EDUCATION Monica M. Brown Curriculum vitae Department of English The University of British Columbia 397-1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 +1.604.215.0096 mm2brown@interchange.ubc.ca PhD, English, University of British Columbia, in progress Dissertation: Controlling Contagion: Twenty-First Century Rhetorics of Public Health Supervisor: Judy Segal; Committee members: Laura Moss and Janet Giltrow MA, English, University of British Columbia, 2007 BA, Honours English (Rhetoric and Professional Writing), University of Waterloo, 2005 PUBLICATIONS Refereed Brown, Monica, Teresa M. Dobson, Dustin Grue, and Stan Ruecker. Challenging New Views on Familiar Plotlines: A Discussion of the Use of XML in the Development of a Scholarly Tool for Literary Pedagogy. Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.2 (June 2013): 199-208. Grue, Dustin, Teresa M. Dobson, and Monica Brown. Reading Practices and Digital Experiences: An Investigation into Secondary Students Reading Practices and XML-Markup Experiences of Fiction. Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.2 (June 2013): 237-248. Inoculating the Public: Managing Vaccine Rhetoric. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 2.2-3 (2012). Dobson, Teresa, Piotr Michura, Stan Ruecker, and Monica Brown. Interactive Visualizations of Plot in Fiction. Visible Language 45.3 (2011): 170-191. Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric, and Female Sexual Dysfunction. The Tapestry of Health, Illness, and Disease. Ed. Peter Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi Press, 2009. 125-134. Other publications Appropriating Genre, Taking Action Against Obesity: The Rhetorical Work of Digital Public Genres. Genre and the Performance of Publics. Ed. Anis Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016. 201-218. Flu Vaccine Rhetoric. Encyclopedia of Health Communication. 3 rd edition. Ed. Teresa L. Thompson. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2014. 3:1172-1173. Under review Don t be the Fifth Guy : Risk, Responsibility, and the Rhetoric of Handwashing Campaigns. Journal of Medical Humanities.
Monica M. Brown CV 2 PRESENTATIONS Papers presented (Contagion) Rhetoric in Digital Humanities Visualization Scholarship, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société Canadienne des Humanités Numériques 2014, Brock University, June 2014 The Border Rhetoric of Public Health Campaigns, Writing Research Across Borders III: International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research Conference, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France, February 2014 Examining Pathos in Public Health Discourse on Antibiotics, Fifth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, Victoria, BC, June 2013 What Does Hand Washing Mean in the Twenty-First Century? Science and Technology Studies Faculty Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, November 29, 2012 Genre Ecologies, Internet Health, Genre 2012: An International Conference on Genre Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, June 2012 It's Your Health : Identification, Division, and the (Visual) Rhetoric of Hand Washing, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Annual Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, May 2012 Good Hand Washing as Belonging: A Rhetorical Study of Public Health, Rhetoric Society of America 15 th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012 The Stasis of ipad as an e-health Technology, Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (ARST) Preconference held in conjunction with the Rhetoric Society of America 15 th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012 Inoculating the Public: Decision-Making during a Pandemic, Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Cleveland, OH, November 2011 Popular Metaphors of Women's Sexuality in Reporting on Sex Research, Canadian Sex Research Forum, Vancouver, BC, September 2011 Towards a Schema Design for Narrative Encoding, Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, June 2011 Revisiting Metaphors of Women's Sexuality in Female Sexual Dysfunction, The Medicalization of Sex 2011: An International, Interdisciplinary Multimedia Conference, Vancouver, BC, April 2011 Legitimacy and Medicalization in the Case of a Global Pandemic, National Communication Association 96 th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 2010 Workplace Warnings: Analyzing the Rhetoric of Responses to H1N1, Rhetoric Society of America 14 th Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2010
Monica M. Brown CV 3 Woman as Mysterious Machine: Female Sexual Dysfunction and the Impossible Journey into Female Pleasure, Making Sense of: Health, Illness, and Disease. Oxford University, UK, July 2006 Discussant New Directions in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Rhetoric Society of America 15 th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012 The Future of English Studies, Pedagogically and Professionally, Endnotes 2011 English Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, April 2011 HONOURS AND AWARDS CIRN Trainee Award ($25 000), 2015-2016 Professor Moses Steinberg Memorial Award ($1 000), 2013-2014 UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Nominee, 2012-2013 UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Travel Award, 2012-2013 William Royce Butler and Jean Campbell Butler Scholarship ($2 350), 2012-2013 Mairi Grant Campbell Fellowship in English ($1 250), 2012-2013 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Young Scholar Award, 2011 Rhetoric Society of America Graduate Student Travel Award, 2011 UBC Four Year Fellowship ($20 000/year, 3 years), 2009-2012 UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award ($16 000), 2008-2009 UBC Graduate Entrance Scholarship ($3 000), 2005-2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Langara College, Spring 2016 CMNS 1118 (Professional Communications) Instructor, Langara College, Fall 2015 CMNS 1115 (Interpersonal Communications) Instructor, Langara College, Spring 2015 ENGL 1100 (Reading and Writing About Literature) Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, Winter 2014 ENGL 110 (Approaches to Literature: Media and Genres) with Richard Cavell Co-Instructor, University of British Columbia, Fall 2012 ENGL 468A (Children s Literature) with Rick Gooding Co-Instructor, University of British Columbia, Winter 2011; Winter 2012 ENGL 419A (McLuhan, the Book, and the Media) with Richard Cavell
Monica M. Brown CV 4 Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, Fall 2010 ENGL 110 (Approaches to Literature) with Brian N. S. Gooch Co-Instructor, University of British Columbia, Winter 2009 ENGL 468A (Children s Literature) with Rick Gooding Upper-Level Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, Fall 2008 ENGL 222 (Literature in Canada) with Laura Moss Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, 2005-2007 ENGL 110 (Approaches to Literature): three sections ENGL 111 (Approaches to Non-Fictional Prose): one section RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS CIRN Trainee, Mapping Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada, 2015-2016 Research supervisor: Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo); CIHR-funded qualitative study of the changing political and social context of parental and professional discourse about measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) immunization since the early 1960s Website Administrator, Science and Technology Studies, University of British Columbia, 2014-2015 Research Assistant, Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2010-2015 PI: Judy Segal, SSHRC-funded study in rhetoric of health and medicine Research Assistant, Digital Literacy Centre, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, May 2009-September 2010; September 2011-April 2012; PI: Teresa Dobson, SSHRC-funded digital humanities study of complex narrative Workshop Assistant, Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop, University of British Columbia, February-October 2007; Co-organizers: Christina Lupton and Alexander Dick ACADEMIC SERVICE Departmental Reading Room TA, Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2011, 2013 TA Mentor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2012-2013 Graduate Student Representative, UBC English Search Committee, 2011-2012 Co-Chair Internal, UBC English Graduate Caucus, 2008-2010 MA Representative, UBC English Graduate Caucus, 2006-2007 TA Union Representative, UBC English Graduate Caucus, 2005-2007; 2008-2009 University Writing Seminar Facilitator, Humanities 101, UBC Faculty of Arts, Winter 2011 Discussion Facilitator, Humanities 101, UBC Faculty of Arts, Fall 2010; 2011-2012
Monica M. Brown CV 5 Professional Graduate Student Representative, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, 2012-2014 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Mentoring Skills Workshop, Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC, 2011 Medicine and Its Publics, RSA Summer Institute, University of Colorado, 2011 Text Encoding Fundamentals and Their Applications, DHSI, University of Victoria, 2010 Rhetoric and Globalization Workshop, RSA Summer Institute, Penn State, 2009 Teaching Certificate, Pedagogy Workshop Series, Department of English, UBC, 2009 REFERENCES Judy Z. Segal, Professor Department of English, The University of British Columbia judy.segal@ubc.ca +1.604.822.5652 Laura Moss, Associate Professor Department of English, The University of British Columbia laura.moss@ubc.ca +1.604.822.4226 Teresa Dobson, Associate Professor Department of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia teresa.dobson@ubc.ca +1.604.822.8365