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Curriculum Vita Enheduanna English 301 - Writing in the Professions English 217 - Writing Reflective Essays Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks Ornament of Heaven: The Book of Enheduanna CMC Committee	EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Arizona, May, 1997 (Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English) M.A. University of Arizona, 1994 (Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English) Research Interests: History of Rhetoric and Historiography Composition Pedagogy and Theory Rhetoric of Psychoanalysis Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse Technical Writing TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Arizona State University, 2001- present. (Writing in the Professions, Freshman Composition, Reflective Writing) Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga, 1997-2000 (Rhetoric and Composition, Professional Writing, Scientific Writing, Writing Essays for Publication, Engendering Ancient Rhetoric (Graduate), Ancient Rhetoric (Graduate), Writing for Essays for Publication (Graduate). Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Arizona, 1995-7 (Business Writing, Advanced Composition, and Freshman Composition) Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, 1994-5 (Freshman Composition and literature) Adjunct Faculty, Pima Community College, 1994, (Developmental Writing) Instructor, Escuela de Ingles, San Miguel de Allende, 1993 (English as a Second Language) Instructor, Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1976-77 (American Literature)   ACADEMIC SERVICE Arizona State University Chair, Computer Mediated Instruction Committee, 02-03 Member, Writing Programs Committee, 01-03 Member, Writing Certificate Program, 01-02 University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga 1998-2003 Appointed as full member of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Tennessee@Chattanooga 1999-2000 Committee member master's thesis, Tanya Cochran, Rhetoric and Composition 1999-2000 Research Committee (campus wide) 1997-2000 Composition Committee, English Department 1998-2000 Women's Studies Advisory Council (campus wide) 1998-9 Student Rating of Faculty Instruction Committee (campus wide) 1998-9 Western Humanities Committee (campus wide) 1999 Committee member, honors thesis, chemistry dept. 1998 English 277 and 278 course descriptions proposal to the General Education Committee 1998 Co-author of a successful $130,000 proposal for a campus-wide writing center 1998 Intensive Writing Committee Implementation Sub-Committee 1998 Independent Study Director, Dori Griffin, "Journal Publishing." 1998 Thesis topic director, Karel Sira, "The Rhetoric of the Native American Short Story." 1998-2000 Help Desk Consumer Council Advisory Group (campus wide) University of Arizona 1995-6 Elected graduate teaching assistant representative to the Graduate Teaching Assistant Advisory Committee 1995 Editorial Intern, Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. New York: Garland, 1996. 1995 Evaluator, entering student placement exams 1993-5 Elected graduate student representative, Department of English Faculty Council 1995 Served on the Department of English ad hoc constitution committee 1993-4 Travel committee for graduate students without assistantships 1993 Session Facilitator, "Portfolios." Arizona English Teachers' Association. Gilbert, Arizona. October, 1993 Recent Workshops/Additional Training Intensive Computer Training Workshop, Superonline v. 2.0, August 5-9, 2002 CLTE Summer Institute on College Teaching--Active Learning with Technology, June 3-7, 2002   OTHER PROFESSIONAL HISTORY 1990-1993 Coordinator, Marketing/Outreach KUAT TV, University of Arizona. Duties continued to include those listed below as well as marketing and outreach activities for Channel 6 educational programming. 1987-1990 Coordinator, External Affairs and Audience Relations, KUAT TV, AM and FM. Duties included: principal responsibility for grant writing for three public broadcasting stations, as well as special assignments for the General Manager; coordinator of all Public Advisory Board business and state and federal legislative liaison. 1987 Acting Coordinator, Media Services. Duties included management of the Film Library and Equipment Services Departments on the University of Arizona campus as well as continuing to fulfill job duties of the title listed below. 1985-87 Administrative Assistant, Division of Media and Instructional Services, University of Arizona. PUBLICATIONS Academic Books Lipson, Carol, and Roberta Binkley, eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks, Southern University of New York Press (forthcoming 2003) Disssertation "A Rhetoric of the Sacred Other from Enheduanna to the Present: Composition, Rhetoric, and Consciousness." Diss. U of Arizona, 1996. Academic Articles Lipson, Carol, and Roberta Binkley. "Introduction." Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks, Lipson, Carol and Roberta Binkley, eds. Albany: SUNY, (forthcoming 2003). "Before the Greeks: Problems of Origins and the Other Reading the Ancient Early Figure of Enheduanna." Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks, Lipson, Carol, and Roberta Binkley, eds. Albany: SUNY, (forthcoming 2003) "Anna Akhmotova," "Juliet Mitchell," Barbara McClintock," and "Alva Myrdal." Entries in Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries of the Western World's Great Cultural Eras. Vol 8: The Modern Age, 1914-2000. (Forthcoming, 2004). "Enheduanna: Looking Back 4,300 Years to the Beginning of Literacy and Woman's Voice" Bridwell-Bowles, Lillian, Hildy Miller, Erika Rivers, eds. Revisiting Rhetorica: Explorations in Feminist Rhetorical History, (forthcoming 2003) "The Critic: An Invention/Intervention suggestion to Locate the Voice Behind Writer's Block." Duane Roen, ed. NCTE Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition. Urbana, Ill: NCTE, 2002. "Invention as a Strategy of Revision." Duane Roen, ed. NCTE Guide to Teaching First-Year Composition. Urbana, Ill: NCTE, 2002. Binkley, Roberta, and Louise Rodriquez Connal. "Collaboration, Revision, and Advanced Composition: Context, Reflection, and the Classroom." Advanced Composition: Principles and Practices. NCTE (forthcoming, 2003) "Psychoanalytic Theory." Theorizing Composition: A Critical "Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Mary Lynch Kennedy, ed. Connecticut: Greenwood, 1998. Gronbeck, Bruce E., and Roberta Binkley. "Walter J. Ong." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1995. "Colonialism and the Struggle for Interpretive Power: The Rhetoric of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz." Educational Resources Information Center, 1995 Journal Articles "Literacy Across Languages and Cultures." The Writing Instructor (14) 1995. 93-5. "The Advent of Literacy and Authorship: Reading from the Margins." Ed. Thomas Willard. Essays on Literacy: 17 Voices. Tucson: Imp P, 1994 Contributing bibliographer College Composition and Communication Bibliography for Rhetoric and Composition, 1994 "The Pine Tree Buddha." Arizona English Bulletin 36 (1993): 46-48. "Meet Myra Dinnerstein: A Profile." Source: A Journal for Southwestern Women, 2 (1977-78): 1-3. Several articles in Coyote, a Journal of the Southwest. 1977-79. Short Story "High Heels." Arizona English Bulletin (1997). Book reviews "Portfolios, Assessment, and Reflective Teaching." Rev. of Eyes on the Child: Three Portfolio Stories, by Kathe Jervis. Iowa English Bulletin 43 (1995) Several book reviews in Coyote, a Journal of the Southwest 1977-79. PRESENTATIONS "The Athenian Paradigm–Why Does Rhetoric Always Begin with the Greeks?" Western States Composition Conference" Seattle, October 24-26, 2002. "Before the Greeks: Authorship, Origins, and Rhetoric," Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, May 23-26, 2002. "Originary Myths and Unconscious Assumptions," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 20-23, 2002. "Dialogic Rhetoric: 5,000 Years of a Discourse Genre," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March 14-17, 2001. "Pushing Back the Classic Canon 3,000 Years: Ancient Mesopotamian Rhetoric," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April 11-15, 2000. "Enheduanna, Looking back 4300 Years to the Beginning of Literacy," Second Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., October 7-9, 1999. "Looking Back 4300 Years: Rhetorical Approaches to Teaching the Oldest Woman Author, Enheduanna."SCMLA 55th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisianna, November 12, 1998. "The Bicameral Mind: Using Both Hemispheres." CCCC Preconference Workshop, Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, April 1, 1998. "Enheduanna: The World's Oldest Published Author." Women's Studies Lecture Series, September 21, 1998. "Bracketing Discourses: An Ancient Rhetoric of Feminist Spirituality and Psychoanalysis." Works in Progress, University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga, September, 1997. "Invention and a Rhetoric of the Sacred Other: Enheduanna, Cicero, and Jung." Rhetoric Society of America, Tucson, Arizona, May, 1996. "The Rhetoric of the Goddess, Psychotherapy, and Academic Discourse." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, Wis., 1996. "At the Intersection of Composition and Consciousness: An Ancient-New Literacy." Tri-University Annual Rhetoric Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February, 1996. "Colonialism and the Struggle for Interpretative Power: The Rhetoric of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Washington, D.C., 1995. "Enheduanna's 'The Exaltation of Inanna: Toward a Feminist Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society of America, Norfolk, May 1994. "Foreshadowing Rhetoric: "The Exaltation of Inanna." New Directions in Critical Theory, University of Arizona, March 1994. "Ancient Authorship." Guest lecturer, English 251A (Western Civilization: Ancient Visions). University of Arizona. September, 1994. "Women, Writing, and Authorship." Guest lecturer, Women's Studies 205. University of Arizona, September, 1994. "Writing as Heuristic: A Holistic Approach to Teaching ESL." RCTE Forum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ., September 1993. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Association of University Women Arizona English Teachers Association Association for Women Faculty Association of Professional Writing Consultants Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition Council of Writing Program Administrators Faculty Women's Association, Arizona State University National Council of Teachers of English Rhetoric Society of America South Central Modern Languages Association PRODUCTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, and AWARDS Awarded faculty research grant, summer 1999, for study in the Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. Second Place Short Story winner, 1996 Teachers as Writers Contest, Arizona English Teachers Association. Elected to Pi Lambda Theta, an international honor society and professional association in education in 1966. Travel grant award, Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona, 1996. A full-length play, read by the Invisible Theater as runner-up in the Arizona Playwrights Competition (1982). A one-act play produced by the University of Arizona Lyceum series (1980). SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS Co-author $100,000 proposal to establish a writing center at the University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga Primary author of a proposal to the National Endowment for the Arts for a $150,000 challenge grant to establish an endowment which was awarded to KUAT AM FM in 1989. In 1991 one of two key people who raised a matching $150,000 from private donors.