Karyn L Hollis, Ph.D

Karyn L. Hollis, Ph.D.

411 Charles Lane, Wynnewood, PA 19072

(H) 610-642-0546 (W) 610-519-7872

www.homepage.villanova.edu/karyn.hollis

2000-Currently:   Associate Professor, English Department, Villanova University
            Director, Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric
2011-Currently: Associate Director, Cultural Studies Program
1990-2000:   Assistant Professor, English Department, Villanova University
          Director of the Writing Program and Director of the Writing Center
1985‑1990:     Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center, Dickinson College

Publications - Books

Global Academe: Engaging Intellectual Discourse. Eds., Karyn Hollis and Silvia Nagy-
Zekmi. Basingstoke Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, January,2011

Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals In and Out of Academe. Eds., Karyn Hollis and
Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.

Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. “Rhetorics and
Feminisms” series, Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.

Poesía del Pueblo para el Pueblo (Talleres Nicaragüenses de Poesía). [Poetry by
           the People for the People: The Nicaraguan Poetry Workshops] San José,
          Costa Rica: Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano Sub-
           Programa Cultural, 1991.

Publications – Articles

“The Rainbow Review: An Online Customized Critique of Style and Content Using
MSWord 2007, “ Academic Exchange Extra, January 2010.

http://www.unco.edu/AE-Extra/2010/1/indxmain.html
“Desktop Publishing for Community and Social Justice Organizations,” Reflections:

          Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy. Vol 9, No. 1, Fall 2009.
“Autobiography and Reconstructing Subjectivities at the Bryn Mawr Summer
           School for Women Workers, 1921-38,” reprinted in anthology: Ed. Janet
           Zandy, What We Hold In Common: An Introduction to Working-Class
         Studies. New York Feminist Press, 2001. 71-95.
“Plays of Heteroglossia: Labor Drama at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for
          Women Workers, 1921-1938.” in Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural
          Practices and Poetics. Ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh
          Press, 2001. 151-174.
“Remembering James L. Kinneavy, “ Journal of Advanced Composition, 19.4.
           April, 1999. 528-529.
“Material of Desire: Bodily Rhetoric in Working Women’s Poetry at the Bryn
          Mawr Summer School, 1921-1938," Rhetorical Bodies. Madison:
         University of Wisconsin Press, October, 1999. 98-119.
“Autobiography and Reconstructing Subjectivities at the Bryn Mawr Summer
           School for Women Workers, 1921-38,” in Women’s Studies Quarterly,
          (Spring/Summer 1995): 71-10
“Liberating Voices:   Autobiographical Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School
            for Women Workers, 1921-1938.”  College Composition and
          Communication. 44 (Feb 1994): 29-57.
“Feminism in Writing Workshops: A New Pedagogy.”  College Composition and
          Communication. 43 (Oct. 1992):340-348.
“Literacy Theory, Teaching Composition and Feminist Response.” Pre-Text. 13
          (Spring 1992): 103-116.
“Nicaraguan Poetry Workshops: The Democratization of Poetry." Studies in Latin
           American Popular Culture, Volume 11 (1992): 109-122.
“More Science in the Writing Center: Training Tutors to Lead Group Tutorials on
           Biology Lab Reports.” The Writing Center: New Directions. New York:
          Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991.
"Gender Differences in the Writing Center: A Preliminary Study." Proceedings of
              the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association, Vol 2, Widener University,
             Chester, PA: April 7, 1990. 12-23.

Presentations

“What Corpora Reveal: Gender, Feminism and Sexual Orientation in Wikileaks Cables,”
Southwest/Texas Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association
Conference, Computer Culture Section; Albuquerque, February 15, 2013.

“Global Partners Constructing Collaborative Epistemologies in Cross-Cultural Contexts,” Cultural Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, February 15, 2012

“Developing a Digital World Writing Program at Villanova University,” Popular Culture
            Association, Southwest/Texas Popular Cultural Association/American Culture
            Association conference,Technical Communications Section; San Antonio, TX,
            April 21, 2011.

Falvey Library Talk with Silvia Nagy-Zekmi on our edited book, Truth to Power, March 24, 2011

"Beyond, ‘It Was Awesome’: Writing the Realities of Travel,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008

"Work and Laborem Exercens in an Introductory Literature Course," Conference
on College Composition and Communication, (CCCC), New York, March, 2007.

"'With Grace & Guts’: Maureen Dowd Creates a new Editorialist Rhetoric,” FourthAnnual Cultural Studies Association Conference, April 19-22, 2006,
George Mason University, Arlington, VA.

"Four Women Columnists: Writing a Public Presence with Courage and Humor,”
            Conference on College Composition and Communication, (CCCC), March,
           2005.
“The Rhetoric of War,” workshop presenter, College Composition and
          Communication (CCCC), San Antonio, March 2004.
“What are We Teaching When We Teach Service Learning? Using Student
           Surveys to Find Out Conference on College Composition and
          Communication (CCCC), New York, March 2003.
“Women’s Activist Rhetoric on Email Listservs: The AFA Organizing Campaign at
          Delta Airlines,” Labor’s Voices/LaborTech Conference, New York,
          September 26-28, 2002.
“Progressive Composition Caucus: Our Past and Legacy,” Working Class Caucus
           Special Interest Group, Conference on College Composition and
           Communication (CCCC), Chicago, March 2002.
“Desktop Publishing for Community Change,” Conference on College Composition
           and Communication (CCCC), Chicago, March 2002.
“Rhetoric in Labor Organizing on the Internet,” Conference on College
           Composition and Communication (CCCC), Denver, March 2001.
“Women Writing Themselves into Public Discursive Space: Union
            Listservs,” Labor’s Voices Conference, New York, October 6-8, 2000.

“Women’s Literacy in Labor Unions: Gender and the Internet,” Rhetorical
Society of America, Washington D.C., May, 2000.
“Women’s Literacy in Labor Unions: From the Page to the Electronic Age,” Penn State

Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, PA, July, 1999

“Working Women in the Labor Press: Writing a Public Presence,” Conference on

College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Atlanta, March, 1999

“Writing Across the Curriculum at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women
Workers,”Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC),
Chicago, March, 1998

Honors, Awards, Grants:

Villanova Summer Research Grant for “With Grace and Guts: Four Women Columnists
Create a New Editorial Rhetoric,” $11,000, June 2005
Villanova University, Catholic Social Teaching grant, $1,000, June 2003
Villanova University, VITAL, Teaching/research support award, $2800, June 2003.
Villanova University, Service Learning Course Development Grant, “Writing for Social Justice,” May 1996 ($300)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1994-95, for research on writing at

the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 ($30,000)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1994, for research on writing
at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 ($7,500),

(declined)
American Council of Learned Societies, 1994, alternate--fellowship recipients for

research on writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers

Summer Research Grant, Villanova University, 1992 for “Pedagogy and Prose at the
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, 1921-1938”
($5,500)

Service – Villanova University

Online Learning Taskforce, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2012-
            currently
Interdisciplinary Programs Committee, LAS, 2012-currently
English Department Representative, CLASIT, College of Liberal Arts
          Instructional Technology Committee, 2007
Member, Praxis Award Committee--selects and presents annual award to recipient
         who has made outstanding contributions to the ethics of his/her profession,
        2007-currently.
Faculty Advisor, Villanova Writers Club, 2004-2005
Faculty Advisor, Villanovans for Peace, 2005-currently
Faculty Advisor & Director, Villanova Student Film Festival, 2004
Internships Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-currently
Faculty Senate Representative, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1998-2004
Member, Latin American Studies Committee, 1998-currently

Graduate Courses: Web Writing: Theory and Practice of Digital Rhetoric, 2007

Undergraduate Courses: A great variety of language, writing and literature
courses

Courses Developed & Taught

Desktop Publishing for Community Organizations
Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture & Critical Theory
Theory & Practice of Travel Writing
Web Writing: Theory and Practice of Digital Rhetoric
Feminist Rhetoric

Other Courses Taught

Survey of American Literature I and II
            Survey of British Literature I and II
            The Literary Experience
            Composition Theory and Pedagogy
             Advanced Expository Writing
             Freshman Composition
             Tutor Training: Theory & Practice

“The Rainbow Review: An Online Customized Critique of Style and Content Using MSWord 2007, “ Academic Exchange Extra, January 2010.

“The Rainbow Review: An Online Customized Critique of Style and Content Using
MSWord 2007, “ Academic Exchange Extra, January 2010.