NELS P.

HIGHBERG

EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2003 Dissertation: "Needing a Second Opinion: Theories and Practices of Autobiography, Narratives of Disease, and Composition Pedagogy" Preliminary Examination Areas: Composition Theory; Autobiographies and Memoirs of Illness and Disability; Film Theory; Visual Rhetoric M.A. in Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1998 Thesis: "The Subject of AIDS and the AIDS Subject: Author(iz)ing the Gay Male AIDS Celebrity" General Subject Track: Science and Technology Studies M.A. in Women's Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1995 Examination Areas: Feminist Theory; Popular Culture B.A. in English, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 1993

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, July 2009-Present Chair, Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, July 2010-11 Director, First-Year Rhetoric and Writing Program, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, January 2007-June 2010 Director, Gender Studies Program, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, July 2008-June 2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, August 2003-June 2009 Coordinator, Emerging Technologies Pilot Program, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, July 2008-June 2009 Acting Director, First-Year Rhetoric and Writing Program, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, January 2005-May 2005 Senior Lecturer, Writing Workshop, Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, September 2002-July 2003

AWARDS AND HONORS Outstanding Achievement in Pedagogy Award, Faculty Senate, University of Hartford, 2008 Vera Carter Cooley Award for Teaching of First-Year Composition, First-Year Writing Program, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2002 Eric Walborn Award for Excellence in Computer-Supported Teaching and Learning in English Studies, Computers in Composition and Literature Program, Department of English, Ohio State University, 2001 Finalist, Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Humanities Division, Council of Graduate Students, Ohio State University, 1998

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Honorable Mention, Common Differences Award for Essay on the Lives of Women of Color, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University, 1996

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Semester Scholar-in-Residence, Faculty Resource Network, New York University, 2011 Summer Stipend ($2500), Faculty Senate, University of Hartford, 2007 Greenberg Award for Junior Faculty ($8500), Provost's Office, University of Hartford, 200607 Summer Scholar-in-Residence, Faculty Resource Network, New York University, 2006 Early Career Scholar Travel Award ($125), American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, 2005 Early English Composition Assessment Program ($29,446), Ohio Board of Regents, 2002 (with Mindy Wright) Early English Composition Assessment Program ($44,015), Ohio Board of Regents, 2001 (with Mindy Wright) Mini-Seed Grant ($1,500), University Outreach and Engagement, Ohio State University, 2001 (with Todd English)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Theories and Rhetorics of Gender and Sexuality Autobiography and Creative Nonfiction Film, New Media, and Visual Rhetorics Medical Humanities and Trauma Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Hartford All-University Curriculum--Scientific Contexts 150: Technology as a Human Affair All-University Curriculum--Social Contexts 150: Gender, Identity, and Society English/Gender Studies 370: Gay and Lesbian Literature First-Year Seminar 100: The Graphic Memoir (special topic) Gender Studies 100: Introduction to Gender Studies (traditional and online) Honors 182: Rhetoric and Writing I Honors 183: Rhetoric and Writing II Honors 383W: When Viruses Attack: Infectious Narratives (special topic) Honors 389/390: Humanities Center Seminar on Pain (special topic) Rhetoric and Professional Writing 110: Rhetoric and Writing I Rhetoric and Professional Writing 111: Rhetoric and Writing II Rhetoric and Professional Writing 210: Foundations of Argument (traditional and online) Rhetoric and Professional Writing 211W: Introduction to Business Communication (online) Rhetoric and Professional Writing 212: Persuading and Convincing Rhetoric and Professional Writing 215W: Introduction to Professional Writing Rhetoric and Professional Writing 245W: Critical Literacy Rhetoric and Professional Writing/Gender Studies 251W: Rhetorics of Gender Activism

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Rhetoric and Professional Writing 290W: Writing Across the Curriculum (special topic) Rhetoric and Professional Writing 312W: Reports, Proposals and Grants Rhetoric and Professional Writing 320W: Medical Writing (special topic) Rhetoric and Professional Writing/Gender Studies 340W: Writing in Gender-Based Activist Org Rhetoric and Professional Writing 370W: Foundations of Rhetoric Rhetoric and Professional Writing 375: Professional Editing (traditional and online) Rhetoric and Professional Writing 472: Capstone Course--Portfolio Presentation Ohio State University Comparative Studies 367.01: American Identity in the World Comparative Studies 367.02: Science and Technology in American Culture Comparative Studies 597.01: Values, Science, and Technology in a Global Perspective English 109.01: Intensive Reading and Writing I English 109.02: Intensive Reading and Writing II English 110: First-Year Composition English 110C: First-Year Composition in the Computer Classroom English 110W: Intensive First-Year Composition English 263: Introduction to Film English 580: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Autobiography and Memoir (special topic) English 580: Rhetorics of Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Activism in the United States (special topic) Women's Studies 201: Introduction to Women's Studies in the Humanities Women's Studies 367.01: US Women Writers Office of Minority Affairs Bridge Program Office of Minority Affairs Young Scholars Program University of Illinois at Chicago English 160: Composition I English 161: Composition II English 201: Introduction to the Writing of Nonfiction Prose

INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECTS SUPERVISED University of Hartford "Rhetorics of Argumentation in Third-World Women's Memoirs" (one student) "Future Directions of English Studies" (two students) "Social Science Disciplines in the Writing Center" (one student) "Native American Rhetorics" (one student) "Writing for the Health Professions" (two students) "Advanced Grant and Proposal Writing" (four students) "Writing for the Web and Usability Testing" (two students) "Advanced Technical Reports" (one student) "Advanced Grammar and Editing" (two students) "Rhetoric of Representations of Female Jazz Musicians" (one student) "Rhetorics of Representations of Nursing Homes" (one student) "Advanced Theories of Gender and Sexuality" (one student) "Advanced Theories of Rhetoric" (one student) "The Rhetorics of Masculinity" (one student)

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THESIS COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION Evan L. Kropp, "Grilling with Gas and Baking with Class: An Analysis of Gender Representations on Food Television," MA in Communication, University of Hartford, 2011 Lauren K. Hansen, "White, American Masculinity and Pain in Memoir" (Director), BA in Rhetoric and Professional Writing (honors), University of Hartford, 2011 Monica L. DesNoyers "All Hot and Bothered: The Effects of Sexual Arousal and Personality on Sexual Risk Taking Behavior, " MS in Psychology, University of Hartford, 2011 Shannon M. Hughes, "Reality and Teen TV: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo? An Analysis of Consumerism and Gender in MTVs The Hills," MA in Communication, University of Hartford, 2010 Amanda Pawlik, "An Analysis and Production of How I Learned to Drive," BA in English (honors), University of Hartford, 2007 Lori B. Bindig, "Navigating the Creek: Charting Patterns of Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Dawson's Creek," MA in Communication, University of Hartford, 2005

GUEST LECTURES University of Hartford "Censorship and the Arts: What Happened in 1990?" for All-University Curriculum--Western Culture 212: Discovering America, 1945-Present (Fall 2007-Spring 2011) "1990: Gender and Sexuality in Art" for All-University Curriculum--Social Contexts 150: Gender, Identity, and Society (Fall 2010) "Why Are There So Many Jokes about Rape?" for All-University Curriculum--Social Contexts 150: Gender, Identity, and Society (Fall 2009) "Activist Rhetorics: Abortion, Rape, Pornography, and Marriage" for Gender Studies 100: Introduction to Gender Studies (Spring 2008) "The History of AIDS in American Theatre" for English 368/Drama 362: The Development of Theatre (Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007) "Transgender Theories" and "Effective Writing about Gender" for Gender Studies 100: Introduction to Gender Studies (Fall 2006) "Better Off and Living Off the Grid" and "Super Size Me and the Technology of Fast Food Production" for All-University Curriculum--Scientific Contexts 150: Technology as a Human Affair (WinterTerm 2006) "Patient Zero: Myth and Reality" for All-University Curriculum--Scientific Contexts 140: Epidemics and AIDS (Fall 2005) "I am My Own Wife and Reality Theatre" for English 349/Drama 349: Modern Drama, 1920-Present (Spring 2005)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Contributing Writer, ProfHacker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, DC, September 2009-December 2011 <http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/nhighberg>

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Associate Editor, Lambda Literary, Lambda Literary Foundation, New York, NY, February 2011December 2011 <http://www.lambdaliterary.org/author/nels/> Contributing Writer, Lambda Literary, Lambda Literary Foundation, New York, NY, April 2010February 2011 <http://www.lambdaliterary.org/author/nels/> Staff Editor, LORE: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing, Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston, MA, July 2000 to July 2005 <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore/> Production Editor, Literature and Medicine, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, January 2000 to August 2000 Editorial Assistant, Literature and Medicine, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, August 1999 to January 2000 Editorial Assistant, SPOT, Houston, TX, April 1993 to September 1993

PUBLICATIONS Edited Collections Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom, co-edited with Beverly J. Moss and Melissa Nicolas, for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2004 (reviewed in the Writing Center Journal 25.1 [2005] and Composition Studies 33.2 [Fall 2005]) Landmark Essays on Basic Writing, co-edited with Kay Halasek, for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2001 (reviewed in the Basic Writing E-Journal 4.1 [Spring 2002]) James Purdy: A Bibliography for Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, OH, 1999 Journal Articles and Book Chapters "'Beware! This is a Man!'" for Feminist Teacher (20:2 [2010]: 157-70) "The (Missing) Faces of African-American Girls with AIDS" for Feminist Formations (22:1 [2010]: 1-20) "When Heroes Fall: I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth" for Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson (Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, England, 2009: 167-78) "'Because We Were Just Too Scared': Rhetorical Constructions of Patient Zero" for Medical Humanities Review (18:1-2 [2004]: 926) Reference Entries "Memoirs" for Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 2006: 305) "Pleasure" for Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies (Chicago, IL: Fitzroy/Dearborn, 2000: 4545) "Comediennes," "Literature: Drama," "Performance Art," and "Self-Esteem" for Reader's Guide to Women's Studies (Chicago, IL: Fitzroy/Dearborn, 1999: 1389, 3578, and 5279) "William M. Hoffman," "William Douglas Home," and "Ruthann Robson" for Gay and Lesbian Literature, Volume 2 (Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998: 17982, 1823, and 3089) Book Reviews (selected) Rev. of A Scarecrow's Bible by Martin Hyatt for Lambda Book Report: A Review of Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Literature (Summer 2006: 22). Rev. of Body, Remember: A Memoir by Kenny Fries for Gay People's Chronicle (3 April 1998: 15) Rev. of The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White for Gay People's Chronicle (7 November 1997: 17) Rev. of Arkansas: Three Novellas by David Leavitt for Gay People's Chronicle (18 April 1997: 21)

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Rev. of A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self by Frank Browning for Gay People's Chronicle (5 July 1996: 25) Rev. of Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai for Gay People's Chronicle (5 April 1996: 25) Rev. of No More Masks!: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets edited by Florence Howe for the National Women's Studies Association Journal (Fall 1994: 3446) Rev. of From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS by Independent Curators, Inc. and Tongues of Flame by David Wojnarowicz for Spot (Spring 1993: 19) Rev. of Gender Politics and MTV by Lisa A. Lewis for Spot (Fall 1992: 16) Film/Performance/Art Reviews (selected) Rev. of Patient A at Reality Theatre, Columbus, OH for Gay People's Chronicle (19 April 1996: 23) Rev. of SPACE/RACE (Co-authored with Tria Wood) at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX for Spot (Spring 1998: 189) Rev. of Representations of Women and Aging at the Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX, and Nina at the Goethe Institute, Houston, TX for Spot (Fall 1994: 8) Rev. of Beyond Desire: Gay/Lesbian Film and Performance Series at DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX for Spot (Fall 1993: 123) Rev. of Art of Music Video: Ten Years After at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX for Spot (Fall 1992: 16) Creative Nonfiction and Poetry "The Four Points of the Compass" and "Three A.M., February 24, 1991" for Queer Poetry: Volume 5. (March 2005): <http://homepages.uc.edu/~alexanj/QP5Highberg.htm> "What I Wanted, What I Needed" for Men Seeking Men: Adventures in Gay Personals, ed. Michael Lassell (New York: Painted Leaf Press, 1998: 726) "Remembrances of Things Past" for Generation Q: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing Up in the Age of Information, ed. Robin Bernstein and Seth Silberman (Boston: Alyson Publications, 1996: 11620) "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" and "8 February 1993, 12:13 PM" for A Loving Testimony: Remembering Loved Ones Lost to AIDS, ed. Lesla Newman (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1995: 1324): rpt. in Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community, ed. Jacqueline Royster (New York: Longman, 2002: 4646)

INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS "1990: National Attacks on Representations of Gender and Sexuality" for the Rainbow Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 2010 "Searching for David Wojnarowicz: Queerness, Pedagogy, and Autobiographical Writing" for the Rainbow Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2005 "To Blog or Not to Blog: That is the Question" for the Faculty Center for Learning and Development, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, March 2005 "Beware! This is a Man!" and "The Intersection of Feminism with the Study of the Gay Male AIDS Celebrity" for the Women's Studies Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 1998

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INVITED PANEL PARTICIPATION "Gender and Society: Issues Raised by My Life as a Doll" for DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, December 2011 "SiCKO Silenced: The Perils of Censorship in the 21st Century" for the Eilhu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, March 2011 "Creative Uses of Technology in the Classroom" for the Faculty Senate, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, October 2010

PRESENTATIONS (Selected) "When Pornography and Documentary Film Collide in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Pornography" for Feminisms and Rhetorics, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN, October 2011 "When Students (Or Professors) Cry in Class" for the State University of New York Council on Writing, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, March 2010 "Truth and Women's Memoirs" for Women and Society, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 2009 "The Day I Brought Porn to Class" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 2009 "When Students Read the Professor's Blog" for Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, October 2008 "What's Queer Got to Do with It?" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, CA, April 2008 "A Reexamination of Patient O, Patient Zero, and Gaetan Dugas: The Man Who Brought AIDS to North America" for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, CD, October 2007 "One Afternoon, James Frey Showed Up in My Composition Classroom . . . " for the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY, October 2006 "How James Frey Broke My Heart into A Million Little Pieces" for The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, October 2006 "'Mary Had a Little Lamb, But I Have HIV': AIDS and African-American Children" for the Association for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington DC, October 2005 "Consensual Sex Behind Closed Doors: Incorporating Law into the Composition Classroom" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 2005 "The Case of Kaycee: 'Truth' in the Construction of Ethos" for the Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, TX, May 2004 "From Lance Loud to Reichen and Chip: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Gay Male Reality TV Star" for the Eastern Communications Association, Boston, MA, April 2004 "'Terror, Violence, and Spray of Semen': The Pedagogical Uses of Black Lesbian Feminist Rhetoric" for the New England Women's Studies Association, Storrs, CT, April 2004. "'And Their Parents Went to College!': Web-Based Discussion Sites and Cross-Cultural Interaction" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, March 2004 "Mind vs. Brain: Masculinist Discourses in Girl, Interrupted" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, March 2003 "Outlaws and Angels: Gay Men in/and/for Feminism" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, March 2003 "Subtext, Context, Text: The Rhetorics of the Feminist AIDS Documentary" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, March 2001

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"'I Really Do Think He Needs Hugs': Greg Louganis, David Wojnarowicz, and Autobiographies about AIDS" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN, April 2000 "There's a Cyborg in the Writing Center!: Technology, Writing, and the Blurring of Boundaries with/in the Writing Center" for the National Writing Centers Association Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 1999 "Doctors Writing AIDS Memoirs: Bringing Social, Medical, and Political Rhetorics into Conversation" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1999. "Going Pro: Professionalizing the Tutor" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1999 "Email and the Tutor: The Development of an Online Writing Center" for the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Youngstown, OH, May 1998 "Evaluation in the Writing Center" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 1998 "A Place of One's Own: Re-Imagining the Connection between Writing Centers and Metaphors of Location" for the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1997 "Aunt Ida, Pedro Zamora, and the Power of Touch: The Place of AIDS in the Composition Classroom" for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ, March 1997 "Bodies out of Context: The AIDS Body, The Gay Male Body, The Situation Comedy" for the Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 1995, and the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1994 "'A World Rid of Color Lines': Race and Gender in the Music Videos of Janet Jackson" for the National Graduate Student Women's Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, April 1994

WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (Competitive Application Process) "The Anatomy of Evil" for the Faculty Resource Network, New York University, New York, NY, June 2011 "Visual Rhetoric" for the Rhetoric Society of America, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, June 2009 "Art, Public Policy, and Politics" for the Faculty Resource Network, New York University, New York, NY, June 2009 "Writing from Experience" for the Faculty Resource Network, New York University, San Juan, PR, January 2009 "Teaching Visual Storytelling" for the Faculty Resource Network, New York University, New York, NY, June 2008 "Nonfiction Writing" for Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, June 2007 "Medical Rhetoric" for the Rhetoric Society of America, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, June 2007 "Writing from Medical Experience" for Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, June 2005

ACADEMIC SERVICE University Level Member, Bachelor of University Studies Committee, U of Hartford, 2008-Present

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Member, Greenberg Junior Faculty Grants Review Committee, U of Hartford, 2011 Member, Educational Technology Steering Committee, U of Hartford, 2009-2010 Member, Premedical Professional Advisory Committee, U of Hartford, 2008-2009 Graduate Representative, Council on Academic Affairs, OSU, 199596 Graduate Representative, AIDS Education Committee, OSU, 199495 College Level Member, Dean's Advisory Committee on Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, U of Hartford, 2003Present Member, Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, U of Hartford, 2003 07 Member, General Education Implementation Steering Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, U of Hartford, 200506 Member, General Education Development Sub-Committees, College of Arts and Sciences, U of Hartford, 200405 Organizational Level Co-Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication Feminist Workshop, 2004 Member, Kairos/Lore Computers and Writing Awards Selection Committee, 2002 Member, Multiculturalism/Diversity Committee, Council of Graduate Students, OSU 199495 Chair, Student Caucus, National Women's Studies Association, 199394

COMMUNITY SERVICE Facilitator, Book Discussions, Avon Public Library, Avon, CT, 2008-11 Facilitator, Book Discussions, Farmington Public Library, Farmington, CT, 2007-11 Facilitator, Book Discussion, Bristol Public Library, Bristol, CT, 2008 Member, Advisory Board, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, Hartford, CT, 2005