Jeremy Cushman

Western Washington University

Humanities 363
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
www.jeremycushman.com

Education

PhD in English, Rhetoric and Composition (2013)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Primary area of study: Rhetoric & Composition
Dissertation: A $600 Piece of Paper: Rhetorical Action in an Automotive Shop

MA, English Studies (2007)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thesis: Prosopopoeia and Space Pods: The Need and Anxiety of a Literary Trope



BA, English Studies (2004)

Whitworth University, Spokane, WA

Academic Appointments 



Western Washington University
Associate Professor of English
Director of Composition (2015-2018; returning in 2021)
Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator
Chair of Writing Studies Committee (2015-2018)
Writing Studies Minor Advisor (2013-2015)

Purdue University
Assistant Director of the Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Program (2012-13)
Instructor for new TAs in the Introduction to Composition Program at Purdue (2011-13)
Graduate Instructor in English (2009-13)
Scholarship
“Carried From Home on The Thread of a Tune: Listening as Misunderstanding” With Shannon
Kelly & Andrew Crook.. (Working form a Revise & Resubmit for Enculturation: A journal of
Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture)

“Recasting Writing and Voicing Bodies: Podcasts Across A Writing Program” With Shannon
Kelly. SoundWriting Pedagogies. Eds. Kyle Stedman & Courtney Danforth, Utah State Press’s
Computers and Composition Digital Press (2018)

“Distributed Work, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop” Literacies in Practice. Eds. Pam
Takayoshi & Patrick Thomas, Routledge Press (2016)

“Write Me a Better Story: Writing Stories as a Diagnostic and Repair Practice for Automotive
Technicians” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 45.2 (2015) pp. 189-208

“Our Unstable Artistry: The Counterprofessional Practice of Donald Schön’s Problem-

Setting” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 28.3 (2014) pp. 327-351

“Ulmer’s Electracy: An Archive.” With Alex Layne. Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and
Pedagogy, 16.2 (2012) http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/

Reviews & Other Selected Publications

“Ethnographic Actions and Small Stories: Making Sense of Auto Technicians Making Sense”
Research Methods Companion For Literacies In Practice (Forthcoming)

“Telling Stories In a Professional & Technical Writing Class” Co-Authored with Katie Teer.
Report for WWU’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. http://cedar.wwu.edu/
wis_writingresearchfellows/2/

“Talking Ambient Rhetoric: A Wayward Conversation” An Interview with Thomas Rickert.

Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies In Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. (2013) http://
www.itineration.org/rickert-ambient-rhetoric

“The Insect Technics of Rhetoric: Review of Jussi Parikka’s Insect Media.” Enculteration: A Journal
of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, 14 (2012)

Technical Communication Today’s Instructor Manual. With Richard Johnson-Sheehan and Enrique
Reynoso. 4th ed. (2011). New York: Longman. (Edited volume, not peer-reviewed)

Works In Progress
“When Storytelling is Present-to-Hand: Storytelling Research and Meaning Making in a
Technical Communication Class.” Co-Authored with Katie Teer. (Under Review at Journal of
Technical Writing and Communication)
“Collaboration as Techne Available to the WPA ” Co-authored with Jen Talbot (University of
Central Arkansas) and Megan Schoen (LaSalle University). (in process; research completed and
drafting for submission to for submission to WPA Journal)

“Figuring Out All The Paperwork”: Writing Repair as a Threshold Concepts For Expert
Automotive Technicians.” (in progress; research completed and drafting for submission to
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication)

Selected Presentations
Regional:
2018 “Listening As a Shared Gathering.” Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing
(Nashville, TN)

2015 “Ambiance Chaser: On The Trail of Diffuse Rhetorical Agency” Western States Rhetoric
and Literacy Conference (Tempe AZ)


2013 “Automotive Technicians, Storytelling Research, and Writing Mundane Repair
Orders” RMMLA (Vancouver, WA)


2012 “Practicing Disharmony” Modern Brains Conference (Urbana Champaign, IL)

2011 “Composing Inside The Triangle: Identity Negotiation between the WPA, Teacher, and
Student Writer.” MEGAA Symposium (Oxford, OH)

National:
2019 “St. Paul, Posthuman Rhetorician” Rhetorical Society of American Institute (College
Park, MD)

2018 “Still Toward a Posthuman Ethic” Rhetorical Society of American (Minneapolis, MN)

2017 “Podcasts as (New) Material Moments of Understanding” Rhetorical Society of

American Institute (Bloomington , IN)

2017 “Soundwriting Pedagogies: Teaching Audio and Cultivating Community” Conference

on College Composition Communication (Portland, OR)

2017 Workshop Leader: “Story-Driven Podcasts For Writing Class” Conference on College
Composition Communication (Portland, OR)

2016 “Making Procedures Messy through Public Policy, Program Administration, and Visual
Art” Rhetorical Society of American (Atlanta, GA)

2016 Moving Back to The City (Again): Relocating Some Reflections On Changes Brought
About By An Object-Oriented Rhetoric Rhetorical Society of American (Atlanta, GA)
 2015 “Collaboration as Techne Available to The WPA” Council of Writing Program
Administration (Boise, ID)

2015 Un/Becoming The WPA: What Difference Does a Generation Make? Conference on
College Composition Communication (Tampa, FL)

2014 “Writing Diagnostics Narratives and Translating Auto Repair” Conference on College
Composition Communication (Indianapolis, IN)

2013 “Crafting Mundane Social Media Stories” Computers and Writing Conference
(Frostberg, MD)

2012 “Selling a $600 Piece of Paper: Automotive Technicians and Teaching Writing”Council
for Programs in Technical And Scientific Communication (Houghton, MI)

2012 “Temporary Stability: Problem-Setting in Computers and Writing” Computers and

Writing Conference (Raleigh, NC)

2012 “Practices of Procedural Rhetoric: Distributed Cognition and Writing Research”

Conference on College Composition Communication (St. Louis, MO)

2011 “Carelessly Engaging Web 2.0 Technologies: J. Hillis Miller’s Parasitical Critic, Gregory
Ulmer’s Digital Assignments, and Why Students Care Less.” Conference on College
Composition Communication (Atlanta, GA)

2011 “Writing Privately in Public: Digital Machines, Portability, and the Writing Space.”
Computers and Writing Conference (Ann Arbor, MI)

2010 “Clicked to the Cross: A Misleading Sense of Agency and Self in Online Christian
Communities.” Computers and Writing Conference (West Lafayette, IN)

Teaching 


Western Washington University, Assistant Professor,

(2013 to present)
ENG 101 Writing and Critical Inquiry: Writing Your Way Into Western
ENG 300 Independent Study: 2 credit service learning project
ENG 301 Intro To Writing Studies: Writing as Mapping/Mapping Writing
ENG 301 Intro To Writing Studies: Writing For The Web
ENG 302 Intro to Technical and Professional Writing: Making Meaning
ENG 371 Rhetorical Analysis: Persuasive and Provocative Objects
ENG 401 Rhetorical Genres: Podcasting and Rhetorical Attention
 ENG 402 Advanced Technical and Professional Writing: Service Learning Course
ENG 462 Topics in Professional Writing: Public Writing/Storytelling Research
ENG 462 Topics in Professional Writing: Podcasting & The Professional
ENG 510 Rhetoric (Graduate Seminar): Public Rhetorics
ENG 510 Rhetoric (Graduate Seminar): Invention
ENG 513 Teaching College Composition 

ENG 594 Practicum in Teaching

Purdue University, Graduate Teaching Assistant,

(2009 to 2013)
ENG 106 Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics
ENG 306 Introduction to Professional Writing: What Will Professional and Technical Writers Do Now?
ENG 420 Business Writing: Compelling Communication Practices
ENG 421 Technical Writing: Building With Words
ENG 421Y: Technical Writing – Online Course: Building With Words
ENGL 505a Approaches to Teaching College English I
ENGL 505b Approaches to Teaching College English II

Indiana University East, Instructor

(2007-2012)
ENG W130 Principles of Composition
ENG W131 Elementary Composition I
ENG W132 Elementary Composition II
ENG W132 Elementary Composition II – Online
ENG W231 Professional Writing Skills – Online
ENG W230 Science Writing – Online
ENG W500: Issues and Approaches in Teaching Composition – Online

Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH, Lecturer

(2009-2010)
ENG 111 Composition and Rhetoric (Laptop Section): ‘Writing Place’
ENG 112 Composition and Literature: ‘Religious Identities and Digital Cultures’

Service

Department
Director of Composition
Writing Studies Search Committee (2016)
Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator
Mentor to Graduate TAs assigned to our 2-credit writing course, 197A/110 (2014-2015)
Serve as liaison between our 402 service learning students and local non-profits for
whom they work (2014-Present)
Design and supervise graduate student internships (2018; 2019)
 Writing Studies Minor Advisor (2013-2016)
Member/Chair of the Writing Studies Committee
Member of ad hoc committee that designed and implemented 197A (2013-14)
Member of the ad hoc committee that developed the Western Writing Lexicon
Lead for Assessment Of our Introduction to Professional & Technical Writing Program

University
College (CHSS) Professional Leave Committee (2018; 2019)
Community Engagement Fellow (2015-2016)
Diversity Teach-In Presenter (2015)
Western Reads Selection Committee (2015, 2016)
SummerStart SIG: The English 101 Program (2015)
SummerStart Advisor (Summer 2015)
SummerStart Advisor (Summer 2014)
Honor’s Thesis Director (2014-15; 2015-16; 2018-19; 2019-20)

Community

Serve on the Bellingham Food Co-op’s Member Affairs Committee (2014-2016)
Volunteer Writer and Designer with several local non-profit organizations:
Communities-In-Schools, Northwest; Girl scouts, Bellingham YWCA, Whatcom
Humane Society, Construction for Change, Growing Veterans and Whatcom
Volunteer Center
Volunteer with the Whatcom County Heath Department, helping to redesign their risk
communication procedures and policies
Honors and Awards

2019 WWU’s Sustainable Fellowship Award

2018 WWU’ RSP Summer Teaching Grant
2016 WWU’ RSP Summer Teaching Grant
2013 WWU’s Teaching-Learning Academy Writing Research Fellowship
2012 Automotive Service Association of Washington Ascettes’ Award Grant for academic
work in the field of automotive repair
2011 Parlor Press Award for Best Digital Essay: “Teacher as Audience: Dialectic of Desire
in the Composition Class”
2011 Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University
2010 TheJump (Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects) Award Grant for Multimedia
Workshop at the Computers and Writing Conference
2010 Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University
2009 Quintilian Award for excellence in teaching from Purdue University
2009 The Ross Fellowship from Purdue University’s Graduate School