Shevaun E. Watson
Department of English 2450
Harrison Road
University of South Carolina Columbia,
SC 29204
Columbia, SC 29208 (803)
933-9867 (h)
swatson@gwm.sc.edu (803)
979-5553 (c)
(803) 777-2518
Education Ph.D.,
Miami University, Rhetoric and Composition, 2003
M.A.,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rhetoric and Composition, 1999
B.A.,
University of Minnesota, English, 1993
Awards and English
Department Teaching Award, 2005-2006
Grants Outstanding Dissertation
Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2005
Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Society for the
History of Rhetoric, 2004
Dissertation Fellowship, Miami University, 2002-2003
College of
Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teacher, Miami University, 2002
Dissertation
Research Grant, Miami University, 2002
International Writing Center Association Research Grant,
2002
Graduate Student Achievement Awards, Miami University, 2000,
2001, 2002
Book Project “Testifying: Rhetorical Bodies and the
Making of Truth among Slaves and Free Blacks in the Early Republic.” A cultural history of
African American rhetoric from 1783 to 1828. Focusing on the development of the African
Churches in Philadelphia and the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy in Charleston,
this study explores the relationship between testimony, the body, and truth in
slave and free black communities.
Publications “Professing
‘Western’ Literacy: Globalization and Women’s Education at the Western College
for Women.” Women
and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century.
Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, in press (due
out Fall 2006).
(With Morris Young.)
“From
Graduate Student to Writing Administrator: Substantive Training for a
Sustainable Future.” Culture Shock and
the Practice of the Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and
Composition. Ed.
Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2006.
215-37. (With
Julie Eckerle and Karen Rowan.)
Review,
The Humblest May Stand Forth by
Jacqueline Bacon. Peitho: Newsletter of the Coalition of Women Scholars in he History of Rhetoric and Composition. Fall 2004.
Review,
Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of
the Early United States by Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. Rhetorica
21.4 (2004): 312-14.
“IWCA Graduate Student Position Statement.” Writing Center Journal 23.1 (2002):
59-61. (With Julie Eckerle
and Karen Rowan.)
“Complicating the Classics: Neoclassical Rhetorics in Two
Early American Schoolbooks.” Rhetoric
Society Quarterly 31.4 (2001): 45-66.
“Graduate
Student Writing Center Administrators: Some Concerns and a Proposal.” Writing Lab Newsletter 25.6 (2001):
4-6. (With Julie
Eckerle and Karen Rowan.)
“The Graduate Student Administrator.” The Writing Center Resource Manual. Ed. Bobbie Bayliss Silk. Emittsburg, MD: National Writing Center
Association Press, 2001. (With Julie Eckerle and Karen
Rowan.)
Work Submitted “Preparing Liberal Arts Faculty to Teach Writing: A
Contextual-Developmental Model
or In Press of Faculty Development.” Teaching Writing in
the Liberal Arts: Pedagogy and Politics.
Ed. Joanna Castner and James A. Inman.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, in press. (With Carolyn Haynes.)
“The Rhetoric of Testimony and the First African Methodists.” Solicited manuscript, The Journal of Communication and Religion.
“Plantation
101, or Life among the Lowly: The History and Rhetoric
of Slavery in Composition Studies.”
26pp. College Composition and Communication, under review.
“Trying Silence: The History of African American Rhetoric
and the Case of Denmark Vesey.” 21pp. Silence and Listening as
Rhetorical Arts, Ed. Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe. Submitted for
consideration.
“The Tale of a Position Statement: Finding a
Voice for the Graduate Student Administrator in Writing Center Discourse.” (E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center.
Ed. Melissa Nicolas. Emittsburg, MD: International Writing Center
Association Press, under review. (With Julie Eckerle and Karen Rowan.)
Invited Lectures “Early African American Rhetoric.” Guest
lecture, COMM 290A, Columbia College.
20
Sep 2005.
“Plantation
101: The History and Rhetoric of Slavery in Composition Studies.” Faculty lecture, Composition and Rhetoric
Association Symposium, University of South Carolina. 10 Sep 2005.
“Retrospective
Writing Histories: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” Plenary speaker, Writing Research in the Making, UC-Santa Barbara. 17 Feb 2004.
(With Susan Jarratt and Katherine Mack.)
Conference “‘Through a Glass Darkly’: Reflections on Slave Freed
Women’s Petitions.” National
Presentations Communication Association, San Antonio, 2006.
“Early
African American Rhetoric and the Memorialization of the A.M.E., Then and
Now.” National Communication Association, Boston,
2005.
“Enslaved
Teachers and Plantation Literacy: The Case of the Charleston ‘Negroe
School.’” Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria VA,
2004.
“Habeas Corpus: Embodied Testimony in
Slave Trials.” CCCC, San Francisco,
2004.
“‘Your Daughters Shall Prophecy’: The Making of a Black Female
Preacher in Jarena
Lee’s Self-Writing and Evangelizing.” Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, 2004
“Unsettled
Cities: Re-Placing Rhetorical History.”
MLA, San Diego, 2003
“‘That
Won’t Work in My Center’: Putting the IWCA Graduate Student Position Statement
to Work.” International Writing Center
Association, Hershey PA, 2003
“‘Mother’ Bethel: Women, Literacy, and the First A.M.E.
Church.”
CCCC, New York, 2003
“The
Making of an Insurrectionist: The Trial of Denmark Vesey.” Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, Louisville, 2002
“‘To
Train Up an American Child’: Neoclassical Models of Citizenship in Early American Readers.” Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, 2002
“Tracing the Rhetorical Paths of Early America: The Case of
Caleb Bingham's American Preceptor.” CCCC,
Chicago, 2002
“Composing
Identities: The Epistolary Practices of Judith Sargent Murray.” International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s)
Conference, Decatur IL, 2001
“Jefferson
Not in America: Identity and Liminality in the Early Republic.” Society of Early Americanists, Norfolk VA,
2001.
“Graduate
Student Writing Center Administrators: Some Concerns and Proposals.” National Writing Center Association,
Baltimore, 2000
“Listening
for Logos: A New Approach to Multicultural Logics.” CCCC, Minneapolis, 2000
“Graduate
Students in the Writing Center.” Workshop. CCCC, Minneapolis, 2000
“The
Representation of Graduate Students in Writing Center Theory: Complicating
Notions of Peer.” CCCC, Atlanta, 1999
“Misplaced
Writing: Zitkala-Sa’s Narratives of Literacy and Region.” American Women Writers of Color Conference,
Salisbury MD, 1999
Teaching English
890: Voice, Silence, Race, Rhetoric: Early African American Rhetoric
A
special topics graduate seminar in the history and historiography of African
American rhetorical theories and practices before the antebellum period.
English 790:
Introduction to Composition Studies
A
graduate survey course in the history, theory, and practice of composition
studies.
English
701B: Teaching College Literature
A
TA training course on pedagogy and literature
English 460:
Advanced Writing Workshop
An
intensive writing course focused on civic rhetoric.
English 387:
Introduction to Rhetoric
An
upper-level introduction to rhetorical theory and criticism.
English 287:
Introduction to American Literature
A survey of American Literature,
1600-1950
English 141, Early American Literature (Miami University)
A survey course of pre-1850 American literary writings and
nonfiction texts
English 112, Composition and Literature (Miami University)
A second-semester writing course focused on rhetorical forms
and literary genres English 111, College Composition (Miami University)
An introduction to rhetoric and the practices of academic
discourse
Service English Department, University of South Carolina
Faculty Consultant to the Writing Center, 2005-2006
First-Year English Program Committee, 2004-2006
Job Placement Committee, 2004-2005
Professional Organizations
Taskforce on the Multiple Uses of Writing, Conference on
College Composition and Communication, 2005-2006. (Appointed by CCCC President, Professor
Douglass Hesse.)
Managing Editor, Early
American Literature, 2005-2006
Executive
Board, Southeast Writing Center Association (SWCA), 2004-2006
Awards
Committee Chair, SWCA, 2004-2005
Executive
Board, International Writing Center Association (IWCA), 2002-2004
Book Award Committee
Chair, IWCA, 2004
Book Award Committee, IWCA, 2003
English
Department, Miami University
Editor, College
Composition at Miami, 2002-2003
Editor, English 111 and 112 Teachers’ Guide, 2002-2003
Assistant Editor, College
Composition at Miami, 2001-2002
Assistant Editor, English
111 and 112 Teachers’ Guide, 2001-2002
Weipking Distinguished Professor Search Committee, 2001
College
Composition Committee, 1999-2001
Administration Writing Consultant, Campus Writing Program, UC
Irvine, 2003-2004
Assistant Director, Center for Writing Excellence, Miami
University, 2000-2002
Assistant
Director, Writing Center, UW-Milwaukee, 1997-1999