Rachel McCabe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director of Writing
Department of English
La Salle University
Department Website
Campus Phone:
215-951-1061
Email:
Campus Address:
144 Hayman Hall
La Salle University
1900 W Olney Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19141
Welcome to my digital CV!
My work utilizes visual rhetoric and challenging texts to help students build generative habits of mind. These habits help students adapt to difficult reading experiences and produce more nuanced writing.
EDUCATION
2014-2019
Indiana University Bloomington
PhD in ENGLISH
Dissertation in Composition/Rhetoric
"Productive Discomfort, Reading, and Writing in FYC"
Minor in Pedagogy
2012-2014
SUNY Buffalo
MA in ENGLISH
MA Thesis: "Electroshock Therapy and Cold War Literature: Physiological and Narrative Therapies and Their Roles in Exploring Sanity"
2009-2012
BA in ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minor in Writing and Communication
Honors Thesis: "Flannery O'Connor: The Other and Terror in The Complete Stories"
COURSES TAUGHT
La Salle University
ENG
110
College Writing I: Persuasion
ENG
210
College Writing II:
Research
FYS
130
First-Year Seminar:
American Subcultures
ENG
303
Writing for Business
Indiana University Bloomington
W170
FYC: The Grotesque in American Culture
W131
OL
Online First-Year Composition
W131
ML
FYC for Multilingual
Students
W131
First-Year Composition
W350
Expository Writing:
Rhetorics of Fashion
W231
Professional Writing
Teaching Video
W170
Spring 2018
Indiana University
Student Work
Film Reproduction
Assignment Sheet
W350 Final Project Assignment
Digital Publications
Textshop Experiments Link:
A Place for Film Link:
Multimodal Work
Selected Presentations
Select Presentations and Publications
2018
CWPA
RSA
CCCC
2019
CCCC
2017
Computers
& Writing
2016
CCCC
2022
“Practices for Addressing Affective Difficulty in the Writing Classroom,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, forthcoming 2022.
2021
“Cinematic Reproduction as Multimodal Composition in First-Year Composition,” Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching
“Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and Affective Responses to the True Crime Documentary,” Studies in Documentary Film
2020
“Learning Institutional Ecologies for Inventive Collaboration in Writing Center/Classroom Collaboration,” vol. 48, num. 3, Composition Studies
“First-Year Composition and the Difficulty of ‘Safe Spaces’ in the #MeToo Era”
"Cinematic Creation in FYC: Using Multimodal Composition to Further Analysis in Writing
“On Wednesdays we wear pussy hats”: Contemporary Fashion & Protest
"Shock and Awe: Rhetorical Utilization of Affective Moments in WPA Work"
“Cultivation of Next-Generation Teachers and Learners in Writing and Composition Studies”
Research Network Forum, “Shocking the ‘Tired Reader’: the Grotesque as a Teaching Tool in the Composition Classroom”
Curriculum Vitae
SELECT SKILLS
Spanish - Reading Comprehension
French - Reading Comprehension
Adobe InDesign - Proficient
Adobe Premiere Pro- Proficient
Microsoft Word - Advanced
Microsoft Excel - Advanced