Patricia Webb Boyd
Department of English
Arizona State University23009 N. 25th Place
P. O. Box 870302Phoenix, AZ 85024
Tempe, AZ
(602) 965-2503 (602) 319-9301
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1998
Dissertation: Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
Committee:
Professor Gail E. Hawisher, Department of English, University of Illinois, Chair
Professor Paul Prior, Department of English, University of Illinois
Professor Amanda Anderson, Department of English, University of Illinois
Master of Arts in English, Summa Cum Laude
IllinoisStateUniversity, Normal, IL, 1994
Bachelor of Science in English, Summa Cum Laude
IllinoisStateUniversity, Normal, IL, 1992
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ArizonaStateUniversity
Associate Professor2004-present
Interim Associate Chair, Fall 2007
Designed and delivered training for new teaching assistants in Department of English
Collaboratively designed new course assignments/framework for English 101 and 102 with Camille Newton
Developed new graduate-level courses: Rhetorics of the Environment (co-developed and taught with Dr. Peter Goggin); Composition Theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism and Composition Theory
Implemented Service Learning Project in Feminism and Composition graduate seminar
Assistant Professor1998-1994
Developed new graduate courses: Computers and Composition and Writing in the Virtual Age.
Developed the first graduate-level online course and developed undergraduate-level hybrid and online courses.
Redesigned graduate-level courses: Composition Theory, and undergraduate-level courses: First Year Composition I and II.
Redesigned the programmatic curriculum for First Year Composition I and II with Sharon Crowley and Katherine Heenan.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,IL
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 1994-1998
Taught First year Composition I and II in computer-mediated classrooms.
Assistant to the Director of Writing Studies, 1996-1998
Facilitated and planned colloquium, served as Associate Editor for Computers and Composition , and presented university-wide Writing Across the Curriculum seminars for faculty and graduate students
IllinoisStateUniversity, Normal, IL
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English 1992-94
Taught First Year Writing I and II in computer-mediated classrooms.
Graduate Research Assistant,
Professor Ronald Strickland1994
Researched Marxist theories of production.
Publications
Articles: Refereed Scholarly Journals:
Boyd, Patricia Webb. “Pulling the Difference: Re-envisioning Journals’ Negotiations of New Media Scholarship.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 13.1 (2008). [Refereed]
Boyd, Patricia Webb. “Analyzing Students’ Perceptions of their Learning in Online and Hybrid First-Year Composition Courses.” Computers and Composition 25.2 (2008): 224-243. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia, Kirsti Cole, and Thomas Skeen. “Feminist Social Practices: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities.” College English 69.3 (Jan. 2007). 238-259. [Refereed 50%]
Webb, Patricia. “Reconceptualizing Research in Computers and Composition.” Computers and Composition 23.2 (2006). 462-476. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia, and Zachary Waggoner. “Re-membering Our Spirit in a Technological Age: A Study of Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (An NCTE Assembly) 11 (Winter 2004-2005). 37-51. [Refereed, 50% contribution].
Webb, Patricia. “Technologies of Difference: Reading the Virtual Age through Sexual (In)Difference” Computers and Composition 20:2 (2003). 151-167. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia, Cheryl Greene, Teryl Sands-Herz, and Zachary Waggoner. “Who Wrote This
Course? Professors and Graduate Students as Co-Conspirators.” Kairos 7.3 (2002) 40 pages. [Refereed. 65%]
Webb, Patricia. “Writing and Publishing in the Boundaries: Academic Writing in/through the Virtual Age.” Writing Instructor (July 2002). 15 pages. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. "The Debate about On-line Learning: Key Issues for Writing Teachers." Computers and Composition 18 (2002): 359-70. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. "Whose Stories? Whose Realities? The Materiality of Narratives in the Electronic Writing Classroom." Works and Days17/18 (1999-2000): 145-167. [Invited]
Webb, Patricia. "Telling Stories in/out of Class: Writing Narratives about Writing." Composition Forum 11:1 (Summer 1999): 30-53. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. "Collaborating with On-line Technologies: Lessons from Writing Composition." Peer Review 1:4 (Summer 1999): 10-11. [Invited]
Webb, Patricia. "Narratives of Networked Subjectivities" Computers and Composition 14:1 (1997): 73-90. Reprinted in Bedford/St. Martin's Guide to Teaching. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999: 180-95. [Refereed]
Chapters: Refereed Chapters
Webb, Patricia Rose. “’The 21st Century to Meet and Socialize’: Discursive Constructions of Black Heterosexual Male Identities in Online Personal Ads.” Ed. Neal Lester and Maureen Daly Goggin. Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads. Rowan and Littlefield, 2007. 28 pages. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. “Changing Praxis/Changing Students: Online Graduate Education.” Culture Shock and the Practice of the Profession Ed. Susan Romano and Virginia Anderson. Hampton Press. 28 pages. (2005) [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. "Changing Research/Changing Writing: Using the World Wide Web in Writing Classrooms." Weaving a Virtual Web. Ed. Sibylle Gruber. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999: 123-36. [Refereed]
Manuscripts Accepted/Forthcoming:
Boyd, Patricia Webb. “Twenty-First Century Lore: Discursive Ecologies as Practice of Inquiry.” Accepted for Revisiting Making Knowledge in Composition: Perspectives on an Evolving Field Ed. Richard Gebhardt and Lance Massey. Under contract at Utah State UP. Expected publication date Fall 2009.
Manuscripts under Review/In Preparation
Boyd, Patricia Webb, with Riki Meier. Reading and Writing Women’s Lives Online: Feminist Analysis of Representations in Weight Watchers Discussion Boards. In preparation. Will submit proposal and 3 chapters December 2008 to Computers and Writing book series (Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe, editors), Hampton Press.
Editorials:
Webb, Patricia. “4Cs Experiences.” Kairos 3:1 (1998). [Invited]
Glossaries:
Webb, Patricia. “Glossary.” Electronic Communication Across the Curriculm. Ed. Donna Reiss and Art Young. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. [Refereed]
Technical Writing Publications:
Webb. Patricia. Facilitating Peer Response. (booklet) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996: 1-12.
Reviews:
Webb, Patricia. "Book Review: CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Jones, Steven G. (Ed.). (1995). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 241 pp." Computers and Composition 13:1 (1996): 109-116. [Refereed]
Webb, Patricia. "Book Review: Rosemary Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse. (New York: Routledge, 1993) xxviii, 177 pages." Mediations 17:2 (November 1993): 57-61. [Refereed]
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
National Conferences:
2007“Nature Goes Digital: Environmental Education on YellowstoneNational Park’s Website” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, Arizona. October 2007.
2006“Responding to Student Writing.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference.
Salt Lake City, Utah. October 17, 2006.
2005“Assessing Student Learning in Online and Hybrid English 101 Courses.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
2003“Engaging Students’ Multiple Intelligences.” Western States Literacy Conference.
Salt Lake City, Utah. October 22, 2003.
2002“Who Wrote This Course Anyway? Teachers and Students as Co-Authors of Online Courses.” Computers and Writing Conference. Normal, IL. May 22, 2002.
2002“Takin’ It to the Streets: Online Learning and Alternative School Populations.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2002.
1999“Beyond the Bean: Studying Place in Composition Courses.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, MN. March 1999.
1998“Academic MOO-ing and the Need To Be Heard: The Language of MOOs and Their Effects on Scholarly Publications.” Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. December1998.
1998"E-mail Mixing of Personal and Professional Lives." Modern Language Association
Conference. San Francisco, CA. December 1998.
1998“A Community of Differences: Narratives of Local Technologies and their Place in an Activist’s History.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 1998.
1996"Writing in the Gaps: Women, Postcolonial Migrancy, and Composition," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March 1996.
Regional Conferences:
1998“Web Assignments in Composition Classes: Possibilities and Suggestions.” Community College/University English Articulation Conference. Monticello, IL. April 1998.
1997“Consulting with CommonSpace: Collaborative Failures between Academics and
Corporations." Center for Writing Studies Colloquium. Urbana, IL. April 1997.
1997"The View from the Cat's Cradle: Situated Ethnographies of Embodied Writing Practices." PennState Conference. State College, Pennsylvania. July 1997.
1995"Writing between Two Worlds: Postcolonial Migrancy and Composition." Community College/University English Articulation Conference. Monticello, IL. April 1995.
1994"Student Subjectivity and Computer Technology." Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL
April 1994.
WORKSHOPS
2007 New Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation, Department of English/Writing Programs.
Tempe, AZ, July 30-August 16, 2007.
2006 New Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation, Department of English/Writing Programs.
Tempe, AZ, July 31-August 18, 2006.
2005 New Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation, Department of English/Writing Programs. Tempe, AZ, August 1-August 19, 2005.
2004 “Graduate Work in English.” ASU Graduate Students in English Association series.
Tempe, AZ, Spring 2004.
2004“Assessing Online and Hybrid Writing in First-Year Composition Courses.” English Department Teaching with Technology Workshop. Tempe, AZ, Spring 2004.
2003 “Graduate Work in English.” ASU Graduate Students in English Association series.
Tempe, AZ, Fall 2003.
2002‘What to Do with Your Graduate Degree in English.” ASU Graduate Student Association series. Tempe, AZ, Fall 2002.
2002“New Faculty Seminar.” CLAS Development Series. Tempe, AZ, October 2002.
2002“Learner-Centered Education.” ASUCenter for Learning and Teaching Excellence’s Bits and Bytes series. Tempe, AZ, April 2002.
2001“Technological Rambunctious: Roundtable on Controversial Issues in Teaching and Learning with Technology.” ASUCenter for Learning and Teaching Excellence’s Bits
and Bytes series. December, 2001.
2000“Writing for/Publishing in Academic Journals: From Start to Finish.” ASU Graduate
Student Association series. Tempe, AZ, Spring 2000.
1999“Rhetoric, Literacy, and Culture Workshop.” ASU Writing Programs Returning Faculty
series. Tempe, AZ, Fall 1999.
1999“Current Topics in Computer-Mediated Composition.” ASU Writing Programs Electronic Classroom series. Tempe, AZ, Spring 1999.
GRANTS AWARDED
2004“Assessing Online, Hybrid, and Traditional First-Year Composition Courses” grant awarded through Arizona Board of Regent’s Learner Centered Education Program. January 2004- January 2006. Principal Investigator. $25,000.
2004 “Re-Imaging Yellowstone: Evaluating Discursive Representations of National Identity” grant
awarded through ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Grant-in-Aid Program. January 2004-December 2004. Principal Investigator. $6000.
2002“Certificate in Technical Communication” grant awarded by ASU Access and Workforce
Development committee. Spring 2002. Collaboratively written. Principal
Investigator. $7,000.
2001“Developing and Assessing Hybrid Courses” collaboratively written and submitted to first and second round of FIPSE grant program. April 2001. Principal Investigator. $150,000.
2001Quality of Instruction Grant, CLAS, awarded 2001. $4000.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ1998-present
University and College Committees
General Studies Council Committee for Literacy (2007-present)
CLAS Quality of Instruction Review Committee (2007-present)
Presiding Chair of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Senate (2003-2005)
Faculty Senator (2001-2005)
CLAS Senator-At-Large (2001-2005)
CLAS Standards Committee (1999-01)
Department Committees
Member, Search Committee for Writing Programs Administrator (2008-2009)
Member, Search Committee for Associate Professor in Rhetoric (2008-2009)
Chair, Search Committee for Asst. Professor in Community Literacy (2007-2008)
Chair, Search Committee for Asst. Professor in New Media (2007-2008)
Chair, Rhetoric and Composition Area Committee (2007-2008)
Personnel Committee (2005-2007)
Grants Committee (2005-2006)
Writing Programs Committee (2005-2006)
Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D. and MA Admissions Committees (2003-present)
Elections Committee (2004-2005)
Rhetoric and Composition Lecturer Search (2004-2005)
Web Development Committee (2001-2003)
Curriculum Committee, Writing Programs (2000-2001)
Computer-Mediated Composition Committee (1999)
Curriculum Review Committee (1999)
Rhetoric and Composition Board (1998-1999)
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL1994-1998
University Committees
Composition across the Campus Committee (1996-98)
Department Service
Graduate Studies Committee (1996-97)
Grade Review Committee (1995-96)
Introductory Writing Textbook Review Committee (1994-95)
Graduate Student Committees
Dissertation Committees:
Chair:
Thomas Skeen (finished portfolio, Spring 06; defended prospectus, Fall 06)
Hedra Bledsoe (finished portfolio, Spring 07)
Barbara Kirchmeier (finishing coursework Fall 07)
Paul Walker (defended April 2007)
Reader:
Allison Parker (current)
Kelly Adams (current)
Angela Clark-Coats (Comps Spring 2007)
Alicia Skipper (current)
Ebru Erdem (current)
Veronica Pantoja (Colloquy Fall 2006)
Peter Wegner (portfolio stage)
Mike Will (portfolio stage)
Candace Collins (on leave)
Cynthia Roses-Thema (defended April 2007)
Zach Waggoner (defended March 2007)
Teryl Sands Herz (completed Spring 2005)
Donna Benson (completed Spring 2005)
Jeff Andelora (completed Spring 2005)
Mi Lim Ryoo (completed Spring 2003)
Susan Miller (completed Fall 2002)
Viktorija Todorovska (completed Spring 2000)
MA Thesis Committees
Chair
Maren Buchanan (current, finishing coursework)
Patricia O’Shae (current, drafting thesis)
Steve Puklin (completed June 2008)
Irving Gleason (completed August 2006)
Brandy Pfalmer (completed Spring 2004)
Molly Manglesdorf (completed Spring 2003)
Reader
James Palazzalo (current)
Sarah Lawrence (current)
Kristi Van Stechelman (completed Spring 2004)
C. Paul Fuhr (completed Spring 2003)
Lisa Ricker (completed Spring 2003)
Mark Hara (completed Spring 2000)
Anna Dolgina (completed Spring 2001)
Undergraduate Honors Students Mentored
Riki Meier (Fall 2007-present)
Diane Elam (Fall 2007)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editing/Editorial Boards:
Editorial Board Member, Computers and Composition, 1998-present
Co-editor Special issue of Computers and Composition2007-2008
Best Weblog, Judge for Kairos: 2008
Ellen Nold Best Article, Judge for Computers and Composition1999
Book Manuscript Reviewer
National Council of Teachers of English 1997-present
Addison Wesley Longman1998-present
Prentice Hall1998-present
Bedford/St. Martin’s2004-present
Routledge Press2007-present
Academic Consulting
Online Course Developer, Chico StateCA 2003-2004
Online Course Developer, Harcourt Higher Education, 1999-2001
Educational Software Consultant, Houghton Mifflin 1995-1997
Academic Consultant, Harper Collins, Textbook Division, 1995
Reviewer of Conference Proposals:
Western States Composition Conference2001-present
Community Service
DesertBotanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ2008
Leader of Community Writing Group, Writing Workshops Presenter2004-2005
Fresh Start Women’s ResourceCenter, Phoenix, AZ
Board Member, Literacy Volunteers, Phoenix, AZ2003-2004
Professional Memberships
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Modern Language Association
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
Faculty Women's Association, ArizonaStateUniversity
References
Dr. Keith Miller
Department of English
ArizonaStateUniversity
P.O. Box 870302
Tempe, AZ85287-0302
(480) 965-7893
Dr. Duane Roen, Head of Humanities and Arts
School of Applied Arts and Sciences
ArizonaStateUniversity @ the Polytechnic Campus
7001 E. Williams Field Road, Building 140
Mesa, AZ85212-6032
(480) 727-1415
Dr. Gail Hawisher, Full Professor and Director
Center for Writing Studies
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-3251
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