Curriculum Vita

Bruce P. Ballenger Home address: Office address: 1503 N. 25th St.. English Department Boise, ID 83702 Boise State University 208-331-9644 Boise, ID 83724 e-mail: bballenger@mac.com 208-426-7069

e-mail: bballeng@boisestate.edu

Education Ph.D. Composition and Literature, University of New Hampshire, September, 1995.

Dissertation topic: Beyond Note Cards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper. M.A. in English, Nonfiction Writing, University of New Hampshire, May, 1985. M.S. Natural Resources, Environmental Communication, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, May, 1976. B.S. Population Dynamics, Minor in Botany, University of Wisconsin- Green Bay, June, 1974. Teaching Experience Professor of English, Boise State University, 1995-present

Creative Nonfiction, 20th Century American Nonfiction, Nonfiction Form and Theory, Composition and Rhetorical Theory, Composition, Advanced Composition, American Literature

Teaching Assistant, University of New Hampshire, 1990-1995

Freshman English, Advanced Essay Writing, The Literature of the Essay, American Literature Survey

Adjunct Graduate Faculty, University of New Hampshire, Summer Studies Program in Composition and Literature, 1988-1994

Essay Writing Instructor, University of New Hampshire, 1984-1990

Freshman English, Introduction to Prose Writing, Advanced Essay Writing

Teaching Assistant, University of New Hampshire, 1982-1984

Freshman English

Instructor, University of Michigan-Dearborn and University of Michigan-Flint, 1976 Mass Media and the Environment

2 Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1975-1976.

Mass Media and the Environment Publications

Books

The Curious Researcher. 9th Edition. New York: Longman, 2017 (Forthcoming) The Curious Writer. 5th Edition. New York: Pearson, 2016 Crafting Truth: Short Studies in Creative Nonfiction. New York: Longman, 2011.

The Curious Reader: Exploring Personal and Academic Inquiry. 2nd Edition. New York: Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2005.

Beyond Note Cards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Boynton/Cook, 2000.

Discovering the Writer Within: 40 days to more imaginative writing. Coauthored with Barry Lane. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1989. Republished by Shoreham, VT: Discover Writing Press, 2008. The Lobster Almanac. Chester: Globe Pequot Press, 1988. Natural history.

The Cousteau Almanac of the Environment. New York: Doubleday, 1981. One of six principal writers.

Academic Articles

“A Narrative Logic of the Personal Essay.” The Writer’s Chronicle, Associated Writing Programs, (forthcoming in 2017). “Let’s End Thesis Tyranny.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 17, 2013): n.p. “Our Mornings with Murray.” Writing on the Edge 19.1 (2008): 40-46. “Donald Murray and the Pedagogy of Surprise.” College English 70.3 (January 2008): 296-303.

“Stumbling into the Light of New Meanings.” Writing on the Edge 17.2 (Spring

2007): 21-22.

“Preface.” In Multiple Genres, Multiple Voices. By Cheryl Johnson and Jayne Moneysmith. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005.

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“Learning to Trust the Twelfth Picture on the Roll.” The Subject is Research. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Boynton/Cook, 2001.

“The Importance of Writing Badly.” Genre by Example. Ed. David Starkey. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann and Boynton/Cook, 2001.

“The Tufts of Flowers in a Leveled Field.” Pre/Text 16 (1997): 12-

22.

"The Methods of Memory: On Native American Storytelling." College English 59 (1997): 37-48.

"Beyond Note Cards: Writing in the Zone of Contact." English in Texas 26.2 (1994): 24-29.

"Teaching the Research Paper." Nuts and Bolts. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993.

"Teaching the Research Paper." The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing. Ed. Robert Connors and Cheryl Glenn. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

"Case History of a Student Writer.” Write to Learn. Donald Murray, Second and Third Editions. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1987 and 1990.

"The Importance of Writing Badly." The Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 1990.

Creative Nonfiction

“Rising, and Rising Again.” Full Grown People (forthcoming in 2017) “Return to the Typewriter.” The Fourth Genre (forthcoming in 2017) “The Gestalt of Revision and ‘Return to the Typewriter.’” The Fourth Genre (forthcoming 2017) “When Nostalgia is the Scent We Follow.” River Teeth: Journal of Narrative Nonfiction 12.2 ( Spring, 2011): 9-21. “Theories of Intelligence,” Stepping on My Brother’s Head. Ed. Sondra Perl and Charles Schuster. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2010 “The Sadness of Smoke and Ash.” The Idaho Statesman 14 August 2007: 20. “The Importance of Writing Badly.” 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers. Ed Vicki Spandel. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005.

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"Lobstering." The Encyclopedia of New England Culture. Ed.

David Watters and Burt Feintuch. New Haven: Yale University P, 2005.

“Back-to-basics Teaching of English Can Kill a Love of Language.” The Idaho Statesman. October 20, 2003: 20.

“In Such a World, Does Writing Matter?” The Idaho Statesman. December 19, 2001: 20.

“The Crack of Bats, the Clacking of Tongs.” The Idaho Statesman. September 23, 2001: 23.

"The Muttering of Geese in Flight," Changes Magazine, February, 1993.

"The Lobster," DownEast Magazine, July, 1989

"Lobster Lore," New Hampshire Profiles Magazine, June 1989.

"The Gathering of the Clan at Grandma's Picnic," essay, Hartford Courant and L.A. Times Syndicate, August, 1986.

"The Battle Dad Lost," essay, The Boston Globe, September, 1985.

"Former Helenan Turned Yankee Says Return Can Bend the Mind,"

Helena Independent Record, October 30, 1984. Direct Mail on a Shoestring, publication of Northern Rockies Action Group, Fall, 1984, 38 pp.

“Media Isn't Enough" and "Why People Join," Community Jobs Magazine, July-August, 1983, and April, 1981.

The Membership Recruiting Manual, publication of Northern Rockies Action Group, 1981, 80 pp.

"Like Good Organizing, PR Needs a Strategy," Community Jobs Magazine, July-Sept., 1980.

"Legislature Gets Mixed Marks," New York Times, Connecticut Supplement, June 26, 1977.

"A Crew in Your Own Right," SAIL Magazine, October, 1975.

Other Professional Activities

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Conference Presentations “The Power of Narrative Thinking,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, 2017. “The Gestalt of Revision.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, 2016. “The Importance of Narrative Thinking.” Council of Writing Program Administrators, Boise, ID, July 2015. “Newkirk as Lazarus,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, Florida, March 2015. “Narrative Expectations in the Personal Essay,” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 2015. “Inquiry, Prior Knowledge, and Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY, April 2010. “On Being Murrayesque.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008. “Getting Back to Writing.” Keynote, Passports and Passages Conference, Hailey, Idaho, April 2008. “Professional Literacies.” University of New Hampshire Conference on Composition Studies, October, 2007. “Textbooks and the Evolution of the Discipline.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2007. “The Landscape Under Our Skins.” Western Literature Association, October, 2006. “Another Voice in the Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, 2005. “Saul Alinksky, Where Are You Now?” Keynote, Workshop for the Assembly on Expanded Perspectives on Learning. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, 2004.

“How to Read an Essay.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, 2004.

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“Research and the Problems of Everyday Life.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 2002. Panelist.

“Researchers as Readers,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL 2002. Speaker for full day workshop by Conference on Basic Writing.

“The Captive Genre,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, 2001. Featured speaker for full day workshop, “Alternatives in Research.”

“What Michael Said: Tales of the Epistemologically Challenged.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, April, 1998.

"The Story of Inquiry," co-leader of full day workshop, National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago, November, 1996.

"The Captive Genre," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March, 1996.

"Teaching the Research Paper: Huck, Tom, and the Pleader's for Euthanasia," Idaho Council of Teachers of English, October, 1995.

"Beyond Notecards: Writing in the Zone of Contact," Conference on Composition and Communication, Washington D.C., 1995.

“The Methods of Memory: A Meditation on Native American Storytelling,” Western Literature Association Conference, Salt Lake City, October, 1994.

“Men at Work in Composition: What Kind of Work Is It?" Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, March, 1993.

"Teaching Bad Writing," University of New Hampshire Writing Conference, October, 1992.

"Rethinking the Research Paper,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, March, 1992.

Conference Sessions Chaired

“Just a Community College: Working Toward Justice.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, March, 1997.

Editorial: Professional Journals

Member, Editorial Board, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001 to 2007.

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Editorial: Manuscript Reviews “Artifacts of Ancestry: Fostering a Collaborative Composition Pedagogy," reviewed for College Composition and Communication, March 2016. “The Hidden Ethos Inside Process Pedagogy: Noticing the Rhetoric of Alternative Authority in Macrorie, Elbow, and Murray,” reviewed for Pedagogy, August 2012. “Curating Rhetorics with Public History: The Inquiry and Arrangement of Research Projects in Creative Writing and Composition,” reviewed for College English, July 2012. Listening as a Model for Writing: Moving Beyond the Discourse of Mastery in the Writing Classroom, reviewed for Utah State University Press, July 2012. “Rhetorical Sovereignty and Rhetorical Alliance in the Writing Classroom,” reviewed for Pedagogy, May 2011. “The Rhetoric of Alternative Authority: The Ethos of Peter Elbow and Donald Murray,” reviewed for College English, January 2010.

“Ways of Research,” reviewed for Composition Forum, December 2009

Punctuating Yourself, reviewed for Longman, August 2009. Performing Prose: Style in Analysis and Composition by Chris Holcolmb and Jimmie Killingsworth, reviewed for Southern Illinois UP, April 2008. Going Down the Crossroads, by Mark Shadle and Rob Davis, reviewed for Southern Illinois UP, October 2005

Rural Literacies, by Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, and Eileen Schell, reviewed for Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, March 2005.

First Time Up, by Brock Dethier, reviewed for Utah State UP, 2005.

Goin’ Down the Crossroads, by Mark Shadle and Rob Davis. Reviewed for Southern Illinois UP, 2004

Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse, by Candace Spigelman, reviewed for Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2004. Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching, by Kristie Fleckenstein, reviewed for Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2004.

Self-Development in College Writing, by Nick Tingle, reviewed for Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2003.

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Professional Organizations

Member, National Council of Teachers of English Member, College Composition and Communication

Professional Workshops and Consulting Speaking Engagements Keynotes

▪ Keynote, “Trends in Teaching College Composition Conference,” Collins College,

TX (forthcoming in March 2017) ▪ Keynote, “Writing on the Edge: Adjuncts Transforming Composition in the 21st

Century Conference,” College of DuPage, September 2015 ▪ Keynote, “Pedagogy in Practice Conference,” University of Florida, January 2014 ▪ Keynote, “Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference,” Western Oregon

University, March, 2012

National Webinars

▪ “The Gestalt of Revision,” Learning Makes Us, Pearson, March 2016 ▪ “The Power of Narrative Thinking, Pedagogy and Practice, Pearson, Feb. 2015 ▪ “Overcoming Resistance to Reflection in Creative Nonfiction,” Headwinds,

Pearson, 2012. Workshops and Talks

▪ Texas Christian University, September 2016 ▪ Virginia Commonwealth University, August, 2013. ▪ Portland State University, April, 2012 ▪ Michigan State University, March, 2011 ▪ Murray State University, March, 2011 ▪ University of New Orleans, October, 2010 ▪ Nicholls State University, October, 2010 ▪ Aurora Community College, August 2010 ▪ Nova Southeastern University, August, 2010 ▪ Longman “Headwinds” Webinar, March, 2010 ▪ Keenesaw State University, October 2009 ▪ Florida State University, October 2009 ▪ Utah State University, September 2009 ▪ Bridgewater State College, August 2009

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▪ Summer Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition, Michigan State University, June 2009

▪ University of Mississippi, Sept. 2008 ▪ Michigan State University, Feb. 2008 ▪ Utah State University, Oct. 2007 ▪ Longman Publisher Author Workshop, Detroit, MI, November 2007 ▪ Passports and Passages Conference, Hailey, ID, April, 2007 ▪ Longman Publishers Author Workshop, Dallas, TX, February 2007 ▪ Florida State University, February, 2007 ▪ Front Range Community College, Denver, January 2007 ▪ University of Louisiana, March, 2006 ▪ North Star Writing Project, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2006 ▪ College of DuPage, Elgin, Illinois, February 2006 ▪ University of Nevada-Las Vegas, February 2006 ▪ University of Montana, October 2005 ▪ University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, October 2005. ▪ Houston Two Year College Association, Houston, Texas, April, 2005. ▪ Florida State University, January 2005. ▪ University of Colorado-Boulder, March 2004. ▪ Long Beach School District, Long Beach, California, April 2004. ▪ Texas Two Year College Convention, Austin, February 2005. ▪ Utah State University, Logan, October 2002. ▪ Florida State University, Feb. 2002. ▪ Prospect Heights, IL, School District, November, 2001. ▪ Salem State College, 2000 ▪ Utah State University, 2000 ▪ Summer Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition, Millikin University, 2000 ▪ Idaho Writer’s League, July, 1997. ▪ Washington State University, October 1996.

Grants Recipient, Idaho State Board of Education Technology Incentive Grant, “Technology Training for Graduate Teaching Assistants,” 2003-2004. Faculty Research Assistance Program grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, 1999. Mini-grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, 1996. Awards and Honors Faculty Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016. Finalist, College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009 and 2010..

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Sabbatical Leave, Boise State University, 2001-2002, 2009-2010, 2016-20017

Coach of the Week, Boise State University, September 2000. Dissertation Fellowship, April, 1995. Passed Comprehensive Exams With Distinction, June, 1994. Finalist, Seagram's Award for Best Food and Beverage Book, The Lobster Almanac, 1989. Tuition Fellowship, University of New Hampshire, 1983. Magna cum laude, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1974 Recipient, Ford Foundation grant to direct mobile environmental education center, 1973. Service Administration

Interim Associate Chair, Department of English, Boise State University, Fall, 2015. Director of Rhetoric and Composition, Boise State University, 2007 to 2009, 2012 to 2016. Interim Director of Writing, Boise State University, Fall 2014. Chair, Department of English, Boise State University, 2003 to 2006.

Director of Writing, Boise State University, August 1996 to 2003

University and Department

English Department Committees, Boise State University

Member, Department Assessment Committee, 2014 to 2016. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2010 to 2014. Member, Search Committee, Rhetoric and Composition, 2010 to 2011. Member, Search Committee, Linguistics, 2008-2009 Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, 2006 to 2009. Member, Portfolio Assessment Team, 2006 to 2007. Chair, Writing Committee, 1996-2003. Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2001-2003. Member, Writing Committee, Fall 1995 to 1996. Member, Executive Committee, Fall 1996 to Spring 2001 Member, Subcommittee on Writing Program Assessment, Spring 1996 Chair, Subcommittee on Teaching Assistants, Spring 1996

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Member, Search Committee, Rhetorical and Composition Theory position, 1996 Member, Search Committee, Creative Writing position, Spring 1996. Member, Editorial Team, WordWorks, Boise State University, Fall 1995 to 1997.

University and College Committees, Boise State University

Member, COAS Promotion and Tenure Policy Review Committee, 2015-2016. Member, Faculty Senate, 2013-2015. Member, COAS Promotion and Tenure Policy Task Force, January 2007

to 2008. Member, Environmental Studies Advisory Committee, 2005 to 2009. Member, BSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award

Committee, Spring 2006. Member, Basque Minor Advisory Board, Fall 2005 to 2006. Chair, Dean’s Evaluation Committee, Spring 2005. Member, Title 3 Task Force, 2000-2002. Member, Adjunct Faculty Task Force, 1999-2001. Volunteer Services Board. 1999-2002. Member, Assessment of Core Committee, 1999.

Community

Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Log Cabin Literary Center, 2008 to 2014. Introduction to Annie Proulx, Egyptian Theater, November 2009. Featured Speaker, “Karen’s Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase,” Log Cabin Literary Center, October 2005. Evaluator, Idaho Humanities Council Grant Program, 2002. Planning Committee, Reader and Writer’s Rendezvous, 1999-2001

Professional Service Program Reviewer, Department of English, California State University-Chico, October 2006. Member, External Review Team, Department of English, North Idaho College, March 2005.

References

Thomas Newkirk, Professor Emeritus, Composition, Department of English, University of New Hampshire Melody Graulich, Professor, American Literature, Department of English, Utah State University. Lad Tobin, Associate Professor, Department of English, Boston College Nancy DeJoy, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

12 References available upon request.