Mara Holt
Associate Professor
Office: Ellis 318
Office Phone: 593-2797
Email: holt@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., English, University of Texas, Austin.
M.A., English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
B.S., Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Publications
“Electronic Versions of Collaborative Learning: A Brief Survey” (with Albert Rouzie). Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. 199-204.
“Collaboration and Conflict in a Faculty Mentoring Relationship” (with Albert Rouzie). Dialogue. 8.2 (Spring, 2003). 75-95.
“Making Emotion Work Visible in Writing Program Administration” (with Leon Anderson and Albert Rouzie). A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies.. Eds. Dale Jacobs and Laura Micciche. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2003. 147-60.
“On Coming to Voice.” Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories. Ed. Diana George. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999. 26-43.
Holt, Mara, and Leon Anderson. “The Way We Work Now.” Profession 98. 131-42.
Holt, Mara. “Dewey and the ‘Cult of Efficiency’: Competing Ideologies in Collaborative Pedagogies of the 1920s.” JAC 14 (1994): 73-92.
Holt, Mara. “Knowledge, Social Relations, and Authority in Collaborative Practices of the 1930s and the 1950s.” CCC 44 (1993): 538-55.
Holt, Mara. “The Value of Written Peer Criticism.” CCC 43 (1992): 384-92. Rpt. in Teaching With The Bedford Guide for College Writers, Eds. T.R. Johnson and, Shirley Morahan. Boston: St. Martin’s, 1999. 158-166.
Trimbur, John, and Mara Holt. “Richard Rorty: Philosophy Without Foundations.” The Philosophy of Discourse, Vol. 1. Eds. George H. Jenson and Chip Sills. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton-Cook, 1992. 70-94.
Holt, Mara, and John Trimbur. “Subjectivity and Sociality: An Exchange.” PRE/TEXT 11: 1&2 (1990): 47-56.
Curriculum Vitae
Reviewer
Writing Program Administration, Editorial Board, 2002 to present.
College Composition and Communication, 1993 to present.
College English, 1999.
Journal of Teaching Writing, Editorial Board, 1990-94.
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Proposal Reviewer, 1993, 1995.
Committees, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Exemplar Award Committee, 1999-2001.
Executive Committee (elected), 1998-2000.
Nominating Committee (elected), 1996.
James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, Chair. 1997-98. Member, 1996-97.
Workshops
Participant, Computers in Writing-Intensive Courses Summer Institute. Michigan Tech University, June, 2000.
Participant, Council of Writing Program Administrators Workshop for New WPAs, Bellingham, Washington, July, 1995.
Courses
Graduate:
Teaching College English I and II
Major Rhetorical Theories
Rhetoric and Postmodernism
Collaborative Rhetorics
Writing Program Administration
Women's Rhetorics
Undergraduate:
Writing and Rhetoric I and II
Women and Writing
Women's Rhetorics
Critical Approaches to Fiction
American Pragmatism and Rhetorics of Community