English Department 
Arizona State University 
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 
(480) 965-8881

 K.Heenan@asu.edu

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. August, 1998. 

Dissertation: Whose Story Is It?: A Rhetorical Analysis of American Women's Slave Narratives in Fact & Fiction.

Specialization in Composition and Rhetoric, and African American Literature, especially 19th century African American women.

M. A. English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1991. 

• Concentration in Composition and Rhetorical Theory and Certification in the Theory and Practice of Basic Writing, California State University, Chico, 1986-1988. 

B. A. English and American Studies, California State University, Chico, CA, 1986.

• Concentration in Editing and Publishing, California State University, Chico, 1984-86. 

RESEARCH AREAS:

Composition and Rhetorical Theory, Cultural Criticism, Computer Mediated Communication, Pedagogical Theory and Practices, Feminist Theory, Literacy, and African-American Women's Public Discourse.

ACADEMIC WORK HISTORY:

Teaching Positions Held

• 1998 – Present  Lecturer, Department of English, Arizona State University
• 1996 – 1998   Adjunct Faculty, Department of Rhetoric, Language and Culture, U of Hartford 
• 1989 – 1998   Graduate Teaching Instructor, Department of English, U of Connecticut 
• 1992 – 1996   Adjunct Faculty,  Department of Language Arts, Three Rivers Community Technical College 
• 1988 – 1989   Graduate Teaching Instructor, Department of English, California State University, Chico

 

Administrative Positions Held 

• Director, Undergraduate Rhetoric and Composition Curriculum, Arizona State University, 1998-present.  Duties include:  overseeing 100 and 200 level course curriculum, composing and reviewing curriculum, chairing textbook selection committees, serving as a resource for teaching assistants, instructors, and faculty associates.
• Director, Writing Resource Center, University of Connecticut, 1990-95. Duties included: training and supervising sixteen-eighteen graduate and undergraduate tutors; working with TAs; coordinating budgets; and organizing tutor-presentations for the regional Writing Center conferences.
• Literacy Tutor-Training Program, California State University Chico, 1989. Wrote grant proposal for funding an adult literacy program employing basic writers as literacy tutors; designed basic writing curriculum focusing on issues of literacy and learning. 
• Director, Education and Support Programs for Women, California State University, Chico, 1987-1988. Duties included:  supervising 25-35 undergraduate interns; coordinating weekly faculty lectures; organizing events; writing grant proposals; and arranging public lectures.

TEACHING:

Undergraduate Courses Taught 

Arizona State University: Department of English

English 101—First-Year Writing in Computer-Networked Classrooms & Hybrid
English 102—First-Year Writing in Computer-Networked Classrooms & Hybrid
English 215—Strategies of Academic Writing in Computer-Networked Classrooms
English 216—Writing About Public Issues in Computer-Networked Classrooms English 394—Writing (in) Cyberspace

University of Hartford: Department of Rhetoric, Language and Culture

RLC 110—Reading and Writing 

RLC 111—Reading, Writing & Research (Computer-Networked & Traditional Classrooms)

University of Connecticut: Department of English

English 104—Basic Writing in Computer-Networked Classroom

English 105—Freshman English (Computer-Networked & Traditional Classrooms)

English 109—Literature and Composition

English 298—Seminar in the Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing. 

Three Rivers Community-Technical College: Department of Language Arts

English 111—College Composition 

English 112—Literature and Composition 

California State University, Chico: Department of English

English 17—Basic Writing Workshop.

Graduate Courses Taught

English 300—Graduate Seminar in the Theory and Teaching of Writing for students in the School of Education's Masters in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). U of Connecticut

PUBLICATIONS: 

• The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing. Contributing Editor. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Forthcoming
• "Sisters in Bondage and Freedom: A Paradigm of Women's Slave Narratives." Connecticut English Journal. 19 (Spring 1991): 61-72. 
• "American Autobiography and Memoir: A Bibliography." PROSPECTS: An Annual Journal of Cultural Studies. March  1990. 
• "Sutter Buttes as Personal Landscape." Feeling for Place: Women Look at Northern California. Chico, CA: CSU, Chico Press, 1988: 81-88. 
• "The Sutter Buttes: An Insider's View." The Sutter County Historical Society Bulletin, 1986: 11-25. 

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

• Rhetorics of Culture: Making an Other (US)America. Co-edited with Janice Norton.
• " 'mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf': Storytelling as Female Heritage in Their Eyes Were Watching God." 
• "Negotiating the Rhetorical Situation: Women’s Dictated Narratives and the Speakerly Self." 
• “’Did I Say Too Much?’:  Tutor Training and Commitment to Multiple Voices”
• "The Personal is the Political: Autobiographical Challenges to Expressivism."

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

• "Concerns, Complications, and New Opportunities: Creating 'Writing (in) Cyberspace.'" Computers and Writing Conference. Muncie, IN, May 2001
• "Totally Recalled: Remembering, Rewriting, and Rethinking the Critical Project in English Departments. "Rhetoric Society of America's Ninth Biennial Conference, "Professing Rhetoric." Washington, D.C., May 2000.
• "The Promise of Rhetorical Criticism: Redefining the Critical Project in English Departments." Second Annual Feminism and Rhetoric Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 1999.
• "Writing and Politics: Creating a Technical Writing Core, Questions and Issues." Roundtable Participant. Western States Conference. Tempe, AZ, October, 1999.
• "Heteroglossic Interpretive Communitites." College Composition and Communication Conference. Phoenix, AZ, March, 1997.
• "Negotiating the Rhetorical Situation: Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon and the Speakerly Self." University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO. January, 1997. 
• "Discourse Communities, Discursive Conventions: Interrogating Academic Discourse(s)." Writing Across  . . . Disciplines, Genres, Cultures. University of New Hamshire, Durham, NH, October, 1996. 
• "Making Groups Work with Team Journals." Freshman English Forum. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 25, 1996. 
• "Tutoring with Confidence: Tutor-Training and the Promise of Community." New England Writing Association Twelfth Annual Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. March 2, 1996. 
• " 'Let's Get Situated': Reading, Writing, and Responding in the Contact Zone." West Georgia College, Carrollton, GA, April 10, 1995. 
• "Resisting the Embrace of Slavery: Researching Nineteenth-Century Women's Slave Narratives." College Composition and Communication Conference, Research Network Forum. Washington, D.C., March, 1995.
• "African-American Voices: Language, Literature, and Criticism in Vernacular Theory and Pedagogy." Participant in "Womanist/Feminist Tradition?" directed by Professor Hortense J. Spillers. Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA, June 21-26, 1994. 
• "A Panoply of Voices: Tutor Training & Commitment to Multiple Voices." College Composition and Communication Conference, Nashville, TN, March, 1994. 
• "The Slave Narrative as Autobiography." Connecticut College, New London, CT. October, 1994. 
• "CCCC and Newcomers to the Profession: Initiation, Acculturation, Action." College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April, 1993. 
• " 'mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf': Storytelling as Female Heritage in Their Eyes Were Watching God." Second Annual Women's Studies Conference, "Women Revisioning the Future." Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, October, 1992. 
• "Concern, Commitment, and Conscientization: The Writing Center as Base Community." College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, March, 1992. 
• "The Personal is the Political: Autobiographical Challenges to Exposition." College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March, 1990. 
• "Critically Speaking: Graduate Students Take Charge." College Composition and Communication Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March, 1989. 
• "Sutter Buttes as Personal Landscape." California American Studies Association (CASA) Annual Conference, University of California, Davis, CA, May, 1987. 
• "The Etiological Myths of the Sutter Buttes." California Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Modesto, CA, April, 1986. 

HONORS and AWARDS: 

• Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut Graduate School, Summer 1994. 
• Summer Research Fellowship, English Department, University of Connecticut, Summer 1993. 
• Aetna Graduate Critical Essay First Prize for "Sisters in Bondage and Freedom: A Paradigm of Slave Women's Narratives." University of Connecticut, May 1991. 
• California State University Chico's nominee, California State University Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement, 1988. 
• Lieutenant Robert Merton Rawlins Merit Award, honoring academic achievement, 1988. 
• California State University, Chico Associated Students' Outstanding Student Leader for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, 1987. 
• English Honors Program, California State University, Chico. 
• Phi Kappa Phi, 1985. 

DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Arizona State University

Writing Programs Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Chair ¨
Writing Programs Course Planning Committee ¨
Writing Programs Instructor and Faculty Associate Search Committees ¨
Writing Programs Committee ¨
Ad Hoc Course Assignment Review Committee ¨
Textbook Committee ¨
Rhetoric and Composition Area Review ¨
Composition Program Reorganization Committee ¨
English 101 and 102 Curriculum Revision Committee ¨
Classroom Observations and Teacher Evaluations

University of Connecticut

English Department Graduate Teaching Award Committee. 1994-1995. 

Aetna Board, advisory board to Aetna Chair of Writing. 1991-1994. 

Aetna and McPeek Graduate Writing Prize Committee. 1994. 

Freshman English Award Writing Prize Committee. 1991. 

Three Rivers Community-Technical College

Search Committee, Composition Instructor, May-June 1993 and June-July 1996. 

Alumni Writing Award Committee for prizes in Non-Fiction Prose and Research Writing. 1993-1994. 

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE: 

• Evaluated composition textbook and handbook manuscripts for the following publishers: Houghton Mifflin, Mayfield Press, and Blair Press. 
• Critically Speaking: A Journal of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. 1:1, Spring 1988, California State University, Chico, CA. Founded publication; solicited and selected manuscripts; editing, layout and design via desktop publishing. 
• Feeling for Place: Women Look at Northern California, Chico, CA: CSU. Chico Press, 1987. Co-editor with Professor Carol Burr. Solicited, selected, and edited manuscripts; copyedited galleys; edited and designed the publication. 
• Tributaries: A Journal of the California State University Chico English Club. 1:1, Fall 1987, Chico, CA. Solicited, selected, and edited manuscripts. 
• Watershed: A Literary Magazine. Editorial Staff, Fall 1984, 8:1, California State University, Chico, CA. Guest Editor for Special Multicultural Issue. Solicited, selected, and edited manuscripts; copyedited galley proofs; designed and produced camera ready copy. 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• National Council Teachers of English 
• Alliance of Computers and Composition
• Rhetoric Society of America 
• Faculty Women's Association, ASU