Rochester Institute of Technology :: Academic Affairs :: Dr. Katherine Mayberry

Education

1977	Ph.D. in English and American Literature University of Rochester Fields of specialization: 18th and 19th century English Literature 19th century American Literature
1972	B.A. Smith College Majors: English

Administrative Experience
Areas of Strength

Student Retention
Strategic Planning and Implementation
Diversity Planning
Curriculum Development
Curriculum Management
Learning Outcomes Assessment
Institutional Self-Study
Teaching and Learning
Faculty Development
Accreditation
Academic Advising
Distance Learning
Educational Technology

Administrative Appointments

2005-	Vice President for Academic Affairs Rochester Institute of Technology Responsibilities: Academic success of students, learning communities (including faculty evaluation, program development, faculty development); implementation of enhanced curricular flexibility (double majors, dual degrees, undergraduate research opportunities); faculty and staff advising; administration and/or analysis of national student surveys (NSSE, Noel Levitz, CIRP); academic oversight for Freshman Seminar. Member of President’s Administrative Council and the Deans Council.
2004-2005	Acting Vice President for Student Retention Rochester Institute of Technology Responsibilities: This one-year position evolved into the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs. During this year, my primary responsibility was improving student success/retention.
1997-2004	Associate Provost for Academic Programs Rochester Institute of Technology Responsibilities: Academic program development; management of undergraduate and graduate portfolios; oversight of strategic plan implementation; annual academic program review; Middle States accreditation; advising.
1988-1996	Chair, Technical and Liberal Studies Program Rochester Institute of Technology Responsibilities: Overall operation of RIT’s university-wide program for undeclared students, including program development; advising; training and evaluation of 20+ faculty advisors; teaching of freshman seminar.
1987-1989	Chair, Literature Committee College of Liberal Arts, RIT Responsibilities: Course scheduling; curriculum development; directing core literature course of 20 faculty, 1800students annually; directing visiting novelists program (brought to campus novelists Robertson Davies and Jayne Anne Phillips).
1982-1987	Chair, CHOICE Program for Adult Women Students Rochester Institute of Technology Responsibilities: Program development, recruitment, student advising for RIT’s program for adult women students.
1977-1978	Coordinator, Writing Skills Program University of Rochester Responsibilities: Program development, writing tutorials.

Academic Experience
Faculty Employment

1995-	Professor of Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology
1988-1995	Associate Professor, Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology
1979-1988	Assistant Professor, Language and Literature Rochester Institute of Technology
1977-1979	Visiting Assistant Professor, English University of Rochester

Areas of Specialization

Feminist Studies
Toni Morrison
Alice Munroe
Written Argument
The North American Short Story
Identity Politics

Publications

2005	Everyday Arguments: A Rhetoric and Reader in Written Argument, 2nd ed. Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2005 (2001).
2000	For Argument’s Sake, 5th ed. Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2005 (2001, 1998, 1994, 1990).
1998	“The Problem of Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Contemporary Criticism. Ed. David L. Middleton. Garland, 2000 and 1997.
1998	“Pre-Raphaelite Anthology” (Review). English Literature in Transition.14:4.
1997	“Bill Gunn.” Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press.
1996	Teaching What You’re Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education, editor. New York University Press.
1995	“Narrative Strategies of Liberation in Alice Munro.” Studies in Canadian Literature. Winter 1994-95.
1994	“White Feminists Who Study Black Writers.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (“Point of View”). October.
1992	"'Every Last Thing…Everlasting': Alice Munro and the Limits of Narrative." Studies in Short Fiction, 29, Number 4, Fall.
1990	“Waging Writers and Writers’ Wages.” Kearse Distinguished Lectures. Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology.
1989	Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery . Louisiana State University Press.

Papers and Presentations
(selected)

1996	“Household Imaginings in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Skidmore College.
1995	“Re-contextualizing the Liberal Arts.” Faculty Colloquium, Rochester Institute of Technology.
1995	Disarming the Narrative Machine in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison Conference. Bellarmine College.
1994	“An Undeciphered Solemn Signal: The Voice of Christina Rossetti.” Yale University Centenary Conference on Christina Rossetti.
1994	“The Tyranny of Form: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.” Conference on the Brontë’s. Baylor University.
1994	“The Problem of Narrative in Toni Morrison.” American Literature Association Conference. California State University, San Diego.
1994	“De-posing in Christina Rossetti’s Poetry.” Conference on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Baylor University.
1993	“The Fiction of Toni Morrison: Disarming the Narrative Machine.” University of New Mexico Women’s Studies Conference.
1992	“Voice and Subjecthood in Women’s Texts.” Conference on Women and Society. Marist College.
1992	“Strategies of Narrative Liberation in Alice Munro.” International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference. University of California, Berkeley.
1991	“Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Canon.” University of Rochester.
1991	“Finding a Voice through Liberal Education.” Center for Talented Youth at the Johns Hopkins University. RIT.
1990	“Waging Writers and Writers’ Wages.” Kearse Distinguished Lecture, Rochester Institute of Technology.
1988	“Women, Writing, and Power.” Conference on Power, University of Rochester.
1978	“Christina Rossetti.” University of Rochester Summer Symposium.
1978	“Writing Across the Curriculum.” Wesleyan University.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2003	Site Reviewer, NYSED Distance Learning Team
2002	Site Reviewer, Carleton College Women’s Studies Program
2001-	Chair, New York State Education Department Task Force on Distance Education
1999-2003	Editorial Board, Women’s Studies Quarterly
1996-1999	Editorial Board, Journal of the National Women’s Studies Association
1992-	Regular referee, Publications of the Modern Language Association
1992	Referee, Prose Studies
1989	Chair and Outside Examiner, Honors Orals Board, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York (Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Feminist Literary Criticism)
1978-1988	Writing Consultant to:
		Eastman Kodak University of Rochester Wesleyan University Bally Case and Cooler
1975	Editorial Assistant, The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. XI. Belknap Press