P.O.
Box 44691
Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
work e-mail: kdorwick@louisiana.edu
personal e-mail: kdorwick@yahoo.com
Office Phone: (337) 482-6915
Ph.D. in English, The University of Illinois at Chicago: July, 1998
Hypertext Dissertation: Building the Virtual Department: A Case Study of Online Teaching and Research.
Dissertation Director: James J. Sosnoski, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Thomas Bestul, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Ann Feldman, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Cynthia Haynes, The University of Texas at Dallas
Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University
Master in Pastoral Studies, Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University of Chicago, January 2002
M.A. in English, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991
B.A. in English, DePaul University, 1989
Certificate in On-Line Teaching and Learning, California State University at Hayward, June, 1999
Co-Administrator, Electronic
Teaching Environment (with Kevin Moberly): AcadianaMOO is currently host to Marshall University, North Carolina
Wilmington, St. Cloud State U. and St. Louis U. http://acadianamoo.org
Consultant, the BrightMOO
Project (currently under development by Brent and Kevin Moberly):
http://brightmoo.sourceforge.net
Decentralized Arts Funding (DAF) Grant, Acadiana Arts Council, NightFears. $5,755. 30 page application
Instructional MiniGrant Awarded for AcadianaMOO: $345
Partnership Grant from Acadiana Arts Council for Down Low, $2,803 successfully awarded. 30 page application. Invitation to apply from the Arts Council.
ATLAS
Grant Proposal (51 page application for year long sabbatical and
research funds) submitted for $110,161 total including payroll,
benefits and travel. Book Manuscript in Development: The Engines of Fairieland: Technological Representation in YA Literature and Film.
Various University, College and Departmental Grants to bring Marcy Baumann, Lansing Community College, to speak on online teaching and learning: total of $1,800, to campus, Feb. 7-8, 2008: Faculty Development Grant, $700; Dean’s Support for this project: $500; Lyceum Grant, $600.
Awarded a Faculty Development Grant, University of Louisiana,
Lafayette: $350 from Academic Planning and Faculty Development to increase graduate student use of AcadianaMOO.
Awarded: $1,000 Grant from Acadiana C.A.R.E.S to rewrite Dancing with the Virus as Down Low with co-author John Patrick Bray.
Acadiana Arts Council Partnership Grant Awarded and Completed for Above Project:
$2,000 awarded, narratives collected on the Dancing Project Website; show produced with co-author John Patrick Bray.
Various University, College and Departmental Grants to bring
Jonathan Alexander, University of Cincinnati to speak on "Queer
Poetics" and "Students' Right to Their Own E-Texts," May 2005: $1,200.
Various University, College and Departmental Grants to bring
Kathleen Blake Yancey, past president of the CCCC as keynote
speaker/Rhetoric Symposium speaker, Feb 2005: $1,500
Various University, College and Departmental Grants to bring Beth
Daniell, Department of English, University of Alabama to speak on
women's spirituality, 2003-2004: $1,500.
Awarded a STEP (Student Technology Enhancement Program: This grant funded the purchase of DriveShield, a product that would make student misuse of computers much more difficult in the English Department facilities, $1,911.
Awarded a Faculty Development Grant, University of Louisiana, Lafayette: $1,750 plus equipment ($1,000 from the College of Liberal Arts, $750 from Academic Planning and Faculty Development and a Gateway 2000 desktop computer from the Department of English) for the purpose of setting up a new MOO server, acadiana.louisiana.edu, port 7777, and to bring in Tari Fanderclai of ConnectionsMOO for a virtual workshop on the setup and maintenance of MOO space. AcadianaMOO went online January 2002.
Various University, College and Departmental Grants to bring Carol Mattingly, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY to speak on women's temperance monuments, 2002-2003: $1,700.
Awarded a Summer Research Grant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The grant, equivalent to a full time teaching schedule stipend for summer, to allow the researching and writing of "Weeping Stones, Living Trees: Creating and Archiving Electronic Texts in Student and Scholarly Writing," Texts and Technology: Reading and Writing in a Technological World. Ed. by Janice Walker and Ollie Oviedo. (Hampton Press, 2005).
Awarded a Faculty Development Grant, University of Louisiana, Lafayette: $1,900 ($1,000 from the College of Liberal Arts, $700 from Academic Planning and Faculty Development and $200 from the Department of English) for the purpose of bringing Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas and Jan Holmevik, University of Bergen to present on the uses of MOOs (Multiple User Dungeon or Dimension, Object Oriented) in humanities education, October 12, 2000.
Co-Investigator with Thomas Philion, S. Tozer, et al., English, UIC. "Writing to Learn/Learning to Teach: Using Storyspace to Foster Collaborative Learning in Teacher Education Courses at UIC." Amount of award: $15,000 from the University of Illinois Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Principal Investigator: The Illinois Board of Higher Education awarded Dorwick a $3,000 grant (value-in-kind). The grant will pay for a sufficient number of FirstClass licenses to allow the composition group to experiment with bridging English and composition courses at such institutions as UIC, Chicago State, Western Illinois, Southern Illinois and others.
Chair of Panel, Computers and Writing 2007, Wayne State University: "From the Cardboard City to the Virtual Rural Landscape," with Kevin Moberly and Justin Thurman.
Speaker, Computers and Writing 2007, Wayne State University: "Advance to Go: Virtual Versions of the Monopoly Game and Its Urban Landscape."
Speaker, “Re-remembering HIV: Using Lore to Build a New and Less Traumatic Cultural Collective Memory in Gay Chat Space,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007.
Speaker, "The Two Play Problem: Exploring Williams’ Original Conception of The Glass Menagerie," with John Patrick Bray, National Association of Humanities Educators, San Francisco, March 2006.
Speaker, “Cutting UP: Negotiating Ethos via Humor in a Gay Chat
Room,” Computers and Writing 2006, Texas Tech University.
Speaker, "Aiming Low: The Really Hot Stuff is Maybe the
Low-End Stuff," Computers and Writing 2006, Texas Tech University.
Speaker with Brent and Kevin Moberly, "Crossing (Out) the
Frontier: BrightMOO, Remediation, and Authorship in the Age of the
Networked Graphical Environment," Computers and Writing 2006,
Texas Tech University.
Speaker, "Dancing with HIV: Creating Theater Around a
Community Based Writing Group," Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2005.
Moderator, "Founding a Community of Borrowers and Contributors: The
University of Lafayette at Louisiana Digitized Teaching Resource
Center." Special Interest Group on Teaching and Mentoring, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2005.
Abstract Accepted, "The High Pain Threshold of Magic: Costs of
Voluntary and Involuntary Passage to and from Narnia," South Central
Modern Language Association, Houston, October 2005. Canceled due to Rita's destruction of the bridges on I-10.
Abstract Accepted, "'Considering It Is The Worke Of A Woman":
Femininized and Masculinist Language in Selected Early Modern English
Texts," Feminisms and Rhetoric, Michigan Technological University,
October 2005. Canceled due to weather in Hougton, MI.
Speaker, "Wrong Reasons: Arrangement, Delivery and the Right to Publish
Freelance Articles in One Newspaper's Database," Computers and Writing
2005, Stanford University, June 2005.
Speaker, Service Learning Special Interest Group and Graduate Research
Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San
Francisco, March 2005.
Speaker, "Not in My Body: HIV Representation as a Gay Disease in HBO's
Angels in America," South Central Modern Language Association, October
2004.
Speaker, "Keeping Up: Cautionary Tales for the Untenured Who Work in
Technorhetoric," Computers and Writing, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2004.
Speaker, "Still in Bondage: A Two Fold Reading of the Homophobia of the
Religious Right," Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, TX, May 2004.
Speaker, "Mere Memorization: The Sad State of Formal Education in
Lewis' Narnia," C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference, LeTourneau
University, April 2004.
Speaker, "A Distant Voice: Considering the Impact of Electronic
Communications on Spiritual Direction," Computers and Writing,
Lafayette, IN, May 23,
2003.
Speaker, "Then He Said, 'Give Me Your Poz Load'": Negotiations of Safe
and Unsafe Sex between HIV Positive and Negative Men in Online Chat
Spaces and Student Readings of Queer Male Culture," National Council of
Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA, November 23, 2002.
Speaker: "Quota Wars: Database Allocation and a Student's Right to
Build
and Program," Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, NV, May
26-30, 2002.
Speaker, "Joining Everything into One: Examining the Rhetorical Affect
of Verbs Associated with MOO Objects," Seventeenth Computers and
Writing 2002, Normal, IL, May 2002.
Workshop Leader, "Working with Your University's Administrative
Computer Personnel," Seventeenth Computers and Writing 2002, Normal,
IL, May 2002.
Speaker, "The Secret Sorrow of Stanley Kowalski: Interrogating the Stage Directions of A Streetcar Named Desire for Homosocial Anxiety," Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Lafayette LA, March 2002.
Speaker, "A MOO of My Own, or How Information Technology Campus Officials Worked Well with One Faculty Member," Syllabus Conference, Danvers MA, November 29, 2001.
Speaker, "Gay History 101: A Brief Introduction." PRIDE, UL Lafayette, October 2001.
Invited Panelist: "Technologically Incorrect: A Rambunctious Roundtable on Controversial Issues." Sixteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, IN, May 19, 2001.
Invited Speaker: "Facilitating Student-Centered Learning in Online Courses," Panel: "Classroom for the New Millennium? The Need to Build Student Centered Learning Environments in Virtual Courses." Sixteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, IN, May 19, 2001.
Invited Workshop Leader, "Queer Spirituality," State Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues. Louisiana State University, April 1, 2001.
Invited Speaker, "Bible 101: The Christian Scriptures and What They Say about Homosexuality," State Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues. Louisiana State University, March 31, 2001.
Speaker, "Hearing You Without Seeing You: Speculations on the Interpersonal Relationships Between Tutors and Tutees in Text Based Online Spaces," 2001 Conference of the South Central Writing Centers Association. Lafayette, LA, March 30, 2001.
Invited Panelist: "Ethics and Legality in Cyberspace," Speak Out. Acadiana Open Channel, Lafayette, Louisiana. March 1, 2001.
Coordinator, TechFest 2001, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Feb 19 and 20, 2001.
Guest Facilitator, "New Faculty Survival Techniques, or the Care and Feeding of New Tenure Track Folks," The Netoric Project @ ConnectionsMOO, October 24, 2000.
Invited Panelist: "Politics and Pedagogy in the Creative Writing Classroom," Deep South Festival of Writers, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, October 15, 2000.
Invited Co-Presenter: "Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going: a Brief Look at the QueerMOOnity's Trajectory," Sixteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Fort Worth, TX, May 26-28, 2000.
Presenter (with a team from LinguaMOO): The QueerMOONity Tour, Computer Connections, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, March 14, 2000.
Invited Panelist: "Technologically Incorrect: A Rambunctious Roundtable on Controversial Issues," Fifteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, SD, May 27, 1999.
Co-Presenter: "Building the Visible QueerMOOnity: Creating a SafeSpace for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in a MOO," Fifteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, SD, May 30, 1999.
Facilitator: "Teaching Classroom or Distance Learning Courses with FirstClass® Collaborative Classroom: Expanding Traditional Pedagogies," Pre-Conference Workshop. Fifteenth Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, SD, May 27, 1998.
Faculty Summer Institute (Urbana): Served as the facilitator for the Faculty Summer Institute, to which Illinois faculty across the state were invited by their Provosts and Chancellors, May 17-21, 1999.
"The Promise and Peril of (Virtually) Teaching The First-Year Composition Course to Computer Neophytes," Fourteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Gainesville, FL, May 30, 1998.
"The Death of the Wizards: How and Why an Online Department Failed and How It Succeeded," Fourteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Gainesville, FL, May 30, 1998.
Facilitator: "Money Matter$: Developing Technology Planning and Grants Documents for Teaching Writing with Computer Technologies," Pre-Conference Workshop. Fourteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Gainesville, FL, May 28, 1998.
Faculty Summer Institute (Urbana): Served as the facilitator for the Faculty Summer Institute, to which Illinois faculty across the state were invited by their Provosts and Chancellors, May 18-22, 1998.
Facilitator: "Teaching in Electronic Environments: the Use of FirstClass Group Conferencing Software," Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL, April 24, 1998.
"Going Staff: Training for Administrative Positions While Earning Your Ph.D," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
Facilitator: Two Day Workshop on Instructional Technologies. I: "What is Instructional Technology in Language, Literature, and Composition Classes?" and II: " "How Do We Use Instructional Technology in Our Language, Literature, and Composition Classes?" William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL>, October 15 and 23, 1997.
Facilitator: "Real-Time Class Discussions via Electronic Technologies," The University of Illinois Teaching Assistant Training Workshops, Chicago, IL, August 20, 1997.
Facilitator: "Writing an Instructional Computing Culture," Pre-Conference Workshop." Thirteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Honolulu, June 3, 1997.
"Seen and Unseen: Religious Fervor and the Writing of HTML," Thirteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Honolulu, June 5, 1997.
"Institutional Responses to Computer Support Staff: The Luck of the Draw?" with Ken McAllister. Thirteenth Writing and Computers Conference, Honolulu, June 9, 1997.
Faculty Summer Institute (Urbana): Served as the facilitator for the group of compositionists (writing teachers) from across Illinois> at the Faculty Summer Institute, to which participants were invited by their Provosts and Chancellors, May 19-23, 1997.
Assisted with planning the "Tic-Toc [Teaching in Cyberspace Through Online Courses] Seminar, UIC, May 16-17, 1997.
Tic-Toc brought together nationally and internationally known figures in the computers and composition community, including Cynthia Selfe (Michigan Technological University) and Gail Hawisher (UIUC), founders and co-editors of Computers and Composition; Eric Crump, past chair of the Committee for Computers and Composition of the Conference for College Composition, a section of the National Council of Teachers of English; Mick Doherty, founder and editor of Kairos, a web-based journal for teachers in web-based classrooms; Randy Bass, director of the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown; Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, founders and builders of LinguaMOO, a teaching environment at the University of Texas at Dallas; and others. The proceedings will be published in a special issue of Works and Days.
"Diakonia and Drafting: The Teaching of Writing as a Social Justice Issue," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Phoenix, AZ, March 29, 1997.
Panel Presentation: "If They Build It, They Will Come," ACM SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services) XXIV: The Cyclone of Change: Natural Disaster or Carnival Ride?, Chicago, IL>. Sept. 29-Oct 2, 1996. Panelists: Niki Aguirre, Keith Dorwick, Jim Fletcher, Sajjad Lateef, Ken McAllister and James J. Sosnoski.
"Classical Knowing, Christian Charity: Augustine's Appropriation of Socrates' Rhetoric of the Soul," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI, March 29, 1996.
Facilitator: "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, on the World Wide Web," Pre-convention Workshop, Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI, March 27, 1996
"How, Then, Shall We Do Documentation? -- First Steps Toward an Effective Style Sheet for Multiple Format Texts in a Multi-Platform Environment," Writing Across the Disciplines: Making Connections. Florida International University, Miami FL. February 16, 1996.
"The Music of Milton's Heaven," Conference on Christianity and Literature. Santa Clara University, CA, May 6, 1995.
Facilitator: "Real Authors: A Workshop on Publishing Student Writing" with Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau. 1995 Allerton Community College/University English Articulation Conference, Monticello>, IL, April 7, 1995.
"The Last Bastion: Student Self-Determination and the Making of a Syllabus," Conference on College Composition and Communication. Washington, DC, March 25, 1995.
"Saving Their Own Selves: Female to Male Cross-Dressing as a Means for Survival for Married Women in Two English Plays," International Congress on Cross-Dressing, Gender and Sex. California State University, Northridge, CA, February 25, 1995.
"Beyond Politeness: Electronic Mail and the Realm of the Violent," Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Diego, CA, April 2, 1993.
"Traditional Workshopping vs. Computer Network Workshopping" (Co-authored with Raul Ybarra). Conference on College Composition and Communication. Boston, March 22, 1991.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric, Department of English,
University
of Louisiana
at Lafayette,
August 2000 through 2007.
Associate Professor of English and Rhetoric, Department of English, UL Lafayette, August 2007 through present.
Dissertations Directed:
A large number of dissertation committe memberships and MA thesis
committee memberships including those involving the study of children's
literature: Michael “Howie” Howarth, Granted PhD Fall 2007; Wynn
Yarbrough Granted PhD in Spring 2007, currently tenure track in
Children’s Literature at U. of District of Columbia
Courses Taught, UL Lafayette:
English 101, Rhetoric and Composition
English 102, Writing about Culture
English 115, Freshmen Honors Seminar
English 312, Shakespeare
English 318, Scripture as Literature
English 342, Modern Drama
English 355/360, Advanced Composition/Advanced Exposition
English 370 (some cross-listed with humanities courses):
English 460, Themes and Issues in Children's Literature:
English 496, Major Authors
"The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Others"
English 501, Teaching College English
English 556, Seminar in Rhetoric
English 596, Research Methods
Humanities 300, Themes In The Humanities
Professor in the Online MS in Extended and Continuing Education, California State University at Hayward, California> State University at Hayward, Summer, 1999 through Spring 2000.
Visiting Lecturer in English, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 1997-Fall, 1998
English 201, Introduction to the
Writing of Non-Fiction Prose: Fall, 1998
English Composition I: The Discourses of Technology: Fall, 1997
English
Composition II: The Discourses of Technology: Spring 1998
Teaching Assistant, English,
The University
of Illinois
at Chicago,
Fall 1989-Spring 1996
Finalist, Frederick Stern Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching, UIC, 1994 and 1995.
Courses Taught, UIC:
Composition 101 and 102, English Composition I and II (quarter
system)
English 101, Understanding Literature
English 117, Introduction to Gender,
Sexuality and Literature
English 152, Introduction to English
Composition
English 160 and 161, English Composition I and II (semester system)
Special Topics for 161:
English 201,
Introduction to the Writing of Non-Fiction Prose
English 214, Topics in Writing:
Writing and Publishing [in Cyberspace]
English 222, Tutoring in the Writing Center (team taught)
English 241, History of English Literature I: Beginnings to 1700 (TA)
English 243, History of American Literature: Beginnings to 1914 (TA)
English 310, Writing for Corporate
Organizations
English 482, Campus Writing Consultants (team taught)
Curriculum Development:
English 117, added to the UIC catalog in September, 1994.
Program Director, UL Study Abroad, 2007 through present.
Site Director, UL England Abroad, Summer 2005.
Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric, August 2000 through 2007
Associate Professor, August 2007 through present.
Successful completion of internal grants and much committee work
Instructional Media Planner, Office of Academic Affairs, The University of Illinois at Chicago. September, 1996 through May, 2000.
Responsibilities Included:
Research Assistant, Computer Center, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Fall 1995 through Summer 1996.
Teaching Assistant, English, The University of
Illinois at Chicago, Fall 1989-Spring 1996
(see above for courses taught as a TA)
Graduate Coordinator, SCAILAB (Student Computer Assisted Instruction Laboratory), Fall 1989-Spring 1992.
Assistant Director of the P.M. Writing Center, Fall 1994-Spring 1995.
tutoring of individual clients of the Writing Center
Service to the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette:
Service to the
Lafayette Community:
Who's Who in the Midwest
Nominated: Who's Who in American Education
MLA and NCTE/CCCC since 1989.
Rhetoric Society of America since 2000.
Children's Literature Association since 2005.
Frederick Stern Award
The Frederick Stern Award is an award given to teaching assistants at UIC who have demonstrated proficiency in and dedication to the teaching profession.
MLA
The Modern Language Association
NCTE
The National Council of Teachers of English
CCCC
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
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