EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, May 2013 Dissertation: Crafting Place: Rhetorical Practices of the Everyday

Committee: Malea Powell (Chair), Dànielle DeVoss, William Hart-Davidson, and Trixie Smith

M.A. in English Composition and Communication, Central Michigan University, August 2008
Thesis: Scientific Ethos in the Evolution/Intelligent Design Debate: Pretrial Testimony of Expert Witnesses in Kitzmiller v. Dover

Committee: Melinda Kreth (Chair), Rochelle Harris, and Marcy Taylor B.A. in Foreign Service and English, Alma College, April 2004

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Teaching Assistant, Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, MSU. AY 2012-13, AY 2011- 12, AY 2010-11.

Graduate Assistant, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10, AY 2008-9.

Teaching Assistant, The Writing Center, MSU. Spring 2009.

Teaching Assistant, English Department, CMU. AY 2007-8, AY 2006-7.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Coordinator & Developer, Navigating the PhD Workshop Series. The Writing Center and The Graduate School, MSU. AY 2010-11, AY 2009-10.

Co-coordinator & Developer, Learning the Lingo Workshop Series. The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10.

Coordinator, Graduate Writing Groups, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10.

Coordinator, Discipline-Specific Graduate Writing Groups Facilitator Training Workshop, Council of Graduate School Ph.D. Completion Grant, The Graduate School/The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10.

Co-Coordinator, Business Communication Center, The Writing Center, MSU. Fall 2008.

Organizer, Graduate Teaching Assistant Brown Bag Workshop Series, English Department, CMU. AY 2007-8.

PUBLICATIONS
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Re-membering and Re-locating: Navigating a Shifting Sense of Space, Place, and Self as a Graduate Student.” Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andrea Davis and Suzanne Webb. Southlake: Fountainhead Press. Forthcoming.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Mike McLeod, and William Hart-Davidson. “Marauder’s Map: Investigating the Infrastructure of a Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Composition.” CCC Online. Under Review.

Projects in Process
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Elena G. Garcia, Julie Lindquist, and Suzanne Webb, eds. Echoes of Home: Bringing Home to Work. [Manuscript in process]

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Elena G. Garcia, Katie Manthey, Trixie G. Smith, and Shari Wolke, eds. Special Issue on Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines, Across the Disciplines. Spring 2014.

Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab. “What is Cultural Rhetorics?” [Manuscript in process]

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Hiep Thien Chau, Heidi Little, and Trixie Smith. “Embracing Assessment, Improving the Center: A Four-Fold Approach to Assessment.” [Manuscript in process for submission to Writing Center Journal]

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Elena G. Garcia, and Katie Manthey. “Graduate Writing Groups as Thirdspaces: Spaces of Professionalization Outside-but-Alongside Programmatic Spaces.” [Manuscript in process for submission to Across the Disciplines]

Creative Non-Fiction
Brooks, Marilee. “Brief Return.” Temenos (Fall 2007). Web. Brooks, Marilee. “Sea Gulls at the Pier.” OffKilter Literary Review 2.2 (2003): 18-21. Print. Brooks, Marilee. “October 13th.” OffKilter Literary Review 2.1 (2002): 12. Print.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

National Conferences

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Transparency Leads to Togetherness: Cultivating Community through a
Culture of Openness” in “Keeping It Together: Supporting Practices of Community in a Writing Department” with Elizabeth Keller and Matt Novak. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013. Conference Panel.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Casie Cobos, Qwo-Li Driskill, Kendall Leon, Staci Perryman-Clark, Malea Powell, and Andrea Riley Mukavetz. “Aristotle Is Not Our Father: Conversations in Cultural Rhetorics.” Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. January 2013. Conference Panel.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Crafting a Place, Crafting a Place-Identity” in “Home is Calling: Forming Scholarly Identities by Bringing Home to Work” with Elena Garcia and Sue Webb. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May 2012. Conference Panel.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Accidentally Ordinary: How Everyday Environments Write on Us” in “Dressing Up: The Material-Visual Rhetoric of Identity, Professionalization, and Appearance” with Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Elena Garcia, and Katie Gunter. Rhetoric Society ofAmerica Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May 2012. Conference Panel.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Trixie Smith, Ben Goodwin, and James Jackson. “Creating an Environment of Play in the Center.” IWCA Gathering at NCTE Conference. Chicago, IL. 17 Nov. 2011. Conference Presentation.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Workstreaming as Research Methodology” in “Workstreaming: Building Work Histories by Observing Writing Behavior” with Mike McLeod and Bill Hart-Davidson. Computers & Writing Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. 21 May 2011. Conference Panel.

Brooks, Marilee. “Spaces & Places, Recognizing Local/Global Ontologies & Rhetorics” in “‘Gathering up our Multiple Participations’: Exploring Intersections/Interferences within and outside Rhetoric & Writing” with Daisy Levy, Terese Guinsatao Monberg, Madhu Narayan, and Donnie Sackey. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Atlanta, GA. 7 April 2011. Featured Session.

Brooks, Marilee with Elena Adkins and Dianna Baldwin. “Work Beside the Institution, Not Against It: Graduate Writing Groups as Thirdspaces.” International Writing Centers Association Conference. Baltimore, MD. November 2010. Roundtable.

Brooks, Marilee. “Creative Contexts of Learning: Establishing Student Ownership and Agency within the Composition Classroom.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2010. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with Elena Adkins, Dianna Baldwin, Barbra Elenbaas, John Lauckner, Whitney Orth, and Trixie Smith. “Cultivating Spaces for Bunnies in the Garden OR Purposeful and Organic Mentoring Toward Community.” Writing Program Administrators Conference. Philadelphia, PA. July 2010. Conference Panel.

Brooks, Marilee with Elena Adkins. “Encouraging Communication: Including Faculty in a Workshop for Navigating the PhD.” Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Bloomington, IN. May 2010. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee. “Using & Belonging in Professional Spaces & Places: How Working from Home is Different from Working at School for Graduate Students in a Rhetoric & Composition Program.” Conference on College Composition & Communication. Louisville, KY. 19 March 2010. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with Elena Adkins, “Cross-Campus Collaboration: Creating New Spaces for Teachers and Consultants.” International Writing Centers Association’s CCCC Collaborative. San Francisco, CA. 11 March 2009. Conference Presentation.
Regional Conferences

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Elena Adkins Garcia, Katie Gunter, and Shari Wolke. “Considering the Tensions of Assessing Writer Collaborations in the Writing Center.” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. Kalamazoo, MI. 4 March 2011. Roundtable.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Dianna Baldwin, Barbra Elenbaas, Elena Adkins Garcia, Ben Goodwin, James Jackson, Elizabeth Keller, John Lauckner, Cari Ross Trixie Smith, and Michelle Trumble. “Slaying the Unicorn with a Double Edged Sword, OR Exploring Myths of Text and of Interaction in the Writing Center.” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. Kalamazoo, MI. 4 March 2011. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with Elizabeth Keller. “Convergence Complicated by Authority: Defining Peer.” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. East Lansing, MI. 10 April 2010. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with Elena Adkins. “Grammar Geometry: Simplifying In-Sentence Relationships.” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. East Lansing, MI. 9 April 2010. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee. “A Writing Process Workshop: Relating How You Write to How You Consult.” Michigan Writing Centers Association Ideas Exchange. Rochester, MI. October 2009. Conference Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with John Dinan and Michelle Krueger. “Referring Instructors: What We Need from Them, What We Get, How to Get What We Need.” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. Columbus, OH. 12 April 2008. Conference Presentation.

INVITED WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Elena Garcia, Katie Livingston, and Carol Quinn. “Expecting the Unexpected: The Daily Life of Teaching.” WRAC Tier 1 Teacher Orientation. August 2012. Panel.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Heidi Little, and Catherine McCaffrey. “Implementing Session Reporting Forms.” MSU Writing Center Orientation. August 2012. Roundtable.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Marta Bauer. “Developing Consulting Philosophies.” MSU Writing Center Orientation. August 2012. Workshop.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Jennifer Fisch-Ferguson and Lehua Ledbetter. “Approaches to the Cultural Artifact Assignment.” WRAC Tier 1 Teacher Orientation. August 2012. Panel.
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Daisy Levy. “Collaborating with Your Colleagues and Challenging Your Students.” WRAC First-Year-Writing Instructors’ Workshop Series. March 2012. Workshop.

Brooks-Gillies, Marilee with Matthew Cox, Elena Garcia, Daisy Levy, and Madhu Narayan. “Interview as Research Tool.” WRA 395: Writing Center Theory & Practice. February 2012. Panel.

Brooks, Marilee with Donnie Sackey and Jennifer Sano-Franchini. “Personal Statement Workshop for Ronald E. McNair Scholars.” MSU Writing Center. October 2010, June 2010, October 2009. Workshop.

Brooks, Marilee with Trixie G. Smith. “Introducing the Writing Center.” WRAC Tier 1 Teacher Orientation. August 2010. Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee with Trixie G. Smith. “Introducing the Writing Center.” Department of Epidemiology New Graduate Student Orientation, MSU Writing Center. August 2009. Presentation.

Brooks, Marilee. “Exploring Your Writing Process.” MSU Writing Center Staff Meeting. August 2009. Workshop.

Brooks, Marilee with Andréa Davis. “Writing Abstracts in the Sciences.” MSU Writing Center Workshop Developed for Students Presenting at UURAF. February 2009. Workshop.

Brooks, Marilee with Michelle Krueger. “Implementing They Say/I Say in the Composition Classroom.” Composition Faculty Brown Bag Series. November 2007. Workshop.

Brooks, Marilee with Michelle Krueger. “Application of They Say/I Say Techniques in Writing Center Sessions.” CMU Writing Center Staff Meeting. November 2007. Workshop.

TEACHING & WRITING CENTER EXPERIENCE

Classroom Instruction

Teaching Intern (with instructor Malea Powell), AL 848: Cultural Rhetorics, Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, MSU. Spring 2013.

Instructor, ENG 232: Writing as Exploration, English Department, MSU. Spring 2013.

Instructor, WRA 395: Writing Center Theory & Practice, Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, MSU. Fall 2012.

Instructor, WRA 150: Evolution of American Thought, Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, MSU. AY 2011-12.

Instructor, WRA 1004: Preparation for College Writing, Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures Department, MSU. AY 2010-11.

Instructor, AL 201: Writing Tutorial, The Writing Center, MSU. Spring 2009. Instructor, ENG 101: First-Year Composition, English Department, CMU. AY 2007-8, AY 2006-7.

Writing Center Consultation & Facilitation

Graduate Writing Consultant, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2011-12, AY 2010-11, AY 2009-10, AY 2008-9.

Coordinator & Facilitator (separate roles), Navigating the PhD Workshop Series. The Writing Center and The Graduate School, MSU. AY 2011-12, AY 2010-11, AY 2009-10. (Specific workshops developed and facilitated: “Managing Time and Academic Relationships” and “Writing Processes & Strategies for Academic Writing.”)

Coordinator & Facilitator (separate roles), Graduate Writing Groups, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2011-12, AY 2010-11, AY 2009-10.

Co-coordinator & Facilitator (separate roles), Learning the Lingo Workshop Series. The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2010-11, AY 2009-10. (Specific workshops developed and facilitated: “So, What Am I Supposed to Write?: Deciphering Assignment Sheets,” “Pssst . . . We’re Sharing Two Keys to Academic Writing: Summary & Analysis,” “Plan, Research, Write, Revise, Repeat: A Workshop on Writing Processes,” and “I’m Awesome, Just Read My Personal Statement.”)

Writing Consultant, Learning Resources Center, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College. Spring 2008. Graduate Writing Consultant, The Writing Center, CMU. Fall 2007.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, College of Arts & Letters/The Graduate School, MSU. Summer 2012.

Summer Support Fellowship, College of Arts & Letters/The Graduate School, MSU. Summer 2011.

Writing Center Fellowship, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10, AY 2008-9.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

National

Stage 1 Reviewer. Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Las
Vegas, 2013.

Stage 1 Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication. Annual Convention. Atlanta, 2011.

Proposal Reviewer, Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference. East Lansing 2009.

College & University

Facilitator, Discipline-Specific Graduate Writing Groups Facilitator Training Workshop, Council of Graduate School Ph.D. Completion Grant, The Graduate School/The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-10.

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum, College of Arts & Letters, MSU. Fall 2009.

Graduate Student Representative, Academic Senate, CMU. AY 2007-8. Judge, College of Humanities & Social & Behavior Sciences Essay Contest, CMU. Spring 2007.
Department

Member, Assessment Committee, The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2012-13, AY 2011-12.

Member, Composition Committee, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, MSU. AY 2011-12.

President (elected), Writing, Rhetoric, and Praxis: Graduate Student Organization for MSU Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Writing, MSU. AY 2009-10.

Member, Writing Center Workshop Development Committee. The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009- 2010.

Member, Publicity Materials Redesign Committee. The Writing Center, MSU. AY 2009-2010.

Facilitator, Graduate Teaching Assistant Brown Bag Workshop Series, CMU. AY 2007-8. Member,

Composition Committee Representative, English Department, CMU. AY 2007-8.

Recruitment Partner, Rhetoric & Writing Graduate Program, MSU. February 2009.

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Conference on College Composition & Communication International Writing Centers Association

Modern Language Association National Council of Teachers of English

Rhetoric Society of America Writing, Rhetoric, and Praxis Student Organization