Evaluative criterion 1—Program quality Committee: Michael (chair)

Lovett, Maria, James P. Purdy, Katherine E. Gossett, Carrie A. Lamanna, and Joseph Squier. “Writing with Video: What Happens When Composition Comes Off the Page?” Reading (and Writing) New Media: A Collection of Essays and New Media. Ed. Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl E. Ball. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. 287-304. Print.
Journal Articles:

Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work” Profession (forthcoming 2010). Print.

Purdy, James P. “The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments.” Computers and Composition 27.1 (2010): 48-58. Special issue on Composition 2.0. Print.

Purdy, James P. “When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia.” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (2009): W351-W373. Print/Web. .

Purdy, James P. “Anxiety and the Archive: Understanding Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives.” Computers and Composition 26.2 (2009): 65-77. Print.

Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.2 (2007). Web. .

Purdy, James P. “Calling Off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.2 (2005): 275-295. Print.

Purdy, James P., Douglas Eyman, Joyce R. Walker, and Colleen Reilly, eds. Online Research, Writing, and Citation Practices. Special Issue of Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2007). Web. .

Purdy, James P., and Madeleine Sorapure. “Review of Panel D24, CCCC 2010: Scholarship, Remix, and the Database.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 15.1 (2010). Web. .

Purdy, James P. “A ‘New Way to See’ Students as Researchers and Writers: A Review of i-cite and i-claim.” Online Research, Writing, and Citation Practices. Ed. James P. Purdy, Douglas Eyman, Joyce R. Walker, and Colleen Reilly. Special Issue of Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2007). Web. .


Invited Conference Presentations:

“Evaluating Digital Scholarship” (co-leader of asynchronous discussion). Computers and Writing Online. Sponsored by Purdue University. 22 April–6 May 2010. .

“Writing in Common: The Challenges and Opportunities of Our Writing Center’s Uncommon Staff and Students” (with Duquesne students Nicola Brooke, Lee Ann Glowzenski, and Amy Troppman). Pittsburgh Area Regional Writing Center Conference. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 8 November 2008.

“A Recollection of Events: Toward a History of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.” Collaborative Plenary Session. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA. 20 October 2007.

“Building an Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Composing.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. 7 October 2006.
Conference Presentations:

“The Three Gifts of Digital Archives.” Computers and Writing. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. 21 May 2010.

“Composition 2.0: Teaching and Learning Writing in an Age of Freeware, Webware, and Data-Driven Applications” (speaker on roundtable). Computers and Writing. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. 21 May 2010.

“Rethinking Our Approach to Plagiarism Detection Services: Researching Student Researchers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. 19 March 2010.

“Digital Archives and Plagiarism Anxiety: An Argument for Viewing Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives.” Computers and Writing. University of California Davis. Davis, CA. 20 June 2009.

“Aren’t Media Already Multiple?: Reflections on Proposing a Course in Multimodal Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. 14 March 2009.

“The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. 17 October 2008.

“The Instability of New Media Performed in One-Minute Provocations—Roundtable” (speaker on roundtable). Computers and Writing. University of Georgia. Athens, GA. 25 May 2008.

“Attitudes, Activities, and Associations: Survey Data on How Composition Students See Themselves as Researchers.” Computers and Writing. University of Georgia. Athens, GA. 23 May 2008.

“Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work” (with Joyce R. Walker). Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. 3 April 2008.

“Making a Case for Digital Research in the First Year Writing Classroom” (with Joyce R. Walker). Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: Rhetorics and Technologies. Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA. 9 July 2007.

“When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia.” Computers and Writing. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. 18 May 2007.

“We Are What We Own?: Identity, Infrastructure, and the Tomorrow of Composing” (with Carrie Lamanna and Kathie Gossett). Computers and Writing. Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX. 27 May 2006.

“Understanding the Search: The Quest for Intellectual Resources in E-Space” (with Joyce R. Walker). Association of Internet Researchers. Chicago, IL. 8 October 2005.

“Global Literacies in the Writing Center.” Pittsburgh Area Regional Writing Center Conference. Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, PA. 7 November 2009.

WAC Clearinghouse (scholarly book publisher). July 2009–present

1-1 teaching load, Fall 2008 to Fall 2010—University Writing Center Director

Fall 2006 to Summer 2008 I taught at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania; I have not included that teaching here.
Graduate Course:

ENGL 568 Theories of Composition, Fall 2010

ENGL 302W/JMA 485 Facebook, flickr, and Web 2.0 Writing, Spring 2010

IHP 101 Logic and Rhetoric, Fall 2009

UCOR 102 Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing, Spring 2009

UCOR 101 Thinking and Writing across the Curriculum, Fall 2008
Non-Credit Teaching for University Writing Center:

Writing consultant orientation, Fall 2008-Fall 2010 (every semester)

Bi-weekly professional development meetings, Fall 2008-Fall 2010 (every semester)
Faculty Workshops Led:

“Perspectives on Preparing Undergraduates for Research and Publishing.” 4 October 2010.

“Effective Approaches to Peer Writing Workshops.” 28 September 2010.

“Teaching Writing to Digital Natives.” 19 August 2010.

“Wikipedia Is Good for You!: Using Wikipedia to Teach Research-based Writing.” 18 February 2010.

“Grading Writing to Encourage Revision.” 12 October 2009.

“Making the Annual Report a Persuasive Text: Strategies for Analytical Professional Writing.” 10 June 2009.

“Tips for Teaching Writing-intensive Courses.” 18 and 19 February 2009.

“A UCOR 101 Conversation: Assigning and Assessing Student Work.” 22 October 2008.
Student Workshops Led and Coordinated:

“The Research Paper Paragraph.” 20 October 2010.

“APA Citation and Source Use for Nursing.” 15 September 2010.

“Avoiding Plagiarism: Definitions and Strategies.” 24 March 2010.

“Avoiding Plagiarism: APA Citation and Source Use.” 22 January 2010.

“Writing Your Résumé: Content, Structure, and Process.” 5 November 2009.

“Strategies for Successful Research-based Writing.” 28 October 2009.

“Outlining.” 24 April 2009.

“APA Citation.” 25 March 2009.

“Creating Effective Professional Writing: Sales Proposals, Cover Letters, and Résumés.” 26 February 2009.

“Using Sources in Researched Writing.” 24 October 2008.
SERVICE—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Service to the Profession:

Reviewing Articles for Journals:

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Summer 2010, Spring 2010

Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, Summer 2010

Reviewing Proposals for Conference:

National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Spring 2010

Hugh Burns Best Dissertation Award Selection Committee (co-chair), 2008

Computers and Writing Conference, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

Computers and Writing Conference, 2009, 2008, 2007

First-Year Writing Committee, Department of English, Fall 2008–present

Speakers Committee, Department of English, Fall 2009–present

Public Speaking for Academics Workshop, Department of English, 14 October 2009

Job Search Workshop, Department of English, 16 September 2009 and 26 September 2008

Mentor, undergraduate majors

Academic Integrity Committee, Fall 2009–present (elected)

Tutorial Advisory Board, Fall 2008–present

“Christopher Isherwood and Virginia Woolf: Diaries and Fleeting Impressions of Fascism,” Modern Language Studies 38.1 (2008).

“The Familiar Attractions of Fascism in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” Journal of Modern Literature 30:2 (2007).

“Women in Fascist Biopolitics: The Case of Olive Hawks,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 35:3 (2006).

Review of Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (U of Virginia P, 2006) by Peter J. Kalliney. Journal of the Space Between. 4:1 (2008).

Review of The Will to Create as a Woman: Virginia Woolf (Carroll & Graf, 2005) by Ruth Gruber, Woolf Studies Annual, 2006 (Pace UP).
Conference Presentations:

(2011) “Sexuality and Citizenship in British Propaganda.” To be delivered at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Los Angeles.

(2011) “The Spy Thriller in Iraq.” To be delivered at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Los Angeles.

(2009) “Teaching World War II Film in the British Survey,” Midwest British Studies Conference, University of Pittsburgh.

(2009) “Agatha Christie’s Imperial Adventuress,” Middlebrow Cultures Conference. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

(2009) “Women and Work in British Documentary Film and Fiction,” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 Conference, University of Notre Dame.

(2008) Panelist, Modernism and Theory Roundtable, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nashville, TN.

(2007) “Hannah Arendt and Lionel Trilling: After the Holocaust,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Long Beach, CA.

(2007) Panelist, “Archival Research in Literary Studies,” Center for Interpretive Qualitative Research (CIQR), Duquesne University

(2006) “Elizabeth Bowen’s Political Pastiche,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, OK.

(2006) “The Politics of the Aristocracy in Inter-war Country House Novels,” Thirties Genres: Genre, Writing and Culture in Britain in the 1930s, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.

(2006) “Fleeting Impressions of the 1930s: The Travel Diaries of Christopher Isherwood and Virginia Woolf,” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 Conference, Bucknell University.

(2006) Chair, “Colonialism and National Transformations” Panel, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 Conference, Bucknell University.

(2005) “Theories of Women’s Consumption in British Fascist Literature,” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Washington DC.

(2005) “The East End in British Fiction of the 1930s,” Literary London Conference, Kingston University, London, UK.
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

2-2 teaching load, Fall 2009 to Fall 2010—Director of Undergraduate Studies

3-2 teaching load, Fall 2005 to Spring 2009
Undergraduate majors required courses:

ENGL 300W Critical Issues in Literary Studies

ENGL 218W Survey of British Literature, 1798 to 2000
Undergraduate electives and University Core Curriculum:

ENGL 300-level British Film (cross-listed with Film Studies)

ENGL 300-level Introduction to Film

Core 102 (Introduction to Literature)

ENGL 450W Twentieth-Century British Travel Literature (senior seminar)

ENGL 400-level Popular Genres in British Literature and Film (cross-listed with Film Studies)

ENGL 450W The Country House in Twentieth-Century British Culture (senior seminar, cross-listed with Film Studies)

ENGL 400-level Twentieth-Century Literature of the British Empire

ENGL 400-level Film Melodrama (cross-listed with Film Studies)

ENGL 400-level British Modernism
Graduate courses:

Introduction to Literary Theory

The Country House in Twentieth-Century British Culture

British Literature from 1890 to 1945

British Modernism

Introduction to Postcolonial Theory

Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury

Independent Study: Marxist Theory

Independent Study: Modernism
Dissertation and M.A. Work:

Dissertation, director:

Chair. Jennifer Lauren. Nationalism and sexuality in modernism: Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf

Reader. Gregory Harold. High modernism, commodity culture, and book history: Wilde, Joyce, Conrad, Pound, and Woolf

Reader. Justin Kishbaugh. Imagism and transatlantic modernism

Reader. Beth Buhot. Suburbs in contemporary American film and fiction

Reader. Justin Jakovac. Irish modernism: James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett

Reader. Rita Allison Kondrath. War, trauma, and modernist women’s writing: H.D., Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Townsend-Warner. Defended Spring 2010.

Reader. Julia Kloo. Postcolonial country house fiction. Defended Fall 2009.

SERVICE—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Service to the Profession:
(2010) Manuscript Review, European Review of History (journal, University of Manchester, UK)

(2010) Manuscript Review, The Space Between (journal, Monmouth University)

(2008) Manuscript Review, Religion and Literature (journal, University of Notre Dame)

(2006) Anthology Review, Longman, Boston, MA

(2009-) Director of Undergraduate Studies (Department of English)

(2010-) Faculty mentor to Assistant Professor Emad Mirmotahari (Department of English)

(2009-10) Chair, founder, and organizer, Dissertation Writing Workshop (Department of English)

(2009-10) Member of Hiring Committee: Global/Postcolonial tenure-track Assistant Professor (Department of English)

(2007-8) Chair, Speakers Committee (Department of English)

(2008-) Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee (Department of English)

(2008) Member of Hiring Committee: two non-tenure track full-time Instructors (Department of English)

(2007, 2008) Member of Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Selections Committee (Department of English)

(2007-8) Member of Graduate Admissions Committee (Department of English)

(2004-6) Member of Graduate Committee and Graduate Admissions Committee (Department of English)

(2005-6) Chair, Film Studies Committee (Department of English)

(2004-5) Member of Speakers Committee (Department of English)

(2005-6) Member of Creative Speakers Committee (Department of English)

(2005-6) Member of Hiring Committee: Fiction writer, tenure-track Assistant Professor (Department of English)
College:

(2005, 2007) Member of Women and Gender Studies Essay Award Committee

(2010) Faculty Development Fund, Awards Granting Committee (university-wide)

“The Satanic Question and the Poetics of Creation.” In John Milton: “Reasoning Words.” Ed. Kristin A. Pruitt and Charles W. Durham (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2008), 88-114.

“Allusion and Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus,” SEL 49.2 (Spring 2009): 311-331.

“Satan's Poetry: Fallen Art from Homer to Spenser in Paradise Lost.” Cornell University, 2006.

“The Ethics of Pity in Shakespeare’s King Lear.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Montréal, QC, April 2010.

“Such Wonder Claims Attention Due: The Epistemology of the Fall in Paradise Lost.” International Milton Symposium, London, U.K., July 2008.

“‘Say First What Cause’: Satan, Eve, and the Reasons for the Fall.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY, April 2008.

“Herbert, Donne, and the Absence of God.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Miami, FL, Spring 2007.

“Allusion and the Language of Difference in Paradise Lost.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Riverside, CA, Fall 2006.

“Satan's Poetry: The Art of Fallenness in Paradise Lost.” Conference on John Milton, Middle Tennessee State University, Fall 2005.
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

2-2 teaching load, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 (new hire)

ENGL 519 Milton and 17^th Century Religious Poetry, Fall 2010

ENGL 217 Survey of British Literature I, Fall 2010

Undergraduate Studies Committee, Fall 2010

“History, Self, and Gender in Ode to Psyche,” in Nicholas Roe, Keats and History (Cambridge University Press, rpt., 2007)

“History and Vision in Ann Yearsley’s Rural Lyre” (The Age of Johnson, 2010; pp. 223 – 295.)

a) Are you a Junior or a Senior? Expected graduation date:

b) Non duq email address:

c) Phone:

d) Permanent mailing address:

e) Favorite social networking website:

f) Other:
What is your concentration within the English major?

a) Literature: 26

b) Writing: 17

c) Theater: 2

d) Film Studies: 2
How many course requirements in the English major do you have left before you can graduate?

a) 0: 30

b) 1: 5

c) 2: 5

d) 3: 5

e) 4: 1

b) A career in management, marketing, banking, consulting, finance, or other corporate work. Please specify: 1 marketing

c) A career as an entrepreneur. Please specify: 0

d) A career in social services or public administration (social work, policy, or other government work). Please specify: FBI: 1

e) A career in teaching elementary or secondary education. Please specify: 13 (7 specified secondary)

f) A career in theater, web, film, or multimedia. Please specify: 2 (performance/administration) 3 (1 writing for theater; 1 writing for t.v.)

g) A career in a non-profit organization. Please specify: 1

h) Graduate program in the humanities. Please specify: English (12); psychology (1); Theater (1); Theology (1)

i) Professional graduate program (law, business, medicine, or other). Please specify: Education (1): Law (7); Information science (1)

j) Other. Please specify: 1 ministry

b) English club events: 3 students: “several” x

c) Sigma Tau Delta events/meetings: 1 student: 1-2 x , total

d) English Dept. colloquium lectures: 3 students: 3x, total; 2 students: 1x per year

e) Visiting lecturers or visiting creative writers: 4 students: 10x, total; 2 students; 1x per year; 1 student (one per semester; 3 students: numerous

f) English Department-sponsored service learning: 0

g) Internship: 1 (Pittsburgh magazine and Local Steal Magazine)

h) Lexicon (lit magazine) events/meetings: ______5 students ___