporation, 2000.

Teaching and Research Interests

·  Composition, Creative, and Technical writing learning strategies.

·  Educational technique with a focus on cognitive learning.

·  Hyper-textuality, web language and computerized learning environments.

·  Organizational theory, Utilization-Focused Evaluation procedures.

·  Memory, minimal brain dysfunction, and learning maintenance and development.

·  Young adult cognitive learning processes.

·  Visualization processes in children’s literature.

Teaching Experience

English Education: 2005- current, Southeast Missouri State University

·  Children’s Literature, online and traditional (LI 234)

·  Language Acquisition, online web course, (EN 381)

·  Teaching Writing Skills in the Elementary, blended (EN380)

·  Young Adult Literature, blended, (LI 542)

·  Foundations of Grammar – ITV – (EN 378)

Literature: (1993-2004)

·  Survey of World Literature, Southeast Missouri State University

·  Fiction and Human Experience, Southeast Missouri State University

·  Variety of Literature, Southeast Missouri State University

·  The Plow and the Pony: The Western Relationship, Southeast Missouri State University

·  American Literature to 1870, Three Rivers Community College

·  Introductory literature, 9-12, Scott County Central and Bernie HS (3 years)

·  Reading for Context, summer tutoring program, St. Joseph's Children's Home, Wyoming (1993 - 1995).

Composition: (1995—2004)

·  EN-275, Introduction to Creative Writing, Southeast Missouri State University

·  EN-140, Rhetoric & Critical Thinking, Southeast Missouri State University

·  EN-100, Composition, Southeast Missouri State University

·  EN-099, Developmental Composition, Southeast Missouri State University

·  EN– 04, Developmental Composition, Three Rivers Community College

·  EN-011, Composition, Three Rivers Community College

·  EN-012, Advanced Composition, Three Rivers Community College

·  BE-03, Business English, Three Rivers Community College

·  Southeast P.M., Creative Writing, Southeast Missouri State University (community)

·  Language Arts, 9-12, Scott County Central and Bernie HS (3 years)

Practicums:

Teaching Assistantship, Southeast Missouri State University. (One year).

Wyoming Center for Excellence in Teaching (WYCET) (11 weeks).

Student teaching, Torrington High School, Wyoming (18 weeks).

Administrative Engagement, Product Enhancement, and Team Development:

Created and developed a feedback methodology for providing students with vocal feedback on work through a vocal-audio download system within existing web-based technology, Southeast Missouri State University, 2004. Total web developments include 9 full web and blended-web developments throughout career. (2001-2008)

Development of a web-based 16 week training program in rhetoric and critical thinking with composition emphasis. Southeast Missouri State University. 2004-2005.

Development of a web-assist program for Survey of World Literature, Southeast Missouri State University, 2005).

Authored proposal requesting funding for additional overhead media room for English department

Southeast Missouri State University. Request ($3600.00) granted through internal funding, 2004.

Pilot-Collaborative development of an on-line developmental composition course with a conference emphasis through technology, 2004-2005, Southeast Missouri State University.

Administrative Liaison: Three Rivers Community College at Southeast Missouri State University campus. Served on A+ scholarship articulation and policy agreement committee. Spring, 2002

Development of composition handbook, Blank Page, for Stephen Reid text, (CSU), in collaboration with Dr. Michael Hogan, Dept. of English, Southeast Missouri State University. 2003.

Development of instructional on-line graduate handbook in collaboration with Dr. Phil Parette,

Southeast Missouri State University. 2001.

Writing tutor, Southeast Missouri State University Writing Center (2000).

Session leader, Annual Creative Writing Day, Southeast Missouri State University. 1997-2000.

Upward Bound tutor, collaboration between Southeast Missouri State and area high schools.

1997-1999.

Developed and approved to incorporate an anger management course integrated within the

English curriculum for a 50/50 bi-racial public school, Scott County Central High School, Missouri, 1998-2000

Service and team participation regarding the Missouri Achievement Program (MAP) test, serving

in cultural bias analysis and general review of language Arts MAP questions, 1999.

Corporate Training/Development and Grants Acquisition: Private Sector

Developed and supervised in-house curriculum for mechanics report development, training mechanics to write detailed reports of repairs, engaging academic dual crediting concepts in line with CTE practices through combining writing skills with mechanical skill for the purpose of maximizing warranty recovery expenses. Duckett Truck Centers: (Freightliner) Sikeston, MO. 1995-1997.

Created and developed grant request for $31,000 from the City of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for

funding toward the restoration of the Glenn House, a Victorian-designed historical landmark

home under the direction of the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, Grant awarded, September, 2004, full value received.

Computer Language Proficiency

Word Processing: WordPerfect Family, Word Family, Claris Apple.

Data Base: Microsoft Works: Excel Spreadsheet & D-base, SPSS V10 & V14 (statistics.)

Publishing: Aldus Photostyler, Microsoft Publisher, Frontpage, Sharepoint, Canvas, & Photoshop, ColorLab OPR/OCR, Sony Sound Studio 7, PERL web, DragonSpeaktm and Camtasiatm.

Library search systems: BRODART, CARL, & SADIE, associated hosts: OVID, Wilson, Lexus/Nexus, WorldCat, Project Muse.

Presentation: Harvard Graphics family, PowerPoint, HyperStudio, Camtasia and PERL web.

Web bases: OIS ™, Blackboard tm ,Web CT tm , PBwikitm

Publications

Short Stories

Soldier’s Yard, Big Muddy, Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, Fall 2008

Antelope: Nationwide 2001 William Faulkner Short Story Competition (4th).

The Zippo Man: The American West Ezine, 2001.

Irish Crème: Journey Magazine, (2000), Trumpets: Journey Magazine (1999)

Little Grey Houses: Outer Darkness Magazine (1998), and Scavenger's Newsletter (1999).

A Night at Baby’s: Journey Magazine, Literary Award winner, 1st place (2000).

Poems

"The Spinning" Journey Magazine, 2000, Daily Statesman Newspaper, Dexter, Mo. 2002.

"Bourbon on Quiet" Journey Magazine, 2001.

“The Day the Last Child Left Home” Journey

Magazine, literary Award, 1st place, 2001.

"North of Arizona" Journey's Magazine, 2000,

"Laura's Diner" Journey magazine, 1999,

"Touchroads" Journey magazine, 1998.

"Fencelines" Westering Literary Magazine, 1984.

Book Reviews

Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, Volume 2, Issue 2. Postmodernist fiction: Curtis White’s Requiem, Fall, 2002. Ehrlich’s Dry Clouds: Wyoming Stories, Book review, 2006)

Denver Post, Sunday A&E, Book reviews: "Grand Street" and "Tony Hillerman’s Anthology," November & December, 1994.

Professional Journals/Conferences

Journals

Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century, (Authored by Pamela Cole) Online supplement author. Textbook and Online handbook released by McGraw-Hill, January, 2009.

Weeping or Wanting: Post-Death Dislocation in Moral Discourse: Faulkner, Twain & Zola in Conference Reports from the 2007 Faulkner & Twain Conference, Southeast Missouri State University. Fall, 2008.

Encyclopedia Reference entry and bibliography, Furry Lewis and John Lee Hooker, Mississippi Bluesmen, Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of Mississippi-Oxford, 2006.

Journal of Secondary Education Technology, Guest Reviewer recognition, Volume 15(4) 2001.

Conferences

Panel Presenter Acceptance. Welcome to Kamp Kidlit – Hiking the Emotive Woods in Online Learning. NCTE National Conference, Shift Happens, San Antonio, TX., November, 2008

Panel Presenter: (in abstentia – read by Dr. Robert Hamblin) When my Train Gonna Come? – Capitalism, Humanism, and Escapism in Wolfe, Gorky and Lomax. College English Association “Passages” conference, St. Louis, March 2008.

Keynote Speaker (by invitation). Trails, Trials, and Technology – Education Present and Future. Honors Institute Consortium, Front Range Community College, Colorado, March 2008.

Panel Chair and Presenter: Sailing into Scenario-based Web Instruction – The ChyleIsle Ocean River Cruise, Conference of College Composition and Communication, (4c’s) New Orleans, March 2008.

Poster Session participant, NCTE’s Literacy Map Project, presented online prototype of Missouri literacy map, NCTE National Conference, New York, November, 2007.

Panelist, Civility in the Classroom, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Southeast Missouri State University, 2007.

Panel Presenter, 21st Century Learners Conference, Using Scenario-Based Platform in Online Teaching: Character-Driven Motivation in Children’s Literature. Southeast Missouri State University, 2007.

Lead instructor: Presidents & Precedence: Development grant, 2005-2006: Teaching American History, State of Missouri, K-12 Social Sciences Teachers – The Role of Literature in Colonial America. Position by recommendation of Dr. Frank Nickel, Dept. of History, Southeast Missouri State University

Keynote speaker, Chieftains, Charlatans & Champions: Writing the American Family. Heartland Writer’s Guild, Cape Girardeau, Mo. June 4, 2005

Panel Presenter, The Black Sheep Monographs: Writing the Family History. Missouri Writer’s Guild Convention, 2004.,

Participant. The Lost Horse Creative Writing Conference, Idaho, 2001. Studied under William Kittredge.

Panel Presenter. Zippo Man: A Return to the Western Mythical Justice, (creative presentation). Missouri Philanthropy Association Literary Conference (Westminster University, Fulton, Mo.,). March, 2001.

Panel Presenter. Singleness & Oneness in Whitman, Thoreau, and Poe. SEMO-Mineral Area-Three Rivers Call For Papers, Southeast Missouri State. Won Best Paper Award, April 2000.

Journalism

Lusk Herald/Wyoming Newspapers Inc., Managing Editor, Legend of Rawhide promotional magazine, Lusk, Wyoming, 1994.

Monthly Magazine, Wyoming & Buffalo Chip Gazette, South Dakota, 52nd Annual Black Hills Motorcycle Classic: New Changes Bring New Highways, September, 1992

Wyoming Department of Agriculture Marketing Newsletter, Atlantic Pacific Seed Takes Root, May, 1991,

TriState Cattle News, Sturgis, South Dakota, Wyoming Heritage Foundation Multiple Land Use Seminar, November, 1991.

Tri-State High Plains Journal, (Front page story,) Wyoming Whe Ggrowers Reject IGLU Tenants. Kansas Press, November, 1990.

Plowshares, agriculture magazine, Wyoming Newspapers Inc., Migrant Labor: How Far Will OSHA Go? 1990.

A.P. Newswire Selection, (nationwide teletype) Wyoming Budget Faces Drought - Lawmakers to Consider Shortfall Measures, Nov., 1989

Honors/Awards

Carnegie-Mellon and Southern Cluster collaboration: (SoTL) Scholarship in Teaching & Learning Fellow, SOTL recipient for “L.O.L: Learnscapes and Learmmercials in Online Constructs,” July, 2008 – July 2009, Southeast Missouri State University.

Elected Professor of the Month, Tri-Delta Sorority, November 2005.

Honorable Mention, (4th of 7)National William Faulkner Short Story Competition, August 2001, for short story: Antelope.

Honors graduate, MA in English, Southeast Missouri State University, May 2001.

Acceptance in the Southeast Missouri Teachers as Writers Council, 1997.

Nomination and appointment to the Eastern Wyoming College Fine Arts Board, August 1994.

Honorary Membership to the Torrington Trailblazer FFA Charter for public service, May 1993.

Nomination and appointment to the Wyoming Writer's Project, January 1993.

Honorary Membership to the Southeast Wyoming Chapter and National FFA Charter for public

service, PR, May 1991.

Appointment to the Wyoming MythBusters Beef Enhancement Program, August 1991, PR and

education development.

Eastern Wyoming College, Full Scholarship, Drama department, August, 1983, Speech & Debate

Team, 1982-1984.

Honorable Discharge, U.S. Marine Corps, October 1981.

Committees, Organizations and Appointments:

Southeast Missouri State University

“Building the Novel Ark” – Outlining your Novel. Community education program, Department of Extended learning (community) Southeast Missouri State University, September – November, 2008

Strategic Planning Committee, Dept. of English. Appointment Spring, 2008.

Vacancy Committee Chair, Education Liaison, appointed Fall, 2008

University Strategic Planning & Enrollment Committee, (SEMS) appointed Fall, 2008.

Show-Me-Days Coordinator, Fall 2008-current.

Dual Credit Committee, Dept. of English, Appointment, Fall 2008.

Team Leader, Technology Committee, Dept. of English, Southeast Missouri State University, Fall 2007.

English Program Liaison, Department of English, 2007

Funding For Results (grant selection committee) Fall 2006

Commencement Committee member, Fall, 2006-current

NCATE Accreditation Team Director, Department of English, 2007-2008.

Co-Director, Visiting Writers: Multicultural Diversity Project, (Grant funded), Fall, 2006.

Vacancy search committee member, Department of English, 2002 and 2004.

EGTA Liaison, Freshmen Committee, 2001.

Sigma Tau Delta English Honors, 2000 - current.

Sigma Tau Delta chapter secretary: Spring 2001.

Coordinator, First Annual Sigma Tau Delta Call for Papers, Spring 2001.

Other Appointments and Activities

NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Program Reviewer licensing for NCATE accreditation of English Education Program, Spring 2007. Fall, 2008.

Southeast Missouri State University accreditation Team, Spring, 2007

SMETA (Southeast Missouri English Teachers Association) District representative to NCTE annual convention, Fall, 2008.

NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Digital Literacy Map Project Developer, Missouri, 2007.

President, Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau Inc., 2004.

Vice President, Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau Inc., 2003.

Southeast Missouri Teachers as Writers, 1997-current.

Missouri State Teachers Association, 1997-1999.

Eastern Wyoming College Fine Arts Board, 1994-1995.

Wyoming Writers Council, 1991-1995.

State Secretary for ABATE of Wyoming, motorcyclist-rights lobby, 1992-1993.

Wyoming Beef Enhancement Council, 1991.

Works in Progress or Circulation

Creative

Why I Can’t Work at Kellerman’s (in circulation)

Cat House Red” (short story collection) in circulation:

The Last Quiet Day in Mission County (novel) in circulation.

The Mission County Asphalt Company (novel) - in revision.

The Mission County Yarn Society (novel) - in revision.