Jacob Babb

Indiana University Southeast

School of Arts and Letters
4201 Grant Line Road
New Albany, IN 47150
babbj@ius.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, Rhetoric and Composition, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2013
M.A. in English, Western Carolina University, 2005
B.A. in History, Western Carolina University, 2003

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013-present Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University Southeast

2008-2013 Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2005-2008 Lecturer, Western Carolina University
2004-2005 Teaching Assistant, Western Carolina University

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

2014-present Writing Program Coordinator, IU Southeast

2011, 2013 Assistant Director of Composition, UNC Greensboro
2010 Assistant Director of University Writing Center, UNC Greensboro
2006-2008 Assistant Director of First Year Composition, Western Carolina University

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

2017-2020 Associate Editor, WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 41-present

2014-2017 Associate Book Review Editor, WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 38-vol. 40
2011-2012 Assistant Editor, College English, vol. 75

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections:

Adams Wooten, Courtney, Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas, editors. The Things
We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program
Administration. Utah State UP, 2020. Forthcoming: Under contract.
Adams Wooten, Courtney, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray, editors. WPAs in Transition: Navigating
Educational Leadership Positions. Utah State UP, 2018.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Babb, Jacob, Jeremy Wells, Harold Zimmerman, and Jeff Perry. “Toward a New English Major:
Curricular Revision at a Regional Public University.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching
Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Special issue. Eds. J. Donica and K. Marangoni.
Forthcoming.
Ray, Brian, Jacob Babb, and Courtney Adams Wooten. “Rethinking SETs: Retuning Student Evaluations
of Teaching for Student Agency.” Composition Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2018, pp. 34-56.
Adams Wooten, Courtney, Brian Ray, and Jacob Babb. “WPAs Reading SETs: Confronting Authority and
Contingency.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 40, no .1, Fall 2016, pp. 50-66.
Babb, Jacob and Steven J. Corbett. “From Zero to Sixty: Student Writing, Teacher Response, and the
Affect of Failed Performance.” Composition Forum, vol. 34 Aug. 2016. Web.
Babb, Jacob. “Writing in the Moment: Social Media, Digital Identity, and Networked Publics.” Harlot: A
Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, vol. 14, Spring 2016. Web.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters:

Babb, Jacob. “The Banality of the Apocalypse: Colson Whitehead’s Necropolis and Mirthless Parody.”
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Edited by Stefan
Brandt, Michael Fuchs, and Steven Rabitch. UP of Mississippi, 2018. Forthcoming.
Adams Wooten, Courtney, and Jacob Babb. “Travels, Transitions, and Leadership.” WPAs in Transition.
Edited by Adams Wooten, Courtney, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray. Utah State UP, 2017.
Babb, Jacob. “America is Facing a Literacy Crisis.” Bad Ideas about Writing. Edited by Drew Loewe and
Cheryl Ball. Digital Publishing Institute, 2017, pp. 13-17.
Babb, Jacob. “Reshaping Institutional Mission: OWI and Writing Program Administration.” Handbook
of Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCS. Edited by Elizabeth Monske and Kris Blair. IGI
Global, 2017, pp. 202-215.
Babb, Jacob and Courtney Adams Wooten. “Traveling on the Feedback Loop: Collaborative Assessment
and Curricular Revision.” Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English
Studies. Edited by Seth Kahn, William Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek. WAC Clearinghouse,
2017, pp. 169-182.

Book Reviews:

Babb, Jacob. Review of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity, by Rita Malenczyk, Susan Miller-
Cochran, Elizabeth Wardle, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, editors. Composition Studies, vol. 47,
no. 1, 2019. Forthcoming.
Babb, Jacob. Review of Microhistories of Composition, by Bruce McComiskey, editor. Rhetoric Review,
vol. 36, no. 1, 2017, pp. 100-102. Invited.
Babb, Jacob. Review of A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, by Rita Malenczyk, editor.
Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 29, no. 1, 2014, pp. 107-114.
Babb, Jacob. Review of From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-
1974 by David Fleming. Composition Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 145-148.

PRESENTATIONS

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International and National Presentations:

“Genre, Invention, and Bluegrass: Music as Model for Teaching Writing.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2019.
“The Way Admin Makes Me Feel: Managing and Mitigating WPA Emotional Labor.” Council of Writing
Program Administrators, Sacramento, California, July 28, 2018.
“Kairotic Administration and the Emotional Labor of Writing Program Administration.” Council of
Writing Program Administrators, Knoxville, Tennessee, July 21, 2017.
“Understanding Faculty Writers’ Needs.” Poster presentation. Eastern Kentucky University
Pedagogicon, Richmond, Kentucky, May 19, 2017.
“The Complexities and Contradictions of Teachers’ Responses to Student Failure.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 2017.
“WPA Mobility as Both Benefit and Hindrance.” Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky,
October 21, 2016.
“Toward a New English Major: Curricular Revision at a Regional Public University.” Council of Writing
Program Administrators, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 16, 2016.
“Transfer, Permanent Transition, Leadership: Three Perspectives on WPA Transitions.” Council of
Writing Program Administrators, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 15, 2016.
“(Re)Negotiating Rhetoric’s Place in English Departments.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2016.
“Rhetorical Performance and Disciplinary Resistance: Epideictic Discourse in the CCCC Chairs’
Addresses.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 28, 2016.
“Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming: Sustainable First-Year WPA Work.” Council of Writing
Program Administrators Conference, Boise, Idaho, July 17, 2015.
“Student Attitudes, Faculty Development, and Administrative Oversight: The Conflicting Role of
Evaluations.” Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 18, 2014.
“Disciplinarity and Core Curricula in Undergraduate Writing Majors.” Council of Writing Program
Administrators Conference, Normal, Illinois, July 19, 2014.
“Finding Your Feet as a Junior Faculty Member.” Council of Writing Program Administrators
Conference, Normal, Illinois, July 18, 2014.
“The Undergraduate Writing Major and Disciplinary Expansion and Maturation.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 21, 2014.
“From Wyoming to Portland: The Implications of Resolutions and Statements for Graduate Students.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 18, 2012.
“Composing Pedagogy: Textbook Authorship as Curriculum Development.” Council of Writing Program
Administrators Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 21, 2012.
Panel Respondent. The Graduate Course in Writing Program Administration: Lessons and Prospects.
Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 21,
2012.
“The Lincoln Memorial as Persuasion: Architecture as Epideictic Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of
America Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 28, 2012.
“Travel Writing as a Heuristic Genre: Composing and Revising Identity.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri, March 22, 2012.
“Revising the Program through Portfolio Assessment.” Council of Writing Program Administrators
Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 16, 2011.

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“Toward a Generalist Consultant Position.” International Writing Center Association Conference,
Baltimore, Maryland, November 5, 2010.
“Writing the Textbook, Writing the Program: Investing Teaching Assistants with Curricular Authority.”
Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 16,
2010.
“Blogging Toward Critical Reading Skills.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Louisville, Kentucky, March 20, 2010.

Local and Institutional Presentations and Invited Talks

“Citation, Source Usage, and Students as Researchers: Moving Away from Surveillance to Active
Learning.” IU Southeast Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, New Albany,
Indiana, September 28, 2018.
“From First-Generation College Student to Writing Professor.” IU Southeast Undergraduate Student
Conference, New Albany, Indiana, April 20, 2018.
Invited Talk, “Writing for Publication in WPA: Writing Program Administration,” Dartmouth Summer
Seminar for Composition Research, August 8, 2017.
“The Banality of Apocalypse in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One.” Louisville Conference on Literature and
Culture Since 1900, Louisville, Kentucky, February 24, 2017.
Invited Talk, “Approaching Book Review Editors and Writing Academic Book Reviews,” Textual
Rhetorics, University of Memphis, October 14, 2015.

AWARDS

Distinguished Research and Creativity Award for Junior Faculty, 2017

Trustees Teaching Award, IU Southeast, 2016
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, UNC Greensboro College of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, UNC Greensboro English Department, 2013
Award for Distinguished Service, UNC Greensboro English Graduate Student Association, 2009
Excellence in Teaching Award, English Department, Western Carolina University, 2006 and 2007

GRANTS

Strategic Excellence Grant for Course Development, IU Southeast, 2018 ($2,500)

Large Grant Program for Faculty Writing Groups, IU Southeast, 2016 ($4,200)
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, IU Southeast, 2016 ($8,000)
Master of Interdisciplinary Studies Course Development Grant, IU Southeast, 2015 ($1,000)
Second Conference Travel Grant, IU Southeast, 2015, 2016, and 2017 ($750)
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, IU Southeast, 2014 ($8,000)
Research Support Program, IU Southeast, 2014 ($3,443)

COURSES TAUGHT

Indiana University Southeast

Graduate:

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Teaching Composition: Issues and Approaches, English W500
Place, Space, and the Imagination, Humanities Seminar, Master of Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Writing in the Disciplines, Humanities Seminar, Master of Interdisciplinary Studies Program

Thesis Direction:

Jennifer Mason, “Inclusive Writing Instruction for Shelter Youth: A Community-Based Research
Project,” Master of Interdisciplinary Studies, completed Spring 2018

Undergraduate:

Writing Senior Seminar, English W490

Argumentative Writing, English W420/W270
Directed Reading, English W411 (Independent Study)
Rhetorical Approaches, English W371
Advanced Expository Writing, English W350
Writing for the Web, English W315
Writing in the Arts and Sciences, English W290
Professional Writing, English W231
Introduction to Science Fiction, English L230
Reading, Writing, and Inquiry I, English W131
Principles of Composition, English W130
First Year Seminar, FYS S104 (1-credit course)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Writing for Workplace and Public Audiences, English 230

“Eyes on the Street: Reading Cityscapes, Real and Imagined,” Freshman Seminar 116
Introduction to Narrative, English 105
Approaches to Literature, English 104
College Writing II, English 102
College Writing I, English 101
Collaboration, Communication, and Inquiry, ISL 101 (1-credit course)
Studies in Writing Center Theory and Practice, English 390 (Co-taught)

Western Carolina University

The Journey in Literature, English 352

Popular Literature and Culture, English 207
First Year Seminar in Literature, English 190
Composition II, English 102
Composition I, English 101
Introduction to University Life, University Studies 101 (1-credit course)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WORKSHOPS

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Presenter, “‘Why are We Doing This, Anyway?’: Developing Transparency in Teaching to Improve
Student Learning,” Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence Teaching Mini-Conference, IU
Southeast, August 14, 2018
Presenter, “The Joy of Getting Out of the Way,” Joy of Teaching Workshop, IU Southeast, September 26,
2017
Participant, Teaching for Learning Faculty Learning Community, Fall 2017
Presenter for Invited Talk, “Writing for Publication in WPA: Writing Program Administration,”
Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research, August 8, 2017
Facilitator and Organizer, Summer Writers’ Retreat, IU Southeast, Summer 2016
Participant, “Generating WAC/WID/WIC/WEC Action Plans: Strategies for Advancing Writing through
Faculty Development.” Half-Day Workshop at Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Houston, Texas, April 6, 2016
Facilitator and Organizer, Faculty Writing Groups, IU Southeast, Spring 2016-present
Presenter and Organizer, Writing Program Professional Development Series, Fall 2015
Presenter for Invited Talk, “Approaching Book Review Editors and Writing Academic Book Reviews,”
Textual Rhetorics, University of Memphis, October 14, 2015
Facilitator, Academic Writing Faculty Learning Communities, IU Southeast, Spring and Summer 2015
Participant, “Designing Sustainable Writing Assessments,” Council of Writing Program Administrator’s
Institute, Boise, Idaho, July 16, 2015
Participant, “Creating Infographics for Learning,” Online Learning Consortium, March 27-April 3, 2015
Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Tampa, Florida, March 18, 2015.
Participant, Faculty Learning Community on Grant Writing, IU Southeast, Fall 2014
Participant, Writing Program Administrator’s Annual Workshop, Normal, Illinois, July 13-16, 2014
Participant, Online Teaching Cohort, IU Southeast Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence,
Spring 2014
Facilitator, Graduate School Peer Writing Support Groups, UNC Greensboro Graduate School, Spring
2013
Presenter, “Using Student Evaluations to Develop Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness,” UNC
Greensboro Graduate School, 2012

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National Service

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC):

Stage I Proposal Reviewer, 2016-present

Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA):

Chair, Publications Committee, 2018-present
Publications Committee, 2017-present
Ex officio Member, Executive Board, 2017-present
Conference Siting Committee, 2017-2018
Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee, 2016-2017
Nominating Committee, 2015-2016 and 2018-2019

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 Chair, Best Book Award Committee, 2014-2015
Best Book Award Committee, 2013-2014

International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference:

Proposal Reviewer, 2018

Editorial Board Member:

Young Scholars in Writing, 2017-present

Manuscript Reviewer:
College English
Composition Studies
Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies
Journal of Response to Writing
Journal of Writing Assessment
Queen City Writers
Utah State University Press
WPA: Writing Program Administration

IU Southeast

Department:
Gala Committee, 2016-present
English Major Curriculum Task Force, 2015-2017
Co-Chair, Search Committee for Two Assistant Professors of Rhetoric and Composition, 2015-
2016
Chair, Search Committee for Writing Center Consultant, 2015
Faculty Advisor, English Club, 2013-2014
Online Education Committee, 2013-2015
Curriculum Mapping Committee, English Department, 2013-2014

School and University:

Learning Spaces Committee, 2018-present
Improvement of Learning Committee, 2018-present
Chair, General Studies Committee, 2016-2019
Communication Across the Curriculum Task Force, 2016-2017
Information Literacy Task Force, 2016
General Studies Committee, 2015-2016
Research and Grants Committee, 2014-2016
Improvement of Writing Committee, 2014-2016
Faculty Board of Review, 2014-2015

UNC Greensboro

Department:
College Writing Assessment Committee, English Department, 2010-2013

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 Composition Committee, English Department, 2010-2011
English Graduate Conference Coordinator, 2009-2010

College and University:

Graduate Studies Committee, 2010-2012
Grievances Committee, 2010-2012

Western Carolina University

Department:
First-Year Composition Committee, 2005-2008
Composition Curriculum Review Committee, 2007-2008
Chair, Technology and Composition Committee, 2007-2008
Lecturers’ Reappointment Committee, 2007
Chair, Portfolio Assessment Committee, 2006-2007

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Indiana Council for the Teachers of English
Indiana Teachers of Writing
National Council for the Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America

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