Julie Nelson Christoph
Department of English
University of Puget Sound

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

B.A., Carleton College, 1993
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

Professor Christoph teaches courses in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture emphasis within the English major. She has published articles and delivered papers on topics including uses of "the personal" in academic writing, women's rhetoric and literacy in historical perspective, classroom ethnography, composition and writing center pedagogy, and the politics of adult literacy instruction. Currently, her major research project is a book manuscript entitled Arguing with One's Life: Strategies of
Placement in Pioneer Women's Writing on Westward Expansion.

EDUCATION:
    1996-2002:     Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
                            Area of Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition
                            Minor: Qualitative Research Methodology (Departments of

                             Curriculum & Instruction and Sociology)

    1995-1996:     M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
                            Major: British and American Literature

    1989-1993:     B.A., magna cum laude, Carleton College
                            Major: English

DISSERTATION:
Arguing with One's Life: Ethos, Life Writing, and Pioneer Women's Positions on Westward Expansion
Dissertation Committee:    Professor Deborah Brandt, Director
                                        Assistant Professor David Fleming
                                        Professor Martin Nystrand
                                        Professor Mary Louise Gomez

ACADEMIC HONORS:
    2003:             University of Puget Sound Faculty Enrichment Grant, Recipient.
    1998-1999:    UW-Madison Composition Technology Fellowship (to support training in the

                           theory and practice of integrating computer technology into the classroom),

                           Recipient

    1998:              Department of English Distinguished Teaching Award, Nominee
    1995-1996:    UW-Madison Graduate School Fellowship, Recipient
    1995:             Phillip L. Allen Fellowship (awarded to the two top-ranked entering graduate students

                           in English), Recipient
    1995:             UW-Madison Steenbock Seminar Fellowship (to support participation in a month-                           long seminar in research methodology), Recipient

    1993:             Phi Beta Kappa, Inductee
    1989:             National Merit Scholarship, Recipient

PUBLICATIONS:
    "Women's Clubs." An Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Eds. Hans Ostrom and J.

     David Macey, Jr. 5 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood. Forthcoming.

    "Reconceiving Ethos in Relation to the Personal: Strategies of Placement in Pioneer Women's

     Writing," College English 64 (2002): 660-79.

    Christoph, Julie Nelson and Martin Nystrand."Taking Risks, Negotiating Relationships: One

     Teacher's Transition toward a Dialogic Classroom," Research in the Teaching of English 36

     (2001):  249-86.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:
    "Each One Teach One: The Mass Literacy Campaign that Wasn't," an article on the transition of

     Laubach Literacy from a Christian missionary project to "the oldest and largest nongovernmental

     literacy organization in the world."

    Constructing Gender through Language, with Derek Buescher, an anthology for use in upper-level

     courses on language and gender.

    "Beyond 'the Personal': Reading and Writing the Personal in Impersonal Genres," an article exploring

     what constitutes "the personal," through examining students' self-assessments of personal elements in

     their "personal essay" assignments written in a first-year writing course, as well as in their more

     "impersonal" essays for the course.

    Arguing with One's Life: Ethos, Life Writing, and Pioneer Women's Positions on Westward

     Expansion, book-length revision of the dissertation.

PRESENTATIONS:
    Accepted, "Former Peer Tutors as Center-Seeking Professors." Thomas R. Watson Conference on

     Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY, October, 2004.

    Chair, "The Peer-Tutor Alumni Research Project: Former Tutors Assess the Experience of Writing-

    Center Work."
    Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX, March, 2004.
 

    "Talk and Learning in an Inner-City Classroom." National Council of Teachers of English, San

    Francisco, CA, November, 2003.

    "Pioneering Literate Action: Annie Pike Greenwood's Ethos of Biculturalism." Feminism(s) and

     Rhetoric(s), Columbus, OH, October, 2003.

    "Each One Teach One: Laubach Literacy and Cold War Evangelism." Conference on College

     Composition and Communication, New York, NY, March 2003.

    "Eliciting and Sustaining Discussion in a 9th-Grade English Class in a Low-Achieving Inner-City High

     School" (co-authored with Professor Martin Nystrand). American Educational Research   

     Association Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 2001.

    "'We're Listening and We Make the Essays': Examining Invention in the Realm of Class Discussion."

     Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, March 2001.

    Invited Speaker, "Reconsidering Ethos in a Poststructural, Multicultural Context." UW-Madison

     Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, Madison, WI, November 2000 .

    "Lifting Ourselves Up: Nineteenth-Century African American Women, Westward Expansion, and

     the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs." Conference on College Composition and

     Communication, Minneapolis, MN, April 2000.

    "Identity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing: How Students Learn What to Write." Conference on

     College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.

    "Between Manifest Destiny and the Religion of Domesticity: Pioneer Women Create the Writing

     Self." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 1998.

    "Beyond Gender, Race, and Class: Literacy Learning in the Religious Society of Friends."

     Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ, March 1997.

    "Neither Eve Nor Mary: A Reinterpretation of the Second Shepherds' Play's Gyll." UW-Madison

     English Graduate Student Symposium, March 1996.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

    Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound, 2002-present

            English 101: First-Year Seminar in Writing: Print Culture,

            Literacy, and Argument in American Life

            English 130: First-Year Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric: Print Culture,

            Literacy, and Argument in American Life
            English 343: Genre: Nonfiction Prose: American Lives: Autobiography

            and the Idea of America
            English 401: Contemporary Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Literacy
            English 405: Writing and Gender
            English 492: Historical Perspectives on Writing and Rhetoric



    Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of English, 1996-2001

            Writing Center
            English 100: Introductory Composition
                    Co-designed and taught Composition, Technology, and Society
                    Designed and taught Education in the United States, a service learning course
                    Designed and taught Education in the United States
            English 207: Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Literature
            English 208: Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

        Assistant Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Undergraduate

        Writing Fellows Program, 1999-2001

        Assistant Coordinator of Tutoring Services, Literacy Council of Alaska (Fairbanks),

        1993-1995

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

        Project Assistant to Professor Martin Nystrand, National Research Center for English

        Learning and Achievement, 1999-2000

        Project Assistant to Professor Deborah Brandt, through NCTE grant, 1997


UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND SERVICE:
        Gender Studies Advisory Committee
        University Diversity Committee
        Race and Pedagogy Discussion Group planning committee
        Writer's Guild advisor

OTHER SERVICE:
        English Department Technology Committee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
        Writing Center Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998-2000
        Service Learning Roundtable, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997-1999
        English Graduate Student Association Committee, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

        elected position, 1996-1998

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
    Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
    College Composition and Communication
    International Writing Centers Association
    Modern Language Association
    National Council of Teachers of English