TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2002- Asst. Dean for Instruction
2002 Assoc. Prof. of English
1996 - Director of First-Year Seminars, Middlebury College
1989 - Director of Writing, Middlebury College / Asst. Prof. of English
1985-88 Vstg. Asst. Prof. of English (part-time), Middlebury College
1983-84 Vstg. Instructor of English, Middlebury College
1981-83 Lecturer in English, Founding Director of the UVM Writing Center
University of Vermont, Burlington
1980-81 Adjunct Instructor of English, Suffolk Community College
1976-79 Teaching Associate, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
COURSES TAUGHT REGULARLY AT MIDDLEBURY
EL 203 Interpretations of Literature
EL 204 Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton
EL 301 Chaucer and the 14th Century
EL 560/701/711 Senior Independent Projects, Essays, and Theses
FYS Imagining Nature
FYS Voices along the Way (for international students)
WP 100/101 The Writing Process
EL 107 Journal and Essay: Intro. Creative Non-fiction
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
Asst. Dean for Instruction, Middlebury College, 2002-
Director, First-Year Seminar Program, Middlebury College, 1996-present
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, Middlebury College, 1987- present.
Director, Middlebury College Writing Center, 1989-present
Director, New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, 1993-2002.
Member, Task Force on Effective Vermont Schools, 2000 - present
Member, Middlebury College Library Planning and Implementation Committee,
2000 - present
Chair, First-Year Seminars and College Writing Program Self-Study Committee, 1997-98
Member, Task Force on General Excellence in the Liberal Arts, Middlebury College, 1994-96. Co-Principal author of the General Excellence Task Force Report on the Vision of Middlebury for the 21st Century.
Member, New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf Coordinating Committee, 1991-present.
Chair, Computer Committee, Middlebury College, 1991-92
Member, Computer Committee, Middlebury College, 1989-1992.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2001-03 Arthur Vining Davis Fellow. Design and implement college/high school
outreach programs for high schools in upstate New York and Brooklyn and
speak at periodic AVD regional conferences.
1999 Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant, Middlebury College. To examine discourse strategies in online communications.
Resulted in two conference presentations: Boston, 1999; Minneapolis, 2000.
1998 Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award, National Resource Center
for the Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina
1997 Fellow / Presidential Scholar, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg Austria. "Technology and the Future of Education"
1991 NSF / REU Summer Research Grant ($10,000) To establish a peer-tutored writing center integrating computer technology.
1982,1983 UVM Living/Learning Innovative Teaching Grants ( $24,000)
(Awarded based on internal competition for Phipps Foundation Institutional
Grant funds. With it I designed, implemented and directed the first Writing Center at UVM, still in operation.)
1980 Indiana University Dissertation Research Grant
1979 The Lieber Memorial Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University (one of 5 awarded annually system-wide)
PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
"College/High School Collaborations: Best Practices," Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Foundation for Excellent Schools, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Oct. 2002.
"Faculty Development in Small Liberal Arts Colleges," Presentation at the
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March, 2002.
"Responding to Student Writing." Workshop presentation. University of Pennsylvania, January, 2002
"A New Peer-Tutoring Paradigm in an Online Writing Center," Fifth Natl. Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Bloomington, IN, May, 2001.
"A Teacher-Student Collaborative Investigation of 'Teacher' and 'Student' Roles Online." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April, 2000.
"Virtually Connect: Teaching and Learning Differently Online." (with Elizabeth Allen '00) Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Boston, October, 1999.
"Keeping the Fires Burning: Ongoing Faculty Development in Small Liberal Arts Colleges." 75 minute presentation, Annual Conference of the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience, February, 1998.
"Computers and the Social Contexts of Writing" (with John Elder, Middlebury College). Computers and Community: Teaching Composition in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Carolyn Handa. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1990.
"Blurring Discourse Boundaries: Using Computers to Teach Thinking, Speaking and Writing Skills" (with Ugo Skubikowski, Middlebury College). Italiana, Winter, 1987.
"Word Processing in a Community of Writers" (with John Elder). College Composition and Communication, May, 1987.
"Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, IV. 26-147," The Explicator, Spring, 1982.
"Making Connections: A Role for Writing in Humanities Teaching" 18th International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, March, 1991.
"Collaborative Online Research in the Writing Center" (with Terry Plum, Middlebury College). New England Writing Centers Assn. Annual Conference, April, 1988.
"Using Computers to Teach Writing in the Intermediate Foreign Language Class" (with Ugo Skubikowski, Middlebury College). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Annual Meeting, November, 1987.
"Word Processing in a Community of Writers." Eastern Small College Computing Conference, October, 1987.
"Developing a Sense of Audience: Computers and the Social Context of Writing" (with John Elder, Middlebury College). Session organizer, as well. Conference on College Composition and Communication, March, 1987.
"Reading/Writing the Great Texts: A Deconstructionist Model for Teaching Writing in the Humanities" NEH Summer Seminar for Teacher Educators, June, 1985.
"Struggle and Social Tradition: The Role of Reciprocity in the World of Beowulf ." Medieval Academy of America Annual Mtg., May, 1984.
"Computers and Writing." New England Regional Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum, April, 1984.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE
Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Member, The Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member, National Council of Teachers of English
Member, International Alliance of Teacher Scholars
WRITING PROGRAM
Kathy Skubikowski earned her doctorate in English Language and Literature from Indiana University where she specialized in both Medieval literature and rhetoric and composition theory. She taught at the University of Vermont for two years, where she founded the UVM Writing Center, before joining the English department at Middlebury College. As Assistant Dean for Instruction at Middlebury, she directs the First-Year Seminar Program, is founding director of the College Writing Program (1987), and founding director the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (2004). For ten years she also directed the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf. She has served on numerous committees and task forces at Middlebury, and is currently an Arthur Vining Davis Fellow, affiliated with the Foundation for Excellent Schools. She gives workshops and conference presentations and writes on the subjects of pedagogy, teaching writing, and faculty development.
As an Associate Professor of English Kathy regularly teaches sophomore foundations courses on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton and first-year seminars on nature writing and on American culture (for international students). She also teaches courses on Chaucer and the 14th century, interpreting and writing about literature, Beowulf and Tolkien, the writing process, and creative non-fiction. She has published or presented on Chaucer and Beowulf and is currently working on Milton's uses of Boethius in Paradise Lost.