University of Oklahoma
Department of English
Norman, Oklahoma 73019





Professor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy
email: cscarter@ou.edu
phone: (405)
310-2057

Managing Editor and Web Designer,
Workplace: A Journal for
Academic Labor




Education

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Fellow in Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: "Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate University"

Investigates the rhetorical conflicts between academic administrators and labor organizations over the material conditions of work in higher education. I focus particular attention on how the groups' language practices influence the discourse of writing instruction and the circumstances in which it occurs. Surveying strategic plans and public policy declarations in various sectors of the Carnegie Classifications, I hold that many administrators use the rhetoric of "excellence" to align school goals with those of multinational corporations. Such rhetorics work to rationalize the exploitation of contingent labor in Composition and throughout the academy. I then interrogate the literature of academic labor and social justice movements to determine whether the groups' rhetorics of "solidarity" and "democracy" can help bring about justice for literacy workers.

Committee: Marc Bousquet (Director), Beth Boehm, Julia Dietrich, Aaron Jaffe, Avery Kolers
Other Research Interests: Computer-Assisted Writing Instruction, Critical Pedagogy and Rhetorics of Resistance, Reflective Writing, New Media Activism

University of Louisville
Master of Arts in English, 2000
Thesis: "The Rhetorical Bricolage of Jorge Luis Borges"

Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Bachelor of Arts, 1996, Honors Program Graduate
Thesis: "Recollected Lives: A Study of Joe Christmas and Quentin Compson"



Publications


Book

Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2008.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Writing with Light: Jacob Riis's Ambivalent Exposures." College English 71 (2008): 117-41.

"History as the Path of Invention: A Response to Jeffrey J. Williams." JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Writing, Multiple Literacies, and Politics 26 (2006): 172-85.

"Marketing Excellence in Higher Education." JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Writing, Multiple Literacies, and Politics 25 (2005): 293-322.

"Bureaucratic Essentialism and the Corporatization of Composition." Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University. Ed. Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. 186-92.

"The Student as Organic Intellectual." Works and Days 21 (Winter 2003): 339-59.

"Formal Opposition in the Casual Academy" in Workplace: A Journal For Academic Labor 4.2 (2002).

Co-authored Articles

"Roundtable with Cary Nelson: Composition, Academic Labor, and Cultural Studies:" in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 4.1 (2001).

"Illegal Knowledges: Strategies for New Media Activism." Electronic Book Review 2003. Co-authored with Ricardo Dominguez, Geert Lovink, and Bruce Simon.

Interviews

"The Florida Research Ensemble and the Prospects for an Electronic Humanities" (Interview with Greg Ulmer). Electronic Book Review (2003).

"An Interview with Barbara Wolf, Director of Degrees of Shame and A Simple Matter of Justice: Contingent Faculty Organize" in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 4.2 (2002). Reprinted in The Adjunct Advocate (May/June 2003): 28-31.

Book Reviews

"Resisting Arrest: Nondisciplinary Labor in The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace, David B. Downing." Forthcoming in JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Writing, Multiple Literacies, and Politics.

"The Wired Professor: A Review" in Kairos, 2000



Conference Presentations

"A Rhetoric of Reckoning: Picturing Post-Katrina New Orleans," Conference on College Composition and Communication 2008, New Orleans, LA

"Rhetorical Ruins: Structures of Trauma in the Photojournalism of Jacob A. Riis" Penn State Rhetorics and Technologies Conference 2007, State College, PA

"By Whose Authority?: Narration Sickness and the Ethos of Graduate Labor" Conference on College Composition and Communication 2007, New York, NY

"The Narrativity of Visual Rhetoric: Image as Historical Event" Watson Conference 2006, Louisville, KY

"The Gadgetry of Subversion: Prosthetic Rhetorics for Protest Movements" Computers and Writing 2006, Lubbock, TX

"Wetware Networks: The Materiality of Cyberactivism" CentreCATH 2005, Bradford, England (Extended version delivered at Upgrade! Oklahoma City at the “Untitled” Art Museum)

"Critical Literacy and the Politics of Access" CCCC 2005, San Francisco, CA

"Quick-Fix Rhetorics and Materialist Politics: Resisting Remediation in the Virtual Writing Center" Watson Conference 2004, Louisville, KY

“Rhetorics of Surveillance and Resistance in the Wired Workplace” Computers and Writing 2004, Honolulu, HI

"Critical Literacy and Collective Agency: Student Resistance in an Age of Global Capitalism" at The Rouge Forum 2003, Louisville

"Zapatismo and the Rhetoric of Insurgency" at CCCC 2003, New York

"Literacy in the Commodity Form" at the Institute on Culture and Society 2002, Pittsburgh

"Turf Struggle at Tech Camp: The Power of Space in the Computer-Assisted Classroom" @ Computers and Writing Conference 2002, Normal

"Cycles of Social Hacktivism: Critical Informatics in Web-based Composition" @ CCCC 2002, Chicago

"Particularizing Process through Hyperreflection: Reflection-in-Action or e-trade?" @ CCCC 2001, Denver

"Electronic Activism: Contingent Labor and the Internet" @ Computers and Writing Conference 2001, Muncie

"Henry Adams's Traumatic Education in Historiography" @ Violence in Media Conference 2000, Louisville

"Intersecting Rhetorics: The Complications of the Visual in Hypertext Composition" @ CCCC 2000, Minneapolis

"The Rhetorical Bricolage of Jorge Luis Borges" @ The Twentieth Century Literature Conference 2000, Louisville

"The Fugitive Past: Tracking Cormac McCarthy's Drama" @ The Kentucky Philology Association Conference 1999, Louisville



Teaching

University of Oklahoma

English 5483: Visual Literacies, Activist Rhetorics

English 5463: Rhetoric and Technology

English 5443: Twentieth Century Rhetoric and Composition Theory

English 5403: Issues in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy

English 4853: Social Movement Rhetoric (Capstone Course in the English Major)

English 3183: Authoring in the Information Age

English 3163: Writing, Rhetoric, and History of Technology

English 3103: Topics in Advanced Composition: Writing as Social Action
English 3103: Topics in Advanced Composition: Visual Rhetoric

English 3143: Critical Technological Literacy

English 2313: Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing: War, Empire, and the
Poetics of Trauma

University of Louisville

English 302: British Literature from Romanticism to the Present

English 102: Intermediate College Composition

English 101: Introduction to College Composition



Administration and Professional Development

University of Oklahoma

Thesis Director, Genevieve Critel
Project Title: “Teaching Composition with Technologies: Harnessing the Potential of ‘Small, Potent Gestures’”

Committee Member for 3 Ph.D. and 4 M.A. Students, 2006-2007

Faculty Advisor to Student Association of Graduate English Studies, 2006-2007

Departmental Evaluation Committee, University of Oklahoma, 2005-2006

Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Committee, University of Oklahoma, 2004-2007

University of Louisville

Assistant Director of the University of Louisville Writing Center, 2002-2003

Virtual Writing Center Coordinator, Summer 2003

Webpage Designer, 2003 Thomas R. Watson Conference: "Writing at the Center"

Webpage Designer, 2002 Thomas R. Watson Conference: "Composing Identity"

Vice-President, English Graduate Organization, 2002-3

Secretary, English Graduate Organization, 2001-2

Co-organizer of Research Colloquium in Rhetoric and Composition, 2003: Featuring Frank Farmer, Ruth Greenberg, and Carol Mattingly

Organizer of Thomas Sheehan Lecture in the Humanities, 2003: Talk and Roundtable by Richard Ohmann, "Is Progressive Education Progressive?"

Organizer of Labor Workshop for the English Graduate Organization, 2002: Featuring Eileen Schell, "Toward a New Labor Movement"

Technology Consultant, 2002 Thomas R. Watson Conference

Administrator and Instructor, "Gear Up" Technology Camp, Summer 2001

Orientation Instructor for Computer-Assisted Writing Teachers at the University of Louisville, "Layer by Layer: Constructing Writing Assignments for Hypermedia," Summer 2001

Orientation Instructor for Writing Teachers at the University of Louisville, "Technology Beyond Classroom Walls: Creating Listservs, DISCUS boards, and Personal Homepages," Summer 2001



Editorial Work

Co-editor with Wayne Ross, Steve Petrina, and Franc Feng. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. 2002-present.

Solicited articles, reviewed submissions, and edited manuscripts for "Campus Equity Week: Mobilizing Contingent Labor." Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 4.2 (2002).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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