Member Profile

Cynthia Mahaffey

Primary Discipline:: Humanities / English / Language / Composition and Rhetoric

Other Disciplines:

Primary Affiliation:: University System of Georgia - Georgia State University (Education, 4 Year/4 Year + Grad, GA, United States)
Secondary Affiliation:: Bowling Green State University (Education, 4 Year/4 Year + Grad, OH, United States)

Academic Support Services / Faculty Development / Teaching Strategies (Expert)
Offer training saessions to graduate teaching assistants, instructors, and other faculty on writing pedagogy
Academic Support Services / Faculty Development / Teaching Challenges (Expert)
Offer training saessions to graduate teaching assistants, instructors, and other faculty on addressing issues of resistance and behavior in the classroom
Academic Support Services / EPortfolios / Career Oriented ePortfolios (Expert)
Every semester, I introduce my first-year students to Epsilen eportfolios and start them on building their own professional eportfolios.

transfer English (11/2010)
Fullerton Jr. College
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Writing (12/2004)
Bowling Green State University
M.Ed. Secondary Education and Teaching of Writing (12/1988)
Nazareth College of Kalamazoo

Mahaffey, Cynthia J.. (May 2008). Wearing the Rainbow Triangle: The Effect of Out Lesbian Teachers and Lesbian Teacher Subjectivities on Student Writing in the First-Year Composition Classroom. Sarrbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.
Mahaffey, Cynthia J. and Sandra Meade. (2005). A virtual dialogue on feminist mentoring. in Women Writers, special issue, Lit Candles: Feminist Mentoring and the Text.
Simpson, Cynthia Jo (Mahaffey). (1998). Review of Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure (Richard C. Gebhardt and Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt), Writing for Academic Publication: A Guide to Getting Started (Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley), and in Teaching English in the Two-year College. (September).

WS2000 (Current)
- Bowling Green State University – Introduction to Women's Studies
- Introduction to theories, history and action projects of women's studies
GSW1120 (Current)
- Bowling Green State University – General Studies Writing
- Scholarly college-level writing, use of proper documentation and scholarly sources for synthesis and support, development of scholarly argument
GSW1110 (Current)
- Bowling Green State University – General Studies Writing
- Introduction to persuasive college level writing

• Recipient, Bowling Green State University Friends of Jerome Library, 2008 Authors and Artists Recognition (11/2010)
in honor of the publication of my book, Wearing the Rainbow Triangle: The Effect of Out Lesbian Teachers and Lesbian Teacher Subjectivities on Student Writing in the First-Year Composition Classroom (2008).
• Nomination for the 2009 BGSU Master Teacher of the Year Award (01/2010)
(the only student-nominated BGSU teaching award)
• Recipient with Bethany deWeese, 2006, Bowling Green State University, Residence Life Award for residence hall programming (01/2005)
“:Lesbian 101” Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Ask a Lesbian”

Individual presenter, “Counting the homeless: Student service learning, collaboration and writing social concern in the first-year composition classroom.” (Presentation about MERLOT), 11/10/2010
.” 6th Annual Ohio First-Year Summit, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Presenter, "Alternative approaches to composition classes in learning communities," as part of a panel by the Chapman Learning Community (Presentation about MERLOT), 11/10/2010
Beyond 2001: The Odyssey of Inclusion, Annual Learning Communities Conference, Chicago, IL,
Presenter, "How GLBT students problematize and are problematized by university learning communities." (Presentation about MERLOT), 11/10/2010
." Beyond 2001: The Odyssey of Inclusion, Annual Learning Communities Conference, Chicago, IL

Instructor, Writing and Women's Studies (08/2001 – Current) Bowling Green State University
Instructor, Composition (01/1990 – 08/2000) Grand Valley State University
Instructor, Writing (01/1998 – 05/1999) Owens Community College