beverly cromwell wall - Trinity College

BEVERLY CROMWELL WALL
Associate Professor of English
English Department, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106-3100, USA
Phone: +1.860.297.2459; Fax: +1.860.297.5258; Email: beverly.wall@trincoll.edu
DEGREES
Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1992
Major Field: Rhetoric and Composition
Minor Fields: Modern Brit and Am Lit, Am Lit to 1914, 19th Century Brit Lit, The Novel
Supporting Area: Linguistics
Dissertation: Supreme Court Rhetoric: Explorations in the Culture of Argument and the
Language of the Law
M.A. English, University of Virginia, 1971
B.A. Honours English, University of Exeter, England, 1969
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Associate Professor of English, Trinity College, 2011-Present
Director, Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric, Trinity College, 1988-2011
Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, Trinity College, 1994-2011
Allan K. Smith Lecturer in English, Trinity College, 1991-2011
Lecturer in the Writing Center, Trinity College, 1988-1991
Visiting Instructor of English, Trinity College, 1987–1988
Assistant Professor of English, Ferrum College, 1984-86; adjunct, 1980-1982
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1983–84
Lecturer, adjunct, Tidewater Community College, 1977-79
Instructor of English, Old Dominion University, 1974, 1975-77
Instructor, adjunct, University of Virginia School of Continuing Education, 1974
Editorial Assistant, The Michie Company, Law Publishers, 1972–73
ALL COURSES TAUGHT AT TRINITY COLLEGE
English 100 Writing
English 101 Writing and Writing Online
English 102 Writing and Researching Online
English 103 Special Writing Topics: Language and Photography
English 103 Special Writing Topics: Literature and Film
First-Year Seminar: Rhetoric and Debate in Presidential Elections (1996, 2004, 2008)
First-Year Seminar: Stories in Motion: Literature and Film
Tutorial College 201-202, 203-204, 205-206: Tutorial College Program
English 208 Argument and Research Writing
English 260 Introduction to Literary Studies
English 276 How Stories Get Told
English 285 Scheming Poets (team-taught)
English 302 Writing Theory and Practice
English 317 Writing and Reasoning in the Disciplines
English 322 Southern Gothic Tales

English 325 Tales and Talk: The Rhetoric of Southern Voices (team-taught)
English 331 Art of Argument
English 338 Political Rhetoric and the Media
English 801 Theories and Methods of Literary Studies
English 802 Rhetoric and Media Arts
English 811 Electric English
English 891 Contemporary Composition Studies
English 952 Thesis Colloquium
English 399, 466, 940, 953, 954-955, 956: Supervision of numerous independent studies,
teaching assistantships, first-year mentorships, research projects, undergraduate/graduate theses
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theory and Practice of Rhetoric
Digital Literacy and Literature
Narrative in Literature and Film
Southern Literature
Language and Photography
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SCHOLARSHIP (Selected)
Board for State Academic Awards, Connecticut Credit Assessment Program Review, 5year
External Review Team, Writer’s Institute, Inc., 2012
Committee of Concerned Journalists, University of Missouri School of Journalism, and
the News Literacy Project at SUNY, 2011
"Local Knowledge," 5th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, participant,
University of Connecticut, 2010
"Website: Anthology Covers and Tables of Contents from 1829 Until Today," panel
chair, Anthologies: A Conference, Trinity College, 2010
“The Art of Argument,” invited workshop, sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Arts and Hartford Public Library, The Big Read: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, 2009
English Department, East Catholic High School, workshop, Manchester, CT, 2009
Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers, manuscript reviews, 2007, 2009
Biden-Palin Vice-Presidential Debate and Obama-McCain Presidential Debates, invited
media commentary, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2008
“From Front to Back: How Are Digital Stories Affecting the Culture of Writing in Higher
Education?” talk, Writing Development in Higher Education Conference, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2008
“Teaching Dialogic Literacy on the Internet,” paper, China-U.S. Conference on Literacy,
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 2007
Session Chair and Discussant, Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project, Special Interest
Group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, 2006
“Dialogic Literacy in Multiple Classrooms: Issues of Digital Persuasion and Social
Inclusion,” talk, UKLA International Conference, University of Bath, England, 2005
Hamilton College, Mellon Foundation Grant External Review Team, 2002-2005
Bush-Kerry Presidential Debates, invited media commentary, Orlando Sentinel and St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, 2004
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“The Writing Classroom as Online Civic Network?” workshop, Annual Conference on
Teaching for Transformation, Center for the Improvement of Teaching, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, 2004
“Reflective Teaching: How Informal Writing Can Foster Community and Democratic
Dialogue,” workshop co-leader, Learning Conference, Institute of Education, University of
London, 2003
“Virtual Voices in the Classroom: Issues of Power and Persuasion,” paper, with Alison
Warriner, 2nd International Conference on Knowledge & Discourse, Univ. of Hong Kong, 2002
“The Minefield of Language in Middle East Coverage,” invited essay, Nieman Reports,
published by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, v. 56, no. 3, Fall
2002: 81-82.
“Language Matters as We Try to Describe What Happened,” invited essay, Coverage of
Terrorism, Nieman Reports, published by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
University, v. 55, no. 4, Winter 2001: 10-11.
“Beyond Words: What Can We Do in the Writing Classroom?” keynote address (print
version), Proceedings from the Conversations about Composition Conference, ed. Nicole
Henderson and Carra Leah Hood, Southern Connecticut State University (2002): 3-5.
“Language Void,” invited guest with Jay Keyser (MIT) on an hour-long segment of “The
Connection” on the public discourse generated by September 11, 2001, National Public Radio,
90.9 WBUR, hosted by Dick Gordon, 2001
“Voices in the Machine: Perspectives on Teaching Ethos in New Genres of E-Discourse,”
symposium, International Conference on Genres and Discourses in Education, Work and
Cultural Life, Oslo University College, Norway, 2001
“Teaching Dialogic Literacy in an Electronic Democracy,” panel, 4th International
Conference, Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands, 2000
“The Practice of Liberatory Pedagogy: Enacting Democracy Through Writing,”
symposium, International Conference on Education for Social Democracies, Institute of
Education, University of London, England, 2000
“Political Rhetoric and the Media,” invited essay, in Coming of Age: The Advanced
Writing Curriculum, ed. Linda K. Shamoon, et al., Heinemann Boynton-Cook, 2000: III, 124 +
cd-rom. Winner of the 2000-2001 Best Book Award, National Council of Writing Program
Administrators
Political Rhetoric & Debate, invited media commentary, Reuters News Service, 1996-
2000
Political Rhetoric & Debate, invited media commentary, BBC Radio London, 1996-2000
The Markle Foundation, Web, White & Blue 2000 project, Washington, D.C., 1999
“The Virtual Vitality of the Liberal Arts: Teaching at the Intersection of Rhetoric,
Politics, and Cyberspace,” invited essay, in Teaching Matters: Essays on Liberal Education at
the Millennium, ed. Mark Warren McLaughlin, et al., published by Trinity College (1999): 128-
133.
“Democratic Literacies Across the Globe: A Technological Model for Teaching Writing
and Rhetoric in the 21st Century,” symposium, with Alison Warriner and Winifred J. Wood,
12th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, Waseda
University, Tokyo, 1999
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“The Power of Ethos,” seminar, 7th Conference of the International Federation of
Teachers of English, University of Warwick, England, 1999
Middlebury College, First-Year Seminar and Writing Program, External Review Team,
1998
“From Senior English to First-Year Composition: ‘How It Really Is with Thinking and
Writing’,” workshop co-leader, 3rd International Conference, Global Conversations on Language
and Literacy, University of Bordeaux, France, 1998
Heinemann Boynton-Cook Publishers, manuscript review, 1998
Addison Wesley Longman Publishers, manuscript reviews, 1996, 1997, 1998
“The Electronic Democracy Project: Extending Classroom Boundaries ‘from Sea to
Shining Sea’,” with Alison Warriner, The ACE Journal, v. 1, no. 1 (1997): 32-35.
First Clinton-Dole Presidential Debate, media commentary “Washington Journal,”
CSPAN-TV, 1996
First Clinton-Dole Presidential Debate, media commentary, Voice of America, 1996
“‘Going Public’ with Electronic Portfolios: Audience, Community, and the Terms of
Student Ownership,” invited essay with Robert F. Peltier, Special Issue on Electronic Portfolios,
guest edited by Kathleen Yancey, Computers and Composition 13 (1996): 207-217.
“The Things That Go Without Saying in Composition Studies: A Colloquy,” co-edited
with Linda K. Shamoon, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 15.2 (1995): 281-320; invited
author of one of the papers, “The Personal Essay as Unmarked Genre,” 299-301.
“Involving Students in Active and Collaborative Learning,” two-day conference, coorganizer
and presenter with faculty colleagues, Network for Academic Renewal, American
Association of Colleges and Universities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994
“Innovative Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Computing Resource Specialist and a
Freshman Writing Teacher Learn How to Talk to Each Other,” with Bob Greene, Collegiate
Microcomputer 9 (1993): 75-79.
“Brown v. Board of Education: The Text as Least Tangible Denominator,” paper, Penn
State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1993
“How to Encourage Active Learning: Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum,”
workshop co-leader, Writing Across the Curriculum Nat’l Conf., College of Charleston, 1993
Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, co-organizer, with University of Hartford,
funded by the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education, Trinity College, 1990
"Supreme Court Rhetoric as a Genre," paper, Modern Language Association Annual
Convention, Washington, D.C., 1989
"D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas," paper, Lawrence Centennial Conference, Tufts
University, 1985
"Applying Rhetorical Theory to Supreme Court Opinions," paper, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New York City, 1984
Trinity College Campus Workshops, Panels, and Talks (Selected):
New Faculty Orientation, annual two-day workshops, with faculty colleagues, Center for
Teaching and Learning, Trinity College, 1990-2010
Winter Institute on Teaching & Technology, "Developing an Argument in the Digital
Age," planning participant and co-sponsor, with the Center for Teaching and Learning,
Academic Computing, and the Library, Trinity College, 2010
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"How to Help Your Students Formulate Good Questions," panel, Center for Teaching and
Learning, 2009-2010 faculty series on Argument Across the Disciplines, Trinity College, 2009
Winter Institute on Teaching & Technology, "Critical Reading in a Digital Age,"
planning participant and co-sponsor, with the Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic
Computing, and the Library, Trinity College, 2009
Re-View, with Fred Pfeil, Cinestudio’s Film 101, “The Night of the Hunter,” Trinity
College, 2005
Michael Moore’s film “Farenheit 9/11,” panel, Cinestudio, Trinity College, 2004
“Collaboration Across the Levels: A Spring Conversation About Teaching Writing,”
conference co-organizer, sponsored by New England Association of Teachers of English,
Connecticut Council of Teachers of English, and Trinity College, 2003
“The New Public Square: Virtual Rhetoric and the Liberal Arts,” paper, Trinity Center
for Collaborative Teaching and Research, 2002
“Rhetoric and Democracy in the Age of the Internet,” co-organizer, three-day
international conference for scholars, teachers, journalists, and public activists, Intercollegiate E-
Democracy Project, Trinity College, 2001
“E-Democracy Conference,” co-organizer, one-day regional student conference on the
2000 Presidential Election, Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project, Trinity College, 2000
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS (Selected)
Awarded Ford Foundation grant, with faculty colleagues, for Focus First-Year Seminar Cluster,
Trinity College, 2008
Appointed to the faculty of Trinity’s Tutorial College, 2005-2006
Contributed “Political Rhetoric and the Media” to Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing
Curriculum (ed. Shamoon et al.), winner of the 2000-2001 Best Book Award, National
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Faculty Fellow in the Trinity Center for Collaborative Teaching and Research, 2001
Awarded Trinity grant for “Rhetoric and Democracy in the Age of the Internet,” 2000-2001
Trinity Delegate to the 2nd International Congress on Electronic Media & Citizenship in
Information Society, sponsored by the Finnish Parliament, Helsinki, 1999
SERVICE
Trinity College Service (Selected):
Co-Director and Advisor, English Department Graduate Studies Program, 2005-Present
English Department Graduate Studies Committee, 1994-Present
Curriculum Committee, 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 2006, 2008-2011
General Education Council, 2007-2010
English Department Film Studies Search Committee, 2008-2009
Faculty, Trinity Director Training Program, community service project, 1998-2008
Independent Degree Program Council, 2006-2010
Steering Committee, Mentoring Program for Women Faculty, 2000-2003
Information Technology in Education Committee, 1995-2000, 2002, 2003
Faculty advisor, the Athenaeum Society (intercollegiate debate club), 1995-2001
Educational Policy Committee, 1997-2000
Faculty Escort, Commencement Honorands Eula Hall (1993) and Herbert Granath (1996)
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