Tanya K. Rodrigue, Ph.D.

Salem State University, Salem, MA

[email protected]

http://www.tanyarodrigue.com
w. 978-542-6702

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, August 2010.
Dissertation: Listening Across the Curriculum: TA Preparation in the Teaching of
Writing Drawing on writing across the curriculum (WAC) scholarship, composition TA
training scholarship, and qualitative research findings, I reveal the importance in training
disciplinary TAs to teach writing. I present principles, training methods, issues, program
development methods, and possible structures for the (re)construction of WAC TA
training programs.
Committee: Rebecca Moore Howard (Director), Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Eileen Schell,
Collin Gifford Brooke, Chris Anson
M.A. in English (Concentration in Composition), University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston,
MA, December 2005. Summa Cum Laude.
Thesis: Reconnecting the Fragmented Language of Trauma: Toni Morrisons
Representation of a Composing Process of Trauma
B.A. in English, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, May 2001.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Coordinator, Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) Program, Salem State University, Salem, MA
Assistant Professor, Salem State University, Salem, MA
ENL 317: Digital Writing (2 sections, Fall 2015)
ENG 833: Digital Writing (Spring 2015)
ENL 110: Foundations of Writing (2 sections, Fall 2014)
ENG 817: Contemporary Approaches to the Teaching of Writing (Summer 2014,
Spring 2013)
ENL 317: Internet Writing (Fall 1 section 2013, 2 sections Spring 2015)
ENL 101: Composition 1 (2 sections, Fall 2012)
ENL 300: Advanced Writing (2 sections, Fall 2012)
ENL 102: Composition 2 (2 sections Spring 2013)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

ENG 101: First-Year Writing (2 sections)

ENG 298: Advanced Argument (2 section)
ENG 298: Digital Writing (1 section)
Editor (1 year) Graduate Student Editing Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Teaching Assistant, Teaching Associate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
WRT 104: Introduction to College-Level Writing
SummerStart, HEOP Program (2 sections)
WRT 105: Practices of Academic Writing (2 sections)
WRT 195: Critical Research and Writing for Transfer Students (1 section)
WRT 205: Critical Research and Writing (3 sections)
Teaching Assistant, Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
ENG 101: Freshman English (2 sections)
Adjunct Faculty, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA.
College Writing 102 (1 section)
Peer Writing Center Tutor (3 years), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Professional Writing Center Tutor (1 year), Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA.

SCHOLARSHIP
Digital Reading: Genre Awareness as a Tool for Reading Comprehension. Pedagogy 17
(2017). Forthcoming.
TAs and the Teaching of Writing Across the Curriculum. Special Issue in Across the Disciplines.
Co-editor. Anticipated Publication: Fall 2015.
An Epistemological Process for Multimodal Assignment Design. Special Issue in Journal of
Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies. 3.1 (July 2015).
Listening Across the Curriculum: What Disciplinary TAs Can Teach Us about TA Professional
Development in the Teaching of Writing. Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher
Education. Summer/Fall 2013.
A Portrait of a ScholarIn Progress: An Interview with Louise Wetherbee Phelps.
Composition Forum. 47 (Spring, 2013).
PostSecret as Imagetext: The Reclamation of Traumatic Experiences and Identity. Eds. Ofra
Amihay and Lauren Walsh. The Future of Text & Image. April, 2012.

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The (In)visible World of Teaching Assistants in the Disciplines: Preparing TAs to Teach
Writing. Across the Disciplines. May, 2012.
Review of Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom by Kristie S.
Fleckenstein. Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. 10.2
(2011).
Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences. Writing and Pedagogy. 2.2 (2010).
Co-authored with Rebecca Moore Howard and Tricia Serviss.

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES, WIC COORDINATOR

Founder, Designer and Facilitator. WIC Seminar Program. Salem State University, Salem, MA,
2013-present.
Founder, Designer and Facilitator. WIC Brown Bag Lunch Series. Salem State University,
Salem, MA, 2013-present.
Founder, Writer, Editor. Composing on Campus column in The Log. Salem State University,
Salem, MA, 2013-2015.
Founder, Writer, Editor. Salem State University Writing Intensive Curriculum Website:
salemstate.edu/WIC. Salem State University, Salem, MA, 2013-present.
Founder, Writer, Editor. WIC Seminar Program Website: http://tanyarodrigue.com/ssuwic. Salem
State University, Salem, MA, 2013-present.
Co-Creator and Co-Organizer. Writing Vertically: SSU Writing Pedagogy Conference (annual).
Salem State University, Salem, MA, May 2014 & 2015.
Founder, Writer, Editor. Write to Learn, Learn to Write. Newsletter. Salem State University,
Salem, MA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & TALKS

Digital Reading Practices. EngagingPractices:AUMassBostonConferenceontheTeaching
ofComposition,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston,Boston,MA,March2015.
A Pedagogical Framework for Multimodal Assignment Design. EngagingPractices:AUMass
BostonConferenceontheTeachingofComposition,UniversityofMassachusettsBoston,
Boston,MA,April2014.
Writing-Designated Courses in the New General Education Curriculum at SSU. Core Kick-Off
Event, Salem State University, Salem, MA, June 2013.

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A Vertical Model of Writing Instruction: Exposing the Opportunities in Writing-Intensive

Courses. College of Arts and Sciences Retreat, Salem State University, Salem, MA, January
2013.
Rhetorical Dwelling in the 2012 Presidential Campaign. Conference on College Composition
and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 2013.
Crosstalk Among Colleagues: Developing WAC TA Training Programs. Writing Program
Administration, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 2011.
Students Use of Sources in Classes Across the Curriculum. Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2011.
Teaching Genre and Genre Awareness: Helping Our Students Write Effectively in the
Disciplines. Faculty Lunch Talk Series, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, October 2010.
Understanding Students Use of Sources through Collaborative Research. Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2010. Workshop.
Is There a TA in Sight?: Rethinking Who Counts as Faculty in WAC Training Sessions.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2010.
Arc(hiving) Knowledge: Reconfiguring Collaborative Feminist Methodology as Collectivity.
Feminisms and Rhetorics, Lansing, Michigan, October 2009.
The (In)visible Worlds of Teaching Assistants Across the Curriculum: Guiding TAs in the
Teaching of Writing. SUNY Council on Writing, Buffalo, NY, April 2009.
Beyond Citation: Uncovering Student Source Use. National Conference on the Teaching of
English, New York, NY, November 2007.
Reading Autobiography: An Innovative Approach to the Teaching of Writing. Center for the
Improvement of Teaching, Boston, MA, January 2006.
Reconnecting Fragmented Language: Toni Morrisons Representation of a Composing Process
of Trauma. Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston,
MA, December 2005. (Organizer, Moderator, and Presenter)
Harriet and John Jacobs: An Enduring Sibling Bond. University of Massachusetts Boston,
Graduate Student Conference, Boston, MA, May 2005.

WORKSHOPS & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

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W-II and W-III: What are They?: W-II and W-III: Accounts from the Field; Conducting
Peer Review in Writing-Designated Courses. General Education and Assessment Conference.
Salem State University, Salem, MA, May 2015.
Designing Effective Multimodal Assignments in Writing Courses. BRAWN Summer Institute.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, May 2015.
Multimodal Literacy. Center for Teaching Innovation, Salem State University, Salem, MA,
May 2014.
Making Waves with Disciplinary Writing Fellows. 12th International Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, June 2014.
Multimodal Composition in First-Year Writing. BRAWN Summer Institute. Boston University,
Boston, MA June 2013.
Composition and Rhetoric as a Discipline. Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies
(SILCS). Wheaton College, Norton, MA, June 2011.
Digital Reading: The Teaching of Modality-Genre Awareness for Screen Comprehension. Tech
N Talk. Wheaton College, Norton, MA, April 2012.
The Sociology Research Paper: Beginning the Writing Process. Student Writing Workshop in
Sociology of the Family: Families in Transition (SOC 235). Wheaton College, Norton, MA,
September 2011.
Introduction to the Field of Composition and Rhetoric and Life as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies (SILCS). Wheaton College, Norton, MA,
June 2011.
Who Hasnt a Clue? Introducing Students to Genre, Audience, Purpose and Context, and
Enjoying It!. First-Year Writing Workshop 2011: A Different Kind of Connection. Wheaton
College, Norton, MA, May 2011.
Talking about Invention. Co-leader. Faculty Salon. Wheaton College, Norton, MA, April 2011.
Writing Workshop: Teaching Students How to Work Ethically with Sources Across the
Discipline. Teaching and Learning Workshop Series, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, November
2010.
Coding as Professional Development. Mini-Seminar. The Writing Program, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY, March 2008.
Behind Citation: Student Source Use in WRT 205. Graduate Colloquium, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, February 2007.

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Note-taking, Blogging, and Archiving in Graduate School. Guest Speaker. Composition and
Cultural Rhetoric Course, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, September 2009.
Coding and The Citation Project. Guest Speaker. Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Course,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, November 2009.

ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member. The Distinguished Teaching Award Committee. Salem State University, Salem, MA,
2014-2015.
Member. The General Education Committee. Salem State University, Salem, MA, 2014-present.
Written Communication Category Liaison. The General Education Committee. Salem State
University, Salem, MA, 2014-2015..
Member. The W-II and W-III Subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee. Salem State
University, Salem, MA, 2013-present.
Member. English Department Ad-Hoc General Education Committee. Salem State University,
Salem, MA, present.
Member. Composition Committee. Salem State University, Salem, MA, 2012-present.
Member. English Graduate Committee. Salem State University, Salem, MA, 2012-present.
Member. Distinguished Teaching Award Committee. Salem State University, Salem, MA, 2015.
Member. The Presidents Advisory Committee on the Core Curriculum (PACCC). Salem State
University, Salem, MA, 2012-2013.
Member. Subcommittee for Written Communication for PACCC. Salem State University, Salem,
MA, 2012-2013.
Member. Search Committee for Faculty Member. Salem State University, Salem, MA, October
2013-February 2013).
Reviewer. Across the Disciplines. Present.
Reviewer. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Present.
Creator and Content Writer. Writing Program website <http://wheatoncollege.edu/writing/>.
Wheaton College, Norton, MA, September 2010-May 2012.

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Founder, Writer, Editor. Lines From Lyons column in The Wheaton Wire (School Newspaper)
<http://www.thewheatonwire.com/>. Wheaton College, Norton, MA, September 2010-May
2012.
Member. Graduate Committee. The Writing Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, August
2008-May 2009.
Grader for the Writing Proficiency Exam and Portfolio, University of Massachusetts Boston,
Boston, MA, January 2006.

PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Freelance Writer, Literature Compass <www.literature-compass.com>, September-December
2004.
Freelance Feature and News Reporter, March-August 2003.
(Taunton Gazette; The Patriot Ledger; Boston Globe North; Salem Evening News)
News Reporter, The Daily Item, Lynn, MA, June 2002-March 2003.
City Desk Editorial Assistant, The Boston Herald, Boston, MA, June-March 2003.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Mini-Grant. Digital Reading Practices and Source-Based Writing. Salem State University,
Salem, MA, 2013.
Certificate in University Teaching (Future Professoriate Program), Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, May 2010.
Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, January 2005.
Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, August 2004.

MEMBERSHIPS
National Council of Teachers of English, NCTE
Conference on College Composition and Communication, CCCC
Modern Language Association, MLA

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

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Writing Across the Curriculum; Multimodality; Digital Reading and Writing; Visual Rhetoric;
Composition History, Theory, Philosophy and Pedagogy; Rhetorics of Trauma; Rhetorics of
Memory

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