Brian.Gogan@wmich.edu | 414.217.5877
Brian.Gogan@wmich.edu | 414.217.5877
Department of English
Western Michigan University
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Writing, 2011
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
M.A. English, British and American Literature, 2007
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
B.A. English, Summa Cum Laude, 2004
Minor Professional Education
Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI
Student Teaching Practicum, 2004
Assistant Professor of English, 2011-Present
Teaching Assistant, 2009–11
Research Assistant, Dr. Bernice Hausman, Virginia Tech, Summer 2010
Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, 2009
Blue Ridge Writing Project Fellow, 2009
Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, 2007–8
Teaching Assistant, 2005–7
Interim Language Arts Teacher, 2005
Student Teacher, 2004
“Expanding the Aims of Public Rhetoric and Writing Pedagogy: Writing Letters to Editors.”
College Composition and Communication 65.4 (2014): 534-59. Print.
“A Carnival of Rights: Baudrillard, Bakhtin, and the Rhetoric of the 2009 'Serfs Liberation
Day.'”International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 9.3 (2012): 23 TS pag. Web.
“Exchange in On the Exchange: A Baudrillardian Perspective on Isocrates' Antidosis.”
Rhetoric Review. 31.4 (2012): 353-70. Print.
Finalist, 2012 Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award for best essay in Rhetoric Review
“Research Centers as Change Agents: Reshaping Work in Rhetoric and Writing.” First Author.
With Kelly Belanger, Ashley Patriarca, and Megan O'Neill. College Composition and Communication 62.2 (2010): 336–63. Print.
“Rhetoric Re/Framed as Exchange: Baudrillard, Perlocutionary Performance, and 9/11
Ten Years Later.” Re/Framing Identifications. Ed. Michelle Ballif. Long Grove, IL:
Waveland P, 2013. 169-75. Print.
“Revising Ownership in the Critical Classroom: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Wager of
Reciprocity.”Who Speaks for Writing: Stewardship for Writing Studies in the 21st Century.
Ed. Jennifer Rich and Ethna Demsey Lay. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. 112-124. Print.
“Laughing Whiteness: Pixies, Parody, and Perspectives.” The Comedy of Dave Chappelle:
Critical Essays. Ed. Kevin Wisniewski. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Co., 2009. 72–85. Print.
“Threshold Concepts in/as Rhetoric.” With Maria Gigante. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
(Article under review): 44 TS pag.
“Going Public with Ken Macrorie.” Microhistories of Composition. Ed. Bruce McComiskey.
(Collection under review with Utah State University Press): 38 TS pag.
Jean Baudrillard: Rhetoric and Exchange. (Book manuscript in preparation for late 2014 submission
to Southern Illinois University Press’s “Rhetoric in the Modern Era” Series).
“Reading as Transformation.” What Is College Reading? Exploring Reading in Every Discipline.
Ed. Alice Horning, Cynthia Haller, and Deborah-Lee Gollnitz. (Chapter proposal under review, Collection in development for the ATD Book Series).
“Guesswork and Grant Writing Pedagogy,” Risk and Reward. Conference on College Composition
and Communication, Tampa, Florida, March 2015. (Forthcoming).
“Pitching for Non-Profits,” Celebrating Historical and Visioning Future Milestones in Business
Communication. Association for Business Communication 79th Annual International Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2014. (Forthcoming).
“Responding to Requests from Neighbors: Rhetorics of Reciprocity in TimeBanks,”
Responsivity: Defining, Encouraging, Enacting. 2014 Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2014. (Forthcoming).
“From Burke to Baudrillard: Modern Attitudes toward Consubstantiality,” Attitudes toward Technology/
Technology’s Attitudes.The Ninth Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, St. Louis, Missouri, July 2014.
“Redrawing the Border between Cynicism and Kynicism: Analyzing the Ethos of Jean Baudrillard,”
Border Rhetorics. Rhetoric Society of America 16th Biennial Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 2014.
“Threshold Concepts and Rhetoric,” Border Rhetorics. Rhetoric Society of America 16th Biennial
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 2014 (Forthcoming). With Maria Gigante.
“Interviewing Instruction, mtvU's ‘Hire Learning,’ and the Extracurriculum of Business Communication,”
Collaboration and Innovation in Business Communication. Association for Business Communication 78th Annual International Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2013 (Forthcoming).
“From Framing the News to Framing an Argument: A Research-Based Assignment for Student Writers,”
The Public Work of Composition. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2013.
“For a Critique of the Political Economy of Rhetoric and Writing Studies," Economies of Writing.
2012 Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2012.
“Rhetoric Re/Framed as Exchange: Methodical Performance, Baudrillard, and 9/11 Ten Years Later,”
Re/Framing Identifications. Rhetoric Society of America 15th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2012.
“Consubstantiality in a Shifting Rhetorical Ecology: Familial Letter Writing during World War II,”
Re/Framing Identifications. Rhetoric Society of America 15th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2012.
“From Civilian to Soldier: The Historical Function of Writing during Military Transition,”Writing
Gateways. Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2012.
“The Two Sides of Timing: Opportunity and Regret in Business Communication,”Transcending
Boundaries in a New Media Environment. Association for Business Communication 76th Annual International Convention, Montreal, Canada, October 2011.
“Writing, Disciplinarity, and Meta-Awareness: An Empirical Investigation,”Writing
Research Across Borders II. 4th International Conference on Writing Research, Fairfax, Virginia, February 2011. With Kerry Dirk.
“Registering Textbook Visuals: Business Communication, Baudrillard, and Implicitness.”
Association for Business Communication Panel. 2011 Modern Language Association Convention,
Los Angeles, California, January 2011.
“The Business Letter as Simulacrum: A Synergy of Communication Theory and Business
Communication Pedagogy.” Creating Synergy in the Windy City. Association for Business Communication 75th Annual International Convention, Chicago, Illinois, October 2010.
“Global Ethos and Intellectual Work: Rhetoric and Composition, Jean Baudrillard, and
Paulo Freire.” Working English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global-Local Contexts, Commitments, Consequences. 2010 Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2010.
“Baudrillard’s Rhetoric of Liberation and the 2009 ‘Serfs Liberation Day’ Holiday.” Rhetoric:
Concord and Controversy. Rhetoric Society of America 14th Biennial Conference,Consequences. Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2010.
“Crisis, Risk, and Business-Community Communication.”Exploration and Discovery: A Historical
Perspective and New Directions in Business Communication. Association for Business Communication 74th Annual International Convention, Portsmouth, Virginia, November 2009.
“Linkages, Lineages, and Designations: Leadership of Feminist Research Organizations.”
Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetoric. 7th Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 2009.
“Theorizing Displacement: Recentering/Decentering Our Rhetoric and Writing Research Center.”
Making Waves. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, California, March 2009.
“Reciprocal Action: Revising Ownership in the Composition Classroom.” Who Owns Writing? Revisited.
Making Waves. A Conference on the Future of Rhetoric and Composition, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, October 2008.
“Mailing Letters to Editors: An (Un)Realistic Venture into the Public Sphere?” Writing Realities,
Changing Realities. Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2008.
“Composing Complicity: Rhetoric and Revolt in Joyce Carol Oates’s You Must Remember This”
Women and Creativity 9, 13th Annual Marquette University Women’s Studies Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2007.
“Writing, Disciplinarity, and Meta-Awareness: An Empirical Investigation,” Conference on Higher
Education Pedagody @ VT, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, February 2011. With Kerry Dirk.
“Writing Transfer and the Public Sphere: Students, Genres, and Rhetoric.” Conference on Higher
Education Pedagody @ VT, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, February 2010.
“Infectious Disease and Mother’s Milk: How to Save Babies with Cul.tural Studies.” 4th Breastfeeding
and Feminism Symposium, Greensboro, North Carolina, March 2009. With Bernice Hausman
and Jin Yu.
--- Dean’s Forum on Infectious Diseases, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, September 2008.
“The National Writing Project at Virginia Tech: The Summer 2009 Institute.” Higher Education
Pedagogy @ VT, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, February 2009. With Kelly Belanger, Megan O'Neill, Aileen Murphy, and Ashley Patriarca.
“Loose Ends: The Lack of Conclusions Regarding Perorations.” Those Who Can, Teach!
Twelfth Annual Marquette University/ University Wisconsin-Milwaukee First-Year Graduate Student Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 2005.
“Research Publics and Informing Policies through the Research Center.” Seminar Leader. NCTE.
National Council of Teachers of English. Web. February 2011. With Kelly Belanger, Ashley Patriarca,
and Megan O'Neill.
“Rhetoric and Economics,” Rhetoric Society of America 6th Biennial Summer Institute, Madison,
Wisconsin, June 2015. (Application Submitted).
“Materialist and Object-Oriented Rhetorics,” Rhetoric Society of America 5th Biennial Summer Institute,
Lawrence, Kansas, June 2013.
“Nonprofit Organization Proposal Development Workshop,” Grant Training Center, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan, August 2011.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Opportunity, Motivation, Exchange and Member Benefit in TimeBank Organizations,” Science of Organizations Program Area, National Science Foundation: Proposal for an interdisciplinary, empirical study of the efficacy of a number of regional timebanks. (Prepared for a February 2015 submission)
Co-Principal Investigator, “Modeling Reciprocity across Disciplines,” Interdisciplinary Research Initiative Award, Western Michigan University College of Arts and Sciences: Award supports further collaboration between community time bank and researchers from rhetoric, communication, and economics ($5,000 award)
Co-Principal Investigator, “Integrating Models of Reciprocity,” Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award, Western Michigan University Office of the Vice President for Research: Award supports a collaborative project with a community time bank and a colleague in communication ($10,000 award)
Research Assistant Supervisor, Oversaw summer work of one Ph.D. student research assistant, tailored research project to meet student’s goals
Copy-Editor, Breastfeeding and Feminism: Informing Public Health Approaches: Edited twenty-three typescript chapters in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style and communicated with international authors from a variety of disciplines
Student Intern Supervisor, Mentored undergraduate student intern’s weekly duties, communicated expectations, monitored project progress, provided weekly feedback to ensure student’s success
Co-Author, National Writing Project Grant Continued Funding Application, U.S. Department of Education: Drafted initial application, secured continued funding, conducted preliminary research, and established relationship with the 2010 BRWP ISI designated school district ($46,000 award)
Author, “Diversity Proposal for the Blue Ridge Writing Project”: Designed and disseminated an IRB-approved survey to 2009 ISI participants, analyzed the results, and proposed three diversity initiatives to the BRWP Co-Directors and the Graduate School Dean
Co-Author, Michigan People, Michigan Places; Our Stories, Our Lives Grant, Michigan Humanities Council: Established cross-institutional partnerships, drafted initial grant, developed final budget ($15,000 award)
Manuscript Reviewer, “Reformist Possibilities? Exploring Writing Program Cross-Campus Partnerships.” Kelly Belanger, Diana George, Marie Paretti, and Lisa McNair
Grant Reviewer, Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment Grant, Virginia Tech
($20,000 award)
Manuscript Reviewer, Invisible Seasons: Thoroughly read multiple chapter drafts and provided feedback to author Kelly Belanger
Co-Author, Public Programs Planning Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities: Conducted archival research, transcribed interviews, and drafted major sections of the grant
Grant Reviewer, National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety
Co-Author, National Writing Project Grant, U.S. Department of Education: Conducted preliminary research and substantially revised grant draft ($30,000 award)
Co-Author, Institute for Society, Culture, and the Environment Grant, Virginia Tech ($17,500 award)
Organizer, Golub film screening and “Focusing on Art and Film: Documenting an American Artist” plenary panel
Manuscript Reviewer, Viral Mothers: Thoroughly read multiple chapter drafts and provided feedback to author Bernice Hausman
Discussant, Black Diamonds Panel Discussion: Brought a rhetorical perspective to an interdisciplinary discussion of the documentary film (Black Diamonds), which chronicles the impact of the mountain-top removal mining practice on Appalachia
Instructor of record for:
Proposals & Pitches: Grant Writing for Professionals | 2 Sections, Community Partner Project
Structure, Purpose, & Transfer in Written Communication | 1 Section, Community Partner Project
Parody & Rhetoric | 1 Section
Style, Identification, & Persona in Professional Writing | 2 Sections, Community Partner Project
Introduction to Professional Writing | 2 Sections
Rhetoric, Writing, & Culture | 3 Sections
Practical Writing | 1 Section
Thought & Writing | 6 Sections
Readings in Rhetoric & Writing Studies Pedagogy | Independent Study
Grant Writing for Professionals | Independent Study
Internship in Rhetoric & Writing Studies | 5 Sections
Mentor for:
Craig Manning, “License to Joke: Parody and Camp in and around the James Bond Series.”
Film Matters 4.2 (2013): 17-23. Print.
Joseph Silver, Lee Honors College Thesis (Working Title: “Restatement of Student Media Group
Governing Constitutions”)
Stacy Burdette, Hacker Gals | Western Michigan University Starting Gate Business Accelerator
Dissertation Committee Member for:
Yi-Chin Huang, “Rhetoric about Exile in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Icelandic Texts.”
Guest Lecturer for:
First-Year Writing Teaching Assistant Orientation | 2 Orientations; graduate students,
instructors, & adjuncts
Introduction to Graduate Studies | 2 Sections; M.A. & Ph.D. students; Topic:
“Rhetoric & Writing Studies”
Collaborator with:
Plain English Writing Service
Kalamazoo Literacy Council
Advocacy Services for Kids
Battle Creek Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Western Michigan University Office of Service-Learning
Parent to Parent of Southwest Michigan
Kalamazoo Neighborhood Exchange
Instructor of record for:
Business Writing | 1 Section, Community Partner Project
Technical Writing | 1 Section, Community Partner Project
Introduction to College Composition | 2 Sections
Writing from Research | 2 Sections
Guest Lecturer for:
Theories of Written Communication | Doctoral level; Topic: “Jean Baudrillard”
Introduction to Critical Theory | Masters level; Topic: “Baudrillard and Jameson”
Guided 1 MA and 1 PhD student as they developed syllabi, lesson plans, classroom ethos,
and assessment tools
Consulted with undergraduate and graduate students to achieve their writing goals. Assisted ESL students in improving their use of the English language
Teaching Demonstration: “Aphorisms, Rhetoric, and Genre”
Instructor of record for:
Academic Literacy | 4 Sections
Public Sphere Literacy | 2 Sections
Responsible for the preparation, instruction, and assessment of:
Grade 9 World Cultures: Nectar in a Sieve Unit | 2 Sections
Grades 11 and 12 Contemporary Communication Arts: Prize Fighting Unit
Team-taught:
Integrated World Cultures: World Literature and The Joy Luck Club | 2 Sections
Contemporary Communication Arts: 2004 Presidential Election
Undergraduate Level:
Structure, Purpose, & Transfer in Written Communication | 2013 Community Partner Project
Proposals & Pitches: Grant Writing for Professionals | 2012, 2014 Community Partner Project
Style, Identification, & Persona in Professional Writing | 2011, 2014 Community Partner Project
Introduction to Professional Writing | 2013, 2014
Practical Writing | 2012
Internship in Rhetoric & Writing Studies | 2012, 2013, 2014
Parody & Rhetoric | 2012
Rhetoric, Writing, & Culture | 2013, 2014
Thought & Writing | 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Graduate Level:
Readings in Rhetoric & Writing Studies Pedagogy | 2012
Style, Identification, & Persona in Professional Writing | 2011 Community Partner Project
Undergraduate Level:
Technical Writing | 2011 Community Partner Project
Business Writing | 2010 Community Partner Project
Writing from Research | 2010
Introduction to College Composition | 2009, 2010
Undergraduate Level:
Public Sphere Literacy | 2006, 2007
Academic Literacy | 2005, 2006
Appointed Member:
• Charged with steering the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program
• Authored Distributed Computing Funds Proposal to establish a Digital Writing Production Lab
• Developed Rhetoric and Writing Studies program website
• Created Rhetoric and Writing Studies recruitment materials
• Coordinated nomination and distribution of student awards
• Worked with Student Employment and Career Services to better track program graduates
and to develop internship opportunities
Co-Chair:
• Charged with piloting a student success guide, which emerged from my “Transfer in Written
Communication” course, for first-year Western Michigan University students
• Lead a 12-member committee composed of individuals from academic affairs and student affairs
through summer 2014 meetings
• Reviewed existing student success resources, both internal and external to Western Michigan
University
• Supervised an undergraduate student intern in the researching, writing, revising, and editing
of a 5500-word student success guide
• Proposed campus-wide communication initiatives to an administrative panel of Vice Presidents
and Vice Provosts
Appointed Member:
• Charged with overseeing any and all aspects of the English undergraduate programs
Appointed Member:
• Charged with articulating department strategy and aligning the department with the
strategic plans of the college as well as the universityß
• Prepared department for provost-level program review
• Spearheaded department assessment activities
• Developed departmental student portfolio component
• Worked to revise undergraduate curriculum
• Executed external department review
• Participated in biweekly meetings
Appointed Member:
• Charged with developing programs that enhance the community profile of the department,
connecting the department to community initiatives, and bring literature, literacy, and creative
arts to the community through our faculty and students
Elected Member:
• Elected to complete a one-year vacancy on the chief representative body of the faculty of the
Department of English
• Evaluated numerous curricular proposals
• Revised assessment tool for the biannual assessment of the department chairperson
Appointed Member:
• Charged with exploring potential partnerships between campus and community groups to the
benefit of the department, university, and community
Appointed Member:
• Charged with hiring a specialist in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
• Vetted application packages
• Conducted initial interviews and reference checks
• Coordinated on-campus interviews by arranging itineraries for the position’s finalists
• Co-authored final search report
Elected Student Representative
Invited Speaker:
• Presented paper and advised students on effective conference presentations
Chair:
• Selected and publicized twelve speakers (graduate students and faculty) in conjunction
with the Graduate School
Member:
• Coordinated group organization, opening ceremony, and closing ceremony.
Position later funded through the Graduate School.
• Met with Virginia Tech’s Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the
Graduate School, Karen P. DePauw, to discuss the expectations of an educated society
Member:
• Created News Literacy pilot unit for Director Virginia Chappell
• Reviewed Marquette’s First-Year English reader, Critical Literacies
• Suggested unit readings to Editor and Director Krista Ratcliffe
Elected Member:
• Preparing Future Faculty Liaison, 2006–7
Chair:
• Silent Auction Subcommittee, 2006 ($2,590 raised)
Elected Treasurer
• 2005–6
Manuscript Reviewer
Conference Proposal Reviewer
Manuscript Reviewer
Conference Proposal Reviewer
For graduate students preparing to become faculty
For implementing a community-based, “theory into practice” project with FireKiller Technologies
For completing the graduate student professional development program
For helping to make the world a better place through positive action, Western Michigan University, 2014
For outstanding teaching and exceptional pedagogy, Western Michigan University, 2014
For best essay in Rhetoric Review, 2012
For excellence in teaching (MFA & Ph.D. Programs), Virginia Tech, 2011
For excellence in teaching (MA Level), Marquette University, 2007
For completing the English major with the highest distinction, Xavier University, 2004
For outstanding performance in academic achievement,character, and teaching potential,
Xavier University, 2004
For excellence in the study of Shakespeare, Xavier University, 2003
Men’s Swim Team, Xavier University, 2001-4
Xavier University, 2001-4
2001-4