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Hall, Jonathan

Overview

Curriculum Vitae

  1. Education


    Degree Institution Field Dates
    PhD  Cornell University  English  1988 
    MFA  Cornell University  Fiction Writing  1983 
    BA  SUNY-Binghamton  Literature and Creative Writing  1980 

  2. Full-Time Academic Experience


    Institution Rank Field Dates
    York College  Professor  English  8/2019-present 
    York College  Associate Professor  English  8/2015- 8/2019 
    York College  Assistant Professor  English  9/2008-8/2015 
    Rutgers University, Newark  Interim Director  Writing Program  7/2005-6/2007 
    Rutgers University, Newark  Coordinator  Writing Across the Curriculum  9/2003-6/2005 
    Rutgers University, Newark  Assistant Instructor  Writing Program/English  1999-2008 
    St. Mary's College of Maryland  Visiting Assistant Professor  English  1991-1992 
    Tufts University  Visiting Assistant Professor  English  1991 
    Lake Forest College  Visiting Assistant Professor  English  1990 
    Cornell University  Lecturer  English  1987-1988 

  3. Part-Time Academic Experience


    Institution Rank Field Dates
    Rutgers University, Newark  Part time Lecturer  English  1992-1999 
    St. John's University, Staten Island campus  Adjunct Associate Professor  English  1993-1999 
    Wagner College  Adjunct Assistant Professor  English  1992-1998 
    Virginia Tech  Instructor  English  1988-1990 
    Cornell University  Teaching Assistant  English  1982-1987 

  4. Non Academic Experience


  5. Employment Record At This Institution

    Rank Dates
    Professor of English  8/2019-present 
    Associate Professor of English  8/2015-8/2019 
    Assistant Professor of English  9/2008-8/2015 

  6. Publications In Field Of Expertise

    1. Books:

      Jonathan Hall and Bruce Horner, editors. Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID Across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline. Colorado: Unversity Press of Colorado/WAC Clearinghouse, 2023. 281.

      Heather Robinson, Jonathan Hall, and Nela Navarro. Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom. New York: Routledge, 2020. 244.

      Bruce Horner and Jonathan Hall (eds.). Special Issue: Rewriting Disciplines, Rewriting Boundaries: Transdisciplinary and Translingual Challenges for WAC/WID. Across the Disciplines:: WAC Clearinghouse, 2018. .

    2. Papers in Professional Journals:
      1. Articles:

        Hall, Jonathan and Sonia Valdiviezo. "The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World: Educating for Language Competence." Journal of Social Work Education. August 30, 2019: .

        Hall, Jonathan. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Rewriting Disciplines, Rewriting Boundaries: Transdisciplinary, Translingual, and Transnational Challenges to WAC/WID." Across the Disciplines. 15 (3) 2018: 1-10.

        Hall, Jonathan. "The Translingual Challenge: Boundary Work in Rhetoric & Composition, Second Language Writing, and WAC/WID." Across the Disciplines. 15 (3) 2018: 28-47.

        Cripps, Michael, Jonathan Hall, and Heather Robinson. "“A Way to Talk about the Institution as Opposed to Just my Field”: WAC Fellowships and Graduate Student Professional Development." Across the Disciplines: Special Issue on the Role of Teaching Assistants in Writing Across the Curriculum. 13 (3) 2016: .

        Hall, Jonathan. "Language Background and the College Writing Course." Journal of Writing Assessment. 7 2014: n.p..

        Robinson, Heather and Jonathan Hall. "Connecting WID and the Writing Center: Tools for Collaboration." The WAC Journal. 24 2013: 29-48.

        Hall, Jonathan and Nela Navarro. "Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Learning Research: Multicompetence and Second Register Acquisition." Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. 8.4 2011: n.p..

        Hall, Jonathan. "WAC/WID in the Next America: Re-thinking Professional Identity in the Age of the Multilingual Majority." The WAC Journal. 20 2009: 33-47.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Toward a Unified Writing Curriculum: Integrating WAC/WID with Freshman Composition..." The WAC Journal. 17 2006: 5-22.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Plagiarism Across the Curriculum: How Academic Communities Can Meet the Challenge of the Undocumented Writer..." Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. 2 2005: n.p..

        Hall, Jonathan. "The Non-correspondent Breeze: Melville's Re-writing of Wordsworth in Pierre." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 39 1993: 1-19.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Every Man of Them Almost Was a Volume of Voyages': Writing the Self in Melville's Redburn." American Transcendental Quarterly. 5 1991: 259-271.

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        Hall, Jonathan. "Fin de Siécle" and "A Denial (Poetry)." Beyond the Rift: Poets of the Palisades Edited by Paul Nash. Providence RI:Poet's Press.. 2010: 66-70, 74.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Teenage Girl on a Summer Sidewalk (Poetry)." White Pelican Review. 5.1 2004: 38-39.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Hard Summer (poetry)." Poetry Motel. 2004: .

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        Hall, Jonathan. "Laugh (fiction)." Northwest Florida Review. 2.1 2003: 9-17.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Mr. Machine (fiction)." Another Chicago Magazine. 28 1994: 60-66.

        Hall, Jonathan. "Open Season (fiction)." Oasis. 1994: .

        Hall, Jonathan. "Fast Food (fiction)." Sou'wester. 19.2 1991: 32-48.

        Hall, Jonathan. "In a Green Eye (fiction)." Karamu. XII.2 1991: 41-53.

        Hall, Jonathan. "The Masks of Love (fiction)." Kingfisher. II.1 1988: 15-33.

        Hall, Jonathan. "The Penitent Magdalene (fiction)." Hawaii Review. 20 1986: 94-105.

      2. Proceedings:
        1. Refereed Proceedings
        2. Non-Refereed Proceedings
    3. Chapters in Books:

      Jonathan Hall. "WAC/WID in the Age of Trans-: Crossing and Re-crossing Borders of Discipline, Language and Identities." Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID Across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline. 2023: .

      Jonathan Hall and Nela Navarro. "Transnational Translingual Literacies: Re-thinking Graduate Student Identity and Support." Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID Across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline. 2023: .

      Hall, Jonathan and Maria Jerskey. "Tear Down the Wall: Institutional Structures vs. Translingual Realities." Reconciling Translingualism and Second Language Writing. Routlege 2020: 172-186.

      Hall, Jonathan. "Multilinguality is the Mainstream." ReWorking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global Interrogations, Local Interventions. Ed. Bruce Horner and Karen L. Kopelson. Southern Illinois University Press 2014: 25.

      Hall, Jonathan. "Multilinguality Across the Curriculum (Foreword)." WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Developing Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices Ed. Michelle Cox and Terry Myers Zawacki (Perspectives in Writing Series, Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse,. Parlor Press 2014: .

      Hall, Jonathan. "Alice and Phoebe Cary." Encyclopedia of American Nineteenth-Century Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, ed. Eric Haralson. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 1998: 65-70.

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    4. Government Reports or Monographs
    5. Book Reviews:

      "American Literature" Vol 64: 1992: 820-821.

  7. Other Publications

    1. Books:
    2. Papers in Professional Journals:
      1. Articles:
      2. Proceedings:
        1. Refereed Proceedings

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        2. Non-Refereed Proceedings
    3. Chapters in Books:
    4. Government Reports or Monographs
    5. Book Reviews:

  8. Presented Papers, Lectures, And Exhibitions And Performances

    "The Translanguaging Tutee: Potential and Reluctance" March 4, 2019: Conference on College Composition & Communication.

    "Translingual/Transnational Spaces: ‘International’ 1st-year Composition & Graduate Student Literacy Practices." June 5, 2018: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Auburn AL.

    "Transnational Composition Students Narrate Language Identity" March 16, 2018: Conference on College Composition & Communication, Kansas City.

    "Translanguaging in Peer Tutoring" October 14, 2017: National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.

    "Everyday Translinguality: Language Narratives and Negotiated Language Practices" March 16, 2017: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR.

    "Plenary Presentation:Encountering Difference on U.S. Campuses: From “International Students” to Transnational WAC/WID" June 24, 2016: Inrternational Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Ann Arbor MI.

    "Do Good Fences Make Good (Disciplinary) Neighbors?: Boundary Work between Rhetoric & Composition and Second Language Writing" April 9, 2016: Conference on College Composition & Communication, Houston.

    "The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World: Integrating Language Difference in a Professional Community" June 18, 2015: The International Society for Language Studies Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    "Found in Translation: Disciplinary Boundary Work between Rhetoric & Composition and Second Language Writing" March 27, 2015: Writing as Translation: Tenth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut.

    "What Writing in the Disciplines Faculty Need to Know About Language Learning: Helping Students to Acquire New Academic Registers" November 8, 2014: "Reading and Writing In the Disciplines and Across the Curriculum": CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction, LaGuardia CC.

    "Beyond Divisions of Labor: Re-directing the Flow Between WID and the Writing Center" June 13, 2014: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Minneapolis MN.

    "Overcoming Barriers to Faculty Multicompetence: Why Writing Teachers Need to Develop Literacies in Multiple Languages" March 21, 2014: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis.

    "The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World" March 5, 2014: Multicultural and Multilingual Caucus, School of Social Work, Columbia University.

    "Reading Between Languages: Cultivating Translingual Learning Spaces in Composition and Literature Classrooms" November 2, 2013: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction : Traditions to Innovations: What’s New in Reading/Writing Instruction? LaGuardia CC.

    "The Language and Literacy Diversity Project: Using Linguistic Survey Data to Inform Writing Pedagogy, Writing Research, and Writing Program Assessment" March 15, 2013: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV.

    "“A Writing Course is a Writing Course”: Closing the Gap between Developmental Writing and First-year Composition" November 10, 2012: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction.

    "Translingual Economies of Reading" October 18, 2012: Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville KY.

    "Multilingual Writers and the Future of WAC (Organizer of roundtable and presenter of “Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Learning Research: Multicompetence and Register Acquisition”)" June 9, 2012: International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Savannah, Georgia..

    "Direct Assessment of Junior-level College Writing: A Study of Reading, Writing, and Language Background" June 8, 2012: International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Savannah, Georgia..

    "The Junior Writer: Language Background, Student Engagement, and Academic Writing/Reading" March 23, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

    "Multilinguality Across the Curriculum: Language, Identity, and the Future of WAC/WID" March 21, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

    "What College Writing Instructors Can Learn From Language Pedagogy; What Language Instructors Can Learn From College Writing Pedagogy" September 30, 2011: Writing Education Across Borders, Penn State University.

    "The Journey of General Education Literacy: Comparing First-year vs. Junior-level College Writers.” With Shao-Wei Wu." May 13, 2011: CUNY General Education Conference, York College.

    "Beyond ‘L1' and ‘L2": Toward an Interdisciplinary Synthesis in Multilingual Writing Research and Pedagogy." April 7, 2011: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta.

    "The Linguistic Diversity Project: Language Background, Student Engagement, and College Writing." February 18, 2011: Writing Research Across Borders II: 3rd International Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research. George Mason University.

    "If Multilingual Learners Are the Mainstream, Who Are the ‘Outliers’ in Composition Research?" October 15, 2010: Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville..

    "What WAC/WID Faculty Need to Know About Multilingual Learners: New Approaches for Faculty Development" May 21, 2010: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Indiana University.

    "Closing the Sophomore Gap: General Education Connections Between First-year Composition and Writing in the Disciplines" May 7, 2010: CUNY General Education Conference, Kingsborough CC.

    "What Multilingual Students Need to Know About College Writing: A Metacognitive Approach" November 7, 2009: Symposium on Second Language Writing, Arizona State University.

    "Ten Principles of a Comprehensive Writing Program." October 18, 2008.: 'Who Owns Writing?' Revisited: A Conference on the Future of Rhetoric and Composition. Hofstra University.

    "WAC/WID in the Next America: Pedagogical Implications of 'The New Latin,' 'The New Englishes,' and 'The New Student" May 2008: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, Texas.

    "What TESOL Can Learn from Composition, What Composition Can Learn from TESOL" April 2008: Penn-TESOL Conference, Arcadia University.

    "What Composition Can Learn from TESOL, What TESOL Can Learn from Composition" April 2008: Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans.

    "Plagiarism Across the Curriculum: Disciplinary Communities & the Challenge of the Undocumented Writer" May 2004: National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, St. Louis.

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    "Writing to Learn and WAC Principles" August 25, 2015: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Fellows.

    "What Writing Fellows Need to Know About Multilingual Learners" August 27, 2013 / August 27, 2014: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows.

    "Multilinguality in Teaching Writing: From Deficit to Resource" April 29, 2013: York WAC Program.

    "Developing Rubrics." October 12, 2012: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows, John Jay College.

    "Assessing Multiple Sections of WRIT 300" October 11, 2012: York College Day of Assessment.

    "Making Translingual Pedagogies a Reality: Redesigning Syllabi, Assignments, Feedback, and Program Mission Statements" March 21, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

    "How We Do Writing At CUNY: a discussion about the future direction of writing instruction at York and other campuses" February 9, 2012: Center fofr Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

    "Writing Fellowship as Career Development (Organizer and moderator of panel.)" April 15, 2011.: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows, John Jay College.

    "Scaffolding and Spiraling: Building Assignments; Teaching About Plagiarism." March 9, 2011: Teaching Freshman Writing Seminar Series, English Department, York College..

    "What Faculty Teaching Writing Intensive Courses Need to Know about Multilingual Learners." April 29, 2010: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

    "Scaffolded Writing Assignments: Building Student Success into Writing Sequences." December 3, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

    "Enhancing Writing Intensive Courses: Faculty Collaborations with CUNY Writing Fellows." October 8, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

    "Creating and Using Rubrics." October 1, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

    "Writing as a Method of Assessment" January 22, 2009: “Building Assessment into General Education Reform: A Workshop for Faculty Inquiry Groups,” organized by the Outcomes Assessment Committee, York College.

    "Plagiarism Interventions" October 22, 2008: Conversation facilitator in English Department series “Talking about Teaching English 125.” York College.

    "Beyond ‘Avoiding Plagiarism’: Teaching Purposes Of Attribution & Citation.” At “Negotiating Multiple Voices: Addressing Attribution and Plagiarism in the Writing Classroom." February 25, 2008.: Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark..

    "Multilingual Students and the Future of WAC" May 10, 2007: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

    "New Approaches to Plagiarism." October 30, 2006: Writing Program/WAC Program Professional Development Seminar for Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark.

    "The Segue From Freshman Composition to Writing Across the Curriculum: Responsibilities on Both Sides." May 11, 2006: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

    "Plagiarism and the Writing Center: A Workshop for Tutors." February 2006: Writing Center Rutgers University, Newark.

    "Writing from Sources: How to Avoid Plagiarism and Improve Your Research Papers: A Workshop for Students." February 2005: Writing Center, Rutgers University, Newark.

    "Toward Excellence in Student Writing: Research and the Advanced Writing Intensive Course." May 13, 2003: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

    "Preventing Plagiarism Through Pedagogy: Strategies of Anticipation" November 3, 2004: Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark.

  9. Patents

    None

  10. Work In Progress

    1. Books in progress:
    2. Papers in Progress:
    3. Papers submitted to journals for consideration:

      Hall, Jonathan. "Connecting Student Engagement to College Writing, Reading, and Critical Thinking." Written Communication. submitted February 20, 2014: 22.

    4. Research in progress:

  11. Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships

  12. Grants-In-Aid

    PSC-CUNY, What's Buried in Grant's Tomb: Public Memory and the Reconstruction of an American Icon. 2019-2020: .

    PSC-CUNY, Learning Between Languages: Transnational Graduate Students, Disciplinary Differences, and Translingual Practices. 2017-2018: $5704.

    PSC-CUNY, The Linguistic Diversity Project: A Study of Writing, Reading, and Language Background among York College First-year Students. 2009-2010: $3750.

  13. Institutional Service

    1. Service to the Department

      Member, English Department Assessment Committee: Fall 2021-present.

      Chair, English Department: 2019-present.

      Member, English department Personnel & Budget Committee: 2016-present.

      Member, Creative Writing Major development committee: 2017-2018.

      Co-chair, English Dept. Assessment Committee: 2014-2016.

      Member, Applied Linguistics search committee: 2014.

      Member, English Department Mission Statement Committee: 2013-2014.

      Member, English Major Revision Committee: 2012-2013.

      Writing Fellows Selection Committee: Fall 2009-present.

      Member, Curriculum Concept Committee: Spring 2011-present.

      Revised Composition Faculty Inquiry Group (chair): Spring 2009.

      Search Committee Member, Lecturer search: January 2009.

    2. Service to the School
    3. Service to the College

      Reopening Committee / COVID Maintenance Committee: Spring 2021-present.

      Strategic Enrollment Advisory Group: Fall 2020-present.

      Committee of Academic Chairs (Member/Chair/Co-Chair: Member Fall 2019-present; Chair 2020-2021; Co-chair 2021-2022).

      Personnel and Budget Commmittee: Fall 2019-present.

      General Education Committee (member): Summer 2018-Spring 2019.

      Student Experience committee (member): 2017-2018.

      Assessment Outcomes Committee (member): Fall 2008-2011.

      Student Learning Subcommittee (Co-chair) of the Assessment Outcomes Committee: Fall 2009-Spring 2010.

      General Education Task Force (member): Spring 2009-Fall 2011.

      Revised Composition Faculty Inquiry Group (chair): Spring 2009-present.

      Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator: WAC Fellows: Fall 2009-December 2010; Fall 2015-Present.

      Writing Across the Curriculum Program Coordinator: Fall 2010-Spring 2015.

      Writing Intensive Advisory Committee (Chair): Fall 2010- Spring 2015.

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    4. Service to the Graduate Center

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    5. Service to the University

      Planning Committee for Writing Fellows Professional Development (member): Summer 2012-2018.

      ESL Discipline Council (Ongoing invited guest): Fall 2011-Spring 2012.

      CUNY WAC Program Coordinator: Fall 2010-Spring 2011.

      CUNY WAC Coordinators Group: Fall 2009-present.

  14. Offices Held In Professional Societies

  15. Other Professional Activities And Public Service

  16. Teaching Activities At This Institution

    1. Courses Taught (List)
      Course Description
      ENG 125  Introduction to College Writing 
      ENG 126  Composition II: Writing about Literature 
      ENG 262  Intro to Writing, Rhetoric, & Language 
      ENG 200  Understanding Literature (Writing Intensive_ 
      ENG 286  Introduction to Creative Writing 
      ENG 311  Critical Studies in English 
      WRIT 302  Research &Writing for Science, Mathematics, and Technology 
      ENG 353  19th Century American Literature 
      ENG 373  Writing for Business 
      ENG 399  Reading as a Writer 
      ENG` 410  Senior Seminar: The Rhetoric of Reconstruction 
    2. New courses/programs developed (list):

      Fiction Into Film, ENG 290.

      Major Authors (proposed as part of revised English major), ENG 358.

      Advanced Composition (proposed as part of revised English major), ENG 265.

      The Rhetoric of Reconstruction, ENG 410 (senior seminar).

      Intro to College Writing / Writing About Literature, Revised ENG 125/126 sequence.

      Reading as a Writer, English 399.

      Writing Intensive Pilot, English 200 Understanding Literature.