Kristi Lynn Morris
Plymouth, Michigan 48170 |
(313) 655-5723 | aj8067@wayne.edu | kristimorris521@gmail.com
· Concentration: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
· Digital Dissertation Title: “Focusing into Design and Blurring out Traditional Writing”
o www.DesigningFYC.com under development
o Scheduled defense August 2024
· 4.0 Cumulative GPA
· Major: English, Minor: History
· Major: Art History, Minor: English
· ENG 1020: Introduction to College Writing
o First Year Interest Group section (Nursing) Fall 2022
· ENG 3010: Intermediate College Writing
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ENG 3020: Writing & Community
·
ENG 3050: Technical Communication I
· Dr. Adrienne Jankens, University Research Award
o Transcribed interviews (Otter AI software)
o Practiced interview protocols with principal investigator through role-play scenarios
o Coded and analyzed qualitative data
· Language Arts 1 & 2
· Language Arts 3 & 4
· Language Arts 5 & 6
· Honors Language Arts 1 & 2
· Honors Language Arts 5 & 6
· Advanced Placement Language and Rhetoric
· Composition Learning Community, Wayne State University, 2019-present
o Collaborated with peer mentors to create community-based learning environment
o Developed student-mentor videos to illustrate CLC benefits during Student Showcase
o Planned, publicized and participated in biannual Student Showcase
o Designed collaborative project to highlight student reflections from Cass Technical High School students (ENG 3020 Writing & Community partnership Fall 2023)
· Women’s Rhetoric and Composition Club, Wayne State University, 2020-present
o Facilitated theory-based discussions of scholarship amongst peers
o Attended professionalization events including discussions on being a woman in academia, a panel on developing job application materials, and a presentation on boundary setting
· Composition Curriculum Committee, English Department, Wayne State University, 2020-2022
· Mentoring & Professional Development Committee, Wayne State University, 2021-present
o Mentored 4 first-year graduate students through their instruction of ENG 1020
o Contributed theme-based session ideas for annual GTA orientation planning
·
9th Grade Academy Lead Teacher at
Fordson High School, 2013-2014
o
Developed testing for 9th Grade
Honors sections at Fordson High School, 2013-2014
o
Delivered data and professional consulting to Dearborn
Public School District, Board of Education meeting, 2013
· English Department Composition Subcommittee. Wayne State University.
2022-2023
o Redesigned Common Syllabus for Introduction to College Writing
SCHOLARSHIP
· “Trying on New Roles in a Mentoring Moment,” Webtext under review 2024, Composition Forum, co-authored with Dr. Adrienne Jankens.
PRESENTATIONS
& WORKSHOPS
National
· “Critiquing Sustainability of DEI Initiatives: Investigating the Rhetorical Impacts of the Graduate Student WPAs’ and Graduate Instructors’ Work.” With Colleen Hart, Carly Braxton and Jessica Ridgeway. Rhetoric Society of America, Denver, May 2024.
· “A Design-Focused Approach to First-Year Composition.” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, January 2024.
· “Closing Up Literacy Gaps: Digital Natives and Blending Cultures.” With Nicole Guinot Varty and Ruth Boeder. Conference on College Composition and Communication, virtual, February 2021.
Regional
· “Familiar Situations and Stranger Things: Multimodal Composing with Purpose.” WaynePop Pop Culture Conference, Wayne State University, October 2023.
· “Outside the Class and Inside the Student: Designing Valuable Multimodal Projects.” With Nicole Guinot Varty and Christopher Susak. Teaching of Writing Conference, Wayne State University, March 2023.
Institutional
· “Scaffolding Toward the Remixed Argument in ENG 1020.” Mentoring & Professional Development Committee Workshop, Wayne State University, November 2023.
· “Remixed Argument Project and User-Testing.” Guest lecture ENG 7850, Wayne State University, October 2023.
· “Labor-Based Grading.” With Joe Torok. GTA Orientation, Wayne State University, August 2023.
· “Designing Valuable Multimodal Projects.” Guest lecture ENG 7064, Wayne State University, March 2023.
· “Using a Multimodal Framework in ENG 1020.” Guest lecture ENG 7065, Wayne State University, September 2022.
· “Multimodal Instruction.” Mentoring & Professional Development Committee Workshop, Wayne State University, Fall 2022.
· “Feedback Methods: Best Practices for Online Teaching.” With Elia Hohauser-Thatcher and Amy Latawiec. Mentoring & Professional Development Committee Workshop, Wayne State University, Fall 2021.
· “Work Life Balance Talk,” With Elia Hohauser-Thatcher and Suzette Bristol. GTA Orientation, Wayne State University, August, 2021.
· “Reading and Writing: Breaking it Down.” With Bernadette Kelly. Mentoring & Professional Development Committee Workshop, Wayne State University, Winter 2020.
AWARDS
· Garrett T. Heberlein Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2024
· Doretta Burke Sheill Endowed Memorial Scholarship, Wayne State University, 2023
· Summer 2023 Dissertation Award, Wayne State University Graduate School
· Garrett T. Heberlein Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University, nominee 2023
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
· National Council of Teachers of English, 2022-present
· Modern Language Association, 2023-present
· Rhetoric Society of America, 2024