KERI E.

MATHIS
keri.mathis@louisville.edu | kerimathis.wordpress.com

EDUCATION
Ph.D.

English Rhetoric and Composition

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Expected May 2018

M.A.

English Renaissance Studies (Hudson Strode Renaissance Program)

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL

May 2012

B.A.

English, Summa Cum Laude

University of Georgia Athens, GA

May 2010

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

Faculty Favorite
Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2015

Graduate Student Council Research Grant ($300)

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2015

July Graduate Student Spotlight Recipient

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2015

Graduate Student Council travel grant ($350)

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2013, 2014, 2015

Graduate Student Union Research travel grant ($100)

College of Arts and Sciences
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2014 & 2015

Gesa E. Kirsch Travel Award ($260)

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

2015

Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant ($600)

2015

The Newberry Library Chicago, IL

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies Assistantship
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant ($850)
The Newberry Library Chicago, IL
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
MA Comprehensive Exam Pass with Distinction
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL

2014 - 2017

2013

2013 - 2017

2012

Graduate Teaching Assistantship

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL

2010 - 2012

Hudson Strode Fellowship

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL

2010 - 2012

Emerson R. Loomis English Scholarship

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL

2010 - 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE

Nothing About Me Without Me project
Louisville Council on Developmental Disabilities
Co-researcher and workshop facilitator
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Women in Community Engagement Panel

Fall 2016 Spring 2017

Spring 2016

Organizer
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
This I Believe Book-in-Common Essay Contest

Fall 2015

Essay Contest Reviewer

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Commission on the Status of Women (COSW)

Graduate Student Commissioner

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Fall 2015 Present

Campus Climate Committee (COSW)

Fall 2015 Present

Graduate Student Representative

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Graduate Student Council

Fall 2014 Spring 2016

English Department Representative

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Academic Technology Committee

Fall 2014 - Present

Graduate Student Representative

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Digital Media Academy

Spring 2015 Summer 2015

Co-Developer and Teacher

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Oral Communication General Education Assessment

Summer 2015

Assessor
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Women in Alternative-Academic Careers Panel

Spring 2015

Organizer
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
General Education Student Focus Group

Spring 2015

Member
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Graduate Student Council Executive Board

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Vice-President (Internal)
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Graduate Student Council Elections and Constitution Committee

Chair
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Student Government Association

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Graduate Student Senator

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Student Government Association Academic Policy Committee

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

Member
University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Cardinal Compositions, Undergraduate Student Journal

Summer 2014 Fall 2015

Editor
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
English Peer Mentoring Program

Spring 2014 Present

Mentor
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
This I Believe Book-in-Common Essay Contest

Fall 2014

Essay Contest Reviewer

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
Genre Uptake and Mobility: Making Meaning in Mobilized Contexts. (Response) Working Paper Series on Mobility
Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation. Louisville: Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition. Forthcoming, October 2016. Web.
Building Infrastructures for Community Engagement at the University of Louisville: Graduate Models for Cultivating
Scholarly Identities. With Megan Hartline, Beth Boehm, and Mary P. Sheridan. Community Literacy Journal
11.1. Forthcoming, Autumn 2016.
Building Engaged Interventions in Graduate Education. With Beth A. Boehm. Composing Feminist Interventions:
Activism, Engagement, Praxis. Eds. Kristine Blair and Lee Nickoson. Forthcoming.
"ClarissaBlogs." Written with Debra Journet, Anthony O'Keeffe, Stephen Cohen, Rachel Gramer, Megan Hartline, Kendra
Sheehan, and Jessica Winck. Kairos 19.2 (2015). Web.

Under Review

"Community Engagement Academy: An Institutional Model to Promote Service-Learning and Community Engagement in
Graduate Education." With Jason Immekus and Beth A. Boehm. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Developing Capacity for Diverse Research Practices in the Archives"
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2017 (Portland, Oregon)
"Transporting Genres and Media Through Modality: Epistolary Conventions in the Digital Age"
Thomas R. Watson Conference 2016 (Louisville, Kentucky)
"Re-Envisioning Graduate Student Professionalization through the Community Engagement Academy"
Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference 2016 (Omaha, Nebraska)
"From Pens to the Press: Textual Production and Generic Change in 18th-Century Epistolary Culture"
Rhetoric Society of America 2016 (Atlanta, Georgia)
"Building Interdisciplinary Paths to Community Engagement"
Conference on Community Writing 2015 (Boulder, Colorado)
"Rescripting Manuscripts: Making Meaning in Early Modern Womens Letterwriting"
Feminisms and Rhetorics 2015 (Tempe, Arizona)
"Gendered Genres: Rhetorical Rewards in 17th-Century Womens Letters"
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2015 (Tampa, Florida)
"The Letter as Genre in Early Modern England: A Case Study of the Bagot Family Letters"

The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2015 (Chicago, Illinois)
"Getting Wired In: Responding to Upward Bounds Digital Needs"
Thomas R. Watson Conference 2014 (Louisville, Kentucky)
"Liminal Spaces: The Marriage of Non-Traditional Students Academic/Career/Personal Selves in the Open Access
Institution
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2014 (Indianapolis, Indiana)
"(Re)Constructing the Self through Blogging: 'Lifting the Weight' as Recovery Narrative"
Popular Culture Association 2014 (Chicago, Illinois)
"Composing Works for Public(s): Employing Multimodal Technologies to Connect Students, Ideas, and Audiences in the
First-Year Composition Classroom"
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2013 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
"Textual Sexuality: Self and the Female Speaker"

Georgia Gwinnett College Chat 'N Chew Colloquium 2012 (Lawrenceville, Georgia)

"Race and Romance: Liberating the Female Speaker through Racial Discourse in the Poetry of George Herbert and Lady
Mary Wroth"
Medieval-Renaissance Conference at University of Virginia-Wise 2012 (Wise, Virginia)

PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

"Making a Genre Their Own: Womens Letterwriting Practices in the Bagot Family Collection"
Invited Presentation, Medieval and Renaissance Research Group

Spring 2016

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Technology for Effective Teaching

Spring 2016

PLAN Workshop Co-Presenter

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Be Searchable: Developing an Online Portfolio for the Job Search

Spring 2016

PLAN Workshop Co-Presenter

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Managing Citations in Mendeley

Fall 2015

Minority Association of Graduate Students Workshop Presenter

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Be Searchable: Developing an Online Portfolio for the Job Search

Spring 2015

PLAN Workshop Co-Presenter

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Technology for Effective Teaching

Spring 2015

PLAN Workshop Co-Presenter

University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Managing Grad School: Life as a Grad Student
PLAN Workshop Invited Panelist

University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Fall 2014

INSTITUTES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Emerging Engaged Scholars Workshop
Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference

Fall 2016

Research Network Forum

Rhetoric Society of America Conference

Spring 2016

Graduate Student Council Research Symposium

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, University of Louisville

Spring 2016

Grant Writing Academy

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, University of Louisville

Fall 2015

Pathways Women's Leadership Conference

University of Louisville
Graduate Student Council Research Symposium
School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, University of Louisville
Digital Media and Composition Institute
The Ohio State University
Graduate Teaching Assistant Academy
School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, University of Louisville
"Early Modernity in Global Perspective"
Newberry Library
"Beyond Engaged Learning"
Innovative Course Building Group (IC-bG)
Manuscript Workshop
Folger Shakespeare Library

Spring 2015

Fall 2014

Summer 2014

Fall 2013 Spring 2014

Fall 2013

Summer 2013

Spring 2011

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Rhetoric Society of America

November 2015 Present

Member
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

May 2014 Present

Member
National Council of Teachers of English

Member

March 2013 - Present

English Graduate Organization (University of Louisville)

August 2013 - Present

Member
English Graduate Organization (University of Alabama)

Fall 2011 Spring 2012

Member

ADMINISTRATION
Graduate Research Assistant to Dean Beth Boehm

University of Louisville

School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies

Louisville, KY

Summer 2014 Spring 2017

Co-designed and developed the Community Engagement Academy for graduate students interested in engaged
scholarship

Completed research projects on community engagement in graduate education

Planned and facilitated workshops for the PLAN (Professional Development, Life Skills, Academic Development, &
Networking) program

Organized annual Womens Panel

Co-wrote research grants

TEACHING
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Courses Taught:
Fall 2013 Spring 2016
Introduction to College Writing (1 section)
Introduction to College Writing Online (1 section)
Intermediate College Writing (2 sections)
Scientific and Technical Writing (1 section)
Business Writing (3 sections)

Teacher, Digital Media Academy

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Two-week digital production camp for rising

sixth-grade girls from low-performing
Louisville schools

Part-Time Faculty
Georgia Gwinnett College

Courses Taught:
Composition II (3 sections)

Part-Time Faculty
Athens Technical College

Courses Taught:
Fall 2012 Summer 2013
Workplace Communications (1 section, hybrid)
Composition and Rhetoric II (2 sections, hybrid)

Summer 2015

Fall 2012 Spring 2013

Composition and Rhetoric I (3 sections, hybrid)

Composition and Rhetoric I (1 section, online)
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

Courses Taught:
Spring 2011 Spring 2012
English Composition I (2 sections)
English Composition II (2 sections)
British Literature Survey (assistant to David Ainsworth)

Upward Bound Instructor

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Courses Taught:
English Literature (2 sections)
Composition (1 section)

Tutor
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

Writing Center
Athletic Tutoring Center

LANGUAGES
Proficiency in Latin

Summers 2011 - 2013

Fall 2010 Spring 2012