Lee Nickoson, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Writing
Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies Program

leenick@bgsu.edu
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/

402 East Hall
419-372-7556

Degrees and Institutions:
          Ph.D. English, Illinois State University  
          M.A. English, Missouri State University 
          B.A. English, Eastern Illinois University

Courses Taught: 
           English 4840: Foundations of Teaching Writing 
           English 6800:  Teacher Research in Rhetoric and Composition
           English 7260:  Research Methods in Rhetoric & Writing
           English 7800:  Writing Assessment as Human Inquiry 
           English 7800:  Feminist Research and Pedagogy

Area: Rhetoric and Writing

Research Interests: Writing Assessment, Feminist Understandings of Composition Pedagogy and Composition Research, Graduate Student and Faculty Development

Select Publications:

Edited Collections:
New Directions in Contemporary Writing Research.  Co-edited with Mary P. Sheridan.  (Under contract at SIU P).

Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook.  Co-edited with Faye Spencer Maor, Gesa   Kirsch, Lance Massey, and Mary Sheridan-Rabideau.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s and NCTE, 2003.

Book Chapters:
“Introduction:  Writing Research in the Early Twenty-First Century.”  (Co-authored with Mary P. Sheridan.) New Directions in Contemporary Writing Research.  Co-edited with Mary   P.  (Under contract at SIU P).  

“Revisiting Teacher Research.”  New Directions in Contemporary Writing Research.  Co-edited with Mary P.  (Under contract at SIU P).  

“(Re)Imagining Writing Assessment as a ‘New’ Literacy.”  Engaging Audience: Theory and Practice.  Ed.  Brian Fehler, Elizabeth Weiser, and Angela Gonzales.  Urbana: NCTE 2009.  

“Rethinking Approaches to Writing Assessment.” Practice in Context:  Situating the Work of Writing Teachers.  Ed. Peggy O’Neill and Cindy Moore.  Urbana: NCTE, 2003.  235-43.

Journal Articles:
“Women’s Ways of Making It—or Making Do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives in Rhetoric and Composition.”  (co-authored with Christine Cucciarre, Deborah Morris, Kim Hensley Owens, and Mary P. Sheridan.  Composition Studies.  Forthcoming.

“Remediating Knowledge-Making Spaces in the Graduate Curriculum: Developing and Sustaining Multimodal Teaching and Research.”  Co-authored with Kristine L. Blair and Meredith Graupner.  Computers & Composition Special Issue: Computers & Composition (The Future of Graduate Education in the New American University:  Intersections between Technologies and Literacies).   Guest Ed.  Peter Goggin and Patricia Webb. 26.1 (2009): 13-23.

Book Reviews:
“Practical But Not Simple.”  Rev. of Assigning, Responding, and Assessing Writing: A Writing Teacher’s Guide, Fourth ed., by Edward White.  Pedagogy 9.2 (Spring 2009):  353-9.

“Differences of Interpretation: Engaging Conversations on Writing Assessment.” Rev. of Coming To Terms:  Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies by Patricia Lynne.  Composition Studies  34.1 (Fall 2006).  Online.

Select Conference Presentations:
“What Constitutes a Feminist Approach in the Internationalized, InterdisciplinaryTwenty-First Century? Co-presenters:  Kristine L. Blair and Mary P. Sheridan.  Writing Research Across Borders Conference.  Fairfax, VA.  February 2011. (Accepted June 2010).

“Micro Study as the Work of Developing Research Methodology.” Co-presenters:  Suzan Aiken, Emily J. Beard, and David McClure.  Thomas R. Watson Conference.  Louisville, KY.  October 2010.

“Women’s Ways of Making It—Or Making Do?”  Roundtable Presentation.  Co-presenters:   Christa Albrecht-Crane, Christine Peters Cucciarre, Rebecca Dingo, Deborah Morris, Kim Hensley-Owens, Mary P. Sheridan, 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication.  Louisville, KY.  March 2010.  

“(Re)Articulating Methods and Methodology: Doing Feminist Work in a “Post-Feminist” World (?)” presented with Mary P. Sheridan.  2009 Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference.  East Lansing, MI.  October 2009.     

“Writing Assessment from a Feminist Perspective.”  2009 Conference on Composition and Communication.  San Francisco, CA.  March 2009.

“Remediating Knowledge-Making Spaces in the Graduate Curriculum: Developing and Sustaining Multimodal Teaching and Research” with Meredith Graupner and Kristine Blair.  Thomas R. Watson Conference.  Louisville, KY.  October 2008.

“Mind the Gap: Changing the Realities of and Possibilities for How We Understand Multimodal Writing Assessment.”  2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication.  New Orleans, LA.  April 2008.  

“Filling The Gap(s): Theorizing Writing Assessment from a Feminist Perspective.”  Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference.  Little Rock, AR.  October 2007.  

Workshops:
“Remixing (Techno) Feminist Pedagogies in Virtual, Multimodal Spaces” Emily J. Beard, Kris Blair, Brittany Cottrill, Erin Fyfe Dietel-McLaughlin, Christine Garbett, Krista Petrosino, and Ruijie Zhao.  Computers and Writing 2010.  West Lafayette, IN.  May 2010.  May 2010.

“Rubrics as Localized Realities:  Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships Between Assessment Tools and Program Identities” with Brittany Cottrill, Elizabeth Fleitz, Meredith Graupner, Abbey Kanzig, Donna Nelson-Beene, Jeremy Schnieder, and Ruijie Zhao.  Half-day Workshop.  Conference on College Composition and Communication.  New Orleans.  April 2008.

       

 Named Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education for 2010 by The Bowling Green State University Graduate Student Council.  

              Member, 2010-2012 BGSU Service Learning Faculty Cohort.