Jackie Grutsch McKinney Assistant Professor of English Writing Center Director Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro Office: Robert Bell 279 Phone: (765) 285-8381 E-mail: jrmckinney@bsu.edu Website: http://iweb.jrmckinney.bsu.edu

Areas of Specialization

Rhetoric and composition

Publications

“‘Fitness for the Occasion’: How Context Matters for JWPAs.” (Co-authored with Paul Ranieri) for Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics. Eds. Alice S. Horning and Debra Frank Dew. Parlor Press, Forthcoming.

“Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces.” Writing Center Journal 25.2 (Fall 2005): 6-20.

“The American Scholar Writes the New ‘Research’ Essay.” The Journal of Teaching Writing 20.1/2 (2004): 71-86.

“Inventing a Teacherly Self: Positioning Journals in the TA Seminar.” (Co-authored with Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater). WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. 27.1/2 (2003): 59-74

Courses

Graduate:  Teaching with Technology, Issues in Basic Writing, Comp without Classrooms

Undergraduate: Composition 1 and 2, Reading and Writing New Media, Reading and Writing about Literature, Writing in the Workplace, Tutoring Writing Practicum