NORAH ASHE-McNALLEY
3562 Military Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 254-8317
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT
1999 – Present University of Southern California
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, Sciences
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing
The Writing Program
1991 – June 1999 University of California, Irvine
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Teaching Assistant (1991 – 1998)
Humanities Core Lecturer (1998 – 1999)
EDUCATION
1991 – 1999 Ph.D. in English and American Literature (1999)
M.A. in English and American Literature (1993)
University of California, Irvine
Department of English and Comparative Literature
1984-1989 B.A. in English Literature
University of California, Berkeley
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Upper Division Writing and Rhetoric: Over 20 years of teaching experience in argumentative writing and critical reasoning at the upper division level. Disciplinary specialization includes:
Health Sciences and Allied Pre-Health
Social Sciences
Food and Nutrition
Arts and Humanities
Lower Division Writing and Rhetoric: 7 years teaching experience in Freshman and lower division writing
Lower Division English Literature: The Novel (2 quarters)
Graduate Level English Literature: British and American Modernism (1 quarter)
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Director, USC Undergraduate Writers Conference, Dornsife College, USC,
2013 – present
Faculty Advisor (with Nathalie Joseph), Scribe, USC Dornsife online undergraduate journal, 2003 – present
Along with my colleague Kathi Inman Berens, I founded and developed Scribe in 2003
PUBLICATIONS and PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS
OAPS Outstanding Academic Papers by Students 2012, Editor (with Nathalie Joseph),
(USC, 2012)
“What I Learned About Teaching When I Stopped Being the Teacher,” Experiential
Learning Conference: Education in Action, Diane Forbes, James Lin and
Elizabeth Losh, editors (UCSD, 2012)
"What Remains Unspoken," AngeLingo (vol 1.1, Spring 2004).
"Written Texts, Unwritten Assumptions: Explication," Humanities Core Course:
Exploration and Discovery, Michael Clark and Elizabeth Losh, editors (UC
Irvine, 1999)
“Chapter 6: Writing in WR 39 B”, A Student Guide to Writing at UCI (7th
edition), Ray Zimmerman, editor (UC Irvine, 1999)
Literary Affects: Modern Literature in the Aftermath of World War I, Doctoral Dissertation (UC Irvine, 1998), Dissertation committee: Margot Norris (Chair); Gabriele Schwab; Julia Lupton
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Innovative Teaching Award Grant, Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of
Southern California (2003-04 academic year)—
$10,000 grant awarded for the creation of an online undergraduate journal
Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, University of California (Fall 1998)
Hayman Fellowship, University of California (Fall 1997)
Department of English Outstanding Teaching Award, University of California, Irvine
(Spring 1996)
CONFERENCES and PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentation: Publishing in Undergraduate Research Journals with Nathalie Joseph), USC Research Gateway Scholars Program, July 18, 2017
Paper: “Prompting Thoughtful Student Response” (with Nathalie Joseph), 115th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017
Panel Chair: Food Studies I, 115th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017
Paper: “Student Publication: Not Just Good Publicity, Good Pedagogy” (with Nathalie Joseph), 114th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Pasadena, California, November 2016
Panel Chair: Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines II, 114th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Pasadena, California, November 2016
Invited Presentation: Publishing in Undergraduate Research Journals (with Nathalie Joseph), USC Research Gateway Scholars Program, July 27, 2016
Paper: “What I Learned About Teaching When I Stopped Being the Teacher: Learning
Outcomes from a Student-Run Journal,” Experiential Learning Conference:
Education in Action, UCSD Sixth College, San Diego, California, January 26,
2012
Speaker: FIUT Informational Breakfast, USC University Club, January 21, 2009
Speaker: "CET Panel on Balancing Work and Family," USC Doheny Library, October 20, 2008
Paper: "Beyond the 'A': Pedagogical Applications of Electronic Publication," Conference
on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008
Paper: "'The vision of an eland': love, trauma and repetition in Djuna Barnes’s
Nightwood," New Modernisms III, Houston, Texas, 14 October 2001
Paper: "TV Theories: Teaching Television as Text," Conference on College Composition
and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, 25 March 1999
Participant: UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium: "Boundaries, Crossing
Boundaries, Transgression," Lake Arrowhead, California, 17-19 April 1998
Paper: "The Expression of War Experience in Georgian Trench Poetry," Poetry and
History Conference, Stirling, Scotland, 28 June 1996
Workshop Leader (with Larry Rickels): "The Expression of War Experience and Acting
Out in Groups," UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium: "Trauma,
Mourning, Healing," Lake Arrowhead, California, 19 April 1996
Panel Chair: "Reconfiguring Representations of Nationalism: Reassessing the Modern
Novel," (Dis)Placing Nationalism Conference, Irvine, California, 18 May 1996
Paper: "'Her Own Best Thing': The Construction of Self and Community in Toni
Morrison's Beloved," Fourth Annual Southern California Women's Studies
Conference, Irvine, California, 30 April 1994
Paper: "Peer Editing Strategies in the Composition Classroom," Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Nashville, Tennessee, 17 March 1994
Paper: "Where There's a Will: Shakespeare and Elision in 'Scylla and Charybdis,'"
California Joyce 1993: "Joyce and Culture," Irvine, California, 1 July 1993
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Personnel Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, 2017-18
Co-Chair, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, 2014-15
Member, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, 2016-17
Member, Ad-Hoc Transition and Governance Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, 2015-16
Member, Staff Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, Fall 2017
Member, Faculty Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, Spring 2017
Member, Faculty Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing Program, Spring 2014
Faculty Member, Promotional Review Committee for LauraAnne Carroll-Adler, 2017
Faculty Member, Promotional Review Committee for Deborah Sims, 2014-15
Faculty Member, Promotional Review Committee for Mark Marino, 2010-11
Faculty Member, Promotional Review Committee for Nathalie Joseph, 2010-11
Master Teacher, Dornsife Writing Program, since 2015
Faculty Judge, Dornsife Undergraduate Writers Conference, Spring 2007 – Spring 2012
Faculty Mentor, USC Writing Program, 2011 – present
Committee Member, Departmental Committee on Writing 340, Dornsife Writing Program, 2015-16
Committee Member, Faculty Advisory Counsel, USC Upper-Division Writing Program,
2005-06
Committee Member, Faculty Review of Merit Evaluation, USC Upper-Division Writing
Program, Spring 2003
Assistant Director, USC Upper-Division Writing Program, 2000-01.
Committee Member, Portfolio Committee, The Writing Board, USC, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Pacific Ancient and Modern Literature Association, Member since 2016
National Council of Teachers of English, Member since 2007
Modern Language Association, Member since 1999
Phi Beta Kappa, Member since May 1988
Updated October 10, 2017