Mara Holt
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Texas, Austin.
M.A., English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
B.S., Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Scholarly Focus
- Rhetoric and Composition
Areas of Interest: Collaborative Theory and Practice; Critical and Feminist Pedagogies; Academic Labor; New Materialism; Writing Program Administration; Women鈥檚 Rhetorics; Rhetorics of Race
Selected Publications
鈥淚t Depends on the Context: The Role of Ideology in First Year English.鈥 On Teacher Neutrality: Praxis, Politics, and Performativity, ed. Dan Richards. Utah State UP. Forthcoming.
Collaborative Learning as Democratic Practice: A History. Urbana, IL: CCCC/NCTE 2018.
鈥淭he Way We Work Now鈥 (with Leon Anderson). Profession 2012: In Retrospect. MLA (2012): 192-203. (Originally published in 1998.) Selected as the one article from 1998 to be published in the retrospective, which was the final paper copy of the journal.
鈥淭eaching U.S. and Transnational Feminisms with Thelma and Louise (1991) and Chaos (2001).鈥 The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Vol.4. In press.
鈥淭he Importance of Dissent to Collaborative Learning.鈥 The Writing Center Journal 28.2 (2008): 52-60.
鈥淓lectronic Versions of Collaborative Learning: A Brief Survey鈥 (with Albert Rouzie). Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005. 199-204.
鈥淐ollaboration and Conflict in a Faculty Mentoring Relationship鈥 (with Albert Rouzie). Dialogue. 8.2 (Spring, 2003). 75-95.
鈥淢aking Emotion Work Visible in Writing Program Administration鈥 (with Leon Anderson and Albert Rouzie). A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. Eds. Dale Jacobs and Laura Micciche. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2003. 147-60.
Selected Presentations
鈥淔rom Protest to Innovation: Black Lives Action Coalition and the Imperfect Story of Cultural Competencies in First Year Writing鈥 (with Jolana Watson, Jazzmine Hardges, and Madeline Fitch). National Womens Studies Association. 鈥40 Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives.鈥 Baltimore, MD. November 16 鈥 19, 2017.
Students of Color Initiating Change: A Curricular Experiment.鈥 National Women鈥檚 Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. November 16-19, 2017.
鈥淩ole of Ideology in Teaching English.鈥 University of Cincinnati. 27 October 2017. (Invited)
鈥淯nlikely Affiliations: Initiating Curricular Reform with Interdisciplinary Coalitions. Workshop, University of Cincinnati. October 27, 2017. (Invited)
鈥淐ultural Competencies: A Call from Black Lives Action Coalition.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR. March 15-18, 2017.
鈥淚n Ph.D Programs, Whose Interests Should We Serve?鈥 Roundtable on 鈥淢apping the Future of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, Florida. March 18-21, 2015.
鈥淒ifferences Within鈥 From Consensus to Multivalent Identities in Feminist Pedagogies.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN March 19-22, 2014.
鈥淐ollaborative Learning.鈥 Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH. Full-day Workshop. February 19, 2010. (Invited).
鈥淏ecause Collaborative Learning, Like Democracy, is Misunderstood, Subverted, and Harder than it Looks (or Different Than it Seems).鈥 University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio. Full-day Workshop. March 24, 2009. (Invited.)
鈥淐ollaborative Theories and Practices: A Focus on Peer Critique.鈥 Full-Day Workshop. Department of English, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA. May 15, 2009. (Invited.)
鈥淯.S. and Transnational Feminisms of Thelma and Louise (1991) and Chaos (2001).鈥 Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society. Venice, Italy. July 28-31, 2009.
鈥淭rans-Collaboration: Productively Engaging Difference in the 21st-Century,鈥 2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research: Writing Research Across Borders. Santa Barbara, CA. Feb. 21-24, 2008.
鈥淭he Power of Peership, Collaborative Authority, and the Importance of Dissent.鈥 National Conference on Peer Tutoring and Writing. State College, PA. October, 2007.
鈥淩e-theorizing Student Identities Through Transnational Perspectives on Collaboration.鈥 Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, March 21-24, 2007.
鈥淏eyond Diversity Initiatives: Engaging Race in Academic Close(d) Spaces,鈥 Race and Pedagogy Conference. Tacoma, WA. September, 2006.
Recent Dissertations and M.A. Essays Directed
Miguel Franco M.A. 2016. 鈥淎/Void [in] Open Admissions: Decolonizing College Composition鈥
Amanda Hayes Ph.D. 2015. A Prolegomena to Appalachian Rhetorical Sovereignty.
Matthew Nunes Ph.D. 2015. The Theme System: Current-Traditionalism, Writing Assignments, and the Development of First-Year Composition, 1885-1920.
Lana Oweidat Ph.D. 2014. Disrupting the Western Gaze: An Arab-Islamic Intervention in Rhetoric and Composition Studies.
Kate Firestone M.A. 2014. Re/visioning the Asian American Subject.
Todd Snyder Ph.D. 2011. The Hillbilly Speaks of Rhetoric: Critical Theory, Composition Pedagogy, and the Appalachian Region.
Courses Taught
Graduate
- Teaching College English and Introduction to Graduate Studies
- Composition Histories and Theories
- Racial Difference and the Identity of Composition Studies
- Academic Publishing
- Women鈥檚 Rhetorics
- Writing Program Administration
- Writing and Rhetoric I and II
- Women and Writing
- Women's Rhetorics