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Krista L. Bryson

Web: www.kristabryson.com Email: bryson.53@osu.edu

Phone: 614-286-4500 Address: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Education

The Ohio State University 2010-Sp 2015 PhD, English: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy; Digital Media Studies

Dissertation: A Regional Rhetoric for Activism in Appalachia Committee: Beverly J. Moss (chair), Nan Johnson, Amy Shuman

Marshall University 2008-2010 MA, English: Rhetoric and Composition BA, English: Magna cum laude: Honors program

Academic Publications

Emancipating Adult Illiterates: Conflicted Rhetorics of Identity in the Kentucky Moonlight Schools. Re-Reading Appalachia: Literacies of Resistance. Ed. Kim Donehower and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus. Forthcoming. The Literacy Myth in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Computers and Composition 29.3 (2012): 254-68. Print. Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. KairosWikis. 8 Aug. 2010. Web. 1 Jan. 2011. Is This Facebook or an Online Writing Class? Rethinking and Retooling Communication Strategies in Online Writing Courses. KairosWikis. 9 Aug. 2010. Web. 1 Jan. 2011. Areas of Scholarly Interest

General Areas Primary Specializations Secondary Specializations Rhetorical Theory Appalachian Studies Environmental Rhetorics Literacy Studies Digital Media Composition Technical Communication Composition Studies Activist Communication Multicultural Studies Technological Skills

Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver, HTML5, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, MovieCaptioner, Wordpress, Blogger, Microsoft Office Suite, Mac OS X

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Awards, Grants, & Fellowships

The Ohio State University Edward Corbett Fellowship in Rhetoric & Composition, Dpt. of English Spring 2015 Alice Paul Award for Social Justice, Office of Student Life Fall 2014 RAPID Grant ($50,000), National Science Foundation Spring 2014 Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Graduate Work, Department of English Spring 2014 Outstanding Research Mentor, Office of Undergraduate Research Spring 2014 Governors Office of Appalachia Research Grant, Appalachian Project Spring 2013 Batelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs Travel Grant ($1,000) Fall 2011

Marshall University

Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects Scholarship Spring 2010 Presidential Scholarship 2004-2008 Promise Scholarship 2004-2008

Student Awards (Projects Developed in Courses I Taught)

Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work: Abigail Smith Spring 2014 Academic Positions

Graduate Research Assistant The National Science Foundation Su 2014-Present I designed an activist digital media communications project to tell the stories of the victims of

the West Virginia Water Crisis at www.wvwatercrisis.com through video, image, and text. I also filmed and published an emergency public health and safety video with environmental engineers who were testing water in contaminated plumbing systems in victims homes. It was linked in a New York Times article and led to interviews with other national news media. I am currently creating an interactive documentary and academic research project on the social and rhetorical aspects of the water crisis. Released documentary footage to LiveScience.com for their story on the water crisis.

Graduate Research Assistant The Appalachian Project 2012-2014

I conducted field research and videography for this interdisciplinary initiative, which produced a 40-minute video ethnography that profiles high school and college students in Appalachian Ohio to understand factors influencing Appalachian Ohio students choices to attend college.

Graduate Administrative Assistant Digital Media Project (DMP) 2012-2013

I was responsible for significant administrative duties, including assisting in planning and delivering technology and software workshops; instructing teachers and students in the use of digital media production hardware such as camcorders, audio recorders, projectors, etc; troubleshooting issues in DMP-managed classrooms; checking out equipment to students and instructors; maintaining the DMP website; and undertaking special projects initiated by the DMP (e.g. workshops, outreach, special programming, etc).

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Associate Director Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) Institute 2011-2012 I served as the chief organizer for all DMAC operations from Fall to Summer quarter, including

activities of assistants, correspondence with participants, budgetary expenses, weekly meetings with Institute Directors Cindy Selfe and Scott DeWitt through Winter and Spring quarters, logistics for the two-week long daily workshop in the summer, and processing reimbursements of expenses for Directors.

Research Assistant LiteracyStudies@OSU Winter 2012-Fall 2012

I served as the organizer of daily logistics for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminars, including promoting the monthly events, recruiting student and faculty for participation in the program, developing and planning monthly seminars, workshops, and lectures series. I also assisted Dr. Harvey Graff in conducting research for his new book, preparing materials for his courses, and redesigning his professional website.

Research Assistant Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) 2012

I collected literacy narratives for the DALN at Columbus Bicentennial events. I was responsible for promoting the DALN, soliciting and conducting interviews, editing the recordings, and captioning the videos.

Teaching

English 2269: Digital Media Composing The Ohio State University 2013-2014 I designed and taught this course in digital media composition to focus on the rhetorical choices

involved in image, audio, video, and web production. Students used digital still cameras, video recorders, and audio recorders in production and Photoshop, Audacity, iMovie, and Dreamweaver in post-production. Students were also required to participate in the course readings and in-class activities using social media, including Wordpress blogs and Twitter. Readings focused on the ethics of digital media production and digital media theory.

English 110.01: First Year English Composition The Ohio State University 2012 For this course in analytic academic writing and persuasive public writing, I themed the course

around several key concepts: literacy and identity in American lives, representing the body, stigma, and representing place.

English 102: English Composition II Marshall University 2009

I designed this course in persuasive academic writing and research to focus on literacy, asking students to think and write about their own literacy practices and values as well as research and analyze a specific issue in literacy studies. I incorporated digital technology by assigning a multimodal composition, research blog, and web-based final portfolio.

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English 350: Literary Studies for Majors Marshall University 2009-2010 This course was a first-level English major seminar that I co-taught with a professor one

semester and then taught independently the next semester. The course prepares students for the Senior Capstone course and portfolio by teaching literary criticism and theory through the study of a range of cross-cultural literature in a variety of genres. Students were required to write and revise three formal papers, interpret and perform pieces from literary works, present in a research-based colloquium, and create a progress portfolio.

Tutoring

Young Scholars Program The Ohio State University 2013 Office of Diversity and Inclusion I tutored minority and at-risk students who were transitioning from high school to college

during a two-week daily course preparing them for the First Year Writing Program. I assisted students with in-class writing, brainstorming, and rhetorical analysis. Some of the students also turned to me for outside mentorship after the course was over, including reviewing their resumes.

Writing Center Marshall University 2008-2010

I tutored both undergraduate and graduate students from all majors and disciplines at various stages of the writing process in both face-to-face sessions and online (synchronous and asynchronous) sessions.

Higher Education for Learning Problems Marshall University 2008-2009

I tutored undergraduate students with learning differences in the subjects of English, composition, remedial writing, communications, history, Spanish, legal studies, legal assisting, and theater.

Service

National Co-Chair: Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Special Interest Group 2011-2015 Submissions Judge: Conference on College Composition and Communication 2012-2013

The Ohio State University

Co-director and Research Mentor The Appalachian Project 2012-2014 Department of English Delegate Council of Graduate Students 2013-2014 Diversity and Inclusion Chair Council of Graduate Students 2013-2014 Co-Chair Literacy in Appalachia Grad Group 2011-2013 Judge English Digital Media Awards 2013 Literacy Narrative Collector, Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives 2010-2012

Community Reader and Activity Assistant Kids Club, Clintonville Community Center 2013

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Presentations

A Regional Rhetoric for Activism in Appalachia: The West Virginia Water Crisis. With Brandi S. Weekley and Anna R. Terman. Johnson City, Tennessee: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, 2015. Becoming a Digital Activist: Responding to the West Virginia Water Crisis. Tampa, Florida: CCCC, 2015. Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Special Interest Group. With Sara Webb-Sunderhaus. Tampa, Florida: CCCC, 2014. Re-imagining the War on Poverty in Southeastern Ohio: The Appalachian Project. With Cassie Patterson, Patricia Cunningham, et. al. Huntington, West Virginia: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, 2014. Transformative Rhetorics of Literacy and Identity in Appalachia. With Kathryn Trauth Taylor and Megan Adams. Indianapolis, Indiana: CCCC, 2014. Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Special Interest Group. With Sara Webb-Sunderhaus. Indianapolis, Indiana: CCCC, 2014. The Urban Appalachian Council: Feminist Rhetorics for an Invisible Minority. Palo Alto, California: Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, 2013. Building an Activist Group for Appalachia in the University: The Literacy in Appalachia Graduate Group at the Ohio State University. With Cassie Patterson. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, 2013. The Appalachian Project @ Ohio State University: How Did You Get to College? With Cassie Patterson, Patricia Cunningham, et. al. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, 2013. Mythic Literacies: Re-Reading Appalachian Settlement School Textbooks. Las Vegas, Nevada: CCCC, 2012. Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Special Interest Group. With Sara Webb-Sunderhaus. Las Vegas, Nevada: CCCC, 2013. Fighting for Words: Narrating a Deaf Life. With Brenda Brueggemann and Kristen Johnson. Deaf and Hard of Hearing Narratives from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. Columbus, Ohio: Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability, 2012. Picturing Literacy in the Appalachian Coalfields. With Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower, and Todd Snyder. Re-reading Appalachia: Literacies of Resistance. St. Louis, MO: CCCC, 2012. With Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Peter Mortensen, Kim Donehower, and Katrina Powell. Appalachian

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Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Special Interest Group. St. Louis, MO: CCCC, 2012. With Morgan Gresham, Roxanne Aftanas, and Molly Daniel. Transgressing the Academy Walls: The "Real" Work of Rhetoric and Composition. Atlanta, Georgia: NWSA, 2011. Intersections of Feminist and Regional Identity Rhetorics in Appalachia. Mankato, Minnesota: Feminisms and Rhetorics, 2011. Contesting the Boundaries of Regional Identity: A New Rhetorical Theory of Appalachia. Atlanta, Georgia: CCCC, 2011. The Place of Community: Composing Identities in Digital Spaces. West Lafayette, Indiana: Computers and Writing, 2010. Invited Lectures, Presentations, Workshops, and Research Retreats

Lessons Learned in Recent Environmental Disasters. Shepherdstown, West Virginia: National Science Foundation and United States Geological Survey, 2014. Community, Communications, and Science: Lessons Learned from the 2014 Freedom Industries Chemical Spill. Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana: Center for the Environment, Purdue Water Community, and Department of Engineering. 2014. Environmental Disaster Communication and Collaboration. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio: Hazardous Waste Management and Remediation course, 2014. Social Media and Environmental Activism. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio: Introduction to Popular Culture Studies Course, 2014. Becoming a Digital Activist: The West Virginia Water Crisis. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio: the Digital Media and Composition Institute, 2014. The West Virginia Water Crisis Screening and Directors Discussion. Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia International Film Festival, 2014. Introduction to Hollow and Interactive Documentary. Documentary screening and directors discussion. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio: The Appalachian Project, 2014. Introduction to Appalachian Re-Shaping the Academy. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. Annual Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies lecture with Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, 2013. The Appalachian Project Training Retreat. The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio. Center for Folklore Studies, 2013. Mutual Respect Policies. Columbus, Ohio: English 693, Teaching First-Year English Composition, 2011.

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Everybody has a Literacy Story: Literacy Narrative Collection, Digital Media, and the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives Workshop. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Computers and Writing, 2011. Methodology and Narratives. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies, 2011. MCAT/GRE Writing Section Workshop. Marshall University. Huntington, West Virginia, Spring and Summer 2009.

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Professional Development

RCL Workshop with Sara Webb-Sunderhaus. Appalachians Re-Shaping the Academy. Spring 2013. RCL Workshop with Kirk Hazen, The Study of Language Variation and Change in Appalachia, Winter 2012. Digital Media and Composition Institute, Summer 2011. RCL Workshop with Anis Bawarshi, Using Genre to Facilitate Knowledge Transfer, Spring 2011. Professional Memberships

National Council of Teachers of English Appalachian Studies Association