Current Research
Place Blogging: My dissertation research focuses on the genre of place blogging and examines how composing with locative media can foster a deeper sense of place and create meaningful local knowledge.
Publications
With Derek Owens. “From Site to Screen, From Screen to Site: Merging Place-based Pedagogy with Web-based Technology.” Locations of Composition. Ed. Christian Weisser and Christopher Keller. (State U of New York P, 2007).
"Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design." Coming into Contact: New Essays in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (University of Georgia Press, 2007)
With Paula Mathieu, Staci Shultz and George Grattan. Writing Places: A Longman Topical Reader. Longman Press, 2005.
"Blogging Places: Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 10:1 (Fall 2005).
Presentations
"Building Capacity Through Good Usability: Lessons from Instructional Design." Drupalcon Boston 2008. Boston, Massachusetts. March 3-6, 2008.
"MEMEO: A Web-Based Innovative Tool to Create Multimedia Course Content. New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) Fall Conference." Nov. 9, 2007.
"Blogging Places: Using Social Media to Foster Place Identification and Share Local Knowledge." Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center Conference: "Sustainable Water in a Changing World." April 9, 2007. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, MA.
"Drupal as an Instructional Design Tool." New Media Consortium Summer Conference. Cleveland OH. June 7-10.
"Placemaking in a Networked World."Guest lecturer in Anne Tate's course "American Communities in the 20th Century: Civics and Sustainability." Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. May 8, 2006
"Using Drupal to Create Virtual Classroom Communities." Co- facilitator of pre-conference workshop. Computers and Writing 2005. Palo Alto, CA. June 2005.
“Writing with Locative Media." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
“The Rhetoric of Place-Based Blogging.” Computers and Writing 2004. University of Hawaii. June 2004.
“Integrating WebCT and Open Source Social Software in a Composition Course” (poster session). The Fifteenth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Jacksonville, FL. March 2004.
“Technologies of Where: Fostering Place Literacy in Online Environments." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
"Composition as Eco-Effective Design." Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Boston, MA. June, 2003.
Workshop Presentation: "Community 'Service' in Graduate Education." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 2003.
“Accidental Tourists: Place Literacy and Immigrant Identities in Boston.” Thomas R. Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, Kentucky. October, 2002.
“Immigrant Environments: The Places of Assimilation in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land.” Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Flagstaff, AZ. June 2001.
“Emigrant Regionalism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s 'A Little Captive Maid.'” Central New York Conference on Language and Literacy. Cortland, NY. October, 2000.
“Green Prosaics: Nature and the Ordinary in John Clare’s Poetry.” Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Kalamazoo, MI. June, 1999.
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
National Council of Teachers of English
Conference on College Composition and Communications