Dr. Russell G. Carpenter
- Executive Director and Program Director
- Ph.D. Texts & Technology, UCF
Contact Information
- Department: Administrators
- Office: Library 310P Noel Studio
- Mailing Address: 103 Library Complex
- Email: russell.carpenter@eku.edu
- Phone: (859)-622-7403
- Web Page: http://www.studio.eku
Bio
Dr. Russell Carpenter is Executive Director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity and Associate Professor of English. He completed his doctoral work in Texts & Technology at the University of Central Florida. While a doctoral student at UCF, he studied writing center spaces through the lens of cultural and political geographies in an attempt to understand how technology might enhance the ways we teach and learn in these spaces. He puts this research to work in the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity.
Dr. Carpenter is Immediate Past President of the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) and chaired the 2012 conference held at EKU. He has served as Chair and Past Chair of the National Association of Communication Centers (NACC). In 2010, he received the Von Till Outstanding Newcomer award from the National Association of Communication Centers for contributions to scholarship and service, and in 2015 he received the Preston Award for Leadership from the same organization. Dr. Carpenter is also President of the EKU chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society and a recent recipient of the Love of Learning Award. During his time as president, the chapter earned Chapter of Excellence distinction (2014-2015). He sits on the editorial board for Praxis: A Writing Center Journal and The Peer Review and advisory board for Southern Discourse in the Center. Dr. Carpenter also moderates commcenters, a national listserv for communication centers, and delivered the keynote at the 2013 NACC conference held at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In June 2013, he served as a leader for the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Summer Institute in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He co-chaired the 2014 IWCA SI held in Lexington, KY, with Dr. Kevin Dvorak. He also co-chaired the 2015 IWCA SI held in East Lansing, MI, with Dr. Trixie Smith and served as Program Chair for the 2015 IWCA Conference held in Pittsburgh, PA.
His 2011 book Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships with Dr. Melody Bowdon published in 2011. With Dr. Bowdon, he also co-edited a special issue of the Community Literacy Journal on digital technologies and community literacy. Dr. Carpenter recently completed Cases on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology published in December 2012. With Dr. Sohui Lee, he also edited The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media.
As program director of the Minor in Applied Creative Thinking, which was featured in the New York Times, he also co-authored Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking with Drs. Charlie Sweet and Hal Blythe. The next book in the series published in February 2013:Teaching Applied Creative Thinking with Drs. Sweet, Blythe, and Apostel. In 2012, they also co-founded the New Forums series on Applied Creative Thinking. Dr. Carpenter currently serves as co-editor of the New Forums series in Applied Creative Thinking.
In 2015, he co-edited a digital book, Sustainable Learning Spaces: Design, Infrastructure, and Technology, with Dr. Dickie Selfe, Dr. Shawn Apostel, and Kristi Apostel. With Dr. Sohui Lee, he is also co-editing a special issue of Computers and Composition on pedagogies of multimodality and the future of multiliteracy centers. He also co-edited a special issue of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal on course-embedded writing support programs with Drs. Scott Whiddon and Kevin Dvorak in fall 2014 and a special issue of the Journal of Faculty Development on social media, which was released in May 2015. Dr. Carpenter is currently guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Faculty Development on the future of faculty development to be released in May 2016 and a special issue on high-impact educational practices to be published in Summer 2016. He is the Incoming Editor of the Journal of Faculty Development.
Current book projects include: Writing Studio Pedagogy: Space, Place, and Rhetoric in Collaborative Environments (with Dr. Matthew Kim; Rowman & Littlefield), Transforming Your Students into Deep Learners (New Forums Press), It Works for Me, Metacognitively (New Forums Press), and Innovating Faculty Development (New Forums Press).
