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Hall, Jonathan
 

Hall, Jonathan

Curriculum Vitae

Professor and Chair
English

Phone: 718-262-5331
Office Location: AC-2A01
jhall1@york.cuny.edu

Education

Degree Institution Field Dates
PhD  Cornell University  English  1988 
MFA  Cornell University  Fiction Writing  1983 
BA  SUNY-Binghamton  Literature and Creative Writing  1980 

Jonathan Hall completed his Ph.D in American literature and his M.F.A. in fiction writing at Cornell University.   His current research interests focus on college writing studies, including plagiarism prevention, writing program administration, the teaching of college writing to multilingual learners, and the relation between freshman composition and upper-level writing in the disciplines (Writing Across the Curriculum).

Areas of Expertise

Writing Across the Curriculum
college writing pedagogy theory and practice
esp. multilingual learners
American literature, especially 19th century
Creative Writing: fiction and poetry

Books in Field Of Expertise

Heather Robinson, Jonathan Hall, and Nela Navarro. Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom. New York: Routledge, 2020. 244.

Bruce Horner and Jonathan Hall (eds.). Special Issue: Rewriting Disciplines, Rewriting Boundaries: Transdisciplinary and Translingual Challenges for WAC/WID. Across the Disciplines:: WAC Clearinghouse, 2018. .

Articles in Field Of Expertise

Hall, Jonathan and Sonia Valdiviezo. "The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World: Educating for Language Competence." Journal of Social Work Education. August 30, 2019: .

Hall, Jonathan. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Rewriting Disciplines, Rewriting Boundaries: Transdisciplinary, Translingual, and Transnational Challenges to WAC/WID." Across the Disciplines. 15 (3) 2018: 1-10.

Hall, Jonathan. "The Translingual Challenge: Boundary Work in Rhetoric & Composition, Second Language Writing, and WAC/WID." Across the Disciplines. 15 (3) 2018: 28-47.

Cripps, Michael, Jonathan Hall, and Heather Robinson. "“A Way to Talk about the Institution as Opposed to Just my Field”: WAC Fellowships and Graduate Student Professional Development." Across the Disciplines: Special Issue on the Role of Teaching Assistants in Writing Across the Curriculum. 13 (3) 2016: .

Hall, Jonathan. "Language Background and the College Writing Course." Journal of Writing Assessment. 7 2014: n.p..

Robinson, Heather and Jonathan Hall. "Connecting WID and the Writing Center: Tools for Collaboration." The WAC Journal. 24 2013: 29-48.

Hall, Jonathan and Nela Navarro. "Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Learning Research: Multicompetence and Second Register Acquisition." Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. 8.4 2011: n.p..

Hall, Jonathan. "WAC/WID in the Next America: Re-thinking Professional Identity in the Age of the Multilingual Majority." The WAC Journal. 20 2009: 33-47.

Hall, Jonathan. "Toward a Unified Writing Curriculum: Integrating WAC/WID with Freshman Composition..." The WAC Journal. 17 2006: 5-22.

Hall, Jonathan. "Plagiarism Across the Curriculum: How Academic Communities Can Meet the Challenge of the Undocumented Writer..." Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. 2 2005: n.p..

Hall, Jonathan. "The Non-correspondent Breeze: Melville's Re-writing of Wordsworth in Pierre." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 39 1993: 1-19.

Hall, Jonathan. "Every Man of Them Almost Was a Volume of Voyages': Writing the Self in Melville's Redburn." American Transcendental Quarterly. 5 1991: 259-271.

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Hall, Jonathan. "Fin de Siécle" and "A Denial (Poetry)." Beyond the Rift: Poets of the Palisades Edited by Paul Nash. Providence RI:Poet's Press.. 2010: 66-70, 74.

Hall, Jonathan. "Teenage Girl on a Summer Sidewalk (Poetry)." White Pelican Review. 5.1 2004: 38-39.

Hall, Jonathan. "Hard Summer (poetry)." Poetry Motel. 2004: .

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Hall, Jonathan. "Laugh (fiction)." Northwest Florida Review. 2.1 2003: 9-17.

Hall, Jonathan. "Mr. Machine (fiction)." Another Chicago Magazine. 28 1994: 60-66.

Hall, Jonathan. "Open Season (fiction)." Oasis. 1994: .

Hall, Jonathan. "Fast Food (fiction)." Sou'wester. 19.2 1991: 32-48.

Hall, Jonathan. "In a Green Eye (fiction)." Karamu. XII.2 1991: 41-53.

Hall, Jonathan. "The Masks of Love (fiction)." Kingfisher. II.1 1988: 15-33.

Hall, Jonathan. "The Penitent Magdalene (fiction)." Hawaii Review. 20 1986: 94-105.

Chapters in Field Of Expertise

Hall, Jonathan and Maria Jerskey. "Tear Down the Wall: Institutional Structures vs. Translingual Realities." Reconciling Translingualism and Second Language Writing. Routlege 2020: 172-186.

Hall, Jonathan. "Multilinguality is the Mainstream." ReWorking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global Interrogations, Local Interventions. Ed. Bruce Horner and Karen L. Kopelson. Southern Illinois University Press 2014: 25.

Hall, Jonathan. "Multilinguality Across the Curriculum (Foreword)." WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Developing Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices Ed. Michelle Cox and Terry Myers Zawacki (Perspectives in Writing Series, Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse,. Parlor Press 2014: .

Hall, Jonathan. "Alice and Phoebe Cary." Encyclopedia of American Nineteenth-Century Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, ed. Eric Haralson. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 1998: 65-70.

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Refereed Proceedings in Field Of Expertise

Reviews in Field Of Expertise

"American Literature" Vol 64: 1992: 820-821.

 

Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances

" The Translanguaging Tutee: Potential and Reluctance " March 4, 2019: Conference on College Composition & Communication.

" Translingual/Transnational Spaces: ‘International’ 1st-year Composition & Graduate Student Literacy Practices. " June 5, 2018: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Auburn AL.

" Transnational Composition Students Narrate Language Identity " March 16, 2018: Conference on College Composition & Communication, Kansas City.

" Translanguaging in Peer Tutoring " October 14, 2017: National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.

" Everyday Translinguality: Language Narratives and Negotiated Language Practices " March 16, 2017: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR.

" Plenary Presentation:Encountering Difference on U.S. Campuses: From “International Students” to Transnational WAC/WID " June 24, 2016: Inrternational Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Ann Arbor MI.

" Do Good Fences Make Good (Disciplinary) Neighbors?: Boundary Work between Rhetoric & Composition and Second Language Writing " April 9, 2016: Conference on College Composition & Communication, Houston.

" The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World: Integrating Language Difference in a Professional Community " June 18, 2015: The International Society for Language Studies Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

" Found in Translation: Disciplinary Boundary Work between Rhetoric & Composition and Second Language Writing " March 27, 2015: Writing as Translation: Tenth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut.

" What Writing in the Disciplines Faculty Need to Know About Language Learning: Helping Students to Acquire New Academic Registers " November 8, 2014: "Reading and Writing In the Disciplines and Across the Curriculum": CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction, LaGuardia CC.

" Beyond Divisions of Labor: Re-directing the Flow Between WID and the Writing Center " June 13, 2014: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Minneapolis MN.

" Overcoming Barriers to Faculty Multicompetence: Why Writing Teachers Need to Develop Literacies in Multiple Languages " March 21, 2014: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis.

" The Social Worker as Language Worker in a Multilingual World " March 5, 2014: Multicultural and Multilingual Caucus, School of Social Work, Columbia University.

" Reading Between Languages: Cultivating Translingual Learning Spaces in Composition and Literature Classrooms " November 2, 2013: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction : Traditions to Innovations: What’s New in Reading/Writing Instruction? LaGuardia CC.

" The Language and Literacy Diversity Project: Using Linguistic Survey Data to Inform Writing Pedagogy, Writing Research, and Writing Program Assessment " March 15, 2013: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV.

" “A Writing Course is a Writing Course”: Closing the Gap between Developmental Writing and First-year Composition " November 10, 2012: CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction.

" Translingual Economies of Reading " October 18, 2012: Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville KY.

" Multilingual Writers and the Future of WAC (Organizer of roundtable and presenter of “Lessons for WAC/WID from Language Learning Research: Multicompetence and Register Acquisition”) " June 9, 2012: International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Savannah, Georgia..

" Direct Assessment of Junior-level College Writing: A Study of Reading, Writing, and Language Background " June 8, 2012: International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Savannah, Georgia..

" The Junior Writer: Language Background, Student Engagement, and Academic Writing/Reading " March 23, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

" Multilinguality Across the Curriculum: Language, Identity, and the Future of WAC/WID " March 21, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

" What College Writing Instructors Can Learn From Language Pedagogy; What Language Instructors Can Learn From College Writing Pedagogy " September 30, 2011: Writing Education Across Borders, Penn State University.

" The Journey of General Education Literacy: Comparing First-year vs. Junior-level College Writers.” With Shao-Wei Wu. " May 13, 2011: CUNY General Education Conference, York College.

" Beyond ‘L1' and ‘L2": Toward an Interdisciplinary Synthesis in Multilingual Writing Research and Pedagogy. " April 7, 2011: Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta.

" The Linguistic Diversity Project: Language Background, Student Engagement, and College Writing. " February 18, 2011: Writing Research Across Borders II: 3rd International Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research. George Mason University.

" If Multilingual Learners Are the Mainstream, Who Are the ‘Outliers’ in Composition Research? " October 15, 2010: Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville..

" What WAC/WID Faculty Need to Know About Multilingual Learners: New Approaches for Faculty Development " May 21, 2010: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Indiana University.

" Closing the Sophomore Gap: General Education Connections Between First-year Composition and Writing in the Disciplines " May 7, 2010: CUNY General Education Conference, Kingsborough CC.

" What Multilingual Students Need to Know About College Writing: A Metacognitive Approach " November 7, 2009: Symposium on Second Language Writing, Arizona State University.

" Ten Principles of a Comprehensive Writing Program. " October 18, 2008.: 'Who Owns Writing?' Revisited: A Conference on the Future of Rhetoric and Composition. Hofstra University.

" WAC/WID in the Next America: Pedagogical Implications of 'The New Latin,' 'The New Englishes,' and 'The New Student " May 2008: International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, Texas.

" What TESOL Can Learn from Composition, What Composition Can Learn from TESOL " April 2008: Penn-TESOL Conference, Arcadia University.

" What Composition Can Learn from TESOL, What TESOL Can Learn from Composition " April 2008: Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans.

" Plagiarism Across the Curriculum: Disciplinary Communities & the Challenge of the Undocumented Writer " May 2004: National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, St. Louis.

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" Writing to Learn and WAC Principles " August 25, 2015: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Fellows.

" What Writing Fellows Need to Know About Multilingual Learners " August 27, 2013 / August 27, 2014: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows.

" Multilinguality in Teaching Writing: From Deficit to Resource " April 29, 2013: York WAC Program.

" Developing Rubrics. " October 12, 2012: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows, John Jay College.

" Assessing Multiple Sections of WRIT 300 " October 11, 2012: York College Day of Assessment.

" Making Translingual Pedagogies a Reality: Redesigning Syllabi, Assignments, Feedback, and Program Mission Statements " March 21, 2012: Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis.

" How We Do Writing At CUNY: a discussion about the future direction of writing instruction at York and other campuses " February 9, 2012: Center fofr Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

" Writing Fellowship as Career Development (Organizer and moderator of panel.) " April 15, 2011.: CUNY Professional Development Series for WAC Writing Fellows, John Jay College.

" Scaffolding and Spiraling: Building Assignments; Teaching About Plagiarism. " March 9, 2011: Teaching Freshman Writing Seminar Series, English Department, York College..

" What Faculty Teaching Writing Intensive Courses Need to Know about Multilingual Learners. " April 29, 2010: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

" Scaffolded Writing Assignments: Building Student Success into Writing Sequences. " December 3, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

" Enhancing Writing Intensive Courses: Faculty Collaborations with CUNY Writing Fellows. " October 8, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

" Creating and Using Rubrics. " October 1, 2009: Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, York College.

" Writing as a Method of Assessment " January 22, 2009: “Building Assessment into General Education Reform: A Workshop for Faculty Inquiry Groups,” organized by the Outcomes Assessment Committee, York College.

" Plagiarism Interventions " October 22, 2008: Conversation facilitator in English Department series “Talking about Teaching English 125.” York College.

" Beyond ‘Avoiding Plagiarism’: Teaching Purposes Of Attribution & Citation.” At “Negotiating Multiple Voices: Addressing Attribution and Plagiarism in the Writing Classroom. " February 25, 2008.: Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark..

" Multilingual Students and the Future of WAC " May 10, 2007: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

" New Approaches to Plagiarism. " October 30, 2006: Writing Program/WAC Program Professional Development Seminar for Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark.

" The Segue From Freshman Composition to Writing Across the Curriculum: Responsibilities on Both Sides. " May 11, 2006: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

" Plagiarism and the Writing Center: A Workshop for Tutors. " February 2006: Writing Center Rutgers University, Newark.

" Writing from Sources: How to Avoid Plagiarism and Improve Your Research Papers: A Workshop for Students. " February 2005: Writing Center, Rutgers University, Newark.

" Toward Excellence in Student Writing: Research and the Advanced Writing Intensive Course. " May 13, 2003: WAC Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark.

" Preventing Plagiarism Through Pedagogy: Strategies of Anticipation " November 3, 2004: Writing Program, Rutgers University, Newark.

Grants-In-Aid

PSC-CUNY, What's Buried in Grant's Tomb: Public Memory and the Reconstruction of an American Icon. 2019-2020: .

PSC-CUNY, Learning Between Languages: Transnational Graduate Students, Disciplinary Differences, and Translingual Practices. 2017-2018: $5704.

PSC-CUNY, The Linguistic Diversity Project: A Study of Writing, Reading, and Language Background among York College First-year Students. 2009-2010: $3750.