Jessica Clements
Associate Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: 509.777.4975
Fax: 509.777.4682
Office Location: Westminster Hall 242
Email: jclements@whitworth.edu
Education
Ph.D. Purdue University M.A. Ohio State University B.A. Capital University
Year Joined Whitworth Faculty
2013
Areas of Specialization / Expertise
Rhetoric and composition; public rhetorics; rhetoric, technology and digital writing; writing center theory and practice
Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors
Presentations: "It Takes a Village: Collaborative Approaches to Teaching Source Evaluation." Inland InfoLit Retreat presentation. Bozarth Mansion, Spokane, WA: 2 November 2018. (w/ Marianne Bracke). "Decoding the Digital Supervolcano: Digital Humanities, Writing Centers, and Actor-network Theory." Fred Talks, Department of English, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA: 14 September 2017. "The Role of New Media Expertise in Shaping Writing Consultations." Faculty Scholarship Forum presentation, Whitworth University. Spokane, WA: 20 February 2017. "The Case of Mistaken Critical Access: Consultants' Roles in Crafting RAD Research in Grant-writing Contexts." Data dash presentation at International Writing Centers Association Collaborative conference. Houston, TX: 6 April 2016. "SLACS, RAD Research, and WCD Turnover: Using Programmatic Agility to Collaboratively 'Pull RAD Research Out of a Hat.'" Data dash presentation at International Writing Centers Association Collaborative conference. Tampa, FL: 18 Mar. 2015. "Re-visioning the Writing Center: Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital What Now?" Paper presented at Computers & Writing Conference. Washington State University, Pullman: 8 June 2014. "Tale of Two Gamers: What Video Games Can Teach Us about Collaboration and Writing." Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA: April 2011. Publications: Of Mothers and Mouse-clicks: Assembling the Networked Ethos of Contemporary Maternity Advice. MIT, forthcoming 2020. (w/ Kari Nixon). "The Quest for Intersectional Awareness: Educating Tutors through Gaming Ethnography." Unlimited Players: The Intersections of Writing Centers and Games Scholarship, edited by Stephanie Vie and Holly Ryan, Utah State UP, forthcoming 2019. "Walking the Narrow Ridge: When Performing Neutrality Isn't an Option in the Vocation of the Christian Professor." On Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, Performativity, edited by Daniel Richards, Utah State UP, forthcoming 2019. "The Role of New Media Expertise in Shaping Writing Consultations." How We Teach Writing Tutors: A WLN Digital Edited Collection, edited by Karen G. Johnson and Theodore Roggenbuck. November 2018. wlnjournal.org/ digitaleditedcollection1/Clements. "Chicago Style for Publication." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Ed. Mike Allen. 2017. "Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition." The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 12 July 2011. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/chicago_manual_of_style_17th_edition.html Honors: Faculty Research and Development Research Fellowship, Summer 2016 (Whitworth) Academic Mentoring Award Recipient, May 2016 (Whitworth) IWCA Collaborative Registration Scholarship (for RAD research proposal), April 2016
"The Peer Mentor Program and Consulting Philosophy Project: Empowering Undergraduate Tutors as Resilient Keepers of Programmatic Knowledge." Ideas Exchange Forum presentation at 2016 International Writing Centers Association Conference. Denver, CO: 15 October 2016.