CASSIE A.

WRIGHT
CURRICULUM VITAE

2015 E 6 St, Tucson, AZ 85719 Email: cassiew@email.arizona.edu Phone: 520.548.0872 (cell) Website: cassieawright.com

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University of Arizona Department of English 1423 E. University Blvd. Modern Languages, Room 445 P.O. Box 210067 Tucson, Arizona 85721

EDUCATION
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona, May 2013. Dissertation: Mediating Sports Feminism: Social Media and Social Activist Rhetorics of Health and Sport in the 21st Century Committee: Drs. Ken McAllister (Chair), Damian Baca, and Grace Fielder. Comprehensive Exams, Passed with Distinction, Mar. 2011 MA, English, California State University Long Beach, 2008. Concentration: Composition and Rhetoric Thesis: Transgressing Traditions: Playing with Narrative in the Composition Classroom. Committee: Dr. Mark Williams (Chair), Dr. Gary Griswold, and Todd Fox, M.A.. BA, English with a Minor in Environmental Science, University of Arizona, 2004. Research Areas: Feminisms; Body Rhetorics; New Media and Digital Rhetorics; Feminist (Media) Sport Studies; Composition Pedagogy; Writing Program Administration

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Graduate Teaching Associate II, Writing Program, University of Arizona, 2011-present Writing Consultant, C.A.T.S. Writing Center, University of Arizona, 2010-present Graduate Teaching Associate I, Writing Program, University of Arizona, 2010-11 Graduate Teaching Assistant II, Writing Program, University of Arizona, 2008-10 Graduate Teaching Assistant I, English Department, CSU Long Beach, 2007-08 Writing Tutor, Writers Resource Lab, CSU Long Beach, 2006-08

HONORS
Fellowships & Scholarships 2012 Patrick Fellowship, $7,000 (application pending) 2012 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, RCTE, Fall ($2,187) 2012 Graduate Tuition Scholarship, RTCE, Spring ($2,187)

2011 2010 2009 2008 2007-08 2001-04 Grants 2012 2012 2011 2010

GAT Right-Sizing Workload Scholarship & Course Release, University of Arizona Basic Writing Teaching Facilitator, Writing Program Fellowship ($500) GAT Right-Sizing Workload Scholarship & Course Release, University of Arizona Departmental Fellowship, University of Arizona ($2,000) Teaching Masters of Arts Candidate Scholarship, CSULB ($ 2,700) NCAA Div1 Athletic Scholarship, Womens Soccer, University of Arizona ($46,000)

EGU Travel Grant ($325). Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Winnipeg, Canada. GPSC Travel Grant ($500). Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Winnipeg, Canada (Application under review). EGU Travel Grant ($325). College Conference on Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO. EGU Travel Grant ($325). College Conference on Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA.

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles Sporting Generations of Feminism. thirdspace: Generations of Feminism. Special issue on The history of feminisms. Ed. Lindsay Steenberg. (Under review). Book Chapters Doing Girl Power: Negotiating Sporting Femininities in MediaSport. Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance. Eds. Michelle S. Bae and Olga Ivashkevich. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2012: 171-90. Print. Textbooks Sport: A V-Series Reader. Fountainhead Press. (Forthcoming, est 2014). A Teachers Manifesto. A Students Guide to First-Year Writing. Ed. Marissa M. Jurez, Jacob Witt, and Jennifer Haley-Brown. 31st ed. Plymouth: Hayden McNeil, 2010. 254-57. Print. Works in Progress Criminalizing Girlhood: Girls, Risk, HIV, and the Transnational Ethico-politics of Nikes Girl Effect. Criminalizing Contagion: ethics, legal and clinical challenges of prosecuting the spread of disease and sexually transmitted infections. joint CFP by Sexually Transmitted Infections, Journal of Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities. (manuscript). Embodiment and Ethos: A Feminist Cartography of Rhetoric as Bodily. (manuscript).

Indios in WPA Cupboards: Problematizing WPA Historical Recovery Through a Post-Columbian Analytic. (manuscript).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS

Invited Talks Imagining New Directions in Critical Theory, Welcome and Introduction to Keynote, Professor Walter Mignolo, New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, Tucson, AZ, Apr 2010. National Rhetoric, Basic Writing, and Student Athletes, Special Interest Group, Conference on College Composition and Communication, co-chair, Las Vegas, NV, Mar, 2013. Composing Women and Development: Digital Literacies and Feminist Social Movement Praxis, Conference on College Composition and Communication, panel presentation, Las Vegas, NV, Mar, 2013. Re/Framing Global Identifications: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and the Politics of Difference and Identity in the Womens International Sport Movement. Rhetoric Society of America Conference, panel presentation, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012 (Accepted). SIG: Student-Athletes and First-Year Composition, Conference on College Composition and Communication, co-chair, St. Louis, MO, Apr, 2012 (Accepted). Bridging or Building Gateways with Student-Athletes in FYC: A Case Study. Conference on College Composition and Communication, panel chair; panel presentation, St. Louis, MO, Apr, 2012 (Accepted). Sports Feminism and Digital Rhetorical Action: Exigencies, Ethoi, and Exemplum. Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, panel presentation, MN, Oct, 2011. Material Rhetoric, Rhetorics Materiality Workshop. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Boulder, Co, Jun, 2011 (Accepted). Contested Spaces, Contested Knowledge: Exploring All Our Relations with Student Athletes. Conference on College Composition and Communication, panel chair; panel presentation, Atlanta, GA, Apr, 2011. Writing Their Way Into His-Story. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Christina Kirklighter, chair; panel presentation, Louisville, KY, Mar, 2010. Regional Sporting Feminisms: (Trans)national Feminist Rhetorics and the Womens International Sports

Movement, Western States Rhetorics and Literacy Conference States, panel presentation, Winnipeg, Canada, Oct., 2012 (Accepted). Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Global Sportscapes: Politics of Difference and Identity in the Womens International Sport Movement. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, panel presentation, Tempe, AZ, Oct, 2011. Graduate Mediated Bodies in Language, Sport, and Culture: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, panel presentation, Tucson, AZ, Apr, 2011. Towards a Critical-Expressivist Pedagogy: At the Pedagogical Crossroads of FYC. New Directions in Critical Theory Conference panel presentation, Tucson, AZ, Apr, 2009.

COURSES TAUGHT
University of Arizona Lower Division First-Year Composition Basic Writing Basic Writing *for Incoming Student-Athletes Rhetorical Argument Public Writing: Writing with Community Gender and Sports Media Rhetorics Upper Division Advanced Composition Technical and Professional Writing California State University of Long Beach Lower Division Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric

WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

2011-present 2011 2010 2009-10 2009 2007 Difference & Inequality Committee, Writing Program, Arizona Eng 101 Curriculum Re-Design Focus Group, Writing Program Basic Writing Teaching Facilitator, Writing Program, Arizona Co-Chair, New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, Arizona Writing Program Administration Seminar, Dr. Edward White, Arizona Writing Assessment Team, California State University, Long Beach

WRITING CENTER EXPERIENCE

2010-11 2006-08 200608 2007 Writing Consultant, CATS Writing Center, Athletic Department, Arizona Center Manager and Special Needs Tutor, McNichols Learning Center & The Dyslexia Foundation, Newport Beach, Ca Writing Tutor, Writing Resource Lab, California State University, Long Beac. Writing Center Pedagogy Seminar, California State University, Long Beach

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009 2008 20052008 Editorial Intern, Dos Vatos Productions, Tucson, AZ, Summer 2009 Section Editor, Watermark (vol. 2), California State University of Long Beach Studio Editor, The Web Network, Torrance, CA

SERVICE
Service to the Profession 2011Co-chair, Rhetoric, Basic Writing, and Student Athletes, CCCC SIG 2010Reviewer, Community Literacy Journal, http://www.communityliteracy.org/. University and Departmental Service University of Arizona 2012 National Day on Writing Fair, University of Arizona, Oct. 18 2011 Athletic Department-Writing Program Open House, University of Arizona 2011 Eng 102 Curriculum Development Focus Group, Writing Program 2011Family Advocacy Coalition for English Students 2008-09 Peer Mentor, Rhetoric Composition and the Teaching of English 2008English Graduate Union California State University of Long Beach 2007-08 Section Editor, Watermark (vol. 2) 2007-08 Volunteer, Womens Center 2007 Writing Assessment Team 2006-08 English Students Association Service Outside the University 2012 Womens Birth and Health Center, Mom and Baby Group, Tucson, AZ 2009-10 HOPE Animal Shelter, Tucson, AZ 5

2009 2008-09

Dos Vatos Productions, Precious Knowledge, Tucson, AZ Tucson Writes Night, University of Arizona and Tucson High, Tucson, AZ

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2012 2012 2009 2009 2009-10 2009 2008-09 2008 Workshop: Fostering and Inclusive Classroom: Embracing International Students, Center for English as a Second Language (CESL), Arizona, Nov, 2012. Social and Behavioral Researcher Investigators, Stage 2, CITI Certified, Sep 2012. Social and Behavioral Research Investigators, Stage 1, CITI Certified, Sep 2009. Participant, Comparative Pedagogies International Teaching TEAD Writing Assessment Group, Writing Program, University of Arizona Latino/a Caucus Workshop, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, Mar, 2009. RCTE Professional Development Colloquia, Dr. Theresa Enos, University of Arizona Responding to Student Writing Assessment Workshop with Nancy Sommers, University of Arizona.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Composition and Communication FemTechNet National Council of Teachers of English Rhetoric Society of America Council of Writing Program Administrators

REFERENCES
Dr. Ken McAllister (Chair) Professor and Program Director of Rhetoric and Composition University of Arizona, Department of English 1423 E. University Blvd. Rm. 445 Modern Languages Building P.O. Box 210067, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Email: mesmer@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 621-1598 Dr. Damian Baca Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition University of Arizona, Department of English 1423 E. University Blvd. Rm. 445 Modern Languages Building

P.O. Box 210067, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Email: damian@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 626-0779 Dr. Grace Fielder Professor of English Language and Linguistics University of Arizona, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies Learning and Services Building Rm. 305 Tucson, Arizona 85721 Email: gfielder@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 621-7981 Dr. Anne-Marie Hall Associate Writing Specialist and Writing Program Director University of Arizona, Department of English 1423 E. University Blvd. Rm. 380 Modern Languages Building Tucson, Arizona 85721 Email: hall@email.arizona.edu Phone: (520) 621-3553 Dr. Mark Williams Professor of English California State University, Long Beach, Department of English Address1250 Bellflower Blvd. MHB 419 Long Beach, CA 90840 Email: mwilliams@csulb.edu Phone: (562) 985-1978