DAN EHRENFELD
ehrenfd@farmingdale.edu
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
Farmingdale State College (SUNY), Farmingdale, NY
2020 –
Composition Coordinator
Farmingdale State College (SUNY), Farmingdale, NY
2025 –
Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies (tenure-track)
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
2017 – 2020
Coordinator of the Concentration in Community Leadership and Civic Engagement
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
2019 – 2020
Teaching Associate (Instructor of Record)
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2012 – 2017
EDUCATION
Ph.D in English with Specialization in Rhetoric and Composition
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2012 – 2018 (degree conferred Feb. 1)
Dissertation: “Rhetorical Investments: Writing, Technology, and the Emerging Logics of the Public Sphere”
Directed by Donna LeCourt, with Janine Solberg and Jon Olsen
M.A. in Secondary Education with Specialization in Culturally Responsive Teaching and Academic Instruction for Diverse Student Populations & California Teaching Credential (English Language Arts)
Loyola Marymount University
2005 – 2007
B.A. in English
Wesleyan University
2001 – 2005
PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Aristotle's Chronos and the Politics of Time in Algorithmic Environments.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics (accepted).
“The Creation of an OER to Restore and Maintain a Writers’ Community at a Regional Public College.” Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education, vol. 02, no. 1, 2023.
Processes: Writing Across Academic Careers (co-editor). Geneseo, NY: Milne Open Textbooks, 2023
“The Generation and Uses of Chaos”: Rhetorical Invention as the Taming of a Wild Garden" in C. Iverson and D. Ehrenfeld (Eds.), Processes: Writing Across Academic Careers, Geneseo, NY: Milne Open Textbooks, 2023.
“‘Sharing a World with Others’: Rhetoric’s Ecological Turn and the Transformation of the Networked Public Sphere.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 50, 2020.
“Online Public Spheres in the Era of Fake News: Implications for the Composition Classroom.” (with Matt Barton) Computers and Composition, 54, 2019.
“Ecological Investments and the Circulation of Rhetoric: Studying the ‘Saving Knowledge’ of Dr. Emma Walker’s Social Hygiene Lectures.” Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, edited by Lisa Meloncon and J. Blake Scott, Routledge, 2017.
“The Cloud and the Mine: A Conversation with Media Artist Brian House about Big Data and the Circulation of Digital Writing.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 21, no. 1, Aug. 2016.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Susan Wells Award for Excellence in Reviewing
2021
Received this award from the journal Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
The Gerard Hauser Award
The Rhetoric Society of America 17th Biennial Conference, Atlanta, GA. May 2016
Best paper presented by a graduate student (four recipients)
The CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX. April 2016
(four recipients)
The Michael Leff Award
The Rhetoric Society of America 6th Biennial Summer Institute, Madison, WI. June 2015
(five recipients)
The Walker Gibson Prize
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. April 2014
Best graduate essay on a topic in Rhetoric and Composition (one recipient)
PRESENTATIONS
“Toward a Research Ethics of Entanglement: Attuning Methods Toward Messiness, Difference, and Indeterminacy.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. February 2023
“The Making of an ‘Information Warrior’: A Qualitative Study of Mass Persuasion on the Social Web.” The Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Baltimore, MD. May 2022
“Mass Persuasion Revisited: Digital Activist Rhetoric in the Post-Gutenberg Era.” The Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Portland, OR. May 2020. Conference Canceled Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
“Persuasion and Time in Digital Microactivism.” Computers and Writing Conference. Greenville, NC. May 2020. Conference Canceled Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
“Public-Engaged Pedagogy and the Fifth ‘Position’ on Digital Democracy.” MIT’s International Media in Transition 10 Conference, Cambridge, MA. May 2019
“Emerging Practices of Networked Mass Persuasion: Implications for Public Writing Pedagogy.” Computers and Writing Conference, East Lansing, MI. June 2019
“Aristotle’s Chronos and the Shared Temporalities of Writing on the Social Web.” The Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN. June 2018
“Composition Pedagogy and the Social Imaginaries of the Digital Landscape.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO. March 2018
“The Circulation of Rhetoric and the Question of Change: Networks, Systems, and Ecologies on a Historical Timescale.” The Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, GA. May 2016
“Technologies for Going Public: The Circulation of Student Writing and the Spatiotemporal Logics of the Digital Public Sphere.” Computers and Writing Conference, Rochester, NY. May 2016
“Material Circulation and the Networked Public Sphere: Rethinking the Social and Spatial Politics of the ‘Public Turn.’” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX. April 2016
“Following the Threads: Writer-Audience Relationships and the Mediating Role of Digital Interfaces.” Computers and Writing Conference, Pullman, WA. June 2014
“‘Us Against Them’: Pitfalls of Open Access for Publics and Counterpublics.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN. March 2014
TEACHING
Farmingdale State College
Composition I: College Writing
Technical Writing
Stockton University
Introduction to Digital Writing
Digital Writing and Social Change
Professional Writing and Design
College Writing
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Introduction to Professional Writing
Teaching Basic Writing (co-taught)
Basic Writing
College Writing
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, AND SERVICE
Selection Committee for Chancellor's Excellence Awards for Faculty
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
Fall 2023 - Fall 2024
Served on a campus-wide standing committee that facilitates selection of chancellor’s awards winners
Academic Advisor - The Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
Spring 2023 - present
Reviewer
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly
International Education Committee
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2021 - 2023
Served on a campus-wide standing committee that supports international education initiatives
English and Humanities Curriculum Committee (member).
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
Fall 2021 - present
Serving as a member of the English and Humanities Curriculum Committee, a departmental committee.
EGL 101 Online Task Force
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2020 - 2023
Served on a task force that is redesigning EGL 101 (Composition I: College Writing) for online contexts.
Placement and Testing Committee
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2020 - present
Serving as a member and secretary of a committee that oversees the placement process for EGL 101 and EGL 097.
Composition Committee
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2020 - present
Serving as a member of a committee that oversees writing instruction at Farmingdale.
WID Committee
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2020 - present
Serving as a member and secretary of a committee that oversees writing across the disciplines.
Speech and Writing Micro-credential Task Force
Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, NY
2020 - 2021
Served on a task force that successfully proposed a speech and writing micro-credential.
Coordinator of the Concentration in Community Leadership and Civic Engagement
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
2019 – 2020
Served as coordinator of a new concentration focused on project-based learning, service learning, and experiential learning
Library Committee
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Fall 2019 – present
Served on a committee that oversees institution-wide library practices
First-Year Writing Award Facilitator
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Fall 2019
Facilitated a student writing contest
Advising Council
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
Served on a committee that oversaw institution-wide advising practices
Program Standards Working Group
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Spring 2019
Served on a working group that developed program standards for the evaluation of instructors
Writing Across the Curriculum Award Judge
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Spring 2019
Served as a judge for a student writing contest
Writing Placement Working Group
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Spring 2018
Researched programmatic approaches to assessing and placing students in first-year writing courses as a member of a temporary working group in the First-Year Studies (FRST) Program
Search Committee Member
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Served as a member of search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies
Assessment Workshop Participant
Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
December 21, 2017
Participated in day-long workshop focusing on university, program, and classroom assessment practices
Basic Writing and Placement Coordinator
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Fall 2015 – Summer 2016
Co-facilitated a basic writing pedagogy practicum and supported new instructors through classroom observations, training, and curriculum design, redesigned elements of Basic Writing curriculum, developed exam prompts and holistic scoring scale, co-planned the design and launch of an online course placement process, co-facilitated the training of placement exam readers according to holistic scoring methods
Placement Assistant
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Fall 2014 – Summer 2015
Contributed to the development of the Writing Program’s online placement exam and holistic scoring system
CAMPUS WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA
"A.I. and the Writing Assignment" (workshop Leader, with Christopher French), Departmental Workshop. April 14, 2023.
"Responding to Student Writing: Research on 'Reader-Based' Feedback." Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Webinar—”Giving Useful Feedback." April 8, 2021.
“Meta-Reflecting About How Technological Practices Shape Our Relationships with Audiences.” University of Massachusetts Amherst Writing Program Spring Symposium, Amherst, MA. January 2016
“Teaching Multilingual Writers.” (A Workshop Required for Second-Year Teaching Associates in the Writing Program), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. November and December 2015
“Synthesizing Sources and Drafting: Challenges and Strategies for the Basic Writing Classroom.” University of Massachusetts Amherst Writing Program Spring Symposium, Amherst, MA. January 2015
“The Holistic Assessment and Online Placement Exam Development Workshop” (Session Leader), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. September 2014
“Reading + Writing: How Do We Make Texts Highly Relevant in the Writing Classroom?” University of Massachusetts Amherst Writing Program Spring Symposium, Amherst, MA. January 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Teach for America (Corps Member 2005 - 2007)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Dartmouth Writing Research Seminar
July-August 2021
Participated in a competitively selected two-week seminar led by top qualitative researchers in the field of writing studies.
Research Assistantship, Prof. Donna LeCourt
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2015 – 2017
Researched scholarship in digital writing pedagogy, circulation studies, public writing, and digital activism
Research Network, The Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA. May 2016
Research Network Forum, The Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. April 2016
“Theory Building in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.” Rhetoric Society of America 6th Biennial Summer Institute Workshop. Madison, WI. June 2015
Graduate Research Network, Computers and Writing Conference. Pullman, WA. June 2014
References Available Upon Request