Dr. Frances Condon
St. Cloud State University
Department of English
116 Riverview Building
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
Education
PhD. State University of New York at Albany, English. Areas of Specialization: Composition Theory, Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy.
MA Clarion University of Pennsylvania, English, 1993. Areas of Specialization: Composition Theory, Critical Theory, Creative Writing.
B.F.A York University, Toronto, Theatre, 1984. Area of Specialization: Acting.
Honors
Keynote Speaker, Take Back the Night, St. Cloud State University, 2001.
Guest Host and Facilitator, First Annual Meeting of the Wheat State Writing Centers Consortium, 2001.
Women and Minority Affairs Summer Stipend for Integrating Women and Minorities into the Curriculum, Siena College, 1997.
Benevolent Research Award: A grant for promising research leading to a dissertation. Competitively awarded by the State University of New York at Albany, Benevolent Association, 1996.
Grants
Cultural Diversity Grant, St. Cloud State University, 2002. Awarded to facilitate publication of Kaleidoscope, a multicultural literary arts magazine for the St. Cloud State University community.
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Director of the Writing Center, St. Cloud State University, 2000-present. The Writing Center at St. Cloud State University offers tutoring on writing to all members of the University community including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, administrators, and staff. Duties of the Director include the administration of the Center, budget oversight, staffing, training, supervision, and scheduling of tutors and desk workers. In addition the Director teaches either a graduate or undergraduate course in writing center theory and practice each semester.
Director of the Writing Center, Siena College, 1996-2000. The Writing Center at Siena College offers tutoring on writing to all members of Siena College's community including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, administrators, and staff. Duties of the Director include the administration of the Writing Center, budget oversight, training, supervision, and scheduling of peer tutors, tutor payroll, faculty outreach, and faculty support and development for the Writing Intensive program. In addition, the Director teaches two courses each semester including a course in Peer-Tutoring in Writing during the spring semester.
Assistant Director of The Writing Center, State University of New York at Albany, 1995-1996. The Writing Center at SUNYA is the institutional center of the University's Writing Across the Curriculum program. Duties include scheduling and supervision of twenty-five graduate and undergraduate tutors, payroll, faculty outreach and training.
Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Albany 1994, 1995. Duties include teaching, as the instructor of record, Reading Poetry and Expository Writing.
Writing Center Tutor, State University of New York at Albany, 1993-1994.Duties include one-on-one tutoring of graduate and undergraduate writers from the entire University community, tutoring in cyberspace Writing Center and in-class presentations and tutorial demonstrations.
Instructor, Skidmore College, University Without Walls, Great Meadows Correctional Facility for Men and Washington Correctional Facility for Men in Comstock, New York, 1994-1995. Duties include teaching College Writing, a course that focuses on the development of critical reading and writing ability.
Academic Service
Chair and National Representative, Midwest Writing Centers Association, 2002-2003.
Vice Chair and National Representative, Midwest Writing Centers Association, 2000 -2002.
Regional Representative, International Writing Centers Association Board, 2000 - present.
Department Representative, Faculty Senate, St. Cloud State University, 2000 - present.
College of Fine Arts and Humanities Representative, Committee on Anti-Racism Education, St. Cloud State University, 2002 - present.
College of Fine Arts and Humanities Representative, First-Year Experience Committee, St. Cloud State University, 2003 - present.
Advisory Committee Member, Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, St. Cloud State University, Spring 2001 - present.
Faculty Advisor, Organization for the Prevention of AIDS in Africa, St. Cloud State University, Spring 2001 - present.
Grievance Officer, St. Cloud State University Faculty Association of the IFO, 2002 - present.
FAHE Representative to St. Cloud State Cultural Diversity Committee, 2001-present.
English Department Representative, Curriculum and Scheduling Committee, St. Cloud State University, 2002 - present.
English Department Representative, Graduate Steering Committee, St. Cloud State University, 2001 - present.
English Department Representative, General Education and Composition Committee, St. Cloud State University, 2000 - 2002.
Women and Minority Affairs Committee, Siena College 1998 - 2000.
Writing Center Representative, Education Professions Committee, Siena College 1996-2000. Duties include reading and assessing the writing samples of students applying for student teaching placement and participation in determining student qualifications for student teaching placement.
Writing Center Facilitator, Writing Across the Curriculum Liaison Committee, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, SUNYA 1995. Duties included working to develop a Writing Intensive introductory economics course and to facilitate interactive learning and writing to learn strategies in discussion sections led by Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Writing Center Liaison, Jawbone, SUNYA 1993-1995. Duties included assisting in the facilitation, organization and publicizing of the tenth and eleventh annual Jawbone reading series.
Planning Committee for Campus-wide Orientation of all New Teaching Assistants, SUNYA, 1995. Duties included planning, scheduling, and facilitating a two-day orientation in conference format for all new teaching assistants.
Planning Committee for New Teaching Assistants in the English Department, SUNYA 1995. Duties included planning, scheduling and facilitating a two-day orientation in conference format for all new teaching assistants in the English Department.
Executive Committee Representative, Graduate Student Employee Union, CWA Local 1188,1994-1995. Duties included service as the elected representative of graduate student employees at the State University of New York at Albany to the statewide Executive Committee.
English Department Steward, Graduate Student Employee Union, CWA Local 1188, 1994-1995. Duties included service as the elected representative of Graduate Student Employees of the English Department at the State University of New York at Albany.
Graduate Representative, Undergraduate Writing Sequence Committee, SUNYA 1993-1994. Participated in the development of core concepts and pedagogical approaches for a new undergraduate writing sequence implemented in the fall of 1995.
Productions and Publications
Plays
"Just Say Something" A Play about teenagers and Substance Abuse. Peterborough Players, 1989.
"The Wind Across the Wide Moors" Produced at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, 1992.
Poems
"Before Coffee" Plainsongs, Fall 1991, Volume 12, No.1.
"And Incidentally" Dare X, Spring 1992.
"The Age of Reason" Dare X, Spring 1992.
"Hiding in the Spanish Afternoon" The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spring 1992, V2, N2.
Scholarship
"The Ethics of Teaching Composition in Cyberspace: Knowledge Making in
Commodified Space". Fontaine and Hunter, eds. Foregrounding Ethical Awareness
in
Composition and English Studies. Boynton/Cook, 1998.
Conference Papers
"'The Double Binds of Whiteness': Anti-Racist Work and the Writing Center." International Writing Center Association, 2002.
"Beyond the Discourse of Denial: Teaching Tutors to be Agents of Change." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2002.
Session Chair, Graveyards and Ghosts: Creative Writing and White Privilege, the Ghetto and the Street. Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2002.
"Tutoring to Transform: Tutors as Agents of Institutional Change." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, 2001.
"A New Kind of Being: Reconceptualizing Writing Centers as Sites for Institutional Change." Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, 2001.
"The Good Fight: Transforming Conflict and Community." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2000.
"The Resisting Center: Race, Inequality, and the Activist Writing Center." National Writing Centers Association Conference, 2000.
"The Institutionalization of Writing Centers and the Politics of Race." Midwest Writing Centers Association, 2000.
"Teaching Writing as Nonviolent Praxis." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1998.
"Widening the Sphere: Theory and Practice of Democratic Education in the Writing Center." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, 1998.
"When Faith Fails." Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, 1998.
"Pedagogies of Hope: A Roundtable Discussion." Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference 1997.
"Towards an Ontology of Nonviolence: Recovering Hope for Social Transformation." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1997.
"Peacemaking Under a Watchful Eye: Practicing Nonviolence in the Prison Writing Classroom. "Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1996.
"Reconfiguring the Assigning-Responding Relations in the Classroom: A
Collaborative Magazine Publishing Project. "National Council of Teachers
of English
Conference on Assigning and Responding to Student Writing, 1995.
"Utopia? Interrogating the Rhetoric of Online Communities." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1995.
"The Will to Know, The Will to Power; The Will to Dominate: Foucault, The Carceral and the American Right." The State University of New York at Albany Undergraduate and Graduate Student Theory Conference, 1994.
"Redefining the Teacher/Tutor ldentity." Seventh Annual Conference of CUNY Writing Centers Association, 1995.
"Forging Connections: The Floating Center." SUNY Council on Writing, 1994.
"Walking Through Walls: The Faithful Act of Teaching Composition and Contingency in the Cosmos." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1994.
"Electronic Writing Centers: The Problems, Promise and Politics of Online Tutoring." New England Writing Center Association Conference, 1994.
"Composing the Cosmos: Speaking and Writing Toward the Origin of Consciousness. " Conference on Post Secondary Education, 1993.
"Rape, Death, and Authority in 'Thelma and Louise'." University of Pennsylvania Interdisciplinary Conference on Feminism, 1992.
"Running for the Borders: Discipline and Revolt in 'Thelma and Louise'." Midwest Graduate Student Conference on Feminism, 1992.
Community Service
Steering Committee Representative, Alternatives to War Committee, 2001-2002.
Co-Clerk, Old Chatham Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1998-present.
Participant, Dismantling Racism Project. Albany New York.
New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 1994-1995. Collected and filed pending legislation. Assisted with production of a catalogue of the Coalition's printed resources. Participated in outreach and data collection from rape crisis centers state-wide.
Peace and Service Committee, Old Chatham Monthly Meeting, Old Chatham, New York, 1995.
First Day School, Old Chatham Monthly Meeting, Old Chatham, New York, 1994-1995.
Speaker on behalf of higher education for inmates, Rally to Save SUNY and CUNY and Rally to Save New York, Albany, New York, 1995.
Pittsburgh Rape Crisis Center, 1992-1993. Helped with data entry, design and layout of publications, assisted volunteer coordinator with outreach.
Native Canadian Center, 1984-1986. Editing, layout, design, writing of the N.C.C. newsletter. In addition, worked to help incarcerated Native Canadians receive spirtual aid and counseling.
Teaching Interests
Peer Tutoring in Writing, Service Learning, Composition, Advanced Composition and Critical Writing, Critical Theory, Composition Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Faculty Development, Expository Writing, Playwriting, The Rhetoric of Prison Writers, Writing Against Racism.
Memberships
Midwest Writing Centers Association
International Writing Centers Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Friends Association for Higher Education
