Kelly
A. Ritter, English
BOOKS:
(Co-Edited with Dr. Stephanie
Vanderslice) This is (Not) Just to Say; Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy.
Portsmouth,
NH: Boynton/Cook, 2007.
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN
BOOKS:
"Postmodern
Dialogics in Pulp Fiction: Jules, Ezekiel, and Double-Voiced
Discourse." In The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical
Perspectives on Film. David Blakesley, Editor. Carbondale,
IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003: 286-300.
ě(En)Gendering the Archives for Basic Writing Research.î
Accepted for the collection Working in the Archives: Methods, Sources,
Histories. Barbara LíEplanttenier, Ed. Complete chapter submitted
January 2007.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
ěBefore Mina Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale
1920-1960.î Under consideration at
College Composition and
Communication.
ěE-Valuating Learning: ëRate My Professorí and Public
Rhetorics of Pedagogyî Under
consideration at Rhetoric
Review.
ěEthos Interrupted: Diffusing ëStarí Pedagogy in the
Creative Writing Classroom.î
College English 69.3
(January 2007): 283-292.
ěCourse Design for English
200: Rhetoric, Argument, and the Law in American
Culture.î Composition
Studies
33.2 (Fall 2005): 89-112.
"The Economics of
Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year
Composition" College Composition and Communication 56.4 (June 2005): 601-631.
Reprinted in The Arlington
Reader, 2nd Edition. Lynn Bloom, Ed. Bedford/St. Martinís, forthcoming
August 2007.
ěWriting
Professionals/Professional Writers: Revamping Teacher Training in Creative
Writing Ph.D. Programs.î College
English 64.2 (November 2001): 205-227.
ěSpectacle at the Disco:
Boogie
Nights, Soundtrack, and the New
American Musical.î Journal
of Popular Film and Television
28.2 (Winter 2001): 166-175.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS
(POETRY):
…ěMercy Seatî. Borderlands:
Texas Poetry Review no. 1, Spring/Summer 2000.
…ěHistoryî, ěMichael Fureyî, ěNew
Age Truck Stopî. Notre Dame
Review no. 8/Summer 1999.
…ěAnastasia Afterî, ěWingî, ěA
City Part Twoî, and ěThe Sleeping
Daughterî. Kimera vol. 4, no. 1, Summer
1999.
…ěPoem with First Line from
Nerudaî. Karamu, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 1999.
…ěCrazyquiltî. Rio,
issue 6, Winter 1998-99.
…ěWhat Holds Youî. Bloomsbury Review, vol. 17, issue 1, January/February
1997.
…ěZeroî. No Roses Review, issue 7, Winter 1996.
…ěPastoralî. Cutbank,
no. 45, March
1996.
…ěSymphonyî, ěAllî, ěHeavenly
White Rosesî. Northwest
Review, vol. 34, no. 1, January 1996.
…ěStove on Fireî, ěExcavationî,
ěThe Boyís White Handsî. Skylark, no. 14, Dec. 1995.
…ěWhat Icarus Saidî. Hammers,
no. 10, July 1995.
…ěGestureî and ěLike Strawî.
Hawaii Review, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall 1994.
…ěGivenî. Greensboro Review, no. 56, Summer 1994.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS (COMPOSITION):
"Two Examples of
Team Writing" (Contributor of 'The Multiple Author Team' model). In Feldman, Ann, Nancy Downs, and Ellen
McManus. In Context: Participating in
Cultural Conversations. New York:
Longman, 2002: 669-670.
ěWriting Communities:
Cultural Diversity in the Composition Classroomî. The Effect of Student
Diversity on Student Learning at the University of Michigan: Faculty and Staff
Perspectives. CRLT Occasional Paper 12. Ann Arbor: Center
for Research on Learning and Teaching, University
of Michigan, 1999: 11-12.
BOOK
REVIEWS:
Rev. of Daldry,
Stephen. The Hours (Paramount/Miramax
Films, 2002). Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Number 62
(Spring 2003): 10-12.
Rev. of Natoli, Joseph.
Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998. (SUNY
Press, 2001). Scope: An Online Journal of
Film Studies, February
2003.
<
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/bookrev/books-feb-03.htm.>
Rev. of Modleski,
Tania. Old Wivesí Tales and Other Womenís
Stories (NYU Press, 1998). M/MLA Journal 34.2 (Spring 2001):
137-140.
Rev. of Troost, Linda
and Sayre Greenfield, Eds. Jane Austen in
Hollywood (U Press of Kentucky,
1998). M/MLA Journal 33.2 (Spring 2000):
97-100.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS ORALLY
DELIVERED:
(Most
recent)
ěThe Rhetorical Identity of ěUnder-Preparedî in Ivy League
Basic Writing Programs.î Conference on College Composition and Communication,
New York City, March 24, 2007.
ěEmerging from the
Comp/Rhet Shadows: Public
Identities for Creative Writing in the Twenty-First Centuryî (Panel Chair/Organizer). Conference on
College Composition and Communication, New York,
New York, March 22, 2007.
ěE-valuating
Learning: RatemyProfessor.com and
the Ethics of Public, Dialogic Evaluation in the First-Year Writing Classroom.î
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois, March
24, 2006.
ěThe Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student
Writers, and First-Year Composition.î Modern Language Association Conference,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 28, 2004.
ěWhither Collaboration? WPAs and Upper-Level Administrators
Define Basic Writing.î Thomas R. Watson 2004 Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition, Louisville, Kentucky, October 9, 2004.
ěInternational Creative Writing Video Conference
between the UK and the USA.î Great Writing Conference
2004: Writers, Creative Writing, and the Contemporary World. University of
Portsmouth and the UK Centre for Creative Writing Research Through
Practice. Portsmouth,
England, July 24, 2004.
"Taking the Show on
the Road: Making WPA Work Matter Though Institutional Program Outreach."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, Texas, March
27, 2004.
"This is (Not) Just
to Say: Public 'Lore' and the Future of Creative Writing" (Panel
Chair/Organizer). Conference on College Composition and Communication, San
Antonio, Texas, March 25, 2004.
"Teacher or
Administrator? Negotiating WPA
Work at the 4/4 University." Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Chicago, Illinois, March 21, 2002.
ěThe
Intellectual Quotient of Television in a Writing Class, or, What D.A. Jack
McCoy Owes to Aristotle.î
Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, New Haven, CT,
November 3, 2001.
ěPerformance or Conversation?
Rethinking Self-Assessment in Writing Classrooms.î Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Denver, Colorado,
March 15, 2001.
ěHow Much Does a Frame Like
That Cost? Reviewing the Real in Video Landscapes
in The Sixth Sense.î South
Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, November
11, 2000.
ěWriting
Professionals/Professional Writers: Revamping Teacher Training in Creative
Writing Ph.D. Programs.î Midwest Modern Language Association Conference,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 5, 1999.
ěThe Thirteenth Grade: The High School-College Connection as
Topic of the Basic Writing Course.î
University of Michigan-Flint Writing Across the Curriculum Conference,
Flint, Michigan, May 22, 1999.
ěSpectacle at the Disco:
Boogie
Nights and the New Hollywood
Musical.î Society for Cinema
Studies Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida,
April 15, 1999.
WORKSHOP
LEADERSHIP:
ěSCSU Workshop on Teaching With Writing: Plagiarism
Discussion.î (Facilitator/Leader) Office
of Faculty Development, Southern Connecticut State University, August 15,
2006.
ěAuthorship/Plagiarism: A Workshop and Discussion for SCSU
First-Year Writing Faculty.î (Facilitator/Leader) Department of English,
Southern Connecticut State University, July 21, 2006.
ěRecruitment, Training, and Evaluation of Part-Time
Faculty: Best Practices.î
(Facilitator/Leader) Department Chairsí Institute, Southern Connecticut
State University, May 12, 2006.
ěCV Workshop for English Graduate Students.î (Leader) Southern Connecticut State
University, October 19, 2006; November 16, 2005; December 8, 2004; February 8,
2002; March 30, 2001.
ěDealing with Student Plagiarism" (Co-Facilitated with
Dr. Robert McEachern). Southern Writing Board, Southern Connecticut State
University, October 12, 2001.
ěWhat
English Faculty Need to Know about ESL Writers.î (Co-Facilitated with Drs. Kate
Reynolds and Lorri Verplaetse).
Department of English, Southern Connecticut State University, December
8, 2000.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Authorship and
Student Self-Assessment in First-Year
Composition; Teacher Training and Pedagogy (Composition, Creative
Writing); History of Writing Programs; Rhetoric
and Media
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH
PROJECTS:
Two book manuscripts
in progress: (1) Ritter, Kelly. Before Mina Shaughnessy: Basic
Writing in the Ivy League 1920-1960.
Manuscript in
progress.
(2) Ritter, Kelly and
Stephanie Vanderslice. Teaching
Creative Writing to Undergraduates: A Practical Guide and Sourcebook.
Proposal
and sample chapters under review at Longman publishers.
DISSERTATION
TITLE:
Divided Heaven: Poems
INSTITUTION
GRANTING Ph.D.:
University of Illinois at
Chicago