John Casey Gooch, Ph.D.
	
UTD, Mail Stop JO 31
Richardson, Texas 75083	Office Phone: 972.883.2038
John.Gooch@utdallas.edu	

Education	
Doctor of Philosophy, August 2002 
Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, Department of English

Dissertation: “Interdisciplinary Group Process as an Indeterminate Zone for Collaboration and Technical Communication: A Case Study of Proposal Writing for an Immune Building and Test Bed” 
Directed by Dr. Carolyn Rude

Master of Arts, May 1997
English and Technical Communication/Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Tech University, Department of English

Bachelor of Science, May 1994
History and English with Texas State Teaching Certificate for Secondary Schools (Grades 6-12)
West Texas A & M University

Additional Graduate Education (22 graduate hours in American and European history, 4.0 GPA)
Bush School (Distance Education, Texas A & M University), University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of North Texas
Teaching Experience
August 2008 – present	Assistant Professor of Literary Studies
The School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas	
August 2005 – August 2008	Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric, Professional/Technical Communication, Arts and Technology
The School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas	
August 2004 – July 2005	Professor, English (composition/rhetoric, composition/literature)
English Department, Communications and Humanities Division, Collin County Community College District	
January 2004 – May 2004	Part-time Instructor, Composition and Literature
South Plains College, High School Dual Credit Program 	
January 2004 – May 2004	Lecturer (part-time), Technical Writing
Department of English, Texas Tech University	
Spring 2003	Assistant to the Louisiana Tech Debate Team	
Fall 2002 – Summer 2003	Assistant Professor, English and Technical Writing
School of Literature and Language/Dept. of English
Louisiana Tech University	
Fall 2001 – Spring 2002	Graduate Part-Time Instructor for Technical Communication
Department of English, Texas Tech University	
Fall 2001 – Spring 2002	Adjunct Instructor for Technical and First-Year Writing
Department of Humanities, Lubbock Christian University	
Spring 2002	Writing Lab Instructor, Evening Program in Organizational Management, Lubbock Christian University	
1995-1998	Graduate Part-Time Instructor for Technical Writing and Composition, Department of English, Texas Tech University	
Spring 1996 – Spring 1997 (three semesters)	Writing Consultant, University Writing Center
Texas Tech University	
Summer 1996	Online Writing Consultant, University Writing Center
Texas Tech University	
Administrative Experience	
August 2008 – present	Director of Rhetoric and Writing
The School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas	
July 2006 – July 2008	Interim Director of Rhetoric and Writing
The School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas	
August 2003 – March 2004	Professional Writer and Research Analyst
Revizon, LLC	
Fall 2002 – Summer 2003	Coordinator, Technical Writing Major and Minor
School of Literature and Language/Dept. of English
Louisiana Tech University	
September 2000 – July 2001	Program Coordinator, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures
to Biological and Chemical Threats
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH)
Texas Tech University/Texas Tech Health Sciences Center	
August 1997 – July 2001	Division Leader, Communications and Outreach
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH)
Texas Tech University/Texas Tech Health Sciences Center	
September 1995 – August 1997

	Part-time Curriculum Editor
Division of Outreach and Extended Studies
Texas Tech University	

Courses Taught
COMM 3301, Public and Professional Speaking for Business
COMM 3342, Special Topics: Communication Technology and Media through Time
HUSL 7333, Special Topics in Rhetoric: Rhetorical Theory
HUSL 7335, Digital Rhetorics, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)
HUSL 7334, Rhetoric Pedagogy Practicum, UTD
CS 5301, Advanced Professional and Technical Communication, UTD
ATEC 3320, Introduction to Writing and Editing for the World Wide Web, UTD
ATEC 3325, Introduction to Computer Mediated Communication, UTD
English 468, Communication, Technology, and the 21st Century, Louisiana Tech University
English 463, Technical and Scientific Presentations, Louisiana Tech University
English 459, Science Writing, Louisiana Tech University
English 303, Technical Writing, Louisiana Tech University
English 1302, Composition and Literature, Collin County Community College
English 1302, Composition/Rhetoric II (computer-based), Collin County Community College – Special Topic: Writing about Contemporary and Historical Issues 
English 1301, Essentials of College Rhetoric (ten semesters)
English 1302, Advanced College Rhetoric, Texas Tech University (computer-based) – Special Topic: Writing about the Vietnam War
English 2309, Technical Writing, Texas Tech University
English 2311, Technical Communication, Texas Tech University
Refereed Publications
“The Dynamics and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Case Study of “Cortical Depth of Bench” in Group Proposal Writing,” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 48 (2): 177-190, 2005.
Textbooks
Argument! with Dorothy Seyler and Erica Messenger, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010 (forthcoming, January 2010)
Published Proceedings and Abstracts
“Imagining the Law and the Constitution of Societal Order in Los Angeles Police Chief Parker’s 1965 Crime and the Great Society Address.” Law and Rhetoric Abstracts Vol. 2, No. 36, 8-May 2009. Social Science Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com) (Top Ten Download List for Rhetoric and Law, Rhetoric and Public Affairs – June 2009)
“Collaborative Invention Among Experts in an Interdisciplinary Context: The Creation of Written Discourse for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats.” Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) Proceedings 2001, October 2001, 
pp. 7-8 (http://www.cptsc.org/conferences/2001/sessions/gooch.pdf)

“A Study on Collaborative Invention of Discourse among Disciplinary Experts: The Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats as an Activity System,” Society for Technical Communication (STC) Proceedings, 2001, May 2001 (http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2001/PDFs/STC48-000167.PDF)

“The Pedagogies of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux: Mapping the Territories Of and Between Liberatory and Critical Pedagogy.” Proceedings of the Third Annual Graduate English Society Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas-February 21, 1998.

Book Reviews
Review, Composition & Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Text-making, and Fair Use, edited by Steve Westbrook, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009 (in press, 2009)
Review, Beyond the Archives: Research as Lived Process, edited by Gesa A. Kirsch and Liz Rohan, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 (in press, 2009).
Review, Content Management: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, edited by George Pullman and Baotong Gu, Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2009 (in press, 2009).
Review, Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse by Michael J. Zerbe for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 38 (2008): 414-417.
Review, Freedom of Information in a Post 9-11 World, edited by Charles H. Sides, for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (in press, 2009).
Review, Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options, edited by James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands, for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003.
Review, Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by Barbara Mirel and Rachel Spilka, for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 33 (2003): 281-284.
Review, Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America, by David Tietge, for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 33 (2003): 365-370.
Review, Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing, by Jim Henry, for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication for the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 32 (2002): 186-190.
Review, Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication, Paul Dombrowski, editor, Winter 1997 for the Popular Culture Association; Online
(http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24552870795353)
Other Publications
Editor, Writing and Reasoning Across Disciplines: A Reader for RHET 1302, University of Texas at Dallas, McGraw-Hill Primis Division/Learning Solutions, 2009
Co-author, Technical Writing Course Packet for English 303: Technical Writing (Fall 2003 – Summer 2004), School of Literature and Language, Louisiana Tech University, 2003
Co-author, Teaching Assistant Instructor’s Guide for Department of English Composition Program, Texas Tech University, 1996
		
Academic and Formal Presentations	
“Imagining the Law as Rhetoric: A Close Reading of James Boyd White and Implications for Future Research.” XVIIth Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, McGill University, Montreal, Qc, July 22-26, 2009.

“Imagining the Law and the Constitution of Societal Order in Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker’s 1965 “Crime and the Great Society” Address.” The 12th Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference – Suffolk University Law School, April 3-4, 2009.

Panel Organizer for “Law and Rhetoric,” The 12th Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference – Suffolk University Law School, April 3-4, 2009

“To Protect and Serve”: The Los Angeles Police Department, Public Discourse, and the Responsibilities of Rhetoric in Law Enforcement after World War Two.” 13th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 2008 – Seattle, Washington, May 23-26, 2008.

 “To Protect and Serve”: The Los Angeles Police Department after 1945 and the Rhetorical Construction of Power and Authority in Public Discourse.” Sixteenth Annual English Graduates for Academic Development Conference, Texas A & M University at Commerce - Commerce, Texas, October 26, 2007

“Teaching Technical Documentation Using Artificial Intelligence Systems: A Service Learning Opportunity for International Students in Software Engineering.” Sixty-third Annual Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, Texas, October 27, 2006

“Grant Writing to Federal Agencies and the Role of the Technical Communicator.” Chapter Meeting of the Student Chapter, Texas Tech University Society for Technical Communication, Lubbock, Texas, February 26, 2004
“The Role of the Enthymeme in the Discourse of Counterterrorism: A Rhetorical Analysis.” College of Liberal Arts Symposium, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, April 29, 2003

“Technical Writing at Louisiana Tech: Embracing Interdisciplinary Relationships.” Presentation given to the Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, April 11, 2003

“Training Students as Technical Communicators for Interdisciplinary Situations: Traditional Scenes vs. Indeterminate Zones for Collaboration.” 29th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Utah State University, Logan, Utah-October 4, 2002

“Expanding the Scope of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Non-Corporate Contexts.” 28th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-October 12, 2001

“Collaborative Invention Among Experts in an Interdisciplinary Context: The Creation of Written Discourse for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats.” The 48th Annual Society for Technical Communication Conference, Chicago, Illinois-May 14, 2001

“The Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats.” Texas Department of Health Conference, Austin, Texas-August 2000

“The Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats.” Texas Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction Seminar, College Station, Texas-May 30, 2000

“Functional Subsystem Differentiation and Environmental Discourse: A Study of Greenpeace Rhetoric.” Graduate English Society Conference, Lubbock, Texas-February 19, 2000
“Forcing the Spring”: Greenpeace’s Discourse and Rhetorical Strategy Demonstrated Through Progressive Argument.” Graduate English Society Conference, Lubbock, Texas-February 20, 1999
“Forcing the Spring”: Greenpeace’s Rhetoric and the Diffusion of its Ideology through Narrative, Progressive Argument, and Scientific Legitimacy.” Fourth Annual West Texas A & M Graduate Student Research Conference, Canyon, Texas-November 6, 1998
“The Pedagogies of Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux: Mapping the Territories Of and Between Liberatory and Critical Pedagogy.” Graduate English Society Conference, Lubbock, Texas-February 21, 1998
“Information Theory, Chaos, and Communication.” 1998 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Lubbock, Texas-January 31, 1998
“Public Policy and Global Warming/Greenhouse Effect: the Scientist as Public Policy Rhetorician.” West Texas A & M Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, November 7, 1997
Academic Service
Member, UTD Committee on Learning Management Systems, 2009-10
Contributor, UTD Writing Center Tutor Orientation/Training, August 17, 2009
Focus Group Member/Coordinator, Writing Centers/Writing Instruction, UTD, Spring 2009
Chair, Textbook Adoption Committee for the Rhetoric and Writing Program, Spring 2009
Member, Committee for the formation of the Global Communication and Leadership (GCLI) Institute and the GCLI Certificate Program, Spring 2009
Disciplinary Hearing Officer, Judicial Affairs (UTD), 2006-2010
Faculty Advisor, Rhetoric Society of UT Dallas, 2006-present
Advisor, Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to San Antonio, Office of Service Learning, 2007-08
Vice Chairperson, Committee on Distance Learning, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007-08
Member, Committee on Distance Learning, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006-07
Member, Academic Senate, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006-07 and 2007-08
Member, English 2005 Search Committee (Hiring Committee), English Department, Communications and Humanities Division, Collin County Community College District, Spring 2005
Member, Technical Writing Course Committee, English Department, Communications and Humanities Division, Collin County Community College District, Academic Year 2004-05
Member, Quality Education Plan Committee, Collin County Community College District, August 2004
Chair, Technical Writing Course Packet Committee, Department of English, Louisiana Tech University, Academic Year 2003-04
Member, Quality Education Plan Committee, Department of English, Louisiana Tech University, Spring Quarter 2003
Committees, M.A. and Ph.D.
Co-chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee for Tracey Thornton, 2007-present
Member, Ph.D. Committee for Sharmistha Basu, 2008-present
Member, Ph.D. Committee for Dallie Clark, 2009-present
Member, Ph.D. Committee for Thomas Mackenzie, 2008-present
Member, M.A. Committee for James Maher, 2008-09
Member, M.A. Portfolio Committee for Jeremy Skinner, 2007-08
Member, M.A.T. Committee for Michelle Tsai, 2008-present
Member, Ph.D. Committee for Heather Wood, 2008-present
Continuing Education
Participant, “Reading Lincoln’s Rhetoric,” workshop led by David Zarefsky, Rhetoric Society of America Third Biennial Summer Institute, June 26-28, 2009 
Community Outreach Presentations
“Successful Writing for First-Year Composition and Beyond: Helping Students Transition Smoothly from High School to College.” Pearce High School, Richardson, Texas. 28-May 2009. 
Academic and Industry Consulting
2009-2012	Editorial Board, iDeal Reader
Primus Division of McGraw-Hill Higher Education	
January 2009	Textbook Reviewer
Pearson/Longman Publishing
Textbook reviewed: Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments, Second Edition	
December 10, 2008	Participant, Pearson Education Focus Group
Richland College, Dallas County Community College District	
October 2008	Textbook Reviewer
Bedford/St. Martin’s
Textbook manuscript reviewed: Sourceplay	
October 2008	Textbook Reviewer
Pearson/Longman Publishing
Textbook reviewed: The New Century Handbook, Fourth Edition	
September 4-7, 2008	Focus Group Member, McGraw-Hill Rhetoric Symposium
Chateau Élan Winery & Resort, Atlanta, Georgia	
June 2008
	Textbook Reviewer
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Textbook manuscript reviewed: A Writer’s Resource, Second Edition	
May 2008
	Textbook Reviewer
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Textbook manuscript reviewed: The Art of Questioning and Writing	
Fall 2007	Student Sample Essay Reviewer
McGraw Hill Higher Education	
Fall 2007	Pre-Revision Reviewer
McGraw Hill Higher Education
Textbook reviewed: A Writer’s Resource: A Handbook for Writing and Research, Third Edition (publication date: 2008/2009)	

Summer 2007	
Textbook Reviewer
McGraw Hill Higher Education
Textbook manuscript reviewed: Aims of Argument, Sixth Edition	
Summer/Fall 2005		Textbook Reviewer
McGraw Hill Higher Education
Textbook reviewed: A Writer’s Resource: A Handbook for Writing and Research, Second Edition	
June 2000	Technical writing/editing project for Silicon Graphics, Inc.	
		
Related Experience	
Fall 2005	“Professional Outreach Program for Medical Communication: A UTD and University of Verona Collaboration,” White Paper	
August 1999 – March 2000	Co-Coordinator, International Consortium for the Environment (ICE) Symposium: “Border Health: Making a Difference,” San Antonio Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, March 11-15, 2000	
September – December 1999	Co-Coordinator, Texas Tech’s Institute of Environmental and Human Health Building Dedication, December 6, 1999	
		
Offices and Honors	
2008 University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee
Summer 2002 Dissertation Award from the Graduate School, Texas Tech University ($2000)
Second Place Award, Communications Category for presentation entitled, “Forcing the Spring: Greenpeace’s Rhetoric and Diffusion of its Ideology through Narrative, Progressive Argument, and Scientific Legitimacy”, West Texas A & M University Graduate Student Research Conference, November 1998
Professional Memberships	
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Council of Writing Program Administrators
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America
Academic and Research Interests
History of rhetoric and rhetorical histories
Rhetorical theory and criticism
Rhetoric of law
Rhetoric and public address
Rhetoric and writing pedagogy

Professional References

Lisa Bell
Director of Professional Communication
School of Arts and Humanities
The Univesrsity of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas 75083
(972) 883.2052
lisa.bell@utdallas.edu

Dr. Bruce Brasington
Professor of History
Department of History, Political Science, and Criminal Justice
West Texas A & M University
Canyon, Texas 79016
(806) 651.2426
bbrasington@mail.wtamu.edu

Dr. Richard Leo Enos
Professor of English and Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition
English Department
Texas Christian University
TCU Box 297270
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
(817) 257.6244
r.enos@tcu.edu
Dr. Chris Grooms
Professor of English
Communications and Humanities Division
Collin College, Spring Creek Campus
Plano, Texas 75074
(972) 881.5952
cgrooms@ccccd.edu

Dr. Rick Simmons
George K. Anding Endowed Professor of English
School of Literature and Language
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana 71272
(318) 257.4689
simmons@latech.edu

Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux
Professor of English
Department of English
Texas A & M University
College Station, Texas 77843
(979) 862.3593
e-tebeaux@tamu.edu