Jackie Grutsch McKinney Associate Professor of English  Writing Center Director Internships & Co-ops Coordinator (2009-2010)  Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro Office: Robert Bell 279  Phone: (765) 285-8381  E-mail: jrmckinney@bsu.edu  Website: http://jackiegrutschmckinney.com

Areas of Specialization

Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Center Studies 
 

Recent Publications

"New Media (R)evolution: Multiple Models for Multiliteracies." in Multiliteracy Centers: Re-Centering with New Media. Eds. David Sheridan and James Inman. [Forthcoming from Hampton Press.] 
 
"New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print." The Writing Center Journal 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51. [Forthcoming] 
 

Geek in the Center, ongoing column for the Writing Lab Newsletter, started September 2009 with “Blogging.” WLN 35.1 (2009): 7-9.

       
"A Portable Ecology: Supporting New Media and Laptop-Ready Pedagogy at Ball State." (with Kris Fleckenstein and Fred Johnson). Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Eds. Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Dickie Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2009. Online at: http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/tes. 
 

“‘Fitness for the Occasion’: How Context Matters for JWPAs.” (with Paul Ranieri) for Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics. Eds. Alice S. Horning and Debra Frank Dew. Parlor Press, 2007.  
 

“Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces.” The 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  
 

Grants 
"A Peripheral Vision of Writing Centers." International Writing Center Association Research Grant. Awarded 2008. 
 
Creative Teaching Grant. Ball State University Office of Teaching and Learning. Awarded 2004. 
 

Courses

Undergraduate:  
Eng 103: Composition I 
Eng 104: Composition II 
Eng 230: Reading and Writing about Literature 
Eng 231: Writing in the Workplace 
Eng 435: (Special Topics) Writing Center Theory and Practice 
Eng 444: (Senior Seminar) Multimodal Ethnography 
 
Graduate:  
Eng 601: Research Methods in Composition 
Eng 604: Teaching with Technology 
Eng 605: Foundations for Teaching Composition 
Eng 690: (Special Topics) Writing Center Theory and Administration 
Eng 690: (Special Topics) Issues in Basic Writing 
Eng 690: (Special Topics) Comp without Classrooms 
Eng 699: Contemporary Composition Theory