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Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, Rhetoric and Professional Communication | 2010

MA, Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication | 2006

BA, Philosophy | 2003

Publications

Graham, S.S. (2009). Agency and the rhetoric of medicine: Biomedical brain scans and the ontology of fibromyalgia. Technical Communication Quarterly, 18(4) forthcoming.

Graham, S.S. & Whalen, B. (2008). Mode, medium, and genre: A case study in new media design decisions. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22(1), 65-91.

Grahams, S.S. (2008). Book review: Rhetoric and Incommensurability edited by Randy Allen Harris. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 28(2), 229-233.

Conference Presentations

Graham, S.S. (2009). From dis-ease to disease: Ontological rarefaction in the medical-industrial complex. Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology. Chicago, IL.

Graham, S.S. (2009). Rhetoric of technoscience: Theoretical foundations and methodological approaches. Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA.

Graham, S.S. (2009). Agency and the rhetoric of medicine: Neuroimaging and the ontology of fibromyalgia. Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. San Francisco, CA.

Graham, S.S. & Niedergeses, D.M. (2008). The rhetoric of √-1: The discourse of imaginary numbers and the rhetoric of mathematics. National Communications Association. San Diego, CA.

Graham, S.S. & Herndl, C.G. (2008). Negotiating pain: Managing pain and managing the different discourses of pain management. Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA.

Warnick, Q.W. & Graham, S.S. (2007). Typogracy: Seven essential principles of typographic literacy. Poster Presentation. Association for Business Communication. Washington DC.

Graham, S.S. (2007). Agency and the steam-engine: 19th century human boundary objects and 21st century wiki-clusters. Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Saskatoon, SK.

Graham, S.S. (2006). A pedagogy of dissonance: Social networking sites as models of multimodal dialogism. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing. Mankato, MN. (Review).

Graham, S.S. (2006). The rhetoric of discovery: The abductive inference and the kairos of paradigm shifts. Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Toronto, ON.

Graham, S.S. (2006). Genre, medium, & mode: Web design & flash gaming. Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Chicago, IL.

Research In Progress

Graham, S.S. & Herndl, C.G. (Under Review). Talking off-label: A nonmodern science of pain in the medical-industrial complex.

Warnick, Q.W. & Graham, S.S. (Under review). Typogracy: Teaching typeface selection and implementation as a literate practice. In L. Kim & J. Swartz (Eds.). New Spaces for Literate Action: Thinking and Doing in the Information Age. Texas Tech UP: Lubbock, TX.

Rhetorics of Technoscience: Theories and Methods. Exploration of how theoretical and methodological resources from history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology of science, technology, and medicine can be incorporated into rhetorical scholarship.

Cyborgs, Interdisciplinarity, and Neurostimulation. Neurostimulation is a medical practice that requires intense interdisciplinary cooperation among various disciplines to implant computerized healthcare interventions into patients. This project explores the resonance between the interdisciplinary medical and the discourses of cyborg medicine.

Brain Scans as New Media Communication. Exploration of the semiotics, representational logics, generic conventions and cultural impacts of neuroimaging technologies such as PET, CT, and MRI.

Guiding Land Management Decisions Toward More Sustainable Biofuel Development. Ethnographic interviews of diverse stakeholders within the agrobioeconomy. Subsequent investigation of how stakeholder rhetorics may be leveraged to foster more sustainable agricultural practices in Iowa.  (with Carl Herndl, Greg Wilson, Jean Goodwin, Lee Honeycutt, and David Niedergeses).

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record) | Iowa State University, Ames, IA | 2005-Present

Adjunct Instructor | Grandview College, Des Moines, IA | Spring 2007

E-Portfolio Consultant | Dept. of Ag and Biosystems Engineering, ISU | 2005-2006

Writing Center Consultant | Writing and Media Help Center, ISU | 2004-2006

Awards and Honors

W. Paul Jones Scholarship for Scholarly Writing | Iowa State University | 2008

Critical Writing Award | Iowa State University | 2008

Debating Science Scholarship | U of Montana Center for Ethics/NSF Graduate Education Workshop | Aug 2007

Freda Hunke Fellowship for Pedagogical Development | Iowa State University | 2006-2007

Aubrey Galyon Award for Academic Excellence | Iowa State University | 2006

Richard R. Wright Award for Expository Writing | Iowa State University | 2006

$20,000 Award in Writing Excellence | Eckerd College | 1999-2003

Service

President | Phorum: PhD Student Advocacy Organization | 2007-2008

Student Representative | Department Governance Committee | 2007-2008

Program Assistant | ISUComm Foundations (WAC/CAC) | 2007-2008

Collection Editor | Philosophy Collection | Eserver.org | 2006-2007

E-Portfolios in FYC | Pedagogical Development Workshop Presentation | Iowa State University | Aug 1, 2006

Dreamweaver in FYC | Pedagogical Development Workshop Presentation | Iowa State University | Mar 9, 2006

Technology Coordinator | Writing and Media Help Center | Iowa State University | 2004-2005