Caroline E.

Dadas
315 Dickson Hall

www.carolinedadas.org

Montclair State University

708.420.6231
Montclair, NJ 07043
[email protected]
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Education
Ph. D., Rhetoric and Composition, Miami University, 2011.
Specializations: Digital Rhetorics, Public Sphere Theories, Civic Rhetorics, Queer
Rhetorics, Professional Writing
M.A., English, DePaul University, 2005.
B.A., English; Minor in Secondary Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001.

Faculty Appointment
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Associate Professor of Writing Studies. 2016
present.
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Assistant Professor of Writing Studies. 20112016.

Publications
Articles
Messy Methods: Queer Methodological Approaches to Researching Social Media.
Computers and
Composition. Vol. 40, Issue 1 (June 2016): 60-72.
E. Pluribus Plures: DMAC and its Keywords. With Casey Boyle, Lisa Blankenship, Laura
Micciche, Janine
Morris, Christian Smith, Stephanie Vie, and Melanie Yergeau. Computers and
Composition 36. Special Issue: CIWIC, DMAC, and Technology Professional
Development in Rhetoric and Composition. (2015).
Toward an Economy of Literate Practice in Composition Studies: Possibilities for Political
Disruption.
With Justin Jory. Literacy in Composition Studies. Special Issue: The New Activism.
Vol. 3, No.1 (2015).
Embedded in Business: Composing a Curricular Circle. With Kate Ronald, Abby Dubisar,
and Denise

Landrum. Composition Forum. Vol. 30 (2014).

Reaching the Profession: The Locations of the Rhetoric and Composition Job Market.
College Composition and Communication. Vol. 65, Number 1. Special Issue: The
Profession (2013).
Confessions of a Techno-Rhetorician. Computers and Composition Online. Special
Issue: Deploying 21st Century Writing on the Economic Frontlines (2013).
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/spring2013_special_issue/Dadas/
(Re)Tweeting in the Service of Activism: Digital Composition and Circulation in the
Occupy Wall Street Movement. With Joel Penney. New Media and Society. Vol. 15 No.
3 (2013).
Inventing the Election: Civic Participation and Presidential Candidates' Websites.
Computers and
Composition. Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2008): 416-431.
Writing Oneself, Writing the Presidential Election. First Monday. Vol. 13, Number 2-4
(2008). Online.
http://tiny.cc/NZOml

Book Chapters
"Interview Practices as Accessibility: The Academic Job Market" Cripping the Computer: A
Critical Moment in
Composition Studies. Melanie Yergeau and Elizabeth Brewer, eds. Computers and
Composition
Digital Press. Forthcoming, 2017.
Hashtag Activism: The Promise and Risk of Attention. Social Writing/Social Media:
Pedagogy, Presentation,
and Publics. Stephanie Vie and Douglas Walls, eds. WAC Clearinghouse: Perspectives
on Writing. Forthcoming 2017.
Using YouTube to Write Ourselves: The Ongoing Online Activism of a Gay Family." Pleasures
of Identity:
Living Queer. Jacqueline Rhodes and Ellen Gil-Gomes, eds. Forthcoming.

Edited collection
Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects. With Will Banks and Matt Cox.
(Forthcoming 2017).

Reviews
Review of The Locations of Composition. Christopher J. Keller and Christian R. Weisser, eds.
Pedagogy, Volume
9.2 (2009).
Review of Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary Language Approach by M. Jimmie
Killingsworth.

Composition Forum, Volume 17 (Spring 2007).

Refereed Presentations
More Stories on the Perils of Not Paying Attention, or, If You Dont Know Where Youre Going,
Youll
Probably End up Somewhere Else. With Lynn Lewis and Joshua Daniel-Wariya.
Computers and
Writing. Rochester, NY. 2016.
Demystifying the Job Market: Taking Action Towards Transparency Through Data and
Narrative. With Jim
Ridolfo, Carrie Leverenz, Chris Friend, and Amanda Licastro. Conference of College
Composition and Communication. Houston, TX 2016. Proposal accepted.
Hashtag Activism as Intervention. Computers and Writing. Stout, WI. 2015.
Risky, Risque, & Relevant: Queer Epistemologies & Pedagogies in Writing Studies.
Conference of College
Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. 2015.
Accessing the Profession: The Locations of the Rhetoric and Composition Job Market.
Conference of College
Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. 2014.
Social Media and Research Ethics: Emerging Methodological Approaches. With Kate
Ronald, Lisa
Blankenship, Abby Dubisar, Ann Updike, Gillian Byrne, Halina Harvey. Writing
Research Across Borders. Paris, France. 2014.
Repurposing the Occupation: How Occupy Wall Street became a Virtual Relief
Organization. Computers and
Writing. Frostburg, MD. 2013.
Constructing a nationwide civic movement with social media: The role of multimodality in
Occupy
Wall Street. Conference of College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV.
2013.
Remixing the Boss. Glory Days: A Springsteen Symposium. Monmouth, NJ. 2012.
Fighting for Civil Rights on YouTube: Identity Construction in a Gay Familys Videos.
Computers and
Writing. Raleigh, NC. 2012.
Queer Online Spaces as Sites of Feminist Research Practices. Feminisms and Rhetorics.
Mankato, MN. 2011.
Queer Methodological Approaches to Online Research. Conference of College Composition
and
Communication. Atlanta, GA. 2011.

Planted in Business: A Writing Center Grafted to a Discipline. With Kate Ronald, Lisa
Blankenship, Ann
Updike, Abby Dubisar. European Writing Center Association Conference. Paris, France.
2010.
Now What? Negotiating the Methodological Challenges of Digital Research. Computers
and Writing. West
Lafayette, IN. 2010.
Audio Composing as a Means of Accessing Techno-rhetoric. With Bre Garrett. Conference
of College
Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. 2010.
Toward a Methodology for the Participatory Web. Qualitative Research Network.
Conference of College
Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. 2010.
Remixing the Election: YouTube as a Site of Community Deliberation. Feminisms and
Rhetorics. East
Lansing, MI. 2009.
Digital Writing Assessment: Designing and Evaluating Multimodal Assignments, Courses
and Programs.
With Jason Palmeri, Bre Garrett, Aurora Matzke, Cindy Lewiecki-Wilson, Ann Updike,
Abby Dubisar, Denise Landrum, Joseph Cheatle. Conference of College Composition
and Communication. San Francisco, CA. 2009.
Writing the Election in Political Blogs. Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. 2008.
Civic Action through Invention: Presidential Candidates Websites as Enabling Participation.
Rhetoric
Society of America. Seattle, WA. 2008.
Invention as Social Action: The Affordances of Information Design. With Bre Garrett and
Kerrie Carsey.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. 2008.
Breaking the Marble Ceiling, Feminizing the Interface? Nancy Pelosis Official Websites as
Civic
Participation. Feminisms and Rhetorics. Little Rock, AK. 2007.
Through the Autoethnographic Lens: Negotiating the Experience of Teaching First-Year
Writing. Research
Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New
York, NY. 2007.
Negotiating Creative Writing in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom. Research
Network Forum at the
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. 2006.

Teaching
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Research in Writing Studies Graduate Seminar (ENWR 588)

Digital Writing Graduate Seminar (ENWR 600)
Rhetorical Theory (ENGL 280)
Digital Writing (ENWR 208)
Technical Writing (ENWR 207)
LGBT Literature (ENGL 250)
Introduction to GLBTQ Studies (GLQS 200)
Introduction to Professional and Public Writing (ENWR 201)
Political Rhetorics (ENWR 250)
Writing in the Major (ENWR 220)
Cooperative Education: English (ENGL 301)
Workplace Writing (ENWR 206)
College Writing: Intellectual Prose [hybrid and traditional] (ENWR 105)
Student teacher observer, 2012-present
Teaching Writing in English (Global Education)

Graduate Advising
Thesis director, Lynette Surie. Reclaiming Smart-mouth uppity bitch: Redefining
Hegemonic Femininity on
AMCs The Walking Dead. Montclair State University, 2016.
Thesis committee, Peter Florek. "Pedagogy of Self: Promoting Student Identity of First Year
Writers through
Writing Beyond the Classroom. Montclair State University, 2016.
Thesis committee, Joe DeGuzman. Writing and Seeking Truth: A Case for More Balanced
Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts. Montclair State University, 2016.
Thesis committee, Meagan DeJong. Canon Fodder in the Institutional, Correctional Vessel:
The Missing Voice
of the Student in Literary Canon and Curricula Discourse. Montclair State University,
2016.
Thesis committee, Alicia Remolde. Bridges, not Towers: Connecting Universities and Local
Communities for
Community Writing Projects. Montclair State University, 2015.
Thesis director, Writing Transfer: Preparing High School Students for College and Career
Composition. Brett
Conrad, Montclair State University, 2015.
Thesis committee, Robo-teaching? Automated Essay Scoring and K-12 Writing Pedagogy.
Swati Viren,
Montclair State University, 2015.
Thesis committee, Academia, Here I Come! Plain Language and Academese in the PostSecondary
Academy. Heather Lockhart, Montclair State University, 2015.

Thesis committee, A Classroom Stuck in Time: The Theoretical Ambitions of Curriculum and
the Reality of
Classroom Practice. Rebecca McGrath, Montclair State University, 2015.
Thesis committee, Not your Grandfathers Atari: Video Games and their Connections to
Classical Literature
through The Inferno and Silent Hill. Colleen DellaPorta. Montclair State University,
2014.
Thesis director, Free Schools and Self-Efficacy Beliefs: Research for an Alternative.
Vanessa Phillips.
Montclair State University, 2014.
Thesis director, The Use of Visual Rhetoric in 9/11 Literature to Address Trauma. Jennifer
Agens. Montclair
State University, 2014.
Thesis director, Beneath the Frock and Beyond the Original Plumbing: A Visual Rhetorical
Analysis of
Transgender Culture in Transgender Magazines. Dayna Arcurio. Montclair State
University, 2013.
Thesis director, Political Twittoric: The Rhetorical Use of Twitter by the Obama 2012
Presidential
Campaign. Kainat Abidi. Montclair State University, 2013.
Thesis committee, The Best Practices for Teaching Writing to Post-Secondary Students with
Acquired Brain Injuries. Julie Candio-Sekel. Montclair State University, 2013.
Thesis committee, The Effects of Tracking and Labeling on Students Motivation to Write.
Timothy Donohue. Montclair State University, 2012.

Service
Montclair State University
Coordinator, Terhune Lecture Series. AY 14-15.
Member, Women, Gender, and Queer Studies Steering Committee. Fall 2014-present.
Faculty Associate, Fulbright Scholar Anastasia Kaslova. AY 14-15.
Member, Hybrid Teaching Committee. 2013-2014.
Proposer for new courses: Digital Writing, Grant Writing, and Queer Fiction. 2012-2014.
Search Committee Member, English Education tenure track position. AY 12-13.
Member, English Department curriculum committee. 2012-present.
Member, LGBT Minor committee. 2011-present.

Member, First Year Writing Committee. 2011-present.

Proposal reviewer, Emerging Learning Design Conference. 2012.
Interviewer, English Education Program Admissions. 2012-2014.

National
Elected At-Large Member, Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition.
June 2016-March
2018.
Member, Local Committee for Personalized Learning Consortium: Association of Public and
Land-Grant
Universities. Fall 2015-present.
Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, fall 2015.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Pedagogy. 2015-present.
Reviewer, The Journal of Homosexuality. 2015-present.
Reviewer, New Media and Society. 2014-present.
Member, College of Composition and Communication Task Force on Developing a Database
of Writing
Programs. March 2014-March 2015.
Participant, Constructing Queer Digital Spaces: An Overview, A History, A Future.
Video shown at keynote presentation by Will Banks and Jonathan Alexander.
Computers and Writing. 2012.
Panel Chair, Creative Writing and Lived-Experience. Conference on College Composition
and
Communication. St. Louis, MO. 2012.
Book reviewer, What We Wish We had Known. Smith, Trixie and Allison Smith, eds.
Southlake, TX:
Fountainhead Press, 2012.
Stage One Reviewer, CCCC proposals. 2010-2012.
Participant-researcher, CCCC Queer Caucus Institutional Website Research Project. 2010.
Local Arrangements Committee, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Chicago, IL. 2005.

Administration
Acting Director, First Year Writing, Fall 2015.
Conducted classroom observations for nine First Year Writing instructors.

Coordinated professional development opportunities for all instructors

Ran monthly meetings for full-time faculty and the First Year Writing Committee,
respectively
Met with full-time and adjunct faculty as needed
Met with representatives from initiatives associated with First-Year Writing as needed
(i.e.,
Montclair Book, Red Hawk Advantage, etc.)
Coordinated administration of the program with associate directors on a weekly
basis
Director, Professional and Public Writing Minor. Montclair State University, Fall 2013-present.
Serve as advisor for incoming and current Professional and Public Writing minors
Coordinate with the Department Chair to schedule courses
Advertise the minor via print-based and social media channels
Supervise the curricula of all courses in the minor

Invited Presentations
Keynote speaker, the University of Central Florida's Department of Writing and Rhetoric
Upper-Division
Symposium. March 30, 2016.
Guest speaker, The Rhetorics of Public Spheres seminar. Miami University, Oxford, OH.
February 14, 2013.
Guest speaker, Cultural Studies in Technical and Professional Communication seminar,
Michigan State
University. East Lansing, MI. September 24, 2013.

Professional Development
Rhetoric Society of America Institute. Rhetorics and Networks. University of Wisconsin
Madison, June 7-10,
2015. (Competitively selected).
Digital Media and Composition Seminar. The Ohio State University. Summer 2008.

Awards
Supervisor for Graduate Research Assistant, AY 15-16. (Competitively awarded).
Outstanding Dedication to Student Education Award. Montclair State University, 2015.
Outstanding Teacher Award, Miami University English Department, 2009-2010.
English Department Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2010.

Software
Web design: Dreamweaver, Wordpress
Video: iMovie, MovieMaker
Graphics: Photoshop
Sound: Audacity

Professional Affiliations
Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition
National Council of Teachers of English
College Composition and Communication
Conference on College Composition and Communication Queer Caucus

References
Dr. Michele Simmons
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513.470.2707
[email protected]
Dr. Heidi McKee
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513.529.2635
[email protected]
Dr. Kate Ronald
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513.524.5182
[email protected]
Dr. Jason Palmeri
Department of English
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
614.353.7325
[email protected]

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