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Web http://www.marccsantos.com
Education
Ph.D English
Purdue University (expected August 2008)
West Lafayette, IN
Primary Area: Rhetoric and Composition
Secondary Areas: Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital Writing and Theory and Cultural Studies
Dissertation: Towards AnOther Rhetoric: Digital Technology and Ethics of Co-Habitation
Committee: David Blakesley, chair; Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, and Patricia Sullivan
M.A. English
Boston University (May 2000)
Boston, MA
Focus: 18th Century British Literature and Culture
B.A. English
Clark University (May 1998)
Worcester, MA
Minor: Education Theory
Senior Thesis: Sonnet Variance in the Early 20th Century
Thesis Advisors: Stanley Sultan, Winston Napier
Distinctions: Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in English
Graduate Teaching
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Department of English (2003 – Present)
- English 505t: Technology Practicum for Teaching First-Year Composition
- Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
http://www.digitalparlor.org/mentor - Technical mentoring provides mentee graduate instructors with computer-mediated instruction to benefit both their pedagogy and their professional development. My duties include developing and running tutorial sessions with groups of 10 to 20 students on a wide range of activities, including image manipulation, professional portfolios, video editing software, electronic research methods, and various social authorship technologies.
- English 505b: Practicum for Teaching First-Year Composition
- Spring 2006
Associate Instructor with Richard Johnson-Sheehan - This course introduces mentee graduate instructors to a broad range of rhetorical and composition theory. The course attempts to ground theoretical readings in daily classroom practices. My duties included preparing lectures and class activities, facilitating class discussion, and observing and reviewing developing instructors.
- English 419: Multimedia Writing
- Spring 2007
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/419/syllabus.htm - This course emphasizes the intersection between core rhetorical concepts and multimedia composition. I emphasize the importance of standards-compliant design in terms of site usability, accessibility, and sustainability. The semester culminates in a team service-learning competition to design a website for a non-profit organization. Last semester’s winner is available at: http://www.invoad.org.
- English 420: Professional Writing
- Fall 2005, Summer 2006
Website: forthcoming - This course provides the rhetorical and compositional abilities and technical knowledge necessary for today’s networked professional writing environments. It stresses teamwork through extensive electronic peer-review and collaboration. I particularly stress adapting document design to content, context, and audience expectations.
- English 106: Introduction to Composition
- Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/106f2007/index.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/106f2006/home.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/106f2005/home.html - Drawing from the “You Are Here” syllabus approach, this course focus focuses on the importance of kairos, audience, and context in the composing process. I have developed or co-developed three different approaches to teaching this course: one exploring issues surrounding contemporary intellectual property law, one investigating the historic purposes of Universities, and one exploring the rise and significance of the weblog.
- English 101: English Composition
- Summer 2004
- This intensive 8 week summer course focused on developing critical reading and writing abilities in a number of genres. Students composed argumentative, expository, research and analytical papers.
- English 110: Introduction to Poetry
- Fall 1996, Fall 1997
- My duties included facilitating peer-review sessions of groups of 4-5 students for all papers. Sessions concerned both higher level and lower level writing concerns. I also communicated global issues and specific student problems to course professors. Additionally, I helped to facilitate class discussion.
- Oakmont Regional High School
- Fall 2001 – Spring 2003
- I taught sophomore and senior honors English and Public Speech and Debate. Additionally, I developed a course following the popular Open Court press publication Philosophy and the Simpsons and oversaw senior honors theses on Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, John Irving, and Kurt Vonnegut. Additionally, I co-chaired the drama program and co-directed several major shows and state competition entries including Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Damn Yankees, and The Bear and the Proposal: Two Farces by Checkov.
- “Saving Ourselves: Further Psychoanalytic Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill.” Gamasutra’s Game Career Guide. CMP Media. 30 January 2007. (Co-authored with Sarah E. White) http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/334/saving_ourselves_psychoanalytic_.php
- “Appealing the Divide: Logos, Ethos, and Contemporary American Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference Proceedings. Ed. David Zarefsky. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2007. (Forthcoming)
- “Playing With Ourselves: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill.” Digital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexis of Game and Gamer. Ed. Nate Garrelts. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2005. (Co-authored with Sarah E. White)
- “Pedagogical Review of Social Bookmarking Technologies.” Computers and Composition.Special Issue: Composition in the Freeware Age. (Proposal accepted, anticipated publication 2009)
- “Virtual Space / Real People: Using Digital Environments to Connect First-Year Composition Classrooms and Foster New Rhetorical Encounters.” Submitted for review to Kairos: Computers and Writing 2007 Special Issue (Co-authored with Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber).
- Purdue Research Foundation Grant for Dissertation Writing (Summer 2007)
- Parlor Press Award for Most Outstanding Multimedia Project (Spring 2007) “Delivering Delivery: Spectral Audiences and Student Writers” Available online at:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/digital_delivery/digital_delivery.html - “Virtual Space / Real People: Using Digital Environments to Connect First-Year Composition Classrooms and Foster New Rhetorical Encounters.” Computers and Writing Conference. Detroit, MI. 19 May 2007 (Presented with Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber).
- “Delivering AnOther Rhetoric: Levinas, Derrida, and Digital Rhetoric.” Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City, NY. 18 March 2007.
- “Technology Mentoring: from Product-Oriented to Object-Oriented Instruction.” Purdue University Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference. West Lafayette, IN. 4 April 2007.
- “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Pedagogical Implications of Content Management Systems Across Four First-Year Writing Classrooms.” Purdue University Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference. West Lafayette, IN. 3 April 2007 (Presented with Nathaniel A. Rivers, Ryan P. Weber, and Paul Lynch).
- “Appealing the Divide: Logos, Ethos, and Contemporary American Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference. Memphis, TN. 28 May 2006.
- “Saving Ourselves: Further Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill. “ Popular Culture / American Culture Conference. Atlanta, GA. 13 April 2006 (Co-authored with Sarah E. White).
- “ReVizing ReVisions: Addressing Ethics and Non-Hermeneutic Rhetoric in First-Year Composition through an Online Multimedia Project.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. 23 March 2006.
- “Still Dwelling in the Ruins: Humanities' Necessity for Asserting Educational Ends in a Postmodern Age.” National Council for the Teachers of English Annual Convention. Pittsburg, PA. 18 November 2005.
- “Righting Digital Textuality: Transcending the Skeuomorphic Limitations of Our Approach to Teaching Electronic Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. 18 March 2005.
- “Itchy, Tasty: Narratology, Psychoanalysis, and Survival Horror Video Games.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association National Conference. San Antonio, TX. 7 April 2004 (Co-authored with Sarah E. White).
- “A Strategy for Multimedia Research: Windows Moviemaker in 30 minutes or less.” Introductory Writing at Purdue Instructor Showcase. 10 April 2007.
- “Moving Like Images: DJ Spooky and Multimedia Writing for Purdue’s ‘You Are Here’ Syllabus Approach.” Introductory Writing at Purdue Instructor Showcase. 18 April 2006.
- “(x)HTML Coding for the Drupal Content Management System: Materials and Implementation.” Professional Writing Symposium, Purdue University. 30 November 2005.
- “Launching the New, Standards-Compliant Friends of Cary Home for Children Website.” Board Meeting of Friends of Cary Home for Children. 5 May 2005.
- Purdue Collaborative Online Instructor’s Network
- Fall 2007
- I submitted an annotated six-week visual rhetoric project for first-year composition to Purdue’s peer instructor network. The project fosters both critical and productive visual competency through a sequence of four assignments. Project explication, assignment sheets, and peer review materials are available online at: http://www.digitalparlor.org/coin/?q=node/37
- Professional, Technical, and Multimedia Writing Curriculum Review Committee
- Spring 2007
- I worked with a group of faculty and peers to revise existing course goals for three upper-division courses: professional writing, technical writing, and multimedia writing. In addition to updating course expectations, the committee created a list of recommended textbooks and guides. Updated course information is available on Purdue's Professional Writing website: http://www.digitalparlor.org/pwenglish/resources.
- Conferencing Center Guidelines Committee
- Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Sub-Committee of the Introductory Writing Committee - A three-member sub-committee explored how introductory composition instructors used our computer-mediated conferencing space. We collected information through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, using this data to revise our existing conferencing guidelines. Additionally, we compiled and synthesized pedagogical materials into a packet for incoming instructors. Finished guidelines can be seen at http://www.digitalparlor.org/icap/node/203.
- “You Are Here” Syllabus Approach Coordinator
- Fall 2006-Fall 2007
- Fellow graduate student Mark H. Leahy and I solicited information from our current approach members. We then used that information to revise the “You Are Here” approach rationale to better reflect the group’s current teaching practices. The Introductory Writing Committee approved our revision in the Spring of 2007. The revisions are posted on the ICAP website: http://www.digitalparlor.org/icap/node/61.
- Syllabus Approach Renewal Policy Committee
- Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Sub-Committee of the Introductory Writing Committee - This committee worked with faculty and peers to produce guidelines for curriculum submission and review for the Introductory Composition at Purdue program. Our guidelines, ratified by Purdue’s Introductory Writing Committee, are available at http://www.digitalparlor.org/icap/sylrenew.
- Visual CoOperative Project
- Fall 2004-Fall 2006
- The Visual CoOperative Project showcases first-year composition students’ visual essay projects. Students in my fyc classes are asked to evaluate and revise previous projects in the collective and to make an original contribution. Visual projects are accompanied by explanatory essays that discuss the intended purpose of a project and detail the rhetorical and compositional decisions made during a project’s production. An archive of the site is available at: http://www.digitalparlor.org/visualcoop/image
- Lafayette Dog Park Association
- http://www.dogparkinlafayette.com
Most recent design: May 2007
Webmastering tenure: Spring 2007-Present
(co-designed and co-maintained with the association’s website committee) - North American Levinas Association
- http://www.levinas-society.org
Most recent design: January 2007
Webmastering tenure: Fall 2006-Present
- Purdue University Technical Mentoring
- http://www.digitalparlor.org/mentor
Webmastering tenure: Fall 2006-Present
- Purdue Graduate English Association
- http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~gradsea
Most recent design: October 2006
Webmastering tenure: Fall 2006-Present - The Friends of the Cary Home for Children
- http://www.caryhome.org
Most recent design: May 2005
Webmastering tenure: Spring 2005-Present - Member of Purdue’s Introductory Writing Committee
- Fall 2005 – Spring 2007
- Vice-President of the Purdue Graduate Student English Association
- Fall 2005 – Spring 2006
- Theory and Cultural Studies Representative to the Purdue Graduate English Association
- Fall 2004 – Spring 2005
- Rhetoric Society of America
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Popular Culture Association
- North American Levinas Society
- Rhetoric and Institutional Discourses
- English 680i
Thomas Rickert
Spring 2006 - Issues in Composition Studies: Modern Period
- English 624
Patricia Sullivan
Fall 2005 - Qualitative Research Methods
- English 680r
Patricia Sullivan
Spring 2005 - Introduction to Composition Theory
- Enlgish 591 Irwin Weiser Fall 2004
- Issues in Composition Studies: Classical Period
- English 622
Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Fall 2004 - Postmodernism and Composition Issues
- English 626
Thomas Rickert
Spring 2004 - Computers and Writing
- English 605
Samantha Blackmon
Spring 2006 - Burke: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Technology
- English 680b
David Blakesley
Fall 2005 - New Media
- English 690n
Jennifer Bay
Spring 2005 - Technology of the Book
- English 696t
Dino Felluga
Spring 2006 - Independent Reading: Complexity and Network Theory
- English 590
Thomas Rickert
Summer 2005 - Contemporary Critical Theory: Levinas and Derrida
- English 569
Arkady Plotnitsky
Spring 2004 - Cultural Studies and Composition
- English 680c
Thomas Rickert
Fall 2003 - Critical Theory and Popular Culture
- English 696t
Dino Felluga
Fall 2003 - Professional Writing Practicum
- English 505m
Michael Salvo
Fall 2005 - First-Year Composition Practicum
- English 505a & 505b
Thomas Rickert
Fall 2003 – Spring 2004 - David Blakesley
- Professor of English and
Director of the Professional Writing Program
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
765.494.3740
blakesle@purdue.edu - Jennifer Bay
- Assistant Professor of English
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
765.494.3740
jbay@purdue.edu - Thomas Rickert
- Associate Professor of English
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
765.494.3740
trickert@purdue.edu - Patricia Sullivan
- Professor of English
Director of the Rhetoric and Composition Program
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907- 2038
765.494.3740
sullivanatpurdue@gmail.com - Richard Johnson-Sheehan
- Associate Professor of English
Director of Composition
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907 - 2038
765.494.3740
rjohnso@exchange.purdue.edu - Julie Henderson
- Credentials Coordinator
Department of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907 - 2038
Tel: 765.494.3740
Fax: 765.494.3780
jhenders@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Teaching
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Department of English (2003 – Present)
Quincy Community College
Plymouth, MA
Adjunct Instructor, Department of English
Clark University
Worcester, MA
University Writing Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of English
High School Teaching
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Work in Progress
Awards and Grants
National Presentations
Local Presentations
Administrative Service and Curriculum Development
Web Design and Administration
Professional Copyediting
Parlor Press Copyeditor
Spring 2007 – Present
I copyedit and revise previously peer-reviewed material for publication. My duties include querying authors, editing grammar and style, formatting documents according Parlor Press specifications, and preparing reference lists and notes according to APA or MLA format.