Ph.D., Texas Christian University, 2018

M.F.A., University of South Carolina, 2011

M.A., Baylor University, 2006
 

editorial theories and practices; Writing Across the Curriculum and professional/public writing; writing pedagogies; digital humanities
 

“Rhetorical Decipherment and Its Archaeological Implications for the Recovery of Women in the History of Rhetoric: A Note on the Bronze Age Women of Linear B from Pylos.” Co-authored with Richard Enos and Natasha Robinson. Advances in the History of Rhetoric (forthcoming, 2020).
 

“Going Professional: Writing Centers’ Challenges and Possibilities in Working with Emerging Online Professional Graduate Student Programs.” WLN Journal. (Mar./April 2019).
 

“I Will Not Edit Your Paper. (Will I?): Tutoring and/or Editing in the Writing Center.” WLN Journal. (Jan./Feb. 2019). 
 

“Scholarship as Literature? Poetic Resonances and Boundaries in Scholarly Publications.” South Atlantic Review (Mar. 2017). 
 

Review of Francesca Martelli’s Ovid’s Revisions: The Editor as Author. In Scholarly Editing (2016).

 

Review of Frank Bryce McCluskey’s and Melanie Lynn Winter’s The Idea of the Digital University. In Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2015-Spring 2016).
 

“When Commonplaces Aren’t Common: What Code-Switching in Technical Writing and WAC Scholarship Can Teach Us about Our Professional Identity.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Milwaukee, WI; March 2020.
 

“The Persistence of Textual Studies.” Chair’s opening/closing comments for panel presentation on Bibliography and Textual Studies. South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR; October 2019.
 

“Where Texts Come From: Recovering Editorial Theory and Praxis to Enrich Literary and Textual Scholarship.” Modern Language Association; Chicago, IL; January 2019. 
 

“Editing to Promote Student Ownership and Originality: How Developmental, Substantive, and Copy Editing Can Empower Student Writers.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Kansas City, MO; March 2018.
 

"Editing Texts in the Digital Age: Rhetorical Heuristics for Editing the Layered Digital Book." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Victoria, BC; June 2017.
 

“Revelations of Shifting Editorial Praxis: Editing Cicero across History, Geography, and Technology.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX; November 2016.
 

“Editing Texts to Edit Culture: The Rhetorical Action of Ancient Editorial Practices.” South Central Modern Language Association. Nashville, TN; November 2015.
 

“Manuscripts and Multiplicities: Contemporary Editorial Curation as Rhetorical Action.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy. Tempe, AZ; October 2015.
 

“Writing Nonfiction, with Style.” Chair’s opening/closing comments for panel presentation on Advanced Writing. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA; November 2014.
 

“Speaking Ourselves Whole: How Gay Christian Young Adults are Integrating Communities.” Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX, May 2014.
 

“Trust Me with Your Life: Considering Contemporary Rhetorical Strategies in Telling Others’ Stories.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association.  Atlanta, GA; November 2013.
 

In addition to scholarship and teaching, I have worked in book editing for more than fifteen years. I specialize in developmental and substantive editing of academic and professional nonfiction. My editing informs and improves my teaching and scholarship; editorial work challenges me to be conversant beyond my own field and to continually test theories against real-world applications.