William C.

Kurlinkus
Web: wkurlinkus.com Email: kurlinkus.1@osu.edu Phone: (815) 978-4628 Address: 3270 Indianola Ave., Apt D, Columbus OH 43202 Education The Ohio State University 2010-Sp 2014 PhD English: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy; Digital Media Studies Dissertation: Nostalgia and New Media: Designing Difference into Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology Committee: Cynthia L. Selfe (chair), Susan Delagrange, Nan Johnson, Beverly Moss, H. Lewis Ulman The Pennsylvania State University 2008-2010 MA English: Rhetoric and Composition Thesis: The Politics of Paint: Racking Cans and DIY Lasers: How Channel of Access Politicizes Graffiti Technology The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2004-2008 BA English (summa cum laude): Honors English and Creative Writing Thesis: The Dialectic of the Gothic and the Enlightenment in Bram Stokers Dracula Publications Crafting Designs: An Archaeology of 'Craft' as God Term. Computers and Composition. Special Issue: Designing | Writing. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Julia R. Lupton. ForthcomingSpring 2014. An Ethics of Attentions: Three Continuums of Classical and Contemporary Stylistic Manipulation for the 21st Century Composition Classroom. The Centrality of Style. Ed. Michael Duncan and Star Medzerian. Anderson: Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse, 2013. The Watson Symposium: What Might Be Missing and Why? Journal of Advanced Composition 32.3 (2012) Accompanying blog at: <http://watsonresponse.blogspot.com/>. With Cynthia L. Selfe. The Love Letter. Editorial introduction and XML co-editorship. Selected Letters from the Ivan S. Gilbert Collection of Stephens Family Travel Letters and Ephemera. Digital Edition Forthcoming. 2011. Editor. General Introduction, Genre Introductions, Pedagogical Supplements, Essay Response Questions. Penn Statements: A Magazine of Student Writing from Rhetoric and Composition. 29 (2010). Areas of Scholarly Interest General Areas Composition Studies Rhetorical Theory Literacy Studies Philosophy of Technology Primary Specializations New Media Composition Difference in Democracy Multiliterate Education Technical Communication Secondary Specializations Communication Ethics Participatory Design Memory Studies Digital Research Methods

Technological Skills HTML5, CSS, Oxygen, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe InDesign, Audacity,

GarageBand, iMovie, MovieCaptioner, ComicLife, Wordpress, Blogger, Microsoft Office, Mac OS Administration RCL Administrative Associate The Ohio State University 2013-Present Meet regularly with the Vice Chair of the Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy program. Attend writing program directors meetings. Complete administrative, research, assessment, and curricular assignments for the Vice Chair of RCL and the directors of the First-Year Writing, Second-Year Writing, and Professional and Technical Writing Programs. One of my primary tasks includes planning the new RCL undergraduate specialization. Digital Media Project Assistant The Ohio State University Su 2013 Supported teaching and research in Digital Media Studies through interactive classroom workshops on iMovie, Photoshop, Garageband, and other multimedia composing platforms. Aided instructors in reimagining their courses (from composition, to creative writing, to literature) as digital media production courses. Assisted in the day-to-day operation of the Digital Media Project office, including checking-out and giving assistance to graduate students and professors on digital cameras, audio recorders, video recorders, green screens, lighting equipment, microphones, and ipads. Fellowship Coordinator The Ohio State University Sp 2013 Organized a committee of faculty and graduate student judges that wrote a call for and refereed applications to the new Genevieve Critel Leadership Fellowship, a one-year fully-paid fellowship, funded by the Digital Media and Composition Institute, that recognizes post-candidacy graduate students in the department of English for their service and mentorship. Research Assistant The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives Su 2012 Used audio and video recording equipment to record literacy narratives at official Columbus Bicentennial events for the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Gathered narratives about literacy practices and values at events from art museum workshops to live action role playing gatherings. Used captioning and video editing software to make narratives accessible. Pedagogy Coordinator The Digital Media and Composition Institute Selected readings, organized schedule, presented on design in the composition classroom, taught Photoshop, and generally facilitated day-to-day activities at a 2-week summer institute attended by a group of 30 visiting graduate students and professors. Su 2012

Assistant Editor Computers and Composition an International Journal 2010-2011 Proofed journal manuscripts (content, copy, and style) for three issues of Computers and Composition. Collaborated with authors to resolve problems and clarify meaning. Learned the journals house style and worked on a team of three editors to prepare documents for publication by Elsevier. Composition Assistant The Pennsylvania State University Au 2009-2010 Composed Penn Statements, a reader used by all first-year composition students at Penn State, which consisted of 40 guided student essays, introductions to essay assignments, and solutions to problems commonly encountered by first-year composition students. Transformed Penn Statements from a collection of readings the previous year to a full-apparatus text. Helped run grad student orientation; gave composition brown bag talks; reviewed all syllabi submissions for composition classes; managed the composition

library; assisted in cases of plagiarism; and gave general pedagogical advice to comp instructors. Awards and Fellowships The Ohio State University Susan L. Huntington Deans Distinguished University Fellow Department of English Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Graduate Work Department of English Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Graduate Work Kitty O. Locker Travel Award for Research in Professional Communication Department of English Award for Outstanding Graduate Scholarship in Digital Media The Pennsylvania State University Wilma R. Ebbitt Graduate Fellowship in Rhetoric in the College of the Liberal Arts Student Awards (Projects Developed in Courses I Taught) The Ohio State University Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work: Jacob Hollar

2010-2014 2013 2012 2012 2011 2010

2013

Teaching Experience English 3304 Business Writing The Ohio State University Sp 2013 A business writing course with a special emphasis on new capitalist business practices, including social media marketing, multi-member projects, web design, non-profit organizations, and contemporary business presentation tactics. See: http://english3304.wordpress.com/ English 2269 Digital Media Composing The Ohio State University Au 2012 A rhetorically focused digital media composition class that featured HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Photoshop, iMovie, and GarageBand. A special emphasis was given to the politics of technology (access, fair use, remix, cultural appropriation, viral marketing, tracking software, etc.) and techno-epistemological pluralism. See: http://english2269.wordpress.com/ English Language Instructor The Columbus Literacy Council Lead a bi-weekly introductory English language class (reading, speaking, and writing) for a group of 4-10 adults of varying experience levels. Material Science and Engineering 581.04 The Ohio State University Tech Writing TA to Professor David Phillips Lectured on lab observation, note taking, and report writingfocused on ethos and audience analysis in the field of engineering. Held regular office hours. Graded writing quality on all lab reports. (2 Sections) English 277 Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis The Ohio State University Teaching Assistant to Dr. Nan Johnson Lectured on the rhetorical analysis of social media and the Internet and helped facilitate day-to-day group work. English 269 Digital Media Composing The Ohio State University Teaching Assistant to Dr. Cynthia Selfe Lectured on visual rhetoric, taught iMovie, and generally facilitated daily discussion and digital media composing workshops. 2012

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English 202 B Writing in the Humanities The Pennsylvania State University A course specifically geared towards juniors and seniors studying in the humanities. Assignments included a professional journal review, rsum and cover letter, cultural/ literary analysis, and philosophically-oriented career analysis. (2 Sections) LEAP 18: Philosophy, Art, and Film The Pennsylvania State University A specially designed and coordinated session of freshman writing for incoming freshmen that I organized with a member of the philosophy department (who taught a partner course). My portion had a focus on rhetorically depicting reality, simulacra, and visual rhetoric.

2009-2010

Su 2009

English 015: Rhetoric and Composition The Pennsylvania State University 2008-2010 Introductory writing course consisting of memoir, cause-and-effect arguments, critical analyses, arguments through definition, and visual rhetoric. My main goals were to teach a balance of audience awareness (analysis, acceptance, and refusal of the rhetorical situation) and purposeful, personal stylistic choice. (3 Sections) Conference Presentations, Workshops, Invited Lectures, and Institutes Epideictic Technologies and Democratic Designs. Rhetoric Society of America. (San Antonio, TX)May 2014. Handcrafting Difference into Composition College Conference on Composition and Communication. (Indianapolis, IN)March 2014. Invited Speaker. Navigating the Commons: Remix, Creative Commons, and Fair Multimodal Data Presentation. The Digital Media and Composition Institute. (Columbus, OH)May 2013 Institutionalizing Guilt: Plagiarism and Corporate Time Use Policies. College Conference on Composition and Communication. (Las Vegas, NV)March 2013 Nostalgia and Digital Publication. Writing Matters in a Changing World. (Columbus, OH)February 2013. Questioning Collection: The Ethics of Composition as Collection in the First Year Writing Classroom. Thomas R. Watson Conference. (University of Louisville)October 2012. Re-thinking Technological Determinism: Place-Making Rhetoric at Sites of Technological Transition. Computers and Writing. (North Carolina State University) May 2012. Critical Emotion/Pathos/Affect and Digital Technology. ThatCampOSU: The Humanities and Technology Camp. (Columbus, OH) April 2012. Invited Speaker. Interrogating the Ethics of Composition as Remix in the First-Year Writing Classroom Literacy Studies Graduate Seminar. (Columbus, OH)March 2012. Digital Loss, Techno Magic, and Nostalgic Re-embodiment: The Emotionally Grounding Role of Craft Aesthetics. Think Art: Memory: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Arts, Humanities, and Science (Boston University).October 2011. Everybody has a (literacy) story!: Recording and Preserving Digital Literacy Narratives of Our

Communities. TransOhio Transgender and Ally Symposium. Workshop. With Deb Kuzawa and Katie DeLuca (Columbus, OH)August 2011. Everybody has a Literacy Story: Literacy Narrative Collection Digital Media, and the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Half-Day Workshop. With Deborah Kuzawa, Katherine DeLuca, Melanie Yergeau, Krista Bryson, Chase Bollig, Lauren Obermark, and Jennifer Michaels. Computers and Writing (University of Michigan) May 2011. Nostalgia and New Media: The Rhetorical Affect of the Typewriter in the Twenty-First Century. Conference on College Composition and Communication (Atlanta, GA) April 2011. Racking Cans and DIY Lasers: How Channel of Access Politicizes Graffiti Technology, Conference on College Composition and Communication (Louisville, KY) March 2010. Teaching Visual Rhetoric, Composition Office Brownbag Series. The Pennsylvania State University. (State College, PA) February 2010. Attendee. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Workshop. Toward a Rhetoric of Multilingual Writing. Led by A. Suresh Canagarajah June 2009. Relevant Service Activities Coordinator Core Committee Member Media Representative Graduate Member Submissions Judge Co-Coordinator Judge Steering Committee Peer Consultant Reading Tutor Classroom Aid Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Reading Group Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group English Graduate Association RCL Curriculum Committee Computers and Writing Conference Centre Crest Nursing Home Writing Program Penn State Graduate Student Exhibition Penn States Rhetoric Society of America Chapter University of Illinois Writers Workshop Thomas Paine Elementary, Urbana IL Champaign Centennial High School 201320122012-2013 2011-2012 2011 2009-2010 2009 2009 2007-2008 2006 2005

Professional Memberships and Affiliations Rhetoric Society of America Association for Teachers of Technical Writing National Council of Teachers of English Ohio State Digital Arts and Humanities Working Group References Dr. Cynthia L. Selfe, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University Email: Selfe.2@osu.edu Dr. Nan Johnson, Professor of English, The Ohio State University Email: Johnson.112@osu.edu Dr. H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor of English, Director: Digital Media Studies, The Ohio State University Email: Ulman.1@osu.edu Dr. Beverly J. Moss, Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University Email: Moss.1@osu.edu Dr. Susan H. Delagrange, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Digital Media, The Ohio State University

Email: delagrange.2@osu.edu