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Dr. G. Travis Adams

  • English, Associate Professor

email:
gtadams@unomaha.edu
office:
ASH  189 C
office phone:
402.554.3587

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Biography

Dr. Adams grew up in Eagle River, Alaska. He played hockey and baseball through high school and now plays in a recreational hockey league. Dr. Adams has an undergraduate degree from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, an MA in English from Boise State University, and earned his PhD from the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

Teaching Interests

Composition

Writing Center Theory/Pedagogy

Composition Theory/Pedagogy

Research Methods

WAC/WID

Composition/Writing Center History

Research Interests

The Reading Writing Connection

Reading in Writing Centers

Writing Center Theory/Pedagogy

Composition Theory/Pedagogy

The Economics of Research in Writing Studies

Education

BA, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN, English-Literature, 2001

MA, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, English, 2004

Ph D, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, English- Composition and Rhetoric, 2012

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Adams, G.. 2019. "New Assessments for New Reading: An Evidence Based Approach." Digital Reading and Writing in Composition Studies, Routledge, 14.

Adams, G.. 2017. "The Relationship Between Reading and Writing." From the Heartland: Critical Reading and Writing at UNO, Fountainhead Press, 3rd Ed, 17-19.

Adams, G.. 2016. "The Line That Shouldn't Be Drawn: Writing Centers as Reading Centered", Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture/Duke University Press, 16, 1, 17.

Adams, G.. 2013. An Interdisciplinary Research Course in Theoretical Ecology for Young Undergraduates, Mathematical Association of America, 1, 69-81.

Service

Department, College, and University

Faculty Senate, University Senate Service, 05/01/2015 - 05/31/2015

Faculty Senate Professional Development Committee, Committee Chair, Organize and take the lead on this faculty senate committee, including scheduling meetings and guest speakers, reporting committee progress, and representing the committee at Faculty Senate Executive Council meetings., 05/01/2016 - 05/31/2016

First-Year Writing Committee, Department of English, Committee Member, 08/01/2013 - 08/31/2013

Graduate Program Assessment Committee, Committee Chair, 12/01/2015 - present

Writing In the Disciplines (WID) Advisory Committee, Committee Chair, Organize meetings, draft documents, communicate program goals, develop workshops, etc., 08/15/2013 - present

Professional

Midwest Writing Centers Association, Officer, Other Officer, 05/01/2018 - 05/31/2018

Writing Center Journal, Reviewer, Journal Article, Peer-review articles submitted for publication to Writing Center Journal., 05/01/2015 - 05/31/2015

National Conference on Peer Tutors in Writing (NCPTW), Officer, Other Officer, Attend board meetings at conferences or via teleconference, contribute ideas to help shape the conference, help plan the yearly conference, advise on conference planning and proposal system., 11/01/2014 - 11/30/2014

Media Contributions

TV, "Cheating 101: The Culture of Cheating", Interviewed as subject expert for KMTV News story. Story by Emily Szink. Published 2/20/2015. Print story on website plus clips of video were included in news story., 02/20/2015

Administrative Assignments

Other, Writing Center Director/WID Coordinator, 08/01/2013

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