Gramer, Rachel CV Nov 2021

ragrame@ilstu.
edu
rachelgramer.com
Dr. Rachel Gramer

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, 2017
Dissertation: “Stories at Work: Restorying Narratives of New Teachers’ Identity Learning in
Writing Studies”
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

MA, Rhetoric and Composition, 2008
Thesis: “A Genre of Collective Intelligence: Blogs as Intertextual, Reciprocal, and Pedagogical
ROLLINS COLLEGE
BA, summa cum laude, English Major (Honors), Writing Minor, 2001
Thesis: “The Naiveté of Escape and the Art of Transformation: Inner Journeys of Reflective
Women Travel Writers”
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor of English/Writing Studies, 2019-present
Writing Program Director, 2019-present
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Assistant Professor of Written Communication, 2017-19
First-year Writing Program Director, 2018-19
First-year Writing Program Associate Director, 2017-18
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2014-16
University Fellow, 2013-14, 2016-17
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
WRITING PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Illinois State University, 2019-present
Mentored, supervised, and collaborated with Writing Program Leadership Team (7
doctoral students, undergraduate interns, and Assistant Director) conducting program
mentoring, research, and professional development; supervised 60+ instructors of 200
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courses each year in composition and inquiry, disciplinary writing, and business writing;
collaborated with staff, faculty, and administrators on program maintenance and
changes; program entirely online March 2020 to May 2021
FIRST-YEAR WRITING PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Eastern Michigan University, 2018-19
Revised curriculum, program materials, policies, and procedures; mentored and
observed 17 graduate student writing instructors; scheduled 120 courses and 40
instructors per year; facilitated annual orientation, monthly professional development,
and annual Winter Colloquium
FIRST-YEAR WRITING PROGRAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Mentored, observed, interviewed, and hired graduate student writing instructors;
organized Celebration of Student Writing, with between 800 and 1200 undergraduate
students each term; collaborated on program development, events, and monthly
professional development
COMPOSITION PROGRAM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

University of Louisville, 2015-16
Mentored and observed graduate student writing instructors; scheduled 200 courses
and 70 instructors per year; collaborated on program development, annual orientation
and monthly workshops; revised policies and procedures; conducted program research
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIR

St. Cloud High School, 2010-13
Led department meetings; coordinated professional development training; acted as
liaison between high school and county administration and English department teachers
regarding curriculum, scheduling, and materials
RESEARCH PROJECT EXPERIENCE
STORIES AT WORK RESEARCHER, 2015-22

Longitudinal narrative and artifact-based interview study eliciting stories of teaching and
learning from new college writing teachers during the early years of their professional
teaching careers; focus on writing teacher identity learning, students as mediational in
artifact creation and evolving teaching identities, and teaching as multimodal activity in
need of explicit situational multimodal support
IS TEACHING “JUST” A LIST TEACHER-RESEARCHER

Eastern Michigan University, 2018
Teacher-research study of writing program orientation and graduate writing pedagogy
course; foregrounded issues of educational equity and social justice in the enculturation
of new college writing teachers
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NOTHING ABOUT ME WITHOUT ME TEAM LEADER/CO-RESEARCHER

Recorded workshops, conducted interviews, and edited digital material to document
free art workshops in partnership with Louisville Council on Developmental Disabilities;
organized and led four-person team of graduate students in digital recording,
production, and tutoring
DIGITAL COMPOSITION COLLOQUIUM DESIGNER/CO-RESEARCHER

Designed and facilitated two-day professional development colloquium for 35
composition instructors; created event website with resources; facilitated sessions on
digital composition and video editing; collaborated on curriculum, follow-up, and two-
day assessment of digital projects
ART AS MEMORY CO-RESEARCHER

Participated in free art workshops and recorded and edited material for documentary
film project in partnership with Louisville Council on Developmental Disabilities
DIGITAL MEDIA ACADEMY CO-RESEARCHER

Designed free digital media summer camp curriculum for 20 middle school girls; taught
digital image manipulation and video editing; conducted collaborative research project
for presentation and publication
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH/WRITING STUDIES

ENG 402 Teaching Composition
ENG 402 Teaching Composition online
ENG 246 Advanced Composition
ENG 246 Advanced Composition online
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

WRTG 120 Composition 1: Writing the College Experience
WRTG 121 Composition 2: Researching the Public Experience
WRTG 596 Teaching Composition on the College Level
INSTRUCTOR, CADRE AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COURSE

University of Louisville & US Army Fort Knox, Summer 2017
ELFH 683 College Teaching and Learning 1
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ELFH 641 College Teaching and Learning 2
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

ENGL 101 Introduction to College Writing
ENGL 102 Intermediate College Writing
ENGL 312 American Literature 2
Digital Media Academy
WRITING TUTOR/CONSULTANT
University of Louisville, 2015, 2017
Dissertation Writing Retreat Tutor/Consultant, 2017
University Writing Center Tutor, Summer 2015
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Valencia College, 2012-12
ENC 1101 Composition 1
ENC 1102 Composition 2
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER

St. Cloud High School, 2003-04, 2009-13
Dual Enrollment ENC 1101 Composition 1
Dual Enrollment ENC 1102 Composition 2
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
English 3 Honors, English 3
English 2
PUBLICATIONS
PEER REVIEWED
Gramer, Rachel, Mueller, Derek, & Bearden, Logan (Eds.). (2021). Radiant figures: Visual
rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts. Computers and Composition Digital Press.
https://ccdigitalpress.org/radiant-figures
Gramer, Rachel. (2021). Is teaching just a list? Toward feminist-humanistic visual

representations of teaching writing. In Rachel Gramer, Derek Mueller, & Logan Bearden (Eds.),
Radiant figures: Visual rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts. Computers and
Composition Digital Press. https://ccdigitalpress.org/book/radiant-figures/ch-list.html
Gramer, Rachel, & Sheridan, Mary P. (2021). Making mobility work for writing studies. In Bruce
Horner, Megan Faver Hartline, Ashanka Kumari, & Laura Sceniak Matravers (Eds.), Mobility
work in composition (pp. 223-30). Utah State University Press.
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Gramer, Rachel. (2018). The figured worlds of digital mediation in schools. In Mary P. Sheridan,
Megan J. Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, & Drew Holladay (Eds.), Writing for engagement:
Responsive practice for social action (pp. 29-42). Lexington Books.
Chamberlain, Elizabeth, Gramer, Rachel, & Hartline, Megan Faver. (2015). Mess, not mastery:
Encouraging digital design dispositions in girls. Computers and Composition Online, Fall-Spring.
http://cconlinejournal.org/fall15/dma/
Journet, Debra, O'Keeffe, Anthony, Cohen, Stephen, Gramer, Rachel, Hartline, Megan, Mathis,
Keri, Sheehan, Kendra, & Winck, Jessica. (2015). ClarissaBlogs: Narrative, writing, and the self.
Kairos, 19(2). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.2/praxis/journet/index.php
Gramer, Rachel. (2014). Responsivity as a stance. (Response) Journal of Advanced Composition,

34(1-2), 199-208.
EDITORIAL REVIEWED
Brewer, Elizabeth, & Obermark, Lauren E., with contributions from Brenda Jo Brueggemann,
Patricia Dunn, Rachel Gramer, Chad Iwertz, Christopher Krentz, Ryann Patrus, Margaret Price,
Katherine Sherwood, Eddie Singleton, & Shannon Walters. (2018). Passageways and
betweenity: A Brenda Jo Brueggemann retrospective. Composition Forum, 39(Special Issue:
Composition in the Presence of Disability).
http://compositionforum.com/issue/39/brueggemann.php
Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, & Gramer, Rachel. (2017). Review essay: No day at the beach:
Women ‘making it’ in academia. College English, 79(3), 297-316.
https://library.ncte.org/journals/CE/issues/v79-3/28895
Gramer, Rachel, & Sheridan, Mary P. (2016). How might we make mobility work for writing
studies? (Response) Working Paper Series on Mobility Work in Composition: Translation,
Migration, Transformation. Louisville: Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition.
FORTHCOMING
Gramer, Rachel. (forthcoming 2022). Putting learning first: Challenges and possibilities for new
writing teacher research. In William J. Macauley, Jr., Leslie Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M.
Lambrecht, & Phillip Lovas (Eds.), Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition TAships. WAC
Clearinghouse/Colorado State University Open Press.
IN PROGRESS
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Gramer, Rachel. Stories at work: Restorying new writing teachers as learners and composers
book proposal in progress for submission to WAC Clearinghouse Practice and Possibilities
Series.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Nichols, Amy, & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2017, February 8). Charter schools not
just for K12 advocacy. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Matravers, Laura, & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, June 16). Lingering
questions: The delay of free two-year college tuition in KY.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National
Council of Teachers of English.
Echols, Khirsten L. & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, March 22). Supporting
diverse students on campus, post-college readiness.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council
of Teachers of English.
Alvarez, Sara P., & Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, March 18). “Higher education
support for Latin@ students in Kentucky.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers
of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2016, February 22). Higher ed in KY faces budget cuts,
outcomes-based funding.” Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, November 8). Kentucky two-year college
funding. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, October 14). Kentucky appoints Stephen Pruitt
as new education commissioner. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of
English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, May 6). Gap in higher ed funding legislation in
Kentucky. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, February 10). Kentucky’s CPE/Commonwealth
college collaboration. Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
Gramer, Rachel, with Mary P. Sheridan. (2015, February 10). The state of funding in Kentucky.
Policy Analysis Initiative, National Council of Teachers of English.
POETRY
Gramer, Rachel. (2003). Bilingual. Our Time Is Now 1(2).

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Gramer, Rachel. (2000). Across the Sabula Bridge. Brushing: Rollins College Literary Magazine.
Gramer, Rachel. (2000). No such thing as Atlanta. Brushing: Rollins College Literary Magazine.
GRANTS
Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant ($5000), “Investigating Literate Intersectional Identities

Across Interdisciplinary Research in Teaching, Learning, and Writing,” College of Arts and
Sciences
Illinois State University, 2021
New Faculty Initiative Grant ($3500)

“Stories at Work: A Longitudinal Narrative Study of New Writing Teacher Identity Learning,”
College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Research Fellowship (50% teaching release in Fall 2018 and Winter 2019, $570 SS&M)
“Stories at Work: Phase Three of a Longitudinal Narrative Study of New Writing Teachers’
Identity Learning,” Office of the Provost
Summer Research/Creative Activity Award ($12000)

“Stories at Work: Phase Two of a Longitudinal Narrative Study of New Writing Teachers’
Identity Learning,” Office of the Provost
Eastern Michigan University, 2018
Supporting Undergraduate Innovation: Ideas to Action (i2a) Implementation Grant ($3800)

“Squaring Composition at the University of Louisville,” with Dr. Brenda Brueggemann, Elizabeth
Chamberlain, and Megan Faver Hartline, Ideas to Action Team/Delphi Center for Teaching and
Learning
University of Louisville, 2015
CCCC Research Initiative Grant ($8325)

“Digital Media Academy: Designing Responsive Structures of Graduate Student
Professionalization,” with Mary P. Sheridan and Megan Faver Hartline
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2014-15
AWARDS
University Research Initiative Award nominee, Department of English

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University Service Initiative Award nominee, Department of English and College of Arts and
Sciences
Redbirds RISE to the COVID Challenge Recognition Award, Office of the Provost
Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award ($250), Department of English

Josephine Nevins Keal Professional Development Fellowship ($800), EMU Women’s

Commission
Faculty Travel Award ($500), College of Arts and Sciences

Eastern Michigan University, Fall 2017, Fall 2018
University Fellowship, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies

University of Louisville, 2013-14, 2016-17
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of English

Outstanding PhD Student Award ($100), English Graduate Organization

Carolyn Krause Maddox Prize ($300), “Mess, Not Mastery: Encouraging Digital Design
Dispositions in Girls,” with Elizabeth Chamberlain and Megan Faver Hartline, Women’s and
Gender Studies Department
Gesa E. Kirsch Travel Award ($270), Department of English

Dr. M. Celeste Nichols Professional Development Award ($500), Women’s Center

Graduate Student Council travel grant ($350), School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, 2014, 2015, 2016
Graduate Student Union Research travel grant ($100), College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Teacher, American Board for Certification of Teaching Excellence, 2010

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Master’s Comprehensive Exam, Pass with Distinction

University of Central Florida, 2007
Outstanding Senior Scholar in the Humanities

Rollins College, 2001
Howard Fox Senior Thesis Award

Rollins College, 2001
Presidential Scholar
Rollins College, 1997-2001
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
NATIONAL
“Sponsoring Activist Research as Intersectional Feminist Participation at a PWI,” Conference on

College Composition and Communication, Spokane, WA, April 2021
“Imbalance as Misalignment: Visualizing Values in Writing Teacher Education Texts,”

Conference on College Composition and Communication, conference cancelled due to COVID-
19, Milwaukee, WI, March 2020
Response to “Intersectional from the Start: The Durative Influence of Feminist Rhetorical
Theory in the Development of GTA Professional Practice and Identity,” Feminisms & Rhetorics
Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2019
“DIY Feminist WPA Activism: A Queer Feminist Storying of Failing, Unknowing, Unbeing,”
Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2019
“Is Teaching ‘Just’ a List? Visual Representations of Labor for New Graduate Student Writing
Instructors,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, March
2019
“How Do We Enculturate New Teachers into Just and Equitable Writing Programs?” Thomas R.
Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2018
“Early Bird Needs Alignment: Experiencing Feminist Community Engagement during an

Academic Job Search,” Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference, Dayton, OH, October 2017
“Bounding and Aligning: The Warp and Weft of Writing Research Dissertation Methods,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, March 2017
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“The Origins (and Travels) of New Writing Teacher Identities,” Thomas R. Watson Conference,
Louisville, KY, October 2016
“Newcomers, Feminist Mentoring, and Digital Composition: An Argument for Andragogy in

WPA Work,” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Raleigh, NC, July 2016
“Projecting the Past into Future Practice: New Writing Teachers’ Narrative Trajectories,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, April 2016
“Rescripting Teaching and Technology: Women Educating Teachers in Digital Composition,”

Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference, Tempe, AZ, October 2015
“Designing a New Camp Curriculum of Digital Collaboration: What the Teachers Learned,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015
“Listening before/as Beginning: A Responsive Stance toward Educational Partnerships in

Teaching with Digital Tools,” Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2014
“Investing in Identity: Narrative Agency in the Nomadic Chick’s Travel Blog,” Pop Culture
Association/American Culture Association, Chicago, IL, April 2014
“Narrative Convergence: Dialogue and Lyrics as Voiceover in the ‘New’ Gatsby,” Louisville
Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2014
REGIONAL
“‘Just’ Complex Literate Activity: Diversity, Agency, and Uptake,” Writing Innovation
Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, January 2020
“Continuing the Conversation: The MI-WPA Affiliate Gets to Work,” Corridors: Great Lakes
Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Saginaw, MI, September 2018
“Multimodal+Reflection: Eliciting Affective Messages about College/Writing/Identity from First-

Semester Writing Students,” Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Hartford, CT, April 2018
“Winding Again the Affiliate’s Watch: A Michigan WPA Rebeginning and Roundtable,” Corridors:
Great Lakes Writing and Rhetoric Conference, Detroit, MI, September 2017
RESEARCH WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Stories at Work: Restorying Narratives of New Teachers’ Identity Learning in Writing Studies,”
Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Portland, OR, March 2017
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“The Stories We Learn to Tell: New Teachers' Narratives of Identity,” UofL Discourse and
Semiotics Group, University of Louisville, October 2016
“Telling Stories, Telling Selves: What New Writing Teachers’ Stories Tell Us (and How),”
Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Houston, TX, April 2016
“Talking about Dispositions: Teacher Narratives and Professional Identity,” Qualitative Research
Network, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015
“Writing Instruction as Meta-Genre,” Research Network Forum, Conference on College

Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN, March 2014
INTERNATIONAL
“The Discrimination of Men Organizing Against Pornography,” Women’s History Network Ninth
Annual Conference, Bath, England, September 2000
MENTORING ACTIVITY
Dissertation Director, Emily Capan’s “The Overlooked Pandemic Pedagogical Genre: Writing
Teachers’ Risk and Crisis Technical Communication Emails to Students,” for PhD in English
Studies, Department of English
Advisor, Emily Capan’s “The Writing Teacher’s Communication During COVID-19: Illuminating
the Intersections of Contemporary Research in Risk and Crisis Communication, Teacher Identity,
and Genre,” Doctoral specialization exam in Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English
Dissertation committee member, Laurel Krapivkin’s “Ecofeminism Reconstructed: Discourse &

Embodiment in Ecofeminist Young Adult Literature,” for PhD in English Studies, Department of
English
Advisor, Laurel Krapivkin’s “‘What We Do Here Is Real’: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Power

Dynamics in Representations of College Writing in Young Adult Literature,” Doctoral exam in
English Studies, Department of English
Thesis committee member, Leslie Hancock’s “Schools for the Bad Kids: Narratives and
Contradictions Within Alternative Learning Programs,” for Master’s degree in English Studies,
Department of English
Illinois State University, 2020-2021
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Thesis director, Valerie Cullin’s “Writing Across the Curriculum with the Incorporation of a
Learning Community,” for Master’s degree in Written Communication, Department of English
Language and Literature
Mentor, University of Michigan Rackham-CRLT Preparing Future Faculty Seminar, Faculty

Development Center
Mentor, New College Writing Teacher Mentoring Group, Department of English, Composition
Program
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INVITED
Invited research speaker, “Real Talk: Reframing ‘Class Discussion’ as Situated Talk about Writing
and Rhetoric,” Virginia Tech University, April 2022
Invited teaching workshop leader, “You, Too, Can Turn Theory into Praxis: Making Research-
grounded Teaching Artifacts,” Virginia Tech University, April 2022
Invited workshop leader, Young Writers Celebration, Illinois Association of Teachers of English,
cancelled due to COVID-19
Illinois State University, April 2020
Invited keynote speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Spring Initiation, Department of English, cancelled
due to COVID-19
Invited workshop presenter, “The Inventive Edges of Academic Sources,” with Derek Mueller,
First-Year Writing Program
Saginaw Valley State University, October 2017
Invited panelist, “Balancing Roles as Students and GTAs,” School of Interdisciplinary and
Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, August 2016
Invited panelist, “Integrating Technology into Your Classroom,” Graduate Teaching Assistant
Academy, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, March 2016, March 2017
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FACILITATOR, LEADER, PRESENTER
Workshop facilitator, “CV Research as Feminist Professional Activity: A Collective Workshop,”

Graduate Program, Department of English
Illinois State University, December 2021
Workshop co-facilitator, “Redesigning Online Writing Courses,” with Hannah Kroonblawd and
Emily Capan, University Writing Program
Illinois State University, August 2020
Workshop facilitator, “CV Q&A: Representing Your Writing Program (and Other Scholarly)
Work,” Writing Program Leadership Team
Illinois State University, December 2019, March 2021
Workshop leader, “Clarifying Conventions: Terms, Style, Movement!” First-year Writing

Program
Eastern Michigan University, February 2019
Workshop leader, “Metaphors for Writing and Teaching Writing,” First-year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, October 2018
Workshop leader, “Grading with Less Suffering,” First-year Writing Program

Eastern Michigan University, September 2018
Creator and facilitator, New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, First-Year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, August 13-23, 2018
Workshop presenter, “First-Year Writing Outcomes: Process and Reflection,” First-year Writing
Program Fall Meeting
Eastern Michigan University, August 2017
Workshop facilitator, “Digital Initiatives in Composition,” Composition Program

Workshop presenter, “Fall Forward Designs: Creating Your Syllabus,” Composition Program
University of Louisville, April 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Document Design,” Department of English

Workshop co-presenter, “Effective Teaching with Technology,” School of Interdisciplinary and

Graduate Studies
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Workshop co-presenter, “Embracing the Short Form: Visual Arguments for Research
and Teaching,” Department of English
University of Louisville, February 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Composing Communities: Getting Involved in the Student

Celebration of Writing,” Composition Program
University of Louisville, January 2016
Designer, leader, and facilitator, Digital Pedagogies Faculty Learning Community, Composition
Program
University of Louisville, Spring 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Library Research at UofL,” Composition Program

Designer and co-facilitator, “Digital Composition Colloquium,” Composition Program

University of Louisville, August 18-19, 2015
Facilitator, New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, Composition Program

University of Louisville, August 17-21, 2015
Classroom workshop leader, “Incorporating Research in Academic Writing,” University Writing

Center
University of Louisville, July 2015
Workshop co-presenter, “Networking,” English Graduate Organization

University of Louisville, March 2015, October 2016
Workshop co-presenter, “Let’s Get Creative: Video Editing for Professional Purposes,” School of
Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, February 2015
Workshop co-presenter, “Be Searchable: Online Portfolios for the Job Search,” School of
Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville, January 2015, January 2016
Workshop facilitator, “Digital Composing and Student Research,” Department of English

University of Louisville, November 2014
Facilitator, “iMovie Play,” Department of English

University of Louisville, October 2014
Workshop presenter, “Creating Digital Assignments,” Department of English

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Workshop co-presenter, “Dialogue Gone Digital: Tools for Student and Teacher
Interaction,” Department of English
University of Louisville, September 2014
Workshop presenter, “Digital Media Meets English: Our Resources,” Composition Program
University of Louisville August 2014
Workshop facilitator, “Digital Media and Composition Pedagogy with Peers,” Composition
Program
EVENT ORGANIZER
Co-organizer, Visiting Speaker Series, “Anti-Racist Pedagogy Tools,” with invited scholars Dr.
Cristina Sanchez-Martin and Su Yin Khor, University Writing Program
Co-organizer, co-planner, co-facilitator, Online New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, University

Writing Program
Illinois State University, August 5-12, 2021
Organizer and planner, “Informal Teaching Conversations,” University Writing Program

Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: Winter Conversations,” University Writing Program
Illinois State University, January 2021
Organizer, Visiting Speaker Series, “Community-Engaged Anti-Racist Work Across Difference”

workshop led by Dr. Jessica Restaino and Roslyn Rogers Collins, CEO of Planned Parenthood of
Metropolitan New Jersey, University Writing Program
Illinois State University, October 2020
Co-organizer, Online Summit Professional Development, University Writing Program

Illinois State University, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021
Co-organizer, co-planner, co-facilitator, Online New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, University

Writing Program
Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: August Workshops,” University Writing Program
Illinois State University, August 2020
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Organizer and planner, “Let’s CHAT Online: Summer Conversations,” University Writing
Program
Illinois State University, July 20-30, 2020
Co-organizer, Summit Professional Development, University Writing Program

Illinois State University, August 2019, January 2020
Co-organizer, Visiting Speaker Series, invited scholar Dr. Steven Fraiberg, University Writing
Program
Illinois State University, November 2019
Co-facilitator and participant, Online New GA Writing Teacher Orientation, University Writing
Program
Colloquium facilitator, Winter Colloquium with invited scholar Dr. Staci Perryman-Clark, First-
year Writing Program
Eastern Michigan University, March 2019
Co-organizer and facilitator, Fall Meeting, First-Year Writing Program

Eastern Michigan University, August 2018
Organizer and co-planner, Celebration of Student Writing, First-Year Writing Program

Eastern Michigan University, November 2017, April 2018
PARTICIPANT
Participant, “Equity with a Mirror” Spring Institute, Culturally Responsive Campus Community
Conference, Multicultural Center
Illinois State University, March 2021
Participant, “Microaggressions and Their Impact on Student Learning,” Office of the Provost
Illinois State University, January 2021
Participant, “Developing Anti-racist Pedagogies,” Department of English

Illinois State University, December 2020
Participant, “Equity with a Mirror,” Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference,

Multicultural Center
Illinois State University, October 29-30, 2020
Participant, “Surviving the Surge: Supporting Yourselves and Your Students through Difficult
Times,” Multicultural Center and Center for Community Engagement
Illinois State University, October 2020
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Participant, Anti-racist pedagogies co-mentoring group, Department of English

Illinois State University, 2019-20
Workshop participant, “Intersectional Feminist Rhetorical Approaches to Administration,”

Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Harrisonburg, VA, November 2019
Participant, “Answering Good Questions with Programmatic Research: A Research-Methods

Bootcamp for Writing Program Administrators,” Council of Writing Program Administrators
Conference, Sacramento, CA, July 2018
Participant, New Faculty Learning Community, Faculty Development Center

Participant, Graduate Teaching Assistant Academy, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate

Studies
Participant, Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) Institute, Department of English

Ohio State University, May 11-22, 2015
Participant, Grant Writing Academy, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies

University of Louisville, Spring 2015
MODERATOR
Panel moderator, “Intersectional Feminism and Digital Aggression,” Coalition of Feminist

Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, December 2020
Panel discussion moderator, “Connecting Students with Communities,” Composition Program

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
UNIVERSITY
General Education Executive Committee, General Education Program

“Foundations” Courses Working Group, Summer 2021
Council on General Education, General Education Program

Illinois State University, Fall 2019
Educational Environment and Facilities Committee, Office of the Provost

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First-year Experience Task Force, General Education Program

Campus and Community Writing Advisory Committee, Office of Campus and Community
Writing
Writing Recognition Working Group, 2018-19
Teaching Innovation Learning Lab Steering Committee, Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
Student Ambassador, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies

DEPARTMENT
Chair, Writing Program Instructional Assistant Professor Search Committee, Writing

Program/Department of English
Chair, Writing Program Teaching and Learning Facilities Committee, Writing

Program/Department of English
Chair, Writing Program Leadership Team, Writing Program/Department of English

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English

Member, Program Coordinators Committee, Department of English Language and Literature

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English Language and Literature

Member, Written Communication Program Committee, Department of English Language and

Literature
Member, First-Year Writing Program Committee, Department of English Language and

Literature
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Chair, 2018-19
Graduate student representative, Graduate Committee, Department of English

Faculty liaison, English Graduate Organization, Department of English

Photographer and videographer, Thomas R. Watson Conference

PhD student peer mentor, Department of English

New teacher mentor, English Department, St. Cloud High School

Osceola County District Schools, 2011-13
Faculty representative, Guidance Advisory Council, St. Cloud High School

Osceola County District Schools, 2012-13
Essay coach for Rising Stars graduating seniors

Osceola County School District, 2009-10
DISCIPLINE
Invited facilitator, Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and

Communication, March 2022
Member, Alternative Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference Interactions Task Force, Coalition of
Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 2020-2021
Invited facilitator, Qualitative Research Network, Conference on College Composition and

Communication, cancelled due to COVID-19, Milwaukee, WI, March 2020
Peer reviewer, NCTE Books Program, 2019
Member, Michigan Writing Program Administrators Affiliate, 2017-19

Secretary, 2018-19
Peer reviewer, Intraspection, 2018-present
Peer reviewer, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, 2017
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Peer reviewer, Kairos Praxis Wiki, 2015-present
Peer reviewer, Action Research journal, 2014
COMMUNITY
Interviewer, photographer, videographer, tutor, Nothing About Me Without Me project,

Louisville Council on Developmental Disabilities
Louisville, KY, 2016-17
Photographer, videographer, interviewer, Digital Media Academy

Louisville, KY, June 2015, June 2016
Photographer, videographer, video editor, Art as Memory project, Louisville Council on

Developmental Disabilities
Louisville, KY, 2014-2015
Essay coach for college-bound seniors, English Department, Doss High School
Louisville, KY, 2013
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Council of Writing Program Administrators
National Council of Teachers of English

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Dr. Rachel Gramer

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY

EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

WRITING PROGRAM DIRECTOR

FIRST-YEAR WRITING PROGRAM DIRECTOR

FIRST-YEAR WRITING PROGRAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

COMPOSITION PROGRAM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIR

RESEARCH PROJECT EXPERIENCE

STORIES AT WORK RESEARCHER, 2015-22

IS TEACHING “JUST” A LIST TEACHER-RESEARCHER

NOTHING ABOUT ME WITHOUT ME TEAM LEADER/CO-RESEARCHER

DIGITAL COMPOSITION COLLOQUIUM DESIGNER/CO-RESEARCHER

ART AS MEMORY CO-RESEARCHER

DIGITAL MEDIA ACADEMY CO-RESEARCHER

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH/WRITING STUDIES

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

INSTRUCTOR, CADRE AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COURSE

ELFH 641 College Teaching and Learning 2

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER

Gramer, Rachel. (2021). Is teaching just a list? Toward feminist-humanistic visual

Gramer, Rachel. (2014). Responsivity as a stance. (Response) Journal of Advanced Composition,

Gramer, Rachel. (2003). Bilingual. Our Time Is Now 1(2).

Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant ($5000), “Investigating Literate Intersectional Identities

New Faculty Initiative Grant ($3500)

Summer Research/Creative Activity Award ($12000)

Supporting Undergraduate Innovation: Ideas to Action (i2a) Implementation Grant ($3800)

CCCC Research Initiative Grant ($8325)

University Research Initiative Award nominee, Department of English

Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award ($250), Department of English

Josephine Nevins Keal Professional Development Fellowship ($800), EMU Women’s

Faculty Travel Award ($500), College of Arts and Sciences

University Fellowship, School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of English

Outstanding PhD Student Award ($100), English Graduate Organization

Gesa E. Kirsch Travel Award ($270), Department of English

Dr. M. Celeste Nichols Professional Development Award ($500), Women’s Center

Distinguished Teacher, American Board for Certification of Teaching Excellence, 2010

Master’s Comprehensive Exam, Pass with Distinction

Outstanding Senior Scholar in the Humanities

Howard Fox Senior Thesis Award

“Sponsoring Activist Research as Intersectional Feminist Participation at a PWI,” Conference on

“Imbalance as Misalignment: Visualizing Values in Writing Teacher Education Texts,”

“Early Bird Needs Alignment: Experiencing Feminist Community Engagement during an

“Newcomers, Feminist Mentoring, and Digital Composition: An Argument for Andragogy in

“Rescripting Teaching and Technology: Women Educating Teachers in Digital Composition,”

“Listening before/as Beginning: A Responsive Stance toward Educational Partnerships in

“Multimodal+Reflection: Eliciting Affective Messages about College/Writing/Identity from First-

RESEARCH WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Writing Instruction as Meta-Genre,” Research Network Forum, Conference on College

Dissertation committee member, Laurel Krapivkin’s “Ecofeminism Reconstructed: Discourse &

Advisor, Laurel Krapivkin’s “‘What We Do Here Is Real’: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Power

Mentor, University of Michigan Rackham-CRLT Preparing Future Faculty Seminar, Faculty

FACILITATOR, LEADER, PRESENTER

Workshop facilitator, “CV Research as Feminist Professional Activity: A Collective Workshop,”

Workshop leader, “Clarifying Conventions: Terms, Style, Movement!” First-year Writing

Workshop leader, “Grading with Less Suffering,” First-year Writing Program

Workshop facilitator, “Digital Initiatives in Composition,” Composition Program

Workshop co-presenter, “Document Design,” Department of English

Workshop co-presenter, “Effective Teaching with Technology,” School of Interdisciplinary and

Workshop co-presenter, “Composing Communities: Getting Involved in the Student