{"id":494,"date":"2024-04-19T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:52:55","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/?page_id=494","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\" src=\"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-825x464.jpg 825w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-1779x1000.jpg 1779w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CGU-Staff-Portraits-041015-e_014-e1714068487409-edited-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Ph.D., Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley<\/strong>, December 2006<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Dissertation<\/em>: \u201cDead Time: Narrative Form and Historical Knowledge in the Era of the Cold War\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Committee<\/em>: Anthony J. Cascardi, co-director (Rhetoric and Comparative Literature); John Bishop, co-director (English); Michael Mascuch (Rhetoric); Ann Banfield (English)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Research Interests<\/em>: Data-Driven Composition Studies; Multimodal Composition; Rhetorical Theory (Classical and Neoclassical); Narrative and Narratology; 19<sup>th<\/sup>\/20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Century Philosophy of History; Theories of Modernity; Cold War Literature, History, and Culture; 20<sup>th<\/sup>\/21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Century British and American Literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>B.A., Department of English, University of California, Berkeley<\/strong>, May 1997<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Summa cum laude<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phi Beta Kappa National Honors Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden Key National Honors Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Employment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Providence College<\/strong>, August 2018-<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor of English and Writing Specialist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Courses Taught:<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ENG 377: Computational Literary Studies (Spring 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DWC 202: Time and Time Travel (Spring 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENG 386: Digital Composition (Fall 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENG 385: Advanced Writing: Digital Rhetoric (Spring 2020 &amp; 2021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENG 175: Introduction to Literature (Fall 2019 &amp; 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENG 301: Intermediate Writing\/Writing Genres (Spring 2019, 2020, &amp; 2021; Fall 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENG 101: Writing Seminar (Fall 2018 &amp; Spring 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Responsibilities:<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Moved writing program to thematic-inquiry course model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved scheduling, faculty assignment, and course selection processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Created and implemented curricular framework for English Department writing courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Managed, observed, scheduled, and trained adjunct writing faculty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developed online resources to support writing faculty pedagogy and course design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Presented faculty development workshops and lectures related to writing pedagogy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitated faculty reading group around writing pedagogy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consulted with faculty on integration of writing-related learning objectives into courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Claremont Graduate University<\/strong>, January 2015-July 2018<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director, Center for Writing and Rhetoric<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record:<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IST 507: Dissertation Proposal Writing Workshop (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TNDY 407F: Language Games and Disciplinary Identity (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IFP 204: Foundations in Graduate Presentation (Fall 2016 &amp; Spring 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IST 401: Applied IT Writing and Business Communication (Fall 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LANG 100: Foundations in Graduate Writing and Presenting (Summer 2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Responsibilities:<\/em>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Developed International Scholars bridge program emphasizing English for Academic Purposes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developed Writing Fellows embedded tutoring program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developed new scientific writing courses, IST 401 and IST 507<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oversaw curriculum for existing graduate-level writing courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hired and supervised staff of 20-25 graduate student instructors and writing consultants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consulted with faculty on integration of writing instruction into their courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinated campus-wide writing workshops and dissertation boot camps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Case Western Reserve University<\/strong>, August 2009-December 2014<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full-Time Lecturer, Department of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>USSY 290D: Apocalypse! The Politics of Ending in Fiction and Film (Spring 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FSSY 147: Art and Physics (Fall 2012, 2013, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USSY 288K: Hiroshima: History, Memory, Representation (Spring 2012 &amp; 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USSY 286Z: The Undead (Spring 2010 &amp; 2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FSSY 132: From Modernity to Modernism (Fall 2010 &amp; 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Co-Instructor<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FSSO 147: Critical Attitude (Fall 2013 &amp; 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USSY 287H: Vocation and Life (Spring 2011 &amp; 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USSO 260:&nbsp;Spin, P.R., and American Culture (Fall 2009 &amp; Spring 2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FSCC 109: The Life of the Mind (Fall 2009, 2010, 2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FSCC 106: The Life of the Mind (Fall 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Director, Writing Resource Center (August 2012-July 2013; August-December 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Responsibilities<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trained and assessed graduate and postdoctoral Writing Consultants in Writing Center pedagogy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oversaw scheduling and resource allocation for a system with over 1000 users per year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organized and participated in campus-wide writing workshops for students and faculty<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiated a program of dynamic scheduling to align students and consultants during peak hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyzed usage against peer institutions to argue for greater resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assisted in managing the campus-wide Celebration of Student Writing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developed publicity materials to increase visibility of the WRC on campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital Projects Manager, Writing Resource Center (August 2013-July 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Responsibilities<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conducted a multi-year usage analysis to advocate for resources with University administration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Created a digital archive of instructional materials to facilitate tutoring sessions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redesigned presentation materials to maximize effectiveness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oversaw scheduling and resource allocation for a system with over 1000 users per year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintained a program of dynamic scheduling to align students and consultants during peak hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing Consultant, Writing Resource Center (August 2009-December 2014)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>University of California, Berkeley<\/strong>, January 2007-May 2008<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric (January 2007-May 2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>R1B: Counterfeits, Forgeries, and Other Fictions (Spring 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1A:&nbsp;American Journeys: Travel Narrative and National Space in Contemporary Literature (Spring 2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R1B: Looking East: Orientalism in Literature and Film (Spring 2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English (August-December 2007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ENG 150:&nbsp;Plotting in Secret: Conspiracy and Identity in Contemporary American Fiction (Fall 2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Rhetoric (August 1998-May 2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RHET R1B: Tortured Confessions (Spring 2006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1B: Nuclear Time: History and Representation (Fall 2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1A: After the War: Cold War Culture in the West (Spring 2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1A: Letters: The Epistolary Form as Rhetorical Genre (Fall 2004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1A: Writing, Self, Violence (Fall 2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET 41AC: Performing American Identities: Gangsters (Summer 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Teaching Assistant<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RHET 10: Argument and Analysis (Summer 2003 &amp; Fall 1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET 103B: Truth and Interpretation (Spring 2003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET 103B: Mapping Utopian Rhetorics (Spring 2001)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1B: Nationalisms (Spring 2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1A: The Gothic as Horror (Spring 1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RHET R1B: The Craft of Writing (Fall 1998)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PHIL 7: Philosophy and Literature (Fall 2001)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Santa Clara University<\/strong>, January-March 2007<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instructor of Record<\/em>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ENG 2:&nbsp;Looking East: Orientalism in Literature and Film (Winter 2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Peer Reviewed<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Zone One<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>European Journal of American Studies<\/em>&nbsp;17.4 (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/ejas.19078\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/ejas.19078<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(First Author with Megan Jewell) \u201cGender Preferences in Writing Center Appointments: The Case for a Metadata-Driven Approach.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Writing Analytics<\/em>&nbsp;4 (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.37514\/JWA-J.2020.4.1.10\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.37514\/JWA-J.2020.4.1.10<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Issue Editor and Author) \u201cAfter Aldermaston: Doris Lessing and the Problem of Revolution in the Nuclear Age.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Doris Lessing Studies<\/em>&nbsp;34 (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Co-Author with Rob McAlear) \u201cWriting Toward the End: Students\u2019 Perceptions of Doneness in the Composition Classroom.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Composition Studies<\/em>&nbsp;44.2 (Fall 2016). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/24859530\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/24859530<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGenre, Materiality, and Consciousness: From Philosophical Zombies to Robert Kirkman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>C21 Literature<\/em>&nbsp;3.1 (Autumn 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLate Modern Rigmarole: Boredom as Form in Samuel Beckett\u2019s Trilogy.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>&nbsp;45.4 (Winter 2013). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/sdn.2014.0014\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/sdn.2014.0014<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA Disaster By Any Other Name.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Qui Parle<\/em>&nbsp;15.2 (Spring\/Summer 2005). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20685697\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20685697<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLetters of Credit: Joyce,&nbsp;<em>Ulysses<\/em>, and the Confessions of Fiction.\u201d&nbsp;<em>In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism<\/em>&nbsp;12.1\/2 (2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018the space of a moment\u2019:&nbsp;<em>How It Is<\/em>&nbsp;and the Event of Narrative.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Beckett Studies<\/em>&nbsp;10.1\/2 (Fall 2000\/Spring 2001). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26468478\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26468478<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Edited Collections<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Second Author with Marcus Weakley) \u201cWhen is a Peer Not a Peer? Negotiating Authority and Expertise in Graduate Student Writing Consultations.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Re-Defining Roles: The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant\u2019s Guide to Writing Centers<\/em>. Eds. Megan Jewell and Joseph Cheatle. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctv1prssvm.13\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctv1prssvm.13<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Fourth Author with Greer Murphy, Troy Mikanovich, and Marcus Weakley) \u201cFrom Writing Center to Writing Program? Transdisciplinarity as a Means to Institutional Credibility and Support.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Writing Centers at the Center of Change<\/em>. Eds. Joseph J. Essid and Brian McTague. New York: Routledge, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(First Author with Adam Perzynski) \u201cReversing the Process: Video Composition and the Ends of Writing.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory and Practice<\/em>. Eds. Santosh Khadka and Jennifer Lee. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctvg5bsxf.7\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctvg5bsxf.7<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDoris Lessing and the Madness of Nuclear Deterrence.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>Doris Lessing\u2019s&nbsp;The Golden Notebook After Fifty<\/em>. Eds. Alice Ridout, Roberta Rubinstein, and Sandra Singer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAllegories of Hiroshima: Toward a Rhetoric of Nuclear Modernism.\u201d In&nbsp;<em>The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World<\/em>. Eds. Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, and Jack Taylor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGardner and Nietzsche: Toward a Post-Ethical Aesthetic Morality of Fiction.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Proceedings of the First Annual John Gardner Convention, April 3-4, 1998<\/em>. Eds. Jim Fessenden and Charley Boyd. West Chester: The John Gardner Society, 1999.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Reviews and Entries<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbstracts.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation<\/em>. Ed. Bruce Frey. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review of Jonathan Hogg,&nbsp;<em>British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Journal of British Studies<\/em>&nbsp;56.2 (April 2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26599077\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26599077<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review of Wai Chee Dimock,&nbsp;<em>Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Emerson Society Papers<\/em>&nbsp;19 (Fall 2008). <a href=\"https:\/\/emersonsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/esp-19-2-2008.pdf\">https:\/\/emersonsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/esp-19-2-2008.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>2020-<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWestern Civilization &amp; Network Theory II: Model Analysis.\u201d Association of Core Texts and Courses, Dallas, Texas, March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMultimodality and&nbsp;<em>Epiphanis<\/em>: An Occluded Possibility for Persuasion.\u201d Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLabor-Based Grading Contracts: A Ranci\u00e8rean View.\u201d Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, Washington, April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMultimodality and Rhetoric: A Case of Inhospitality?\u201d Rhetoric Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2020. Accepted for presentation; conference canceled due to COVID\u201319 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(With Megan Jewell) \u201cGender Preferences in Writing Center Appointments: The Case for a Metadata-Driven Approach.\u201d International Conference on Writing Analytics, St. Petersburg, Florida, February 2020.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>2010-2019<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Invited Speaker) \u201cResponding to Reviewers\u2019 Comments.\u201d Textbook Authors Association Webinar, November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(With Marcus Weakley) \u201cAsynchronous Tutoring: Insights from the Data.\u201d International Writing Centers Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(With Hovig Tchalian and Andrew Marx) \u201cPersuasion and Trustworthiness in Political Discourse: An Empirical Study of Linguistic Tokens in \u2018Fake News.\u2019\u201d Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Invited Presenter) \u201cHow to Structure and Write an Article Abstract.\u201d Textbook Authors Association Webinar, April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter Aldermaston: Doris Lessing and the Problem of Revolution in the Nuclear Age.\u201d Modern Language Association of America, Austin, Texas, January 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(With Adam Perzynski) \u201cComposing Backwards: Video Challenges to Process Composition Pedagogy.\u201d Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida, March 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMapping Narrative and the Functions of Commemoration in Early Hiroshima Literature.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Narrative: An International Conference<\/em>. International Society for the Study of Narrative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCartography as Commemoration in Early Hiroshima Literature.\u201d&nbsp;<em>ASAP\/5: The Arts of the City<\/em>. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Being several people at once with no sense of time\u2019: Nuclear Dissociation in Doris Lessing\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Golden Notebook<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Narrative: An International Conference<\/em>. International Society for the Study of Narrative, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Undead Subject: From Philosophical Zombies to Robert Kirkman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Northeast Modern Language Association Convention<\/em>, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Zombie Subject, or the Uncanny Irreducibility of Consciousness in Robert Kirkman\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Walking Dead<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Post45@The Rock Hall Fifth Anniversary Conference<\/em>. Post45, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRepresenting Hiroshima: The Antinomies of Nuclear Modernism.\u201d English Department Colloquium Series, Case Western Reserve University, October 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Chair, Organizer, and Presenter) \u201cRobert Lowell\u2019s Statuary: The Nuclear Sublime and the Confessional Lyric.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Narrative: An International Conference<\/em>. International Society for the Study of Narrative, Case Western Reserve University, April 2010.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>2000-2009<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLocating the Holocaust in the Work of Giorgio Agamben.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Narrative: An International Conference<\/em>. International Society for the Study of Narrative, University of Texas at Austin, May 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpies Like Us?: Ralph Ellison and the Politics of Secret Agency.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900<\/em>. University of Louisville, February 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Chair, Organizer, and Presenter) \u201cImpossible Representations: Prolegomena.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Aesthetics of the Bomb and the Aesthetics of&nbsp;<\/em>Doctor Atomic. University of California at Berkeley, October 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Mortal Tedium\u2019: Narrating Boredom in Samuel Beckett\u2019s Trilogy.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Narrative: An International Conference<\/em>. International Society for the Study of Narrative, Louisville, Kentucky, April 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018A Parody of Silence and Death\u2019: Confession and Reference in Nabokov\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lolita<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>The \u201cI\u201d of the Beholder: Narrative Voice and Imagined Reality<\/em>. New York College English Association, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, October 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Chair and Organizer) \u201cMerleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of Mind.\u201d Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California at Berkeley, October 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBeckett\u2019s Denial of History:&nbsp;<em>How It Is<\/em>, Epoch, Narrative.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Another Beckett Conference<\/em>. The London Beckett Seminar, Birkbeck College, University of London, June 2000.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic Service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Providence College<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English Department Committees: Writing Committee (<em>ex officio<\/em>, August 2018-); Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Affairs Committee (August 2021-); Curriculum Reform Committee (August-December 2022); Creative Nonfiction Job Search Committee (August-December 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communication Program Advisory Committee, August-December 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Development of Western Civilization Program Committee, August 2021-May 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humanities Forum Advisory Board, August 2020-December 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academic Integrity Review Board, August 2019-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dean\u2019s Ad Hoc Adjunct Faculty Task Force, March-December 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Common Reading Program Steering Committee, July 2019-May 2020<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>External Organizations<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewer,&nbsp;<em>Modern Fiction Studies<\/em>, June 2021-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expert Reviewer, European Science Foundation, April 2020-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewer,&nbsp;<em>Doris Lessing Studies<\/em>, March 2017-<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Claremont Graduate University<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Petitions and Appeals Committee, April 2015-July 2018<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Case Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First-Year Undergraduate Advisor, August 2010-December 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graduate Proseminar Instructor,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Department of English, September 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Led a two-week mini-seminar for graduate students on contemporary philosophical approaches to literature, with emphasis on object-oriented ontology and speculative realism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teaching of Argument White Paper Committee, January-May 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Contributing writer to a Writing Across the Curriculum pamphlet emphasizing argument for faculty teaching in the core curriculum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>University of California, Berkeley<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honors Thesis Advisor,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Department of English, September 2007-May 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workshop Leader,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Graduate Student Instructor Resource Center, August 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teaching Conference for new Graduate Student Instructors; Graduate-level workshop to instruct and train new GSIs in course management, grading, syllabus development, classroom activities, and lesson planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guest Lecturer,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Department of Rhetoric, November 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Graduate-level pedagogy course; lecture on developing classroom confidence and styles of teaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Honors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Providence College<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Award, August 2020-June 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Competitive award for interdisciplinary faculty research teams. Collaborated with colleagues in English and Computer Science to undertake a project to use network analysis of texts taught in Providence College\u2019s Development of Western Civilization program to contest hegemonic and teleological narratives of \u201cWestern Civilization.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Case Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow, Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, August 2013-May 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Competitive application among faculty for research grants in digital humanities. Undertook a project using geospatial information systems to map representations of Hiroshima in Ibuse Masuji\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Black Rain<\/em>&nbsp;and John Hersey\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hiroshima<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, August 2012- May 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Competitive application among faculty for a year-long funded working group on the theme of \u201cRevolution!\u201d Participation included reading group meetings and attendance at Center colloquia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow, The Ethics Table, August 2011-May 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Competitive application among administrators and faculty for a year-long compensated appointment to research, discuss, and present work addressing the cultivation of student ethics in the classroom and the university at large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAGES Instructional Excellence Award, May 2011<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>University of California, Berkeley&nbsp;<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, May 2004<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/?page_id=494\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpedretti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}