JOYCE ELLEN MALEK, PH.D.
Department of English and Comparative Literature McMicken College of Arts and Sciences University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993 Emphasis Area: Composition Theory and Research
Dissertation: “Improvising the Text: A Study of Artistic Collaboration in the Women’s Theater, At the Foot of the Mountain”
M.A. English, University of Minnesota, 1987 Emphasis Area: Creative Writing B.A. English, University of Minnesota, 1984
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Coordinator, First-year Writing, English Composition Program, 2014- • Interim Director, English Composition Program, 2007-2008, 2012-2014 • Associate Director, English Composition Program, 2006-2007, 2009-2012
Administering English Composition Program serving over 6000 students per academic year in 300 sections taught by 70+ faculty consisting of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Adjunct, and Full-time Faculty. Responsible for composition curriculum delivery and design, faculty
development, and communication with academic and administrative units across the University.
Promoted to Professor, Educator, 2014 Associate Professor, Educator, 2005-2014
Adjunct Faculty, Associate Professor, represented, 2003-2005 Courses Taught
• First-year English Composition • Honors English Composition • Intermediate Composition • Advanced Composition
• Honors Program Topics Course • Writing with Style
• Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Practicum Department of English and Comparative Literature Service
Chair, Composition Advisory Committee, 2012-present
Co-Chair, Composition Advisory Committee, 2008-2012
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Composition, 2013
Member, Area and Program Directors Committee, 2011-present
Member, Steering Committee, 2004-2006, 2007-2008, 2010-present
Cross-college Coordinator for A&S English, Semester Conversion Committee, 2009
Member, Mid-career Writing Course Committee, (English Composition 289), September Institute, 2007
Member, Undergraduate English Major Curriculum Committee, 2007
Coordinator, Composition Teaching and Research Group (CTRG), 2006-2008
Reader, Cincinnatus Scholarship Application Essays Competition, 2004-2010
Department Coordinator, Cincinnatus Scholarship Application Essays Competition, 2008- 2010
Member, William C. Boyce Award Selection Committee, 2006
Member, Selection Committee, Department of English Student Composition Essays Awards, Spring 2005, 2006
Presenter, Composition 103 Workshop, Spring 2005
Chair, Composition 102 Committee, Fall, 2005 College and University Service
Member, University Composition Committee, (UCOMP), 2006-present
Co-chair, University Composition Committee, (UCOMP), 2009-2012, 2014-
Member, Search Committee, Academic Writing Center Coordinator, 2013
Faculty Assessor, Undergraduate Research Poster Session, June 2011
Member, Selection Committee, Annual University Student Writing Competition
(sponsored by UCOMP), 2006-2011, 2013-
Co-Chair on Course Numbering Subcommittee, Semester Conversion Committee, 2009-2010
Member, Collegiate Restructuring Committee: Subcommittee for Developmental Curriculum, Fall 2009
Member, Search Committee, Associate Director of First-year Experience and Learning Communities, 2006
Presenter, Students and Plagiarism Panel, First-year Experience Program, 2007
Leader/Presenter, UC Graduate Teaching Assistant Program Orientation, 2006, 2007
Member, English Placement Essay Exam Selection Group, Winter 2006
Presenter, Faculty Expectations of Student Research Skills,” University Librarians Fall Workshop on Teaching and Learning. Fall 2005
Member, Masters Defense Committee: Cheryl Crowell: “Asset Mapping,” College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, 2006-2007
Honors, Awards, Recognitions
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences Merit Awards “Excellent” ranking, 2010, 2011
William C. Boyce Teaching Award, 2005
Theta Phi Alpha Faculty Recognition, 2004
ANOKA RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Coon Rapids, Minnesota, 1996-2004
Professor, 1996-2004 (tenured 1998)Division Head, 1998-2000
Led college division of 30 faculty in areas of English, Journalism, and Reading and Study Skills
Coordinator, Faculty Development Program, 2000-2002 Co-Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, 1998-2002 Courses Taught
• Developmental and College-level Composition Courses • Technical Writing
• Introductory literature • Short story
• British literature 18thc - contemporary Service
Member, Academic Affairs and Standards Council, 2002-2003
Member, College Executive Board, 1999-2002
Member, Search Committee, Dean of Educational Services, 2000
Member, Search Committee, Director of Academic Support Services, 1998
Member, Curriculum Exchange of Views Project, 1997-1998
Member, Semester Conversion Committee, 1996-1997
Member, Center for Teaching and Learning Committee, 1996-2003 Additional College Service
• Author, Strategic Initiative Proposal Grant, Evening Lecture Series, Anoka Ramsey Community College, 2000, funded
• Keynote Speaker, Graduation Commencement, 1999
• Keynote Speaker, Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony, 1998 • Advisor, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, 1997-1998
• Editor and Writer (various articles), Energy Pool Newsletter, newsletter of the Center for Teaching and Learning, 1998-2002
College Service Award
• Center for Teaching and Learning Leadership Award, 1999
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS, River Falls, Wisconsin, 1992-1996
Lecturer/InstrutorDirector, University Writing Center Courses Taught
• Freshman English sequence • Business Writing
• Undergraduate Peer Tutor Training Practicum Service
• Faculty Mentor, Fast Track Program (residence hall mentoring program), 1994- 96 • Member, State of Wisconsin English Placement Test Committee, Madison, Wisconsin,
1995-1996
• Member, “Reach for the Future” Faculty Workload Team, 1995-1996 • Member, Academic Staff Council, 1995-1996
• Member, Marketing Communications Major Program Development Team, 1995 • Member, Freshman English Committee, 1994-1996
• Member, University Task Force on Technology Federal Title III Grant, “Enhancing Technology Across the Curriculum,” 1995
• Member, Davee Library Remodeling Team, 1993-1996
• Member, First-Year Experience Team (examining student retention and graduation • rates), 1993-1995
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Academic Computing, 1995
• Member, Search Committee for Assistant Director, Academic Support Center 1994 Grants Written and Funded
• Institutional Enhancement Grant, “Identifying, Enhancing, and Promoting Writing to Learn At the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1996, funded
• Western Wisconsin Consortium Grant, “Improving the Delivery of ESL Services at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls,” 1995, funded
• General Computer Access Grant, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1995, funded Awards
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1991-1992
Visiting InstructorCourses Taught
• Freshman English Sequence • Business Writing
Service:
• Representative, English Department: Semiannual Meeting of University of Wisconsin System Composition Directors, 1991
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984-1991
English Graduate Teaching AssistantGraduate Assistant Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing, 1988-1991 Director, Writing Lab, 1985-1988
Courses Taught English Department:
• Developmental Writing • Freshman Composition
• Technical Writing for Engineers • Introduction to the Short Story Continuing Education and Extension:
• Creative Writing,
• Reading and Writing the Short Story Service
• Member, Composition Advisory Council, 1984-1985
• Sessions Planner/Reader, 1993 College Composition and Communication Conference, Minneapolis, MN
• Conference Co-coordinator: “Politics and Literacy: Social Constructions of Writing in Academic Communities,” Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1991
• Conference Co-coordinator: “Diversity and Writing: Dialogue Within a Modern
University,” Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1990
• Member, Editorial Review Board, Monograph Series, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1990-92
• Member, Planning Board, Minnesota Writing Project, University of Minnesota, 1990 • Member, Editorial Staff, Hurricane Alice, Women’s Studies Program, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1988-90
• Member Editorial Staff, Stream Lines, Undergraduate Literary Journal, English Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1985-86 • Member, Composition Advisory Council, 1984-1986
Reviewer
• Teaching English in the Two-Year College Journal, 1999-2005
• The Brief McGraw Hill Handbook, 2007
• Reading Based Writing, Wadsworth Publishing, Inc, 1998
• The Student Writer, Harper and Row Publishers, Inc., 1988-89
Grants and Honors
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Minnesota, 1987-93
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
PRESENTATIONS
“Chronicling Collaboration: Lessons Learned from WPA Work Across Multiple Campuses,” WPA Conference, Bloomington, Illinois, 2014
“Inter/Acts: Rhetorical Traditions in Feminist Theater,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, 2011
“Rhetorical Traditions in Theater of the Second Wave,” Feminisms and Rhetorics, Mankato, MN 2011
“Cookbooks, Memory, and Identity,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, 2007
“The Cookbook Project,” Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language and Literature, Columbus, OH, 2006
“Public Service Ads as Informal Persuasion.” Midwest Two-Year College Association Conference Cleveland, OH, October, 2003
“An Integrative Approach to Community Building.” National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, WI, Spring, 2000
“College Hour: An Integrative Approach to Building Academic Community.” The Collaboration of Minnesota State Colleges & Universities, Golden Valley, MN, 2000
“Community Between Faculty: Comparing Developmental Students’ Preparation, Fears, and Expectations.” Two-Year College Association Midwest Conference, St. Paul, MN, 1998 “The Ideas, Historias, Cuentos of Struggle: Writing, Reading, and Teaching in the Two-Year
Developmental Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 1997
“Director and Tutor Perspectives on Tutor Assessment.” Midwest Writing Center Association, Minneapolis, MN, 1996
“Three Models of Tutor Training.” (Inter)National Writing Center Association, St Louis, MO 1995 “Writing that Keeps You in Touch-Collaborative Research Teams.” University of Wisconsin-River
Falls Teachers’ Conference, River Falls, WI, 1993
“Issues in Collaborative Learning.” University of Wisconsin-River Falls Teachers’ Conference, River Falls, WI, 1992
“Research Teams in the College Composition Classroom.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Bloomington, MN, 1992
“New Techniques for Teaching Technical Writing.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Mankato, MN, 1991
“Changing the Technical Writing Curriculum.” Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference, Washington, DC, 1990
“A Stake in the Claim: Collaborative Writing in the Composition Classroom.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, St. Cloud MN, 1989
“Encouraging, Building On, and Integrating the Oral Culture: Practical Techniques.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Hibbing, MN, 1985
CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIR
“Critical Access, Deep Democracy, and Personal Agency.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN, 2014
“IPod; Therefore I Am.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 2006
“Sounding the Sacred: Rhetoric(s) of Feminist Spirituality.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, 2003
“Profoundly Relational: Religious Belief, Discourse Theory, and the Writing Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN, 1993
“Combining Adult Language Theory and Process Writing to Teach Nontraditional Students in Higher Education.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, Bloomington, MN, 1992
“Approaches to Research in Writing: Qualitative Methods.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 1990
“Composition and the Woman Writer, the Nonwhite Writer, and Reading and Writing about Place.” Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, St. Cloud, MN, 1989
“We did it and Lived: A State University Goes to Exit Testing.” National Testing Network on Writing, Minneapolis, MN, 1988
WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
PRESENTATIONS“Spring Showcase and Works-in-Progress Workshop,” College of Allied Health Writing Fellows Workshop (with Dr. Hannah Rule), University of Cincinnati, Spring 2014
“Learning the Language: Writing Like an Allied Health Professional,” “Writing to Communicate: Backwards Engineering Writing Assignments to Achieve Course Goals,” “Writing to Learn in Large Enrollment Courses: the Power of Exploratory Writing,” College of Allied Health Writing Fellows Workshop Series (with Dr. Hannah Rule), University of Cincinnati, 2012, 2013, and 2014 (with Carla Sarr)
“Promoting Learning and Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Writing,” University of Toledo, March 2012
“Writing Instruction at the Graduate Level” (with Dr. Laura Micciche), College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Resources, University of Cincinnati, Interactive Workshop
Series: Writing in the Profession, June 2011
“Learning Portfolios and Integrated Learning” (with Dr. Wayne Hall), Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Cincinnati, August 2009
“E-Portfolios” (with Dr. Wayne Hall), Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2007
“Mid-career Writing Course (English Composition 289),” University of Cincinnati, September Institute 2007
“Action-Based Research,” Minnesota Writing Project Selective Summer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1998
“Women and Career Choices,” Women’s History Month Panel, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, March, 1996
“Writing Effective Resumes,” Business Association, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, 1994
“Using Particle/Wave/Field to Generate Ideas for the Term-Length Paper,” History Department, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, River Falls, WI, 1992-1993
“English Division Workshop for Anoka Ramsey Community College,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1991
“Using Ethnography in a Collaborative Project,” College in the Schools Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1990
“Collaborative Learning / Collaborative Writing,” College in the Schools Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1989
“University of Minnesota Graduate Teaching Assistants Training and Development Workshop,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1989
“Organizing Your Written Composition,” Becoming a Master Student Program University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1987
Graduate Teaching Assistants Orientation Workshops for Program in Composition and Communications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1985-1989
Workshops Arranged
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jody Shipka, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Faculty Discussion and Screening of “Talking Pictures,” and Workshop: “Materiality and Composing,” October 30 and 31, 2014
Composition 2089 Workshop, A&S English Composition Program, April 2014
and Diversity: What Do We Know? What Should We Know? What Should We Be Doing When We Assess Writing?” April 2014
Guest Speaker: Dr. Adam Banks, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky: Graduate Student Workshop: “Community Literacy and Engagement: Using Literacy to Build Community,” Faculty Discussion, “Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age,” February 2013
Composition 289 Workshop for faculty in A&S Composition, College of Access and Transition, Clermont College, and Raymond Walters College (University of Cincinnati Blue Ash), University of Cincinnati, May 2007
College Hour and Faculty Development Presentations, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Various, 1998-2003
English as a Second Language Workshop, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, Fall, 1995
Norton Textra Connect Workshop, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, 1995 Learning Disabilities Workshop, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI, March, 1996
PUBLICATIONS
• Malek, Joyce, Cynthia Ris, Catherine O’Shea, Christinal La Vecchia, eds. Student Guide to English Composition 1001, 2012-2014. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil, 2013.
• Hammond, Alli, Joyce Malek, Hannah Rule eds. Student Guide to English Composition 101- 102, 2011-2012. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil, 2012.
• Hundemer, Ron, Joyce Malek, Julianne Lynch, eds. Student Guide to English Composition 101-102 2007-2008. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil, 2008.
• Hundemer, Ron and Joyce Malek, eds. Student Guide to English Composition 102, 7th ed. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil, 2007.
• Martin, Roger, Writing in the Design Disciplines. Hansen, Craig and Joyce Malek, eds. Monograph Series No. I,1992. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
• “Writing Resumes That Work,” Perceptus, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Fall 1992 • “We Did It and Lived: A State University Goes to Exit Testing,” Notes from the National
Testing Network in Writing, 1988
• “A Teacher Learns to Teach,” At the Foot of the Mountain Newsletter, Mpls, MN 1989; reprinted in National Association for Young Writers, January 1990
• “Mr. Brewster’s Kneecap,” First Place Winner, Annual Words Worth Short Fiction Contest, Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, 1988
• “Writing to a Dream,” Second Place Winner, Annual Words Worth Short Fiction Contest, Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, 1987
• “Out of the Jungle, El Tigre,” Second Place Winner, Annual Words Worth Short Fiction Contest, Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, 1986
• “The Posada,” FallOut, Graduate Student Literary Review, University of Minnesota, 1985
OTHER PROFESSIONALSERVICE
Writing Consultant:
• MANE Business Writing Workshop, Summer 2004
• Spirit of America National Bank Business Writing Workshop, Spring 2005 Volunteer Tutor
• Minnesota Literacy Council, St. Paul, MN, 1991
At the Foot of the Mountain Women’s Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1990-1993 • Member, Board of Directors: 1990-1993
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2009-present • National Council of Teachers of English, 1987-present • College Composition and Communication, 1987-present • Two-Year College Association, 1996-2004• National Education Association, 1996-200 • National Writing Project, 1998-2000 • Minnesota Writing Project, 1998-2000
• Minnesota Community College Faculty Association, 1996-2004 • National Writing Center Association, 1992-96
• Midwest Writing Center Association, 1992-96
