Craig A. Meyer
Ph.D Candidate
English Department Graduate Student Senate Representative
Rhetoric and Composition
Office: Ellis 303
Office Phone: (740) 593-2771
Email: cm283608@ohio.edu
Degrees
MA Writing, Rhetoric and Composition: Missouri State University
MA English, Creative Nonfiction: Missouri State University
BS Physical Education, Fitness/Wellness: Grand Valley State University
AA, Grand Rapids Community College
Publications
Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri. Forthcoming 2009. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press. Forthcoming 2010
Contributions: Main Editor, Index
“Composition History and Theory: Timeline” on Ohio University’s English Department Website, CIFER. Co-authored with Rebecca Butorac, Russell Crooks, Mara Holt, Melanie Lee, Lydia McDermott, Heather McFall, Julie Nelson, Lana Oweidat, Brett Pransky, Christopher A. Sims, Todd Snyder, and Wendy VanDellon. March 2009. Web.
Review of Iroquoia: The Development of a Native World. Anthropology Review Database. 18 November 2008. Web. http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2905.
Review of A Postmodern Scrapbook: Jim W. Corder (on) Living (and) Dying (in) West Texas. Editors James S. Baumlin and Eric Knickerbocker. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2008. Appears in U of Arkansas Press’s Spring 2009 Catalog
“Finding My Team” in Composing Ourselves: Writing from the Composition Program at Missouri State University. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2007.
“Always the Best for the Gillioz Guest” (co-authored with April Barbe, James S. Baumlin, Valerie Hunt, Paul W. Johns, Janice Lee, Michael Peters, Melissa Steele, Adam Thompson, and Adam Veile) in The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”: Remembering Springfield’s Theatre History, 1926-2006. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2006.
“The ‘Theatre Beautiful’ Restored” (co-authored with Gary Ellison, Emily England, Linden Mueller, and Stephanie Ruhe) in The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”: Remembering Springfield’s Theatre History, 1926-2006. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2006.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
Doctoral Assistantship, Ohio University (2009-2011)
MLA International Bibliography Fellowship (2009-2012)
Doctoral Fellowship, Ohio University (2008-2009)
2007-2008 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award – Missouri State University
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Missouri State University (2006-2008)
Editorial and Publishing Experience
Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture. Edited by Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, and Tita French Baumlin. Albany: State U of New York P, 2009.
Contribution: Index
Associate Editor. Moon City Press, Springfield, Missouri. (2009 - Present)
Some of the Words are Theirs: A Memoir. Jensen, George H. Jr. Forthcoming 2010. Contribution: Editor.
Reviewer of Eileen Pollack’s Creative Nonfiction for Cengage Learning (Spring 2008)
Reviewer - Second Review of Eileen Pollack’s Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2008)
Managing Editor. Moon City Press, Springfield, Missouri (2007 – 2009)
Assistant Editor. Moon City Press, Springfield, Missouri (2006-2007)
Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri. Forthcoming 2010. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press. Contribution: Main Editor.
Composing Ourselves: Writing from the Composition Program at Missouri State University. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2007.
Contributions:
Writing I Editor.
Design Consultant
Cover Design (with Megan M. Keadle)
The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”: Remembering Springfield’s Theatre History, 1926-2006. Preface by Roy Blunt, Missouri Congressman 7th District. Springfield, MO: Moon City Press, 2006.
Contributions:
Editorial and Research Assistant.
Index
Works Cited
Figure and Photo Credits
Photographs (6)
Presentations
“Ernest Shackleton’s Leadership Skills.” Student Research and Creative Activity Expo 2009 at Ohio University in Athens, OH (May 2009).
“Snapshot and Snap Judgment: Pulitzer Winning Pictures with(out) (Con)text “ at Ohio State University’s Expanding Literacy Studies Conference (April 2009)
“Designing “New” Assignments: Utilizing the Internet in the Composition Classroom” at College English Association’s (CEA) 70th Anniversary Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (March 2009)
“Failures Can Still Succeed: Ernest Shackleton’s Leadership Qualities” at Grand Valley State University’s Leadership Summit (February 2009)
“Undergraduates and Graduate Students, Professor, and Community: Writing and Exploring Local History Together” at North Carolina State University’s Symposium on Teaching Writing (October 2008)
“Does That Mean I’m a “Feminist”?: Questioning the Application and Acceptance of the Term Feminism” at the University of North Carolina’s (Greensboro) Third Annual Graduate Conference: Writing into the Profession: Enacting and Exploring Roles of the English Scholar (September 2008)
“You Never Listen to Me Anymore: Cell Phone’s and Texting’s Influence on the Classroom” at the 15th Annual Inter-disciplinary Forum. Missouri State University (April 2008)
Chair: Helping Teachers Respond to Student Writing at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 2008)
Moderator: Transitioning to Understanding: Issues in Teaching Literature at the College English Association’s (CEA) 39th Annual Conference: Passages in St. Louis, Missouri (March 2008)
“You Never Listen to Me Anymore: Cell Phones and Texting’s Influence on the Classroom” at the College English Association’s (CEA) 39th Annual Conference: Passages in St. Louis, Missouri (March 2008).
“The Public Affairs Mission at Missouri State University: The Struggle to Turn Legislative Mandate into Effective Civic Engagement” with W.D. Blackmon, Marc Cooper, Adele Newston-Horst, and Anita Roberts at Imagining America in Syracuse, New York (September 2007).
“Audience: Making the Connection” at the 14th Annual Inter-Disciplinary Forum, Missouri State University (April 2007).
“Public, Private, and Digital Self: An Examination of Professional Identity” with Matthew Barton, Lanette Cadle, David J. Gross, and Elizabeth Monske at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in New York City (March 2007).
“Bumblebees and Beetles: Finding My Team” at Composing Ourselves: A Writing Conference, Missouri State University (March 2007).
“Audience: Connecting Author to Reader and Back” at Composing Ourselves: A Writing Conference, Missouri State University (March 2007).
“The Gillioz ‘Theatre Beautiful’” co-presented with James S. Baumlin, Annie England, and Paul W. Johns at the Presentation and Book Unveiling. The Library Center, Springfield, Missouri, (September 2006).
Memberships
RSA, Rhetoric Society of America
MLA, Modern Language Association
NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English
CCCC, Conference on College Composition and Communication
CEA, College English Association
CEL, Conference on English Leadership
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Courses
ENG 151