Arizona State University2604 W. Upland Drive

STEVE BEATTY

Arizona State University2604 W. Upland Drive

P. O. Box 870302Chandler, AZ 85224

Tempe, AZ 85287-0302(480) 345-9414

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. English May 2003

(Rhetoric & Composition concentration) Arizona State University

Chair: Maureen Daly Goggin

M.A. Rhetoric and CompositionAug 1998

Arizona State University

MFA Creative WritingMay 1995

Practicum Project: Unfinished Business Arizona State University

Chair: Ron Carlson

B.A. EnglishMay 1980

Arizona State University

MBA(Marketing emphasis)August 1978

Arizona State University

B. S. MarketingMay 1977

Graduated Magna Cum Laude Arizona State University

DISSERTATION

What defines English Studies? Gerald Graff (1996) writes that “the quest for a precise definition of the discipline of English has been a persistent one since the founding of English studies as an academic subject about a century ago” (15). Recently, however, this search for identity has taken on more urgency. As Sidney Dobrin (1997) observes, “In many ways it seems that the quest for identity has become the central mission of contemporary English departments.” What We Talk About When We Talk About English Studies attempts to shed some light upon this question of identity by providing a history of the institutionalization of English Studies in the American college/university. While there have been numerous disciplinary histories of the major sub-disciplines of English Studies (linguistics, literature, composition, and creative writing), there is no history of the überdiscipline of English Studies. What We Talk About fills this gap. While the knowledge of what we talk about when we talk about English Studies may not provide the conceptual coherence necessary to unify the discipline, it can help us to understand what we have in common, how we came to be organized the way we are, and, perhaps, help us to understand where English Studies might fit in the new corporate university.

Committee:

Maureen Daly Goggin, Chair

Duane Roen

John Ramage

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Arizona State University

InstructorAug 1998 - present

Teaching Assistant/Faculty AssociateAug 1989 - May 1998

& Aug 1979 - Aug 1980

English 101: Reading and Writing Academic Prose (16 sections)

English 102: Research and Argument (18 sections)

English 105: Advanced First Year Composition (10 sections)

English 210: Introduction to Creative Writing (1 section)

English 215: Strategies of Academic Writing (1 section)

English 217: Personal/Exploratory Writing (1 section)

English 301: Writing for the Professions (1 section)

English 105: Internet: Advanced First Year Composition(2 sections)

English 101: Electronic Classroom: Reading & Writing (2 sections)

English 102: Electronic Classroom: Research & Argument (4 sections)

English 301: Electronic Classroom: Writing for Professions(3 sections)

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Chapters:

2000Goggin, Maureen Daly and Steve Beatty. “Accounting for ‘Well-Worn

Grooves’: Composition as a Self-Reinforcing Mechanism” in Inventing A Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 29-66.

Fiction:

1995Beatty, Steve. “Body of Evidence.” Portland State Review 39.1 (Spring 1995): 41.

1986Beatty, Steve. “Stealing Home.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 1 (Spring 1986):

66-78.

Awards:

1999“The Headhunters are Calling Back East.” A.E.T.A. Teachers As Writers

Award. 3rd Place Fiction.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2002Beatty, Steve et. al. Roundtable. “Cyberspeak: The Dynamics of the

Student/Teacher Dialogue in Online Education.” Western States Composition Conference. Seattle, WA, 25 Oct. 2002.

2000Goggin, Maureen Daly and Steve Beatty. “Resistance and Tenacity in the History of American Composition: The QWERTYnomics of Composition.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX, 10 November 2000.

2000Beatty, Steve. “Educating the Creative Imagination: The

Professionalization of Creative Writing in the Academy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN, 14 April 2000.

1999Goggin, Maureen Daly and Steve Beatty. “Colonize Other Planets? Sure. Create New Life Forms? No Problem. Change First-Year Composition? Are You Nuts?” Sources of Resistance to Systemic Evolution and Revolution in First-Year Composition.” Western States Composition Conference. Tempe, AZ, 22 October 1999.

1999Beatty, Steve “Invisible By Design,” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA, 27 March 1999.

1998Goggin, Maureen Daly and Steve Beatty. “Historicizing the Inferior Mousetrap: The three Frames for Understanding the Success and Staying Power of Suboptimal Complex Systems,” Rhetoric Society

of America Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, 5 June 1998.

1998Beatty, Steve and Maureen Daly Goggin. “Well-Worn Grooves”:

The Economics Underlying the Rise and Tenacity of First-Year Composition,” Writing Program Administrators Conference. Tucson, AZ, 17 July 1998.

1998Beatty, Steve. "The Unholy Trinity: or the Epistemologies Underlying Creative Writing Instruction," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL, 3 April 1998.

1997Beatty, Steve. "Why Can't We Be Friends? Creative Writers and Critics in the Academy" 1997 Reconcilable (In)Differences, U of Denver Conference. Denver, CO, 5 April 1997.

1997Beatty, Steve. "Using the Burkean Pentad as a Revision Tool," 1997 AWP Conference, Pedagogy Forum. Washington D. C., 3 April 1997.