Mark McBeth, Associate Professor/English
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
& CUNY Graduate Center English Ph.D. Program
524 W. 59th Street, 7.63.10NB
New York, New York 10031
212 237 8815
mmcbeth@jjay.cuny.edU
jjmark.mcbeth@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
The Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC Ph.D., May 2001, M.Phil., Magna Cum Laude, 1999, English Composition/Rhetoric
Dissertation: The Tightrope of Desire: Lessons from Oscar Browning
Dissertation Committee Members: Professors Sondra Perl (Director), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Joseph Wittreich
Dissertation Prize: Paul Monette Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Gay and Lesbian Literature
City College of New York, CUNY, NYC Masters of Arts, 1995, Magna Cum Laude, English Language and Literacy
Thesis: The Queen’s English: The Forms and Functions of Gaylect
Beaver College, Glenside, PA Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1984, Summa Cum Laude, Printmaking
Thesis: La Maison d’Etre, Monotype Prints on Handmade Paper
ADMINISTRATIVE AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Academic Positions:
CUNY Graduate Center/CUNY/365 Fifth Avenue/NYC Associate Professor/Ph.D. Program in English September 2011-Present
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY/445 W. 59th St./NYC Associate Professor/Deputy Chair for Writing Programs (until 2008) September 2002-Present
City College of New York, CUNY/138th St. & Convent Ave./NYC Director of the Writing Center February 1992-September 2002
City College of New York, CUNY/138th St. & Convent Ave./NYC Assistant Director of English Composition September 1993-September 1998
City College of New York, CUNY/138th St. & Convent Ave./NYC Adjunct Lecturer/English Composition September 1993-September 2002
College Courses Instructed:
• Curriculum Building: Writing Courses/Literacy Initiatives/Composition Programming • Introduction to Ph.D. Studies in English (Ph.D. seminar) • Seduction of the Archives (Ph.D. seminar) • Queer Lines of Communication (Ph.D. seminar) • Introduction to Writing Program Administration (Ph.D. seminar) • How the Eye/I Writes: Synthesizing 21st-Century Literacies • Graduate Introduction to Linguistics for Teachers • Graduate Teaching Seminar • Graduate Writing for Public Management • Research Methods • Writing for Business • Prose: Form • Prose: Freelancing • Core Humanities • English Composition Basic Writing Courses • English Composition Freshman Core Writing Course • Writing for the Humanities • Writing for Education • Prose: Voice • Empirical Research • Tutor Training Workshop • Teacher Training Seminar
PUBLICATIONS
2015
“Revising by Numbers: An Evaluation from the Innumerate” in Journal of Response to Writing 1.2 (August 2015): n. pgs. Web.
“Proclivities: The Irregular (Dis)Positions of Queer and Composition/ Rhetoric Studies” in Special Issue “Queer and Now” The Writing Instructor Special Issue: Queer and Now. (Eds.) Aneil Rallin, Robert Koch, and Trixie G. Smith. (March 2015): n. pgs. Web.
ACCEPTED/FORTHCOMING Equal Opportunity Programming & Optimistic Program Assessment: First-Year Writing Program Design and Assessment at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Composition Forum
ACCEPTED/FORTHCOMING “Apologia Without Apologies: A Local Lecture on Full-Time Lecturers” with Tim McCormack Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity. (Eds.) Seth Kahn, Bill Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek. Under Contract with WAC Clearinghouse.
ACCEPTED/FORTHCOMING “Queerying the First-Year Composition Student (and Teacher): A Democratizing Endeavor” with Tara Pauliny in Queer Landscapes: Mapping Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy Eds., James E. Wermers, Elizabeth McNeil, and J. Oakleaf Lunn.: Under Consideration with Palgrave Macmillan Queer Studies in Education.
ACCEPTED/FORTHCOMING “WPAs Go To Work—for a Decade: Building a First-Year Writing Program” with Tim McCormack. Working Writing Programs: Innovations, Issues, and Opportunities. (Ed.) Bryna Siegel Finer): Under Consideration with Utah State University Press.
“(Dis)Satisfaction” Writing from the Inside Out in IWT Journal (Bard College) 8 (2013): 36-38.
2013
Writing Program Certificate of Excellence, Application Materials, Recipient of the Award at the March 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada Conference
2012
Enacting Eve: A Testimonial in “The Turn to Performance” CCC Online 1.1 (January 2012): < http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8552537/ccconline/issue1-1/public-toc/index.html>
2011
“Renaming Curiosity/Resisting Ignorance: Interviewing Queerness” with Martha Marinara in Listening to our Elders: Working and Writing for Change. Eds., Samantha Blackmon, Cristina Kirklighter, and Steve Parks. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011.
Book Review of The Community College Writer: Exceeding Expections by Howard Tinburg and Jean-Paul Nadeau. Composition Forum. 24 (Fall 2011): 157.
Remediating Basic Writing History: A Book Review of Basic Writing by George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk. Radical Teacher. 90 (Spring 2011): 67-69.
2010
“(Un)Standard Deviations: Observing Diversity/Enabling Divergence” Writing Program Administrator, Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. 33.3 (Spring 2010): 129-134.
2009
“A Dimmer Shade of Crimson: Historicizing the Ivy League Basic Writer.” Book Review Essay. The CEA Forum. 38.2 (Summer/Fall 2009): http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/382index.htm
2007
“Memoranda of Fragile Machinery: A Portrait of Mina Shaughnessy as Intellectual Bureaucrat.” Writing Program Administrator. 31.1/2 (Fall/Winter). 48 – 64.
“The City University of New York and the Shaughnessy Legacy: Today’s Scholars Talk Back.” (co-authored with Judith Summerfield, Peter Gray, Cheryl C. Smith, Crystal Benedicks, Linda Hirsch, Mary Soliday, and Jessica Yood) Journal of Basic Writing. 26.2 (Fall). 5 – 29.
2006
“ Arrested Development: Revising Remediation at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.” Journal of Basic Writing. 25.2 (Fall). 76 – 93.
“Whose Afraid of Oscar Browning?: Revising an Historical Portrait.” Back to Bloomsbury— An Online Publication of the Conference Proceedings of The International Virginia Woolf Society
2004
“Simon Says: A Response from Two Nineteenth-Century Educators.” Journal of the History of Education. (September) 33.5: 597-602.
Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes, co-authored with Dr. Pam Hirsch, Cambridge University. London. Woburn Press, 2004.
2002
“Tightrope of Desire: Victorian Student/Teacher Relationships” in Gender, Politics, and the Experience of Education: An International Perspective. London: Woburn Publishers, 2002: 46-72.
2001
“The Queen’s English: A Queery in Contrastive Rhetoric” in Contrastive Rhetoric Theory Revised and Redefined. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2001: 105-122.
Review of Queerly Phrased. Journal of Advanced Composition. 20.4 (Fall). 983-988.
“Teacher Self-Awareness and Student Motivation.” Looking Both Ways: High School Teachers Talk about Language and Learning. NYC: CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. 31-42.
“Monstrous Changes: Composition, Desire and Dream in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” The Explicator (Spring) 57: 3: 143-145.
1998
“Body Oddities: Hypothetical (Com)Positions from the Physically Extreme.” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (Winter) 4: 10-24.
“In My Absence.” Global City Review 10: 76-79.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Educator’s Guide. Bilbao, Spain: Guggenheim Museum.
1997
“Practice Makes Perfect: Learning to Teach as a Graduate Student.” ADE Bulletin 118 (Winter): 15-21.
1995
“The Paradigm of the Desk.” English in Texas 26 (Summer): 42-48.
INVITED LECTURES
2014
“Pedagogies of Embodiment: Diversity in Practice” Invited Roundtable Speaker, CUNY Graduate Center English Ph.D. Program (October 24) New York, NY
“Writing for Improved Textual Analysis: The Reflective Annotated Bibliography” Invited Speaker/Workshop Leader, Baruch College English Department (October 14) New York, NY
2013
“WAC from Arguments to Conventions: Programmatic Development” Invited Speaker/Consultant, Scripps College (June 13-16) Claremont, CA.
2012
“Writing Program as Good Intentions or Equal Opportunity” Invited Speaker, Hofstra University (April 25) Hempstead, NY.
“Thinking Outside the Triangle: Comp/Rhet Research, Performance Studies & Queer Theory” Invited Speaker, St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus (March 29) New York, NY.
2011
“Framing the Framework for Teachers” Invited Speaker, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (April 14) New York, NY.
2009
“(Un)Common Reading: Introducing Academic Literacies; (Un)Expected Writing: Challenging Academic Literacies” Invited Speaker William Paterson University. (October 14) Wayne, NJ.
2008
“The Rhetoric of Disciplines: Discerning Disciplinary Customs & Conventions.” Invited Speaker Queens College/CUNY. (April 29) New York, NY.
2007
“Beating Not Your Poor Head Upon the Desk: Getting What You Want from Student Writing.” Invited Speaker William Paterson University. (October 25) Wayne, NJ.
“Fashioning Writing: Promoting Writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.” Invited Speaker Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY. (February 10) New York, NY.
1996
“The Queen’s English: Functions & Forms of Gaylect.” Invited Lecture in a Series of Multicultural Issues. Ursinus College. (November 5) Collegeville, PA.
Invited Lecture. “Gaylect: A Manhattan Study.” Segue Foundation. (June 6) NYC.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2015
“The Archive’s Sustenance: Memories, Ephemera & Shiny Things” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference (July 12-19) Boise, ID.
“‘God Hates Fags’ … ‘Fuck This Guy’: Rhetorics of Repulsion & Their Non-Dialogue” in Featured Presentation “Religious Lifestyle & Queer Faith: Religious/Queer Discourses in Consensual Distrust.” 2015 Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 18-21) Tampa, FL.
2014
“In Labor: The Continuous (Re)Working of a Writing Curriculum” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 17) Normal, IL.
“Putting the QQ (Queer & Questioning) in LGBT: Tracing the Evolution of CCCC SIG” in Featured Presentation “Queer/Community: Intersectionality, Inclusion, and Alliance in Queer Rhetorics and Composition.” 2014 Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 19-22) Indianapolis, IN.
2013
“Institutional Tendencies: (De)Composing Queer Selves in the University” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 18) Savannah, GA.
“Why Queer? Why Here? Why Get Used to It? Why Teach a Graduate-Level Queer Composition Course?” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. (July 18) Savannah, GA
“Students’ Rights to Their Own Identities: The Importance of Queerying Language” 2013 Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 7 – 10) Las Vegas, NV.
“Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing: Going Viral” 128th MLA Annual Convention. (January 3-5) Boston, MA.
2012
“What’s Price Got to Do with It? Open Access Materials at CUNY” 11th Annual CUNY IT Conference. (November 30) New York, NY.
“Queer Mentoring: Guiding Queer Lines of Communication” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 21) Albuquerque, NM.
“Performing Rhetoric: Enacting Language in the Classroom” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 20) Albuquerque, NM.
“Millenial Equal Opportunity: Queer Undergraduates in the Writing Class” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 21-23) St. Louis, MO.
2011
“Using Outcomes Assessment Data and Effective Outcomes Research to Determine Best Practices in the First-Year Classroom.” CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction. (October 29, 2011) LaGuardia CC, Queens, NY.
“Bards of Bureaucracy” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 14-16) Baton Rouge, LA.
“An Equal Opportunity Composition Curriculum at John Jay College of Criminal Justice” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference. (July 14-16) Baton Rouge, LA.
“Flirting with Students” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 7 – 10) Atlanta, GA.
“Queer Navigations: Finding One’s ‘Self’ at the College Website” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 7 – 10) Atlanta, GA.
“Reinventing the Threshold: Revamping a Traditional FYC Curriculum” UConn’s Sixth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing. (March 25) Storrs, CT.
“Prompts, Props, Performativities: Enacting Education” XVIII Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics. (11-13 February) Washington, D. C.
2010
“Creating (in) Our Own Discomfort Zones of Proximal Development: A Double Session Hands-On Visual Rhetoric Workshop.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference (July 15-18) Philadelphia, PA.
“Queer Lines of Communication: Teaching and Composing to the Non-Normative.” XVII American University Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics. (April 16-17) Washington, D.C.
“Enacting Eve: A Testimonial Performance.” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 17 – 20) Louisville, Kentucky.
2009
“Justice (Through Literacy) for All: Riding the Subway to Faculty Development” 6th Annual Georgia Conference on Information Literacy. (September 25 – 26) Savannah, Georgia.
“An Alternative to the Common Reading—The Common Denominator: Riding the Subway to Inquiry” Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference (July 12-19) Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Who’s Telling the Truth?: Revisiting an Interrogation of an Accused Child Abuser” International Association of Forensic Linguists 9th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law (July 7) Amsterdam, Holland.
“Queer Silence” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 11-14) San Francisco, California.
“Reading Across the Disciplines: Rhetorical Strategies/Practical Applications” (Invited Speaker) City Tech/CUNY. (June 20) New York, New York.
“Celluloid WAC: Documenting the Realities of WAC through Film.” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 2 – 5) New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Basic Writing after the Storm: Changing Reality in the Classroom and Beyond.” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (April 2 – 5) New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007
“New Scholars Talk Back: The City University of New York and the Shaughnessy Legacy Thirty Years Later.” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 21-24) New York, New York.
2006
“Out of Uniform: Revising Writing Curriculum at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.” CUNY General Education Conference. Queensborough Community College (May 5, 2006) Queens, NY
2005
“Rethinking Curriculum in Light of ESL Pedagogy”: Developing a Writing Across the Curriculum for Freshman Composition at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.” ESL & WAC: CUNY Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Development. The Hunter College School of Social Work (November 18, 2005) New York, NY.
2004
“Who’s Afraid of Oscar Browning: Woolf’s (Mis)Interpretation.” Back to Bloomsbury: 14th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. (June 23-26) London, UK.
“Mina’s Memorandum: ‘This is not an interesting memo, but it’s important.’” Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 24-27) San Antonio, Texas.
2003
“Simon Says: Two Nineteenth-century Educators Respond.” Education and the Social Order: Re-visioning the Legacy of Brian Simon.. History of Education Society (UK) Annual Conference.
(December 12 – 14) Cambridge, England.
“New York as Creative Non-fiction.” 54th Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 19-22) NYC
2001
“Learning and Desiring.” 52nd Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 14-17) Denver, Colorado.
“Virginia’s Poppycock: Revising Oscar Browning.” Inroads and Outposts, At Home & Abroad in the Empire: British Women in the Thirties. (September 15) CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
“Victorian Desire and the Role of the Teacher.” History of Education Society (UK) Annual Conference. (December 3-5) Winchester, UK.
“First Things First: Understanding the Assignment.” CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors (CAWS). 22nd Annual CAWS Conference (October 24) Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC.
1997
“Parroting Pedagogical Sound-Bytes.” CAWS. 21st Annual CAWS Conference (October 24) Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC.
1996
“The Part that Made You Gasp: The Writer Reveals Himself.” CAWS. 20th Annual CAWS Conference. (October 25) Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC.
“The Queen’s English: Understanding Gaylect—Form and Function.” 46th Annual Conference of College Composition and Communication. (March 23-25) Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL/REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
2015
Guest Editorial Reviewer for Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, College Composition and Communication, and Journal of Basic Writing
2015-2010
Executive Board, Council of Writing Program Administrators
Editorial Review Board, Writing Program Administration
Editorial Review Board, Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Editorial Review Board, College English
Editorial Review Board, Journal of Information Fluency
2014-2012
Co-Founder of WPA Metropolitan Affiliate
2012
Co-Chair, CWPA Annual Conference, July 17-24, Savannah, Georgia
2010-2009
President, Queer Caucus, Special Interest Groups, Conference of College Composition Communications
COLLEGE LEADERSHIP & SERVICE
2014
John Jay College Chair of General Education Committee
Members, Diversity Committee, Ph.D. Program in English, Graduate Center
John Jay English Department Personnel and Budget Committee
2013
Member, Admissions Committee, Ph.D. Program in English, Graduate Center
2013
Research Mentor, 6th & 7th Annual First Year Student Showcase
2012
CUNY Pathways Composition & Rhetoric Review Committee
John Jay Middle States Evidence Room Committee
John Jay College Wide Assessment Review Committee
Chair, English Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Committee Member, Committee on GLBTQ Issues
2009
Coordinator of Subway Series, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2008
Faculty Mentor, Salzburg Global Seminar, (April 19-26), Salzburg, Austria
2007-2002
Deputy Chair in charge of Writing Programs, English Department, John Jay College
2007-2005
Coordinator/Curriculum Designer, Pre-Law Boot Camp, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum, English Department, John Jay College
Curricular Consultant for the John Jay Freshman Year Program Project
Committee Member, Task Force for Reading and Writing, CUNY, NYC
2004
CUNY Proficiency Exam Liaison, John Jay College
John Jay College Seminar Leader, Looking Both Ways (LBW), NYC
2003
Project Coordinator (Recruitment & Evaluation), LBW, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, NYC
CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE) Liaison, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC
2002
Seminar Leader, LBW, NYC
Seminar Leader, Writing Fellows Seminar (August 26-29), CUNY WAC Initiative
2000
Website Editorial Board Member, LBW, NYC
Committee Member, CPE Student Assistance Coordinating Committee
1999
Seminar Leader, LBW, NYC
1998
Intersession Writing Curriculum Design, Office of Freshman Year Program, City College
AWARDS
2013
Faculty Recognition Award, Distinguished Teaching, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2013
Certificate for Excellence in Writing Programs, Conference of College Composition & Communication
2009
Special Recognition Essay Award for “Memoranda of Fragile Machinery,” Council of Writing Program Administrators
2007
National Award for Innovation in Basic Writing Curriculum, Conference of Basic Writing
GRANTS
2005
CUNY Research Reward for Faculty Development in the Practices of Writing, CUNY Central Offices
College Now Grant for College Curriculum in the High Schools, CUNY Office of Academic Standards
2004
William Stewart Travel Award, CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
2003
PSC-CUNY Grant, Awarded for a proposed research project
2001
Paul Monette Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Gay and Lesbian Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
2000
Morton Cohen Dissertation Assistance Award, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) Research Award, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
1996
Sarah Fortune Award in Language and Literacy, City College, NYC
1988
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Inc. Grant, New York (an award to underwrite one year of painting)
1984
Benton Spruance Award in Fine Arts, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
