Carole Zonis Yee
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology voice: (505) 835-5172
801 Leroy Pl. fax: (505) 835-5649
Socorro, NM 87801 email: cyee@nmt.edu
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~cyee/
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Academic Affairs
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs/ Dean of Students (1998-present)
Coordinator, Steering Committee for NCA/HLA Re-accreditation Self-Study (2003-2004)
Professor of English, Department of Humanities (1990-present)
Associate Professor of English 1983-1990)
Assistant Professor of English (1977-1983)
University of New Mexico, English Department
Graduate Teaching Assistant (1970-1977)
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of New Mexico
Dissertation: Feminism and the Later Heroines of George Eliot, Directed by Professor Hugh Witemeyer (1977).
M.A. University of New Mexico, Major: English (1972).
B.A. University of Pittsburgh, Major: Secondary education in English (1970).
“Can We Be Partners? Industry Advisory Boards for Academic Technical Communication Programs,” chapter in A Publications Management: Essays for Professional Communicators, NCTE Award Winner for Best Collection of Essays, 1994. Eds. O. Jane Allen and Lynn H. Deming, New York: Baywood Press, 1995. NCTE Award Winner for Best Collection of Essays (1994)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to the Summer Seminar, The American Playwright, 1920-1980, with Professor Howard Stein, Columbia University, New York City (1992)
Fulbright Teaching and Research Grant, University of Bergen, Norway. Worked with Toril, Moi, Textual/Sexual Politics (Methuen, 1985) (1985-1986)
Fulbright Award, Exchange Teacher to Bromley College of Technology, Bromley, Kent, England. Taught in University of London, Cambridge External Exam Program. (1981-1982)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to the Summer Seminar, High Culture and Victorian England, with Professor Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley (1980)
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of New Mexico (1970-1977)
BA summa cum laude, University of Pittsburgh (1970)
“Design of Virtual Spaces for Successful Collaboration in Technical and Professional Communication Online Classes, with Iver Davidson, Proceedings International Professional Communication Conference for IEEE Professional Communication Society, Limerick, Ireland, July, 2005.
“Contact Zones in Institutional Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Academic Programs” in Professing in the Contact Zones, Editor, Janice M. Wolff. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE (2002)
Coeditor with Craig Hansen, Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on Blending School and Work (2001)
“Instructional Writers’ Narratives about Their Ideal Users and Users’ Narratives about Their Ideal Instructions.” ERIC/REC, Bloomington, IN (1999)
“Postmodern Technical Communication Classroom Practices: Revealing the Paradox at the Heart of Our Enterprise,” Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Proceedings (1995)
“Can We Be Partners? Industry Advisory Boards for Academic Technical Communication Programs,” chapter in A Publications Management: Essays for Professional Communicators, NCTE Award Winner for Best Collection of Essays, 1994. Eds. O. Jane Allen and Lynn H. Deming, New York: Baywood Press, 1995. NCTE Award Winner for Best Collection of Essays (1994)
Guest Editor, Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Special Section on Diversity in Professional Communication (1996)
Guest Editor, Special Issue, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Constructing Realities in Technical and Professional Communication (1993)
An Ethnographic Description of a Collaborative Writing Group International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1992)
“The Wendy Chronicle.” New Mexico Repertory Theatre Humanities and the Stage, 1990‑91 Season, Booklet #3 (1991)
“The Brain/Mind and Document Design,” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (1990)
“Recent Theories About the Brain and Document Design,” International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings, Guilford, England (1990)
“Group Dynamics and Professional Ethics,” International Technical Communication Conference Proceedings, Santa Clara, CA, (1990)
“The Collaborative Process and Professional Ethics,” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Co‑authored with Dr. Judith Raymond (1990)
“Violence Against the Female in Mass‑Market Entertainment: Contemporary Feminist Analysis,” The Humanities and the Stage, 1987‑88 Season, Booklet #2. New Mexico Repertory Theater (1988)
“Technical and Ethical Professional Preparation for Technical Communication Students,” IEEE Transactions for Professional Communication (1988)
“The Radicalism of George Eliot’s Realism: Adam Bede,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference Proceedings, San Jose, California (1987)
“Memos with Personality: A Model From British Technical Colleges,” Technical Writing Teacher (1986)
“What Beginning Teachers Should Know About Business and Technical Writing,” Technical Communications: Perspective for the Eighties, ed. J.C. Mathes and Thomas E. Pinelli, NASA Conference Publications 2203 (1982)
Biographies of Lucy Dawidowicz and Leane Zugsmith in American Women Writers, vols. I and IV. New York: Frederich Ungar (1979‑82)
“Do Women in Science and Technology Need the Women’s Movement?” Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder (1978)
“Why Aren’t We Writing About Ourselves?” in Images of Women in Fiction, ed. Susan Koppelman Cornillon, Bowling Green University Popular Press (1972)
“How We Used the New Criteria and Lived to Tell the Tale,” with Scott Zeman, Higher Learning Commission’s Annual Conference Workshop on the Self-Study, April, 2005.
“Surviving Re-Accreditation,” New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention 2005 Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February, 2005.
Get TechSmart! How a Small Science and Engineering Institution Used as Kick-off Event to Launch the Self-Study Process and Promote Better Communication,” with Scott Zeman, Higher Learning Commission’s Annual Conference Workshop on the Self-Study, March, 2004.
“The Workplace Writing of Engineers: Genres, Decision Making, and Responsibility.” College Composition and Communication Conference, NYC, March 2003.
Participating Scholar, “Women of Socorro” Project, as part of the Women of the West Museum, 2001.
"Putting Classroom Practice to Work," and invited paper at ATTW panel, "Client-based Group Projects in the Technical Communication Curriculum: Short and Long-term Value-added for Students, Clients, and Programs," ATTW Conference, Minneapolis. April 2000.
"Implementing a Core Humanities Course to Strengthen Retention," with Professor Doug Dunston, Music, NM Higher Education Persistence Conference, Las Cruces, NM. February 2000.
Discussion leader for University of New Mexico post-performance discussion of UNM Theatre Department production of Hamlet, Rodey Theatre. April 1999.
"Instructional Writers' Narratives About Their Users and Users' Narratives About Their Ideal Instructions." Roundtable presenter at College Composition and Communication Conference, Chicago. April 1998.
“Composition and Technical Communication: Seeking the Theoretical Connections,” Plenary speaker, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Austin, Texas. October 1997.
“Microethnographies of Community Service: Technical Communication Students and the ‘Ethical Subject,’” Roundtable presenter at College Composition and Communication Conference, Phoenix. March 1997.
“Computers and Gender: A Postmodern Feminist Theory for Computers and Writing,” paper presented at annual College Composition and Communication Conference, Washington, DC. March 1995.
“Personal Politics: Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles,” Guest Lecturer in Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. October 1993.
“Institutional Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Assessment” Modern Language Association Convention San Francisco. 1991
“Recent Theories About the Brain and Document Design, “IPCC (International Professional Communication Conference), Guildford, England. September 1990.
Workshop, “Group Dynamics and Professional Ethics,” with Dr. Judith Raymond, ITCC (International Technical Communication Conference), Santa Clara, California. May 1990.
“The TC Postdoctoral Fellowship,” with Dr. James Corey. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Rochester, NY. October 1989.
Chair, Technical Communication: Issues and Problems, RMMLA meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. October 1989.
“Notes Toward A Theory of Technical Communication,” read at 1988 Rocky Mountain MLA, Las Cruces, New Mexico. October 1988.
“The Discourse About `Culture’ within Organizations,” Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Discourse Session, Popular Culture Association meeting, Stillwater, Oklahoma. February 1988.
“Technical Writing: Practical Writing,” Seminar on Scientific and Technical Communication, New Mexico Tech. November 1982.
Recorder and Respondent, Technical Writing, College Composition and Communication Convention, Dallas, Texas. March 1981.
Chair, Western States Women's Studies Conference in Women and Theater, joint meeting with Rocky Mountain MLA, Albuquerque. October 1979.
Script for one‑hour KUNM radio program, Henry Nash Smith on American Literature and Popular Culture, funded by New Mexico Humanities Council grant. June 1979.
“The Significance of the Rhetorical Skills We Expect of Every Freshman,” Conference of College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis 1979.
Chair, Western State Women’s Studies Conference, Rocky Mountain MLA meeting, Phoenix. October 1978.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Art 372, Contemporary Art in New Mexico
English 437, Shakespeare
English 482, Victorian Novel
English 332, British Literature Survey
English 436, America in the Sixties
English 432, 20th Century American Drama
English 436, Postmodern American Fiction
English 341, Technical Writing
English 111/112, College English
English 103, English Grammar
Technical Communication 421, Instructional Writing
Technical Writing 411, Persuasive Communication
Technical Communication 422, Senior Thesis
University of London, BA in English
Shakespeare
American Literature Survey
British Literature Survey
University of Bergen, Norway
American Studies
Twentieth Century American Drama
Coordinator, Steering Committee for NCA/HLA Re-accreditation Self-Study (2003 - 2004
Ad Hoc Committee to Review General Degree Requirements, 2003
Council of state-wide University Presidents Accountability Work Group, 1998-present
National and State Service
Grader, Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature, 1996, 1999-2003, Educational Testing Service
Vice President and Host of annual meeting in 1999 in Santa Fe, NM, National
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), 1996-1999
Associate Editor, Communication Education and Training, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 1990-1997
President, New Mexico Kachina Chapter, Society for Technical Communication, 1991‑1992
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
The Council of Writing Program Administrators
Fulbright Alumni Association
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Society for Technical Communication
American Women Playwrights, 1970-1998: A study focusing on the plays of Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ntozake Shange. Book in progress.
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