Cameron Mozafari

1116A Tawes Hall

Department of English Language and Literature
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
301-452-2308

EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature: Language, Writing, and Rhetoric
Thesis Advisors: Michael Israel and Vessela Valiavitcharska
Thesis Title: Persuasive Feeling: A Cognitive Rhetorical Approach to the Emotional
Appeal
Expected Spring 2017
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
M.A. in English Language and Literature: Language, Writing, and Rhetoric
Spring 2012
Capstone: Affective Vision: A Rhetoric of Emotional Images
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
B.A. in English: Communication and Technology, with Honors
Minor in Chinese Language
Honors Thesis: More than Fiction: A Study of Science Fiction Literacy Practices
in Baltimores Experimental Improv Community
Spring 2015
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
B.A. in Philosophy, with Honors
Certificate in Intercultural Communication
Spring 2015

ACADEMIC
Communicating Complexity in Transdisciplinary Science Teams for Policy: Applied
PUBLICATIONS Stasis Theory for Organizing and Assembling Collaboration. Communication Design
Quarterly. 2.1 (2014): 20-24. Print. With Marybeth Shea.
Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday. Textual Cultures. 8.1 (2013):
72-100. Print. With Charity Hancock, Clifford Hichar, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Kari
Kraus, and Kathryn Skutlin.
Creating Third Space: ESL Tutoring as Cultural Mediation. Young Scholars in
Writing. 6 (2008): 47-59. Print.
. Republished in The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and Research.
Eds. Melissa Ianetta and Lauren Fitzgerald. New York, Oxford UP. 2015.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND
WORKSHOPS

Applying Insights from Cognitive Linguistics: The Linguistic Construction of Thoughts

and Feelings Conference on College Composition and Communication. Standing
Group in Language, Linguistics, and Writing Sponsored Pannel. Portland, OR.
March, 2017.

Corpus Approaches to Rhetorical Topics in the 2016 Presidential Race. Terps

Talk Politics: A Conference Hosted by the University of Maryland Chapter of the
Rhetoric Society of America. College Park, MD. October, 2016.
The Cognitive Rhetoric of Emotions: A Corpus Approach. 17th Biennial Rhetoric
Society of America Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. May, 2016.
Corpus-based Approaches to Writing. Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Huston, TX. April, 2016. With Laura Aull, Daniel Kies, Zak Lancaster, Sonja Launspach, and Brian Ray.
Culture and Cognition in Emotions and Enthymemes. International Society for
the History of Rhetoric. T
ubingen, Germany. July, 2015.
Reframing Prescriptivism: Rhetorical Construction Grammar and L1 Writing Instruction. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Northumbria University,
Newcastle, UK. June, 2015. With Michael Israel.
Multimodal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Storytelling with Technology. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. April, 2015. With the Multimodal Working
Group.
I Gotta Feeling: Historical Arguments for the Emotional Appeal. GEO Conference. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March, 2015.
How Cognitive Linguistics Can Help Students Master Academic English. Panel:
Rethinking Writing Instruction: Cognitive Linguistics, Genre Theory, and WAW.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March, 2015.
With Michael Israel.
More Than a Feeling: Emotion in Cognitive Rhetoric. Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. Santa Barbara, CA. November, 2014. With Michael Israel.
Managing Fear and Anger in Climate Change Discourse. Rhetoric Society of America Bi-annual Meeting. Panel: The Rhetorical Function of Identity Performances in
Online Spaces. San Antonio, TX. May, 2014.
Embodying Sound: Performances of Queer and Raced Experiences. Workshop
at Sound+. University of Maryland, College Park, 2014. March, 2014. With Jarah
Moesch, Michele Prince, and Melissa Rogers.
Imagining a Critical Taste: The Function of Taste and Emotion in 18th and 19th
Century Rhetoric and Composition. Panel: Old and New Rhetorics in the Long
Eighteenth Century. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting. Williamsburg, VA. March, 2014.
A Usage-Based Model of Writing Pedagogy. Georgetown Round Table in Language and Linguistics. Georgetown University, Washington, DC. March, 2014. With
Michael Israel.
Communicating Complexity in Transdisciplinary Science Teams for Policy: Applied
Stasis Theory Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America: Mid-Atlatic.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March, 2014. With Marybeth Shea.

Designing Interdisciplinary Teams for Transdisciplinary Policy. Symposium on

Communicating Complex Information. East Carolina University, Greensville, NC.
February, 2014. With Marybeth Shea.
Public Displays of Affect: Framing a First-Year Writing Class on Feeling, Public
Memory, and Memorials. Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Las Vegas, NV. March, 2013.
Sick Sublime: Longinus, Style, and Feeling Illness. GEO Conference. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March, 2012.
Personal Blogs and Classroom Contexts: The Problem of Genre Uptake. GEO
Conference. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March, 2011.
Haiku War: DeLillos Wartime Poetics in Point Omega. Reading Comparatively:
Theories, Practices, Communities. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. November, 2010.

TEACHING
EXPERIENCE

HESP 120: Introduction to Linguistics

Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
ENGL 291: Intermediate Writing: Style
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park

Final Project Grader

Spring 2014

Lectuer
Fall 2014

ENGL 282: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

Department of English Language and Literature
Lecturer
University of Maryland, College Park Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2014,
Fall 2015
ENGL 281: Standard English Grammar, Usage, and Diction
Department of English Language and Literature
Lecturer
University of Maryland, College Park
Fall 2013, Spring 2015
ENGL 280: The English Language
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park

Lecturer
Spring 2012

ENGL 101: Academic Writing

Department of English Language and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park

Lecturer
Fall 2011

PHIL 346: Deductive Systems

Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Grader
Fall 2007

CMSC 304/ IS 304/ PHIL 252: Ethical Issues in Information Science

Departments of Computer Science, Information Systems, and Philosophy
TA
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Fall 2008
ENES 251/ PHIL 251: Ethical Issues in Science Engineering
Departments of Engineering and Philosophy
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

TA
Spring 2009

ADMIN
EXPERIENCE

Academic Writing Program, Assistant Director

University of Maryland, College Park
Fall 2015 - Present
As an assistant director of the Academic Writing Program, I mentor instructors,
conduct research on acaddemic writing, run professional development events, and
grant exemptions for students who opt out of Academic Writing at UMD.

WRITING
CENTER AND
TUTORING
WORK

Center for Academic Success

The Universities at Shady Grove
Graduate Assitant
Summer 2009 - Fall 2011
I helped form a Writing Across the Curriculum initiative by proposing, training, and
helping to promote the Writing Fellows program at the Universities at Shady Grove.
I also conducted writing consultations with upper-level undergraduate and graduate
students from a wide range of academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds; administered academic coaching for struggling students; presented academic improvement
workshops; and help promote an online space for the Center.
UMBC Writing Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Peer Writing Tutor
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
I tutored undergraduate and graduate students in writing to improve writing process
fluency and self-efficacy with regards to writing habits; worked intensively with ESL
student writers and language learners from the UMBC English Language Learning
Center (ELLC); and received Level II CRLA tutoring certification.
Learning Resources Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Peer Tutor
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
I tutored undergraduate students in Introduction to Chinese 1 (CHIN 101), Introduction to Chinese 2 (CHIN 102), The Structure of English (ENGL 326), Introduction
to Philosophy (PHIL 100), and Contemporary Moral Issues (PHIL 150).

FELLOWSHIPS
AND AWARDS

Outstanding Service Award

Academic Writing Program, Department of English
University of Maryland, College Park
This award recognizes outstanding service to faculty and students in the Academic Writing Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I
led professionalization events, reading groups, mentoring meetings, and pedagogical technology consoltation for instructors of English composition courses.
James A. Robinson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Department of English
University of Maryland, College Park
This competitive award is presented to a graduate student for outstanding
teaching in writing or literature to undergraduates at the University of Mary-

land, College Park.

Transdisciplinary Environmental Communication Fellowship
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Summer 2013, Summer 2014
This fellowship is awarded for summer work in support of a United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Resources Conservation Services
(NRCS) grant (431551). Working under co-PI Marybeth Shea, I apply rhetorical and cognitive linguistic theories for consultation with interdisciplinary teams
of scientists working on composing a science policy advisory document. Through
the motivated conceptual structure of rhetorical stasis theory, I demonstrate to
the USDA CIG team how cooperative and organized question-asking practices
calm complex interdisciplinary scientific disputation in order to propel productive science policy work.
First Year Fellowship
Department of English, Language, and Literature
University of Maryland, College Park
Fall 2012, Spring 2012
This fellowship is awarded as part of the Department of English, Language, and
Literature and the University of Marylands first year funding package.
Robert G. Shed Award for Excellence in English
Department of English
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Spring 2009
This award recognizes excellence in academic achievement by a student majoring in English. It is the highest award given to an undergraduate student in
the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Outstanding Tutor Award
Learning Resources Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Fall 2007 Spring 2009
This award is given to graduating seniors who have shown strong commitment
to the Learning Resources Center Tutorial Program through their outstanding
participation and dependability in tutoring and related activities. In addition,
they have demonstrated excellence in their professional work ethic, proficiency
in a specialized academic area, and tutoring that reflects pedagogical knowledge
and skills. These students have tutored four or more semesters and have received
at least Level II CRLA Tutor Certification.
Philip J. Landon Award
Department of English
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Spring 2007
This award recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a student majoring
in English with an interest in film and new media.
GRANTS

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant

Graduate School at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park

 This grant was awarded by the Graduate School of the Uniersity of Maryland,
College Park, for international travel to present at two conferences in Europe
the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference and the Conference of the
International Society for the History of Rhetoricin the Summer of 2015.
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies 2014, University of Maryland
This interdisciplinary grant established pedagogical workshops and teachertraining on campus for those interested in implementing multimodal activities into their classrooms. The grant recipients come from Rhetoric, Women
and Gender Studies (Melissa Grant and Michele Prince), and American Studies (Jara Moesch). For the first stage of the grant, we worked closely with
Dr. Mary Helen Washington to implement multimodal activities in her undergraduate class Literature and Film of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. The
second stage of the grant addressed syllabus-writing and multimodal methodology generally, and the third stage workshops activity development exercises
for creating and assessing critical multimodal projects.
SERVICE

Assistant Director of the Academic Writing Program (2015- )

Instructor in the Language Science Center Outreach Initiative (2014- )
Instructor in the English Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Outreach Initiative (20152016)
Leader of the Language, Writing, and Rhetoric Reading Group (2014- )
Leader of the Academic Writing Program Reading Group (2015)

SIG
MEMBERSHIP

UMD Multimodal Working Group Member (2013- )

UMD Language Science Community Member (2013- )
CCCC Language, Linguistics, and Writing SIG Member (2015- )

PROFESSIONAL College Composition and Communication

ASSOCIATIONS International Cognitive Linguistics Association
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
National Council for the Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America

LANGUAGES

English: Native fluency

Persian: Heritage fluency
Mandarin Chinese: Proficient
Spanish: Elementary proficiency

REFERENCES

Available upon request.