EDUCATION
Ph.D, English, University of Texas at Austin, May 2012
Dissertation: Religious Healing in the Progressive Era: Literary Responses to Christian Science
Committee: Dr. Phillip Barrish, Dr. Brian Bremen, Dr. Thomas Tweed, Dr. Coleman Hutchison, Dr. Gretchen Murphy.
M.A. English, University of Texas at Austin, May 2007
B. A. English (with Honors) and Music, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 2005
Summa cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Teaching
NTT Assistant Professor of English, Avila University
NTT Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Languages, New Economic School, Spring 2015-Spring 2022 (maternity leave March – August 2019)
Lecturer, Department of English, New Economic School, Fall 2013-Fall 2014
Part-time Assistant Professor, Department of English, Southwestern University, Spring 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009-Spring 2012
Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2005-Spring 2007
Administrative
Director, Writing Center, Avila University, July 2022 – present
Director, Writing and Communication Center, New Economic School, Spring 2016-Spring 2022
Associate Director, Writing and Communication Center, New Economic School, Fall 2013-Fall 2015
Assistant Director, Sophomore Literature Program, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Editor). Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation. WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado, 2021.
Healing the Nation: Literature, Progress and Christian Science. Indiana University Press, 2017.
Refereed Journal Articles
“Decisions Squared: A Deeper Look at Student Characteristics, Performance, and Writing Center Usage in a Multilingual Liberal Arts Program in Russia.” The Writing Center Journal 40.1 (Spring 2022): 55-71.
“From Anti-Capitalist Polemic to Novel of Success: Reader Reception of Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier in Soviet Successor States.” CR: The New Centennial Review 20.3 (Winter 2020): 75-102.
“Humble Humbugs and Good Frauds: Harold Frederic, Christian Science, and the Anglo-American Professions.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 73.2 (Winter 2018): 353-378.
“Christian Science and American Literary History.” Literature Compass 13.4 (Spring 2016): 227-235.
“All the News Worth Reading: The Christian Science Monitor and the Professionalization of Journalism.” Book History 18 (Fall 2015): 235-272
“The Standard Oil Treatment: Willa Cather, The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy, and Early 20th Century Collaborative Authorship.” Studies in the Novel 45.3 (Fall 2013): 328-48.
“The Tragedy of Desire: Christian Science in Theodore Dreiser’s The “Genius.” American Literary Realism 45.2 (Winter 2013): 95-117.
“The Wealthiest Man in the Empire: Ben-Hur as Model of Evangelical Political Engagement.” Arizona Quarterly 69.1 (Spring 2013): 23-46.
Book Chapters
“A Transnational Training Model for Peer Tutors: Authority, Rhetorical Awareness, and Language in/through Virtual Exchange Practices.” With Olga Aksakalova. In Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation, edited by L. Ashley Squires, 2021, 171-192.
“The Canon Zoomed Out: Big Data and the Literary Canon.” Asian English: Histories, Texts, Institutions. Forthcoming from Palgrave, 2021.
“Writing Centers and Academic Professionalization in the Russian Federation.” In Western
Curricula in International Contexts: An Edited Collection, edited by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar. Lexington Books, 2018, 1-22.
Non-refereed Journal Articles
“Who Uses the Writing Center? An Analysis of Visitors from the NES-HSE Joint Bachelor’s Program, 2013-2018.” Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 2.16 (Summer 2018): 7-10.
“The New Economic School Writing and Communication Center and the Case for Student-Oriented Writing Pedagogy in Russia.” Вышее образование в России 12.8 (Fall 2016): 66-73.
“A Room of One’s Own in the Academy: The Writing Center as Feminized Space.” With Lisa Leit, et. al. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. (Fall 2007). Retrieved at: http://www.praxisuwc.com/leit-riddlesperger-squires-sathasivan-smith
INVITED TALKS AND PANELS
“Establishing a Peer Tutoring Program in Russia: Barriers & Breakthroughs,” Invited Plenary Speaker, Academic Writing Across Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures: A Symposium—Tokyo, Japan (via Zoom), November 2021
“Developing a Training Ethos for Your Writing Center,” Invited Speaker, 24th Annual NATE Russia International Conference and Expo—Samara, Russia, April 2018.
“The Canon Zoomed Out: Big Data and the Worlding of American Literature,” Featured Presenter, The Asian Conference on the Arts & Humanities—Kobe, Japan, April 2018.
Featured Panelist, “Innovating English Language Teaching: Choices to Be Made,” 4th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization—Moscow, Russia, November 2017.
“Writing Center Professionalization in the United States and Russia,” Invited Plenary Talk, 4th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization—Moscow, Russia, November 2017.
“Education by Argument: The Writing Classroom and the Writing Center as Deliberative Spaces,” Invited Plenary Talk 3rd International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization—Moscow, Russia, November 2016.
Invited Panelist, Mary Baker Eddy Library 10th Anniversary Former Fellows Colloquium—Boston, MA, October 2012
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Am I Ignorant or is this Badly Written? How to Work with Faculty from Technical Fields.” International Academic Writing Conference: Supporting Faculty in Writing for Publication, October 2021
Roundtable Organizer, “Russian Writing Programs on a Global Stage.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention, March 2019.
“The Centrality of Naturalism to the American Canon in Russia.” Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2019.
“Student Characteristics, Outcomes, and Writing Center Usage in the HSE-NES Joint Bachelor’s Program,” 5th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization, November 2018
“Teaching Beyond the Exam Essay,” 5th International Conference on ESP/EAP/EMI in the Context of Higher Education Internationalization, November 2018
“Why Writing Centers Need Good Data,” Academic Writing in a Global World: Current
Challenges and Future Perspectives (NWCC Conference), October 2018
Roundtable Organizer—”Writing Centers in Russia,” Research(ing) Writing Cultures: Classroom,
Program, Profession, Public (CCCC Regional Conference), July 2018
“Russia Looks at Dreiser: Russophone Reception of The Financier from the Soviet Union to the Putin Era.” Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 2017.
Special Session Co-Chair—The Global English Department: Teaching Beyond the Anglo-American Canon. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2017.
Special Session Organizer—The Center and Beyond: The Expansion of the Global English Department. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2016.
“To Bless All Mankind: The Healthy-Minded Internationalism of the Christian Science Monitor.” International American Studies Association World Congress, August 2015.
“Whitman and Dickinson Go to Moscow: American Literature as Ambassador in a Year of Crisis.” Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2015.
Special Session Organizer—The Global English Department. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2015.
“Balancing Language Support and Writing Pedagogy in the Multilingual Writing Center.” European Writing Centers Association, July 2014.
“A Demonstrative System of Healing: Narrative Medicine and the Christian Science Journal.” International Conference on Narrative, March 2012.
Special Session Chair—Health Care Systems in Literature and Film. Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, January 2012.
“The Most Powerful Woman in America: The McClure’s Biography of Mary Baker G. Eddy.” South Central Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, November 2011.
“Narratives of Conversion and Healing Among Early Christian Scientists.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, October 2010
“The Body and Christian Science in Dreiser’s The ‘Genius.’” Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 2010.
COURSES TAUGHT
New Economic School
Advanced College Writing
Religion and the Making of American Culture
Into the Wild: The Romantic Tradition in America
Peer Consultant Training Seminar
The History of American Literature
Unreal City: Urban Environments in Literature and Film
Theodore Dreiser in International Perspective
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to American Literature (Summer Program)
Southwestern University
American Realism and Naturalism
University of Texas
American Literature: From 1865 to the Present
Literature and Religion: Sympathy for the Devil
Rhetoric and Writing
Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing
Topics in Writing: Rhetoric of Makeovers
Professional Development Seminars (for faculty)
Writing Letters of Recommendation for Top US Grad Schools
Revising in Response to Reviewer Feedback
An Introduction to Academic Argument
Setting Priorities in the Evaluation of Student Writing
Strategies for Self-Editing: How to Prioritize, Recognize, and Correct Common Russian to English
Mistakes
Establishing Effective Writing Centers
Teaching Writing: A Rhetorical Approach
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Best Teacher Award (nominated by students, university-wide), New Economic School, Moscow, 2018
Best Teacher Award, New Economic School, Moscow, 2017
Best Teacher Award, New Economic School, Moscow, 2016
Mary Baker Eddy Library Research Fellowship, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013
Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Maureen Decherd Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
Mary Baker Eddy Library Research Fellowship, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
Presidential Excellence Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Texas Blazers Faculty Excellence Award (university-wide teaching award recognizing 10 faculty members or grad student instructors per year, winners nominated and selected by students), 2009
SERVICE
Committee Work (NES)
Member, Online Education Task Force, 2020-
Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Humanities and Languages, 2019-2020
Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Humanities and Languages, 2016-2017
Member, First-Year Assessment Committee, 2015-present
Member, Skoltech Summer Intensive Planning Committee, 2016
Member, Department Planning Committee, Department of Humanities and Languages, 2014-2015
Committee Work (University of Texas)
Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English, 2013- 2014
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2008-2010
Member, First-Year Forum Book Selection Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2008-2010
Member, Assistant Instructor Handbook Subcommittee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2008-2009
Journal Referee Work
Nova Religio
Nineteenth Century Literature
Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing
Educational Studies/Вопросы образования
LitMatters: The Liberlit Journal of Teaching Literature
Studies in American Fiction
Other Service to the Profession
Fulbright-Russia Visiting Scholars Program Interview Committee, 2015-present
NES-HSE Summer Writer’s Retreat Organizer, Moscow, 2018
Blogger/Editor, viz., official visual rhetoric blog for the Digital Writing and Research Lab, 2010- 2011
Editor, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 2007- 2009
Organizing Committee, International Conference on Narrative, 2007-2008
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Web design in WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla
Statistical analysis and data visualization in R (tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot2)
Data importation and webscraping with R (httr, jsonlite, xml2, Docker + RSelenium)
Relational database inquiry in SQL
LANGUAGES
English (native)
Russian (proficient)
German (intermediate)
Spanish (beginner)