Jeremy Cushman

Western Washington University

Humanities 363
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
www.jeremycushman.com

Education
PhD in English, Rhetoric and Composition (August, 2013)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Primary area of study: Rhetoric & Composition
Dissertation: A $600 Piece of Paper: Rhetorical Action in an Automotive Shop

MA, English Studies (May 2007)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thesis: Prosopopoeia and Space Pods: The Need and Anxiety of a Literary Trope

BA, English Studies (May 2004)

Whitworth University, Spokane, WA

Academic Appointments
Western Washington University
Director of Composition
Assistant Professor of English
Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator
Writing Studies Minor Advisor
Purdue University
Assistant Director of the Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Program (2012-13)
Graduate Instructor in FYW Program and Professional & Technical Writing (2009-13)

Scholarship
Recasting Writing and Voicing Bodies: Podcasts Across A Writing Program With Shannon
Kelly. SoundWriting Pedagogies. Eds. Kyle Stedman & Courtney Danforth, Utah State Presss
Computers and Composition Digital Press (Forthcoming, 2016)
Ethnographic Actions and Small Stories: Making Sense of Auto Technicians Making Sense
Research Methods Companion For Literacies In Practice (Forthcoming, 2016)
Distributed Work, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop Literacies in Practice. Eds. Pam
Takayoshi & Patrick Thomas, Routledge Press (2016)
Write Me a Better Story: Writing Stories as a Diagnostic and Repair Practice for Automotive
Technicians Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 45.2 (2015) pp. 189-208
Our Unstable Artistry: The Counterprofessional Practice of Donald Schns ProblemSetting Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 28.3 (2014) pp. 327-351
Ulmers Electracy: An Archive. With Alex Layne. Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and
Pedagogy, 16.2 (2012) http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/

Reviews & Other Selected Publications

Talking Ambient Rhetoric: A Wayward Conversation An Interview with Thomas Rickert.
Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies In Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. (2013) http://

tundra.csd.sc.edu/itineration/rickert-ambient-rhetoric
The Insect Technics of Rhetoric: Review of Jussi Parikkas Insect Media. Enculteration: A Journal
of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, 14 (2012)
Technical Communication Todays Instructor Manual. With Richard Johnson-Sheehan and Enrique
Reynoso. 4th ed. (2011). New York: Longman. (Edited volume, not peer-reviewed)

Works In Progress
Collaboration as Techne Available to the WPA Co-authored with Jen Talbot (University of
Central Arkansas and Megan Schoen (LaSalle University). (Completed Draft; Revising for
submission to WPA Journal)
Writing Work (in progress, a collection of podcasts exploring the ethical, practical, funny,
and sometimes profound issues that arise for Writing Program Administration)
Figuring Out All The Paperwork: Retroactive Writing as a Threshold Concept For Expert
Automotive Technicians. (in progress, research completed and drafting for submission to

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication)

Selected Presentations
Regional:
2015 Ambiance Chaser: On The Trail of Diffuse Rhetorical Agency Western States Rhetoric
and Literacy Conference (Tempe AZ)

2013

Automotive Technicians, Storytelling Research, and Writing Mundane Repair

Orders RMMLA (Vancouver, WA)

2012

Practicing Disharmony Modern Brains Conference (Urbana Champaign, IL)

2011

Composing Inside The Triangle: Identity Negotiation between the WPA, Teacher, and
Student Writer. MEGAA Symposium (Oxford, OH)

National:
2015 Collaboration as Techne Available to The WPA Council of Writing Program
Administration (Boise, ID)
2015

Un/Becoming The WPA: What Difference Does a Generation Make? Conference on

College Composition Communication (Tampa, FL)

2014

Writing Diagnostics Narratives and Translating Auto Repair Conference on College

Composition Communication (Indianapolis, IN)

2013

Crafting Mundane Social Media Stories Computers and Writing Conference

(Frostberg, MD)

2012

Selling a $600 Piece of Paper: Automotive Technicians and Teaching WritingCouncil

for Programs in Technical And Scientific Communication (Houghton, MI)

2012

Temporary Stability: Problem-Setting in Computers and Writing Computers and

Writing Conference (Raleigh, NC)

2012

Practices of Procedural Rhetoric: Distributed Cognition and Writing Research

Conference on College Composition Communication (St. Louis, MO)

2011

Carelessly Engaging Web 2.0 Technologies: J. Hillis Millers Parasitical Critic, Gregory
Ulmers Digital Assignments, and Why Students Care Less. Conference on College
Composition Communication (Atlanta, GA)

2011

Writing Privately in Public: Digital Machines, Portability, and the Writing Space.
Computers and Writing Conference (Ann Arbor, MI)

2010

Clicked to the Cross: A Misleading Sense of Agency and Self in Online Christian
Communities. Computers and Writing Conference (West Lafayette, IN)

Teaching
Western Washington University, Assistant Professor,
(2013 to present)
ENG 101 Writing and Critical Inquiry: Writing Your Way Into Western
ENG 300 Independent Study: 2 credit service learning project
ENG 301 Intro To Writing Studies: Writing as Mapping/Mapping Writing
ENG 302 Intro to Technical and Professional Writing: Making Meaning
ENG 371 Rhetorical Analysis: Persuasive and Provocative Objects
ENG 401 Rhetorical Genres: Podcasting and Rhetorical Attention
ENG 402 Advanced Technical and Professional Writing: Service Learning Course
ENG 462 Topics in Professional Writing: Public Writing/Storytelling Research
ENG 510 Rhetoric (Graduate Seminar): Public Rhetorics
ENG 510 Rhetoric (Graduate Seminar): Invention
ENG 513 Teaching College Composition
ENG 594 Practicum in Teaching
Purdue University, Graduate Teaching Assistant,

(2009 to 2013)
ENG 106 Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics
ENG 306 Introduction to Professional Writing: What Will Professional and Technical Writers Do Now?
ENG 420 Business Writing: Compelling Communication Practices
ENG 421 Technical Writing: Building With Words
ENG 421Y: Technical Writing Online Course: Building With Words
ENGL 505a Approaches to Teaching College English I
ENGL 505b Approaches to Teaching College English II

Indiana University East, Instructor

(2007-2012)
ENG W130 Principles of Composition
ENG W131 Elementary Composition I
ENG W132 Elementary Composition II
ENG W132 Elementary Composition II Online
ENG W231 Professional Writing Skills Online
ENG W230 Science Writing Online
ENG W500: Issues and Approaches in Teaching Composition Online

Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH, Lecturer

(2009-2010)
ENG 111 Composition and Rhetoric (Laptop Section): Writing Place
ENG 112 Composition and Literature: Religious Identities and Digital Cultures

Service
Department
Director of Composition (2015-Present)
Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator (2013-Present)
Writing Studies Search Committee (2016)
Mentor to Graduate TAs assigned to our 2-credit writing course, 197A/110 (2014-2015)
Serve as liaison between our 402 service learning students and local non-profits for
whom they work (2014-Present)
Writing Studies Minor Advisor (2014-2016)
Member/Chair of the Writing Studies Committee (2013-Present)
Member of ad hoc committee that designed and implemented 197A (Fall 2013-Present)
Member of the ad hoc committee that developed the Western Writing Lexicon
University
Community Engagement Fellow (2015-2016)
Diversity Teach-In Presenter (2015)
Western Reads Selection Committee (2014, 2015, 2016)
SummerStart SIG: The English 101 Program (2015)
SummerStart Advisor (Summer 2015)
SummerStart Advisor (Summer 2014)
Honors Thesis Director (2014-15)

Community
Serve on the Bellingham Food Co-ops Member Affairs Committee (2014-2016)
Volunteer Writer and Designer (alongside my Service Learning students) with several
local non-profit organizations including Communities-In-Schools, Northwest
Girl scouts, Bellingham YWCA, Bellingham Music Club, and Whatcom
Volunteer Center (2013-present)

Honors and Awards

2016
2013
2012
2011
2011
2010

WWU RSP Summer Teaching Grant

WWUs Teaching-Learning Academy Writing Research Fellowship
Automotive Service Association of Washington Ascettes Award Grant for academic
work in the field of automotive repair
Parlor Press Award for Best Digital Essay: Teacher as Audience:Dialectic of Desire
in the Composition Class
Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University
TheJump (Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects) Award Grant for Multimedia
Workshop at the Computers and Writing Conference

2010

Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University

2009

Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University

2009

The Ross Fellowship from Purdue Universitys Graduate School