Curriculum Vitae

PhD in English, Concentration in Writing Studies | Expected May 2024

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of English and the Center for Writing Studies

Dissertation: “‘Anyone Can Be a Scientist’: The Construction of Expertise and Citizenship in Citizen Science Literate Activity”

Committee: John Gallagher (Chair), Paul Prior, Josue David Cisneros, Melissa Littlefield

MFA/MA in Creative Writing & English | 2017

University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Department of English

Thesis: “Sparks Across the Gap” (Creative Nonfiction Essay Collection) & “The Malleability of Disciplinary Identity” (Pedagogical Case Study)

BA in English & Psychology | 2014

Western Carolina University, Department of English & Department of Psychology

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Kovanen, Bruce, Turnipseed, Nicole, Mericle, Megan, & Roozen, Kevin. (2022, November 4). Tracing Literate Activity across Physics and Chemistry. WAC/WID integration in STEM. [Special issue on STEM and WAC/WID: Co-Navigating Our Shifting Currents] Across the Disciplines, 19(1/2), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2022.19.1-2.05 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Kovanen, Bruce, Ware, Ryan, Mericle, Megan, Turnipseed, Nicole, Coleman, John P., Elliot, Celia M., Popovics, John S., Cooper, S. Lance, Gallagher, John R., Prior, Paul, & Zilles, Julie L. (2020). Implementing writing-as-process in engineering education. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. https://peer.asee.org/34786

Ware, Ryan, Mericle, Megan, Prior, Paul, Gallagher, John R., Elliot, Celia M., Popovics, John S., Cooper, Lance, & Zilles, Julie. (2022). Promoting pedagogical change around writing: Observations of discursive turbulence. NSF Grantee Poster session. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Minneapolis, MN. https://peer.asee.org/promoting-pedagogical-change-around-writing-observations-of-discursive-turbulence 

Reviews

Mericle, Megan. (2020) Citizen science in the digital age: Rhetoric, science, and public engagement by James Wynn. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 106(2), 219-223.

Mericle, Megan. (2017) Napoleon’s roads by David Brooks. Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 31(2), 449-450.

Creative Writing

Mericle, Megan. (2016). Autonomy [Creative Nonfiction]. Entropy Magazine, November.

Mericle, Megan, Coleman, John Patrick, Gallagher, John, Zilles, Julie. Co-constructing writing expectations with WAC stakeholders and disciplinary faculty: Entry Points and barriers to the initial stages of curricular change. 6,000 word article manuscript, under review.

Mericle, Megan, Gallagher, John, Zilles, Julie. Connecting research writing and writing pedagogy: Examining a STEM writing course across three semesters. Article manuscript in development for an early Spring 2024 submission.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Fall 2018 - Fall 2020

• Informatics/Writing Studies 303: Writing Across Media (online and f2f)

• Rhetoric 105: Writing and Research

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University | Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

• English 100: Ideas and Their Expression I

• English 101: Ideas and Their Expression II

Greensboro College | Fall 2017

• English, Communication, and Media Studies 1100: Texts and Contexts

University of Alaska at Fairbanks | Fall 2014 - Spring 2017

• English 111: Writing Across Contexts

• English 211: Writing and the Humanities

• English 213: Writing and the Sciences

National

• 2020-2023 | National Science Foundation. Division of Undergraduate Education –Improving Undergraduate STEM Education—Engaged Student Learning: Level II. Advancing adaptation of writing pedagogies for undergraduate STEM education through transdisciplinary action research. Julie Zilles (PI). $599,999 (As a graduate research assistant, I participated in preparation of the grant proposal.)

Campus

• 2021-2022 | College of Engineering Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) Implementation and Exploration Award. Improving undergraduate writing instruction and feedback through professional development of STEM graduate-student teaching assistants. Lance Cooper (PI), Celia Elliott, John R. Gallagher, John Popovics, Blake Johnson, Paul Prior, Megan Mericle, and Julie Zilles. $26,265 | 

• 2020-2021 | College of Engineering Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) Implementation and Exploration Award. Improving undergraduate writing instruction and feedback through professional development of STEM graduate-student teaching assistants. Lance Cooper (PI), Patrick Coleman, Celia Elliott, John R. Gallagher, Bruce Kovanen, John Popovics, Paul Prior, Megan Mericle, Nicole Turnipseed, Ryan Ware, and Julie Zilles. $26,000

• Spring 2020, Fall 2019 & Spring 2019 | List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Departmental

•  2023-24 | Graduate College Block Grant, $11,000 & Gragg-Barr Scholarship, $5,500 (75% teaching release)

•  2022-23 | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Fellowship (50% teaching release), $11,000

• 2021 | Pass with Distinction, Doctoral Qualifying Exam

• Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023| Conference Travel grants, $62 (virtual) - $350

• 2018-19 | University Fellowship (50% teaching release), $7,200

• 2016-17 | Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Composition Committee, University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Assistant Director of the Center for Writing Studies | 2020 - 2022
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Facilitated and developed writing across the curriculum workshops

• Consulted with instructors across disciplines implementing writing instruction

• Coordinated presentations and panels featuring graduate students and faculty

• Provided resources and support for Writing Across Media instructors

• Developed materials and events for prospective students

• Maintained the Center website and social media accounts

Summer Associate Writing Center Director | 2016
University of Alaska at Fairbanks

• Coordinated the schedule, serving over 200 students and community members

• Created Writing Center advertising and communicated with faculty members

• Facilitated the transition to and distribution of online record-keeping

• Conducted phone and online tutorials with students in rural areas

• Worked directly with students taking preparatory college writing courses

Research Assistantships

Advancing adaptation of writing pedagogies for undergraduate STEM education through transdisciplinary action research | Fall 2023

National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education

Improving undergraduate writing instruction and feedback through professional development of STEM graduate-student teaching assistants, Strategic Instructional Innovations Program | 2020 – 2023

Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Improving the writing skills of undergraduate engineering students: Empowering engineering faculty and teaching assistants, Strategic Instructional Innovations Program | 2019-2020

Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Editor | 2021-2022

Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2022, Parlor Press

Writing Center Tutor | 2014 – 2017

English Department, University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Web and Design Editor | 2015 – 2017

Permafrost Magazine, University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Assistant Editor | 2013 – 2015

Cider Press Review

National Conferences

• “Reckoning with inaccessibility and barriers across WPA and WAC contexts: Starting points for restorative work.” Panel presentation with Alexis Kapczynski and Finola McMahon. Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Atlanta, GA | September 2023, accepted

• “Observation bubbles and rain gauges: Seeing, sensing, and being in c*science communication.” Virtual poster presentation. C*Science Conference. | May 2023

• “Challenging binaries across institutional contexts.” Panel presentation with Bri Lafond and Lesley Owens. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL | February 2023

• “Advancing adaptation of writing pedagogies for undergraduate STEM education through TDAR.” Poster presentation with Rebecca E. Avgoustopoulos, Yvaine Neyhard, Ryan Ware, Mia L. Renna, Patrick Carzon, Paul Prior, John Gallagher, Celia M. Elliot, John S. Popovics, Lance Cooper, and Julie Zilles. AAAS/NSF IUSE Summit. Washington, DC | June 2022

• “Participatory science in post-secondary pedagogy: Towards a more equitable STEM writing classroom.” Panel presentation with Caitlin Ray, Risa Gorelick, and Kate Maddalena. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL | March 2022

• “Writing across engineering: A transdisciplinary action research approach to STEM writing.” Virtual panel presentation with Bruce Kovanen, Nicole Turnipseed, and Paul Prior. International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Fort Collins, CO | August 2021

• “Constructing citizenship: Interrogating the norms of civic action in the writing classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Paper presentation. Spokane, WA | March 2021 *Cancelled due to condensed program

• “‘All majors and genders are welcome!’: Disciplinary and social identities in academic registered student organizations.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Paper presentation. Milwaukee, WI | March 2020 *Cancelled due to COVID-19

• “The rhetoric of DIY biology and citizen science: Feminist possibilities.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Paper presentation. Harrisonburg, VA | November 2019

• “Storying: (Counter)narrative as work.” Panel presentation with Victoria Avery and Natalie Taylor. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO | March 2018

Local/Regional Conferences and Symposia

• “‘I’m like a spectacle’: Seeing, sensing, and monitoring in citizen science literate practice.” Panel presentation with Bri Lafond and Quinn Koeneman. Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Symposium. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | April 2023

• “Navigating graduate student identity during COVID-19 across virtual writing sessions.” Collaborative individual presentation with Natalie Taylor. Write It Out: Writing Innovation Symposium. Milwaukee, WI | February 2022

• "The narratives of citizen science." Panel presentation with Bruce Kovanen and Logan Middleton. Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Symposium. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | April 2019

• “‘Don’t feed the trolls’: Internet culture and the spiral of silence.” Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric. Paper presentation. Anchorage, AK | February 2015

Workshop Facilitation

• “Exploring expertise in writing studies: A mini-workshop on graduate student experiences & mentoring.” Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Symposium. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | April 2022

• “Writing across the curriculum workshop on alternative assessment and ungrading.” Center for Writing Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 2021

• “Graduate teaching assistant writing across the curriculum seminar.” Center for Writing Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | January 2023, January 2022, August 2021 & January 2021

• “Multimodal pedagogy seminar.” Center for Writing Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | July 2021

• “Teaching with I Write.” Rhetoric Instructor Orientation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | August 2019

Campus and Departmental Presentations

• “Improving the writing skills of undergraduate engineering students: Empowering engineering faculty and teaching assistants.” With Julie Zilles. Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education Celebration of Teaching. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | April 2021, 2022 & 2023

• “Scholar-activism in writing studies.” With Andy Bowman, Bruce Kovanen, Logan Middleton, and Lesley Owens. Center for Writing Studies Brownbag. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 2020

• “Writing across engineering.” With Bruce Kovanen, and Julie Zilles. Center for Writing Studies Brownbag. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | December 2019

Public Readings (Creative Writing)

• NC A&T Creative Writing Junior Faculty Reading | April 2018

• UAF English Graduate Organization Reading Series | 2015 - 2017

Professional Writing Advisory Committee | 2021 – present

English Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Writing Studies Committee | 2022 – 2023

English Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rhetoric Advisory Committee Member | 2018 - 2019

English Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

English Graduate Organization President | 2015 – 2017

English Department, University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Writing Program Assessment Committee Member | 2015

English Department, University of Alaska at Fairbanks