Katie ZabrowskiCurriculum Vitae

Department of EnglishSaint Louis University

3800 Lindell Blvd.Saint Louis, MO 63108

mzabrow1@slu.edu

Education_____________________________________________________________________________________

Ph.D. English, Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition

Saint Louis University (expected May 2015)

Saint Louis, MO

Dissertation: Rhetoric as Cookery: New Material Hospitality and Ethical

Relations

Committee: Nathaniel Rivers, Paul Lynch, and Rachel Greenwald Smith

M.A. English

Creighton University (2011)

Omaha, NE

B.A. Philosophy, Minor: Italian

Creighton University (2009)

Omaha, NE

Areas of Interest_____________________________________________________________________________________

New Media, Teaching with Technology, Composition Pedagogy, Rhetorical Theory,

New Materialism, Business and Professional Writing, Writing Program Administration

Appointments and Service_____________________________________________________________________________________

Academic Appointments

Instructor, Writing Program, Saint Louis University Department of English (2012-

Present)

Assistant Director, Writing Program, Saint Louis University Department of English

(2013-2014)

Assistant Director, Undergraduate Program, Saint Louis University Department of

English (2012-2013)

Writing Consultant, Creighton University Writing Center (2010-2011)

Graduate Assistant, The Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University

(2009-2010)

Service

Outreach Coordinator, Executive Committee, Research Network Forum at the

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Conference on College Composition and Communication (2014)

Member, Undergraduate Committee, Saint Louis University Department of English

(2012-2013)

Research Support/Non-Voting Member, Undergraduate Teaching Group (Curriculum

Committee),

Saint Louis University Department of English (Fall 2012)

Board Member, English Graduate Organization, Saint Louis University (2012-Present)

English Department Representative, Graduate Student Association, Saint Louis

University (2012-2013)

Member, Conference Awards Committee, Saint Louis University Graduate Student

Association (Fall 2012)

Local Presentations/Workshops“A Cocktail Mixer: Rhetoric and New Materialism.” Textual Revolutions: English Department Speaker Series. Saint Louis University. Spring 2015. “On Being a Graduate Student at SLU: Panel Discussion and Q&A.” Saint Louis University. February 2014.“The Making of: ‘Composition as Material Response(ability): the Distributed Agency of the Taste Bud.” Saint Louis University English Graduate Organization Workshop on Conference Strategies.

Publications_____________________________________________________________________________________

Peer-Reviewed“The Mechanics of New Media Science Writing: Articulation, Design, Hospitality, and Electracy.” Co- Authored with Christopher Grabau, Katherine Kavanaugh, and Nathaniel Rivers.

(Forthcoming January 2015 at Kairos).

Book Chapters“The Taste Bud Transforms: Circulation as Cookery.” Proposal Accepted for Inclusion in Rhetoric, Writing, and Circulation. Eds. Collin Brooke and Laurie Gries. “Alinea Phenomenology: Cookery as Flat, Invitational Ontography.” Accepted for Inclusion in Rhetorical Ontologies: Rhetoric Through Everyday Things. Eds. Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle.

Media Project

“Rhetorical Powerhouses.” (Podcast Series). Enculturation 18. September 2014.

Teaching_____________________________________________________________________________________

Saint Louis University Department of English

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ENGL1900: Advanced Strategies in Rhetoric and Research

ENGL 3850: Foundations in Rhetoric and Writing

ENGL 4000: Business and Professional Writing

Course Work_____________________________________________________________________________________

Seminar in Rhetoric: Modern/Postmdern/Nonmodern

New Media Writing: Science Writing

Problems in Rhetoric: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Alternative Rhetorics

Rhetoric, Technology, and Culture

Problems in Rhetoric: Walter Ong and Media Studies

Teaching Writing

Awards and Grants_____________________________________________________________________________________

Graduate Research Network Travel Grant to the Computers & Writing Conference

(2014).

Saint Louis University Department of English Research Travel Award (2014)

Saint Louis University Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Award (2013)

Emerging Pedagogies Research and Travel Grant to the Conference on College

Composition and Communication (Pearson) (2013)

Creighton University Graduate Student Association Travel Award (2009, 2010)

Conference Presentations _____________________________________________________________________________________

“Immersive Eating: Risking Context for Contents.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2014.

"Vital Hospitality: An Attitudinal, Material Pedagogy." Computers and Writing. Washington State University. June 2014.    

"Composition as Material Response(ability): the Distributed Agency of the Taste Bud.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Salt Lake City, UT. October 2013. 

“Relational Composition: Some Pedagogical Implications of Object-Oriented Ontology.” Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

“Technology and the Table It Sets for Us: Gustatory Engagement in an Ecology of

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Ingestion.” Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 2012. 

“The Swinging Door of the Kitchen: the Postmodern Menu’s Hospitable Rhetoric.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention. St. Louis, MO. November 2011.

“The Rhetoric of Taste Education: Food’s Rhetorical Influence in the Creation of Gastronome Principles and Identity.” Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 2011.

“An Adventitious Rhetoric: the Misunderstood Intrinsic Value of Graffiti.” University of West Georgia’s 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. University of West Georgia. November 2010.

Going Native in Italy: the Rhetorical Influence of Food on Social Constructions of Health and Well-Being.” 35th European Studies Conference. University of Nebraska-Omaha. October 2010.

Digesting the Paradiso: Encountering Foreign Spheres within Dante’s Travel Narrative By Way of Culinary Acquaintance.” American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. April 2010.

Affiliations/Memberships_____________________________________________________________________________________

National Council of Teachers of English

Midwest Modern Language Association