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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, 2017
Dissertation: “Stories at Work: Restorying Narratives of New Teachers’ Identity Learning in
Writing Studies”
ROLLINS COLLEGE
BA, summa cum laude, English Major (Honors), Writing Minor, 2001
Thesis: “The Naiveté of Escape and the Art of Transformation: Inner Journeys of Reflective
Women Travel Writers”
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2014-16
University Fellow, 2013-14, 2016-17
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
courses each year in composition and inquiry, disciplinary writing, and business writing;
collaborated with staff, faculty, and administrators on program maintenance and
changes; program entirely online March 2020 to May 2021
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
WRITING TUTOR/CONSULTANT
University of Louisville, 2015, 2017
Dissertation Writing Retreat Tutor/Consultant, 2017
University Writing Center Tutor, Summer 2015
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Valencia College, 2012-12
ENC 1101 Composition 1
ENC 1102 Composition 2
PUBLICATIONS
PEER REVIEWED
Gramer, Rachel, Mueller, Derek, & Bearden, Logan (Eds.). (2021). Radiant figures: Visual
rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts. Computers and Composition Digital Press.
https://ccdigitalpress.org/radiant-figures
Gramer, Rachel, & Sheridan, Mary P. (2021). Making mobility work for writing studies. In Bruce
Horner, Megan Faver Hartline, Ashanka Kumari, & Laura Sceniak Matravers (Eds.), Mobility
work in composition (pp. 223-30). Utah State University Press.
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Gramer, Rachel. (2018). The figured worlds of digital mediation in schools. In Mary P. Sheridan,
Megan J. Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, & Drew Holladay (Eds.), Writing for engagement:
Responsive practice for social action (pp. 29-42). Lexington Books.
Chamberlain, Elizabeth, Gramer, Rachel, & Hartline, Megan Faver. (2015). Mess, not mastery:
Encouraging digital design dispositions in girls. Computers and Composition Online, Fall-Spring.
http://cconlinejournal.org/fall15/dma/
Journet, Debra, O'Keeffe, Anthony, Cohen, Stephen, Gramer, Rachel, Hartline, Megan, Mathis,
Keri, Sheehan, Kendra, & Winck, Jessica. (2015). ClarissaBlogs: Narrative, writing, and the self.
Kairos, 19(2). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.2/praxis/journet/index.php
EDITORIAL REVIEWED
Brewer, Elizabeth, & Obermark, Lauren E., with contributions from Brenda Jo Brueggemann,
Patricia Dunn, Rachel Gramer, Chad Iwertz, Christopher Krentz, Ryann Patrus, Margaret Price,
Katherine Sherwood, Eddie Singleton, & Shannon Walters. (2018). Passageways and
betweenity: A Brenda Jo Brueggemann retrospective. Composition Forum, 39(Special Issue:
Composition in the Presence of Disability).
http://compositionforum.com/issue/39/brueggemann.php
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, & Gramer, Rachel. (2017). Review essay: No day at the beach:
Women ‘making it’ in academia. College English, 79(3), 297-316.
https://library.ncte.org/journals/CE/issues/v79-3/28895
Gramer, Rachel, & Sheridan, Mary P. (2016). How might we make mobility work for writing
studies? (Response) Working Paper Series on Mobility Work in Composition: Translation,
Migration, Transformation. Louisville: Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition.
FORTHCOMING
Gramer, Rachel. (forthcoming 2022). Putting learning first: Challenges and possibilities for new
writing teacher research. In William J. Macauley, Jr., Leslie Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M.
Lambrecht, & Phillip Lovas (Eds.), Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition TAships. WAC
Clearinghouse/Colorado State University Open Press.
IN PROGRESS
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Gramer, Rachel. Stories at work: Restorying new writing teachers as learners and composers
book proposal in progress for submission to WAC Clearinghouse Practice and Possibilities
Series.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Nichols, Amy, & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2017, February 8). Charter schools not
just for K12 advocacy. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Matravers, Laura, & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, June 16). Lingering
questions: The delay of free two-year college tuition in KY.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National
Council of Teachers of English.
Echols, Khirsten L. & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, March 22). Supporting
diverse students on campus, post-college readiness.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council
of Teachers of English.
Alvarez, Sara P., & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, March 18). “Higher education
support for Latin@ students in Kentucky.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers
of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, February 22). Higher ed in KY faces budget cuts,
outcomes-based funding.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, November 8). Kentucky two-year college
funding. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, October 14). Kentucky appoints Stephen Pruitt
as new education commissioner. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of
English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, May 6). Gap in higher ed funding legislation in
Kentucky. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, February 10). Kentucky’s CPE/Commonwealth
college collaboration. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, February 10). The state of funding in Kentucky.
Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
POETRY
Gramer, Rachel. (2000). Across the Sabula Bridge. Brushing: Rollins College Literary Magazine.
Gramer, Rachel. (2000). No such thing as Atlanta. Brushing: Rollins College Literary Magazine.
GRANTS
Faculty Research Fellowship (50% teaching release in Fall 2018 and Winter 2019, $570 SS&M)
“Stories at Work: Phase Three of a Longitudinal Narrative Study of New Writing Teachers’
Identity Learning,” Office of the Provost
Eastern Michigan University, 2018-19
AWARDS
University Service Initiative Award nominee, Department of English and College of Arts and
Sciences
Illinois State University, 2021
Redbirds RISE to the COVID Challenge Recognition Award, Office of the Provost
Illinois State University, 2021
Carolyn Krause Maddox Prize ($300), “Mess, Not Mastery: Encouraging Digital Design
Dispositions in Girls,” with Elizabeth Chamberlain and Megan Faver Hartline, Women’s and
Gender Studies Department
University of Louisville, 2015
Graduate Student Council travel grant ($350), School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, 2014, 2015, 2016
Graduate Student Union Research travel grant ($100), College of Arts and Sciences
University of Louisville, 2014
Presidential Scholar
Rollins College, 1997-2001
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
NATIONAL
Response to “Intersectional from the Start: The Durative Influence of Feminist Rhetorical
Theory in the Development of GTA Professional Practice and Identity,” Feminisms & Rhetorics
Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2019
“DIY Feminist WPA Activism: A Queer Feminist Storying of Failing, Unknowing, Unbeing,”
Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2019
“Is Teaching ‘Just’ a List? Visual Representations of Labor for New Graduate Student Writing
Instructors,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, March
2019
“How Do We Enculturate New Teachers into Just and Equitable Writing Programs?” Thomas R.
Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2018
“Bounding and Aligning: The Warp and Weft of Writing Research Dissertation Methods,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, March 2017
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“The Origins (and Travels) of New Writing Teacher Identities,” Thomas R. Watson Conference,
Louisville, KY, October 2016
“Projecting the Past into Future Practice: New Writing Teachers’ Narrative Trajectories,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, April 2016
“Designing a New Camp Curriculum of Digital Collaboration: What the Teachers Learned,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015
“Investing in Identity: Narrative Agency in the Nomadic Chick’s Travel Blog,” Pop Culture
Association/American Culture Association, Chicago, IL, April 2014
“Narrative Convergence: Dialogue and Lyrics as Voiceover in the ‘New’ Gatsby,” Louisville
Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2014
REGIONAL
“‘Just’ Complex Literate Activity: Diversity, Agency, and Uptake,” Writing Innovation
Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, January 2020
“Continuing the Conversation: The MI-WPA Affiliate Gets to Work,” Corridors: Great Lakes
Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Saginaw, MI, September 2018
“Winding Again the Affiliate’s Watch: A Michigan WPA Rebeginning and Roundtable,” Corridors:
Great Lakes Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Detroit, MI, September 2017
“Stories at Work: Restorying Narratives of New Teachers’ Identity Learning in Writing Studies,”
Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Portland, OR, March 2017
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“The Stories We Learn to Tell: New Teachers' Narratives of Identity,” UofL Discourse and
Semiotics Group, University of Louisville, October 2016
“Telling Stories, Telling Selves: What New Writing Teachers’ Stories Tell Us (and How),”
Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Houston, TX, April 2016
“Talking about Dispositions: Teacher Narratives and Professional Identity,” Qualitative Research
Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015
INTERNATIONAL
“The Discrimination of Men Organizing Against Pornography,” Women’s History Network Ninth
Annual Conference, Bath, England, September 2000
MENTORING ACTIVITY
Dissertation Director, Emily Capan’s “The Overlooked Pandemic Pedagogical Genre: Writing
Teachers’ Risk and Crisis Technical Communication Emails to Students,” for PhD in English
Studies, Department of English
Illinois State University, 2021-present
Advisor, Emily Capan’s “The Writing Teacher’s Communication During COVID-19: Illuminating
the Intersections of Contemporary Research in Risk and Crisis Communication, Teacher Identity,
and Genre,” Doctoral specialization exam in Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English
Illinois State University, 2021
Thesis committee member, Leslie Hancock’s “Schools for the Bad Kids: Narratives and
Contradictions Within Alternative Learning Programs,” for Master’s degree in English Studies,
Department of English
Illinois State University, 2020-2021
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Thesis director, Valerie Cullin’s “Writing Across the Curriculum with the Incorporation of a
Learning Community,” for Master’s degree in Written Communication, Department of English
Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University, 2018-19
Mentor, New College Writing Teacher Mentoring Group, Department of English, Composition
Program
University of Louisville, 2015-16
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INVITED
Invited research speaker, “Real Talk: Reframing ‘Class Discussion’ as Situated Talk about Writing
and Rhetoric,” Virginia Tech University, April 2022
Invited teaching workshop leader, “You, Too, Can Turn Theory into Praxis: Making Research-
grounded Teaching Artifacts,” Virginia Tech University, April 2022
Invited workshop leader, Young Writers Celebration, Illinois Association of Teachers of English,
cancelled due to COVID-19
Illinois State University, April 2020
Invited keynote speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Spring Initiation, Department of English, cancelled
due to COVID-19
Illinois State University, April 2020
Invited workshop presenter, “The Inventive Edges of Academic Sources,” with Derek Mueller,
First-Year Writing Program
Saginaw Valley State University, October 2017
Invited panelist, “Balancing Roles as Students and GTAs,” School of Interdisciplinary and
Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, August 2016
Invited panelist, “Integrating Technology into Your Classroom,” Graduate Teaching Assistant
Academy, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, March 2016, March 2017
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Workshop co-facilitator, “Redesigning Online Writing Courses,” with Hannah Kroonblawd and
Emily Capan, University Writing Program
Illinois State University, August 2020
Workshop facilitator, “CV Q&A: Representing Your Writing Program (and Other Scholarly)
Work,” Writing Program Leadership Team
Illinois State University, December 2019, March 2021
Workshop leader, “Metaphors for Writing and Teaching Writing,” First-year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, October 2018
Creator and facilitator, New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, First-Year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, August 13-23, 2018
Workshop presenter, “First-Year Writing Outcomes: Process and Reflection,” First-year Writing
Program Fall Meeting
Eastern Michigan University, August 2017
Workshop presenter, “Fall Forward Designs: Creating Your Syllabus,” Composition Program
University of Louisville, April 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Embracing the Short Form: Visual Arguments for Research
and Teaching,” Department of English
University of Louisville, February 2016
Designer, leader, and facilitator, Digital Pedagogies Faculty Learning Community, Composition
Program
University of Louisville, Spring 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Let’s Get Creative: Video Editing for Professional Purposes,” School of
Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, February 2015
Workshop co-presenter, “Be Searchable: Online Portfolios for the Job Search,” School of
Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, January 2015, January 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Dialogue Gone Digital: Tools for Student and Teacher
Interaction,” Department of English
University of Louisville, September 2014
Workshop presenter, “Digital Media Meets English: Our Resources,” Composition Program
University of Louisville August 2014
Workshop facilitator, “Digital Media and Composition Pedagogy with Peers,” Composition
Program
University of Louisville, August 2014
EVENT ORGANIZER
Co-organizer, Visiting Speaker Series, “Anti-Racist Pedagogy Tools,” with invited scholars Dr.
Cristina Sanchez-Martin and Su Yin Khor, University Writing Program
Illinois State University, April 2022
Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: Winter Conversations,” University Writing Program
Illinois State University, January 2021
Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: August Workshops,” University Writing Program
Illinois State University, August 2020
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Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: Summer Conversations,” University Writing
Program
Illinois State University, July 20-30, 2020
Co-organizer, Visiting Speaker Series, invited scholar Dr. Steven Fraiberg, University Writing
Program
Illinois State University, November 2019
Co-facilitator and participant, Online New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, University Writing
Program
Illinois State University, August 8-15, 2019
Colloquium facilitator, Winter Colloquium with invited scholar Dr. Staci Perryman-Clark, First-
year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, March 2019
PARTICIPANT
Participant, “Equity with a Mirror” Spring Institute, Culturally Responsive Campus Community
Conference, Multicultural Center
Illinois State University, March 2021
Participant, “Microaggressions and Their Impact on Student Learning,” Office of the Provost
Illinois State University, January 2021
Participant, “Surviving the Surge: Supporting Yourselves and Your Students through Difficult
Times,” Multicultural Center and Center for Community Engagement
Illinois State University, October 2020
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MODERATOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
UNIVERSITY
Campus and Community Writing Advisory Committee, Office of Campus and Community
Writing
Writing Recognition Working Group, 2018-19
Eastern Michigan University, 2017-19
Teaching Innovation Learning Lab Steering Committee, Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Louisville, 2015-17
DEPARTMENT
Chair, 2018-19
Eastern Michigan University, 2017-19
DISCIPLINE
Member, Alternative Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference Interactions Task Force, Coalition of
Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 2020-2021
Peer reviewer, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, 2017
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COMMUNITY
Essay coach for college-bound seniors, English Department, Doss High School
Louisville, KY, 2013
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS