Dale Jacobs, Research Fellow

A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Dr. Jacobs taught at East Carolina University from 1997-2000. He joined the University of Windsor in 2000 as Director of Composition (a position he still occupies) and also served as Graduate Chair in English from 2001-2005. He is the editor of The Myles Horton Reader (University of Tennessee Press, 2003) and co-editor (with Laura Micciche) of A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion in Composition Studies. He has been very involved in the Conference on College Composition and Communication, on which he served as an Executive Committee Member from 2004-2006. His recent work focuses on the connections between multimodality and literacy.

Critical pedagogy, Multimodality, Literacy, Rhetoric

Current Research:

Dr. Jacobs is currently working on articles on religious rhetoric in comics, teaching comics in/as the contact zone, and the relationship between the monastic concept of hospitality and invitational rhetoric.

Research Information

Recent Funding:

• • Special Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Institutional Grant – University of Windsor, 2005. $5000.
  • Special Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Institutional Grant – University of Windsor, 2006. $5000.

Recent Publications:

• • “Comics as Multimodal Sponsors of Literacy.” College Composition and Communication. Forthcoming.
  • “More than Words: Comics as a Means of Teaching Multiple Literacies.” English Journal 96.3 (January 2007): 19-25.
  • “Engagement, Integration, Collaboration: Composition at the University of Windsor.” With Jay Dolmage. Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Essays on Writing Instruction in Canadian Universities. Eds. Heather Graves and Roger Graves. Winnipeg: Inkshed Publications, 2006. 121-46.
  • “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?: Theorizing Hope in Education.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 25 (2005): 783-802.
  • “‘Where Can I Get a Camera?’: Documentary Film, Visual Rhetoric, and the Teaching of Writing.” The Humanities and the Visual Media: Pedagogical Approaches. Ed. Kecia McBride. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 155-72.
  • “Interview with Ho Che Anderson.” International Journal of Comic Art 8.2 (Fall 2006): 363-86.

Supervision

MA Thesis - Directed Supervision

• • Jamie Gegenry (University of Windsor), 2004-05.
  • David Burke (University of Windsor), 2002-03.
  • Dawn Garner (East Carolina University), 1999-2000.
  • Renee Jarrett (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Joanne Dunne (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Jennifer Larkin (East Carolina University), 1998-99.

MA Thesis

- Member of Supervisory Committee

• • Michael Murphy (University of Windsor), 2006-07.
  • Darrell Etherington (University of Windsor), 2006-07.
  • Drew McDowell (University of Windsor), 2003-04.
  • Tracy Grozier (University of Windsor), 2003-04.
  • Renee Griffiths (University of Windsor), 2003-04.
  • Alethea Power (University of Windsor), 2003-04.
  • Roger Daniher (University of Windsor), 2003-04.
  • Teresa Scholten (University of Windsor), 2002-03.
  • Jay Dolmage (University of Windsor), 2001-02.
  • Kevin Lewis (University of Windsor), 2001-02.
  • Pamela Flannery (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Debbie King (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Carrie Unger (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Mary Caroll Hackett (East Carolina University), 1998-99.
  • Andy Turner (East Carolina University), 1997-98.
  • Carol Mehle (East Carolina University), 1997-98.
  • Tony Adkins (East Carolina University), 1997-98.
  • Deanya Lattimore (East Carolina University), 1997-98.

MEd Thesis

- Member of Supervisory Committee

• • Kathy Senchuk (University of Windsor), 2002-03.
  • Brenda Plowman (University of Windsor), 2002-03.