Patricia Webb
Associate Professor
Faculty
TEMPE Campus
Mailcode
1401
Biography
Patricia Boyd is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition. She teaches undergraduate courses in writing, as well as the graduate seminars: Composition Theory and Compostion and Feminism. Her work has appeared in national journals like Computers and Composition, College English, Composition Forum, Peer Review, Works and Days and international journals like JELLiC and O1E3Media. When she's not engaged in teaching or research, she loves spending time listening to music and hiking with her dog.
Education
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1998
Research Interests
- Using blogs and other social media in business writing classes and graduate composition courses
- Current representations of women in online fourms (particularly online book discussions and weight loss/diet blogs)
- Cultural representations of bipolar disorder (particularly in movies like Silver Lining Playbook and television ads)
- Gendered representations of coercion and consent in 50 Shades of Grey
Publications
- Patricia Boyd. "Pulling the Difference.". Kairos (2009).
- Patricia Boyd. "Analyzing Students’ Perceptions of their Learning in Online and Hybrid First-Year Composition Courses. Computers and Composition (2008).
- Patricia Webb. Reconceptualizing Research in Computers and Composition. Computers and Composition (2006).
- Patricia Webb, Kirsti Cole, Thomas Skeen. Building Bridges between Communities and Universities: Social Projects in Graduate Courses. College English (2006).
- Patricia Webb, Zachary Waggoner. Re-membering Our Spirit in a Technological Age: A Study of www.oprah.com. Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (an NCTE Assembly) (2005).
- Webb, Patricia Rose (Author) . Changing Praxis/Changing Students: Online Graduate Education. Culture Shock and the Practice of the Profession (2005).
- Webb, Patricia Rose. Changing Praxis/Changing Students: Online Graduate Education. (2004).
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- Patricia Webb. Technologies of Difference: Reading the Virtual Age through Sexual (In)Difference. Computers and Composition (2003).
- Patricia Webb. Writing and Publishing in the Boundaries: Academic Writing in/through the Virtual Age. Writing Instructor (2002).
- Patricia Webb, Cheryl Greene, Teryl Sands-Herz, Zachary Waggoner. Who Wrote This Course? Professors and Graduate Students as Co-Conspirators. Kairos (2002).
- Patricia Webb. The Debateabout ONline Learning: Key Issues for Writing Teachers. Computers and Composition (2001).
- Patricia Webb. Whose Stories? Whose Realities? The Materiality of Narratives in the Electronic Writing Classroom. Works and Days (2000).
- Patricia Webb. Collaboration On-line: Lessons from Writing Composition. Peer Review (1999).
- Patricia Webb. Telling Stories in/out of class: Writing Narratives about Writing. Composition Forum (1999).
- Webb, Patricia Rose. Changing Writing/Changing Writers: The World Wide Web and Collaborative Inquiry in the Classroom. (1999).
- Patricia Webb. Narratives of Self in Networked Communications. Computers and Composition (1997).
- Patricia Boyd. "Twenty-First Century Lore: Discursive Ecologies as Practice of Inquiry.". Revisiting Making Knowledge in Composition: Perspectives on an Evolving Field (0).
- Patricia Webb. "’The 21st Century to Meet and Socialize’: Discursive Constructions of Black Heterosexual Male Identities in Online Personal Ads. Racing Desire (0).
Research Activity
- Boyd,Patricia Rose*. Assessing and Evaluating Learning Outcomes in Traditional, Hybrid, and Online First Year Composition Courses. AZ BOARD OF REGENTS(1/1/2004 - 6/30/2005).
Courses
| Summer 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Spring 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Fall 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 205 | Intro to Writing, Rhet, Lit |
| ENG 391 | Writing in Context |
| Summer 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| ENG 598 | Special Topics |
| Fall 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 393 | Theories of Literacy |
| Summer 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 597 | Graduate Capstone Seminar |
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Summer 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 597 | Graduate Capstone Seminar |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| ENG 597 | Graduate Capstone Seminar |
| Fall 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 391 | Writing in Context |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Summer 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| ENG 597 | Graduate Capstone Seminar |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 391 | Writing in Context |
| ENG 597 | Graduate Capstone Seminar |
| ENG 652 | Advanced Composition Studies |
Service
- CLAS Curriculum Commitee, Chair (2009 - Present)
- Rhetoric/Composition Ph.D. Admissions Committee, Member (2003 - Present)
- Department Grants Committee, member (2005 - 2007)
- Personnel Committee of English Department, Elected Member (2005 - 2007)
- Masters in Rhetoric/Composition Admission Committee, member (2003 - 2007)
- Ph.D in Rhetoric/Composition Admissions Committee, Member (2003 - 2007)
- Department Grants Committee, member (2005 - 2006)
- Academic senate, Faculty Senator (2001 - 2005)
- CLAS, Senator-At-Large (2001 - 2005)
- Master's Program in Rhetoric and Composition, Interim Chair (2005 - 2005)
- Rhetoric/Composition Lecturer Search, member (2005 - 2005)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Senate, Presiding Officer (2003 - 2005)
- Palo Verde Middle School, Phoenix, AZ, Reading Tutor (2004 - 2004)
- CLAS Standards Committee, Member (2003)
- Computer-Mediated Composition Committee, member (2003)
- Computers and Composition, Editorial Board Member (2003)
- Curriculum Review Committee, member (2003)
- Fresh Start Women's Resource Center, Writing tutor (2003)
- Kairos, Editorial Board Member (2003)
- Literacy Volunteers, Board Member (2003)
- Web Development Committee, Member (2003)