Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Gareth Rees-White
Title: | Instructor |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | gareth@email.sc.edu |
Office: | HOB 600 |
Education
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition – University of South Carolina, 2022
MA, English – California Polytechnic State University, SLO, 2015
BA, American Studies – University of East Anglia, 2012
Areas of Specialization
Composition History
Global Language Rights
Horror Cinema
International Composition
Professional Communication (Business Writing/Technical Communication)
Courses
ENGL 101:
• Reading and Writing About Human and Language Rights Conflicts (Honors, Maxcy, Capstone)
• Reading and Writing About Horror Sub-Genres (Capstone)
ENGL 102:
• Research and Writing About Horror Environments (Capstone)
• Researching and Writing About Horror Creators (Honors, Capstone)
• Researching and Writing About Human and Language Rights Conflicts (Capstone)
• Researching and Writing About Contemporary Satire (Capstone)
ENGL 387/SPCH 387: Introduction to Rhetoric
ENGL 462: Technical Writing (Honors)
ENGL 463: Business Writing (Honors)
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- Provost’s Inaugural AI Teaching Fellowship, University of South Carolina 2024
- Overall Doctoral Graduate Student Achiever Award, University of South Carolina 2022
- First Year English Eliot Award for Graduate Teaching, University of South Carolina
2021
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award, University of South Carolina
2021
Selected Publications
Chapter in Edited Collection
• “James Moffett as Trans-Atlantic Nexus.” In James Moffett's Holistic and Spiritual Pedagogy: Toward a Re-emergence of the Student
Centered. Ed. Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., Blau, S., K. Kelly.
Textbooks
• The Carolina Rhetoric for English 102, 5th edition. Lead Editor w/ Sebastian Ivy and Nicole Fisk. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil,
2019.
• The Carolina Rhetoric for English 102, 4th edition. Co-editor w/ Sebastian Ivy and Nicole Fisk. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil,
2018.
Conference Presentations
• Invited Speaker: “From Orientation to Graduation: An International GTA Perspective.”
Center for Teaching Excellence, Columbia, SC. Sept., 2022
• “The Language Conflict Project: Perspectives on 21st century Ethnolinguistic Conflict.”
Communication, Conflict and Peace Online Symposium, The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre
for War and Peace Studies. June, 2022.
• “Extra Credit: Building Community in the Online Classroom.” Octoberbest, Center for
Teaching Excellence, Columbia, SC. Sept., 2020.
• “Building A Trans-Atlantic Hospitable Relationship.” RSA, Portland, WA. May, 2020
(canceled due to COVID-19).
• “Trans-Atlantic Commonality.” CCCC, Milwaukee, WI. March, 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19).
• “A Call for Globalization.” CRC, Raleigh, NC. April, 2019.
• “Perspicuity of the Body and Mind: Campbell and Austin as Technical Communicators.”
CRC, Clemson, SC. Feb., 2018.
• “Cover Art 65 Million Years in The Making: Jurassic Park as Paratext.” PCA/ACA in the South Conference, Savannah, GA. Oct., 2017.
• “Here Be Monsters: Mapping the Unknown.” CRC, Columbia, SC. Feb, 2017.
• “The Euphemistic Rise of The Sexual Love Song.” PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans,
LA. April, 2015.
• “The Horror of Humanity.” UNR College of Liberal Arts Graduate Symposium, Reno, NV.
March, 2015.
• “Who Convenes the Conference: Super-Heroic Satire in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” PCA/ACA in the South Conference, New Orleans, LA. Oct, 2014.