BETH TOWLE

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition
Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
Secondary Area: Writing Program Administration

May 2019

MFA in Creative Writing

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
Thesis: Huckleberry Queen: Poems

May 2013

B.A. in English Writing

DePauw University Greencastle, IN

May 2009

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, ICaP Program
Purdue University West Lafayette IN
o English 106: First-Year Composition (4 sections)

2014-2016

Adjunct Instructor, Academic Skills Advancement

Ivy Tech Community College South Bend, IN
o English 093: Developmental Composition (2 sections)
o English 095: Integrated Reading & Writing (2 sections)

2013-2014

TUTORING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Purdue University Writing Lab

2015-Present

Graduate Tutor
University of Notre Dame Writing Center

2012-2013

Writing Consultant
DePauw University Writing Center

2007-2009

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Co-creator & Contributing Editor
Actuary Lit actuarylit.com

2013-2014

Grants & Fellowships Consultant

University of Notre Dame Graduate School

2013-2014

Interim Fulbright Program Advisor

University of Notre Dame Graduate School

October 2013

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Dr. Bradley Dilger
Purdue University
o Transcribed interviews from a longitudinal study
about first-generation student writers and transfer.
Did some preliminary coding. Met regularly with
Dr. Dilger to discuss interviews and emerging
themes and topics.

Summer 2015

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Tutoring as (Hard) Labor: How Assessment Makes Writing Center
April 2016
Work Visible to Institutions
Conference on College Composition and Communication Houston, TX (Accepted)
Making Possible Bean-Counting: Coding Other Responses from the
WCRP Survey
International Writing Center Association Collaborative Houston, TX (Accepted)

April 2016

Using Policy Statements in Writing Tutor Training

International Writing Centers Association Annual Conference Pittsburgh, PA

October 2015

Farming Out: Writing Centers and the Adjunct-ification of Writing

Instruction
East Central Writing Center Association Conference Notre Dame, IN

March 2015

Writing Centers, Collaborative Learning, and First-Generation College

Students
Conference on College Composition and Communication - Indianapolis, IN

March 2014

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Book Review, Tutoring Second Language Writers (Eds. Bruce/Rafoth)
Co-written with Dr. Vicki Kennell
Writing Center Journal

Under Review

Essay: Other Peoples Houses

In Out in the Center, collection edited by Dr. Harry Denny

Forthcoming

SERVICE
Writing Lab Hiring Committee
Purdue University Writing Lab

2016

Graduate Student Representative

Excellence in Teaching Award Committee
Purdue Graduate Student English Association (GradSEA)

2015-Current

Poetry Reviewer
Sycamore Review Purdue University

2015-Current

Rhetoric & Composition Program Representative

Purdude Graduate Student English Association (GradSEA)

2014-2015

Executive Committee
University of Notre Dame Writing Center

2012-2013

Community Writing Committee

University of Notre Dame Writing Center

2012-2013

Editorial Assistant
Notre Dame Review University of Notre Dame

2011-2013

INVITED SPEAKER
Purdue Writing Lab/ICaP Brown Bag Extended Mentoring Session
Peer Review & Workshopping in Class and Conferences

October 2015

POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Rhabdomantics (chapbook)
Adjunct Press

Forthcoming

small openings and origin story

Similar:Peaks::

2015

The River Woodlawn

Storm Cellar Quarterly

2014

Mind the Prediction and An Advertisement

Deluge

2014

rhabodomancy and we are in the business of undoing

Spork Press

2013

AWARDS
Purdue Writing Lab Graduate Tutor of the Year Award

2016

Purdue College of Liberal Arts Promise Travel Grant

2016

IWCA Collaboratory Registration Scholarship

2016