Joseph Harris  Department of English | Duke University

311 Allen Building | Box 90014 | Durham, NC 27708-0014 (919) 681-8283 | jdharris57@gmail.com | josephharris.me

Education PhD in English Education New York University, New York, NY, 1986 Dissertation: A silent voice, an absent ear: The role of the reader in theories of composing

MA in Cinema Studies New York University, New York, NY, 1982

BA in English Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1979

Faculty Positions Associate Professor of English Duke University Durham, NC, 1999–present

Director, Thompson Writing Program Duke University, 1999–2009

Director of Composition Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, 1994–99 (Promoted from Assistant Professor of English, 1988–94)

Assistant Professor of English Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, 1987–88

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Temple University Philadelphia, PA, 1986–87

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown, PA, 1984–86

Graduate Teaching Fellow Expository Writing Program New York University New York, NY, 1981–84

High School English Teacher The Bergen School Jersey City, NJ, 1979–81

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Scholarship

Books

Harris, Joseph. 2012. A teaching subject: Composition since 1966. New ed. Logan: Utah State University Press. First published 1997 by Prentice Hall.

Harris, Joseph, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine, eds. 2010. Teaching with student texts: Essays toward an informed practice. Utah State University Press.

Harris, Joseph. 2006. Rewriting: How to do things with texts. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Harris, Joseph, Jay Rosen, and Gary Calpas, eds. 1998. Media journal: Reading and writing about popular culture. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 1st ed. 1995.

Editorships

SWR: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, a series of scholarly monographs published by CCCC and Southern Illinois Press, 2007–12.

CCC: College Composition and Communication, a quarterly journal in writing studies, 1994–99.

Articles and Chapters

Harris, Joseph. Forthcoming 2012. Dead poets and wonder boys: Teaching writing in the movies. In The teacher: Image, icon, identity, ed. Raymond McCloskey and Stephen McKinney. London: Edwin Mellen.

———. 2012. Using student texts in composition scholarship. JAC 34: 667–94.

———. 2010. Workshop and seminar. In Teaching with student texts: Essays toward an informed practice, ed. Joseph Harris, John D. Miles, and Charles Paine, 145–57. Logan: Utah State University Press.

———. 2006. Undisciplined writing. In Delivering composition, ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey, 155–67. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook.

———. 2003. Revision as a critical practice. College English 65: 577–92.

———. 2001. Beyond community: From the social to the material. Journal of Basic Writing 20(2): 3–15.

———. 2000. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Class consciousness in composition. CCC 52: 43–68.

———. 1997. Person, position, style. In Publishing in rhetoric and composition, ed. Gary Olson and Todd Taylor, 47–56. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press.

———. 1995. Negotiating the contact zone. Journal of Basic Writing 14(1): 27–42.

Reprinted 2001 in Landmark Essays on Basic Writing, ed. Kay Halasek and Nels P. Highberg, 159–69. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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———. 1994. The rhetoric of theory. In Writing theory and critical theory, ed. John Clifford and John Schilb, 141–47. New York: MLA.

———. 1992. The other reader. JAC 12: 27–37.

Reprinted 1994 in Composition theory for the postmodern classroom, ed. Gary Olson and Sidney Dobrin, 225–35. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press.

———. 1992. Reading the right thing. Reader 27: 29–47.

Reprinted 1999 in Cinema-(to)-graphy, ed. Ellen Bishop, 70–84. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

———. 1991. After Dartmouth: Growth and conflict in English. College English 53: 631–46.

———. 1991. Misreading movies. Iowa English Bulletin 39: 1–8.

Reprinted 1994 in Knowledge in the Making, eds. Bill Corcoran, Mike Hayhoe, and Gordon Pradl, 141–48. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook.

Harris, Joseph, and Jay Rosen. 1991. Teaching writing as cultural criticism. Composition and resistance, ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz, 58–67. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Harris, Joseph. 1989. The idea of community in the study of writing. CCC 40: 11–22.

Reprinted 2011 in Writing about writing, ed. Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, New York: Bedford, 582–94. Reprinted 2009 in The Norton Book of Composition Studies, ed. Susan Miller, 748–59. New York: Norton. Reprinted 1999 in On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975–1998. ed. Lisa Ede, 260–71. Boston: Bedford. Reprinted 1990 in Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Writers, 3rd ed, ed. Richard Graves, 267–78. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

———. 1988. Rethinking the pedagogy of problem-solving. Journal of Teaching Writing 7: 157–65.

———. 1988. The spectator as theorist: Britton and the functions of writing. English Education 20: 41–50.

———. 1987. The plural text/the plural self: Roland Barthes and William Coles. College English 49: 158–70.

Responses, Interviews, Brief Articles, and Reviews

Rutz, Carol. Forthcoming 2012. Interview. Joe Harris: Teaching writing via the liberal arts. The WAC Journal 23. http://wac.colostate.edu/journal.

Gunner, Jeanne, Joseph Harris, Dennis Lynch, and Martha Townshend. 2011. Afterword. Against impossibility: A closing (opening?) conversation. In GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA identities in the twenty-first century, Colin Charlton et al., 201–12. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

Harris, Joseph. 2011. Symposium: How I changed my mind. College English 74: 117–18.

———. 2011. Review of Identity matters: Schooling the student body in academic discourse, by Donna LeCourt. Changing English 18: 331–33.

———. 2010. Writing outside English: A response to David Bartholomae. Pedagogy 11(1): 51–56.

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Halbritter, Bump. 2007. Interview. In Remembering Composition, ed. Bump Halbritter and Todd Taylor. JAC: Special Issue (DVD).

Harris, Joseph. 2007. Reading Joe Malkovich. Reader 57: 134–44.

———. 2006. Déjà vu all over again. CCC 57: 535–42.

———. 2004. Response to Jennifer Beech and William Thelin. College English 65: 556–58.

———. 2004. Thinking like a program. Pedagogy 4(3): 357–63.

Hillard, Van, and Joseph Harris. 2003. Making writing visible at Duke University. Peer Review 6(1): 15–17.

Harris, Joseph. 2003. From classroom to program. In Composition studies in the new millennium, ed. Lynne Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, 222–24. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press.

———. 2003. Review of Rhetoric and composition as intellectual work, ed. Gary Olson. CCC 55: 172–75.

———. 2002. Behind blue eyes: A response to Marc Bousquet. JAC 22: 891–99.

———. 2002. Writing online. In Enhancing teaching with technology. Durham: Duke University Center for Instructional Technology. CD-ROM.

———. 2001. Beyond critique: A response to James Sledd. CCC 53: 152–53.

———. 2001. Review of Writing partnerships: Service-learning in composition, by Thomas Dean. Reflections 2(1): 15–18.

———. 2000. Interview. In English composition: Writing for an audience, dir. by Peter Berkow. New York: Annenberg/CPB (Videotape).

———. 2000. Unmanaged care: Review of Know and tell, by David Bleich, and The mythology of voice, by Darsie Bowden. WPA 23(3): 121–25.

Harris, Joseph, and John Lovas. 2000. CCCC and MLA renew discussions on staffing Introductory Courses. CCC 51: 663–64.

Harris, Joseph. 1997. Reclaiming the public sphere: Review of Improving poor people by Michael Katz, The power of their ideas by Deborah Meier, and Possible lives by Mike Rose. College English 59: 324–31.

West, Thomas. 1996. Changing habits of thinking: An interview with Joseph Harris. Writing on the Edge 7(2): 5–14.

Harris, Joseph. 1995. Forum on doctoral pedagogy in composition studies: University of Pittsburgh. Composition Studies 23(2): 77–82.

———. 1993. The course as text/the teacher as critic: Review of Practicing theory in introductory college literature courses, ed. James Cahalan and David Downing, A primer for writing teachers, by David Foster, Reader response in the classroom, ed. Nicholas Karolides, Literature instruction: A focus on student response, ed. Judith Langer, and An introduction to composition studies, ed. Erika Lindemann and Gary Tate. College English 55: 785–93.

———. 1992. Response to symposium on “After Dartmouth.” College English 54: 705–12.

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———. 1990. Review of Discourse and the construction of society, by Bruce Lincoln. CCC 41: 483–84.

———. 1990. Review of Rescuing the subject and The written world, both by Susan Miller. CCC 41: 227–29.

Harris, Joseph, Lil Brannon, Min-Zhan Lu, John Trimbur, Patricia Bizzell, and Toby Fulwiler. 1990. Writing within and against the academy. Journal of Education 172: 15–29.

Harris, Joseph. 1989. Beyond clarity: An outer-directed approach to business writing. ABC Bulletin 50(1): 1–4.

———. 1989. The resistance to teaching: Review of Reclaiming pedagogy: The rhetoric of the classroom, ed. Patricia Donahue and Ellen Quandahl, and Popular culture, schooling, and everyday life, ed. Henry Giroux and Roger Simon. Journal of Teaching Writing 8: 169–77.

———. 1987. Review of Perspectives on research and scholarship in composition, ed. Ben W. McClelland and Timothy R. Donovan. CCC 38: 101–02.

CCC Editorials Harris, Joseph. 1999. Listening to difference. CCC 51: 167–71. ———. 1999. Teaching writing creatively. CCC 51: 7–8. ———. 1999. A usable past: CCC at 50. CCC 50: 559–61. ———. 1999. A usable past: CCC at 50. CCC 50: 343–47. ———. 1998. Public scholarship. CCC 50: 151–52. ———. 1998. Criticism and doubt. CCC 50: 10–11. ———. 1998. CCC Evolves. CCC 49: 163–64. ———. 1998. Copyright and consent. CCC 49: 7–8. ———. 1997. In the mix. CCC 48: 467–68. ———. 1997. Location. CCC 48: 331–33. ———. 1997. Changes in the writing. CCC 48: 171–72. ———. 1997. Virtual citings. CCC 48: 7–8. ———. 1996. Free English. CCC 47: 483–84. ———. 1996. Research, teaching, public argument. CCC 47: 323–24. ———. 1994. The work of others. CCC 45: 439–41. ———. 1994. The CCC review process. CCC 45: 303–06. ———. 1994. Writing from the moon. CCC 45: 161–63. ———. 1994. CCC in the 90s. CCC 45: 7–9.

Talks, 2003–2012

Harris, Joseph. 2012. The essay in a digital age. SAMLA, Raleigh, NC, Nov.

———. 2012. Working with student texts. Keynote, Watson Conference, University of Louisville, KY, Oct.

———. 2012. The impact of the 1966 Dartmouth seminar on college writing. Plenary, Dartmouth Writing Summit, Hanover, NH, Oct.

———. 2012. Dead poets and wonder boys: Teaching writing in the movies. Keynote, Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April.

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———. 2011. English teachers in the movies. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Oct.

———. 2011. The uses of student texts in composition scholarship. Watson Symposium, University of Louisville, KY, Oct.

———. 2010. Teaching a metalanguage for writing. CCCC, Louisville, KY, March.

———. 2009. Writing teachers in the movies. Keynote, TYCA-West, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct.

———. 2009. SWR at 25. CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March.

———. 2008. Rewriting the textbook genre. Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Nov.

———. 2008. Resituating writing in the culture of English studies. English Department, University of Delaware, Nov.

———. 2008. Bringing student texts to the table. 25th Annual Gribben English Lecture, Labette Community College, Parsons, KS, Oct.

———. 2008. Growing older as a WPA. WPA Conference, Denver, CO, July.

———. 2008. Dead poets and wonder boys: Writing teachers in the movies. Conference on The Teacher: Image, Icon, Identity. University of Glasgow, Scotland, July.

———. 2007. The critics of self-criticism at Duke. CCCC, New York, NY, March.

———. 2006. Owning assessment. Perlman Center for Teaching and Learning, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, Oct.

———. 2006. The gorgon and the governess: Teaching writing as a form of moral education. CCCC, Chicago, IL, March.

———. 2006. Emerging keywords in composition. Graduate Program in Composition, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, March.

———. 2005. The names and places of writing in the undergraduate curriculum. Keynote, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, San Francisco, Oct.

———. 2005. Ending freshman comp, beginning academic writing. CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March.

———. 2004. Teaching writing outside the disciplines, or learning to think like a program. CCCC, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.

———. 2004. Revising Amherst: New approaches to sequencing. College Writing Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, MN, March 2004.

———. 2003. Undisciplined writing: Designing an independent first-year writing program at Duke University. Keynote, WPA Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, July.

———. 2003. Structures of feeling in writing programs. CCCC, New York, NY, March.

For talks from 1985–2002, please see josephharris.me/talks.

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Faculty Workshops, 2003–2012

Harris, Joseph. 2012. Using student texts in composition scholarship. University Writing Program, Tulane University, Nov.

I have also led this workshop at the University of Denver (March 2012).

———. 2012. Making writing visible in the disciplines. Center for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Nov.

I have also led this workshop at Oberlin College, (2010), Salem College (Jan 2009), Wake Forest University (Nov 2008), Labette Community College (Oct 2008), Bucknell University (Jan 2008), Lehigh University (Sept 2007), Colorado College (Dec 2006), Boyer Reinvention Center (Nov 2006), Brandeis University (Feb 2006), East Carolina University (March 2003), Clarion University (Jan 2003), Davidson College (May 2002), University of Tampa (Nov 2001), Brigham Young University (Oct 2001), University of Maryland–Baltimore County (Nov 2000).

———. 2012. The accidental writing teacher. Center for Pedagogy, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Sept.

———. 2012. Teaching a metalanguage for writing. Teachers and Scholars Initiative, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Sept.

I have also led this workshop at the California Writing Project (Feb 2012), and Haverford College (Feb 2010).

———. 2012. Teaching with student texts. Teachers and Scholars Initiative, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Sept.

I have also led this workshop at the University of Oklahoma (Aug 2010), University of Cincinnati (Oct 2009), Virginia Tech University (March 2009), Labette Community College (Oct 2008), and Emerson College (Sept 2008).

———. 2012. Teaching the moves of the critical essay. Washington College, MD, Aug.

I have also led this workshop at the University of Tennessee (Oct 2011), Indiana University (Nov 2010), University of Cincinnati (Oct 2009), Brigham Young University (Oct 2009), University of Delaware (Nov 2008), Bucknell University (Jan 2008), Georgetown University (Dec 2007), University of Connecticut (Nov 2007), Fordham University (March 2007), Harvard University (Feb 2007), Colorado College (Dec 2006), Northeastern University (Nov 2006), Lafayette College (Oct 2006), Carleton College (Oct 2006), Brandeis University (Feb 2006), University of Michigan (Nov 2005), Haverford College (March 2005), North Carolina State University (Nov 2004), University of Southern Maine (March 2004).

———. 2011. Teaching digital writing. Composition Program. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Nov.

———. 2010. From dissertation to book. Seminar in Digital Media and Composition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June.

———. 2010. Developing a book proposal in writing studies. Graduate Program in Composition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, March.

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———. 2009. Research outside of R1: Designing a scholarly book proposal. CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March.

———. 2009. Designing a first-year writing seminar. Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC, Jan.

———. 2007. Responding effectively and efficiently to student writing. Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Dec.

I have also led this workshop at the University of Oklahoma (August 2010), Davidson University (May 2004), East Carolina University (April 2003), University of North Carolina–Pembroke (March 2002), Mellon Minority Fellows, Duke University (July 2001).

———. 2007. Sponsoring writing in the undergraduate curriculum. National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan, May.

I have also led this workshop at National Chiao Tung University (May 2007), Lehigh University (Sept 2007), Davidson College (May 2004), University of California-Davis (Feb 2004), University of Maryland–Baltimore County (Nov 2000).

———. 2005. New structures for university writing programs. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, San Francisco, Oct.

———. 2005. Mapping the missions of composition. Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Conference, Fort Caswell Beach, NC, Sept.

———. 2005. Reframing the political debate over moral values. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Feb.

———. 2004. Discouraging plagiarism, encouraging honesty: Some teaching strategies. Graduate School Teaching Breakfast, Duke University, Durham, NC, Dec 2004.

———. 2004. Composition in context: Disciplinary-based first-year writing courses. CCCC, San Antonio, TX, March.

For faculty workshops from 1991–2002, please see josephharris.me/workshops.

Grants and Honors Visiting Scholar in Digital Media and Composition. Ohio State University, June 2010.

CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence, presented to Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, March 2006.

Project Director, Mellon Writing in the Disciplines Project, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University $1.8 million, 2003–08.

Project Director, Mellon Fellows Project, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, $2 million, 2000–03.

Duke Digital Initiative Grant, Using iPods to Reflect on Teaching, Duke University, $8000, 2004–06.

CIT Faculty Initiative Grant, Responding Onscreen to Student Writing, Duke University, $2900, 2000–01.

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Faculty Computer Initiatives Grant, University of Pittsburgh, $3300, 1993.

Richard Braddock Award for Best Article in CCC, March 1990.

Third Term Research Stipend, University of Pittsburgh, $3500, 1990.

Lilly Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, $3500, 1989.

Faculty Development Grant, Modeling Writing Conferences, Drexel University, $2500, 1988.

NEH Central Disciplines in Undergraduate Education Grant, Teaching Writing in the Disciplines, Elizabethtown College, $6500, 1986.

Teaching

Postdoctoral and Graduate

Duke University Postdoctoral Seminar in Teaching Writing Teaching Academic Writing Writing Pedagogies

University of Pittsburgh Composition: Theory, History, Practice Seminar in Teaching Composition Seminar in Teaching English Writing and Difference

Undergraduate

Duke University Academic Writing

Framing the Election: Metaphors and Media Lost in the Supermarket: Writing Cultural Criticism Material Forms of Writing Owning a Style Prose Style Rewriting Writing about Photography Writing and Social Action Writing, Rhetoric, and Democracy

Creative Nonfiction Digital Writing Reading Genres Representing Learning Writing and Social Class

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Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised

Peña, Christina. 2012. Effort|Less. Awarded high distinction.

Chhabra, Karan. 2011. Bringing the patient to the center of physician-patient communication and decision-making on bone marrow transplantation. Awarded high distinction.

University of Pittsburgh Advanced Writing: Prose Style Basic Reading and Writing Contemporary Literature in Context: Utopias General Writing General Writing/Film Introduction to the Study of the English Language Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture Literature and Ideas Reading and Writing Autobiography Senior Seminar: The Uses of Popular Culture

PhD Committees

University of Pittsburgh Chair Stafford, Anne. 2001. Looking at voice in composition through the lens of drama: From rhetoric

to role play.

Huff, Linda. 1999. Mapping voices: Reading the discourses of emerging black public intellectual women.

Reader Farkas, Angie. 2003. Sensational tales and working-girl melodrama: Popular story paper fiction

and its readers in late 19th century America.

Falbo, Bianca. 1997. The circulation of literary practices in the Anglo-American field of cultural production.

Dawson, Melanie. 1996. Reading entertainment: Gender and the parlor in 19th century America.

Sutherland, Stephen. 1996. In-citing change: The pedagogical politics of revision and citation.

Parks, Stephen. 1994. A history of the CCCC Students’ right to their own language resolution.

Welsch, Kathleen. 1994. Nineteenth century composition: The relationship between pedagogical concerns and cultural values in American colleges, 1850–1890.

Miller, Richard E. 1992. Representing the people: Theoretical and pedagogical disjunctions in the academy.

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Service

Professional Editorial Boards Reader, 2007–present Composition Forum, 2004–present CCC, 2005–2012 MountainRise, 2004–06 PMLA, 1999–2002 Writing for an Audience, PBS-Annenberg Video Series, 1997–99 Journal of Teaching Writing, 1991–93

National Committees WPA Media Task Force, 2003–05 WPA Task Force on Plagiarism, 2002 MLA Shaughnessy Award Committee, 2000–02 (Chair, 2001) MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing Standards for Introductory Courses, 1999 CCCC Officers Group, 1994–99 Chair, Search for CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series Editor, 1997 CCCC Executive Committee, 1990–93

Writing Program Reviews Ohio State University, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, Columbus, OH, 2011 Pomona College. Critical Inquiry Program, Claremont, CA, 2011 Oberlin College. Writing in the Disciplines Program. Oberlin, OH, 2010 Wake Forest University. Writing in the Disciplines Program. Winston-Salem, NC, 2008 National Taiwan University and National Chiao Tung University, Center for Teaching and

Learning Development, Taipei and Hsingchui, Taiwan, 2007 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Writing in the Disciplines Initiative, 2007 Bowdoin College, ME, College Writing Program, 2005 University of California, Davis, CA, Writing in the Disciplines Program, 2003 Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY, Basic Writing Program, 2002 University of Maryland, Honors College, MD, Writing in the Disciplines Program, 2001

Manuscript Reviews Journals CCC, College English, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, English Education, JAC, Journal of Teaching Writing, Linguistics in Education, MountainRise, Pedagogy, PMLA, RTE, Writing Center Journal

Presses Ablex, Bedford, Duke University Press, Erlbaum, Lexington, Longman, NCTE, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Rowman, St. Martin’s, Southern Illinois University Press; State University of New York Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Utah State University Press, Wesleyan University Press

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Tenure and Promotion Reviews Arizona State University (1999); Baruch College, CUNY (1998); City College, CUNY (1995, 2000, 2001); Drake University (1999); Fordham University (2008); Haverford College (2004); Illinois State University (2009); Indiana U–Purdue U at Indianapolis (1997); Iowa State University (1996); Ithaca College (1997); Kansas State University (2002); Miami University, Ohio (1995, 2012); Michigan State University (2003); Michigan Technological University (1997); Oberlin College (2004); Ohio State University (2001); Pennsylvania State University–Berks (2000); Queens College, CUNY (2002); Rutgers University, Newark (1994, 1996); St. John’s University (2010, 2012); SUNY, Albany (1999); University of Akron (2002); University of California, Davis (2004); University of Connecticut (2006); University of Minnesota (2000); University of Missouri, Kansas City (1995); University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2000); University of Nebraska, Omaha (2002); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2001); University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg (1996); Washington State University (1995, 1997); Wright State University (2002)

University Duke University Director of the Thompson Writing Program (TWP), 1999–2009 Founding director of an independent, multidisciplinary writing program charged with teaching a first-year course in Academic Writing, staffing a tutorial Writing Studio, and consulting with faculty and graduate students who teach advanced, writing-designated courses in departments across the university. Supervised the work of three faculty Program Directors (First-Year Writing, Writing Studio, Writing in the Disciplines) and three staff employees. Responsible for the intellectual quality and coherence of over 140 sections of the required first-year course in Academic Writing; hired, trained, and supervised a multidisciplinary writing faculty of 27 Postdoctoral Fellows who each design and teach their own versions of this course. Taught the Summer Postdoctoral Seminar in Teaching Writing for new writing faculty; served as Project Director for grants, totaling $3.8 million, from the Mellon Foundation that supported the professional development of postdoctoral fellows. Consulted with faculty across the disciplines involved in designing and teaching writing-designated courses; advised University Committee on Courses on writing-designated courses in disciplines. From 2000–03, supervised Preparing Future Faculty program and other efforts aimed at professional development of graduate students. Reported directly to the Dean of Trinity College. The TWP was awarded the CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence in 2006. In 2008 the program was renamed in honor of Dean Robert J. Thompson, Jr.

Other Duke Service

MAT Faculty Advisory Board, 2005–12 Center for Instructional Technology Advisory Board, 1999–2008 University Academic Integrity Council, 2003–06 Arts and Sciences Committee on Courses, 2000–05 Faculty Director, Preparing Future Faculty Program, 2000–03 Film and Video Program Advisory Board, 1999–2002 Project Advance (Women in Math and Science) Advisory Board, 1999–2001 University Instructional Technology Task Force, 2000

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Freshman Enrollment Task Force, 2000 DUS Advisory Board, English Department, 2001–02 DGS Advisory Board, English department, 2000–01 Major Advisor, English department, 1999–present

University of Pittsburgh Director of Composition Program, English Department, 1994–99 Responsible for staffing of all undergraduate courses in composition, training and supervision of about 50 graduate teaching assistants, and hiring and oversight of about 60 part–time instructors. Coordinated activities of nine full-time composition faculty; oversaw the work of Directors of the Writing Center, Assessment of Teaching, and Placement. In total, supervised the work of over 100 instructors per semester. Served as an advocate for writing in other parts of the university, handled public relations for the program, and directed searches for new faculty in composition. Served on numerous departmental and program committees. Reported to the Chair of English department.

Other Pittsburgh Service Chair, College Writing Board, 1994–99 Pitt–Greensburg Academic Programs Review Committee, 1995 University Basic Skills Committee, 1995 University Small Grants Committee, 1995 FAS Grants Committee, 1993–95 Copies of many of the materials listed in this CV can be accessed at josephharris.me.