Cynthia Davidson<-click for photo

Job Title: Electronic Writing Coordinator

Phone: (631) 632-7565

E-mail: cdavidson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Office Location: H-2031

Office Hours

Education: M.A. in Literature, Northeastern Illinois University, 1989; Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997; Advanced Certificate in Composition Theory, Stony Brook University, 2007.

Courses Taught, Stony Brook University:

• Writing in the Disciplines (WRT 201)
  • The Voice in the Machine:  Technology and Human Identity
• Intermediate Writing Workshop—B (WRT 103)
  • Science as Social Rhetoric
  • Developing Personal Poetics
• Intermediate Writing Workshop—A (Reg./ Honors) (WRT 102)
  • Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Human Difference
  • Technology and the Metamorphoses of Identity
  • Food and Society
  • Science as Social Discourse
  • Bioethics:  Public and Personal Perspectives on Human Values in the Life Sciences
• Introductory Writing Workshop (WRT 101)
• Internship and Independent Study
• Literary Argumentation and Analysis (EGL 204)

Professional Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry; Science Fiction; Digital Media; Writing and Technology.

Presentations

• "Using Wikis and Blogs in the Writing Classroom." Interview. Innovations in Education (TV program). Host: Graham Glynn. April 6, 2009. http://tiny.cc/1Tea4
  
  
• “The First Steps to Getting a Second Life: Create and Manipulate an Avatar in Second Life” (with Jennifer Adams). Innovations in Education. Stony Brook University Teaching Learning and Technology Colloquium (May 27-28, 2009)

• “Engaging Students by Teaching Within an Online Immersive Environment: An Overview of Second Life in the Classroom” (with Jennifer Adams). Innovations in Education. Stony Brook University Teaching Learning and Technology Colloquium (May 27-28, 2009). http://echoserver.sinc.stonybrook.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/cc389e28-c5d4-4a7b-b2f0-b4e82ef74e37

• “The Classroom is A HAPPENING PLACE at Stony Brook University: An Across-the-Disciplines Showcase of Active Learning in the Classrooms.” Presenter on panel. SUNY Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT). Engaging Minds: Innovative Teaching and Learning. SUNY Oswego (May 21, 2009).

• "Constructing a Digital Presence in a Shifting Terrain.” Writing Program Identities. SUNY Council on Writing, Buffalo State College (April 17, 2009).
  
  
• “Writ-uals of  Faith and Skepticism:  Citation as Magical Practice.” Who Owns Writing?  Revisited.  New York, Hofstra University (October 17, 2008).

• “Professional Development, Faculty Governance, and the Non-Tenure Track Instructor.”  SUNY Council on Writing, Stony Brook University (April 26, 2008).
  
  
• “Students, Writing Classes, 'Scaffolding,' and Agency.” SUNY Council on Writing, Stony Brook University (April 26, 2008).
  
  
• “From Grimoire to Glamor to Grammar Instruction: A Feminist Analysis of Grammar-Based Knowledges in Composition Studies.”  College Communication and Composition Conference (CCCC) 2008.  New Orleans ( April 4, 2008).
  
  
•  “’True Lies’:  Academic Writing, Plagiarism, and the Formation of ‘Literate’ Identities.” College Communication and Composition Conference (CCCC) 2007.  New York (March 23, 2007).
  
  
• “From Freewriting to Sharewriting:  Using Networks to Teach Audience Awareness.” SBU Program in Writing and Rhetoric Spring Colloquium (11 April 2007).  Invited speaker.
  
  
• SUNY Council on Writing, SUNY Oswego, “Talk About Plagiarism as Metalinguistic Activity:  The Naturalization of Academic Literacy Practices and Identities” (April 2006).
  
  
• Conference on Instructional Technology (CIT 2004, Stony Brook University): “Interactive Technologies in Writing Classes:  A 4-Year Retrospective on the 7 Principles” (June 3, 2004).
  
  
• SUNY Council on Writing, Suffolk Community College,   “Conceptual Blending in the Composition of Text Analysis Using Talk-Back Poems”  (March,  2003).
  
  
• "Riviera's Golem, Haraway's Cyborg: Reading Neuromancer as Baudrillard's  Simulation of Crisis," a paper presented at the Science Fiction Research Association Conference at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks (June 1995). 
  
  
• "Exploring Classroom Diversity Through Narrative," Allerton English Articulation Conference in Allerton, Illinois sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 1995).

Publications and Awards

• Contributor to CONTEMPORARY WOMEN POETS (St. James Press, 1997) and DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY (2001).
  
  
• "Riviera's Golem, Haraway's Cyborg: Reading NEUROMANCER as Baudrillard's Simulation of Crisis" SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES 22.2: 69(1996): 188-198 . Reprinted in Gale reference volume Contemporary Literary Criticism v. 186 (2005).
  
  
• Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers (1999-).
  Extended Scene Writing.
  Extended Scene Analysis.
  Using Art to Create Summary/Response
  
  
• Poems and book reviews in various literary journals. Here are a few on the web:
  • poems in Muse Apprentice Guild
  • "Seeking the (Black Hole) Sun: Harold Jaffe's SEX FOR THE MILLENIUM" in ELECTRONIC BOOK REVIEW
  • "Scott Zwiren's Mobius Strip (review of GODHEAD)" in RIO
  • Short essay: "Some thoughts on style" in HOW2 Forum (Rutgers University)
    
    
• a blavatar in the blogosphere (blog)
  
  
• Recipient, Stony Brook University Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching, Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers (1999).
  
  
• Secretary, SUNY Council on Writing, 2009-. http://www.stonybrook.edu/writrhet/sunycow/index.html