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The Biographical Profile of Winifred Bryan HornerEducationPh.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975 English Language and Literature and Linguistics
M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia Major: English Literature
A.B., Washington University, St. Louis, MO Major: English
Professional ExperienceEnglish Department, Texas Christian University Ida and Cecil Green Distinguished Tutor
Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition and Professor of English
English Department, University of Missouri, Columbia Professor of English
Chair, Lower Division Studies
Director of Composition Program
Before I went into academia I worked as a free lance writer and published articles in popular publications including feature articles in Farm Journal and the Saturday Evening Post and a short item for The New Yorker. In the April 14, 1956 issue of the Saturday Evening Post I published an article that was read into the U.S. Congressional Record by Senator Stuart Symington. Grants/Honors2003 Exemplar Award: “For someone who is an example of excellence in scholarship, teaching and service to the profession of English. The highest award of the National Council of Teachers of English.” 2001 Distinguished alumna, Washington University 1991 Festschrift in Honor of Winifred Bryan Horner. Ed. Theresa Enos. Southern Illinois UP. 1990 National Council of Teachers of English Research Grant Distinguished Alumna: University of Missouri Texas Christian University Research Grant 1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award for Annotated Bibliography of Manuscripts on Nineteenth-Century Scottish Rhetoric. Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities, University of Edinburgh 1985 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Texas Woman’s University 1982 Contribution to the Education of Women, University of Missouri Award for $1000 Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, $2500 1981 Visiting Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley Grants from University of Missouri Research Council 1973–74 Special Assignment, University of Missouri: To explore ways of improving instruction in Basic English 1958 Award for “Best Article of the Year,” University of Missouri School of Journalism Listed in International Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, Directory of Distinguished Americans, Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors. Research and TravelResearched at the four Scottish Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews working on students’ notes from nineteenth-century rhetoric courses. Fall 1980, January-November 1989.
Visiting Research Associate: University of California at Berkeley, 1981. REFEREE: I regularly read articles for College English, College Composition and Communication, English Education, Journal of Writing Program Administration, Rhetoric Review, Journal of Basic Writing
EDITORIAL BOARD: Journal of Basic Writing, Rhetoric Review, Freshman English News, Focuses. REVIEWS: I have reviewed manuscripts for the University of Chicago Press, the University of Missouri Press, Southern Illinois University Press, Texas Christian University Press, Oxford University Press, and the Modern Language Association. I have also reviewed numerous Freshman English texts for every major publisher in the United States.
ServiceInternational Society for the History of Rhetoric Executive. Council: 1986 Nominating committee: 1989.
Rhetoric Society of America Board of Directors, 1981–87 (elected)
President, 1987–89 (elected)
Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric: President Modern Language Association Chair: Teaching of Writing Division, 1981 (elected)
Member: Delegate Assembly, 1981--
Chair: Language and Society Division, 1990
Midwestern Modern Language Association Writing in College Section: Advisory and Nominating Committee, 1984
National Council of Teachers of English College Division Nominating Committee, 1981 (elected)
Chair: Braddock Award Committee, 1982 (appointed)
Member: Resolutions Committee, 1982 (appointed)
Member: Executive Committee, CCCC, 1983 (elected)
Member: David J. Russell Award Committee, 1985–86 (appointed)
Chair: Status of Women Committee, 1985–87 (appointed)
National Council of Writing Program Administrators President: 1985–1987 (elected)
Vice President: 1977–1985 (elected)
Member Exxon and WPA Board of Writing Program Consultants Selection Committee: 1989-- President: Missouri ACCORD, 1975.
Missouri Governor’s Ad Hoc Committee on English for the College Bound, 1979 WORKSHOPS Writing Across the Curriculum: Brigham Young U., 1990 Workshop for Graduate Students: University of Arizona, 1989 Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop: University of North Dakota, 1989 National Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2 day workshop, 1987. Association of American Colleges, Workshop on Writing Program Evaluation, New Orleans, January 1985
Association of American Colleges, Workshop on Writing Program Evaluation, Washington, D.C., January 1986 University of Iowa, June 1979, 5 day workshop University of Iowa, May 1980, 2 day workshop Beaver College, June 1980, 5 day workshop CONSULTING AND EVALUATION OF WRITING PROGRAMS University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 1980 University of Indiana, Gary, March 1982 St. Mary’s College, South Bend, IN, January 24–25 1982 Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March 1982 City College, City University of New York, March 1983 Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, March 1983 New York City Technical College, City University of New York, April 1983 Metro State University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 1983 Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York, May 1983 Wayne State University, Detroit, May 1985 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 1985 Arizona State, Phoenix, October 1987 Brigham Young University, October 1990 University of Utah, October 1990 University of Tennessee, October 1990 FULBRIGHT SELECTION COMMITTEE: 1986–1989 TENURE AND PROMOTION REVIEWS: Brown University, University of Oklahoma, University of California at Los Angeles, Michigan Technological University, Beaver College, University of Pittsburgh, University of Mississippi, University of Vermont, Kansas State, Yale University. |