Dr. Tom Pace, Director of First-Year Composition
Dr. Pace joined the JCU faculty in 2002 after completing his doctorate at Miami University of Ohio with a specialty in Composition and Rhetoric and Renaissance studies. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Louisville. Dr. Pace teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses: Composition and Rhetoric I and II, Advanced Writing, Studies in Rhetoric and Composition, Major British Writers, Popular Film and American Culture, and Rhetoric and Education in Renaissance Lyric. His research interests revolve around the history and theory of teaching writing and rhetoric, especially stylistics. He is the co-editor of Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities in Writing Pedagogy (Utah University Press).

He can be reached at tpace@jcu.edu

TEACHING (3/2 LOAD)

Fall 2008
EN 111-75 (Composition and Rhetoric I)
First Year Seminar
EN 589-1 (Studies in Rhetoric and Composition)

Spring 2009
EN 299 (Special Topics: Popular Film and American Culture)
EN 116 (Advanced Composition and Rhetoric II)


SCHOLARSHIP
Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy . With T.R. Johnson. Logan , UT : Utah State Press, 2005.

"Style and the Renaissance of Composition Studies.” In Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy .

"I Can Take a Stance”: Using the Academic Journal to Teach Audience in First-Year Composition.” In Teaching Audience: Theory and Practice . Eds. Brian Fehler, Elizabeth Weiser and Angela Gonzalez (National Council of Teachers of English. Forthcoming, 2009).

Book Proposal
The Rhetorical Tradition and Contemporary Jesuit Education. Co-Editor: Cinthia Gannett.

Articles-in-Progress
“Building Paragraphs, Building Knowledge.” In Talking About Style: Essays on Speaking Articulately about the Workings of Texts . Ed. Elizabeth Hodges and Dona Hickey (Under review at Utah State University Press).

“A Usable Resistance: Stumbling to Prepare Literature MAs for First-Year Composition.” (Under review at WPA: The Journal of Writing Program Administrators ).

CURRENT TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS: 2005-2009

"Weapons of Mass Instruction: Style as Counterpublic to the Public Sphere." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March, 2009 (Forthcoming).

"Tracing Freire: Jesuit Rhetoric and its Impact on Critical Pedagogy." Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA. May, 2008.

“Reality, Illusion, or Both?  Facebook and the Teaching of Writing.” College English Association. St. Louis, MO. March, 2008.

"Literacy and Culture as Seduction in Television's The Gilmore Girls." The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. San Francisco, CA. March, 2008.

“Listening to Our Students: Identity, Facebook, and Writing Programs.” Council of Writing Program Administrators. Tempe, AZ. July, 2007.

“'A Verb Would be Nice:' Rhetoric and Writing in Television's The West Wing.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Boston, MA. April, 2007.

“Resistance and Opportunity : Preparing Graduate Assistants in Literature to Teach Writing.” Council of Writing Program Administrators. Chattanooga, TN. July, 2006.

“Reaching Out: Graduate Education and the Resistance to Composition Pedagogy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March, 2006.

“An Untapped Resource: St. Edmund Campion's Rhetorical Textbook and the Jesuit Tradition of Teaching.” With Carin Ruff. Rhetoric Society of America Institute. Kent State University. Kent, OH. May, 2005.

“Accessing the Disciplines: Rethinking Prose Style in the Advanced Writing Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March, 2005