Roxanne Kent-Drury 
Associate Professor 
Graduate Program Director
Literature and Language 
Northern Kentucky University 
Landrum 543 
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Office: (859) 572-6636 
Message: (859) 572-5416 
Fax: (859) 572-6093
e-mail: rkdrury@nku.edu 
webpage: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/

Other pages I maintain:
http://www.nku.edu/~herc/
http://www.nku.edu/~issues/

Graduate Program Director, 2008-present
Associate Professor, 2005-present
Assistant Professor, 1998-2005
Department of Literature and Language
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY  41099

Graduate Teaching Fellow, 1993-1998 
University of Oregon 
Department of English 
Eugene, OR 97403-1286

Teaching Associate, 1990-1992 
California State University 
Departments of English and Comparative Literature 
Long Beach, CA  90840

Technical Editor/Writer 1982-1991 
Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing) 
Space and Communications Group 
Los Angeles, CA 90009

Education

University of Oregon 
Eugene, OR  97403-1286 

• Ph.D., English and American Literature, 1998
• Fields of Specialization. 17th- and 18th-century British and Transatlantic Literature; Folk and Popular Forms; Performance and Law; Humanities Computing.
• Dissertation: Public and Private Theatricality: The Nature and Function of Early Modern Burlesque

• M.A., English and American Literature
• May 1993 
• Thesis. Authority and Landscape in Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard

• B.S., Business Management

Books

Using INTERNET Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood/Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

Essays/Articles

Book essay, MLA, "Philosophy and Performance in the Works of Catharine Trotter Cockburn," Teaching 17th Century Women Playwrights (submitted Feb 2008; book in final stages of editing)

Book essay, MLA, "Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality," Teaching Robinson Crusoe (ed. Maximilian Novak and Carl Fisher) (Co-authored with Gordon Sayre.) 2005.

Review Essay, "Law, Narrative, and Performance." Eighteenth-Century Studies 37.1 (2004).  

Article, "Colonial/Exploration Narratives." Literature of Travel and Exploration. Ed. Jennifer Speake. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 1579582478.

Article,  "Pirates/Bandits." Literature of Travel and Exploration. Ed. Jennifer Speake. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 1579582478

Review Essay, "Geography and Transoceanic Travel Narrative." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 3.1 (2003): 147-165.

"Bridging Boundaries, Negotiating Differences: The Nature of Leadership in Cross-Functional Proposal Writing Groups." Joint Issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Technical Communication (Feb-Mar 2000). 

"Finding a Place to Stand:  Negotiating the Spatial Configuration of the Networked Computer Classroom." Computers and Composition. (December 1998)

Re:dux:  Essays, Fiction, Poetry.  2nd edition.  Co-editor.  Eugene, OR:  University of Oregon Publication, 1995.  (Book-length reader for freshman-level composition course.) 

Editor, Catharine Cockburn Trotter's "Love at a Loss." The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. J. Douglas Canfield, gen. ed. Toronto: Broadview P, 2001. Reprinted in Concise Edition 2004.

Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall 2001

William J. Burling, Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre (London: Associated University Presses, 2000)
Charlotte Charke, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke. Ed. Robert Rehder. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999)

"A Fall Semester Survey of British Literature, beginnings through the 18th century." Teaching British Literature: A Companion to the Longman Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. David Damrosch, et al. New York: Longman, 2002. xix-xx.

In Progress

Essay collection, The Publishing Contexts of Exploration Narrative.

Review essay on recent works about Captain James Cook's voyages for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Online edition of 17th and 18th century women's poetry for inclusion in The Poetess Archive (created by Laura Mandell under the auspices of NINES, an NEH funded digital humanities project).

Seminars

NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship, an NEH funded workshop in support of Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship. Summer 2008, Miami University of Ohio. Invitation included one student. (upcoming)

ADE Seminar for New Graduate Program Directors. Summer 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (upcoming)

NEH Seminar for University Teachers: British and Indigenous Cultural Encounters in Native North America: 1580-1785. Summer 2005, John Carter Brown Library.

Panels Organized

"New Perspectives in Technical Communications Research." Modern Language Convention, Philadelphia, PA 2004. Chair: Stephen Bernhardt, University of Delaware.

"Professing Technical Communication." Modern Language Association Convention, 2001. Chair: Carolyn Rude, Texas Tech University. 

"Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course." Modern Language Association Convention, 2001. Chair: Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University.

"The Publishing Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Exploration Narrative." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006.

"The Scope of Technical Communications Teaching." Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA 2004.

"The Scope of Technical Communications Teaching." Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, December 2003.

"Technical Communication Research Methods." Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, December 2003. (Upcoming)

"Teaching Beyond the Page." Modern Language Association, New York, 2002.

"Domains of Research." Modern Language Association, New York, 2002.

"Reading the Tableau: The Politics of Morality and Suffering in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Performance." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1999. 

"Politics, Performance, and Drama 1700-1800."  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies National Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana.  April 1998. 

"Eighteenth-Century Performance and Performativity."  Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Global Baroque Conference, Eugene, Oregon.  October 1997.

"Popular Forms, Canonical Forms."  Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Canada.  December 1997. 

"Panel Discussion: Teaching Robinson Crusoe." Moderated by Carl Fisher. Defoe's Footprints: A Conference in Honor of Maximillian E. Novak. William C. Clark Library, UCLA. 31 May-1 June 2002. 

Literature

"Teaching the Transatlantic." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Panel: Transatlantic Studies: Definitions, Possibilities, Problems, April 2002. 

"Aphra Behn's Fables of Captivity." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Panel: Augustan Satire and Colonial America: Generic Continuities and Transformations, April 2000.

"Refractions of Race and Ethnicity in Captivity Narrative." Faculty Presentation Series, Northern Kentucky University, March 2000.

"Ideologies of Torment: the Burlesque Conduct Literature of Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1999.

"Introductory Remarks." Panel on "Popular Forms, Canonical Forms," Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, December 1997. 

"Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier, and Conduct Burlesqued," Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Global Baroque Conference, Eugene, Oregon, October 1997. 

"Early Modern Burlesque, the Excise Tax, and Popular Belief."  Marxist Literary Group 1997 Institute on Culture and Society, Corvallis, Oregon, June 1997. 

"'Frightful Spectacles of a Mangled King':  Aphra Behn's Inversions of Captivity Narrative."  Northwest British Studies, Spokane, Washington, October 1995.

"The Politics of Narrative Space in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard."  Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boise, Idaho, March 1995. 

"Male Homosociality in Aphra Behn's Restoration Comedies."  Aphra Behn Society National Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 1994. 

"'Relentless Walls' to Global Expanse:  Constructions of Narrative Space in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard."  Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, October 1993. 

Professional Writing

"A Rationale  for Teaching Hypermedia in the Technical Communications Service Course."  MLA Convention, Washington D.C., December 2000.  Panel:  Visual Communication in Cyberspace.

"Emphasizing Collaboration, Intertextuality, and Multidisciplinarity in the Professional Writing Service Course." MLA Convention. Panel: Current Issues in Professional Communication, December 1999.

The Profession

"Mixed Messages:  The Benefits and Drawbacks of Academic Collaboration."  Panel on Academic Collaboration. Graduate Student Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies National Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April 1997.

Writing Theory/Pedagogy

Initiated, planned, recruited presenters, and presented as part of faculty development workshop series, "Teaching With Technology." Northern Kentucky University, Literature and Language Department (1999).

"E-mail Etiquette." Northern Kentucky University Faculty/Staff Training Series (1999)

"Locations in Dynamic Space:  Website Analysis and Creation in the Networked Computer Classroom."  Research Network Forum, CCCC, Chicago, Illinois, April 1998.

"Finding a Place to Stand:  Thinking Three-Dimensionally About the Place of the Instructor in the Computerized Writing Classroom."  Computers and Writing Colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 1997.  Respondent:  Cynthia Selfe, Editor Computers and Composition, Chair, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University.

"The Ethics of Teaching With Technology.  University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference (1997)

"Strategies for Teaching Writing 122."  University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference (1996) 

"Feminism as Cultural Text in the College Composition Classroom."  Co-authored with Nina Chordas.  Silver Anniversary Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1995. 

"Effective Peer Response."  University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference (1995) (and as guest panelist in UO teacher training program)

"Textbook Review Panel."  University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference (1995)

"Collaborative Teaching."  University of Oregon Fall Composition Conference (1994)

University

Nominee, Outstanding Advisor Award, Northern Kentucky University, 2003 & 2007.

Nominee, Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, College of Arts of Sciences, 2002

Elected to Full Graduate Faculty status, 2002, 2007 (5-year terms)

Technology Mini-Grant, Northern Kentucky University (2001)--For materials in support of Certificate Program in Professional Writing (with Darlene McElfresh)

Innovation Major Grant, Northern Kentucky University (2000)--For materials in support of Certificate Program in Professional Writing

Innovation Mini-Grant, Northern Kentucky University (2000)--For materials in support of Issues website, a research site created by advanced writing students (with Tamara O'Callaghan)

Sustainable Environment Program Stipend, Northern Kentucky University (2001)--To create a course, The Rhetoric of Landscape in 16th-19th century Travel and Exploration Narrative. Course provides students with insight into how rhetorical representations of people and landscape can influence public policy and efforts to achieve a sustainable environment  (course completed and delivered in May 2002)

Course Releases (2000 & 2002)

Commendation Letters, Office of Vice President for Student Affairs  (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Commendation Letter, Director, Student Support Services (2001, 2004, 2006, 2007)

Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, University of Oregon, Graduate School (1996)

Faculty Summer Fellowship, NKU, to support work on book length manuscript, Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature (under contract to Greenwood Publishing Group) (2002)

Research Award, University of Oregon, Graduate School (1995)

Outstanding M.A. Thesis, College of Liberal Arts, California State University, Long Beach  (1993).  Title:  Landscape and Authority in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.

First Place Award, State-Level, California State University System Student Research Competition, Arts and Humanities Division  (1993).  Project: Landscape History and  Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.

Northern Kentucky University, Literature and Language Department (Spring/Fall 1999; Spring/Fall 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)

University of Oregon, English Department  (1993, 1995, 1997, and 1998)

University of Oregon, Composition Program (1995 and 1998) 

Sherwood Fund Travel Award (1997)

Northern Kentucky University (1998-present)

Programs Created

Minor, Workplace Writing (approved by UCC 2002)

English 642, Online Literary Research (approved by UCC 2007)
English 672, Literature of Encounter (taught Fall 2006 as ENG 655 Studies in British Literature)
English 420, Pre-1800 Exploration and Travel Literature (approved by UCC 2003)
English 348, Professional Editing in the Workplace (approved by UCC 2001) 
English 349, Web Writing for the Workplace (approved by UCC 2001) 
English 359, Writing in Workplace Genres (approved by UCC Spring 2002) 
English 399, The Rhetoric of Landscape in 16th-19th century Travel and Exploration Narrative (planned under Sustainable Futures grant May 2002; will form part of curriculum for emerging Environmental Studies major)

University of Oregon (1993-98)

	Title	Comments
English 103	Intro. to Poetry and Drama
English 108	World Literature 1500-1800
English 208	Shakespeare
English 220	Intro. to the English Major	English Literature to 1500
English 221	Intro. to the English Major	English and American Literature 1500-1800
English 222	Intro. to the English Major	English and American Literature 1800 to present
Writing 121	Intro. to Argumentative Writing	Computerized and traditional classroom settings
Writing 122	Intermediate Argumentative Writing	Computerized and traditional classroom settings
Writing 123	Research Writing	Computerized and traditional classroom settings

California State University, Long Beach (1992-93) 

	Title	Comments
English 100	College Composition
English 001	Developmental Writing	Computerized and traditional classroom settings
Intensive Learning Experience (ILE) 010	Basic/Developmental Writing	Computerized and traditional classroom settings
Special Instruction 050.	Grammar Skills
Special Instruction 051	Essay Writing

Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, California (1982-93) (Now Boeing)
Taught Technical, Proposal, and Business Writing courses, Education and Training Department, Space and Communications Group, El Segundo, California.

Related experience:

Editor, Marketing Textbook and Marketing scholarly papers (2006-2008)

Technical Editor and Writer, Communications Media Department, Hughes Aircraft Company, Space and Communications Group (Boeing), El Segundo, California (1982-93). 

Professional

MLA Liaison, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2000-2005

Manuscript Reviewer, Pedagogy(refereed international journal), Duke University

Manuscript Reviewer, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association (PMLA)

Review Coordinator, Technical Communication, Journal of the Society for Technical Communication

Reviews for Publishers

Headnote reviewer: Longman World Literature Anthology, Early Modern Period, 1st edition.

First and second stage reviewer: Longman British Literature Anthology, 2nd edition & Compact Edition.

Proposal evaluator: Composition textbooks, Technical Writing textbooks, Business Writing Handbooks, Allyn & Bacon..

Co-organizer, "Global Baroque," 1997 Meeting of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference.  Interdisciplinary conference including ~100 panelists. 

Northern Kentucky University

University

University Curriculum Committee (2006-present)

Faculty Advisor, Norse Scientist, Journal of Student Research in the Sciences (2003-present)

Search Committee, Library External Collections, Tenure-Track Faculty position (2002-2003)

Provost's Task Force on Distance Learning (2002)

UCC subcommittee on distance learning (2002)

Mentor, McNair Scholarship Program (2002)

NKU Faculty Lunch Series presentation, "Saints, Devils, and Mangled Kings:  Refractions of Race and Ethnicity in Captivity Narratives" (2000)

E-mail Etiquette, 3 Presentations, NKU Staff and Faculty Development Series (1999)

General Education Reform Committee on Critical Thinking (1999)

Curriculum Committee (ASCC) (1999-present)

Coordinated, publicized, and acted as host for performance by ASCC Lecture Series speaker Dr. Dianne Dugaw, " 'I'll tie back my hair, men's clothing I'll put on': Warrior Women in Folk Song and History." Performed  7 February 2001 at NKU in LA509. 

Literature and Language Department

Committees

Ad hoc Graduate Program Committee (2004-present) (Chair)

Curriculum Committee (2003-present)

Strategic Planning Committee (2004-2005)

Graduate Program Proposal Committee (Chair) (2004-present)

Writing Instruction Program Committee (2002-2003)

Technology Committee (1998-2002) (Chair 1999-2002) 

Academic Search Committees (Tenure Track)

Scientific, Technical, and Business Writing Position (Chair) (2006-2007)
Scientific and Technical Writing Position (Co-chair) (2004-2005)
Scientific and Technical Writing Position (Co-chair) (2003-2004)
17th century/Renaissance Position (2002-2003) 
Postcolonial Position (2001-2002) 
Writing Instruction Program Director (1999-2000)

Ad hoc committee on distance learning (2002-2003)

Curriculum Task Force (2001-2003)

Other Departmental Service

Author, Graduate Program Proposal (2004-present)

Faculty Co-advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (Pi Omega Chapter) (2004-present)

Faculty Advisor, Pentangle (Pi Omega Chapter) (Journal of student writing) (2005-present)

Organizer, Faculty Research Brownbag series (2003-2005)

Department Library Liaison (Spring 2002)

Mentor, Non-tenure Track Literature & Workplace Writing faculty (1999-present)

Advisor, undergraduate English students (both assigned and informal advising of other students)

Reader, writing placement exams (1999-present)

Organizer, Faculty Workshop series on Computers & Pedagogy (1999)

Coordinator--LA526 Computer Classroom (1999-present)

Minor in Professional Writing

Conceived and planned program and courses; Minor approved by  UCC Fall 2002

New courses:
English 348. Professional Editing for the Workplace (approved UCC 2000) 
English 349. Workplace Writing for the Web (approved UCC 2001) 
English 359. Writing in Workplace Genres (approved UCC 2002)

Womens Studies Program

Women's Studies webpage redesign (2004)

Judge and Presenter, Research Essay Contest (2001-2003)

Academic Search Committee  (18th century position) (1997)

Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee (1996-97)

Graduate Committee (1996-97)

Department Executive Council (1995-96)

Co-president, English Graduate Students Organization (1997)

Composition Committee (1994-95)

Supervising Teacher, University of Oregon Composition Teacher Training Program (1996-97)

Writing 122 Curriculum Assessment Committee (1996-97)

Composition Texbook Selection Committee (1994-95) 

"The World Through the Eyes of Eighteenth-Century Explorers ." Book History Lecture Series, Cincinnati Public Library, Main Branch, Spring 2004

Co-Director, Northern Kentucky Writing Project (2000 to 2001)

Web page designer, Cincinnati Boychoir (1999-2001)

List moderator, Community Women's Reading Group "Friday Eves" (1999-2003)

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Association of Business Communications

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing; Liaison with MLA 2001-present

College Composition and Communication (CCC)

The Hakluyt Society

Modern Language Association 

National Council of Teachers of English 

Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publication 

Society for Technical Communication

German (read, write, and speak) 
Latin (read) 
Turkish (basic conversational)