Curriculum Vitae
Donald I. Gammill, Jr
September 30, 2019
PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rhetorical practices and influences involving public perceptions of morality, especially as related to the intersection of religion and culture
Pedagogical scholarship exploring how students’ lived experiences may be linked to enhanced awareness of their personal rhetorical and linguistic environments, both physical and digital, via both primary source exploration and self-editing practices
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English (Rhetoric & Composition), Department of English, Georgia State University, 2017
Doctoral Dissertation: “Situating Polemics of Moral Imperative in Shifting Socio-Cultural Paradigms: Exploring Rhetorical Appeals in Two Baptist Archives”
(Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Dissertation Committee Chair)
M.A., Professional Writing (Applied Writing and Rhetoric & Composition), Department of English, Kennesaw State University, 2009
B.S., Policy Studies (Human Resource Development), School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2000
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Lecturer (Two-Year Limited Term), Georgia State University, Department of English, 2017 – 2019
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, Editing for Publication, and Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition undergraduate classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Part-Time Instructor, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2019 (Present)
Teach credit Composition I and Composition II courses at GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus
Adjunct Instructor, Georgia State University, Department of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Taught credit Academic English course to international students from China for Georgia State University’s Office of International Initiatives’ 2019 Summer Institute (three-week study abroad program) at GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus
Adjunct Instructor, Oglethorpe University, Department of CORE Studies, 2018
Taught credit introductory CORE program classes (“Narratives of the Self”) to first-year students at Oglethorpe University’s Brookhaven (Atlanta) campus
Adjunct Instructor, Point University, 2017
Taught credit Composition I classes to dual-enrollment students at Point University’s Peachtree City campus
Adjunct English Instructor, Point University (formerly Atlanta Christian College), Humanities Department, 2010 – 2012
Taught credit Composition I and Composition II English courses (including honors sections) at Point University’s East Point campus
Adjunct English Instructor, Georgia Highlands College, 2010 – 2012
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, and Developmental English courses at Georgia Highlands College’s Marietta, Douglasville, and Dallas campuses
GRADUATE TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Advanced Teaching Fellow, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2015 – 2017
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, and Editing for Publication classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
Teaching Mentor, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2017
Served as the assigned mentor teacher for the English Department’s Undergraduate Pre-Education in English Intern Program, working with assigned undergraduate intern to impart competencies in skill areas such as syllabus creation, course scheduling/pacing, assignment formulation, lesson planning and delivery, classroom management, and student assessment
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2013 – 2016
Assisted Distinguished University Professor of Rhetoric & Composition and English Department Chair Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet with academic research and publication-related endeavors
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2012 – 2015
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, and Editing for Publication classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
Tutor, GSU Writing Studio, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2012 – 2013
Tutored undergraduate and graduate students at the GSU Writing Studio at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Regional Communication Specialist, UnitedHealthcare, 2009
Managed communications materials and campaigns to southeastern U.S. physician and hospital audiences surrounding significant planned and unplanned corporate events and campaigns
Administrative Coordinator, Kids Health First Pediatric Alliance, 2003 – 2009
Provided front-line management of all communications activities for a major medical practice association, coordinating on a daily basis with physicians, practice managers, health plan contacts, consultants and other organizational partners
PUBLICATIONS
Ed. On Archival Research. (Eds. Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Helen Diana Eidson, and Don Gammill, Jr.). Landmark Essays Series. Routledge. 2016
“Giving Back to the Community” (sidebar anecdote). Scholarly Publication in a Changing Academic Landscape: Models for Success. (Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo). Palgrave MacMillan. 2014
“How I Got Started Writing For The Web.” Georgia Writes! (newsletter for the Georgia Writer’s Association), Spring, 2011
GRANTS & AWARDS
Georgia State University, Department of English, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2019
Travel/lodging funds to attend 2019 College English Association conference ($400)
Georgia State University, Department of English (Lower Division Studies Area), Atlanta, Georgia, May, 2015
Advanced Teaching Fellowship (two-year appointment) subsequent to superior performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant ($13,000 per year for a 2/1 undergraduate teaching load)
Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 2014
Lynn E. May, Jr. Study Grant for expenses related to doctoral dissertation research ($400)
Georgia State University, Department of English (Lower Division Studies Area), Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2012
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (annual appointment renewable for up to five years) based on previous academic work and teaching experience ($13,000 per year for a 2/2 undergraduate teaching load)
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Presenter, “Writing, Re-Vision, and Making Bigger Plans: The Surprising Synergy of a Self-Editing Assignment in an Undergraduate English Editing Course.” College English Association. March 28, 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana
Co-Organizer and Panelist, “Questioning, Listening, Learning, and Repeating: How Kinetic Language Feedback Dynamics Enhance Rhetorical Awareness in Writing and Editing Course Classrooms.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 14, 2018. Kansas City, Missouri
Panelist, “The Literacy Myth, Critical Literacy, and Composition Pedagogy.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. November 6, 2016. Jacksonville, Florida
Co-Organizer and Panelist, “Appropriating Past Graduate Coursework for Conference Presentations: Seizing Your Program's Ready-Made Synergy to Build Your CV and Develop Your Professional Network.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. November 8, 2014. Atlanta, Georgia
Presenter, “D.A.R.E. to Be Definitive: How Two Milestone Dictionaries Have Helped America Negotiate Shifting Lexical Contexts.” Georgia Philological Association (GPA). May 16, 2014. Waycross, Georgia
Panelist, “International Association of Business Communicators 2006 Job Shadow Day Experiences.” Kennesaw State University Conference for English Professionals. April 3, 2007. Kennesaw, Georgia
SERVICE
Invited Guest Lecturer. Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet’s Writing & Research Methodology seminar (ENGL 8125). “Implementing Archival Research Methodology.” Georgia State University. October 15, 2015. Atlanta, Georgia
Invited Guest Lecturer. Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet’s Composition Pedagogy seminar (ENGL 8195). “Teaching the Rhetorical Situation.” Georgia State University. September 22, 2014. Atlanta, Georgia
Provided editorial assistance on departmental first-year composition textbooks (“GSU Guide to First-Year Writing” and “The Everyday Writer-GSU Edition”. Georgia State University Department of Lower Division Studies, 2013 – 2014
“Security Department Writing Workshop.” Hyatt Regency Atlanta Hotel (invited tutorial consultancy), July 24-31, 2013
SCHOLARSHIP CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
Journal Article. “Lacking a ‘Certain Sound’: How Kenneth Burke’s Conceptualization of Piety Sheds Light on the Rhetorical Disconnect Between One Popular Evangelical Pastor and His Contemporaries.” [Targeting: Journal of Communication and Religion]
Journal Article. “Naming the ‘Yeet Cannon’: What Unstable Meanings and Social Media Can Tell Us About Public Conceptions of Morality in Contentious Societal Discourses.” [Targeting: Rhetoric Society Quarterly]
Journal Article. “Ignoring Broader Contexts: How a Lack of Doctrinal Knowledge Colludes with Uncritical Perceptions of Transcendence to Make Modern Evangelicals Embrace Questionable Theological Novelty.” [Targeting: Rhetoric Review]
Journal Article: “Semantic Discernment and Spiritual Reflection: How the Generative Aspect of Prayer Might Affect Individual Word Meanings” [Targeting: Philosophy and Rhetoric]
Rhetorical practices and influences involving public perceptions of morality, especially as related to the intersection of religion and culture
Pedagogical scholarship exploring how students’ lived experiences may be linked to enhanced awareness of their personal rhetorical and linguistic environments, both physical and digital, via both primary source exploration and self-editing practices
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English (Rhetoric & Composition), Department of English, Georgia State University, 2017
Doctoral Dissertation: “Situating Polemics of Moral Imperative in Shifting Socio-Cultural Paradigms: Exploring Rhetorical Appeals in Two Baptist Archives”
(Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Dissertation Committee Chair)
M.A., Professional Writing (Applied Writing and Rhetoric & Composition), Department of English, Kennesaw State University, 2009
B.S., Policy Studies (Human Resource Development), School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2000
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Lecturer (Two-Year Limited Term), Georgia State University, Department of English, 2017 – 2019
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, Editing for Publication, and Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition undergraduate classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Part-Time Instructor, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2019 (Present)
Teach credit Composition I and Composition II courses at GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus
Adjunct Instructor, Georgia State University, Department of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Taught credit Academic English course to international students from China for Georgia State University’s Office of International Initiatives’ 2019 Summer Institute (three-week study abroad program) at GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus
Adjunct Instructor, Oglethorpe University, Department of CORE Studies, 2018
Taught credit introductory CORE program classes (“Narratives of the Self”) to first-year students at Oglethorpe University’s Brookhaven (Atlanta) campus
Adjunct Instructor, Point University, 2017
Taught credit Composition I classes to dual-enrollment students at Point University’s Peachtree City campus
Adjunct English Instructor, Point University (formerly Atlanta Christian College), Humanities Department, 2010 – 2012
Taught credit Composition I and Composition II English courses (including honors sections) at Point University’s East Point campus
Adjunct English Instructor, Georgia Highlands College, 2010 – 2012
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, and Developmental English courses at Georgia Highlands College’s Marietta, Douglasville, and Dallas campuses
GRADUATE TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Advanced Teaching Fellow, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2015 – 2017
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, and Editing for Publication classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
Teaching Mentor, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2017
Served as the assigned mentor teacher for the English Department’s Undergraduate Pre-Education in English Intern Program, working with assigned undergraduate intern to impart competencies in skill areas such as syllabus creation, course scheduling/pacing, assignment formulation, lesson planning and delivery, classroom management, and student assessment
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2013 – 2016
Assisted Distinguished University Professor of Rhetoric & Composition and English Department Chair Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet with academic research and publication-related endeavors
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2012 – 2015
Taught credit Composition I, Composition II, Business Writing, and Editing for Publication classes at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
Tutor, GSU Writing Studio, Georgia State University, Department of English, 2012 – 2013
Tutored undergraduate and graduate students at the GSU Writing Studio at Georgia State University’s downtown Atlanta campus
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Regional Communication Specialist, UnitedHealthcare, 2009
Managed communications materials and campaigns to southeastern U.S. physician and hospital audiences surrounding significant planned and unplanned corporate events and campaigns
Administrative Coordinator, Kids Health First Pediatric Alliance, 2003 – 2009
Provided front-line management of all communications activities for a major medical practice association, coordinating on a daily basis with physicians, practice managers, health plan contacts, consultants and other organizational partners
PUBLICATIONS
Ed. On Archival Research. (Eds. Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Helen Diana Eidson, and Don Gammill, Jr.). Landmark Essays Series. Routledge. 2016
“Giving Back to the Community” (sidebar anecdote). Scholarly Publication in a Changing Academic Landscape: Models for Success. (Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo). Palgrave MacMillan. 2014
“How I Got Started Writing For The Web.” Georgia Writes! (newsletter for the Georgia Writer’s Association), Spring, 2011
GRANTS & AWARDS
Georgia State University, Department of English, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2019
Travel/lodging funds to attend 2019 College English Association conference ($400)
Georgia State University, Department of English (Lower Division Studies Area), Atlanta, Georgia, May, 2015
Advanced Teaching Fellowship (two-year appointment) subsequent to superior performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant ($13,000 per year for a 2/1 undergraduate teaching load)
Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 2014
Lynn E. May, Jr. Study Grant for expenses related to doctoral dissertation research ($400)
Georgia State University, Department of English (Lower Division Studies Area), Atlanta, Georgia, August, 2012
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (annual appointment renewable for up to five years) based on previous academic work and teaching experience ($13,000 per year for a 2/2 undergraduate teaching load)
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Presenter, “Writing, Re-Vision, and Making Bigger Plans: The Surprising Synergy of a Self-Editing Assignment in an Undergraduate English Editing Course.” College English Association. March 28, 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana
Co-Organizer and Panelist, “Questioning, Listening, Learning, and Repeating: How Kinetic Language Feedback Dynamics Enhance Rhetorical Awareness in Writing and Editing Course Classrooms.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 14, 2018. Kansas City, Missouri
Panelist, “The Literacy Myth, Critical Literacy, and Composition Pedagogy.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. November 6, 2016. Jacksonville, Florida
Co-Organizer and Panelist, “Appropriating Past Graduate Coursework for Conference Presentations: Seizing Your Program's Ready-Made Synergy to Build Your CV and Develop Your Professional Network.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. November 8, 2014. Atlanta, Georgia
Presenter, “D.A.R.E. to Be Definitive: How Two Milestone Dictionaries Have Helped America Negotiate Shifting Lexical Contexts.” Georgia Philological Association (GPA). May 16, 2014. Waycross, Georgia
Panelist, “International Association of Business Communicators 2006 Job Shadow Day Experiences.” Kennesaw State University Conference for English Professionals. April 3, 2007. Kennesaw, Georgia
SERVICE
Invited Guest Lecturer. Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet’s Writing & Research Methodology seminar (ENGL 8125). “Implementing Archival Research Methodology.” Georgia State University. October 15, 2015. Atlanta, Georgia
Invited Guest Lecturer. Dr. Lynée Lewis Gaillet’s Composition Pedagogy seminar (ENGL 8195). “Teaching the Rhetorical Situation.” Georgia State University. September 22, 2014. Atlanta, Georgia
Provided editorial assistance on departmental first-year composition textbooks (“GSU Guide to First-Year Writing” and “The Everyday Writer-GSU Edition”. Georgia State University Department of Lower Division Studies, 2013 – 2014
“Security Department Writing Workshop.” Hyatt Regency Atlanta Hotel (invited tutorial consultancy), July 24-31, 2013
SCHOLARSHIP CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
Journal Article. “Lacking a ‘Certain Sound’: How Kenneth Burke’s Conceptualization of Piety Sheds Light on the Rhetorical Disconnect Between One Popular Evangelical Pastor and His Contemporaries.” [Targeting: Journal of Communication and Religion]
Journal Article. “Naming the ‘Yeet Cannon’: What Unstable Meanings and Social Media Can Tell Us About Public Conceptions of Morality in Contentious Societal Discourses.” [Targeting: Rhetoric Society Quarterly]
Journal Article. “Ignoring Broader Contexts: How a Lack of Doctrinal Knowledge Colludes with Uncritical Perceptions of Transcendence to Make Modern Evangelicals Embrace Questionable Theological Novelty.” [Targeting: Rhetoric Review]
Journal Article: “Semantic Discernment and Spiritual Reflection: How the Generative Aspect of Prayer Might Affect Individual Word Meanings” [Targeting: Philosophy and Rhetoric]
References Available Upon Request