Cynthia Davidson

Job Title: Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Lecturer

Phone: (631) 632-9935

E-mail: cynthia.davidson@stonybrook.edu

Office Location: H-2104

Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 11:00-1:00 and by appointment for Fall 2012

Education: M.A. in Literature, Northeastern Illinois University, 1989; Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997; Advanced Certificate in Composition Theory, Stony Brook University, 2007.

Courses Taught, Stony Brook University:

• Personal Essay Writing:  The Personal Eye (WRT 303)
• Critical Writing Seminar: Writing for the New Media (WRT 302)
• Writing in the Disciplines (WRT 201)
  • The Voice in the Machine:  Technology and Human Identity
• Intermediate Writing Workshop—B (WRT 103)
  • Science as Social Rhetoric
  • Developing Personal Poetics
• Intermediate Writing Workshop—A (Reg./ University Scholars/Learning Communities/Honors) (WRT 102)
  • Introduction to Digital Rhetoric
  • Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Human Difference
  • Technology and the Metamorphoses of Identity
  • Food and Society
  • Science as Social Discourse
  • Bioethics:  Public and Personal Perspectives on Human Values in the Life Sciences
• Introductory Writing Workshop (WRT 101)
• Internship and Independent Study
• Literary Argumentation and Analysis (EGL 204)

Professional Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Digital Media; Writing and Technology; Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry; Science Fiction.

Selected Presentations

• "Second Life as Third Space:  Remediating the Somatic Mind."  Panel:  Composing in vSpaces:  Rhetorical Architexts of Second Life.  Computers and Writing Conference, May 18, 2012 (forthcoming) in Raleigh, North Carolina, at North Carolina State University.
  
  
• “Cyborg Literacy Acquisition Through Second Life: Contesting Old-School Paradigms in Virtual Spaces.” College Communication and Composition Conference (CCCC) 2011, Atlanta, Georgia (April 7, 2011).
  
  
• “Where Do We Gather Now? The “New” Shape of Ethos.” Situating Ethos, Practicing Just Thoughts in the Writing Classroom. SUNY Council on Writing, SUNY Plattsburgh (March 26, 2010)

• “Writ-uals of  Faith and Skepticism:  Citation as Magical Practice.” Who Owns Writing?  Revisited.  New York, Hofstra University (October 17, 2008).

• “From Grimoire to Glamor to Grammar Instruction: A Feminist Analysis of Grammar-Based Knowledges in Composition Studies.”  College Communication and Composition Conference (CCCC) 2008.  New Orleans ( April 4, 2008). 
  
  
•  “’True Lies’:  Academic Writing, Plagiarism, and the Formation of ‘Literate’ Identities.” College Communication and Composition Conference (CCCC) 2007.  New York (March 23, 2007).

• "Riviera's Golem, Haraway's Cyborg: Reading Neuromancer as Baudrillard's  Simulation of Crisis," a paper presented at the Science Fiction Research Association Conference at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks (June 1995). 
  
  
• "Using Wikis and Blogs in the Writing Classroom." Interview. Innovations in Education (TV program). Host: Graham Glynn. April 6, 2009. http://tiny.cc/1Tea4

• "Peek Inside the Classroom:  Author's Chair with Dr. Cynthia Davidson.  April 2011.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StIRlCd9eRI

Publications and Awards

• Provost's Outstanding Lecturer, 2012.
  
  
• Recipient, Stony Brook University Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching, Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers (1999).
  
  
• "Cyborg Literacy Acquisition Through Second Life:  Contesting "Old" School Spaces With vPortfolios."  Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2012).  Ed. Kristine Blair.  Web. 
  
  
• Contributor to CONTEMPORARY WOMEN POETS (St. James Press, 1997) and DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY (2001). 
  
  
• "Riviera's Golem, Haraway's Cyborg: Reading NEUROMANCER as Baudrillard's Simulation of Crisis" SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES 22.2: 69(1996): 188-198. Reprinted in Gale reference volume Contemporary Literary Criticism v. 186 (2005).
  
• Short essay: "Some thoughts on style" in HOW2 Forum (Rutgers University)
  
  

Academic Positions

Secretary, SUNY Council on Writing, 2009-2012

Arts and Sciences Senate President, 2007-2008.

For more info see http://cynthiaanndavidson.com/