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FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2007-
Current: Tenured Full Professor of English, Fullerton College.
Fullerton, CA.
2002-
2007: Tenured Associate Professor of English, Fullerton
College. Fullerton, CA.
1997-
2002: Assistant Professor of English, Fullerton College.
Fullerton, CA.
EDUCATION
M.A., University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, (1991). English with emphases in critical theory
and twentieth-century literature.
B.A., California State
University, Fullerton, (1989). English.
Sabbatical Coursework (2003-04):
Seminar in William Faulkner, Seminar in Mark Twain & His World,
Asian American Literature,
Literature about the War in Vietnam, Children’s Literature.
PART-TIME ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1991-97: Instructor,
Cerritos College. Norwalk, CA.
1992-97: Instructor,
Santa Ana College (formerly Rancho Santiago College). Santa Ana,
CA.
1991-96: Lecturer,
California State University, Fullerton. Fullerton, CA.
1995-96: Lecturer,
Orange Coast College. Costa Mesa, CA.
1992-93: Lecturer,
Cypress College. Cypress, CA.
COURSES TAUGHT
Freshman Experience:
Santa Ana College (English N60; English 061).
Freshman Composition:
Fullerton College (English 100 regular and hybrid, including special
topics: “pop culture” and “science & technology”); Cerritos College
(English 1 and CAI section); Santa Ana College (English 101); Orange
Coast College (English 100); Cypress College (English 100); CSU,
Fullerton (English 101).
Study Abroad:
Shanghai, China. Summer 2007. Offered English 104 course through
Fullerton College.
Intermediate College Writing: Fullerton
College (English 201, a course in Writing Across the Curriculum).
Critical Thinking and
Writing about Literature:
Fullerton College (English 104).
Critical Reasoning and
Writing:
Fullerton College (English 103 regular and hybrid); Santa Ana
College (English 103).
Introduction to
Literature:
Fullerton College (English 102).
Composition and
Literature:
Cerritos College (English 2); Santa Ana College (English 102).
California Writers:
Fullerton College (English 218).
Shakespeare:
Santa Ana College (English 233A).
Developmental and Basic
Writing:
Fullerton College (English 59); Cerritos College (English 50.1 with
SI [Supplemental Instruction Workshop] paired with Math 50; English
50.2 with SI; English 50.1; and English 50.2 and CAI section); Santa
Ana College (English N60; English 061); Fullerton College (English
60 and CAI section); Cypress College (English 60); CSUF (English 099
and CAI section).
Summer Bridge Writing
Program:
CSUF 1988 and 1991.
UCI WRITING PROJECT
Fellowship in the
University of California, Irvine Writing Project, Summer Institute
on the Teaching of Composition and Literature, 1991. (9 quarter
units of graduate credit).
After The End: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision.
Conference sponsored by the UCI Writing Project. Guest Speaker:
Barry Lane, author, lecturer. UC, Irvine, 22 Oct. 1996.
Reading, Thinking and Writing about
Culturally Diverse Literature.
Conference sponsored by the UCI Writing Project. Guest Speaker:
Bebe Moore Campbell, author. Parc Oakland Hotel, Oakland, CA, 10
Feb. 1994. A series of three workshops.
Designing Literature-Based Writing Curricula for the Multicultural
Classroom.
UCI Writing Project II. Julie Simpson, instructor. UC, Irvine,
Jan. to June 1994. Five monthly workshops whose aim was to
construct a thoroughly scaffolded lesson plan that uses culturally
diverse literature to foster thinking and writing. (1.5 quarter
units of graduate credit).
UCI Writing Project
Spring Reunion Meeting for Summer ‘91 Fellows. Guest Speaker: Faye
Peitzman,
Co-Director, UCLA Writing Project. UC, Irvine, 29 Mar. 1992.
UCI Writing Project Fall
Reunion Meeting for Summer ‘91 Fellows. Guest Speaker: Bill
Strong, Director, Utah Writing Project. Beverly Heritage Hotel,
Costa Mesa, CA, Oct. 29, 1991.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Student Learning
Outcomes and 6-Year Review: Intermediate College Writing, Survey of
Asian American Literature, California Writers, Contemporary
Literature. Fullerton College 2007-2008.
Study Abroad Course for
Shanghai, China: Critical Thinking and Writing about Literature.
Fullerton College 2007.
Survey of Asian American
Literature. New course outline. Lead faculty member. Fullerton
College 2004.
California Writers. Revised course outline. Lead faculty member.
Fullerton College 1999.
WRITING CENTERS
Fullerton College;
Cerritos College; Santa Ana College; CSU, Fullerton; University of
Nebraska, Lincoln.
CONTRACT EDUCATION
CBEST Preparation:
UC, Irvine, Department of Education. Taught a two-week intensive
class for Project SMART. Summer 1995.
SAT Preparation:
New Age College (private)—Garden Grove, CA. (1991-92).
Conversational English:
New Age College (Beginning and Intermediate levels). (1991-92).
Language Arts:
Fullerton Tutors (private)—Fullerton, CA (5th and 6th Grade); New
Age College (Reading Comprehension and Writing). (1991).
HOLISTIC GRADING
Fullerton
College, SLO (Student
Learning Outcomes) evaluation; English 59 and 60 Proficiency Exam
essay reader.
Cerritos
College, Holistic writing
assessment reader for placing incoming students.
Santa Ana
College, Holistic writing
assessment reader for placing incoming students.
Cypress College,
English 60 Department Final Exam essay reader.
CSU, Fullerton, Developmental Writing Program portfolio reader.
UC, Irvine, Holistic writing assessment reader for Pathway Project.
PUBLICATIONS
21st Century Practical Tourism English: College Level
Book I.
Beijing: Fudan UP, 2008. (Co-authored with Wei-ping Kong, Ellen
Rosen, and Sharon Portman).
“Representations of the Chinese Other in Mark Twain’s World.”
Mark Twain Studies 2 (2006): 158-79.
“Traversing the Employment Maze: Strategies for Getting an Interview
at the Community College Level.” Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers
of Writing. (Fall 2003) <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore-fa03/strategies/index.htm>.
PUBLICATIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION
“Author-ity in Robert Coover’s Universal Baseball Association:
Pow(h)er Play ‘Between the Sheets’.” Under consideration in
Critique.
“Nurtured by White Women: Carlos Bulosan’s Coming of Age in
America is in the Heart.” Under consideration in College
English.
“Brontë, Jane Eyre,
and the Feminist Fallacy: Reconsidering the Na(t)ive on Two Shores.”
Under consideration in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES,
AND WORKSHOPS GIVEN
“Visual and Textual Rhetoric: Teaching Critical Thinking About War
Propaganda Literature.”
Popular Culture/ American Culture Associations Conference. 2008.
San Francisco, CA. 19-22 Mar. 2008.
“Intro to Turnitin.com Training.” Fullerton College Flex Week
Workshop. 11 Jan. 2008, 15-16 Aug. 2007.
“Locating and Evaluating Electronic
Sources: How to Critically Assess Your Academic Research.”
Fullerton College Staff Development
and Writing Center Workshops.
Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2001, Spring 2000.
“Getting Hired in the Community College System.” Fullerton College
Staff Development Workshop. Mar. 2007.
“Alienated from Their Birthrights: Themes of Disconnection
in No-No Boy, Nisei Daughter, and China Boy.”
Western Literature Association Conference: Cultures of Memory and
Forgetting in the American West. Los Angeles, CA. 19-22 Oct.
2005.
“The Teacher Scholar: How to and Why Write for inside english.”
English Council of
California Two-Year Colleges Conference: The Teacher Scholar:
Serving Our Students and the English Profession. Long Beach,
CA. 13-15 Oct. 2005.
“Directing Students into Literacy and Success: A First Year
Initiative at College of the Redwoods.” (Session Moderator).
English Council of California Two-Year Colleges Conference: The
Teacher Scholar: Serving Our Students and the English Profession.
Long Beach, CA. 13-15 Oct. 2005.
Acacia Group, English Department
graduate student association at CSU, Fullerton. Presented a
lecture/workshop on publishing in the English Council’s statewide
journal for two-year college English instructors, inside english.
CSU, Fullerton. 6 Oct. 2005.
“Author-ity in Robert Coover’s Universal Baseball Association:
Pow(h)er Play ‘Between the Sheets’.” Popular Culture/ American
Culture Associations Conference. 2005. San Diego, CA. 23-26 Mar.
2005.
Research Network Forum: Editor’s Roundtable. inside english.
CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) 2005:
Opening the Golden Gates. San Francisco, CA. 16-19 Mar. 2005.
“The Perils of Plagiarism: Composition Cops and the Politics of
Purloined Prose.” English Council of California Two-Year Colleges
Conference: Crafting Literacies. 2003. San Diego, CA.
16-18 Oct. 2003.
“Teaching in an Online Environment.” Young Rhetoricians’ Conference
on College Composition and Rhetoric 2003: When Old Ideas Seem New Again.
Monterey, CA. 19-21 June 2003.
“The Internet Vs. the Library: How to Locate and Critically Assess
Your Academic Research in the Digital Age.” English Council of
California Two-Year Colleges Conference: Capitol Ideas.
2001. Sacramento, CA. 18-21 Oct. 2001.
“Desperately Seeking Employment: How to Secure a Full-time
Tenure-track English Position at the Community College Level.”
English Council of California Two-Year Colleges Conference:
Capitol Ideas. 2001. Sacramento, CA. Oct. 2003, 2001.
Fullerton College. Staff
Development. Offered a six 2-hour workshops on Microsoft
FrontPage to faculty and staff. Fall 1998.
Fullerton College. Summer Institute
for Technology Training. Gave two 3-hour workshops on Microsoft
PowerPoint to faculty and staff. 1998, 1999.
Santa Ana College. Gave a 3-hour talk
on Asian American literature for Harold Forsythe’s Ethnic Studies
101 class. 21 Nov. 1995.
E-mail Orientations and Workshops.
Cerritos College. Spring 1997, Fall 1996, Spring 1996, Fall 1995.
Acacia Group, English Department
graduate student association at CSU, Fullerton. Presented a
lecture/workshop on teaching at the community college level and on
writing vitas. 23 Feb. 1996; 12 May 1995.
CSU, Fullerton. Spoke on Amy Tan’s
The Joy Luck Club in Atara Stein’s English 355 class, “Wives,
Mothers and Single Women in 19th and 20th Century Women’s Fiction in
English.” 20 May 1991.
UC, Irvine. “You’ve Got the
Power—Teen Motivational Conference.” Presented a basic skills study
techniques workshop at this conference, which was designed to
encourage high school students to stay in school, off drugs, and out
of gangs. 11 May 1991.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) 2009:
Making Waves. San Francisco, CA. 11-14 Mar. 2009.
Popular Culture/ American Culture Associations Conference 2008. San
Francisco, CA. 19-22 Mar. 2008.
Great Teachers Seminar 2007. Santa Barbara, CA 29 July-3 Aug. 2007.
WLA (Western Literature Association) Conference 2005: Cultures of
Memory and Forgetting in the American West. Los Angeles, CA.
19-22 Oct 2005.
ECCTYC (English Council of California Two-Year Colleges) Conference
2005: The Teacher Scholar: Serving Our Students and the English
Profession. Long Beach, CA. 13-15 Oct. 2005.
Popular Culture/ American Culture Associations Conference 2005. San
Diego, CA. 23-26 Mar. 2005.
CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) 2005:
Opening the Golden Gates. San Francisco, CA. 16-19 Mar. 2005.
ECCTYC (English Council of California Two-Year Colleges) Conference
2003: Crafting Literacies. San Diego, CA. Oct. 2003.
ECCTYC (English Council of California Two-Year Colleges) Conference
2003: Crafting Literacies. San Diego, CA. Oct. 2003.
Annual Young Rhetoricians’ Conference 2003: When Old Ideas Seem
New Again. Monterey, CA. June 2003.
ECCTYC Conference 2001: Capitol Ideas. Sacramento, CA. Oct.
2001.
Computers and Writing Conference 2000. Fort Worth, TX. 25-28 May
2000.
Computers and Writing Conference 1999. North Dakota School of
Mines. Sioux City, ND. 27-30 May 1999.
TechEd 1998. Ontario, CA. Nov. 1998.
Jack London Society Fourth Biennial Symposium. Pasadena, CA. Oct.
1998.
ECCTYC 1997 Conference. San Francisco, CA. Oct. 1997.
A Workshop on Teaching in the Computerized Writing Classroom.
Presenter: Claudine Keenan. Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA. 10-11
Mar. 1997.
The League for Innovation in the Community College Twelfth Annual
Conference on Information Technology.
Phoenix, AZ. 13-16 Nov. 1996.
The Virtual Classroom: Writing Across the Internet. Berkeley, CA. 16 Mar.
1996.
NCTE 1995 National Convention.
San Diego, CA. 16-19 Nov. 1995.
Professional Growth Week 1995.
Workshops: “Internet in the Classroom,” “Internet Gopher,” and
“World Wide Web, Lynx, Mosaic Workshop.” Cerritos College Staff
Development. 3-6 Jan. 1995.
The Institute for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Fourth Annual Faculty
Teacher-Scholar Enhancement Program-Intersession ‘95. Workshops:
“Using CD ROMs in the Classroom for Better Learning,” “Using
Internet as a Teaching Resource Guide,” and “Helping Our Students
Learn to Write and Write to Learn.” CSU, Fullerton. 19-20 Jan.
1995.
Cooperative Learning Project. Title III Consortium Project for
Student Centered Learning. Cerritos College, 25
Feb. 1994 – 18 Mar. 1994. A series of two three-hour workshops.
Certificate granted.
Classroom Assessment Techniques.
Title III Consortium Project for Student Centered Learning.
Cerritos College. 27 Jan. 1994 – 18 Mar. 1994. A series of three
two-hour workshops. Certificate granted.
Multicultural Mini-colloquium.
Cypress College English Department Mini-conference. Buena Park
Hotel.
12 Aug. 1993.
New Paradigms for Education: Responding to the Challenges of
Diversity.
Conference sponsored by the Ethnic and Gender Studies Alliance.
Speakers: Dorene Kaplan, Robert Foreman, Barbara Bilson. Pasadena
City College. 24 Oct. 1992.
Japanese Morality: An East/West Dialogue. 19th Annual Philosophy
Symposium.
CSU, Fullerton. 1-3 Mar. 1989.
LECTURES ATTENDED
“Force of Law: The
‘Mystical’ Foundation of Authority (The Example of Walter
Benjamin).” Jacques Derrida, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 19
Apr. 1990.
“Musical Elaborations:
On the Transgressive Element in Music.” Edward Said, The Welleck
Library Lectures, UC, Irvine. 10 May 1989.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Turnitin.com Campus License Administrator. <http://turnitin.fullcoll.edu>.
2007-present.
Outside tenure reviewer for Dr. Patricia Donaher. Missouri Western
College, St. Joseph, MO. Fall 2007.
TA Mentor for Corby Tuschla. Spring 2007.
Editor. inside english. Spring 2004-07.
Web editor. ECCTYC (English Council of California Two-Year
Colleges). 2003-05.
Regional Director. ECCTYC. 2001-03.
Humanities Division Technology Representative. 2000-03.
Book Review. The Practical Guide to Writing with Readings.
8th ed. Jan. 1999.
Co-Technology Training Coordinator. Fullerton College. Coordinate
and conduct technology workshops for Staff Development. Design and
maintain Staff Development web pages. http://staffdev.fullcoll.edu.
1998-2000.
Computer Composition Classroom Training Coordinator. Grant proposal
funded through campus Staff Development. The series of workshops
will train faculty teaching in room 1125 to use the new Pentium
computers and teach composition classes with the CommonSpace
writing software. 1998-2000.
CAI Training Manual Author for 1125 Classroom. Grant proposal
funded through campus Staff Development. 1998-2000.
Writing Software Focus
Group Participant for Longman Publishers. Software we critiqued
included CommonSpace, Norton Textra Connect, and
Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment (DIWE).
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Crowne Plaza
Holiday Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 13 Mar. 1997
“Digital Classroom”
Project. Cerritos College Ad-hoc Technology Task Force grant
proposal requesting $41,000 in funding for laptop computers and
presentation systems to convert course materials into electronic
media. If funded, a team of two other English professors and I will
begin repurposing our syllabi, handouts, assignments, and other
teaching materials for the World Wide Web, and we each will design a
faculty home page for our students to access. Spring 1997.
Freshman Experience
Program. Santa Ana College. A “cohort” of English, reading, and
counseling courses are grouped together to assist first-year college
students in applying college study skills to course content. Fall
1996, Spring 1997.
Pathway. UCI Department
of Education. A long-term program involving language arts/English
instructors and students in the Santa Ana Unified School District
and Santa Ana College. The program intends to reach students in the
middle school grades and put them on a college preparatory “pathway”
for the next six years so that once they graduate from high school,
they will place directly in and be prepared for Freshman Composition
and eventually transfer to the University of California. Fall
1996-Spring 1997.
Asian Pacific Women’s
Center, Inc. Non-profit organization that provides long-term
transitional housing for, but not limited to, Asian Pacific women
and their families who are victims of domestic violence.
Collaborated on copywriting and logo design/presentation. Assistant
editor for Phoenix Newsletter. Web design for on-line
newsletter version. Volunteer work: 1997-99.
Book Editing. The
Busy Woman’s Guide to Successful Self-Employment: Your Step-By-Step
Guide to the Entrepreneurial Alternative. By Marsha Firestone
and Bernard Fortunoff. New York: Independent Learning Network,
1996.
University of California Subject A
Reader. Berkeley, CA, 1-4 June 1995. (Invitation only).
Peer Partners. UCI
Writing Project. Served as a peer consultant for recent Writing
Project fellow, Phil Rodriguez at Cerritos College (1994-95 academic
year) and for Beverly Reilly at Santa Ana College (1996-97 academic
year).
City of Pasadena Arts
Division, Downtown Circulator Shuttle Buses Project Competition.
Awarded the project to create a name and logo design for Pasadena’s
new shuttle bus system. Unveiled 13 June 1994.
Title III Grant Writing
Team. Cerritos College, Spring 1994.
Essay Judge for Southern
California Private Schools Academic Decathlon. Valley Christian
High School, host. Cerritos, CA, 1992, 1993.
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
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Thorough understanding of Windows Operating Systems (NT Server and
Workstation, Windows Vista; Windows XP; Windows 2000, Windows Me,
Win98, Win95, and Win3.11); MS-DOS; Macintosh OS 10.3 (Panther).
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Extensive use of Internet protocols and technologies: e-mail,
listservs (mailservs), Telnet, FTP, World Wide Web (WWW); LYNX.
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HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) design.
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Conducted staff development workshops in Internet tools and software
applications: Turnitin.com, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS
Excel, MS FrontPage, MS Explorer, MS Outlook;
CommonSpace; Netscape Navigator and Communicator.
Home Page:
www.WiredProf.com
E-mail:
darrencsATfullcoll.edu
Web editor for Campus
Turnitin.com Resource Website (2007-present) <http://turnitin.fullcoll.edu>;
English Department (1997-2004) <http://english.fullcoll.edu>;
Writing Center (1999-2002) <http://writingcenter.fullcoll.edu>; and
Humanities Division (2000-2003) <http://humanities.fullcoll.edu>.
Previous discussion list
owner/moderator for listservs for my composition courses at Cerritos
College and CSU, Fullerton.
COMMITTEE WORK
Fullerton College:
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Chair, Professional Growth and Development Committee, English
Department (Fall 2007-current)
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Humanities Division Budget Committee (2006-present)
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English Dept. Sabbatical Replacement Hiring Committee (Spring 2008)
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Study Abroad Committee—promotional, organizational, administrative
work for Shanghai, China (2006-2007)
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English Dept. Sabbatical Replacement Hiring Committee (Fall 2005)
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Chair, Technology Committee, English Department (1997-2005)
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Library Ad Hoc Committee (2005)
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Interim Humanities Dean Hiring Committee (Summer 2004)
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Professional Growth and Development Committee (2003-current),
English Department
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Hiring Committees, English Department (1998-1999; 1999-2000)
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Tenure Review Committees (2), English Department
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Literature Committee, English Department
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Writing Center, English Department
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High School Articulation Committee, English Department
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Academic Computing Technologies Advisory Committee
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Ad-Hoc Web Page Standards Sub-committee
Cerritos College: Ad-hoc Technology Task Force (ATT)
(1995-1997).
Santa Ana College: English Placement Assessment.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ELLAA (English Languages
and Literatures Alumni Association, CSU, Fullerton), founder and
treasurer.
WLA (Western Literature
Association), current member.
MELUS (Society for
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), current member.
ECCTYC (English Council
of California Two-Year Colleges), current member.
NCTE (National Council
of Teachers of English), current member.
TYCA (Two-Year College
English Association), current member.
ACW (Alliance for
Computers and Writing), past member.
CTA (California Teachers
Association), current member.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND REFERENCES
Dan Willoughby, Humanities Dean, Fullerton College, 321 E. Chapman
Avenue, Fullerton, CA 92832. 714.992.7037.
Mark
Knoernschild, English Department Coordinator, Fullerton
College, 321 E. Chapman Avenue, Fullerton, CA 92832. 714.992.7316.
Doug Eisner, English
Professor, 321 E. Chapman Avenue, Fullerton, CA 92832.
714.992.7308.
Janet Portolan, Vice
President of Instruction, Fullerton College, 321 E. Chapman Avenue,
Fullerton CA, 92832. 714.992.7018.
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