Dr. Christopher Justice
(443) 204-0151 (c)
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D., Language, Literacy, & Culture Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 2018
M.A., Modern Studies, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001
B.A., English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1993
A.A., Liberal Arts, Middlesex County Community College, Edison, New Jersey, 1991
Certificates
Certificate in Online Journalism, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007
Teacher Licensure, Secondary English Education, University of New Mexico, 1996
Professorships
Lecturer, School of Communications Design, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore (UB), 2012-2018
Teach 4/4 course load for University Writing, Integrated Arts, Digital Communications, and English undergraduate programs and for M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts and Integrated Design and M.A. in Publications Design
Director of Expository Writing, School of Communications Design, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, UB, 2007-2012
Responsibilities included redesigning writing program and establishing University Writing Program; managing staff of approximately 15 TT, NTT, and adjunct faculty members; recruiting and hiring writing instructors; developing curriculum; program assessment; staff development and evaluation; textbook coordination; grade dispute mediation; and course scheduling.
Assistant Professor, English and Mass Communication, School of Liberal Arts, Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), 2002-2007
Performed all tasks for full-time professor; taught 5/5 course load in first-year composition, developmental writing, business writing, film history, and journalism courses; promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor in 2005.
Coordinator, Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence, CCBC-Catonsville, Division of Learning and Student Development, 2003-2006
Responsible for coordinating professional development workshops and campus wide Professional Development Day; administering internal grants program; maintaining center facilities and Website; and leading various committees; received Celebrating Excellence Award, 2004, from Dean of Learning and Student Development for work as Coordinator.
M.F.A. in Integrated Arts Thesis Projects
Kate Bisset Valdez, Homework(ing): Domestic Space and Creativity, 2018, thesis committee member
Andrew Knox, In Between Words: Communications in Response to Metaphysical Questions, 2018, thesis committee member
Readings
Exhibition and reading of poem “Squares and Circles.” The Light Ekphrastic Show, UMBC’s David Mikow Art Gallery, February 2016
Exhibition and reading of poem “The witch eating snakes.” The Light Ekphrastic Show, UMBC’s David Mikow Art Gallery, February 22, 2013
"Banned Book Week: Selections from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer." Sponsored by UB’s Langsdale Library and Bookstore. 28 September 2010.
"Fish Tales: Spinning Folklore Through Fisheries." Emerging Voices Project. UB. 29 July 2010. Read my published and unpublished literary non-fiction.
Editing Work
Mallinson, Christine and Anne Charity Hudley. We Do Language: Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom. Teachers College Press.
Peer Reviewer, Writing Commons, appointed spring 2012. http://writingcommons.org/
Presentations and Panels
“The Rhetoric of Projection in/of Composition.” Session Chair / Speaker. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa Bay, Florida. March 19, 2015. Co-presenter: Dr. Craig Saper.
“Many Roads, One Destination.” Panel Presentation, UB’s Professional Service Day, November 2014, Discussed outcomes for course redesign of ARTS 304 – Arts and Ideas
“I Once Liked That Show, But Now…Fishery Conservation and the Discourse of Fish Police,” Panel Presentation, UMBC – Rethinking Intellectual Activism Conference, April 2014
“A Spectrum of First-Year Composition Pedagogies,” Invited as Guest Speaker to Dr. Jon Shorr’s Teaching Writing graduate course, fall 2013
Writing Matters, a series of presentations for UB faculty and staff on contemporary topics in writing studies, topics: “The Top 10 Myths of College Writing,” “Puttin’ Creativity into Expository Writing,” “Ecocomposition: The Place of Systems in Writing,” and “Petting the King: The Pitfalls of Academic Discourse,” spring 2012
“Navigating Successfully Across Disciplinary Borders: WID, New Literacy Studies, and the Composition Classroom.” CCBC WID/WAC 5th Annual Writing Exchange Conference: Writing in a Globalized World, 20 January 2012
“Petting the King: A Critical Meditation on the Pitfalls of Academic Discourse.” CCBC – Composition Conversations, Conference Theme: Contentious Issues in Composition, October 21, 2011
“Writing for Academic Audiences.” Presentations to Language, Literacy, and Culture students in LLC 600-II, spring 2011. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Professional Concerns: Business and Technical Writing,” Panelist, CCBC WID/WAC 4th Annual Writing Exchange Conference: Writing Technologies and the Millennial Generation, 21 January 2011
“Expository Writing Study Group: Identifying Values, Proposing the Future,” Presentation, Provost’s General Education Jam Session, UB, May 2010
“So You Want to Be a Writing Instructor?” Presentation, UB’s M.F.A. Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program, March 2010
“Writing with Voices of Experience,” Panel Discussion, UB’s National Day of Writing event, November, 2009
"WRIT 300: Assessment Results,” Presentation, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative, UMBC, May, 2009
"WRIT 300: Assessment Results,” Presentation, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative, UMBC, May, 2008
“Writing with Style,” Presentation, UB’s Academic Resource Center, Writer’s Week, fall 2008, fall 2009
"The Benefits of Thematic Instruction," CCBC Professional Development Day, May 2006
"CCBC Journalism Program: A Blueprint for the Future," Division of Liberal Arts Dean's Council, CCBC, June 2006
"Lincoln on Leadership: Unconventional Leadership Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond," Student Leadership Conference, CCBC, February 2005
"ENGL 101 - What do we do and how are we doing it? - A Review of Freshmen Composition for the Non-writing Faculty Member," Council for Innovation in Student Learning Fair, CCBC, January 2005
"Politics in the Classroom," Council for Innovation in Student Learning Fair, CCBC, January 2005
"A New Model for CCBC Centers for Learning and Teaching Excellence," Senior Leadership Team, CCBC, June 2004
"A Primer on Learning Communities," CCBC Professional Development Day, May 2003
Service
UB
Member, Faculty Search Committee (Writing Program Director), spring 2017
IDIS 304, Arts & Ideas, Course Redesign Team, Spring 2013-2014
Member, Honors Council, 2010-2012 (appointed by CAS Dean)
Ex-Officio Member, General Education Council, 2010-2012
Member, Dean’s Summer Writing Work Group, 2011
Member, Summer Writing Ad-hoc Study Group, 2010
Member, Summer Task Force on General Education, 2010
Member, CLA Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2008-2011
Chair, Ad-hoc Writing Placement Testing Task Force, spring/summer 2010
Chair, University Faculty Senate Expository Writing Study Group, spring 2010
Member, Faculty Search Committee (writing tenure track positions), spring 2010
Chair, Expository Writing Advisory Council, 2009-2010
Member, E-Learning Task Force, 2009-2010
Member, Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Committee, 2008-2009
Member, Ad Hoc General Education Committee, spring 2009
Chair, Faculty Search Committee (expository writing lecturer), fall 2008
Member, President’s Leadership Program, spring 2008
CCBC
Member, English Department Chairperson Search Committee, 2006
Chair, School of Liberal Arts Nomination and Election Committee, 2004-2006
Chair, 2004-2005 Council for Innovation in Student Learning Planning Committee
Chair, 2004-2005 CISL Grants Committee
Chair, 2004 Catonsville Talent Show Planning Committee
Chair, 2003-2004 Catonsville CISL
Member, Professional Development Team, 2003-2004
Member, New Faculty Learning Community, 2002-2003
Professional Experience
Education
Advisor, Red & Black student newspaper, CCBC-Catonsville, 2005-2007
Adjunct Faculty, English Department, CCBC-Essex, MD, 2001-2002
Adjunct Faculty, Adult & Continuing Education, CCBC-Essex, MD, 2001
Math Instructor, Sylvan Learning Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
Language Arts Teacher, Truman and Jackson Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996-1997
Part-Time Instructor, Cibola High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996
Writing and Editorial
Freelance writer and editor, 2003-Present
Information Specialist, Community of Science, Inc. (COS), Baltimore, MD, 2000-2001
Software Testing Specialist, COS, 2000-2001
Technical Editor and Writer, COS, 1998-2000
Staff Writer, The News Transcript, Greater Media Newspapers, Marlboro, NJ, 1994
PR Intern, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, 1993
Consulting
Stratford University, writing program development, 2013-2014
Prometric, technical writing subject expertise, 2013
M&T Bank, financial writing consultation, 2011
Knots Free Publishing, book design and editing, 2006
Awards
Honorary Faculty Service Award, 2005-2006, awarded by CCBC-Catonsville’s Office of Student Life for work as Faculty Advisor of Red & Black
Celebrating Excellence Award, 2004, Awarded by Dean of Learning and Student Development, CCBC-Catonsville for work as Coordinator of Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence
Grant Management
Course Redesign Grant, University of Baltimore, 2013, Develop curriculum for IDIS 304-Arts and Ideas, ($2,500)
Project Manager, University of Baltimore, 2007-2009, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative ($40,000)
Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, Summer 2008, Online Course Development Grant, ($3,500)
Chairperson, 2004-2005, CCBC Council for Innovation in Student Learning Grants Committee ($25,000)
Chairperson, 2003-2004, CCBC Catonsville Council for Innovation in Student Learning Grants Committee ($15,000)
Memberships
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Coastal Conservation Association (CCA)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Trout Unlimited (TU)
Don DeLillo Society
(443) 204-0151 (c)
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D., Language, Literacy, & Culture Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), 2018
- Dissertation Title: Ichthyoliteracy: How Fish and Fisheries Influence Human Literacy
- Specializations: Writing studies and environmental humanities
- Committee: Drs. Craig Saper, Jennifer Maher, Jody Shipka, Stacy Alaimo, and Tamra Mendelson
M.A., Modern Studies, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, 2001
B.A., English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1993
A.A., Liberal Arts, Middlesex County Community College, Edison, New Jersey, 1991
Certificates
Certificate in Online Journalism, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007
Teacher Licensure, Secondary English Education, University of New Mexico, 1996
Professorships
Lecturer, School of Communications Design, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore (UB), 2012-2018
Teach 4/4 course load for University Writing, Integrated Arts, Digital Communications, and English undergraduate programs and for M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts and Integrated Design and M.A. in Publications Design
Director of Expository Writing, School of Communications Design, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, UB, 2007-2012
Responsibilities included redesigning writing program and establishing University Writing Program; managing staff of approximately 15 TT, NTT, and adjunct faculty members; recruiting and hiring writing instructors; developing curriculum; program assessment; staff development and evaluation; textbook coordination; grade dispute mediation; and course scheduling.
Assistant Professor, English and Mass Communication, School of Liberal Arts, Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), 2002-2007
Performed all tasks for full-time professor; taught 5/5 course load in first-year composition, developmental writing, business writing, film history, and journalism courses; promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor in 2005.
Coordinator, Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence, CCBC-Catonsville, Division of Learning and Student Development, 2003-2006
Responsible for coordinating professional development workshops and campus wide Professional Development Day; administering internal grants program; maintaining center facilities and Website; and leading various committees; received Celebrating Excellence Award, 2004, from Dean of Learning and Student Development for work as Coordinator.
M.F.A. in Integrated Arts Thesis Projects
Kate Bisset Valdez, Homework(ing): Domestic Space and Creativity, 2018, thesis committee member
Andrew Knox, In Between Words: Communications in Response to Metaphysical Questions, 2018, thesis committee member
Readings
Exhibition and reading of poem “Squares and Circles.” The Light Ekphrastic Show, UMBC’s David Mikow Art Gallery, February 2016
Exhibition and reading of poem “The witch eating snakes.” The Light Ekphrastic Show, UMBC’s David Mikow Art Gallery, February 22, 2013
"Banned Book Week: Selections from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer." Sponsored by UB’s Langsdale Library and Bookstore. 28 September 2010.
"Fish Tales: Spinning Folklore Through Fisheries." Emerging Voices Project. UB. 29 July 2010. Read my published and unpublished literary non-fiction.
Editing Work
Mallinson, Christine and Anne Charity Hudley. We Do Language: Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom. Teachers College Press.
Peer Reviewer, Writing Commons, appointed spring 2012. http://writingcommons.org/
Presentations and Panels
“The Rhetoric of Projection in/of Composition.” Session Chair / Speaker. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa Bay, Florida. March 19, 2015. Co-presenter: Dr. Craig Saper.
“Many Roads, One Destination.” Panel Presentation, UB’s Professional Service Day, November 2014, Discussed outcomes for course redesign of ARTS 304 – Arts and Ideas
“I Once Liked That Show, But Now…Fishery Conservation and the Discourse of Fish Police,” Panel Presentation, UMBC – Rethinking Intellectual Activism Conference, April 2014
“A Spectrum of First-Year Composition Pedagogies,” Invited as Guest Speaker to Dr. Jon Shorr’s Teaching Writing graduate course, fall 2013
Writing Matters, a series of presentations for UB faculty and staff on contemporary topics in writing studies, topics: “The Top 10 Myths of College Writing,” “Puttin’ Creativity into Expository Writing,” “Ecocomposition: The Place of Systems in Writing,” and “Petting the King: The Pitfalls of Academic Discourse,” spring 2012
“Navigating Successfully Across Disciplinary Borders: WID, New Literacy Studies, and the Composition Classroom.” CCBC WID/WAC 5th Annual Writing Exchange Conference: Writing in a Globalized World, 20 January 2012
“Petting the King: A Critical Meditation on the Pitfalls of Academic Discourse.” CCBC – Composition Conversations, Conference Theme: Contentious Issues in Composition, October 21, 2011
“Writing for Academic Audiences.” Presentations to Language, Literacy, and Culture students in LLC 600-II, spring 2011. University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Professional Concerns: Business and Technical Writing,” Panelist, CCBC WID/WAC 4th Annual Writing Exchange Conference: Writing Technologies and the Millennial Generation, 21 January 2011
“Expository Writing Study Group: Identifying Values, Proposing the Future,” Presentation, Provost’s General Education Jam Session, UB, May 2010
“So You Want to Be a Writing Instructor?” Presentation, UB’s M.F.A. Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program, March 2010
“Writing with Voices of Experience,” Panel Discussion, UB’s National Day of Writing event, November, 2009
"WRIT 300: Assessment Results,” Presentation, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative, UMBC, May, 2009
"WRIT 300: Assessment Results,” Presentation, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative, UMBC, May, 2008
“Writing with Style,” Presentation, UB’s Academic Resource Center, Writer’s Week, fall 2008, fall 2009
"The Benefits of Thematic Instruction," CCBC Professional Development Day, May 2006
"CCBC Journalism Program: A Blueprint for the Future," Division of Liberal Arts Dean's Council, CCBC, June 2006
"Lincoln on Leadership: Unconventional Leadership Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond," Student Leadership Conference, CCBC, February 2005
"ENGL 101 - What do we do and how are we doing it? - A Review of Freshmen Composition for the Non-writing Faculty Member," Council for Innovation in Student Learning Fair, CCBC, January 2005
"Politics in the Classroom," Council for Innovation in Student Learning Fair, CCBC, January 2005
"A New Model for CCBC Centers for Learning and Teaching Excellence," Senior Leadership Team, CCBC, June 2004
"A Primer on Learning Communities," CCBC Professional Development Day, May 2003
Service
UB
Member, Faculty Search Committee (Writing Program Director), spring 2017
IDIS 304, Arts & Ideas, Course Redesign Team, Spring 2013-2014
Member, Honors Council, 2010-2012 (appointed by CAS Dean)
Ex-Officio Member, General Education Council, 2010-2012
Member, Dean’s Summer Writing Work Group, 2011
Member, Summer Writing Ad-hoc Study Group, 2010
Member, Summer Task Force on General Education, 2010
Member, CLA Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2008-2011
Chair, Ad-hoc Writing Placement Testing Task Force, spring/summer 2010
Chair, University Faculty Senate Expository Writing Study Group, spring 2010
Member, Faculty Search Committee (writing tenure track positions), spring 2010
Chair, Expository Writing Advisory Council, 2009-2010
Member, E-Learning Task Force, 2009-2010
Member, Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Committee, 2008-2009
Member, Ad Hoc General Education Committee, spring 2009
Chair, Faculty Search Committee (expository writing lecturer), fall 2008
Member, President’s Leadership Program, spring 2008
CCBC
Member, English Department Chairperson Search Committee, 2006
Chair, School of Liberal Arts Nomination and Election Committee, 2004-2006
Chair, 2004-2005 Council for Innovation in Student Learning Planning Committee
Chair, 2004-2005 CISL Grants Committee
Chair, 2004 Catonsville Talent Show Planning Committee
Chair, 2003-2004 Catonsville CISL
Member, Professional Development Team, 2003-2004
Member, New Faculty Learning Community, 2002-2003
Professional Experience
Education
Advisor, Red & Black student newspaper, CCBC-Catonsville, 2005-2007
Adjunct Faculty, English Department, CCBC-Essex, MD, 2001-2002
Adjunct Faculty, Adult & Continuing Education, CCBC-Essex, MD, 2001
Math Instructor, Sylvan Learning Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
Language Arts Teacher, Truman and Jackson Middle Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996-1997
Part-Time Instructor, Cibola High School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1996
Writing and Editorial
Freelance writer and editor, 2003-Present
Information Specialist, Community of Science, Inc. (COS), Baltimore, MD, 2000-2001
Software Testing Specialist, COS, 2000-2001
Technical Editor and Writer, COS, 1998-2000
Staff Writer, The News Transcript, Greater Media Newspapers, Marlboro, NJ, 1994
PR Intern, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, 1993
Consulting
Stratford University, writing program development, 2013-2014
Prometric, technical writing subject expertise, 2013
M&T Bank, financial writing consultation, 2011
Knots Free Publishing, book design and editing, 2006
Awards
Honorary Faculty Service Award, 2005-2006, awarded by CCBC-Catonsville’s Office of Student Life for work as Faculty Advisor of Red & Black
Celebrating Excellence Award, 2004, Awarded by Dean of Learning and Student Development, CCBC-Catonsville for work as Coordinator of Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence
Grant Management
Course Redesign Grant, University of Baltimore, 2013, Develop curriculum for IDIS 304-Arts and Ideas, ($2,500)
Project Manager, University of Baltimore, 2007-2009, University System of Maryland Course Redesign Initiative ($40,000)
Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, Summer 2008, Online Course Development Grant, ($3,500)
Chairperson, 2004-2005, CCBC Council for Innovation in Student Learning Grants Committee ($25,000)
Chairperson, 2003-2004, CCBC Catonsville Council for Innovation in Student Learning Grants Committee ($15,000)
Memberships
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Coastal Conservation Association (CCA)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Trout Unlimited (TU)
Don DeLillo Society