Leslie Robertson Mateer

Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University
156 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16801
Lrm155@psu.edu
814/571-2614
Summary of Qualifications
Longtime demonstrated excellence in college-level teaching in
composition and rhetoric
Adept at integrating technology into the classroom to increase student
learning
Innovative, rigorous and creative interpersonal teaching skills
Demonstrated excellence in teaching a variety of composition genres
and discourses

Professional Experience
English Department Lecturer FT1- 2010-present; FT2 - 2001-2010
Penn State University, University Park, PA

Courses taught:
Technical Writing: English 202C
Business Writing: English 202D
Honors Rhetoric and Civic Life: LA 101H
English Composition and Rhetoric: English 15
Advanced Writing in the Humanities: English 202B
Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences: English 202A
Structured Writing Tutorial: English 5

Online courses taught:
World Campus Technical Writing: English 202C
World Campus Composition and Rhetoric: English 15
English Department Technical Writing: English 202C


Professional Development:
Completed Online Teaching Certification, 2011
Completed Digital Pedagogy: English 602, 2011
Completed Supervised Experience in Teaching for Advanced Writing in
the Social Sciences, 2010
Completed Supervised Experience in Teaching for Advanced Writing in
the Humanities
Received Departmental Professional Development Certificate, 2009
Completed Supervised Experience in Teaching for Technical Writing, 2008
Completed Supervised Experience in Teaching for Business Writing, 2004
Completed Supervised Experience in Teaching for Composition and
Rhetoric, 2002

Accomplishments:
Engage students with multimedia-designed assignments and
presentations
Maintain optimum learning outcomes by incorporating a variety of
rigorous and creative teaching methods
Arrange special skills guest lecturers, including Media Commons, learning
technology specialists and research specialists
Create and manage classes with digital teaching aids, including websites,
online tutorials, and blogs
Conduct one-on-one tutorials and conferences to strengthen student
writing individually, both in person and online.

Excellence in Communication Advisor/Evaluator 2011-present
College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Advise and judge student submissions for the College of Liberal Arts Excellence in
Communication Certificate, a requirement for the Paterno Fellows Program

English Department Graduate Assistant 1999-2001
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
Conducted personal tutorials with undergraduate students in the Writing Center
Strengthened and developed pedagogical strategies and teaching
philosophies in order to help students improve their own writing practices

Page Editor/Designer
Allied Newspapers, Inc., Grove City, PA 1993-1996
Edited copy, created headlines, designed page layout, wrote monthly column.

Professional Activities/Publications
Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology March 2010
Penn State University, University Park, PA
Presenter: Business Writing Remix (co-author: Jeannette Novakovitch)

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Society April 2008
Grove City College, Grove City, PA
Presenter: Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings (co-author: Dr. Anita Gorman)
Published: Mythlore, 2009

Nancy Drew and Girl Sleuths: Past, Present and Future February 2007
Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
Presenter: Measuring Up to the Task: Cherry Ames as Nurse and Sleuth (co-author: Dr.
Anita Gorman)
Published: Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths: Essays on the Fiction of Girl Detectives,
2008

Academic Symposium April 2001
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
Presenter: The Medium is the Message: Busmans Honeymoon as Play, Novel and Film:
(co-author: Dr. Anita Gorman)
Published: CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 2005


Education
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 2001
M.A. English Language and Literature
Awards: English Department Graduate Student of the Year, 2001

Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA 1987
Graduate-Level Secondary English Teacher Certification

Bryan College, Dayton, TN 1984
B.A. English