MICHAEL L. SHUMAN, PH.D. 813.887.5424 (ph) - 813.974.2270 (f) mshuman@usf.edu 8002 W Hiawatha St - Tampa, FL 33615 - USA mshuman.com - EDUCATION University of South Florida, Tampa FL Degree: Ph.D. in English, 2007 University of South Florida, Tampa FL Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing, 2004 West Virginia University, Morgantown WV Degree: M.A. in English, 1973 Fairmont State University, Fairmont WV Degree: B.A. in English, 1971 - ADMINISTRATION Coordinator of Professional and Technical Writing Internship Program University of South Florida August 2010 - Present Develop partnerships with technology-oriented companies and organizations in the Tampa Bay area to support the internship program; place students on an internship basis with professional enterprises consistent with each student's academic background and career goals; manage the internship process and assess intern performance; develop and teach an internship class predicated upon career advancement in the professional/technical communications field. Assistant Director of First-Year Composition University of South Florida June 2009 - August 2010 Collaborate with FYC director in development of goals and policy for a writing program supporting over 4,500 students and nearly 100 instructors each semester; assist in development and administration of curriculum content and new media resources for students and instructors; interview, appoint, and evaluate writing program instructors; manage deployment of in-house SaMvaada online assessment tool throughout the program; 2/2 teaching assignment. - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ENC 3248 Communications for IT Professionals Syllabus and resources for communications and new media course supporting the undergraduate degree in Information Technology. Course proposal approved by the Undergraduate Council in November 2010 and currently is undergoing review for approval by the USF General Education Council. LIT 3301 Cultural Studies and the Popular Arts: "Carl Barks and the 20th Century American Humorist Tradition" Syllabus and resources for course offered during the spring 2010 semester. ENC 3250 Professional Writing Online Syllabus and resources for distance learning course offered to students in Singapore, spring 2010. First-Year Composition Program - ENC 1102 Online University of South Florida Summer 2008 - Present Develop and maintain curriculum, syllabus, and Instructor Guide for online composition course; provide ongoing training and direction for 5 distance learning instructors. Technical Writing Program Curriculum Update University of South Florida Spring 2008 Update curriculum to conform with USF Department of English Professional/Technical Academic Learning Compact; prepare syllabi for additional technical communication classes. Revised curriculum submitted March, 2008. - ACADEMIC SOFTWARE DESIGN My Reviewers Rubric Solution for Higher Education Principal author of design document of online tool for composition assessment funded by USF Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence Innovative Learning-Centered Grant. USF General Education Council has adopted this tool for eventual Gen Ed assessment. Software development currently in progress. - GRANTS USF General Education Assessment: Critical Thinking and Writing Intensive Courses Principal author of USF Technology Fee Proposal for development of online rubric and essay grading application for use in all newly-approved Gen Ed courses. Grant of $81,00 Awarded 08-30-2010. National Science Foundation Co-PI, "CCLI: Multi-Departmental Initiative to Promote and Assess High-Quality Writing and High-Level Thinking in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum." Grant Submitted 05-20-2009. Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence Innovative Learning-Centered Grants Program Principal Author, "First-Year Composition Rubric Enhancement and Assessment Strategy" (with Joe Moxley). Maximum $10,000 Grant Amount Awarded to fund SaMvaada Rubric Solution for Higher Education, February 2009. Additional funding provided by the USF Office of Decision Support, October, 2009. - EDITORIAL POSITIONS The Mailer Review The Norman Mailer Society Associate Editor November 2008 - Present - TEACHING EXPERIENCE August 2007 - Present Tampa Continuing Instructor, University of South Florida ENC 2210 Technical Writing ENC 3246 Communications for Engineers ENC 4260 Advanced Technical Writing ENC 1101 Composition 1 - Summer 2007 Tampa Adjunct Instructor, University of South Florida ENC 3246 Communications for Engineers - August 2005 - December 2005 Sarasota-Manatee Instructor, University of South Florida ENC 3211 Communications for Engineers - August 2004 - May 2007 Tampa Graduate Teaching Associate, University of South Florida ENC 3211 and 3246 Communications for Engineers ENC 2210 Technical Writing ENC 3310 Expository Writing LIT 2000 Introduction to Literature ENC 1102 Composition II (online) ENC 1101 Composition I - December 1986 - November 2001 Tampa Senior Consultant, Collier-Jackson/Geac/Atex Taught classes for newspaper software systems, including in-house training for new associates; provided advanced customer training at newspapers, user group conferences and regional training seminars. - - TEACHING INTERESTS Technical Writing, Composition; New Media; Modern British and American Literature - RESEARCH INTERESTS History of Technical Communication; New Media in the Writing Program Context; Graphic Novels and Sequential Art; William Morris and The Pre-Raphaelites; Otto Rank and Psychoanalytic Criticism - DISTANCE LEARNING Graduate-level Classes Completed at University of South Florida EME 6425 Microcomputers for School Management EME 6936 Web Page Design EME 6936 Distance Learning EME 6936 Telecommunications in Education EME 6930 Hyperscripting - AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication Society for Technical Communication The William Morris Society The Norman Mailer Society The Academy of American Poets - AWARDS AND HONORS Alice Hearne Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, University of South Florida James Paul Brawner Writing Award Honorable Mention for "Dualistic Tension and Tradition in The Warden," West Virginia University - SUPPORTING RESEARCH Ph.D. Dissertation "'A Woman's Face, or Worse': Otto Rank and the Modernist Identity" Major Professor: Phillip Sipiora M.A. Thesis "Sexuality and Comic Vision in William Morris's Later Prose Romances" Director: Hayden W. Ward - WORKS IN PROGRESS Curriculum ENC 4940 Professional/Technical Communication Internship Syllabus and resources for a class supporting the Technical Communication and New Media internship. Course has been submitted to the Undergraduate Council for approval effective the summer 2011 term. - SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION "D. H. Lawrence and Otto Rank: The Rainbow Intersection." Journal Article. - PUBLICATIONS "Norman vs. Ernest: Influence and Identity," The Mailer Review4:1 (Fall 2010): 90-103. "The Blue Hour," Advance Review of Dwayne Raymond, Mornings with Mailer in The Mailer Review 3:1 (Fall 2009): 674-78. "Jefferson's American Aesthetic and the Paintings of John Trumbull" in Florida English 3 (2005): 73-82. Review of Catherine Robson, Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman in Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 5 (2001): 90-93. - PRESENTATIONS "Mutual Interest: Mailer and Hemingway." The Norman Mailer Society 2010 Conference, Sarasota, FL, November 4-6, 2010. "Two Castles, One Forest: Norman Mailer and Mikhail Bulgakov." The Norman Mailer Society 2009 Conference, Washington, DC, October 23-24, 2009. "Reconstructing Mailer: Identity, Appropriation, Desire." The Norman Mailer Society 2008 Conference, Provincetown, MA, October 16-19, 2008. "Rank, Yeats, and the Modernist Identity." CAS Graduate Research Symposium, University of South Florida, April 2007. "Identity and Utterance in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland." ESGA Fall Colloquium, University of South Florida, March 2007. - UNIVERSITY SERVICE Learning-Centered Grants 2010 Selection Committee Member Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence, February 2010 Senior Project Mentor Mitchell Heirholzer, "Xcenda Data Recovery Plan," Department of Information Technology, University of South Florida Polytechnic, Lakeland, Spring 2009. - USF DEPARTMENT SERVICE First-Year Composition Program Policy Committee Member, 2008 - Present First-Year Composition Program Task Committee Member, 2008 - Present Charles F. Brooks Award in Technical Writing Award Jurist, 2009 & 2010 First-Year Composition Program Collaborator, Summer 2008 & Summer 2009 Co-Chair, First-Year Composition Program Bullitzer Awards Committee 2009 Direct Technical Communications students in format and design for annual FYC awards publication and website. Rhetorical Situations: A Journal of First-Year Composition 2009 Direct ENC 2210 Technical Communications students in format and design for annual FYC awards publication and website. First-Year Composition Program Bullitzer Awards 2008 Direct ENC 4260 Advanced Technical Communications students in format and design for annual FYC awards publication and website. - ACTIVITIES Member, Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Co-Editor, Alpha Point, English Department Literary Publication, Fairmont State University - NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Project Manager Publishing Business Systems, St Paul MN Managed on-site newspaper software implementation and conversion projects for new corporate customers; developed project plans and managed resources for implementations. Senior Consultant Collier-Jackson/Geac/Atex, Tampa FL Lead consultant for computer software customer support, documentation development, system testing, training, and installation coordination; provided advanced executive training at user group conferences and regional training seminars. Operations Manager Schurz Communications/The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown MD Coordinated installation and management of newspaper circulation software systems; managed department resources and operations. Assistant Circulation Director Schurz Communications/The Herald-Times, Bloomington IN Supervised and evaluated newspaper circulation department associates; trained employees in department procedures and software use. - TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY Software Proficient with a diverse group of operating systems and software, including: Microsoft Windows OS; MS Office applications, including Word, Power Point, Excel, Access, and Outlook; MS Project Manager; MS Internet Explorer and other web browsers; MS SharePoint 2007 collaboration manager; miscellaneous web search engines; Adobe Acrobat Professional document creator Adobe Design Premium CS4, including Dreamweaver web development tool and InDesign desktop publishing; Authorware e-learning application creator; Camtasia Studio screen recorder; Blackboard, WebCT, WebEX, and Elluminate e-learning content management and online conferencing software; Pearson Education MyCompLab online English composition assessment and exchange site MS SQL server; HP MPE/iX, Open VMS, IBM RISC System/6000 AIX, HP 9000 HP-UX and other SQL client/server architectures and applications Hardware Build, maintain, and regularly upgrade networked, 6-unit personal PC/Server cluster - TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS Extensive technical and professional writing for Collier-Jackson/Geac/Atex published in hardcopy and/or CD-ROM formats: World Class Series Circulation User Guide and Pre-Installation Guide Technical design specifications for newspaper software development Request for Proposal responses Formal financial and business practice audits for newspapers Trip reports and project status reports Multimedia presentations for trade shows, conferences, and regional training seminars - WEB DESIGN & MAINTENANCE Timberline Press - Books Handcrafted by Clarence Wolfshohl Small press poetry publisher, custom design, active at timberlinepress.com through December 2010. Publishing house subsequently acquired and site developed/URL maintained by another press. Michael L. Shuman, Ph.D. Personal site, adapted open source design, at mshuman.com -