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Academic
Employment |
Lecturer, Department of Foreign
Languages and Literature, Tunghai University. 1993-present.
Teaching Assistant, Writing
Program, Syracuse University. 1999-2002.
Instructor, Foreign Language
Center, Feng Chia University. 1992-93.
Teaching Associate, English
Department, Ohio University. 1990-92.
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Education |
Ph.D. (expected 2008)
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Comprehensive Examinations in British
and American Rhetoric, Contrastive and Comparative Studies of
Chinese Rhetoric, and Global English/World Englishes
M.A. (1992) English,
Ohio University, Athens, OH
B.A. (1990) English,
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
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Professional
Experience |
Classroom Teaching
(yl=year-long; sl=semester-long;
ql=quarter-long)
Tunghai University
Composition/Oral Practice I
(3 yl sections)
Composition/Oral Practice II (4 yl sections)
Directed English (1 yl section)
FLLD Majors' Seminar:
Intercultural Communication (4 sl sections)
FLLD Majors' Seminar: The Internet for English Majors (6 sl
sections)
FLLD Majors' Seminar: Reading the Writing the Internet (1 sl
section)
FLLD Majors' Seminar: Taichung/Komaki Cities Exchange (1 sl
section)
Freshman English for Majors (5 yl sections)
Freshman English for Nonmajors (7.5 yl sections)
Nonmajors Elective: Studying English on the Internet (1 sl
section)
Research Methods
(formerly Fundamentals of Library Research) (approx. 17 yl sections)
Sociology Dept. Seminar: Rhetorical Analysis of Current Events (1
sl section)
Tunghai University Extension Center
Composition I (Secondary school English
teacher training program) (1 section)
Newspaper Reading and Discussion (1
section)
Syracuse University
WRT 105: Studio I (3 sl
sections)
WRT 205: Studio II (1 sl section)
Feng Chia University
Freshman English
Conversation (5 yl sections)
Ohio University
ENG 151: Freshman
Composition (7 ql sections)
Tutoring
Syracuse University
Writing Consultant, Syracuse
University Writing Center, 2000-02
Administrative Work
Tunghai University
Recording
Secretary, FENM Senate, 2005-2007
Freshman English/Nonmajors Testing
Committee--Listening Component, 2004-2006
Chair, Majors Program Coordinating
Committee, 2004-2005
Seminars/Electives
Representative, Majors Program Coordinating Committee,
2003-2005
FLLD
Hiring and Faculty Affairs Committee, 1997-1998; 2003-2005
FLLD
Website Committee, 1996-2004
Chair,
FLLD Majors Program Faculty Council, 1997-1998
Freshman
English for Majors Representative, Majors Program Coordinating
Committee, 1996-1998
Major's
Program Representative, FLLD General Affairs Committee, 1996-97
Ministry
of Education Grant-writing committees, March 1995, June 1997
(grant applications were successful)
At-large
member, Major's Program Coordinating Committee, 1994-95
12th
Annual R.O.C. TESL Conference Committee: General Affairs/Finance
sub-committee, 1994-95
Ad-hoc
committee to create proposals for a steering committee for the
major's program, Spring, 1994
Freshman
English/Nonmajors Testing Committee--Reading Component, 1993-94
Syracuse University
Assistant Director of the
Writing Center, 2001-2002
CCR Graduate Student
Representative, Writing Program Lower Division Committee,
2000-2001
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Awards
& Grants |
Awards
Tunghai University Research
Award, 2002
2002 Weirich Graduate Award
for Scholarly Writing for essay "Comparative and Contrastive
Studies of Chinese Rhetoric and the Question of Orientalism,"
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Program, Syracuse University
Grants
Institutional Grants
Collaborated with
director on successful Syracuse University 2002 Vision
Fund grant proposal "Diversity
and Academic Writing: Extending the Work of the Writing
Center"
Individual Research Grants
F.B.
Artz Summer Scholars Program Grant, Oberlin College Archives,
Summer 2002
Graduate School
Research/Creative Project Grant, Syracuse University, Summer 2001
Travel Grants
Syracuse University Writing Program
Travel Grant: International Writing Centers Association
Conference, 2002
National Science Council (R.O.C.)
International Travel Grants: Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 1998;
International Conference on East-West Identities, 2004; Rhetoric,
Politics, Ethics International Conference, 2005
Tunghai University Travel Grant:
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference, 2005
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Publications |
Book Chapter
"Field Trips to Virtual
Public Squares? Purposes, Audiences, Teachers, and
Student-Written Web Pages." Public Works: Student Writing as
Public Text. Ed. Emily Isaacs and Phoebe Jackson. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2001. 61-68.
Conference Proceedings
"The French Invention of
Chinese Rhetoric?"
International
Conference on East-West Identities: Globalisation, Localisation and
Hybridisation.
Proc. of conference, 26 to 27 February 2004, Hong Kong Baptist
University. CD-ROM. Hong Kong: David C. Lam Institute for
East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2004.
"Internet Research in English:
Problems and Solutions for EFL Students." Communication
& Culture in the Global Economy. Proceedings of May 22, 1999
conference in Wufeng, Taiwan. Ed. Clyde Warden. Taipei: Crane,
2000. 189-206.
Journal Articles
"Empathy and Its Others:
The Voice of Asia, A Pail of Oysters, and the Empathetic
Writing of Formosa." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
33.2 (2007): 35-60. (pdf)
"Orientalism,
Ethnography, and Fiction-Making in William Beckford's Vathek."
Tunghai Journal 37 (1996): 129-139.
Book & Media Reviews
Rev. of An African Athens:
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa by
Philippe-Joseph Salazar. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5
(2002): 775-779. (pdf)
Rev.
of Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined edited by
Clayann Gilliam Panetta. Composition Forum 11.2 (2000):
51-55.
Rev.
of Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African
American Women by Jacqueline Jones Royster. Dialogue: A
Journal for Writing Specialists 7 (2000): 36-40.
Rev.
of "University of Sydney Library Education Internet Guide"
Web site. Educational Technology & Society 2.4 (1999):
159-60. Online. Internet. Available
http://www.ifets.info/journals/2_4/jonathan_benda_website_review.html
Rev.
of "Children's Software Revue" Web site. Educational
Technology & Society 1.1 (1998): 40-1. Online. Internet.
Available
http://www.ifets.info/journals/1_1/benda_review_childsoftrv.html
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Conference
Presentations & Invited Talks |
Conference Presentations
"The Location of Chinese Culture: The
Rhetoric of Chineseness in Post-World War Two Taiwan,"
presented at the
15th
Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of
Rhetoric, Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 13-16, 2005.
"Naming Taiwan: Democracy and Transitional Identity
in Post-War Taiwan Presidential Inaugural Addresses,"
presented at the Rhetoric,
Politics, Ethics international conference, Ghent University,
Belgium. April 21-23, 2005.
"The French Invention of
Chinese Rhetoric?" presented at the International
Conference on East-West Identities: Globalisation, Localisation and
Hybridisation, Hong Kong Baptist
University, HK, PRC. February 26, 2004.
"Rhetorical
Education in Martial-Law Taiwan: A Case Study of Tunghai
University," presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the
Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, NV, USA. May 23, 2002.
"Designing
Space: Planning and Assessing Diversity Initiatives in a Writing
Center" (with Bruce Pegg), presented at the 2002 International
Writing Centers Association Conference, Savannah, GA, USA. April 12,
2002.
"Internet
Research in English: Problems and Solutions for EFL Students,"
presented at the Communication
& Culture in the Global Economy Conference, Chaoyang
University of Technology, Wufeng, Taiwan. May 22, 1999.
"Teaching
Computer Knowledge and Cultural Literacy," presented at the 2nd
FLLD Faculty Symposium sponsored by the Cultural Studies Curriculum
Development Committee, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. June
13, 1998.
"Where's
My Audience? Course-Related Student Web Pages," presented at
the 8th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA. June 4-7, 1998.
"Textual
Palaces of the Senses: The Notes to Vathek," presented
at the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual
meeting, Edmond, OK, USA. February 27-March 1, 1997.
Invited
Talks
"Using Sources Effectively and Ethically,"
invited presentation to Marketing Management class, IMBA program,
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Dec. 10, 2005.
Panelist, Panel on Text-Type in Teaching,
Situating
Writing Instruction in an EFL Context: A Conversation with Charles
Bazerman, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan. Dec. 3, 2005.
"Studying
English on the Internet," invited presentation at Chaoyang
University of Technology, Wufeng, Taiwan. March 17, 1998.
"Using
the Internet to Study English," invited presentation at the
Overseas Chinese College of Commerce, Taichung, Taiwan. March 18,
1997.
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Professional Affiliations |
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric Society of America
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