CURRICULUM VITAE MATT GILCHRIST BUSINESS ADDRESS: Department of Rhetoric University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 PHONE: 319-335-0184 E-MAIL: matthew-gilchrist@uiowa.edu EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY 1. Higher Education 2009-Present University of Iowa, Ph.D. student: Language, Literacy, and Culture 2004 University of Iowa, M.F.A. in creative writing 2001 University of Tennessee, B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude 2. Professional Academic Positions 2012- Co-director, Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning, University of Iowa 2011- Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa 2005-2011 Assistant Director, The University Writing Center, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa 2004-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Kirkwood Community College 2002-2004 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Iowa 3. Honors and Awards 2013 Lane Davis Award for Honors Team Teaching, Honors Program, University of Iowa 2013 First Year Student Champion, Office of Retention and Student Success, University of Iowa 2011 TILE Fellow, University of Iowa TILE program 2007 Lou Kelly Writing Center Award for Service, University Writing Center, University of Iowa 4. Memberships College Composition and Communication International Writing Centers Association TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1. Teaching Assignments SEMESTER/YR ADVISEES COURSES TAUGHT UNDERDRAD GRAD COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE STUDENTS ENROLLED
Fall 2013 0 6 RHET:5350 Colloquium: Teaching Rhetoric RHET:1030 Honors Rhetoric RHET:1000 First-Year Seminar College Outside the Classroom Writing Center Instruction 6 18 15 6 face-to-face, 42 online Spring 2013 0 4 Writing Center Instruction 12 face-to-face, 100+ online Course Release Buyout: Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning Fall 2012 0 4 RHET:7900 Teaching Multimodal Composition RHET:1030 Rhetoric RHET:1000 First-Year Seminar College Outside the Classroom HONR:1300 Honors First-Year Seminar Drugs and Television: the Rhetoric of The Wire Spring 2012 0 4 RHET:7900 10 Approaches to Service-Learning RHET:1030 40 Rhetoric Fall 2011 0 6 RHET:1030 38 Writing Center Instruction 100+ online 2. Students Supervised Degree Objective Student Name Years Outcome Ph.D. Candidates Master s Candidates Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honors Students 3. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs 4 40 15 17 Spring 2013 Fall 2013 Writing Center Instruction and Assistance with Writing Center Administration With a course buyout, worked to bring Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning online as an instructional resource for teachers across campus Writing Center Instruction
Co-Direct Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning, an effort involving TILE training for TAs and faculty and facilitating assignment design SCHOLARSHIP 1. Publications or Creative Works Locating Online Cultures: Analysis of www.thefreshloaf.com. In Field Working: Reading and Writing Research, 4 th ed. (2012) edited by Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. Second Language Writers Inventing Identities through Creative Work and Performance. With Carol Severino and Emma Rainey in Reinventing Identities in Second Language Writing (2010) edited by Gwen Grey Schwartz, Michelle Cox, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Jay Jordan. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE.*** The Writing Center as a Window to Genres of University Writing. With Carol Severino. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (2010).*** 2. Published Reviews of Scholarship 3. Inventions and Patents 4. Grants Funded 2013 On Purpose. Digital Studio for the Public Humanities Grant. $7500. Co-Director 2013 Graduate Student Work and Public Engagement, In Focus. College of Arts and Sciences Excellence and Innovation Grant. $5,000. Co-Director. 2012-2014 Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning (IDEAL). Student Success Grant. $74,000. Co-Director 2011 Audiovisual Infrastructure Upgrade: Projector and Hardware for the Writing Center. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Technology Fee Grant. $13,600 2009 Writing and Speaking Center Online Scheduling. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Computing Fee Grant, Recurring Award. $6380 2009 Upgrade Computing Resources in the Writing Center College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Computing Fee Grant. $7632 2008-2009 Renovation of Existing Writing Center Space Classroom Improvement Grant through Facilities Renewal and Equipment Committee $36,000 2007 Online Tutoring and Online Appointment Scheduling Tool for the Writing Center College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Computing Fee Grant. $24,000 2006 Upgrade Computing Reseources in the Writing Center College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Computing Fee Grant.
$11,640 5. Funding Proposals Submitted but Not Funded 6. Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations a. International b. National 2013 Inquiry-guided Active Learning: TILE (and etc.) at Iowa. Invited lecture at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2013 Writing for the Disciplines: Advice for Graduate Students. Graduate College, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. October 23. 2013 Assessing the Motivations of Students Enrolled in Approaches to Service-Learning in the Classroom, a Graduate Course in Service-Learning Pedagogy Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit in Dubuque, Iowa 2013 Beyond the Essay: Sustainable Publicly Engaged Assignments Conference on College Composition and Communication in Las Vegas 2012 Fourteen Centers, One University: The boundaries, burdens, and boons of disciplinary writing support International Writing Centers Association Conference in San Diego 2012 The Danger of the Single Story: The Power of Narratives University of Iowa College of Education International Day Human Rights Conference 2012 Living with Floods: How Do Story and Image Express the Face of Resiliance? Interdisciplinary Flood Institute for Teachers, University of Iowa College of Education 2012 Do Not Wait Until Tenure: Supporting the Design of Sustainable Service-Learning Pedagogies Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit in St. Paul 2012 Designing Service-Learning Projects. Beyond Tolerance Diversity Conference sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Education 2011 Academic Literacy Across an Institutional Isthmus: Connections Between the Advising Center and the Writing Center Panel presentation for the October Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference in Madison 2011 Making Innovation Public: Resources for DIY, Modification, and Sharing of Writing Center Technologies Computers and Writing Conference in Ann Arbor 2010 Navigating Writing Center Technologies International Writing Centers Assocation Conference in Baltimore 2009 Best practices for tutoring difficult genres Midwest Writing Centers Association, Kansas City 2009 Open Sourcing Online Writing Centers: Inter-Institutional Cooperatives for Online Writing Center Technologies Midwest Writing Centers Association, Kansas City 2009 Next Generation OWLs: Customized Solutions and the Move Toward Open-Sourcing Conference on College Composition and Communication 2008 The University Writing Center as a Place for Physician Writers: the Advantages of Writing in Diverse, Decentralized Workshops. The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine 2007 A Changed Workshop: Creative Writing in the Writing Center. Midwest Writing Centers Association 2007 Tutors Tutoring Tutors. Midwest Writing Centers Association
2006 Out of the Comfort Zone: Tutoring Beyond the Bounds of Textual and Cultural Familiarity. Midwest Writing Centers Association 2006 Between Theories, Teaching Occurs. Midwest Writing Centers Association 7. Pending Decisions Affecting Deliberations SERVICE 1. Profession 2013 Conference organizer, IDEAL Assignment Design Instutute. University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. October 19. 2012 Article Review, Writing Center Journal Special Issue on Undergraduate Research. Collaborated with undergraduate peer tutor Katie Rosenberger 2011 Member and Elected Graduate Student Representative, International Writing Centers Association Board of Directors 2011 Judge, Best Article Award Committee, International Writing Centers Association. Served on a panel that honored Brad Hughes (University of Wisconsin), Paula Gillespie (Florida International University), and Harvey Kail (University of Maine) for their article What They Take with Them: Findings from the Peer Writing Tutor Alumni Research Project (The Writing Center Journal 30.2 [2010]: 12-46). 2011 Chair, Committee on Graduate Student Concerns, International Writing Centers Association 2007 Participant, OWL Technology Summit. Texas A&M University Writing Center 2007 Participant and Panelist, Iowa Writing Project workshop: Teaching First-Year College Writing, University of Northern Iowa 2. Department 2013 Co-organizer, A Free, Public Dialogue with Mike Daisey. Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa. February 22. 2013 Assessment Committee, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa 2013 Search Committee Member, Successful search for the Writing Center Assistant Director resulting in the hire of Deirdre Egan 3. College 2012-2014 Steering Committee, undergraduate writing certificate of the Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing Invited to provide guidance for the growth and future of a new writing certificate in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 2011 Exploratory Committee for Proposed Certificate in Writing 2006 Advisory Group on University Shared Governance 4. University 2006-2008 Staff Council Elected for a three-year term to represent non-bargaining staff members of The University of Iowa. 2006-2008 Chair, The University of Iowa/Governmental Relations Committee of Staff Council 2006-2009 CIC Meeting of Writing Center Directors 5. Community 2011-2013 I directed service-learning projects in my Rhetoric classes with the following
Community partners: Iowa Youth Writing Project, University Hospitals Child Life Services, Rape Victim Advocacy Program, Children of Promise, Johnson County Crisis Center 2010-2011 Shelter House Literacy Program, Co-directed a literacy program for adult residents of a temporary homeless shelter. 2009-2010 The Iowa Medical and Classification Center Writers Workshop Co-facilitated a writers workshop for men incarcerated in a medium security prison. 2006 The Iowa City Public Library s Teen Writers Club. Mentored teen writers in order to develop interest and skills in creative writing. 2006 Elizabeth Tate Alternative High School, Iowa City, Iowa. Led an intensive and supportive creative writing workshop in a high school English classroom. 6. State of Iowa 2013-2014 Collaborated with the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities to design and implement student narrative projects in the city of Muscatine, Iowa.