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Myatt
Julie A. Myatt
Middle Tennessee State University
Department of English
Box 70
Murfreesboro, TN 37132-0001
615.898.2563
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville
Graduated August 2008
Dissertation: “Conflicting Identities?: Female Students, Film Representations, and Feminist Composition Pedagogies”
Committee: Karen Kopelson (Director), Tom Byers, Dawn Heinecken, Debra Journet, and Annette Powell
M.A. English, Tennessee Technological University
Graduated December 2003
Project Paper: “The Power of Community in The Faerie Queene and King Lear”
Committee: Bill McRae (Director), Tony Baker, and Shirley Laird
B.S. Secondary Education – Concentration in English, Tennessee Technological University
Graduated Magna Cum Laude December 2001
PUBLICATIONS
“Multiple Modes of Production in a College Writing Class.” Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom. Ed. Anne Herrington, Kevin Hodgson, and Charles Moran. Teachers College Press. May 2009. With Alanna Frost and Steve Smith.
“Encouraging Students’ Multiliteracies: One Conversation at a Time.” Kentucky English Bulletin 56.2-3 (2007): 40-46. With Alanna Frost and Steve Smith.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Middle Tennessee State University
Assistant Professor (Fall 2008 to present)
Coordinator of Graduate Teaching Assistants in English (Fall 2009 to present)
Courses Taught
English 1010: Expository Writing (2 sections)
English 1020: Research and Argumentative Writing (2 sections)
English 2030: The Experience of Literature (2 sections)
University of Louisville
Assistant Director of Composition (Fall 2006 to Spring 2008)
Responsible for scoring student portfolios for course credit, mediating student grievances, maintaining the program webpage, designing pedagogy workshops for faculty and staff, collaborating on the revision of the Composition Program Handbook, and assisting in devising a new description and outcome statements for an interdisciplinary 300-level writing course.
Assistant Director, Writing Centers Research Project (Fall 2005 to Spring 2006)
Responsible for conducting and transcribing oral history interviews with writing center scholars.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2004 to present)
Courses Taught
English 101: Introduction to College Writing (2 sections)
English 102: Intermediate College Writing (1 section)
English 105: Advanced Composition for Freshmen (2 sections)
English 306: Business Writing (2 sections)
English 310: Writing about Literature (1 section)
English 394: American Short Fiction (1 section)
Writing Consultant
University Writing Center (Fall 2004)
Tennessee Technological University
Part-Time Instructor (Spring 2004)
Courses Taught
English 1020: Writing II (2 sections)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Spring 2002 to Fall 2003)
Courses Taught
English 1020: Writing II (2 sections)
English 1010: Writing I (1 sections)
Writing Tutor
TTU Writing Center (Spring 2002 to Fall 2003)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“Tracing the Trope of Teaching as Transformation: Understanding Feminist Composition Pedagogies as Precursors to Current Service Learning Initiatives.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA (March 2009).
“Conflicting Identities? Female Students, Film Representations, and Feminist Composition
Pedagogies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA (April 2008).
“Blondes over Brains: Representations of Female Students in Film.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Narrative, Louisville, KY (October 2006).
“Voices from the Stairwell: Contingent Faculty Define Themselves through Their Stories.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL (March 2006).
“Extreme Makeovers Caught on Tape: Transformation as Social Success in Hollywood’s High Schools.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY (February 2006).
“Preserving Writing Center History: The Why and How of Oral History Projects.”
Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference, Chapel Hill, NC (February 2006).
“Reflecting on Technological Identity and the Contradictory Roles of Student/Teacher.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA (March 2005).
“The Silencing of Education amid the Collective Voice of Consumerism in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” Tennessee Philological Association, Columbia, TN (February 2004).
“The Festival of Student Writing: Creating a Public Space for Composition.” Tennessee Council of Teachers of English, Memphis, TN (October 2003).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
“Revision as Re-Seeing.” University Writing Center workshop for the University of Louisville’s Public Health Program (November 2005).
“Strategies for Teaching Revision.” team-taught workshop for the University of Louisville’s Composition Program (February 2005).
AWARDS
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award from Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Graduate Studies (Summer 2009)
Barbara Plattus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching from the University of Louisville’s Department of English (2006-2007)
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Middle Tennessee State University
Writing Program Administrators Committee (2008-2009)
Comp Expo Coordinator (2009)
Discussion Leader at the CCCC Research Network Forum (March 2009)
Speaker at Conversations at Belmont exchange on Teaching Writing (April 2009)
University of Louisville
Barbara Plattus Award Selection Committee (2007-2008)
English Graduate Organization Campus Equity Week Committee Chair (2005-2007)
English Graduate Organization Executive Committee Member (2005-2006)
English Graduate Organization Campus Equity Week Committee Member (2004-2005)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English