Lawson Jr, Daniel

Books

Tutor Training Methods [Placeholder Title]. Coauthored with Genie Giaimo. In process.

Naming How We Feel: Specific Affect and Emotional Labor in the Writing Center. Utah State University Press. In press.

Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures. Coauthored with Genie Giaimo. University Press of Colorado. 2024. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Being a Writing Center Director is the Loneliest Job: Self-Sponsorship and Transferring Composition Repertoires to Writing Center Administration.” Coauthored with Genie Giaimo. Under review. 

“Transmediation and the Marvel Superheroes RPG: How Rules Transmediate Narrative in RPGs.” Analog Game Studies. In press.

“General and Genre-Specific Tutor Training Modules for Explicit Transfer Talk Strategies.” Coauthored with Victoria Boyd Jennings, Kayla Taylor, and Elise Beller. The Peer Review 7.3 (Fall 2023).

“Training Tutors in the Framework for IL: Research as a Rhetorical Activity.” Coauthored with Caitlin Benallack. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship 45.5-6 (Spring 2022): 19-27.

“Peer Observation, Reflection, and Evaluation Practices in the Writing Center: A Genre Pedagogy Approach.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 15.2 (Spring 2018): 42-54.

“’Equally Terrorized’: Rhetorical Irony, Rorty, and In the Shadow of No Towers.” Journal of Comics and Culture 2 (Fall 2017).

“Writer L1/L2 Status and Asynchronous Online Writing Center Feedback: Consultant Response Patterns.” Coauthored with Joshua Weirick and Tracy Davis. The Learning Assistance Review 22.2 (Fall 2017).

“Metaphors and Ambivalence: Affective Dimensions in Writing Center Studies.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship 40.3-4 (Nov/Dec 2015): 20-27. 

“Information Literacy Sponsorship and Intersections in Writing Center and Librarian Collaborations.” Journal of College Literacy and Learning 41 (July 2015): 18-29.

“The Rhetorical Work of Remediation in The Photographer.” Studies in Comics 5.2 (October 2014): 319-336.

“Tutoring, Jouissance, and Correction Static.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 16.4 (Winter 2012): n.p.

 “Grounding Peer Review in Genre and Rhetorical Situation.” Journal of College Writing 10 (2010): 27-32.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Roll20, Access, and Rhetorical Agency in Digital Game Spaces.” Coauthored with Justin Wigard. In Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Role-Playing, and Fandom, McFarland & Company. 2021: 99-112.

“The Rhetorical Construction and Negotiation of Cultural Difference in American Nonfiction Comics.” In Critical Insights: The American Comic Book, Salem Press. 2014: 53-72.

 “Why Linearity is Not the Issue: Or, The New Work of Composing is Much Like the Old, Only Different.” Coauthored with Diana George and Tim Lockridge. In The New Work of Composing. Computers & Composition Digital Press. 2012: n.p.

“Challenging the Rules and Roles of Gaming: Griefing as Rhetorical Action.” Coauthored with Evan Snider and Tim Lockridge. In Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. Continuum International Publishing Group (Approaches to Digital Game Studies Series). 2012: 277-298. 

Textbooks & Textbook Chapters

Reading Culture 7^th Edition Instructor’s Manual. To accompany Reading Culture by Diana George & John Trimbur. Coauthored with Tim Lockridge, Kara Mae Brown, and Anne Wheeler. Pearson Publishing: 2009.

Composition at Virginia Tech Custom Textbook. Chapters (2008-2009): “Writing As a Process,” coauthored with Grete Scott; “Oral Presentations,” coauthored with Kelly Goad. Pearson Custom Publishing.

PhD, Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Tech, May 2011.

• Research & Teaching Interests: Writing Centers; Visual Rhetoric; Multiliteracies; Composition; Writing Across the Curriculum; Media Studies; Affect and Writing.
• Dissertation: “Like Their Lives Depended On It”: The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
• Committee: Diana George (chair), Kelly Pender, Katrina Powell, Steven Salaita.
  

MA, English (Pedagogy), Northern Michigan University, December 2006.

BA, English and History Secondary Education, Northern Michigan University, December 2004.

BA, English and History, Northern Michigan University, August 2000.

• Writing Centers
• Visual Rhetoric
• Multiliteracies
• Civic Rhetoric
• Composition
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• Media Studies
• Affect and Writing.