CAITLIN MARTIN

Assistant Professor Composition, Department of Humanities & Communication

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
caitlin.martin@erau.edu | caitlinmartinphd.weebly.com

EDUCATION
PhD in Composition & Rhetoric | May 2021
Miami University Department of English, Oxford, OH
 Dissertation: Facilitating Institutional Change Through Writing-Related Faculty
Development
 Committee: Drs. Elizabeth Wardle (Chair), Elizabeth Hutton, Jason Palmeri, Thomas
Poetter, and John Tassoni

MA in Composition & Rhetoric | August 2013

Miami University Department of English, Oxford, OH
 Thesis: Teaching for Transfer: Reflective Self-Assessment in the First-Year
Composition Classroom
 Committee: Drs. Jason Palmeri (Chair), Heidi A. McKee, and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson

BS in English, magna cum laude | May 2011

Indiana State University Department of English, Terre Haute, IN
 Minor: Creative Writing

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Wardle, Elizabeth, Ann Updike, Caitlin Martin, Angela Glotfelter, & Mandy Olejnik, editors.
Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines.
Forthcoming (2022) from Utah State University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

Martin, Caitlin. “Speaking, Writing, Organizing: Matilda Gage’s Parrhesiastic Acts.” Peitho,
vol. 20, no. 2, (2018): pp. 229-316.

Cummings, Lance, Renea Frey, Ryan Ireland, Caitlin Martin, Heidi McKee, Jason Palmeri,
and James Porter. “Kairotic Design: Building Flexible Networks for Online Composition.”
Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. Eds. Jim Purdy and
Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. U of Michigan P/Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, 2017.
http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/makingspace/ch7.html.

Book Reviews
Martin, Caitlin. Review of Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation by
Elaine P. Maimon. Across the Disciplines, vol. 16, no. 2 (2019): pp. 59-64.
Martin, Caitlin. Review of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing
Writing for a Socially Just Future. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 45, no. 2
(2017): pp. 227-229.
Under Review
Martin, Caitlin & Mandy Olejnik. “Reconceptualizing Mentoring from Isolated to Networked
Practice: Implications for Graduate Mentors, Departments, and Programs.” Composition
Studies (Revise & Resubmit due March 2023).

REFEREED RESEARCH SEMINARS

2019 Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research. July – August 2019.

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
National & International Conferences
“Feminist Invitation Rhetoric: Deep Change through Sensemaking in WAC Work.” With
Elizabeth Wardle, Mandy Olejnik, L. James (Jay) Smart, Vrinda Kalia, and Brian Schultz.
2022 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. Accepted.

“Recognizing (and Inviting) Leadership Philosophies and Theories into WAC Scholarship and
Program Development.” With Crystal Fodrey, Nelson Graff, and Lisa Tremain. 2020
International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Fort Collins, CO. Presented August
2021.

“Detangling Graduate WAC Professional Development.” WAC-GO Sponsored Panel. With

Jacob Castle, Mandy Olejnik and Thomas Polk. 2020 International Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference. Fort Collins, CO. Presented August 2021.

“Researching Expertise-Driven Change: Preliminary Results from a Multi-Institutional Study.”

2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. Accepted.

“Researching Expertise-Driven Change: Preliminary Results from a Multi-Institutional Study.”

2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI. Conference
cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.

“Responding to the Crisis of Higher Education: Empowering Boundary Brokers and Agents of
Transformation.” With Wietse de Boer, Elaine Maimon, Jeff Moore, John Sacher, and
Elizabeth Wardle. 2020 Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting.
Washington, DC.

“Teaching Research and Revision Through Full-Class Collaboration.” 2019 Bedford New
Scholars Assignments That Work Presentations. Boston, MA. June 2019.

“Perspectives on Being and Becoming: Responses to Transfer Theory.” Roundtable with

Cynthia Johnson, Bruce Kovanen, Nicole Turnipseed, and Joyce Walker. 2019 Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA.

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“Writing Teacher Development: How Do Faculty Across Disciplines Learn to Teach Writing?”
2019 Qualitative Research Network at the Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Pittsburgh, PA.

“Activating Identities: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen of Disciplinary Writing Centers?”

Roundtable with Rebecca Crews, Allison Hutchison, Melanie Stimeling, Ann Blakeslee, and
Beth Sabo. 2018 International Writing Centers Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.

“Threshold Concepts and Learning Outcomes in Conversation: Developing an Undergraduate

Writing Theory and Pedagogy Course.” 7th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference (2018).
Oxford, OH.

“Continuing Collaborations: Evolving and Extending Support for Writing in Economics.” 2018
International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Auburn, AL.

“Transforming Transfer: Undisciplined Knowledge Production?” 2018 Conference on College

Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO.

“Working (and Spying) Across Borders: Perspectives from a Discipline-Specific Writing

Center.” Roundtable with Liz Bender, Terra Collier, Heidi McKee, Jill O’Bryan, and Yebing
Zhao. 2017 International Writing Centers Association. Chicago, IL.

“Speaking, Writing, Organizing: Matilda Gage’s Parrhesiastic Acts.” 2017 Feminisms and
Rhetorics Convention. Dayton, OH.

“Understanding Uptake of the Writing Assessment Feedback Loop.” 2017 Qualitative

Research Network at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland,
OR.

“Navigating New Identities: A Narrative from the Writing Center Frontier.” 2016 International
Writing Centers Association. Denver, CO.

“Innovating Rubrics: Dialoguing With and About Student Writing.” 2015 Conference on
College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL.

“Teaching for Transfer: Self-Assessment, Learning Outcomes, and Reflection as Necessary

Components of Student Learning in FYC.” 2013 Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Las Vegas, NV.

Local and Regional Conferences

“Writing, Speaking, Organizing: Matilda Gage’s Parrhesiastic Acts.” 2017 Miami English
Graduate and Adjunct Association Symposium. Oxford, OH.

“Integrating Formative Assessment into the Writing Process.” Poster Presentation. 2014
Assess for Success Conference. Indiana State University. Terre Haute, IN.

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“Writing Outside the Box: Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching Writing Online.” With Renea
Frey, Ryan Ireland, and Heidi McKee. 2013 College English Association of Ohio Conference.
Dayton, OH.

“Transferring Knowledge from First-Year Composition: A Preliminary Study.” 2012 Miami

University Graduate Research Forum. Oxford, OH.

“Teaching and Learning Writing Online: Teacher-Research Perspectives.” With Lance

Cummings, Renea Frey, Ryan Ireland, Heidi McKee, Jason Palmeri, and James Porter. 2012
Miami University Digital Expo. Oxford, OH.

ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor of Composition, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach,
FL. August 2021—present

Special Assistant for the Miami Writing Institute, Miami University Roger & Joyce R. Howe
Center for Writing Excellence, Oxford, OH. Summer 2021.

Graduate Assistant, Miami University Department of English. Oxford, OH. August 2016—May
2021
August 2018—May 2021: Graduate Assistant Director of Howe Writing Across the
Curriculum, Roger & Joyce R. Howe Center for Writing Excellence.

August 2016—December 2018: Assistant Director of Writing Center & Writing Across
the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, Farmer School of Business Howe Writing
Initiative & Howe Center for Business Writing.

Instructor, Indiana State University Department of English. Terre Haute, IN. August 2014—
May 2016

Lecturer (adjunct faculty), Indiana State University Department of English. Terre Haute, IN.
August 2013—July 2015.

Graduate Assistant, Miami University Department of English. Oxford, OH. August 2011—May
2013.
May 2012—May 2013: Coordinator of Research & Assessment for Pilot Online ENG
111 Courses.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As instructor of record for the following courses unless otherwise noted.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2021—present)

 COM 122: English Composition | 4 Sections
 HU 143: Introduction to Rhetoric | 2 Sections

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Miami University (2011—2013; 2016—2021)
 ENG 608: Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, Teaching
Assistant for Dr. Elizabeth Wardle | 1 section
 ENG 315: Business Writing | 1 section
 ENG 304: Background Composition Theory & Research | 1 section
 ENG/IMS 224: Digital Writing and Rhetoric | 1 section
 BUS 203: Business Writing Consulting | 1 Section
 ENG 112: Composition & Literature | 2 sections
 ENG 111: College Composition/Composition & Rhetoric | 3 sections .

Indiana State University (2013—2016)

 ENG 305: Advanced Expository Writing | 8 sections
 ENG 305T: Technical Writing | 1 section
 ENG 105: Freshman Writing II | 13 F2F sections; 4 online sections
 ENG 101: Freshman Writing I | 4 sections

INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS AND

WORKSHOPS
Miami University
MULTI-SESSION FACULTY WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
2020-2021 Leading Change Institute, with Elaine P. Maimon and Elizabeth Wardle. Miami
University Howe Center for Writing Excellence.

Faculty Writing Fellows Program. With Elizabeth Wardle, Ann Updike, Angela Glotfelter, and
Mandy Olejnik. Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Summer 2018-May
2021.

“Designing Assessments for Deep Learning.” Three-part series. Miami University Howe
Center for Writing Excellence. Spring 2021.

“Teaching To Your Goals: Backward Assignment Design.” Two-part series. With Elizabeth
Wardle, Ann Updike, Mandy Olejnik, and Will Chesher. Miami University Howe Center for
Writing Excellence. January 2021.

Combating a Surveillance Culture in Online Learning Reading Group. With Elizabeth Wardle.
Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Fall 2020.

Chairs’ Leadership and Change Reading Group. With Elizabeth Wardle. Miami University
Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Spring 2019.

Fellows Alumni May Workshop. With Elizabeth Wardle, Ann Updike, Angela Glotfelter, and
Mandy Olejnik. Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Summers 2019 and
2020.

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Philosophy Department Threshold Concepts 3-Part Workshop Series. With Elizabeth Wardle.
Miami University. Oxford, OH. Fall 2018.

STANDALONE FACULTY WORKSHOPS

“Authentic Assessment in Large Courses” featuring Dr. Stacey Lowrey Bretz (Chemistry), Dr.
Scott Sander (Teacher Education), and Dr. Mike Brudzinki (Geology), co-facilitated with
Elizabeth Wardle and Ellen Yezierski. Co-sponsored by the Miami University Howe Center for
Writing Excellence and Center for Teaching Excellence. January 2021.

“Comprehensive Course Assessment Review and Improvement Workshop.” With Brenda

Quaye, Gregg Wentzell, and Ellen Yezierski. Co-Sponsored by the Miami University Howe
Center for Writing Excellence and the Center for Teaching Excellence. January 2021.

“Teaching Writing Effectively Online: Online Discussions & Student Interactions.” With Mandy
Olejnik. Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Fall 2020.

“Teaching Writing Effectively Online: Assignment Design & Scaffolding.” With Ann Updike.
Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Fall 2020.

“Working from Principles in Designing Online Courses.” With Angela Glotfelter and Mandy
Olejnik. Miami University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Fall 2020. May Fellows
Workshop Optional Session. Summer 2020.

“Using Writing in Large Courses.” With Elizabeth Wardle. Miami University Howe Center for
Writing Excellence. Fall 2019.

“Providing Audio and Video Comments on Student Work.” with Ann Updike. Miami University
Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Fall 2019.

“Effective Practices: Using Writing to Support Learning in Disciplinary Courses.” Miami

University Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Spring 2019.

“Effective Peer Response.” With Ann Updike and Angela Glotfelter. Miami University Howe
Center for Writing Excellence. Spring 2019.

“Transfer of Writing-Related Knowledge.” With Elizabeth Wardle. Miami University Howe

Center for Writing Excellence & Howe Center for Business Writing. Fall 2018.

Teacher Education Department Threshold Concepts Workshop. With Elizabeth Wardle.

Miami University. Oxford, OH. August 2018.

“Reflect, Project, Imagine: Using Rubrics and Informal Writing to Teach Better Reflection.”
With Jonathan Bradshaw. Miami University Composition Program Workshop. Oxford, OH. Fall
2012.

STUDENT-FACING WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

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“Changing Graduate Education: From Ambivalence to Action.” Panel Discussion Sponsored
by the Graduate Student Association Summer Stipend Task Force. December 2020.

“Key Ideas for Effecting Deep Change.” Presentation for Graduate Student Association
Summer Scholarship Task Force. September 2020.

“Understanding What We Do: Analyzing Session Reflections and Action Steps.” Workshop for
Howe Writing Initiative Consultants. Spring 2018.

“Writing in ECO 311: The Port St. Lucie Housing Project.” Miami University ECO 311 Courses.
Spring 2018.

“Business Style & Memo Writing.” Miami University ACC 333 Courses. Springs 2017 &
2018.

“Strategies for Effective Business Presentations.” Miami University MKT 291 Courses. Fall
2016 & Spring 2017.

“Team Research and Writing Strategies.” Miami University ECO 311 & MKT 291 Courses.
Fall 2016 & Spring 2017.

“Job Search Communications.” With Ryan Vingum. Miami University Howe Writing Initiative
Workshop Series. Fall 2016.

“Writing and Designing Effective Resumes.” With Cynthia Johnson. Miami University Howe
Writing Initiative Workshop Series. Fall 2016.

INVITED WORKSHOPS
“Responding to Student Writing: Myths and Methods.” With Angela Glotfelter. Ivy Tech
Community College Columbus. Columbus, IN. April 2019.

INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Miami University
“An Exercise in Empathy: Innovating a Chemistry Capstone Course through Science Fiction
Writing.” (28 April 2021). With Will Chesher. Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami
Writing Spotlight Series.

“Think Like an Economist: How Economics Faculty Developed a New Plan for Teaching
Writing.” (14 Oct. 2020). Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight Series.

“Slowing Down: Two Music Faculty Innovate Teaching Writing.” (n.d). Howe Center for Writing
Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight Series.

“‘Seeing Well’: Art History Faculty Make Writing Values Visible to Students.” (11 Nov. 2019).
Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight Series.

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“‘No One Wants Rote Memorizers’: Faculty Share Strategies for Incorporating Writing in
Large Courses.” (2 Oct. 2019). Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight
Series.

“‘Teachers as Intellectuals’: Threshold Concepts as Guideposts for Change in Teacher

Education.” (26 Feb. 2019). Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight
Series.

“‘I Love the Dedicated Time to Writing’: Faculty Reflect on Time Spent at HCWE Writing
Retreat.” (26 Feb. 2019). Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight Series.

“‘Something Invisible Has Been Made Visible for Me’: Philosophy Fellows on Teaching
Writing.” (n.d.) Howe Center for Writing Excellence Miami Writing Spotlight Series.

Writing in Art History. With Annie Dell’Aria, Jordan Fenton, and Pepper Stetler. Howe Center
for Writing Excellence Disciplinary Writing Guide.

RhetHawks Reader and Teachers’ Guide. (2017). With Winona Landis, Caleb Pendygraft,
Joshua Jones, Kyle Larson, and Emily O’Brien. Miami University Composition Program.

Indiana State University

“Saving Time, Saving Sanity: Responding Efficiently to Student Writing.” (n.d.) Teaching Tips
series co-sponsored by Indiana State University’s Writing Across the Sycamore Curriculum
and the Math and Writing Center.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National Service
 Exemplary WAC Program Award Committee, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Clearinghouse & Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC), 2021—
present
 Mentoring Committee, Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, 2021—present
 Manuscript Review, Journal of Response to Writing. December 2021.
 Stage 1 Proposal Reviewer. 2022 Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Summer 2021.
 Advocacy Committee, Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, 2019-2021
 Conference volunteer, 7th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference. Oxford, OH. June
2018.
 Proposal reviewer. 7th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference. Oxford, OH. Spring
2018.

Institutional Service
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY | DAYTONA BEACH, FL
 Member, Daytona Beach General Education Committee, 2021—present
 Co-Chair, Writing Matters (QEP) Faculty Development Committee, 2021—present
 Mentor, Grant Writing Initiative, 2022—present
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MIAMI UNIVERSITY | OXFORD, OH
 Global Miami Plan-Advanced Writing Advisory Committee, 2018-2021
 Global Miami Plan Assessment of Writing and Critical Thinking in Capstone Courses,
January 2018—May 2021
 Farmer School of Business Assessment of Ethics & Intercultural Understanding in
Capstone Courses, August 2017—May 2018
 Farmer School of Business Assessment of Learning in BUS 102 (Foundations of
Business Communication), April—May 2018
 Graduate Student Association Executive Committee, 2017-2018
 University Senate Executive Committee, 2017-2018
 University Senate, 2017-2018
 Farmer School of Business Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, Ex Oficio
Member, January 2017-May 2018
 Honors Program Portfolio Assessment of Critical & Integrative Thinking, Summer
2012

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | TERRE HAUTE, IN

 University College Assessment Subcommittee, 2015-2016

Departmental Service
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES &
COMMUNICATION | DAYTONA BEACH, FL
 Planning Committee, 2022—present
 COM 122 (English Composition) Fall 2021 Assessment of Pilot SLOs, February 2022
 COM 122 (English Composition) ePortfolio and Revised Student Learning Outcomes
Pilot Group, Fall 2021—Spring 2022
 COM 122 (English Composition) Master Course Outline Revision. With Lindsey Ives &
Erin Cromer. Spring 2022.
 HU 143 (Introduction to Rhetoric) Master Course Outline Revision. Led by Taylor
Mitchell & Meghan Velez.

MIAMI UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH | OXFORD, OH

 Composition Program Awards Committee, May 2019
 Miami English Graduate and Adjunct Association (MEGAA) Executive Board, 2019-
2020
 RhetHawks Reader Editorial Assistant, May 2018—July 2018
 First-Year Composition Portfolio Placement Program, June 2012 & June 2013
 Assessment of Learning in ENG 111 (Composition & Rhetoric), May 2013
 MEGAA Symposium Committee (ad hoc), 2012-2013, 2016-2017
 MEGAA Composition Committee Graduate Student Representative, 2012-2013

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH | TERRE HAUTE, IN

 Assessment of Learning in ENG 305 (Advanced Expository Writing), August 2015—
May 2016

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  Assessment of Learning in ENG 239 (Literature and Human Experience), August
2014—May 2015
 Assessment Committee, 2014-2016

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association for Writing Across the Curriculum
Conference on College Composition & Communication
Council of Writing Program Administrators
National Council of Teachers of English

AWARDS
Outstanding Dedication to First-Year Student Success | 2014
Awarded by the Indiana State University Office of Residential Life after student nomination

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