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Ms. Lynn Lewis received a
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Occidental College, and a Master of
Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
Since coming to the
University of Oklahoma, Ms. Lewis has taught first year composition,
technical writing, and Honors College 1113 in Visual Rhetoric. Her
first year composition students won English department writing awards
in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Ms. Lewis was awarded the Clark Memorial
Scholarship in 2004 for her scholarly and teaching accomplishments. In
2004, 2005 and 2006, she presented papers at the National College
Composition and Communication Conference. Ms. Lewis was awarded a 2005
Robberson Travel grant from the Graduate College for her paper on using
film in the composition classroom.
Ms. Lewis has been
appointed an assistant to the director of the First Year Compositon
Office. In this position, she has organized a variety of training
workshops, mentored graduate students, and worked to enrich composition
curriculum.
In 2006, Ms. Lewis
submitted paper proposals which were accepted to the Rhetoric Society
of America’s biannual conference and the Computers and Writing
conference. Her pedagogical case-study, co-written with one of her
undergraduate students "Making the Gaze Familiar: Reflections on
Pedagogy and the Familial Gaze Unit," has been accepted for inclusion
in the Rhetorical Visions Instructor's Manual. Ms. Lewis also presented
a talk titled “Dressing for Success: Gendering Professinalization” at
the English Department’s spring colloquium.
As a fourth-year
Foundation Fellow, Ms. Lewis is planning her doctoral research on the
role of critical pedaogy in the computer-mediated composition
classroom, drawing on areas of related interest including visual
literacy, rhetorical analysis, film studies, and technology literacies.
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