Gabriel Morrison

CV

Updated June 2022

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Rhetoric and composition/writing studies
  • Multimodal and digital composition
  • Writing across the curriculum
  • Graduate student writing
  • Writing program administration
  • Writing centers
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Rhetorical genre studies
  • Social justice pedagogies
  • Community engagement
  • Studio pedagogy
  • Creative nonfiction
  • Digital humanities

Education

PhD, English (Rhetoric and Composition)
University of Connecticut
2021

Dissertation: “Composing Across
Committee: Brenda Brueggemann, Tom Deans, Pamela Bedore, Anke Finger

MA, English (Creative Writing)
Rhode Island College
2016

BA, English (Creative Writing, Studio Art Minor)
Summa Cum Laude
Rhode Island College
2014

Institutes and Certificates

Preparing for Distance Education
University of Connecticut
2020

Certificate in College Instruction
University of Connecticut
2019

Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research
Dartmouth College
2018

Digital Media and Composition Institute
Ohio State University
2017

Experience

Assistant Director, Center for Writing
College of the Holy Cross
2021-present
Directed the Holy Cross Writer’s Workshop peer tutoring center, including hiring, consultant professional development, and writing fellows program. Supported faculty development and outreach through the Center for Writing. Taught interdisciplinary courses in composition theory and digital literacy.

Coordinator of Graduate Writing Support, University Writing Center
University of Connecticut
2020-2021
Supervised the delivery of writing center services for graduate students through tutoring, meeting with graduate students, administering programs such as dissertation boot camps and writing retreats, and leading a three 5-week seminars per year on graduate-level writing.

Assistant Director of First-Year Writing, Department of English
University of Connecticut
2018-2019
Supported instructors teaching First-Year Writing courses by meeting with them, facilitating workshops, running trainings, and creating materials. Supported the First-Year Writing program by designing curriculum, coordinating a national writing conference, interfacing with students, and performing other administrative duties.

Graduate Coordinator, Early College Experience English Program
University of Connecticut
2018-2019
With program coordinator and assistant coordinator, developed and supported the teaching of First-Year Writing by nearly 200 instructors in high schools across the state. Specific duties included designing and coordinating biannual teaching conferences, developing materials, and interfacing with instructors.

Assistant Director, Writing Center
University of Connecticut
2017-2018
Worked on administrative team directing a writing center serving over 4000 students each year; co-taught tutor practicum; facilitated staff meetings and orientations; coordinated writing fellows program; conducted research on tutoring and writing; and tutored students.

Graduate Instructor, Department of English
University of Connecticut
2016-2017 and 2019-2020
Instructor of record for 2-3 courses per year, including full course design, teaching, and grading responsibilities.

Graduate Assistant, Academic Development Center
Rhode Island College
2015-2016
Tutored students in a variety of subject areas as well as standardized tests needed for teacher certification. Led workshops on center’s services for various departments.

Writing Coach, Master of Social Work Program
Rhode Island College
2014-2016
Co-taught a graduate course in professional writing; tutored MSW students; worked on writing placement for graduate students entering the program.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English
Rhode Island College
2014-2015
Supported English department faculty teaching first-year and basic writing courses by grading papers, leading class sessions, and conferencing with students

Tutor, Writing Center
Rhode Island College
2012-2016
Consulted with writers on projects and literacy concerns and facilitated peer review as a course-embedded fellow.

Courses Taught

College of the Holy Cross

  • CISS 399: Writer’s Workshop Practicum
  • CISS 238: Writing about Data and Policy
  • Passport: The Elements of Writing Argument
  • CISS 199: Digital Literacy

University of Connecticut

  • Grad 5900: Special Topics in Graduate Education (Graduate Seminar in Academic Writing)
  • English 3013: Media Publishing
  • English 1013: Technical Writing I
  • English 1010: Seminar in Academic Writing
  • Social Work 580: Professional Writing

Rhode Island College

  • Social Work 580: Professional Writing

Courses Assisted

  • English 5182: Practicum in the Teaching of Writing
  • English 387: Composition Theory and Pedagogy
  • English 3082: Writing Center Practicum
  • First-Year Writing 100: Introduction to Academic Writing
  • English 010: Basic Writing Skills

Awards and Grants

CLAS Grant: Anti-Racist Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Workplace Climate ($9,500)
University of Connecticut
2020

Aetna Graduate Teaching Award
University of Connecticut
2020

Francelia Butler Graduate Award for Teaching Innovation
University of Connecticut
2020

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
University of
Connecticut
2020

Aetna Graduate Research and Travel Award
University of Connecticut
2018 and 2019

Graduate Student Travel Grant
Modern Language Association
2019

Travel Grant
International Writing Centers Association
2018

Eleanor McMahon Graduation Honors Award
Rhode Island College
2014

DeStefano Research Grant
Rhode Island College
2013

Amy A. Thompson Memorial Prize for Work in Children’s Literature
Rhode Island College
2013

Ducey Award
Rhode Island College
2013

Honors Foundation Scholarship
Rhode Island College
2012

Research

Publications

“Subverting Elitism with Equitable Assessment at a New England SLAC” (with N. Claire Jackson, Gabriel Morrison, and Hayley C. Stefan). Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges. Genie Giaimo and Megan O’Neill, eds. Forthcoming.

“Racism in the Margins” (with Kathleen Tonry). WPA: Writing Program Administration 44:1 (Summer 2021).

“Instructor Experiences of a Professional Development Institute in Multimodal Composition.” Multimodal Composition: Faculty Development Programs and Institutional Change. Shyam B. Pandey and Santosh Khadka, eds. Routledge, 2021.

“The Cost of Ambiguity: How Students Experience the Graduate Seminar Paper Genre.” Co-authored with Tom Deans. Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies. Kevin Morrison, ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021.

Conference Presentations

“Centering Multimodality: Changing Beliefs About Writing in Writing Centers.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Omaha, NE, October 2022.

“Writing Across Technology: Confronting the Challenges of Faculty Development in Multimodal Composition.” International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, online, August 2021.

“Cultivating Community in Virtual Graduate Writing Retreats.” Global Society of Online Literacy Educators Annual Conference, online, January 2021.

“Rewriting Roles in Social Work: Rhetorical Conflicts Across Educational and Professional Contexts” (with Lauren Griffith). Quinnipiac University’s 7th Biennial Critical Thinking and Writing Conference, Hamden, CT, June 2019.

“The Writing Classroom as Studio: Negotiating Space in Multimodal Writing Program Redesign.” Poster. Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Hartford, CT, April 2019.

“Set Pieces: Designing for Access, Ethos, and Action in the Multimodal Writing Classroom” (with Brenda Brueggemann, Lisa Blansett, and Ruth Book). Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019.

“The Future of Writing: Moving Composition toward Multimodal Literacies” (with Jason Courtmanche, James Shivers, Annemarie E. Hamline, and Arri Weeks). MLA Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019.

“Say WAT Does It Matter?: Triangulating the Spaces and Appeals of Multimodal Program Redesign” (with Brenda Brueggemann, Lisa Blansett, Ruth Book, and Kathryn Warrender-Hill). Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2018.

“Bolder Racisms: Citizenship, Literacy, and Economics” (with Kathleen Tonry). International Writing Centers Associations Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2018.

“Rewriting Roles in a Social Work Graduate Program.” Dartmouth Seminar for Composition Research, Hanover, NH, August 2018.

“Reassessing Our Responses to the ‘Everyday Language of Oppression’” (with Kathleen Tonry). Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference, Worcester, MA, March 2018.

“Accessing Writing: Reframing the Work of Composition in the Classroom” (with Christopher Iverson and Kathryn Warrender). Conference on College Composition and Communication Summer Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017.

“Making Space for Multimodal Composing Across the Disciplines.” Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Storrs, CT, April 2017.

“Invisible Reflections: Queer Erasure and the Monstrous Visibility of Vampires in Comics.” Northeast Popular Culture Association, New London, NH, October 2015.

Invited Lectures and Presentations

“Crossing Rhetorics.” Radical Futures—Imagining the Media of Tomorrow Symposium, online, March 2021.

“Racism in the Margins.” University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, March 2021.

“Case Study Research Methods.” Salisbury University, ENGL 566 (Methods for Research in Rhetoric and Composition), February 2018.

“Composing Assemblages” (with Ruth Book). University of Connecticut Early College Experience Conference, October 2017.

Curriculum and Instructional Resources

High-Impact Practices for antiracist writing instruction across the curriculum. Racism in the Margins website. (with Kathleen Tonry).

Writing Across Technology Curriculum. UConn First-Year Writing Program (with Lisa Blansett Remé Bohlin, Brenda Brueggemann, and Aelx Gatten).

Studio Pedagogy. UConn First-Year Writing website.

Workshops

“Storyboarding Writing Projects.” University of Connecticut Writing Center, November 2020.

“Community Engaged Pedagogies as Antiracist Praxis.” University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Antiracist Teach-In, October 2020.

“Contingency Plans” (with Paula Weinman and Wei-Hao Huang). UConn English Graduate Student Association Pedagogy Committee, March 2020.

“Writing is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity” (with Emily Kilbourn). University of Connecticut Early College Experience Conference, March 2019.

“Soundwriting” (with Alex Gatten and Réme Bohlin). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, March 2019.

“Threshold Concepts in the Classroom: How Metacognition Can Improve Teaching and Learning” (with Alex Gatten). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, January 2019.

“Remixing Multimodal Assignments” (with Alex Gatten). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, September 2018.

“Accessibility and Universal Design” (with Kathryn Warrender-Hill). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, August 2018.

“What to Do if…” (with Brenda Brueggemann, Lisa Blansett, and Alex Gatten). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, August 2018.

“Assignments: Scaffolding, Implementing, Adapting.” (with Amy Fehr and Roxanne Gentry). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, August 2018.

“Designing Writing Assignments” (with Tom Deans). University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, January 2018.

“Multimodal Assignment Design.” University of Connecticut, First-Year Writing Program, August 2017.

“Engaging with Texts” (with Lisa Blansett and Amy Fehr). University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program, August 2017.

Conference Leadership

New England Rhetoric and Composition Consortium Research Workshop. Providence, RI, June 2019.

Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, Hartford, CT, April 2019.

University of Connecticut Early College Experience English Spring Conference, Storrs, CT, March 2019.

Service and Additional Experience

Web Manager, Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (2023-present)

Chair, English Graduate Student Association Pedagogy Committee (2019-2020)

Coordinator, New England Rhetoric and Composition Consortium (2018-2019)

Webmaster, English Graduate Student Association (2018-2019)

Member, Committee on Undergraduate Writing and Instruction (2017-2018)

Writing Across Technology Curriculum Development Team (2017)

Leader, First-Year Writing Instructor Welcome Week (2017 and 2018)

Planning Committee Member, Conference on the Teaching of Writing (2017-2019)

Graduate Student Representative, Aetna Chair of Writing Advisory Board (2016-2017)

Member, Rhode Island College Tutorial Services Committee (2015)

Staff Editor, Shoreline Literary and Arts Magazine (2013-2014)

Professional Memberships

Association of Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC)

International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

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