Tyler S.

Branson
(682) 936-0150
TylerSBranson@gmail.com
157 Chapel St. Santa Barbara, CA 93111
http://tylersbranson.wordpress.com

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Lecturer, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara (2015-Present)
Graduate Instructor, Department of English, Texas Christian University (2011-2015)
Teaching Assistant, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas (2009-2011)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Christian University (2015)
M.A. in American Studies, University of Kansas (2011)
BA in English, 2009, University of Oklahoma (2009)

PUBLICATIONS
Under Review
Branson, Tyler S, James Chase Sanchez, Sarah R. Robbins and Catherine Wehlburg.
Assessing a Writing Assessment Project: Challenges and Benefits Linked to an InstitutionLevel Partnership. Submitted to College Composition and Communication in May, 2015.
Book Chapters
Branson, Tyler S. and Sarah. R. Robbins. (forthcoming). Going Public in the Humanities:
Undoing Myths and Facing Challenges. The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning
and Community Engagement. Eds. Corey Dolgon, Timothy K. Eatman, and Tania D.
Mitchell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016
Branson, Tyler S. Twenty-first-Century Digital Publics and Nineteenth-Century
Transatlantic Public Spheres. Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching
Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture. Eds. Linda Hughes and Sarah Robbins.
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2015

Book Reviews
Branson, Tyler S. Rev. of The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence
Prevention by Joseph G. Bock. Journal of Hate Studies (2013). Print
Branson, Tyler S, Thomas Jesse, Sharon Harris, and Joel Overall. Rev. of Ralph Ellison and
Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide by Bryon Crable. The Kenneth Burke
Journal, 9:1 (2013). Online at: http://www.kbjournal.org/review-ralph-ellison-and-kennethburke-bryan-crable

PRESENTATIONS
Co-Creating Rubrics in the Writing Classroom, University of California Council of
Writing Programs Annual Conference, Riverside, CA, 2016 (accepted).
Situating Problematic Partnerships in the Field of Composition, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, 2016 (accepted).
Dangerous Documents: Writing about Difference and Risk-Taking in Rhetoric and
Composition Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, 2015.
Twenty-first-Century Digital Publics and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Public
Spheres, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2015.
When Writing Went Public: Linda Brodkey and the Contested Definitions of Writing
Thomas R. Watson Biennial International Conference, Louisville, KY, 2014.
Space, Race, and Assessment: Measuring Public Humanities through Program
Evaluation Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, Fort Worth, TX, 2014.
Writing Citizenship: Writing and Reflection as a Heuristic for Fostering Global
Citizens Conference of College Teachers of English, Abilene, TX, 2013
Race, Situated Knowledge, and Technological Practice of Occupy the Hood
Computers and Writing Conference, Raleigh, NC, 2012
The Self in 140 Characters or Less: The Value of Digital Discourses in American
Studies Mid America American Studies Association, Lawrence, KS, 2011

TEACHING
University of California, Santa Barbara
Business Writing, Fall 2015
Academic Writing, Fall 2015
Texas Christian University
Rhetoric, Identity and Knowledge in the Public Sphere, Spring 2014
Intermediate Composition: Writing as Argument, Fall 2013
Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
Engaged Global Citizenship, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
University of Kansas
Introduction to American Studies, Summer 2011
American Identities Spring 2011, Fall 2010

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Workshops
Data, Math, Visualization, and Interpretation of Networks: An Introduction Digital
Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada, 2014
Graduate Research Network Forum Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Senior
Scholar: Dr. Jenny Rice, San Antonio, TX 2014
GA/TA/PhD Professional Development Pedagogy, Koehler Center for Teaching
Excellence, Texas Christian University, 2013

SERVICE
Community Engagement Projects
Contagion, Quarantine, and Social Conscious: A Roundtable Discussion, Texas Christian
University, 2014
Writing Consultant, Eagle Mountain Saginaw Independent School District, Fort Worth,
TX, 2014, 2015

Invited Campus/Departmental Talks

Am I a Digital Humanist? Digital Scholarship Roundtable: Digital Frontiers, Texas
Christian University, 2015
Whats Not in My Dissertation A Roundtable Discussion of the American Culture
Interest Group, Texas Christian University, 2015
Rethinking Publicly Engaged Scholarship Texas Christian University, 2014
Ditching the Textbook: Strategies, Stories, and Stresses of a Textbook Free Writing
Course Texas Christian University, 2014
Studying for Comprehensive Exams: Tips and Tricks Texas Christian University, 2013
Community Engagement in First-year Composition: Issues, Tensions, and Reflections
on Engagement and Service Learning Assignments Texas Christian University, 2013
Cool Tools: Digital Organizational Tools Workshop Texas Christian University, 2012
Elected Positions
President, Winifred Bryan Horner Rhetoric Society, Texas Christian University, 2013
Composition Committee, Texas Christian University, 2013
Service to the Department
Project Assessment Coordinator, Global Citizenship Visiting Scholar Ngugi wa Thiongoo,
Texas Christian University, 2014
Co-editor/Designer, Advertisement for the Rhetoric Society of America 2014 program,
Texas Christian University, 2014
Co-editor/Designer, Teaching Transatlanticism web project, Texas Christian University,
2013
Lecture Series Coordinator, Winifred Bryan Horner Rhetoric Society, Texas Christian
University, 2012
Director of Communications, American Studies Association of Graduate Students,
University of Kansas, 2010

AWARDS AND HONORS

Awards
Lorraine Sherley Research Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 2015
The Tate Prize in Composition Studies, Texas Christian University, 2014
Outstanding Graduate Student, Third and Fourth Year, Texas Christian University, 2014
Outstanding Graduate Student, First and Second Year, Texas Christian University, 2012
Rupert and Lillian Radford Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 2011
Grants
MLA Travel Grant, Modern Language Association Travel Grant Program, 2015
International Travel Grant, Department of Graduate Studies and Research, Texas
Christian University, 2015
Institute for Critical and Creative Expression Funding Award for Research, Texas
Christian University, 2014
Travel grant, Department of English, Texas Christian University, 2012, 2013, 2014
Work on Grant Funded Projects
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Grant, Texas Christian University, 2014
Creativity Grant, Texas Christian University, 2014
Instructional Development Grant, Texas Christian University, 2013

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)

REFERENCES
Carrie Leverenz
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition
Department of English
Texas Christian University
c.leverenz@tcu.edu
(817) 257-6242

Charlotte Hogg
Associate Professor
Director of Composition
Department of English
Texas Christian University
c.hogg@tcu.edu
(817) 257-6257

Sarah R. Robbins
Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature
Acting Dean
J.V. Roach Honors College
Texas Christian University
s.robbins@tcu.edu
(817) 257-6489