HELEN ELIZABETH HOWELLS

(Beth)

EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2001
Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Composition and Rhetoric
Minor: Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Certificate: Gender and Women's Studies Graduate Program
DISSERTATION Facing the Page: A Study of the Rhetoric of the Prefaces of
Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Facing the Page is a social and cultural history of the preface as a gendered genre. By examining the prefaces of fifteen canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British women writers, this dissertation delineates the social, aesthetic, and rhetorical motives that shaped the way these writers authorized their varied projects.
M.A., University of Alabama, 1996. English
B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1994. Cum Laude. English and Art History

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Armstrong Atlantic State University, summer 2001-present
Regents 0199: Regents' Test Preparation
English 1101: Composition and Rhetoric
English 1101: Learning Community-Connections with Drs. Miller, Nordenhaug, and Todesca
English 1102: Composition and Literature
English 1102Honors: Composition and Literature
English 2100: Literature and Humanities: Exploring Obsession in Literature
English 2100: Literature and Humanities: The Unreliable Narrator
English 3010: Introduction to Literary Studies
English 3020: Graduate and Undergraduate: Introduction to Composition Studies
English 5730 Graduate and Undergraduate: Rhetoric
English 5760: Graduate and Undergraduate: Literary Non-Fiction
English 5990: Capstone Seminar
ECED/MGED/SCED 7300: Coastal Georgia Writing Program Summer Institute
GWST 1101: Introduction to Women's Studies
Basic Writing, City of Savannah, spring 2002
Teaching Intern, English 531: Feminist Theory and Women Writers, UNCG, fall 2000
Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996-2001
English 101: Composition
English 102: Art and Argumentation
English 102: Gender Construction
English 102: Film and Argumentation
English 104: Introduction to Literature
English 105: Introduction to Narrative
English 212: British Writers: Romantic to Modern
Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama, 1994-96
English 101: Freshman Composition
English 102: Introduction to Literature
English 206: Survey of Late British Literature, Romantic through Modern

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Interim Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts, AASU, June 2008-January 2008
Director of Composition, Armstrong Atlantic State University, fall 2001-present
Director of Composition Responsibilities:
" Develop, draft, and revise schedules with Department Head
" Assist with supervision, needs assessment, and advisement of Core Faculty
" Development of Teaching Conversations-a monthly series of meetings devoted to pedagogy issues in Core classes
" Review of Core Course descriptions and requirements
" Coordination of LLP Learning Community offerings
" Maintenance and development of Writing Program website
" Facilitation of textbook selection for 1101 and 1102
" Participation in and review of Core Assessment Project
" Coordination of evaluation of English CLEP exams
" Organization of LLP Writing Contest and Awards ceremony
" Promotion of Writing Program issues across the campus
" Consulting and liaison services for community writing initiatives
" Development of a strategic plan for the Writing Program at AASU
" Design and implementation of Community Read project
" Serve as educator and mediator on departmental plagiarism issues
" AASU LLP Representative to the BOR Advisory Committee on English, fall 2004-2005
Adjunct Responsibilities:
" Interview, recruit, and hire adjunct faculty with Department Head
" Organize and facilitate adjunct faculty orientation at the beginning of every semester
" Advise and supervise adjunct faculty
" Observe and evaluate adjunct faculty
Regents' Test Coordinator Responsibilities, fall 2001-spring 2007
" Advise and place an average of 150 Regents' students per semester
" Development of Automated Regents' Test Registration System
" Coordination of Regents' Test Task Force
" Inform and promote awareness of Regents' Test requirements
" Grading of Regents' exams as needed
Co-Director, Coastal Georgia Writing Project, AASU, summer 2002-2004
" Co-Direct CGWP Summer Institute
" Serve on Advisory Board
" Assist in public relations, recruitment, retention, grant writing, and grant maintenance concerns of the Project
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, AASU, Fall 2001-Spring 2004
" Attend and facilitate monthly meetings and chapter events
" Maintain correspondence between local chapter and national organization
" Organize and assist with hosting a booth at Armstrong Day
" Host Annual Induction Dinner
Assistant Director of Composition, UNCG, fall 2000-spring 2001
Program Coordinator, "Finding Our Voices: Strong Bodies, Strong Voices, Strong
Selves," conference sponsored by the UNCG Women's Studies Program in
cooperation with community youth organizations, fall 2000
Assistant Director of the Writing Center, UNCG, fall 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Writing to Read/ Reading to Write: A Composition and Literature Textbook. (Accepted and forthcoming fall of 2009, Pearson)

"Producing the Prince of Publishing: Charlotte Bronte and George Smith." Bronte Studies (Accepted 2007 pending revisions)

"Teaching Writing Downtown." Connections: The journal of the Georgia Council of Teachers of English. 44.2 (2007): 1-9.

"Apologizing for Authority: The Prefaces of Hannah More, Eliza Cook, and Isabelle
Bird." Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Frederick Antczak et al. Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 2002: 131-138.

"On the Commodification of Eastern Art: John Frederick Lewis's The Hhareem of
1850." Victorians Institute Journal, 29 (2001): 61-84

Book Notes, English Language in Transition 1880-1920,
42: 3 (1999): 355-357
42: 4 (1999): 482-486
43: 2 (2000): 249-254
43: 3 (2000): 379-383
44: 2 (2001): 253-256

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Re-Presenting the Rhetoric of Retention and the Work of First-Year Composition: Learning to Revise as a WPA." 2008 Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Denver, CO, July 2008

"Southern Homes: Resistance, Curiosity, and Empowerment." Southeastern Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 2008

"When Politics and Pedagogy Collide: The Identity of First-Year Composition and the Rhetoric of Retention." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, March 2007 (Panel Chair)

"Literacy as Linchpin: Centering Composition in the Learning Community." Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference, Statesboro, GA, February 2007 (Panel Chair)

"Teaching While the Students Aren't Looking: Using Subversive Instruction to Facilitate Empowered Learning." Co-presented with Nancy Remler and Jack Simmons. AASU 6th Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, AASU, March 2006

"Producing the Prince of Publishing: Charlotte Bronte and George Smith." British Women Writers' Conference, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 2005

"The Hidden "R" in NWP: Using Writing Strategies to Teach Reading." National Writing Project Annual Meeting, NCTE, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2004 (Panel chair)

"Reading Gloria Anzaldua." Composition Studies Conference, Durham, New Hampshire, October 2004

"No Red Pen Required." Co-presented with Andi Beth Mincer, Physical Therapy. President's Symposium on Teaching and Learning Symposium, AASU, April 2004

"Boredom." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, Texas, March 2004

"Learning the Teacher and Enlightening the Fire Chiefs: Teaching Composition Downtown." National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA November 2003 (Panel Chair)

"Reading the Word/World in First-Year Composition." Student Success in Composition Conference, Statesboro, GA February 2003 (Panel Chair)

"Developing the Writing Program Website: A Case Study in Collaboration Teaching." Co-presented with Nancy Luke, Faculty Support. President's Symposium on Teaching and Learning Symposium, AASU, April 2003

"Rhythms of Growth: Making Transitions in Site Leadership." National Writing Project Annual Meeting, NCTE, Atlanta, GA November 2002

"Becoming Professionals: From Composition Candidates to Colleagues." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL March 2002

"Facing the Page: The Prefaces of Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers." Third Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Decatur, IL, October 2001.

"Enacting Feminist Pedagogy: A Reflection on Teaching Feminist Theory." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, March 2001

"Comprehensive Exam R/Evolution: Initiating Discussion about Graduate Student Exam Systems." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Birmingham, AL, November 2000

"Co-Teaching as Partnership: Not Exactly Mind-Reading." The National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Milwaukee, WI, November 2000

"Apologizing for Authority: The Rhetoric of the Prefaces of Eliza Cook, Isabelle Bird, and Hannah More" Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Washington D.C., May 2000

"Justification by Social Work: The Prefaces of Mary Hays, Sarah Stickney Ellis, and Elizabeth Gaskell." Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Boone, NC, April 2000

"Inventing Student Visibility: Assignment Sheets, Inventive Acts, and Student Essays." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1999

"On the Text Embodied or the Body of the Text: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote and the Act of Reading." Reading and Teaching British Women Writers: The Seventh Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998

"On the Commodification of Eastern Art: John Frederick Lewis's The Hhareem of 1850." Snapshots from Abroad: A Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing. Minneapolis, MN, November 1997

"Reading, Writing, and Empire Maintenance: On Tom Brown's Imperialist Education." The Victorian's Institute Conference on the Victorian Classroom, Harrisonburg VA, October 1997 (Accepted but unable to present)

"Oliver Twist Leaves Las Vegas with Pretty Woman: 1990s Fallen Women." Connections--Uniting Academic Disciplines Conference, Lexington, KY, February 1997

"On Millais' Mariana: Readings on the Isolated Maiden." Twentieth Annual Midwestern Art History Symposium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, April 1994

INVITED PRESENTATIONS and CONSULTATION WORK

"Creating Common Ground: Integrating the Learning Community," PRISM Forum, AASU, November 2005

"The Savannah Read," FMU Consulting, November 2005

"The Heart of the Matter: Collaboration and the Learning Community," November First Friday Forum, AASU, November 2005

"AASCU/USG/AASU and Retention." Co-presented with Greg Anderson and Michael Price. AASU Faculty Forum, Savannah, Georgia, August 2005

"AASCU Graduation Rates Outcomes Report." Co-presented with AASCU/USG Task Force. RACAA/RACSA Annual Summer Meeting, St. Simon's Island, Georgia, July 2005

"Spaces and Faces of Teaching at AASU." Faculty Representative for University System of Georgia Board of Regents visit to AASU, April 2005

"The Regents' Test." AASU Faculty Forum, Savannah, Georgia, August, 2004

"Writing Reminders." Presentation for Dr. Todesca's History Majors. (January 2003)

Literature and the Writing Process, Prentice Hall Consultation, Chattanooga State Technical Community College. (August 2003)

"Just Write." PREP-Program presentation. (October 2002 and October 2003)

"How to Succeed in English 1101." Learning Support presentation. (March 2002)

Guest speaker at Honors Department pre-Theatre dinner. (Sept. 2001)

Guest speaker at Writing Center Tutor Training on Compositionist Peter Elbow and
Criticism (Sept. 2001)

Panel organizer and participant at information meeting for students interested in Graduate School in English, AASU (Nov. 2001, Sept. 2002, Oct. 2003, and Oct. 2007)

"'Reader, I Married Him:' Charlotte Bronte, Her Sister Writers, and Their Stories." Asheboro Arts Guild, April 2000

"Women Writers and their Prefaces." Women's Studies Colloquium, UNCG, April 1999

"Graduate School in English: A Panel Discussion." UNCG, sponsored by the English Department and Sigma Tau Delta, November 1998

Guest Lecturer on Christina Rossetti at Radford University, VA, November 1998

"Thoughts about Writing, or All You Need is the Titanic Soundtrack to Write a Good Paper." Graduate Student Workshop on Survival Skills, UNCG, October 1998

COMMITTEE WORK and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Interim Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts, summer 2008-present
Director of Composition, fall 2001-present
Faculty Senator, fall 2008-2011
Student Center Design Development Committee, summer 2007-present
Faculty Development Committee, Armstrong, fall 2005-present
University Curriculum Committee, Armstrong, fall 2004-present
University Institutional Effectiveness Committee, Armstrong, fall 2004-present
Gender & Women's Studies Advisory Board, Armstrong, fall 2003-present
Chair, Core Committee, Armstrong, fall 2001-present
Regents' Test Task Force, Armstrong, fall 2001-present
Strategic Planning Task Force, VPAA, 2007
Big Read Planning Committee, Armstrong, 2003-2007
Armstrong Women's Caucus Advisory Board, Armstrong, fall 2004-2006
Leaders Among Us Advisory Board, Armstrong, spring 2005-summer 2006
University Writing Committee, Armstrong, fall 2001-spring 2005
Pre-Med Advisory Committee, Armstrong, 2003-2004
Hallmarks Committee, Armstrong, spring 2003
LLP Technology Committee, Armstrong, 2002-2003
LLP Curriculum Committee, Armstrong, 2002-2003
Graduate Student Representative, English Graduate Studies Committee, UNCG, 1998-99
Co-Chair, Comprehensive Exam Revision Committee, UNCG, fall 1998
Member, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Teaching Excellence Committee, UNCG, 1997-98
Co-Coordinator, Twenty-Second Annual Alabama Symposium on English and American
Literature at the University of Alabama: Futures for Jacques Derrida, October 1995
President, English Graduate Organization, University of Alabama, 1995-96

Search committees
Chair, First-Year Experience Instructors Search Committee, LLP, Armstrong, spring 2008
Search Committee member, Assistant Vice-President for Academic Services, VPAA, Armstrong, fall 2007-present
Member, Communications Professor Search Committee, LLP, Armstrong, fall 2007-present
Chair, Professional/Technical Writing Search Committee, LLP, Armstrong (2005-2006)
Department Head Search Committee, LLP, Armstrong (2004-2005)
Professional/Technical Writing Search Committee, LLP, Armstrong (2003-2004)
Full-time Temporary Writing Instructor, LLP, Armstrong (2002-2003)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
British Women Writers Association
Georgia Council of Teachers of English
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Writing Project
Rhetoric Society of America
Southeastern Association of MLA
Southeastern Women's Studies Association

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Study Team Member, American Association of Schools Colleges and Universities, Graduation Rate Outcomes Task Force, Spring 2005
Kristina C. Brockmeier Faculty Award, AASU, April 2004
Teaching and Learning Grant $2000 to develop Community Read project, December 2004
Teaching and Learning Grant of $1100 to develop Campus Read project, December 2003
Nominee, Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate, National Resource Center for First-Year Experience, fall 2003
Teaching and Learning Grant of $1000 to develop a "Literary Fieldwork" field trip for Honors English students, Feb. 2003
Teaching and Learning Grant of $2500 to develop the AASU Writing Program Website, spring 2002
Mildred Kates Dissertation Award, UNCG English Department, 2000-2001
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Teaching Award, UNCG, spring 2000
Graduate Teaching Award, UNCG English Department, 1999-2000
Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research, summer 1999
William B. Lane Fellowship,UNCG, 1998-99
William B. Lane Fellowship, UNCG, 1996-97
Greensboro Graduate Scholar, UNCG, 1996-98
Graduate Student Essay Award, UNCG, 1997
Teaching Commendation, University of Alabama, 1994-95 and 1995-96
Graduated cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1994