Education
BA, English & History, High Honors, University Scholar, Portland State University, 1977.
MA, English, Portland State University, 1979.
PhD, English, Indiana University, 1986.
Employment
Teaching Assistant, English, Portland State University, 1977-79.
Associate Instructor, English, Indiana University, 1979-82, 1984-85.
Assistant Professor of English, Virginia Tech, 1986-1992.
Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech, 1992-2005.
Associate Head, English Department, 1992-93.
Information Director for Faculty Development, Virginia Tech, 1993-2004.
Co-Coordinator, Virginia Tech Cyberschool, 1993-98.
Associate Director, Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 1997-present.
Administrative Fellow for Information Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997-2003.
Co-Director, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, 1999-2005.
Consultant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2001.
Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Children's Literature, Hollins University, 2003-present.
Adjunct Faculty, Linn-Benton Community College, 2004-2005.
Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland University College, 2004-present.
Technology Manager, Pacific Institutes for Research, 2005-2010.
Technology Manager, Dynamic Measurement Group, Inc., 2005-2008.
Research Associate, University of Oregon, 2005-present.
Teaching (a sampling of courses taught)
- First-year Reading and Writing
- Basic Writing
- Freshman Writing and Literature
- Freshman English
- Honors Freshman English
- Reading Intensive Intro to SF
- Sophomore level
- Intro to SF
- Intro to Fantasy
- English Literature Survey
- American Literature Survey
- Upper Division
- Technical Writing
- Studies in U/Dystopian Literature
- Digital Culture
- Victorian Literature
- 20th-century American Literature
- Modern Poetry
- Literary Modernism
- Postmodern Speculative Writing
- Edwardian Literature
- Graduate Courses
- Literature and Theory of Hypertext
- Studies in Theory
- 20th-Century Speculative Fiction
- The Fantastic in Children's Literature
- Children's and YA Science Fiction
- Children's and YA Digital Culture
- Postmodernism in Children's and YA Literature
- Children's and YA Picture Books
- Children's Literature and Folklore
- Children's Literature and Censorship
Honors
Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1987.
Center for Humanities Summer Research Stipend, Virginia Tech, 1989.
Research Pilot Project Small Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech, 1991.
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech, 1992.
Finalist, Alumni Teaching Award, Virginia Tech, 1994.
Fellow, Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, Virginia Tech, 1996-1997.
Grants
- Award: $4,000,
- Virginia Tech Teaching and Learning Grant, Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Virginia Tech, 1996, for Literature Initiatives in Technology project (with Karen Swenson and H. Randy Patton).
- Award: $12,000,
- Bell Atlantic Distance Learning Grant, 1997, for Literature Initiatives in Technology project (with Karen Swenson and H. Randy Patton).
- Award: $20,000,
- Virginia Tech Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, 1998, for organizing and conducting Learning Online 1998: Building the Virtual University, a conference at the Hotel Roanoke (with Tim Luke).
- Award: $75,000,
- Virginia Tech Center for Innovative Learning Grant, 1999, for intermediate development of Integrated Diverse Learning Environments project (with Cheryl Ruggiero, Karen Swenson and H. Randy Patton).
- Award: $10,000,
- Virginia Tech College of Arts and Sciences, 2000, Millennium Grant, in
support of the Gravell Watermarks Archive and Database Project (with
Dan Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, III).
Award: $24,000, Virginia Tech Center for Innovative Learning Planning Grant, 2000, for development of a Graduate Liberarl Studies online degree program (with Barbara Carlisle, Tim Luke, Nancy Simmons, et al).
- Award: $45,000,
- Sun MicroSystems, Equipment Grant, for equipment in support of the Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities at Virginia Tech,
2001.
- Award: $1,500,
- Virginia Tech, Supplemental Grant to travel to University College, Cork,
Ireland, for "Identify the Watermark, Hal: The Gravell Watermarks
Archive in 2001" (with Dan Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, III).
Award: $37,000, Virginia Tech, Center for Innovations in Learning, Renovation of the online Grammar Gym Project, consultant, 2002.
- Award: $2,000,
- Virginia Tech, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, for
preparation of XML DTD for Gravell Watermark Digital Archive Project,
2004.
Publications (selected)
"The
Galaxy Within: Paradox and Synechdoche as Heuristic Tropes in Greg Bear's
Science Fiction," Extrapolation,
31 (Fall, 1990): 240-257.
(Nominated for the 1990 Pioneer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the
Science Fiction Research Association.)
"Legitimate
Sequels: Character Structures and `The Subject' in Greg Bear's Sequel
Novels," in Marshall Tymn and
Donald Morse, eds., The Celebration of
the Fantastic. Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 237-250.
"Getting
a Kick out of Chaos: Fortunate Failure in Bear's Future Histories," in Nicholas Ruddick, ed., The State of the Fantastic. Westport, Conne cticut: Greenwood
Press, 1992.
"From
Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu," Children's
Literature,(1993)
21: 43-65.
"Webbing SF Scholarship: The
Year's Scholarship in the Fantastic and the Virginia Tech Online Speculative
Fiction Project," RQ (Research Quarterly of the American
Library Association) 35 (Summer, 1996): 461-464.
Review of
Andrew Martin, The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules
Verne, Utopian Studies, 1997.
Review of
Peter Brigg, The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction: A Critical Study of
a New Literary Genre. McFarland Press, 2002. Utopian Studies, 2004.
Review of M.
Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas, The Science Fiction Handbook. Malden,
MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Science Fiction Studies, 2011.
Papers and
Presentations:
(selected)
"Teaching in the Networked
Environment," presentation at the Virginia Humanities Conference, VCU,
1996.
"Webbing the Past's Future: the
Virginia Tech Online Science Fiction Project," invited presentation, The
Preservation Society (Library Preservation Week), 1996.
"Changing P(L)aces: Negotiating
Multipaced Discourses in On-Line Teaching" presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Association for Computers
and Writing, 1996.
"SF
Theory amidst the HyperWeb," presentation at the 17th ICFA, 1996.
"The
Virginia Tech Cyberschool Project,"Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Computers and
Writing, 1996.
"Teaching
and Learning with Daedalus," Western Carolina University, 1997
"The
Literature Initiative in Technology at Virginia Tech," Educom, 1997.
"Doing Faculty Development at
Virginia Tech," National Learning Infrastructure Initiative meeting, New
Orleans, 1997.
"Teaching
and Learning in the Digital Environment," Sloan Center for Asynchronous
Learning Environments, 1998.
"LIT"
and "The Virginia Tech Cyberschool," Learning Online 98: Building the Virtual University, Roanoke, 1998.
"The Virginia Tech Literature
Initiative in Technology (LIT)," Educom, Minneapolis, 1997.
"The Gravell Watermarks Archive
and Online Database," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 1998
(with Dan Mosser and Ernest W. Sullivan, III).
"Asynchronous
Learning Communities for Learning and Literacy: Electronic Communications
Across the Curriculum," Sloan Foundation Asynchronous Learning Networks
Conference, University of Maryland College Center, 1999 (with Donna Reiss).
"The
Gravell Watermarks Archive and Online Database," Vers une nouvelle
érudition: numérisation et recherche en histoire du livre, Centre Jacques
Cartier, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, Lyon, France, 1999 (with Mosser and
Sullivan).
"Integrating
Diverse Learning Environments (IDLE) at Virginia Tech," Association of
Internet Researchers Conference, University of Kansas, 2000.
"Teaching
Hypertext Literature and Theory," Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual
University, Roanoke, 2000.
"Identify
the Watermark, Hal: The Gravell Watermarks Archive in 2001," Early Book
Society, University College, Cork, Ireland, 2001 (with Mosser and Sullivan).
"Humanities Computing and/or the Curriculum:
Student Learning and Humanities Computing Research at Virginia
Tech," Humanities
Computing Curriculum /The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities,
Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C., 2001.
"The Theory and Practice of
Creating a Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities," Modern
Language Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, December, 2001.
"Models
for Theories of Digital Literature," panel presentation,
"Evolutionary Transformations in Digital Writing" Associated Writing
Programs Conference, Baltimore, 2003.
"Adapting
Digital Tools and Environments to Teaching Writing and Literature," invited keynote address, Great Plains
Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference, Peru State College, Peru
Nebraska, 2003.
Professional Editing:
Editor,
Virginia Tech Online Speculative Fiction Project (VTSF), a digital archive of
20th-century magazines and novels in science fiction and fantasy:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/vtsf
Digital Scholarship
Faculty Development
- 1996-98: Cyberschool Faculty Development Workshops
- Occasional workshops on a variety of topics at Virginia Tech.
- 1994-98: Daedalus Integrated Learning Environment Workshops
- Faculty workshops conducted at Virginia Tech, Radford University, and Western Carolina University)
- 1995-02: Faculty Development Institute Workshops
- Worked as designer, teacher, and consultant to these nationally recognized development workshops.
- 1998: Center for Innovative Learning Board Member
- Reviewing CIL grant applications; awarding the university's
Xcaliber Award for digitally enhanced teaching; setting university
policy for distance and distributed learning.
- 1998-99: Facilitator, Digital Discourse Faculty Roundtable
- University-wide faculty discussions on integratomg IT into research and teaching.
- 1999: Reviewed grant proposals (Oklahoma Board of Regents)
- submitted to the statewide Technology Development Program of the OBR
Distance & Distributed Education
Current teaching: I currently teach online courses for Hollins University (Roanoke, VA) and
the University of Maryland University College (Adele, MD). Most courses
which I have taught since 1994 have been enhanced using information
technology.
Literature Initiative in Technology (LIT): Collaborative
Courses: LIT was a program designed (with Karen Swenson and H. Randy
Patton) to promote faculty development in information technology
through collaborative course design, development, and teaching.
Integrating Diverse Learning Environments (IDLE):
IDLE was a project to foster development of self-paced interactive
online modules aimed primarily at writing instruction across the
curriculum. As a principal investigator, I helped with budgets, policy,
project design, faculty training, and I managed the development of the
Write-Inquire-Think (WIT) module, a web-based tool to promote student
writing through guided prompts.
References
Dr.
Scott Baker, Executive Director, Center on Research and Evaluation, Southern Methodist University,
Expressway Tower, 6116 N. Central Expressway, Ste.400, Dallas 75206. 214-768-7707.
skbaker@smu.edu
Dr. Lynne Anderson-Inman,
Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Education, 220C Rainier
Bldg, 5214 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5214 541-346-2657. lynneai@uoregon.edu
Dr. Carolyn Knox, Associate Director,
Center for Advanced Technology in Education, 220C Rainier Bldg,
5214 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5214. 541-346-3543. cknox@uoregon.edu
Dr. Daniel W. Mosser,
Professor of English. Shanks Hall 230, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
24061. 540-231-7753. dan.mosser@vt.edu