Joel Nydahl

Curriculum Vitae

Joel Nydahl

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         Chair, English Department
         Broward Community College, Central Campus
         3501 SW Davie Road
         Davie, Florida 33314
         Telephone: (954) 475-6642
         FAX: (954) 475-6646

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E-mail: jnydahl@broward.cc.fl.us Contents of Curriculum Vitae

Education
Administrative Experience
Teaching Experience
Academic Publications
Academic Presentations

Education

Ph.D.: American Studies (American literature), The University of Michigan
M.A.: English (American literature), The University of Michigan
B.A.: Secondary Education (English), Northern Michigan University Doctoral Dissertation "Utopia Americana: Early American Utopian Fiction, 1790-1864." Marvin Felheim, director Administrative Experience 1998-present: CHAIR, English Department, Broward Community College, Central Campus
(Davie, FL)

1994-1998: WRITING COORDINATOR/DIRECTOR OF THE WRITING CENTER,
English Department, Norwalk Community-Technical College (Norwalk, CT)

Assisted the Chair in administrative matters Hired and supervised adjunct faculty
Oversaw the professional development of faculty
Oversaw placement of students in writing courses Assured the articulation of writing courses
Established uniform evaluation standards within the department
Developed a writing assessment instrument
1986-1994: DIRECTOR OF WRITING PROGRAM/ WRITING CENTER, Arts and
        Humanities Division, Babson College (Wellesley, MA) Developed the writing-across-the-curriculum program
Directed the Peer-Consultants-in-Writing Program 1979-1981: Director of Credit-Course Programing, Extension Service, The University of
       Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) 1974-1975: DIRECTOR, MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH, The Federal
       University of Brazil (Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil) Relevant Teaching Experience 1998-present: CHAIR, English Department, Broward Community College, Central Campus
       (Davie, FL) Teaching writing and literature courses Composition
Literature and Composition 1994-1998: WRITING PROGRAM COORDINATOR, English Department, Norwalk
       Community-Technical College (Norwalk, CT) Taught writing and literature courses Composition
Literature and Composition
Expository Writing
World Literature 1986-1993: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Arts and Humanities Division,
       Babson College (Wellesley, MA) Taught writing and literature courses Composition
Introduction to Literature
Expository Writing
Practicum in Peer Consulting and Writing Served as Adjunct Professor, Babson College/Sanno Institute of Japanese
    Business and Management 1981-1986: LECTURER, English Composition Board, The University of Michigan (Ann
       Arbor, MI) Taught all levels of composition
Worked in the Writing Center
Trained graduate assistants and assisted faculty in the writing-across-the-curriculum
     program
1977-1980: LECTURER, Humanities Department, College of Engineering, The University of
       Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) Taught composition, literature and public speaking 1974-1975: DIRECTOR, MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH, Federal
       University of Brazil (Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil) Taught language, writing, and literature courses 1967-1972: LECTURER, FAR EAST AND EUROPEAN DIVISIONS, University of
       Maryland (College Park, MD) Taught composition, American literature, world literature, and public speaking 1964-1965: CHAIR, English Department, American International School (Tel Aviv, Israel) Taught high school English courses 1962-1964, 1966-1967: INSTRUCTOR, English Department, Northern Michigan
       University Marquette, MI) Taught composition and literature courses Academic Publications "Critical Thinking and Computers." Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts. Ed.
       Alan Purvis. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. 1994. "Review of Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age" by Myron C. Tuman. Journal of
       Advanced Composition. Fall 1993.

"Critical Thinking and Computer-Mediated Writing Instruction." The Critical Thinking
Workshop. Ed. Toni-Lee Capossela. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.

"Ambiguity and Confusion in Word Processing Research." Computers & Composition
Journal. August 1991.

"Teaching Composition with Computers." Teacher's Resource Manual to Accompany The
Holt Handbook, 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991.

"A Student's Guide: Introduction to Writing with Word Processing." The Holt Handbook,
2nd ed. Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991.

"Teaching Word Processors to Be CAI Programs." College English. December 1990.

"The Rhetoric of Television News." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. December
1986.

"Writing-Instruction Software for the Classroom: HBJ Writer." Research in Word Processing
Newsletter. April 1986.

"Image, Language, and Technology" (with Barbra S. Morris). Journal of Popular Culture.
Fall 1985.

"Thinking and Writing about Television: Demystifying TV in the Language Arts." Language
Arts Journal of Michigan. Spring 1985.

"Toward Analyses of Live Television Broadcasts" (with Barbra S. Morris). Central States
Communication Journal. Fall 1983.

"From Millennium to Utopia Americana." America as Utopia: Essays on American Utopian
Literature. Ed. Kenneth M. Roemer. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981.

"Early American Fictional Futures, 1798-1864." America as Utopia: Essays on American
Utopian Literature. Ed. Kenneth M. Roemer. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981.

Edited a series of early American utopian works. Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimiles &
Reprints:

[Timothy Savage], "Introduction." The Amazonian Republic, 1842 (1976).
John Adolphus Etzler, "Introduction." The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler, 1833-1844 (1977).
Charles Bellamy, "Introduction." An Experiment in Marriage, 1889 (1977).

Academic Presentations

"Using Computers to Teach Critical Thinking." Fourth Annual National Conference in
Problem Solving Across the Curriculum (Geneva, NY). June 24-26, 1993.

"Critical Thinking and Computer-Mediated Writing Instruction." Ninth Conference on
Computers and Writing (Ann Arbor, MI). May 20-23, 1993.

"Gaining and Maintaining Faculty Support for Peer Tutoring Programs." Presented as part of
       a workshop: "Peer Tutoring in a Changing Educational Environment: Issues in Training
       Tutors and Building and Maintaining Programs." Conference on College Composition
       and Communication (San Diego, CA). April 3, 1993.

"Computers and Moral Ideas: Clustering Information Technology and Composition Courses."
Eighth Conference on Computers and Writing (Indianapolis, IN). May 1-3, 1992.

"Using Word Processing to Teach Critical Thinking in Writing Classes." Twelfth Annual
Microcomputers in Education Conference (Tempe, AZ). March 16-18, 1992.

"The Use of Word-processing Macros to Create CAI Routines." National Educational
Computing Conference (Phoenix, AZ). June 20, 1991.

"Using Advanced Word-processing Techniques to Teach Writing and Revision Strategies."
Association of Small Computer Users in Education (Myrtle Beach, SC). June 12, 1991.

"Eliminating the Ambiguity and Confusion in Word Processing Research." The Seventh
Conference on Computers and Writing (Biloxi, MS). May 22-26, 1991.

"Problems in Evaluating the Effects of Word Processing on Student Writing." Conference on
College Composition and Communication (Boston, MA). March 21, 1991.

"Integrating Computers Into Your Writing Program." Writing Program Administrators'
Conference (Portland, OR). July 19, 1990.

"The Latent Content of Word Processing and CAI Software: How Our Students ‘See’
Writing." Sixth Conference on Computers and Writing (Austin, TX). May 17-20, 1990.

"An Apology for Teaching Old Word Processors New Tricks." Conference on Composition,
Cognition, and Computers (New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY).
April 27, 1990.

"Questioning Priorities in Computerized Writing Classes." Computers and Writing III
Edinburgh, Scotland). April 6-7, 1990.

"Rethinking the Uses of Word Processing to Teach Writing." Conference on College
Composition and Communication (Chicago, IL). March 23, 1990.

"Using Telecommunications to Create an Intercollegiate Writing Class." Penn State
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (University Park, PA). July 15, 1989.

"Using the Hidden Power of Word Processing in the Composition Class." Wyoming
Conference on English (Laramie, WY). June 19-23, 1989.

"Peer Critiquing Through Telecommunications." The Fifth Conference on Computers and
Writing (Minneapolis, MN). May 12, 1989.

"Basic Writing Through Word Processing." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition (University Park, PA). July 10, 1986.

"The Rhetorical Dimensions of TV and their Relation to Teaching Composition." National
Council of Teachers of English Convention (Detroit, MI). November 18, 1984.

"Television Rhetoric and Teaching Writing." Michigan College English Association Conference
(Olivet, MI). October 26, 1984.

"The Rhetoric of Television News and Teaching Writing." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition (University Park, PA). July 13, 1984.

"Teaching Television News." Michigan Council of Teachers of English (Detroit, MI). October
14, 1983.

"Television News as Drama: Implied Narrative and Reality." Third International Conference
on Drama in Television (East Lansing, MI). May 20, 1983.

"The Image and the Written Word: Television in the Classroom." Conference on College
Composition and Communication (Detroit, MI). March 17, 1983.

"From Television to Writing." Paper given and workshop activities coordinated. National
Council of Teachers of English Conference (Washington, DC). November 23, 1982.

"From Figures of Speech to Figures of Vision: Metaphor in Televised Sports." Midwest
Modern Language Association Convention (Cincinnati, OH). November 5, 1982.

"Major Sports Spectacle as Drama: The Relation of Dramatic Commentary to Image."
Second Annual International Conference on Drama in Television (East Lansing, MI).
May 26, 1982.

Other Conference Appearances "Putting Writing Center Theory into Practice" (Chair). Conference on College Composition
and Communication (San Diego, CA). April 1, 1993.

"Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Hypertext" (Associate Chair). Conference on
College Composition and Communication (Cincinnati, OH). March 20, 1992.

"Exploring the Possibilities of Hypertext" (Associate Chair). Conference on College
Composition and Communication (Seattle, WA). March 18, 1989.

"Uses of Software in the Composition Classroom" (Associate Chair). Conference on College
Composition and Communication (Atlanta, GA). March 20, 1987.

Consulting Experience Evaluation of English language teaching in the Sao Luis, Maranhao (Brazil), public schools.
1975.

Writing in the Medical Sciences, Masters Degree Program. The University of Michigan
School of Public Health (Ann Arbor, MI). 1985-1986.

"Establishing a Computerized Introductory Writing Program." English Department, St. Mary's
College (Winona, MN). 1991.

"Using Writing Portfolios as an Exit Requirement." English Department, Housatonic
Community-Technical College (Norwalk, CT). 1997.

Grants "Establishing Word Processing in the Curriculum of Babson College." Microsoft. 1987.

"Developing Basic Writing Through Word Processing." English Composition Board, The
University of Michigan. 1985.

Professional Organizations National Counsel of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Non-academic Publications "TeleVision" (weekly television column) and feature essays. Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor,
MI. July 1985-July 1986.

A dozen articles on travel and wine (various newspapers and magazines). 1972-1986.

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