Billie S.

Hara
http://billiehara.org
billiehara@gmail.com

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ACADEMIC Assistant Professor of English, English Department,

APPOINTMENTS Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. 2009-2011.

EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of Texas, Arlington, 2009

Dissertation: “Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and
Underprepared Student Athletes in Division I-A Universities.”

M.A. in English, Southern Methodist University, 1999

Thesis: “Darl Bundren’s Fragmented Mind (Body and Soul) in
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.”

B.A. in English and Psychology, Texas Christian University, 1996

SPECIALIZATION composition / rhetoric, literacy, basic writing theory and pedagogy,

AREAS service learning, ethnographic research methods, New Media,
teaching with technology, multimodal composition

PUBLICATIONS (with Bill Wolff) Photos for the Gulf. Composing with Images Press
(CWIP). October 2010.

"Escape." A Photo Essay, Nine Images. Windward Review. July 2010.

(with Matthew Levy). Book Review. “The Measure of Service Learning:

Research Scales to Assess Student Experience” by Robert G.
Bringle, Mindy A. Phillips, and Michael Hudson. Reflections: A
Journal of Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy. 5:1-
2 (Spring 2006): 175-79.

“Rhetorical Invention, Asynchronous Learning Environments, and

Ancient World Literature: What Students Can Do with the
(Non)Canon(ical) If We Let Them.” Past and Future Perspectives:
Negotiating our Changing Field. Eds. Lori Hughes and Heather
Sehmel. Lubbock: Texas Tech, March 2002. (CD-ROM)

Bibliographer, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing.

Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Gregory R. Glau. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s P, 2002. 90.

“The Whitman Project.” Evolution, Revolution, and Implementation:

Computers and Writing for Global Change. Fort Worth: Computers
and Writing, 2000. 7-8.
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 “Not: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Land,’ but A Stranger in My Own Land.”
Vision 2000: The Future of Language and Literature, and Writing.
Eds. Joy Yokley and Michael Albers. Lubbock: Texas Tech, Spring
1997, 2-6.

PUBLICATIONS IN “Coaching in a Composition Classroom: Underprepared Student-

CIRCULATION Athletes and Basic Writing.”

“Dissertation Writing Groups in a Writing Center: Another Outreach

Option.”

“Exploring the University Community: Visual Depictions by First Year

Students.”

“Exploring the University Community: Analyzing Photographs for

Meaning and Merit.”

EDITORIAL Contributing Writer, ProfHacker, The Chronicle of Higher Education,

EXPERIENCE Washington, DC, (September 2009—present)
(http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/bhara)

Feature Editor, Academic Exchange Quarterly. (Technology in the

Humanities.) 15.2 (Summer 2011).

Associate Editor of descant: Fort Worth’s Journal of Poetry and Fiction

(1996 to 2000; 2003—2009)

NATIONAL (forthcoming) "Students as Athletes or Athletes as Students:

CONFERENCES Constructing a Writer Identity in First-Year Composition."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta,
GA. April 2011.

"Reflexive Photography and First-Year Student Experience."

Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville,
KY. March 2010.

"A Certain Realism: Bruce Springsteen and Fan-Produced Music

Videos." Bruce Springsteen Symposium. Asbury Park, NY,
September 2010.

"Teaching Underprepared Student-Athletes in the Year-Long Stretch

Course: A Case for Alternative Pedagogies." Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. 2009.

“Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student

Athletes at NCAA-Rank Division I-A Universities.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Research Network
Forum. New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

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 “Dissertation Writing Groups.” International Writing Center
Association. Houston, TX. April 2007.

“Biographical Narratives: Battered Women and the Politics of

Victimhood.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Michigan
Technological Institute. Houghton, MI. October 2005.

“Writing Partners: Oklahoma City University’s GEAR UP Program,

OKCU Clara Luper Scholars, and Writ(ing) to Succeed.” GEAR UP
(Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs.) National Conference. Washington, DC. July 2004.

“Combining Service Learning and WAC: Nontraditional Partnerships

that become Traditional.” Writing Program Administrator
Conference. Newark, DL. July 2004.

“Picking Up the Pieces: Doing WAC in the Ruins of a Formal WAC

Program.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
San Antonio, Texas. March 2004.

“Writing the Real: Writing Partners and the Composition Class.”

Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York,
NY. March 2003.

“The Whitman Project.” Computers and Writing 2000 Conference. Fort

Worth, TX. May 25, 2000.

REGIONAL (forthcoming) "Photos for the Gulf: Activism, Writing, and

CONFERENCES Photography." (with Bill Wolff) Louisiana Conference on Literature,
Language, and Culture." University of Louisiana, Lafayette. March
2011.

"Using New Media and Social Networking Tools." Coastal Bend Writing
Project, Summer Institute. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
June 2010.

“Historiography, Epexegesis, and the Mis/Writing of Sojourner Truth’s

‘Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ Speech.” CCTE. Amarillo, TX. March 2001.

“The Whitman Project: Interactive Learning and Multimedia Teaching.”

7th Annual Gorgias Conference. Arlington, TX. February 2001.

“Not: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Land,’ but: A Stranger in My Own Land.”

The 1997 Texas Tech Graduate English Society Symposium. Texas
Tech University. Lubbock, TX. April 19, 1997.

“A Reader’s Seduction and Transformation by a Text in Walt Whitman’s

‘Song of Myself’.” AEGIS South Central Graduate Student
Conference, University of Houston. Houston, TX. April 20, 1996.

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INSTITUTIONAL “Using New Media in the Composition Classroom,” New Media
PRESENTATIONS Workshop, TCU, Fort Worth, TX. June 2007.

“Teaching Visual Literacy for the AP Language Exam,” TCU AP Summer

Institute, Fort Worth, TX. June 2007.

“Teaching with Blogs and Wikis” (with Jason King). Faculty Learning
Community, Center for Teaching Excellence. TCU, Fort Worth, TX.
November 2006.

“Teaching Visual Literacy: Ways of Seeing / Ways of Knowing.”

Graduate Instructor Workshop, TCU, Fort Worth, TX. August 2004.

“Service Learning is More Than Fodder for Student Resumes.” TCU AP

Summer Institute, Fort Worth, TX. June 2004.

“Visual Literacy: Taking the TAKS to TASK.” TCU Summer AP

Institute, Fort Worth, TX. June 2004.

“Writing Across the Curriculum: Writing the Real, Writing the

Relevant.” TCU Summer AP Institute, Fort Worth, TX. June 2004.

“Basic Grant and Thesis Proposal Writing.” School of Journalism. TCU.

Fort Worth, TX. January 2004.

FUNDED GRANTS • $11,000: TRDF, Domestic Violence Writing Workshops (2010)

(ordered by amt.) • $10,000: Jensen Foundation for WCI (2000)
• $05,000: Rotary Club of Fort Worth, WCI (2001)
• $05,000: Texas Methodist Foundation, Kids’ College (2000)
• $02,500: Texas Methodist Foundation, WCI (2001)
• $02,500: Texas Methodist Foundation, Writing Partners (1999)
• $02,500: Texas Methodist Foundation, Ourselves History (1998)
• $02,000: Texas Methodist Foundation, Writing Partners (2001)
• $02,000: Metroplex Alliance Community, Kids' College (2000)
• $01,200: FTSCA, "Domestic Violence, Photography" (2010)
• $01,000: TCU Service Learning Grant, Oral History Project (2007)
• $01,000: TCU Leadership Curriculum, Blogging Partners (2005)
• $01,000: TCU Leadership Curriculum, Writing Partners (2004)
• $01,000: TCU Leadership Curriculum, Writing Partners (2003)
• $000600: TCU Dean’s Grant for Reading Partners (2004)
• $000500: TCU Dean’s Grant for Writing Partners (2005)
• $000400: FTSCA Teaching Grant, Wakonse Teaching Conf. (2010)

TEACHING Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX

EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of English (August 2009 to present)
• ENGL 1301: First Year Composition
• ENGL 1302: Second Year Composition
• ENGL 3301: Technical and Professional Writing
• ENGL 3360: Current Approaches to Composition and Literature
• ENGL 3368: Community Literacy and Service Learning
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 • ENGL 4320: Social Networking and New Media
• ENGL 5361: Basic Writing Pedagogy (Graduate)
• ENGL 5369: Ethnographic Research Methods (Graduate)

University of Texas, Arlington, Arlington, TX

Lecturer, August 2008 to August 2009
• ENGL 2329: American Literature (from 1855)
• ENGL 3373: Technical Writing

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

Instructor of English; Writing Consultant (August 2002--August 2009)
• ENGL 10703 and ENGL 10803: Introduction to Critical Writing
• ENGL 10803: Introduction to Composition
• ENGL 10833: First-Year Seminar
• ENGL 20603: World Literature I (Ancient to Early Modern)
• ENGL 20803: (Intermediate Composition)
• ENGL 20833: Sophomore Seminar, Intermediate Composition
• ENGL 30213: Advanced Composition

Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX

Director, Wesleyan Collegiate Institute;
Instructor of English (August 1998 to August 2002)
• ENGL 1301: Rhetoric and Composition
• ENGL 1302: Literature and Composition
• ENGL 2301: World Literature I (Ancient to Early Modern)
• ENGL 2302: World Literature II (Early Modern to World War II)
• ENGL 2322: British Literature Survey (19th -20th Centuries)

ADMINISTRATIVE Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

EXPERIENCE Writing Consultant, W. L. Adams Center for Writing (August 2002 –
August 2009):
• Tutored students (first-year to graduate), staff, and faculty in all
aspects of writing, academic to personal, in face-to-face and
online tutorials.
• Worked as Writing Center liaison to the School of Education and
the School of Communication.
• Designed workshops for tutors and university students.
• Designed and maintain Center’s website.

Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX

Director, Wesleyan Collegiate Institute (August 1998 to August 2002):
• Directed dual-enrollment programs
• Launched university-sponsored outreach initiatives
• Implemented a course-specific service learning program
• Maintained budget authority for WCI and ancillary programs
• Supervised a staff of interns and work study students
• Recruited and trained specific personnel within the Fort Worth
Independent School District to participate in Texas Wesleyan
initiatives
• Developed marketing and publicity materials

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 Write to Succeed, Inc., Fort Worth, TX
Executive Director (2002—present)
• Implemented the goals and objectives of the corporation’s
strategic plan
• Recruited, trained, and supervised staff and volunteers
• Managed financial and physical resources
• Developed community partnerships
• Formulated policies and recommendations to the Board of
Directors
• Assisted in the selection and evaluation of Board members
• Developed and oversaw (with appropriate Directors) three
programs:
o Partner Programs (Reading and Writing)
o L.I.F.T. (Learning is Full Time) Programs
o Online Educational Program
• Worked with program directors to enhance and grow programs
• Wrote grants and secured in-kind donations

UNIVERSITY Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

SERVICE • 2010-present: Technical and Professional Writing Committee

Texas Christian University

• 2006-2009: University Compliance Committee
• 2006-2007: University Policy Review Committee, Chair
• 2006-2007: New Media Writing Studio
• 2006-2007: Co-Interim Director, Center for Teaching Excellence
• 2005-2007: University Staff Assembly
• 2003-2007: Chancellor’s Council on Diversity
• 2003-2007: McNair Scholar Mentor
• 2003-2007: Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Committee
• 2003-2005: Judge, Creative Writing Contest
• 2002-2007: Center for Teaching Excellence, eCollege Trainer
• 2002-2003: Composition Committee

Texas Wesleyan University

• 2001-2002: TIFF HE3 Technology Committee
• 1999-2002: Ethics Across the Curriculum

PROFESSIONAL • 2006-present: College Board, AP Language Reader

ACTIVITIES • 2003-2004: K. Patricia Cross Award reviewer for AAHE
• 2003-2004: Co-Chair for the Lysistrata Project, TCU
• 2002-2004: Co-Chair, Graduate Student Caucus, AAHE
• 2001-2002: Homerathon (Texas Wesleyan University)
• 1997: South Central MLA Annual Convention (Dallas), Volunteer
Coordinator

ACADEMIC • 2002: Bob Connor’s Fellowship (Writing Program Administrators)

AWARDS/HONORS • 2002: Board of Trustees Faculty Award for Teaching (Texas
Wesleyan University)
• 2002: K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award (AAHE)
• 2001: Sam Taylor Fellowship (United Methodist Foundation)
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 • 1998: Faulkner Society Student Fellowship
• 1997: Teaching Fellowship, SMU (First-Year Writing Course)
• 1996: Teaching Assistantship, SMU (First-Year Writing Courses
for ESL students)
• 1996: Ronald E. McNair Fellowship
• 1996: TCU Creative Writing Contest First-Place Winner in three
contests:

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT • 2010: THATCamp (Southeast), Atlanta, GA. March 3-6, 2011.
• 2006: “New Media Writing Workshop,” with Jeff Grabill. TCU
• 2006: “Blogs, Wikis, and Writely” (TLT Group)
• 2005: “Teaching Workshop,” Wakonse South
• 2004: “Teaching with Diversity.” Center for Teaching Excellence,
TCU
• 2003: “Developing a Teaching Portfolio,” Center for Teaching
Excellence, TCU
• 2003: “eCollege Boot Camp,” Center for Teaching Excellence,
TCU
• 2002: “Using a Portfolios in a Composition Classroom,”
Composition Workshop, TCU
• 2002: “Power and Pedagogy,” with Dr. Susan Shaw (diversity
workshop), TCU

COMMUNITY • 2009—2011: Women's Shelter of South Texas, Workshop

SERVICE Facilitator
• 2006-2008: Clayton YES! – Elected Board Member
• 2003-2006: Women’s Haven of Tarrant County. Writing
Workshop Facilitator
• 2003-2005: Board Member, North Texas Writing Center
Association
• 2002-2009: FIFA/NTSA Grade 8 soccer referee

PROFESSIONAL • College Composition and Communication

MEMBERSHIPS • College Teachers of English
• Modern Language Association
• Rhetoric Society of America
• South Central Modern Language Association
• Writing Program Administrators

PH.D. EXAM AREAS • Literacy Studies

• Critical Pedagogy
• Service Learning

REFERENCES Available upon request

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