DR. SUNNY HAWKINS Jordan Hall Rm. 304A | 317-940-6892 |
[email protected] EDUCATION SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY-CARBONDALE Ph.D. in English
2007
Dissertation: “Classifying and Categorizing Student Writers’ Metacognition: A Social Cognitive Ethnography” Major Area: Rhetoric and Composition Minor Areas: Medieval and Renaissance Literature Research Tool: Spanish
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY-CARBONDALE M.A. in English
2004
Major Area: Medieval and Renaissance Literature
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY-CARBONDALE B.A. in English
2001
Area of Concentration: Creative Writing
RESEARCH & TEACHING AWARDS Excellence through Engagement Summer Fellowship, University of Southern Indiana
2009
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Development Grant, USI
2008
William Cohn Award for Graduate Research, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
2006
Dissertation Research Fellowship, SIU-C
2006 – 2007
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in the English Department, SIU-C
2004 – 2005
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in the University Core Curriculum, SIU-C
2003 – 2004
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
BUTLER UNIVERSITY Director of Peer Tutoring; Instructor of English
2017-current
LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor, English
2016-2017
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE Associate Professor, English; Director of the Writing Center
2015-2016
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA Associate Professor, English
2007-2014
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department
2001-2007
PUBLICATIONS “The Dangerous Method.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal (Spring 2016) http://www.praxisuwc.com/hawkins-132/ “Better Together.” Service Learning in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Susan Garza. Fountainhead Press X Series for Professional Development, 2014. 25-40. “Review: Resources in Technical Communication: Outcomes and Approaches, edited by Cynthia L. Selfe.” Issues in Writing 18.2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 197-200. “Mutating Masculinity: Embodying the Hu(man) in The Hills Have Eyes.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 9.3 (2009). “Professionalizing the Everyday.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal (Fall 2009) http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=book/print/272 “Exploring the Next Frontier: Hypertext Ideology for English Studies.” Journal of College Writing 10 (June 2009): 121.
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“From Interest and Expertise: Improving Student Writers’ Working Authorial Identities.” The Writing Lab Newsletter 32.6 (Feb, 2008): 1-5. “(Un)complicating Planning and Revising: Metacognition and Problem-Based Tutoring.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal (Fall 2008) http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis?q=book/print/239 “Pedagogy of Awareness: Examining and Enacting Linda Flower’s Theory of Negotiated Meaning. Journal of College Writing 9 (Oct. 2007): 10-28. PRESENTATIONS “Nomadology: Or, the (r)Evolution of (dis)Location.” International Writing Center Association Conference (Pittsburgh, 2015) “Off-Center: Confronting Identity Politics in Secondary/Post-Secondary Writing Center Collaborations.” College Composition and Communication Conference (Indianapolis, 2014) “Cite What You Byte: Teaching (Hyper)Text, (Mis)Communication, and Academic Bricolage.” Indiana College English Association Conference (Evansville, IN, 2013) “Selling (Out) Gay Storylines to Straight Audiences: The Social Capital of Queerness.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference (Cincinnati, 2012) “Embodying Gender: Gender Multiplicity Versus the Gender Binary in Contemporary Horror Film.” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference (Chicago, 2010) “Writing in Place: Ecocomposition and the Work of Writing Classrooms.” Thomas R. Watson Conference (Louisville, KY, 2010) “Creating a Super Tutor.” (with Crystal Steltenpohl, Janon Kaja, Erin Dunn, and Patti O’Hagan) International Writing Center Association Collaborative (Louisville, KY, 2010) “Awareness and Affect: Characterizing Self-Regulation in Student Technical Writers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (Louisville, KY, 2010) “Characterizing Metacognition in Student Technical Writers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Research Network Forum (San Francisco, 2009) “Writing in the Digital Age: Students’ Perceptions of Reader/Writer/Text.” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference (San Antonio, 2008) “Writing in the Digital Age: Students’ Perceptions of Readers, Writers, and Texts in Hypermedia Environments.” Thomas R. Watson Conference (Louisville, KY, 2008) “From Interest and Expertise: The Impact of Non-Cognitive and Affective Factors on Student Writers’ Processes.” Midwest Writing Center Association Conference (St. Louis, 2006) “The Transfer of Knowledge from Technical Communications to the Workplace.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (San Francisco, 2005) “Understanding the Acculturation Process of ESL Students in the Mainstream Composition Classroom.” Allerton English Articulation Conference (Champaign-Urbana, IL, 2001)
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE English Department Curriculum Mapping Committee, Lindenwood University (2016) Center for Teaching Effectiveness Instructional Coach, Texas A&M University Kingsville (2015-2016) Writing Intensive Committee, TAMUK (2015-2016) Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Board, TAMUK (2015) Faculty Learning Community Leader, University of Southern Indiana (2013-2014) River Bend Writing Project Site Director, USI (2010-2011, 2012-2013) Human, Environmental, and Animal Rights (HEAR) Faculty Advisor, USI (2009-2011) Center for Academic Creativity “Scholarly Writing Institute” Leader, USI (2009, 2010) Center for Academic Creativity “Back to Teaching Workshop” Leader, USI (2009) Assistant Director of Composition, USI (2008-2010) Sigma Tau Delta Faculty Advisor, USI (2008-2009)
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