Mark Fullmer

B.A., Music, USC (2002)

• Composition & Rhetoric
• American studies
• digital literacies
• narrative theory
• science fiction studies
• California literature & film
• musicology

2007-2010   

2006-2010

2006

2005-06

2005

2005

2003-04

2001-02

Adjunct Instructor, Irvine Valley College

Adjunct Instructor, Fullerton College

Adjunct Instructor, Chapman University

Teaching Fellow, Boston College

Writing Tutor, Boston College Academic Development Center

GRE Teacher, Kaplan Test Preparation, Newton, MA

Title I Tutor, Orange County Department of Education

Senior Tutoring Facilitator, Med-COR, Los Angeles

Advanced College Writing (Irvine Valley, WR 2; Fullerton College, ENGL 103)

College Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 100; Irvine Valley College, WR 1)

Preparation for College Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 60; Irvine Valley College, WR 201)

Introduction to Creative Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 105)

California in the Popular Imagination: Seminar in Rhetoric & Writing (Chapman Univ EN103)

First-Year Writing Seminar (Boston College, ENGL 010)

AWARDS, HONORS, & APPOINTMENTS

• Sabbatical Replacement (1-semester full-time appointment, Fullerton College, 2008)
• Donald J. White Award for Teaching Excellence (Boston College, 2006)
• Boston College Graduate Technology Assistant (2006)
• Boston College Teaching Fellowship (2005-6)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS GIVEN

• Facebook in the Classroom: Productive Identites and Social Bonding in Nonymous Online Environments (ECCTYC 2009)
• 10 Tips for Teaching with Technology (Fullerton College, May 1, 2008)
• Big Boy, Little Room: Reevaluating Male-Gendered Narratives of Self (CSUF Conference on Gender and Scholarship, chair of the panel “Dropouts, Downloads, and Diamonds: Male Performance and Attendance in the Composition Classroom,” March 24, 2008)
• Preparing Our Students (and Ourselves) for Timed Exams (Fullerton College Faculty Development Program, Aug 16, 2007)
• A California Abroad: Mapping the West in Twain's European Travels of 1868" (Fordham University 2006 Graduate English Association Conference, "Transitional Spaces and Places." Oct 10, 2006)
• Boston College New Writing Faculty Syllabus Workshop. Discussed my first-year teaching experiences and led 1-hour small group workshop for incoming faculty. May 10, 2006.
• Playing Parts: Writing Inside and Outside Academia, (Panel Discussion, Boston College Graduate Colloquium, April 14, 2005)

DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES

• Visiting Writer Committee
• Website subcommittee of Technology Committee
• Freshman Writing Award Committee

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• 2008 Online Teaching Conference, held at Miracosta College, June 5-6 2008.
• Basic Skills & Developmental Writing Training Program, Fullerton College, Spring 2008. 3 workshops and 2 hours one-on-one with faculty mentor.
• “Millennial Mind” presentation on 21st century students, Fullerton College, Feb 14, 2008.
• Virtual Instruction Academy, Fullerton College, Summer 2007. 5-week course for distance education certification.
• “Community College & CSUF Connections: Conversations in English Studies.” CSU Fullerton. Feb 9, 2007. Participated in panels on “Transfer Level Writing,” “Sharing Our Realities,” and “Developmental Writing.”
• Community College Hiring Committee information session, Fullerton College. Led by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss, Feb 2, 2007.
• 2007 Online Teaching Conference, held at Ohlone College.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND

• Virtual Instruction Academy, Summer 2007 (Fullerton College’s 5-week distance education certification)
• “Using Blackboard in the Classroom.” Irvine Valley College seminar. August 1, 2007
• Web Editor, Boston College First Year Writing Program (2005-6) http://bc.edu/fws
• Web Editor, New Comm Ave: Journal of College Writing (2005-) http://newcommave.com
• Create & develop personal class websites (http://writing.markfullmer.com), in addition to using Blackboard and WebCT online classrooms
• Thorough understanding of web design (HTML, PHP, Drupal, SQL, Wordpress), graphics manipulation (Photoshop, GIMP, Vegas), sound design (Mixcraft, Audacity), multiple operating systems (Windows XP & Vista, Mac OS X), and proponent of open-source software

SELECTED SCHOLARLY WORK

• Facebook in the Classroom (2009)
• "The First-Year Literary Tradition: Influence of Narrative Models and Publication on Student Writing," considered for the 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication
• Postsuburban Legends: Genre Fiction in Late 20th Century Orange County (2006), under consideration in Journal of Popular Culture
• Writing as a Performing Art: A Paradigm for the Composition Classroom (2006), under consideration in insideenglish
• John J. McAleer: The Making of Rex Stout's Biography (2005)
• Reevaluating the Female Spectator: Thirteen's Manipulation of Visual Pleasure (2005), written for the Harvard Graduate Consortium for Women and Film
• Ben Jonson in the Harvard Classroom, 1888-1898 (2005), read at the Boston College seminar “Invention of the Renaissance”

CREATIVE WRITING

• 1337: A Game Novel (2010)
• TWEET, TWEET: a mysticotelegraphic fistbump panegyric to the american open road odyssey (2009)
• On the Beautiful Sea: Eight Stories (2008)
• Once There Was, Once There Wasn't (screenplay, 2006)
• Woman With Knife No.5 (screenplay, 2006)
• That's Funny, Isn't It? (screenplay, 2005)
• Reflections from the Pool (2005)

INTERVIEWS

• A Meme for Writers (2/10/10)
• Tweet, Tweet Fullerton College Faculty Reading (11/10/09)
• A Mutual Respect Friend of a Friend (7/22/09)
• Stephen Kis Writer Interview (7/27/08)
• On the Beautiful Sea publication (7/20/08)

WEB ARTICLES

• Discussion forum strategies
• Efficient eTeaching
• Student Retention
• Teaching with Technology
• How to write damn good timed essays
• 10 web writing tips
• Business writing workshop
• Oral presentation strategies: differences from the written word
• Academic Style 101: a cheat sheet
• Visual layout in academic essays
• How to structure your paper like a scholar
• Academic intros & conclusions: what scholars really do
• First person in academic writing (when can I say "I"?)
• Tentative language: the scholar's voice
• Titles how-to for academic essays
• Vocabulary to use in your next paper
• 9 academic essay tips
• Contextualization & historicization: what scholars say
• Sentence style study: an examination of Lauren Slater
• How to use literary theory in interpretive essays
• Finding rhetorical fallacies in presidential politics
• Framing arguments: the fundamentals of shaping your point of view
• Rogerian argument: find a win-win solution
• Rogerian Argument: Barack Obama
• Revision Gadget (Prepositions & Readability)
• How to Revise a College Paper
• Avoid Professional Mumbo-Jumbo Style
• 10 Revision Tips
• Thesis Statements 101
• The Given-New theory of writing structure
• Paragraph revision demo
• Topic Sentence Linking: What introductory sentences really do
• How to Introduce Quotes
• When to Quote and When to Paraphrase

CONFERENCES & LECTURES ATTENDED

• Mark Axelrod: 2008 Visiting Writer Event, Fullerton College. April 7, 2008.
• 2008 Online Teaching Conference, held at Miracosta College, June 5-6, 2008.
• Ron Carlson discussing the process of writing a story. UCI Langson Library, October 3, 2007.
• “Using Blackboard in the Classroom.” Irvine Valley College seminar. August 1, 2007.
• 2007 Online Teaching Conference, held at Ohlone College.
• “Community College & CSUF Connections: Conversations in English Studies.” CSU Fullerton. Feb 9, 2007. Participated in panels on “Transfer Level Writing,” “Sharing Our Realities,” and “Developmental Writing.”
• Community College Hiring Committee information session, Fullerton College. Led by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss, Feb 2, 2007.
• Fordham University Graduate English Association Conference, "Transitional Spaces and Places." Oct 10, 2006.
• Boston College. New Writing Faculty Training. May 17, 2006.
• “Love, Sex, and Literature.” Boston College Spring 2006 Graduate Colloquium. (April 21, 2006).
• Robert Atwan & Susan Orlean discussing editing Best American Essays 2006. Coolidge Corner Bookstore, November 20, 2005.
• "Playing Parts: Writing Inside and Outside Academia.” Boston College Spring 2005 Graduate Colloquium. April 14, 2005.
• Jonathan Safran Foer reading & discussing his work. Boston College, April 7, 2005.
• Lorrie Moore reading & discussing her work. Boston College, November 20, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Web designer & webmaster for dirtcakes journal
• Volunteer at Alta Gardens nursing home, Garden Grove, Summer 2008.
• Smart Foundation volunteer, Summer 2008.
• 2008 Relay for Life Cancer Walk. Morongo Basin, April 26, 2008.
• Volunteer regularly at Fullerton College's Humanities division information booth (first week, club rush week, job fair week)
• Perform regularly as adjunct trumpet player for Bellflower Community Orchestra (2007-Present).
• Liasoned with Houghton Mifflin Co. to publish student essays in Patterns Across Cultures (2008), by Stuart Hirshberg and Terry Hirshberg, The Riverside Reader (2007) by Joe Trimmer and Maxine Hairston and Everyday Arguments (2007), by Katherine J. Mayberry.
• Discussed my first-year teaching experiences and helped new faculty develop syllabus at Boston College's First-Year Teacher program (May 10, 2006).
• Designed and taught a teacher training program entitled “Preparing our students (and ourselves) for timed exams,” Fullerton College, August 16, 2007.
• Tutored group home junior high and high school students living in the Hart Community Home as part of the Title I Education program (2003-2004).
• Tutored inner-city high Los Angeles school students in English, math, and science as part of a school-enrichment program, MedCOR, preparing students for the medical profession (2001-2002).