EDUCATION
2006       Ph.D., University of Louisville
                   Dissertation: "Rhetorics of Globalism"
                   Director: Marc Bousquet

2001       M.A., University of Louisville
                   Henry James Review Fellow

1987       B.A., Syracuse University                             

PUBLICATIONS
"The Science of Academic Freedom." Invited contribution. Forthcoming in Works and Days.

“(I'm)Material Labor in the Digital Age.” Guest editor and contributor, "Mental Labor" issue. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 15 (2008): 1-11. http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/issue15/index.html.

"Rhetoric, Literacy, and Social Change in Post-Mao China."  Forthcoming in College Composition and Communication June 2009.  36 pp.

"Beyond the Knowledge Factory: A Review of David B. Downing’s The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace." Studies in the Humanities 33.1 (2006): 1-31.
 
"Review of How Class Works: Power and Social Movement by Stanley Aronowitz." Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 6.2 (2004). http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/issue6p1/wexler.html.

"Terminal Narcissus and the Posthuman: Reflexivity and Augmentation Through the Hypertext Mirror."  Kairos 7.3 (2002). http://english.ttu.edu/KAIROS/7.3/binder2.html?coverweb/wexler/index.html.

"Freedom in Frankenstein: What We Can Learn from a Marcusian Monster."  Proceedings of the Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society: Selected Papers. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: Society of Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the University of Southern Colorado, 2002.  67-71.

"Bibliography of Critical Work on James and Film."  Henry James Goes to the Movies.  Ed. Susan M. Griffin.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001.  359-65.

WORK IN PROGRESS
Book ms. Rhetorics of Globalism

TEACHING
Assistant Professor.  California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, 2007 - present:

Twentieth-Century Rhetoric (graduate)
Rhetorical Theory and Composition (graduate)
Autobiography
Popular Culture: "The Radical Romance"
Special Topics: Woody Allen (graduate)
Literature and Film: "The Dystopian Imaginary"
Freshman Composition

Lecturer.  Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, 2002 - 2007:  

Expository Writing: Argument
Expository Writing: Informal Essay
Composition and Rhetoric: Writing about Comedy
Composition and Rhetoric: Writing about You
Composition and Rhetoric: Writing about Monsters
Composition and Rhetoric: Sources of Self

Composition Instructor. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1998 - 2002:

Intermediate College Composition: “Authoring from the Underground” (computer-aided instruction)  
Introduction to College Composition: “I, Intertext” (computer-aided instruction)

Adjunct Faculty.  Spencerian College, Louisville, KY, 1999 - 2000:

Business Correspondence
Anatomy and Physiology I
Records Management
English II
English I

Writing Consultant.  Rutgers University Writing Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1997
 
PRESENTATIONS
"Knowledge Economy Rhetorics in the Writing Class," presenter and chair. CCCC, 2 April 2008

"(I’m)Material Labor in the Digital Age."  MLA, 27 December 2007

"Global ‘Greater China’: Discourse, Power, and the World Factory."  Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 26 May 2006

"Conspicuous Consumption as Campus Culture." CCCC, 22 March 2006

"Literacy and Resistance in Postsocialist China."  CCCC, 16 March 2005

"Writing Center Pragmatism."  5th Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, "Writing at the Center."  University of Louisville, 7 October 2004

"Motivation and Melancholy in 'After the Storm.'"  Eleventh Annual Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference, "Key West Hemingway."  7 June 2004

"Rewriting the Sign of Terror in First-Year Composition."  College English Association, 3 April 2003

"De/Composing Identities in English B."  CCCC, 19 March 2003

"The Invisibility of Negation: Debunking Dialectical Dreams in Invisible Man."  Twenty-Seventh Colloquium on Literature and Film.  West Virginia University, 10 October 2002

"Terminal Narcissus and the Posthuman: Reflexivity and Augmentation Through the Hypertext Mirror."  Computers and Writing.  Illinois State University, 16 May 2002
 
"Freedom in Frankenstein: What We Can Learn from a Marcusian Monster."  Society of Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.  University of Southern Colorado, 28 February 2002

"The Neurotic Intertext."  Writing as a Human Activity.  University of California at Santa Barbara, 6 October 2001

"This is Allan Benkle."  Twenty-First Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, 24 February 2000

"Bipolar Affective Illness: Results of Linkage Analysis Using Microsatellite Marker, AJHG, s51, A374."  Straub, R.E., Baron, M., Lehner, T., Loth, J.E., Luo, Y., Shao, W., Wexler, S.N., Sharpe, L., Simon, R., Gibbon, M., Endicott, J., Ott, J., Gilliam, T.C.  Annual Meeting of American Society of Human Genetics, San Francisco, CA, November 1992

"Genetic Linkage Analysis of Bipolar Affective Illness."  Straub, R.E., Baron, M., Lehner, T., Luo, Y., Wexler, S.N., Ott, J., and Gilliam, T.C.  Eighth International Congress of Human Genetics, Washington, D.C., October 1991

"Linkage Analysis of Bipolar Affective Illness Using DNA Markers."  Straub, R.E., Endicott, J., Lehner, T., Loth, J.E., Napiorkowski, P., Wexler, S.N., Luo, Y., Ott, J., Gilliam, T.C., and Baron, M.  Conference of Psychiatric Genetics, London, August 1991

SERVICE
University
Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines (WRAD) Committee Member.  California State University, Northridge, 2008 – present.

Assessment Liaison.  California State University, Northridge, 2008 – present.

Faculty Organizer and Participant.  Living and Learning in Community (students living together and taking courses together). Rollins College, 2003 – 2006.

Committee Member.  Transformative Education Task Group of the All-College Planning and Priorities Committee.  Rollins College, 2003.

Organizing Committee Member.  University of Louisville English Graduate Organization.  Watson Conference.  University of Louisville, 2000.

Organizing Committee Member.  University of Louisville English Graduate Organization.  Twentieth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.  University of Louisville, 1999.

Department
Rhetoric and Composition Committee Member.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2007 – present.

Master’s Exam Committee Member.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2008 – present.

Popular Culture Committee Member.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2007 – present.

Adjunct Faculty Search Committee Member.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2007.

Faculty Organizer and Participant.  Žižek!  Organized department viewing of Slavoj Žižek documentary and subsequent discussion “Teaching the Language of ‘Unfreedom.’”  Rollins College, 2006.

Faculty Organizer and Participant.  “Writing with New Media.”  Presentation on incorporating Web technology (Websites, blogs, and hypertext) in the composition class.  Rollins College, 2006.

Database designer for instructor Web-projects.  Department of English.  University of Louisville.

Student
Master's Thesis Director.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2008 - present:

• Hillary Freeman, “Policy, Literacy, and Locality: A Case Study of Indian International Students” (expected Spring 2009)

Master’s Thesis Committee Member.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2007 – present:

• Jennifer Baquera, “Untitled” (third reader, expected Spring 2009)
• Angelina Gonzales, “The Transferability of Academic Writing to the Real World” (third reader,
              Spring 2008)
• Cheryl Hazama, “The Historicity Behind Beowulf” (third reader, expected Spring 2009)
• Sean McCallon, “A Rhetorical Genre Study of Heroes and Villains in Professional Wrestling” (third
              reader, Spring 2008)
• Heather Penrod, “Constructing American Identity Through the Myth of Children's Historical
              Narratives” (third reader, expected Spring 2009)
• Lisa Tremain, “Untitled” (third reader, expected Spring 2009)
• Darlene Toscano, “The Globalization of English: Examining Perceptions of English Among
              California High School and College Students” (third reader, expected Spring 2009)

Master’s Exam Director.  Department of English, California State University, Northridge, 2007

• Elizabeth Vance (Spring 2008)

Other Contributions
Textbook Reviewer.  Decisions: A Writer's Handbook.  By Leonard J. Rosen.  Longman, 2003.

Selected Monograph.  Review of Andy Pickering's Mangle of Practice.  History of Science, Social Studies of Science (HSSS).  KLI Theory Lab.  <http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Areas/HSSS.html>.
 
“How to be an Eighteenth-Century English Gentleman.”  Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History.  Ed. Jack Lynch. June 2004.  <http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html>.
 
 ---.  Early Modern Bibliographies.  Early Modern Resources. Ed. Sharon Howard.  Sep 2003. <http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/embiblios.htm>.
 
 Moderator.  “Cowboys and Outlaws.”  Society of Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.  University of Southern Colorado, 28 February 2002.

EDITORIAL WORK
Editor.  The Fox: Rollins College Journal of First-Year Writing, 2003
Editorial Assistant. Henry James Review, Louisville, KY, 1999 - 2001
Copy Editor (freelance). Instructor and Scholastic, New York, NY, 1991 - 1993

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Associate.  Columbia University and NY State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, 1990 - 1992

AWARDS
Teaching Fellowship, Rollins College, 2002 - 2007
Henry James Review Fellowship, University of Louisville, 1999 - 2001
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Louisville, 1998 - 2002

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America
Modern Language Association
California Faculty Association