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NORAH ASHE-McNALLEYUniversity of Southern California950 West Jefferson Boulevard, JEF 150Los Angeles, CA 90089-1293Office (213) 740 1988 Cell (310) 254-8317ashe@usc.edu(she/her)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF ACADEMIC PROFILEDirector of Writing Program Academic and administrative collaboration Undergraduate publicationPre-health writingFood studiesUNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT July 2018 –PresentDirector, USC Writing ProgramUniversity of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, Sciences 1999 – Present USC Writing ProgramTeaching Professor of Writing (2021)Associate Teaching Professor of Writing (2011)Senior Lecturer, USC Writing Program (2002)1991 – June 1999 University of California, Irvine Department of English and Comparative Literature Humanities Core Lecturer (1998 – 1999) Teaching Assistant (1991 – 1998) EDUCATION1991 – 1999 Ph.D. in English and American Literature (1999)M.A. in English and American Literature (1993)University of California, IrvineDepartment of English and Comparative Literature1984-1989B.A. in English LiteratureUniversity of California, BerkeleyADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES & EXPERIENCEDIRECTOR, USC Writing Program, 2018 – Present My administrative model emphasizes listening, teamwork, coalition-building, and compassionate leadership. The director oversees and administers a large academic program of 75 full and 13 part time faculty, including: Work with General Education, Undergraduate Programs, Dornsife Deans Office, the Provost’s Office, and other university departments and programs, to develop and support writing instruction and undergraduate education throughout the university;Serve on college committees and tasks forces to promote undergraduate education, including the Dornsife Chairs Committee and the Directors of Undergraduate Studies (see below);Work with college administration on funding, budgets, staffing and employment, and academic affairs;Work with student support programs, including Student-Athlete Academic Services, Disability Services and Programs, and Campus Wellbeing and Crisis Intervention;Hiring of new faculty, salaries, faculty development and support, faculty promotion, and peer review; Oversee curriculum development, course development and design, and course and program assessment, including acting as liaison with other USC college Writing Programs, and programs such as Applied and Experiential Learning and the Joint Educational Project; Oversight of departmental policy, committees, and programs, including leading of faculty meetings and departmental retreats, development of departmental bylaws;Management of a program office of 5 full time faculty and staff employeesAdministrative Service as Director: 2021-2022 Academic YearProvost and Academic Senate Committee on MentoringChair, Part-Time Search CommitteeChair, Full-Time Search CommitteeGE Programs DirectorsDornsife Chairs CommitteeDirectors of Undergraduate Studies, Dornsife CollegeAdministrative Service as Director: 2020-2021 Academic YearDornsife Freshman Colloquium Development and Planning CommitteeDeveloped a proposal for a new academic event planned for Fall 2020Implement and oversee Writing Program departmental support for the eventProvost and Academic Senate Task Force on Course InformationHelped research and draft the task force report on course information provided to studentsGE Programs DirectorsDornsife Chairs Committee Dornsife Chairs CouncilDirectors of Undergraduate Studies, Dornsife CollegeChair, The Writing Program Personnel Committee Administrative Service as Director: 2019-2020 Academic YearProvost and Academic Senate Task Force on Course InformationChair, Full Time Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing Program Dornsife Chairs Committee Dornsife Chairs CouncilDirectors of Undergraduate Studies, Dornsife CollegeChair, The Writing Program Personnel Committee Administrative Service of the Director: 2018-2019 Academic YearDornsife Signature Undergraduate Experience Steering Committee, Dornsife CollegeChair, Part Time Hiring Committee (Summer), Dornsife Writing ProgramChair, Full Time Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing Program Dornsife Chairs Committee Directors of Undergraduate Studies, Dornsife CollegeChair, The Writing Program Personnel Committee Administrative Service as Incoming Director: 2017-2018 Academic Year Chair, Part Time Hiring Committee (Summer), Dornsife Writing ProgramStaff Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramTEACHING EXPERIENCELower Division Writing and Rhetoric: 8 years teaching experience in first year writing.Writing 150: Issues in Aesthetics Writing 39B: Critical Reading and Rhetoric (UC Irvine)Writing 39C: Argument and Research (UC Irvine)Humanities Core Lecturer (UC Irvine)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:Writing 340: Food Studies (Special Topics) (new course, piloted with S. Payne)Writing 340: Health Sciences and Allied Pre-HealthWriting 340: Social Sciences Writing 340: International Relations and Global EconomicsWriting 340: Arts and Humanities: Cultural studies and social media specializationWriting 139: Upper-Division Writing (UC Irvine) Graduate CoursesAnglo-American Modernism (UC Irvine)Curriculum DevelopmentWriting 340: Food Studies (Spring 2020)Developed in collaboration with S. Payne, an interdisciplinary version of the course, including curriculum design and reaching out to Food Studies faculty in other departments Writing 499: International Writing (Spring 2019) Collaborated with Dornsife Diversity Officer K. Freeman and B. Chappelow to develop a new international exchange course with University of Strathclyde, 2019Advanced Writing for the Dissertation (proposed 2010, with N. Joseph and R. Sheer)Developed syllabus and four- assignment arc for a Writing course for Ph.D. graduate students Advanced Writing for the Master’s Thesis (proposed 2010, with N. Joseph and R. Sheer)Developed syllabus and four- assignment arc for a Writing course for Masters students in the Economics programUNDERGRADUATE PUBLICATIONDIRECTOR, USC Undergraduate Writers Conference, USC, 2013 – 2018 The UWC is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office and is the largest undergraduate event on campus, with approximately 500 submissions, and over 300 student participants, each year when I was director. The director’s duties include:Coordination with the Provost’s Office of Undergraduate Programs, as well as the Schwarzenegger Institute and the Levan Institute (the other award-giving programs);Orchestrating the event, including securing keynote speaker, emcee, and event moderators for the night of, scheduling the moderated panels, and hosting the banquet; Overseeing judging of the competition, including soliciting judges and compiling votes;Student outreach including submission solicitation, publication solicitation, training senior moderators, and contacting semi-finalists and winners;Invited keynote speakers include: Jonathan Kirsch, Deborah Harkness, Percival Everett, Alex Espinoza FOUNDER and DEVELOPER (with K. Berens), Angelingo (since renamed Scribe), online undergraduate journal, 2003As founder, I, along with K. Berens, secured the initial development grant from the Center for Excellence in Teaching, and procured continuing funding for the journal; Developed a workflow model for hiring, managing, training, and sustaining the student editor model for the journal, including the development of peer-to-peer mentorship in editing and managerial training; Oversaw the initial site design, as well as several later site redesignsFACULTY ADVISOR (with N. Joseph), Scribe, 2003 – 2018 Oversee training of new editors and web design staff, supervise editorial decisions and site design, address any administrative issues that arise;Liaison with Information Technology Systems regarding use of university server, including: licensing, content management system (CMS), server access, site migration, and security issues;One semester per year, each faculty advisor directly attends and supervises weekly editorial meetings;Oversee hiring and yearly budget allocationsHONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Grant Proposal, National Endowment for the Humanities Start-Up Grant, Primary Investigator with N. Joseph (co-PI)Applied Fall 2015 & Summer 2016 for a proposed meta-journal and database of undergraduate journals Fund for Innovative Undergraduate 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 Previous Grants, Awards, FellowshipsGraduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine (Fall 1998) Hayman Fellowship, University of California, Irvine (Fall 1997) $3,000 travel grant to conduct research in England and France on World War IOutstanding Teaching Award, Department of English, University of California, Irvine (Spring 1996) PUBLICATIONS and PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS “The Collaborative Model: An Antidote to NTTF Pressures,” co-author N. Joseph, Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non Tenure Track Faculty in Writing Studies, Jessica Edwards, Meg McGuire, and Rachel Sanchez, editors. The University Press of Colorado (forthcoming). “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). Conference proceedings.Contributing editor, OAPS Outstanding Academic Papers by Students 2012, Nathalie Joseph, senior editor (USC Libraries, 2012). Anthology of undergraduate writing. Coursebooks and other writing"What Remains Unspoken," AngeLingo (now Scribe) (vol 1.1, Spring 2004). Short creative non-fiction."Written Texts, Unwritten Assumptions: Explication," Humanities Core Course: Exploration and Discovery, Michael Clark and Elizabeth Losh, editors (UC Irvine, 1999). Rhetorical exercises.“Chapter 6: Writing in WR 39 B”, A Student Guide to Writing at UCI (7th edition), Ray Zimmerman, editor (UC Irvine, 1999). Course overview and objectives.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.CONFERENCES and PAPER PRESENTATIONS Papers and Presentations – Period Under Review 2011-2020Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines II, 118th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Las Vegas, NV. November 2021. Panel Chair.“Faculty Duos Alleviate Non-Tenure Track Research Pressures,” round table promoting Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in Writing Studies, Jessica Edwards, Meg McGuire, and Rachel Sanchez, editors (University of Colorado Press). Conference on College Composition and Communication 2021, Spokane, WA, April 2021. “Fostering Classroom Communication in the Trump Era: Practical Strategies for Thoughtful and Inclusive Discussion,” CCCC Regional Conference 2020, Los Angeles, CA, December 2020. Round table panelist. “Creating Community: Faculty Collaboration in Teaching Track Contexts”, CCCC 2020, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2020. Panel organizer and paper presenter – panel accepted. “One and One Makes Two: Effective Faculty Collaboration” (with N. Joseph), 117th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, San Diego, CA, November 2019Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines II, 117th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Pasadena, California, November 2019. Panel Chair.“Minding the Class: Active Listening in the Writing Classroom” (with N. Joseph), Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Bozeman, Montana, October 2019“Call and Response: Intention and Improvisation in the Writing Classroom” (with N. Joseph), 116th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Bellingham, Washington, November 2018“Making Student Writing Matter” (with N. Joseph), Western States Rhetorics & Literacy Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, November 2018“Prompting Good Writing: Making Student Publication a Reality” (with N. Joseph), Conference on College Composition and Communication 2018, Kansas City, Missouri, March 2018“Prompting Thoughtful Student Response” (with N. Joseph), 115th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017Food Studies I, 115th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2017. Panel Chair. “Student Publication: Not Just Good Publicity, Good Pedagogy” (with N. Joseph), 114th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Pasadena, California, November 2016Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines II, 114th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Pasadena, California, November 2016. Panel Chair.“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. Paper, published in conference proceedings.Invited Lectures and Presentations Rhetorical approaches to presenting scientific research to a general audience, Communicating Any Science to Informal Audiences (CASIA), BISC 400-level course (proposed 2019). Invited series of class lectures. “Prompting Good Writing” (with N. Joseph), CCCCs at USC, USC, Los Angeles, California, October 2018. Invited panel.Publishing in Undergraduate Research Journals (with N. Joseph), USC Research Gateway Scholars Program, July 18, 2017. Invited lecture.Publishing in Undergraduate Research Journals (with N. Joseph), USC Research Gateway Scholars Program, July 27, 2016. Invited lecture.Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching (FIUT) Informational Breakfast, USC University Club, January 21, 2009. Invited panel. "CET Panel on Balancing Work and Family," USC Doheny Library, October 20, 2008. Invited panel.Other Conferences and Presentations"Beyond the 'A': Pedagogical Applications of Electronic Publication" (with K. Berens), 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. Paper.UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium: "Boundaries, Crossing Boundaries, Transgression," Lake Arrowhead, California, 17-19 April 1998. Invited participant. "The Expression of War Experience in Georgian Trench Poetry," Poetry and History Conference, Stirling, Scotland, 28 June 1996. Paper."The Expression of War Experience and Acting Out in Groups," UC Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium: "Trauma, Mourning, Healing," Lake Arrowhead, California, 19 April 1996. Workshop Leader (with Larry Rickels)."Reconfiguring Representations of Nationalism: Reassessing the Modern Novel," (Dis)Placing Nationalism Conference, Irvine, California, 18 May 1996. Panel Chair."'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. Paper.RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Research subjects: Undergraduate publication, food studies, humanism in the health sciences, WPA, faculty collaboration, faculty developmentWPA Workshop, Council of Writing Program Administrators 2018 Conference, Sacramento, California, July 2018. SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT & THE UNIVERSITY In the 2017-2018 Academic YearMember, Personnel Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramIn the 2016-2017 Academic YearMember, Full-time Faculty Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramMember, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramIn the 2015-2016 Academic YearMember, Ad-Hoc Transition and Governance Committee, Writing ProgramCommittee Member, Departmental Committee on Writing 340, Writing ProgramIn the 2014-2015 Academic YearCo-Chair, Faculty Merit Review Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramMember, Full-Time Faculty Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramMember, Summer PTL Hiring Committee, Dornsife Writing ProgramFormal Faculty MentorshipFaculty Evaluation Committee Member, Promotional Review for LauraAnne Carroll-Adler External Referee Letter, Promotional Review for Zoe Pettway Unno (2017)Faculty Evaluation Committee Member, Promotional Review for Deborah SimsFaculty Evaluation Committee Member, Promotional Review for Mark Marino Faculty Evaluation Committee Member, Promotional Review for Nathalie Joseph Faculty Mentor, Alisa Sanchez, 2015 – 2019Faculty Mentor, Farida Habeeb, 2011 – 2018Master Teacher, Dornsife Writing Program, 2015Other Committee and Service Faculty Judge, USC Undergraduate Writers Conference, Spring 2007 – Spring 2012 Committee Member, Faculty Advisory Counsel, USC Upper-Division Writing Program (ad hoc committee with membership from all three University Writing Programs), 2005-06 Committee Member, Faculty Review of Merit Evaluation, USC Upper-Division Writing Program, Spring 2003Assistant Director, USC Upper-Division Writing Program, 2000-2001 Committee Member, Portfolio Committee, The Writing Board (ad hoc committee with membership from all three University Writing Programs), 2001 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Pacific Ancient and Modern Literature Association, Member since 2016National Council of Teachers of English, Member since 2007Modern Language Association, Member since 1999 Phi Beta Kappa, Member since May 1988 Updated October 2021 ................
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