Noreen Lape, PhD
Associate Provost of Teaching and Learning
Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship
Professor of Educational Studies
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, Temple University
M.A. English, Temple University
B.A. English, St. Elizabeth University
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Associate Provost of Teaching and Learning, 2023-present
- Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Scholarship, 2023-present
- Grant Writer and Project Manager, Dialogues Across Differences Initiative 2021-present
- Developer, Early Career Mentoring for Non-Majority Identifying Faculty, 2023 (pending funding)
Associate Provost of Academic Affairs, Dickinson College, 2014-present
- Supervisor, Learning Commons, 2021-present
- Supervisor, Spatial Literacy Center, 2021-2023
- Chair, Ready for Fall/Spring Teaching Task Force, 2020-2021
- Director, First Year Seminar Program, 2014-2023
- Founder and Supervisor, Quantitative Reasoning Center, 2014-present
Director of the Writing Program/Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center, Dickinson College, 2009-2023
- Creator and Director, Writing Associates Program, 2010-2017
- Creator and Director, World Language Writing Tutoring, 2010-2023
- Director, Writing in the Disciplines Program, 2009
- Co-Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Center, Dickinson College, 2014-2019
- Director of the Writing Center, Columbus State University, 2004-2009
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES FACILITATED
Adapting the Writing Program Rubric to Your Courses
Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Creating Effective Writing Assignments for Foreign Language Courses
Dialoguing Across Differences: A Faculty Summer Study Group
Equitable Grading Practices: Ungrading, Contract Grading, Specifications Grading
Faculty Learning Community in Writing: Digital Reading and Writing
Faculty Learning Community in Writing: Teaching First Year Seminar
Faculty Learning Community in Writing: Writing for Wellness (Unraveling Faculty Burnout)
Faculty Learning Community in Writing: Writing with Numbers
Faculty Writing, Research, and Publication Brown Bag Lunch Series
First-Year Writers and Writing Pedagogy: A Workshop for New Faculty
Generative AI Lunch and Learn Workshop Series
How Learning Works: A Summer Study Group on Learning and Assessment
How Learning Works: A Summer Study Group for Librarians who Teach
Prompting Writer Re-vision
Ready for Fall Teaching: Making the Transition to Remote Learning
Responding to Student Writing
Sequencing Writing Assignments
Syllabus & Course Design Collaboratory
Teaching the First-Year Seminar
Teaching with Compassion in Post-Pandemic Times
Teaching Writing in the Disciplines
Using Generative AI for Good: Collaborating with the Machine
When Writing Prompts Lead to Paralysis: A Conversation with Writing Center Tutors
The Writing Program Assessment Model: A Workshop for Division III Faculty
INVITED TALKS
“Tutoring Across Difference: Toward a Translingual Writing Center Practice,” Pre-conference workshop for the Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association, 2023
Podcast Interview, “Noreen Lape on Internationalizing the Writing Center,” Slow Agency Podcast, 2021
“Teaching Writing in a Discipline,” Colorado College, 2021
"Building a Bridge from High School Writing to First-Year Writing to Writing in the Major," Messiah College, 2019.
“Writing Associates and the Question of Authority,” DePauw University, 2019
“Working with Writers: Learning Principles and Best Practices,” Central Pennsylvania Consortium New Faculty Colloquium, 2019
“Supporting Multilingual Writing Communities at Liberal Arts Colleges,” DePauw University, 2018
“First-Year Seminar Habits of Mind: Writing, Reading and Information Literacy,” Faculty Retreat, Akita International University, Akita, Japan, 2017
“Second Language Writers, the Problem with Google Translate, and the Importance of Composing,” The Penn State University Learning Center Director’s Retreat,” 2017
“Martinson Award Acceptance Speech,” Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators Conference, 2016
INVITED MEETINGS
Civil Discourse in Higher Education Brainstorm Session, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Online
Meeting, 2022
Discourse Across Difference Symposium, Campus Free Expression Project of the Bipartisan Policy
Commission, Texas Tech University, 2023
Civil Discourse Convening, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, 2023
CONSULTING AND EXTERNAL REVIEWS
External Reviewer, Wesleyan University
Consultant, University of Connecticut
Consultant, East Carolina University
External Reviewer, Stetson University
Consultant, DePauw University
Consultant, Akita International University-Japan
Workshop Facilitator, The College of New Jersey
Writing Program Consultant, Franklin & Marshall College
Workshop Facilitator, Messiah College
External Reviewer, Lebanon Valley College
External Reviewer, Juniata College
GRANTS AND GIFTS
“Civil Dialogue Across the Classroom, Campus, and Community,” Arthur Vining Davis Foundation ($276,296), 2022
Gift from Joseph and Shirley Eberly for the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center ($1,000,000), 2021
Gift from George Gill for the Judy Gill Tutor Development Fund ($100,000), 2018
Gift from Joseph and Shirley Eberly for the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center ($250,000), 2018
Gift from Joseph and Shirley Eberly for the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center ($250,000), 2017
International Writing Center Association Research Grant ($1000), 2017
George I. Alden Trust Grant ($115,000), 2015
SPECIAL AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER HONORS:
Conference on College Composition and Communication Writing Program Certificate of Excellence, 2018
Martinson Award of Excellence in Writing Program Administration, SLAC-WPA, 2016
Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Army, 2011
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Teaching of Writing Award, Columbus State University, 2008
University Nomination for Georgia Board of Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007
Literary Sage Award, Columbus State University chapter of Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society, 2006
Outstanding Service to the College of Education, Columbus State University, 2004
Nomination for a Best Practice Award by Columbus State University, Early Mentoring for Secondary English Education Majors, 2003
Outstanding Academic Book, Choice Award for West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers, 2002.
Finalist for Research & Scholarship Award, College of Arts and Letters, Columbus State University, 1999, 2001, 2003, & 2004
Spencer Fellowship to Oxford University, Summer 1999
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Columbus State University, Spring 1999
Jordan Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Department of Language and Literature, Columbus State University, 1998 and 1999
Certificate of Merit in Teaching, Temple University, 1995
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Educational Studies (tenured), 2020-present
Contributing Professor, Dickinson College, 2009-2020
- Speaking and Writing Across Differences
- First-Year Seminar (Coming of Age in Multicultural America; Speaking Truth to Power; Understanding the Research Community)
- Working with Writers: Theory and Practice (for English writing tutors)
- Working with Writers: Theory and Practice (for foreign language writing tutors)
- Writing & Wellness
- What Writers Matter? Multiculturalism in American Literature
- U.S. Culture and Academic Writing for International Students
Associate Professor of Language and Literature (tenured), Columbus State University, 1997-2009
Undergraduate
Survey of American Literature I English Composition I
American Women Writers English Composition II
African American Literature I Peer Writing Consultation
African American Literature II Composition Theory
Multicultural American Literature Advanced Composition
The Short Story
World Literature I
World Literature II
Graduate
Teaching Writing in Grades 7-12
Contemporary Literature
Multi-Ethnic American Literature
Harlem Renaissance Literature
Instructor in English (full-time, temporary), West Chester University, 1992-1994, 1995-1997
Basic Writing
Freshman Composition
Academic Development Program Composition
Research Writing
BOOKS
Internationalizing the Writing Center: A Practical Guide for Developing a Multilingual Writing Center (Parlor Press, 2020).
One-Smoke Stories by Mary Austin, with a critical introduction by Noreen Groover Lape (Ohio University Press, 2003).
West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers (Ohio University Press, 2000).
*From the Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book.
SPECIAL EDITIONS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
Co-editor with John Katunich, “The Post-Pandemic Writing Center.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, digital edited collection forthcoming in 2024.
Co-editor with John Katunich, “The Post-Pandemic Writing Center.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 47.2 (2022).
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“From English-Centric to Multilingual: The Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center at Dickinson College.” Composition Forum, 41 (2019).
*This article was solicited by the co-editors of the Program Profiles section of the journal.
"Transfer and the Transformation of Writing Pedagogies in a Mathematics Course" (with Sarah Bryant and Jennifer Schaefer). WAC Journal, 25 (2014).
"Going Global, Becoming Translingual: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center," Writing lab Newsletter, 38.4 (2013).
*Reprinted in The Best of the Independent Rhetoric & Composition Journals 2014. Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press.
"The Worth of the Writing Center: Numbers, Value, Culture, and the Rhetoric of Budget Proposals," Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 10.1 (2012).
“Giving Voice to Tutors’ Really Useful Knowledge: A New Plan for Writing Center Podcasts.” Writing Lab Newsletter, 34.2 (2009).
“Training Tutors in Emotional Intelligence: Toward a Pedagogy of Empathy,” Writing Lab Newsletter 33.2 (2008).
“Trickster at Our Table: The Columbus State University Writing Center,” Southern Discourse 11.2 (2008).
“The Frontier Origins of North American Realism: A Transnational Approach to Caroline Kirkland and Susanna Moodie,” Western American Literature 42.4 (2008).
“The Politics of Representation in Asian American Literary Criticism,” College Literature 29.4 (2002).
“’I would rather be with my people, but not to live with them as they live’: Cultural Liminality and Double Consciousness in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims,” The American Indian Quarterly 22.3 (1998).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“The Healing Power of Revision in Therapeutic Writing,” (with Kristin Taylor) The Wellness and Writing Connection, ed. John Evans (Washington: Idyll Arbor Press, 2010).
“’There was a part for her in the Indian life’: Mary Austin, Regionalism, and the Problems of Appropriation,” Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing, eds. Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997).
“Eliza Lynn Linton” in Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology, eds. Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell (New York: Garland Publishing,1995).
SELECTED PAPERS READ
“Writing Fellows, Institutional Authority, and the Power of Peerness: A Roundtable Presentation,” International Writing Center Association/ National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing, Columbus, Ohio, 2019.
“Update on IWCA Research Grant-Supported Project: Internationalizing the Writing Center,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2019.
“Internationalizing the Writing Center Roundtable Discussion,” International Writing Center Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 2018
“Making Sense of Contradictory Data in Mixed Method Program Assessment,” Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators, Conference, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 2017.
“Developing a Multilingual Writing Center: Interviews with Holistic Tutors,” International Writing Center Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2015.
“Developing a Multilingual Writing Center,” International Writing Center Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2014.
“Reimagining Assessment through Professional Development in Teaching and Learning,” Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning Assessment, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 2014.
"Going Global, Becoming Translingual: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2013.
"The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center: Negotiating Theory and Practice," Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 2012.
"Going International: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center," Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri, 2012.
“From College-Bound to Colonels: Training Tutors for Writing Center Outreach,” National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing, Miami, Florida, 2011.
“Circumnavigating the Globe: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center at Dickinson College,” International Writing Center Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010.
“Training Counselors to Use Writing as a Therapeutic Intervention,” International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010.
“Building Emotional Intelligence in Tutors: Empathy, Vulnerability, and Deep Listening,” Poster Session at International Writing Center Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
EDITORIAL REVIEW WORK
West Virginia University Press
Writing Center Journal
Southern Discourse in the Center, Editorial Review Board
Western American Literature
Writing Lab Newsletter
College Literature
Ohio University Press
OFFICES HELD
President, Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators, 2021-2023
Vice President, Small Liberal Arts College-Writing Program Administrators, 2020-2021
At-large board member, Southeastern Writing Center Association, 2007-2009