M.A. English with Composition emphasis

Thesis: "(Too) Great Expectations: Problematizing Change in the Writing Classroom
Director: Judith Goleman

B.A. English with Writing emphasis, magna cum laude

Honors Thesis: "Verbal Gymnastics: The Rhetoric of the Abortion Controversy"
Director: Charles Blinderman

2000 - 2004
2002 - 2003
2001

Adjunct Writing Instructor
Teaching Intern

Articles

"Young Scholars Affecting Composition: A Challenge to Disciplinary Citation Practices." College English 68.3 (2006): 253-70.

“It’s Time for Class: Toward a More Complex Pedagogy of Narrative.” College English 66.1 (2003): 74-92.

“Coming Into the Field: Intersections of the Personal and the Professional in Graduate Student and Faculty Narratives.” With Susan M. Adams, Damian Baca, Justin Bain, Paul Butler, and Eileen E. Schell. Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 8.1 (2002): 5-34.

Chapters

“Students and Authors in Composition Scholarship.” Authorship in Composition Studies. Ed. Tracy Hamler Carrick and Rebecca Moore Howard. Boston: Wadsworth, 2006. 41-56.

Under Contract

Howard, Rebecca Mooore, and Amy E. Robillard, eds. Sites of Plagiarism, Sites of Pedagogy. Boynton/Cook, forthcoming.

Reviews

Rev. of Speaking Personally: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse by Candace Spigelman. Composition Studies, forthcoming.

Rev. of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy by Wendy S. Hesford. Composition Forum 11.2 (2000): 47-51.

In-house

“As the Story Goes: Exploring the Tensions Between the Academic and the Personal in Writing 105.” Reflections in Writing 22 (Spring 2002): 17-21. http://wrt.syr.edu/pub/reflections/22/articles/robillard.html

National

"Implicating the Self: Trauma and the Personal Essay." The Sixth Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 5, 2006.

"For Argument's Sake: Bullshit, Social Class, and the Work of the Academy." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 25, 2006.

"Young Scholars: A Challenge to Disciplinary Citation Practices." Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Writing. Ann Arbor, MI. September 23, 2005.

“Authorizing the Student Author: Bourdieu’s Categories of Capital.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 19, 2005.

“Using Bourdieu to Rethink Students’ Writerly Authority.” The Fifth Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 7, 2004.

“Making Composition Material: Autobiography and the Circulation of Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX. March 27, 2004.

“Enforcing Desire: Empowerment, Confession, and the Circulation of Feminist Autobiography.” The Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Columbus, OH. October 24, 2003.

“Authorship, Collaboration, and Texts: Fresh Models for Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Pedagogy in Composition Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 19, 2003.

“Do Not Go Gentle: How Repositioning the Personal Narrative Affects Identity Construction.” The Fourth Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 12, 2002.

“It’s Time for Class: How Middle-Class Values Impede the Working Class Narrative.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Network Forum. Chicago, IL. March 20, 2002.

“Teaching Autobiography and Storytelling as Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Network Forum. Denver, CO. March 14, 2001.

Regional

“’Know Thyself’: Rethinking the Role of the Personal Narrative in the First-Year Composition Classroom.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH. November 3, 2001.

“Learning to Teach in Prison: Practices, Stories, Reflections.” Thinking About Prisons. State University of New York at Cortland. October 27, 2001.

“Carving Space for Stories.” Borderlands: Remapping Zones of Cultural Practice and Representation. University of Massachusetts Amherst. March 31, 2001.

Local

“Examining Plagiarism’s Assumptions.” Enhancing the Campus Learning Culture: A University-Wide Symposium on Teaching & Learning. Illinois State University. Bloomington, IL. January 12, 2005.

"Students, Children, and Authors: On the Representation of Students in Composition Scholarship.” Theory Day: Authorship and Composition. Syracuse University Writing Program. May 2, 2002.

"What it Means to Say Reading and Writing are Interconnected.” Making Pedagogical Space: Taking up the Writing 105 Syllabus. Syracuse University. October 25, 2000.

“Mapping the Profession: Pedagogy and the Discipline of Composition.” Making the Most of the Stages of Ph.D. Study. A Meeting of the Minds: Pennsylvania State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Syracuse University. Syracuse University. November 4, 2000.

“’It’s Good, Maybe Fix the Grammar’: Rethinking Peer Review.” The Fourth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Composition. University of Massachusetts Boston. June 9, 2000.

Invited presentation

“Teaching Portfolios: Creating, Organizing, and Updating.” Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program’s 2003 Conference. Blue Mountain Lake, NY. May 15, 2003.

ENG 101: Composition and Critical Inquiry (The Politics of Writing)
ENG 283: Rhetorical Theory and Applications
ENG 402: Introduction to Composition Theory and Research (graduate course)
ENG 495: Special Topics in English (Authorship Theories in Composition Studies)
ENG 495: Special Topics in English (Social Class in Composition Studies)

WRT 105: Analysis, Argument, and Academic Writing
WRT 205: Critical Research
WRT 303: Research Writing in the Disciplines
WRT 307: Professional Writing
WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity: Women’s Life Writing (Assistant to Eileen E. Schell)

ENG 101: English Composition
ENG 102: Writing Research
ENG 200: Practical Criticism (co-taught with John Brereton)

Illinois State University
Department of English

2004 – 2005

2006 - 2007

Member, Writing Committee

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee

Syracuse University
Writing Program

2001 – 2003

Member, Lower Division Curriculum Committee (elected by graduate student colleagues)

2002

Judge, The Louise Wetherbee Phelps Undergraduate Writing Awards

2001

Administrative Consultant for Outcomes Assessment

University of Massachusetts Boston

1998 – 1999

Member, Writing Proficiency Examination Assessment Group

Onondaga County Correctional Facility, Jamesville, NY

2000 – 2001

Instructor
Taught two courses in autobiography and life writing to incarcerated women.

Mary Marshall Graduate Writing Award

2004

Weirich Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching

2004

Teaching Fellowship

2002 – 2004

Certificate in University Teaching

2003

Future Professoriate Program

2001 – 2004

Summer Fellowship

2001

The Ann E. Berthoff Award for Graduate Study in English Composition

2000

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

1994 – present

Rebecca Moore Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
The Writing Program
Syracuse University
home: 315.691.5116
office: 315.443.1620
rehoward@syr.edu

Judith Goleman, Ph.D.
Director of Freshman Composition
Associate Professor of English
University of Massachusetts Boston
English Department
617.287.6735
Judith.Goleman@umb.edu

Eileen E. Schell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
The Writing Program
Syracuse University
315.443.1067
eeschell@syr.edu

James Thomas Zebroski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Writing
Department of English
Capital University
614.236.6874
jzebrosk@capital.edu