Patrick Love
Abbreviated CV - Updated July 15, 2020
email: patlovephd [at] gmail [dot] com | twitter: [at] patlovephd | web: patlovephd [dot] com
office: 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764
EDUCATION
PhD, English - Purdue University, August 2019
Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition
Secondary Areas: Professional Writing; Digital Rhetoric and Game Studies; Writing Program Administration and WAC
Online Education, Circulation, and Information Economies of the Future
Director: Patricia Sullivan
Committee: Thomas Rickert, Samantha Blackmon, Peter Fadde
MA, English - Purdue University, August 2014
Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition
Playing on the Periphery: Metagaming and Transgressive Play
Director: Samantha Blackmon
BA, English Studies, Political Science (minor) - Western Michigan University, May 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Love, Patrick and Alisha Karabinus. (2020). Creation of an Alt-Left Boogeyman: Information Circulation and the Emergence of ‘Antifa.’ Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy. Eds John Jones and Michael Trice. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-36525-7 https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030365240
Love, Patrick. (2018). Rhetorically Defining 'Information' For Designers and Technical Communicators: Transport, Institutional Shift, and Usability. SIGDOC '18. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 7 print pages doi: 10.1145/3233756.3233945 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3233945
Love, Patrick. (2017). Two months with the other Switch launch title: 1-2-Switch, ubiquitous computing, and emergent augmented reality. First Person Scholar. September 27. http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/two-months-with-the-other-switch-launch-title/
Dykema, Meghan, Kim Ballard, Patrick Love, and Daniel Kenzie. (2011). Lessons in graphica. Classroom Notes Plus Vol 28 No 4 April
Multimedia
PurdueLibraries. (2018). Digital Education Resources at Purdue Libraries. January 11. (VO)
DSCWritingCenter. (2012). MLA Format Setup in LibreOffice 3.4. January 11 (Screencast)
DSCWritingCenter. (2011). APA Format Setup in Word 2010 UPDATED. September 1 (Screencast)
HONORS
Patricia Sullivan Dissertation Scholarship, April 2018
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) Research Fellowship, February 2018
ATTW Research Methods Workshop Scholarship. February 2018
Purdue Promise Travel Award, January and October 2016, January 2017
GradSEA Emerging Scholar Award, April 2016
Quintilian Award for Teaching Excellence, August 2015
Quintilian Award for Fostering Professional Development, January 2014, August 2015
Purdue Favorite Faculty Award, April 2015
Best Multimedia Instructor Project, ICaP Showcase, April 2014
Writing Lab-Professional Writing Program Crouse Award, March 2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Technical Writer, Center for Science of Information (CSoI) NSF STC, August 2017-Present
Technical writing and editing for an NSF-funded nation-wide STC, primarily preparing the annual report on all Center research and findings (from 11 partner institutions) contributing to Information Science innovation in Life Science, Communication, and Knowledge Transfer and Extraction. I also write blog posts, news updates, and informational blurbs on Center members’ research and projects for social media and serve as an on-call rhetorical consultant for Computer Science/Science of Information experts at the lead-institution (Purdue) office.
https://soihub.org/about/overview/
PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
“Campus Reopening: Guidelines, Challenges, and the Faculty Voice” with Joerg Tiede, Aaron Nisensos, and Kathleen Stanley. AAUP Summer Institute Online. July 2020
Pedagogy
“Economic Governance of Information: A Circulation Critique Information Economics.” Rhetoric Society of America (RSA). Portland, OR, May 2020 [Cancelled for COVID-19]
“Information Economics and Digital Circulation: The Rhetorical Fight for the Future.” Computers and Writing (C&W). Greenville, NC, May 2020 [Cancelled for COVID-19]
“Cultivating Conditions for Effective Online Writing Pedagogy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Milwaukee, WI, March 2020 [Cancelled for COVID-19]
Professional Writing
“Doctoral Student TakeBack: Students Present Themselves to The Field” with Jessie Borgman, Jennifer Courtney, Elise Green, Eric Anthony House, Rachel Lussos, Cat Mahaffey, Cecilia D. Shelton. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019
"Rhetorically Defining 'Information' For Designers and Technical Communicators: Transport, Institutional Shift, and Usability." Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), Milwaukee, WI, August 2018
“Education for Everyone: Online Instruction Beyond Access, Circulation, and Neoliberalization.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Kansas City, MO, March 2018
“Infrastructures of Play.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), Indianapolis, IN, March 2014
“How Hard Can This Be?: One Educator’s Journey to Create Accessible, Straightforward Digital Handouts.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Computer Connection, St. Louis, MO, March 2012
Media, Gaming, Technology
“The Alt-Left Boogeyman: Information Economics and the Emergence of ‘Antifa” with Alisha Karabinus. Computers and Writing (C&W), East Lansing, MI, June 2019
“Cultivating Pathways with Game Assignments: Reframing Failure Through Playful Composition” with Alisha Karabinus, Anthony Bushner, and Ashley Velasquez. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Portland, OR, March 2017
“Embodiment, Extended Cognition, and Computing in Emerging Technologies: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Future Paradigms of Computing and Design” Computers and Writing (C&W), St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, May 2016
“Teaching Composition One Block and a Time with Digital Game Design.” Computers and Writing (C&W), University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, WI, May 2015
Writing Center
“Visualizing The Labor or Writing Center Research Through RAD Research: Toward the Materiality of the Everyday Work of Teaching and Learning for Students, Staff, and Professionals” with Harry Denny, Beth Towle, and Mary McCall. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Houston, TX, April 2016
“Bean-Counting Revived and Revisited: Coding “Other” Responses from the WCRP Survey” with Harry Denny, Beth Towle, and Jeff Gerding. International Writing Center Association (IWCA) Collaborative, Houston, TX, April 2016
“Using Policy Statements in Writing Tutor Training” with Beth Towle. IWCA, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2015
"The Beat Goes On: Three Generations of Tutor Trainers Examine Writing Center Trust Strategies and Legacies" with Muriel Harris, Kim Ballard, and Meghan Dykema. European Writing Centers Association (EWCA), Paris, France, May 2010
TECHNOLOGY
Microsoft Office, Google Drive, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Adobe Acrobat, WordPress, Audacity, iMovie, Apple iWork, Piktoshart, Blackboard, Slack
TEACHING
Graduate Level
Technology Mentor, English 505, Introductory Composition at Purdue, 4 Sections
Instruct 20 graduate TAs in technology issues and pedagogy for 2 sections of the training course for new TAs of the Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) Program, planning, updating and delivering all mentoring workshops twice a week.
Specialty Topics
English 398 Digital Knowledge, Culture, and Research, Monmouth University, 1 Section
Instructor of Record for special topics class covering rhetorical circulation, ecological communication, information theory, affect theory, and empirical research methods for digital culture.
Professional and Technical Communication
English 271 Professional Writing, Monmouth University, 1 Section
Instructor of Record for introductory professional writing course stressing ethics, rhetoric, design, and professional applications of writing and humanities empiricism through common workplace and decision-making genres.
English 421 Technical Writing, Professional Writing @ Purdue, 1 Section
Instructor of Record using genre-centric projects to convey information usability and audience-centered writing as ways to make expert and public needs known to each other for social and political good, without watering information down.
English 420 Business Writing, Professional Writing @ Purdue, 6 Sections
Instructor of Record using genre-based project to convey business writing as decision-making and pursuit of ethics through documentation, research, and argumentation.
Online
English 101 College Composition I, Monmouth University, 1 Sections
Instructor of Record teaching part one of a two-course sequence of First-Year Composition (FYC) as a writing-intensive introduction to college level writing, emphasizing rhetoric, synthesis, and argument to promote critical thinking and task-analysis.
English 421Y Technical Writing Online, Professional Writing @ Purdue, 2 Sections
Instructor of Record for online technical communication class, modeling and teaching distributed writing and communication to bridge different knowledge levels and specialized information with students, emphasizing usability and audience-centered writing and research for social and political good.
English 420Y Business Writing Online, Professional Writing @ Purdue, 1 Section
Instructor of Record for online business writing class, modeling and teaching collaborative research and writing to identify and address gaps in local communities for mutual enrichment of public and professional organizations in distributed locations.
Composition
English 102 College Composition II, Monmouth University, 2 Sections
Instructor of Record teaching part two of a two-course sequence of First-Year Composition (FYC) as a writing-intensive introduction to college level writing, emphasizing rhetoric, research, and argument to promote critical thinking and task-analysis. [Spring 2020 sections transitioned online]
English 101 College Composition I, Monmouth University, 2 Sections
Instructor of Record teaching part one of a two-course sequence of First-Year Composition (FYC) as a writing-intensive introduction to college level writing, emphasizing rhetoric, synthesis, and argument to promote critical thinking and task-analysis.
English 106 First Year Composition (FYC), 5 Sections
Instructor of Record teaching FYC as introduction to rhetoric and evidence-based writing across multiple contexts and media through emphasis on regular analysis of situations and technology.
English 106 FYC for Computer Graphics and Technology, 2 Sections
Instructor of Record for FYC class adapted to Computer Graphics and Technology learning community students, including adapting projects and assignments to design-thinking and relationships between design and use. Projects included critical auto-ethnography and team video game design.
English 106 FYC for Explorer’s Learning Community, 1 Section
Instructor of Record for FYC class composed of first-year learning community for undecided majors. Added emphasis on WAC and writing and research as exploration and inquiry; promoted community coherence and atmosphere.
English 1000 Basic Writing, Western Michigan University, 2 Sections
Instructor of Record for pre-FYC class for students deemed “at-risk” by university placement. Emphasis on study habits and place-based writing pedagogy to build up student skills and sense of belonging in university. Developed, assigned, and graded all work and contributed to program assessment.
WRITING CENTER
Graduate Tutor, Purdue Writing Lab, August 2013-May 2015
Consultant for Purdue undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff, individually and in groups, providing tailored rhetorical advice on project planning, research, content development, publishing, and polishing in projects such as research papers and manuscripts, lab reports, theses and dissertations, portfolios, presentations, resumes and CVs.
Learning Specialist, Daytona State College-UCF Writing Center, September 2010-July 2012
Founding member of consulting team for Florida state school serving students of diverse background and interests, including non-traditional, first-generation, international, and migrant students, helping them with assignments and projects across school curriculum. Contributed to baseline policies and training practices for new consultants and staff. Wrote, produced, and starred in digital materials for center youtube page.
Writing Consultant, Western Michigan University Writing Center, January 2009-August 2010
Consultant for WMU undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff of Western Michiga on project planning, research, content development, publishing, and polishing in project such as lab reports, reading responses, resumes and CVs, article manuscripts, and annotated bibliographies.
ADMINISTRATION
Technology Mentor, Introductory Composition at Purdue, August 2017-Present
Maintained Tech Mentoring curriculum and materials through online presence, including migrating from Drupal to WordPress-based website after server failure in Fall of 2017. Reassembled and reorganized all content from old site on new site, including public-facing presentation and storage and update infrastructure. Attended mentor committee meetings and coordinated with mentors to forward learning outcomes for graduate TAs
https://mentor.rhetorike.org
ICaP Liaison, Purdue Writing Lab, August 2014-May 2016
Made and maintained links between Purdue Writing Lab and ICaP program, most notably through organization of professional development workshops (below) and outreach to ICaP TAs through Lab tours and mentoring conversations. Tracked and nominated candidates for pedagogy awards, served on Introductory Writing Committee for ICaP and served as part of ICaP Spring Showcase organizing committee. Participated in Peer Tutor performance reviews
Purdue Language and Cultural Exchange Writing Lab Coordinator, May 2015-August 2015
Originated this position for Purdue Writing Lab as a way to start outreach to PLaCE office on campus and create resources for instructors seeking advice teaching Non-Native Speakers of English in WAC settings
Assistant Director, Western Michigan University Writing Center, August 2009-August 2010
Helped training new consultants and making materials for in-class introductions to the Writing Center. Completed HSIRB training to help in research about Center resources
SERVICE
FAMCO Online Education Issues Subcommittee, Monmouth University, May 2020-July 2020
English Dept Sabbatical Review Committee, Monmouth University, September 2019-April 2020
“Climate Rhetoric and Persuasion” with Courtney Werner, September 2019
Roundtable presentation as part of September 20 Climate Crisis Teach-In
ICaP Mentor Committee, August 2017-Present
Contribute to mentoring decisions and policy for new ICaP mentees with WPA, Assistant WPA, and ICaP Mentors.
Syllabus Approach Leader, Digital Rhetorics Approach, August 2014-May 2017
Lead and mentored instructors in the Digital Rhetorics syllabus approach. Co-wrote 2015 Renewal Narrative and served on Pedagogical Initiatives Committee including crafting approach identity, collecting exemplary work, and running meetings.
ICaP Introductory Writing Committee (IWC), August 2013-May 2017
Contributed to ICaP policy and planning as member of IWC Committee for 4 years in multiple roles, always representing the needs of graduate students and Teaching Assistants.
Pedagogical Initiatives Committee (PIC) Rep to IWC, August 2016-May 2017
Represented PIC concerns and viewpoints in IWC policy and planning discussions.
Pedagogical Initiatives Committee (PIC), August 2014-May 2017
Discussed pedagogical issues and debated ICaP policy as part of a committee made of representatives from every ICaP Syllabus Approach.
CWPA ICaP Evaluation Committee, September 2017-January 2017
Wrote evaluation questions and helped make arrangements for an outside evaluation team from CWPA doing a professional assessment of ICaP, its effectiveness, and future initiatives it should pursue
ICaP Showcase Committee, October 2015-April 2016
Collaborated with the ICaP Graduate Assistant Director to plan and produce ICaP showcase, including rebranding Showcase as an undergraduate research symposium, offering professional development to undergraduates through making writing projects into presentations
Purdue Writing Lab Coordinator Committee, August 2014-May 2016
Discussed and debated internal Writing Lab policy and pedagogy matters with other Writing Lab coordinators and administrators
ICaP Outcomes Revision Committee, February 2015-March 2015
Co-revised ICaP program outcomes to reflect changes to the 3rd edition of Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) national outcomes statement and Purdue IMPACT assessment recommendations
Writing Lab Hiring Committee, December 2014-March 2015
Reviewed and ranked applicants to Purdue Writing Lab through discussion in internal Writing Lab hiring committee
MENTORING
GTA Mentor, Monmouth University FYC, January 2020-May 2020
Mentored one Masters-level graduate student serving as TA for one English 102 section Spring 2020 in providing formative feedback, leading class discussions, helping students in in-class writing workshops, and converting classes to online delivery in a pandemic.
Technology Mentor, Introductory Composition at Purdue, August 2017-Present
Mentored graduate TAs for ICaP program in technology issues and pedagogy both in and outside class; consult with continuing TAs on technology issues and support for new projects
ESL Conversation Group Leader, Purdue Writing Lab, September 2014-August 2015
Lead conversation for Non-Native Speakers of English (NNSE) on rotating topics, introducing and explaining idioms proactively and reactively as questions arise
Upward Bound Group Leader, Kalamazoo, MI, June 2010-July 2010
Mentored, chaperoned, and monitored progress of 15 high school sophomores from urban, rural, or first-generation college student homes during summer college prep camp on WMU campus
Mattawan HS Writing Center Mentor, Mattawan, MI, September 2009-December 2009
Mentored founding consultants of Mattawan High School writing center as they learned how consult on writing and get their center off the ground
Workshops
“Variables in Effective Online Learning,” Monmouth University FYC, April 2020
“Online and Hybrid Pedagogies,” Monmouth University FYC, December 2019
Technology Mentoring, Introductory Composition at Purdue
As Technology Mentor, I update and develop all workshops and deliver two a week, with a partner. In my 2 years as Technology Mentor, I’ve worked on and iterated workshops with such diverse topics as: Electronic Teaching Portfolios, Procedural Text (Games) and Technologies in Composition Pedagogy, audio and video production for FYC, teaching Research in modern information ecologies, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, making infographics and research posters, Developing Accessible Teaching Materials, basics of teaching online, word processing and document design, and archiving courses and making sense of student evaluations. The full list of Technology Mentoring workshops is available at: https://mentor.rhetorike.org/workshops/
Training/Hiring
“Professional Websites,” September 2017
“Principles of Professional Writing,” PW @ Purdue Application Workshop, February 2016
“Orientation for New Teaching Assistants,” Purdue Writing Lab, August 2014, August 2015
“The Purdue Writing Lab: Tutoring, Pedagogy, and Expectations,” February 2015
“What Are the Differences Between Tutoring and Teaching?” Purdue Writing Lab, January 2014
Instructional
“Remediation and Transformation: Composing with Technology,” ICaP, November 2016
“American Academic Writing,” Purdue Writing Lab, July 2015
“Improving Your Grammar,” Purdue Writing Lab, June 2014, June 2015
“Professional E-mail Practices,” Purdue Writing Lab, June 2014
“Designing Academic Posters” Purdue Writing Lab, March 2014
“Your Writing Inventory” with Jon Bush. Western Prep, August 2009
Pedagogy Brown Bag Workshops
As ICaP Liaison, I co-led, co-developed, as well as recruited for and promoted, a series of Brown Bag workshops on composition pedagogy and classroom issues for two academic years, 2014-2016. The topics varied from evergreen classroom management and activity topics to specifics such as: “Students’ Rights to Their Own Language,” “Multilingual Writers and Writing,” “Gender Studies in English 106,” “Game Design in Composition,” “Remediation and Revision,” and “Video Production”
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)
International Writing Centers Association (IWCA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
ASSISTANTSHIPS
Graduate Research Assistant, CSoI, Computer Science, August 2017-Present
Graduate Research Assistant, ICaP, August 2017-Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Professional Writing @ Purdue, August 2015-August 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistant, ICaP, August 2012-December 2016
Graduate Tutor, Purdue Writing Lab, August 2013-May 2015
COURSEWORK HIGHLIGHTS
Viral Methodology (IS) - Patricia Sullivan, Spring 2017
Cultural Studies and Comparative Rhetoric - Thomas Rickert, Fall 2016
Seminar in Writing Program Administration - Bradley Dilger, Spring 2016
Writing Center Theory and Administration - Harry Denny, Spring 2016
Computers in Language and Rhetoric - Samantha Blackmon, Fall 2015
Posthumanism - Thomas Rickert, Fall 2015
Minority Rhetoric - Samantha Blackmon, Spring 2015
WAC and Learning Transfer - Bradley Dilger, Spring 2015
Professional Writing Theory - Patricia Sullivan, Fall 2014
Rhetoric, Games, and Play - Samantha Blackmon, Spring 2014
Digital Studio - Nathan Johnson, Fall 2013