Curriculum Vitae
Personal
Adam Phillips, PhD English (Rhetoric and Composition)
Assistant Professor of Instruction and
Associate Director of First-Year Writing Program
The University of South Florida
aphillips0919@yahoo.com
Higher Education
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition, May 2022
University of South Florida, Department of English
Secondary Areas:
Professional and Technical Communication Certificate, Department of English
Digital Humanities Certificate, Departments of History and English
Dissertation: Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Knowledge
(Re)circulation Across Genres
Director: Dr. Lisa Meloncón, University of South Florida
Member: Dr. Norbert Elliot, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Member: Dr. Liane Robertson, University of South Florida
Member: Dr. Kristen Gay, University of South Florida
M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, July 2015
Florida Atlantic University, Department of English
B.A. English, Literature, May 2010
Youngstown State University, Department of English and World Languages
Employment History
University of South Florida, Department of English, Associate Director of First-Year
Writing Program,
2024-Present.
University of South Florida, Department of English, Assistant Director of First-Year
Writing Program,
2023-2024.
University of South Florida, Department of English, Assistant Professor of Instruction,
2022-Present.
University of Tampa, Department of English and Academic Writing, Visiting Assistant
Teaching Professor, 2020-2022.
University of South Florida, Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2017-
2022.
University of South Florida, Department of English, Adjunct English Faculty, 2016-2017.
University of Tampa, Department of English and Academic Writing, Adjunct English
Faculty, 2015-2020.
Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2013-
2015.
Publications
2024 Phillips, A., & Melonçon, L. "An Examination of the Research Requirement in
Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Documentation." (Currently in Review).
2024 Phillips, A . "Charting the Currents: A Deep Dive into the Writing Studies Job
Market for Early Career Scholar-Teachers." (Currently in Review).
2019 Martinez, D., Mechenbier, M. X., Hewett, B. L., Melonçon, L., Harris, H. S., with St.
Amant, K., Phillips, A., & Bodnar, M. I. "A Report on
a U.S.-Based National Survey of
Students in Online Writing Courses." Research in Online Literacy Education, April
2019, n.p.
2018
Contributor to A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing (RAWWr) (5th Edition)
2015
Contributor to Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers (3rd Edition) 2020
Papers Presented
Phillips, Adam. “Rhetorical Assemblages as a Heuristic for First-Year Writing:
Accounting for the Abundance of "Flux" Within Contemporary Communicative
Situations,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane,
April 2024.
Phillips, Adam. "The R/C Job Market Post-Pandemic: What to Expect When You're
Expecting . . .to Graduate," Conference on College
Composition and Communication,
Chicago, February 2023.
Phillips, Adam. “Measuring Knowledge (Re)circulation: A Corpus Analysis of an FYW
Curriculum Through the Frameworks of Assemblage Theory and LCS Patterns,”
Journal of Writing Analytics' Virtual Symposium, Online, May 2021.
Phillips, Adam. “Assemblages of Knowledge: Tracing Knowledge (Re)circulation across
Genres in FYC,” Conference on College Composition
and Communication, Portland,
Online, April 2021.
Phillips, Adam. “Researching the Academic Commonplace: Innovating Research
Methods for Digital Texts in FYC,” Conference on College
Composition and
Communication, Milwaukee, Online, March 2020.
Phillips, Adam. “Restaurant Rhetoric: ‘Nudging’ the Audience Through Gustatory and
Olfactory Sensory Recall,” Conference on College
Composition and Communication,
Kansas City, March 2018.
Phillips, Adam. “Multimodality in FYC: Integrating Meaning,” EGSS Conference, Florida
Atlantic University—Boca Raton, April 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Anticipating the Curve: Meaning Making Through Innovative Tools,”
Workshop Participant, Conference on College
Composition and Communication,
Tampa, March 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Deconstructing ‘Phallacies’: Subverting Male Hegemony Through
Sexual Prosthetics and Dildonics,” EGSS Conference,
Florida Atlantic University—
Boca Raton, November 2014.
Phillips, Adam. “Cyborg Pleasures: Technological Sexual Innovations for the
Posthuman/Postgender World,” CSSA Conference, Florida
Atlantic University—Boca
Raton, October 2014.
Phillips, Adam. “Literature in Freshman Composition: The Re-emergence of an
Unanswered Question,” EGSS Conference, Florida Atlantic
University—Boca Raton,
November 2013.
Panels Chaired
Phillips, Adam. “WWII in Literature,” Session Chair, EGSS Conference, Florida Atlantic
University—Boca Raton, April 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Talking the Talk: Addressing Issues of Contingent Faculty, Assessment,
and Curriculum Changes,” Session Chair,
Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Tampa 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Portrayals of Women in Literature,” Session Chair, EGSS Conference,
Florida Atlantic University—Boca Raton, October
2014.
Research Interests
Writing Program Administration
Generative AI (GenAI), Ethics, and Writing
Writing Analytics
Programmatic and Curricular Assessment
Multimodal Composition
First-Year Composition
Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Assemblage Theory
Funding
2024 $750 USF English Department Professionalization Funding
2023 $750 USF English Department Professionalization Funding
2020 $300 CCCC Childcare Grant
2020 $500 Adam Phillips, SGA travel grant to attend the Conference on College
Composition and Communication and present original
research.
2018 $1000 Adam Phillips, Travel Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, USF, to
attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in
Victoria, Canada.
2018 $500 Adam Phillips, Travel Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences, USF, to
attend the Conference on College Composition and
Communication and present
original research.
2015 $500 Adam Phillips, Travel Grant from Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and
Letters, FAU, to attend the Conference on College
Composition and Communication
and present original research.
Teaching Awards
2024 USF College of Arts and Sciences - Nominee for Teaching Award.
2015 FAU Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters - Nominee for Outstanding
GTA.
2014 FAU Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters - Nominee for Most Promising
GTA.
Teaching Specialization
FAU
ENC 1101 College Writing I
ENC 1102 College Writing II
UTampa
FYW 100 Introduction to College Writing
AWR 101 Writing and Inquiry
AWR 201 Writing and Research
USF
ENC 1101 Writing and Inquiry I
ENC 1102 Writing and Inquiry II
ENC 2210 Technical Writing for Health Sciences
ENC 3250 Professional Communication
ENC 3310 Expository Writing
ENC 3416 New Media
Additional Experience
2024-Present Associate Director of First-Year Writing Program, University of South
Florida
2023-2024 Assistant Director of First-Year Writing Program, University of South Florida
2019-2021 Digital Learning Specialist for the First-Year Composition Program
2019-2021 Participated in designing the course sequences for ENC 1101/1102 in the
spring at
USF
2019 Product Tester for USF Writes
2019 Participated in designing the course sequences for ENC 1101/1102 in the spring at
USF
2018 Mentor to New Graduate Students in the First-Year Composition Program
2017 Online Instructor Certification at University of Tampa
2017-Present IRB Certification at USF
2017-Present Online Instructor Certification at USF
2015 Participated in designing the course sequences for ENC 1101/1102 in the spring at
FAU
2014 Participated in designing the course sequences for ENC 1101/1102 in the fall at FAU
Professional and Honorary Organizations and Memberships
Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Member, Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)
Member, Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Member, Florida Educators Association (FEA)
Member, National Education Association (NEA)
Member, Online Learning Consortium (OLC)