Publications

Books

Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring. Utah State University Press, (2010).

Articles

“Writing centers and politics of community, identity, and social justice.” In S. Bruce and K. Dvorak, Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work Hampton Press, (2008).

“Dangerous Liaisons: Results from and Reflections on a State-Mandated Outcomes Assessment of Written Communication.” Assessing Writing 13(1) (2008).

“Confessions of First Time Virtual Collaborators: When college tutors mentor high school students in cyber-space.”  Writing Lab Newsletter. (June 2005).

“Queering the Writing Center.”  Writing Center Journal 25.2 (Spring/Summer 2005).

“AIDS Resistance & Remembrance:  MTV’s Tribute to and Reframing of Pedro Zemora.”  Cultural Studies:  A Research Annual, 2 (1997): 109-128.

“(Re)figuring Homosexuality, ‘Real Minorities’ and Civil Rights:  A Textual Analysis of Colorado for Family Values’ Amendment Two Tabloid.”  Cultural Studies:  A Research Annual, 2 (1997): 129-141.

“Prejudice toward Persons Living with a Fatal Illness” (with Richard L. Dukes). Psychological Reports, 76.3 (1995): 1107-1114.

“Visualizing deviance in (Post)Reagan America: Magic Johnson, AIDS and the ‘Promiscuous’ World of Sport” (with Cheryl L. Cole). Critical Sociology, 20.3 (1994): 123-147.

Reviews

Rev. of Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change (Logan, UT: Utah State UP 2012), by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan. Writing Center Journal (In Press, 2013)

Rev. (with Pat Belanoff) On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America (New York: Lang, 2005) by Elliot Norbert, Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program (Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001) by Richard H. Haswell (Ed.), (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002) by Brian Huot, and What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003) by Bob Broad.

Rev. of Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring by Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner.  Writing Lab Newsletter. (May 2004).

Rev. of Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane by Arnie Zane.  Ed. Jonathan Green. Dance Research Journal, 32.1 (2000): 144-145.

Rev. of The Constructed Body by Julien S. Murphy and AIDS TV by Alexandra Juhasz. Signs, 24.3 (1999): 777-779.

In Progress

Manuscript. And Justice for All?: Refiguring Civil Rights Rhetoric in the Contemporary U.S.

Essay. “Building Capital in the Writing Center: Mentoring as a Means for Acquiring Cultural, Educational, and Linguistic Power.” In progress for submission to College Composition and Communication.