Curriculum Vitae
Before Dr. Stewart arrived at Glenville, she taught composition and directed the writers’ center at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She started teaching as an adjunct at three Pittsburgh institutions in 2000 and was an instructor at a Penn State campus for a year.
At GSU, she teaches first-year writing, concentrating on corequisite courses for students who are not prepared for college English. She also teaches journalism and media courses and sponsors the student newspaper, The Phoenix.
About
Dr. Stewart has served as a discussion leader at the Research Network Forum, held annually at the College Conference on Composition and Communication annual conference in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
In 2020, Dr. Stewart was a Stage I reviewer of proposals for presentations at the 2021 College Conference on Composition and Communication Convention.
At Glenville State University, Dr. Stewart has served as a member of Faculty Senate since 2018, and is now the Vice President of that organization. She is also the sponsor of The Phoenix and cosponsor of the Trillium.
Dr. Stewart is the administrator of the Glenville State University Department of Language and Literature Facebook page.
Current Projects
In addition to teaching, Dr. Stewart is a former distance runner who has morphed into an artist. She has had paintings in two juried shows, as well as The Trillium annual art show. Her work can be seen at Max Paints.
Dr. Stewart has written two murder mystery dinner theater shows that were produced by the Glenville theater program and sponsored by the Glenville State University Foundation. She is currently working on two plays that will be produced by Airplay Radio Theater. The plays are tentatively scheduled for 2021.
Dr. Stewart’s presentation “At the Corner of This Way and That Way: Where Writing Programs and Faculty Senates Meet” has been accepted by the Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. She will present in Reno, NV, July 2021.
Recent Publications
“Weaving Personal Experience into Academic Writing.” Writing Spaces, Readings on Writing, vol. 3, edited by Dana Driscoll, Mary Stewart, and Matthew Vetter, Parlor Press, 2020, pp. 162-174.
“Predicting Success in College: The Importance of Placement Tests and High School Transcripts: Annotation.” The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing, 4th edition, edited by Chitralekha Duttagupta and Robert J. Miller, Bedford/St. Martins, 2014, p. 168.
“’I Just Skip the Poetry’: Writers, Teachers, and .” Composing Ourselves as Writer-Teacher-Writers: After Wendy Bishop, edited by Patrick Bizzaro, Alys Culhane, and Devan Cook, Hampton Press, 2011, pp. 43-56.
“Designing Assessment for Postmodern Academia: Examining How a Move to a Postmodern Qualitative Assessment” (with Krystia Nora, Jeffrey Condran, Katie Talerico, and Karen Santelli). CEA Forum, vol. 39, no. 10, Summer/Fall 2010, pp. 73-74.
Recent Presentations
“Don’t Drop the Mic: Accommodating the Hard of Hearing in the Academy.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, July 2019, Baltimore, MD.
“Sight Without Vision: Shared Governance in Crisis.” College English Association Conference, March 2019, New Orleans, LA.
“Austerity Always: Small, Rural, and Perennially Poor.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, July 2017, Knoxville, TN.