Gardner Rogers 1 of 5 John Gardner Rogers 208 English Building 1708 Ridgeland Drive 608 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL 61821 Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 398-0012 (217) 244-6779 jgrogers@uiuc.edu https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jgrogers/www/index.htm EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; anticipated graduation date: May 2007 Dissertation Title: “Whose South? Contesting Representations, 1930-1976” Dissertation Advisor: Robert Dale Parker M.A. in English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1997 B.A. in English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1994 ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Program Coordinator, Ethnography of the University (EOTU), University of Illinois, Aug. 2006-present Recruit and support faculty instructors of EOTU classes Support student research in EOTU classes Mentor and supervise EOTU undergraduate interns conducting extended ethnographic research in independent studies Seek relevant grant opportunities and write grant proposals Represent EOTU to other campus units in presentations and correspondence Organize and lead EOTU Student Research Conferences each semester Revise and maintain the EOTU web site Special Project: substantially edited and revised “The Ethnography of the Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration” (150-page report) for campus distribution Assistant to the Director of Freshman Composition, University of Illinois, Jan. 1999-Dec. 2000 Advised students seeking program-related information, advice, or mediation Represented program by phone and email to campus administrators and advisors Created Web site and its content for Freshman Writing Program Supervised five peer mentors of new instructors Rewrote handbooks for new instructors (100 pp.) and peer mentors (50 pp.) Planned and led five-day orientation for new instructors Represented program requirements in Freshman Guide to Success presentations to students and their parents Supervised scoring of Rhetoric Placement tests (6000 annually) Organized annual 3-day English Articulation Conference (statewide participation)
Gardner Rogers 2 of 5 Peer Advisor, University of Illinois, 1998- 1999 Supervised and supported the teaching of five instructors new to the program Observed classes and discussed observations with each group member Oversaw writing assignments and grading practices Prepared and distributed teaching-related materials Wrote mid-year and final evaluations of each member‟s teaching progress Assistant to the Writing Program Director, University of Kentucky, Summer 1996 Planned and led orientation of new instructors Prepared handbook, writing assignments, and unit plans for new instructors Peer Mentor, University of Kentucky, 1995- 1997 Supervised and supported the teaching of five new instructors TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, University of Illinois, fall 2003-spring 2006 Designed and taught English 593, Graduate Seminar for Instructors of Program for Professional Writing courses, Fall 2005 Designed and taught English 300, English 250, English 109, Rhetoric 133 (two sections), Rhetoric 108, Rhetoric 105 (two sections), and Rhetoric 102 Pioneered use of Compass instructional software in three spring 2004 courses Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, fall 1997-spring 2003 Designed and taught Rhetoric 105, Rhetoric 133, and English 103 Served as assistant leading discussion sections and performing all grading in English 255 for Professor Bruce Michelson (Spring 1998) and Professor Nina Baym (Fall 1999) Named in “Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent” each semester of teaching Instructor, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, 1999-2000 Student evaluations of two courses on 5.00 scale: 4.98, 5.00 Writing Center Tutor, University of Kentucky, 1996-1997 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, 1994-1996 SAMPLE RECENT COURSES Rhetoric 105, “James Baldwin and Brown v Board,” Spring 2004 In conjunction with campus Ethnography of the University (EOTU) initiative, taught selected essays by James Baldwin as guide and background for campus jubilee commemoration of Brown v Board to two sections (one designated for engineering students). Student work (analytical arguments incorporating Baldwin and topics they discerned from researching the Civil Rights Movement, narratives describing various Brown v Board events and students‟ responses, compiled bibliography of more than 800 primary and secondary researched sources) will be archived in the EOTU Web site.
Gardner Rogers 3 of 5 English 300 (Writing about Literature), “The South as Scene and Seen,” Fall 2003 For Advanced Composition course required of English majors, used film, music, photographs, and fiction of the American South to direct student inquiry into the relationship between stereotyping and narrative representation. Students submitted final portfolios of course writing (reading journals in response to assigned topics, drafts and revisions of three papers responding to comments from instructor and their peers). On average, student portfolios totaled sixty pages of writing. AWARDS AND HONORS Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2002-2003 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction, University of Illinois, 2002 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction, University of Illinois, 2002 Gragg-Barr Fellowship, Department of English, University of Illinois, 2001-2002 Awarded Distinction, Special Fields Examination, February, 2001 Department of English Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Illinois, 2001, 1998 Chancellor‟s Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, 1996 Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Kentucky, 1996 Sowder Prize for best graduate student essay, 1996, University of Kentucky OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE (SELECTED) Manager, First-In Imports, Cranston, Rhode Island, 1984-1993 For company supplying component parts to costume jewelry manufacturers, managed customer service, warehousing and shipping, and inventory Supervised permanent staff of eight Developed and maintained an inventory database tracking thousands of part numbers with a total purchase value in excess of one million dollars Farmer, Paris, Kentucky, 1978-1980 Self-employed as (burley) tobacco sharecropper in central Kentucky Hired and supervised workers while raising a labor-intensive crop ACADEMIC SERVICE AND ACTIVITY (CAMPUS) Steering Committee, Ethnography of the University, Nov. 2003-present Secretary, American Studies Working Group, supported by Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Fall 2003-present Co-sponsor, with Professor Orville Vernon Burton, of Southern History Reading Group, supported by Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Fall 2002-present Graduate Representative, University of Illinois Licensing Advisory Committee, Fall 2000present Graduate Representative, University of Illinois Graduate College Career Advisory Committee, Fall 2002-present ACADEMIC SERVICE (DEPARTMENT) Executive Committee (elected), English Graduate Students Association, 2002-2003
Gardner Rogers 4 of 5 Graduate Representative (elected), Ad Hoc Committee on Adjunct Faculty Concerns, 20022003 Teaching Awards Committee, 2002-2003, 1999-2000 (co-chair) Selection Committee, English 106 Course Proposals, 2002-2003 Graduate Representative (elected), Graduate Studies Committee, 2001-2002 Graduate Representative (elected), Rhetoric Advisory Committee, 2001-2002 Graduate Representative (elected), Adjunct Advisory Committee, 2000-2001 Department Assessment Plan Committee (appointed by Associate Head), 1998-1999 Graduate Student Representative to Department Faculty Meetings (elected), University of Kentucky, 1995-1996
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE Advanced skills in Microsoft FrontPage (XP) Competent in Dreamweaver, graphics software, and basic HTML mark-up Familiar with database and spreadsheet applications, and comfortable with all major email programs CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 1) Pedagogy and Higher Education “Consulting a Compass: Instructional Technology and Writing Pedagogy.” Invited as “Faculty Exemplar” for the Inter-Institutional Faculty Summer Institute on Learning Technologies. Urbana, Illinois: May, 2004. “What Literature Instructors Forget to Tell their Students: An Incomplete List.” Allerton University and Community College Articulation Conference. Monticello, Illinois: April, 2004. “Working with Compass: Assigning, Publishing, and Teaching Writing.” CITES Educational Technology Brown Bag Series. Urbana, Illinois: March, 2004. “The Not-Me Syndrome: Gaps in Graduate Students‟ Professional Expectations.” Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Meeting, Plenary Session. Minneapolis: April, 2003. “Problems with Academic Profiles.” “Graduate Study: Promises, Purposes, Potentials,” inaugural symposium conducted by UIUC Graduate College Career Advisory Committee. Urbana, Illinois: March, 2003. “Using Words and Images towards a Responsible Rhetoric.” Allerton University and Community College Articulation Conference. Monticello, Illinois: April, 2000. 2) 20th-Century Literature and Visual Culture of the American South “Bright Lights, Black Bodies: Self-Representation in the Civil Rights Movement.” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference. Oxford, Mississippi: June, 2003. “„The Real State of Mississippi‟ as Seen and Scene in Photographs by Welty and Wolcott.” Modern Languages Association (selected from open call for papers). New York: December, 2002.
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“T. R. Pearson‟s Narrated South.” University of Kentucky Graduate Student Conference. Lexington, Kentucky: April, 1997. “Peter Taylor‟s Frozen Prodigal: Reading A Summons to Memphis.” Southern Humanities Council Conference, Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond, Kentucky: February, 1996. REFERENCES Richard Wheeler, Dean, Graduate College, University of Illinois (217) 333-6715; email rpw@uiuc.edu Peter Mortensen, Director of Freshman Composition and Academic Writing (217) 333-1006 and (217) 333-7014; email pmortens@uiuc.edu Orville Vernon Burton, Department of History (217) 333-4327; email ovburton@uiuc.edu Lamar Murphy, Asssistant Dean, Graduate College, The Ohio State University (614) 247-7268; email murphy.651@osu.edu