Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Deb Balzhiser

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Personel Committee | Annual Review. January 21, 2025 - Present.
  • Member, Social Media Committee. August 2020 - Present.
  • Member, Honor Code Council. August 15, 2019 - Present.
  • Member, Online Courses Committee. 2015 - Present.
  • Member, Outstanding Senior. January 2015 - Present.
  • Member, Probationary Council. August 2014 - Present.
  • Director, University Writing Center. June 1, 2014 - Present.
  • Chair, Scholarships Committee. August 2013 - Present.
  • Member, Advanced Studies Committee. August 2010 - Present.
  • Member, Writing and Rhetoric Committee. August 1, 2010 - Present.
  • Member, First-Year English Committee. August 2009 - Present.
  • Member, MA/Rhetoric & Composition Committee. 2005 - Present.
  • Member, MA/Technical Communication Committee. 2005 - Present.

2024

  • Member, Micro-Credentialing. August 2023 - May 2024.
  • Member, Academic Services Committee. January 2022 - May 2024.
  • Member, IA/TA Committee. August 2014 - May 2024.

2023

  • Member, Hiring Committee: TT MARC & Associate Director University Writing Center. August 2022 - May 2023.

2022

  • Chair, Hiring Committee: Senior Lecturer, Assistant Director of the University Writing Center in Round Rock. August 2022 - December 2022.
  • Member, Faculty Handbook Committee. August 15, 2019 - May 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Technical Communication Quarterly. October 2021 - December 2021.
  • Workshop Facilitator, Universidad San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador. May 2021 - December 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Technical Communication Quarterly. July 2020 - January 2021.

2020

  • Member, Retention Council. August 2014 - July 2020.
  • Chair, Hiring Committee: Co-Director, University Writing Center. June 2019 - May 2020.
  • Member, REP Committee for College of Liberal Arts. August 2017 - May 2020.

2019

  • Reviewer / Referee, Computers & Writing Conference. October 2017 - December 2019.
  • Chair, Hiring Committee: Senior Lecturer, Writing Center Assistant Director. April 2019 - August 2019.
  • Editor, ATTW Bibliography. May 2017 - January 2019.

2018

  • Member, Marketable Skills. December 2018.
  • Chair, Mentoring Committee. August 1, 2013 - August 2018.
  • Chair, Hiring Committee: Senior Lecturer Writing Center Assistant Director. May 1, 2018 - August 15, 2018.
  • Mentoring Committee. August 2013 - May 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. November 2017 - December 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, WPA: Writing Program Administration. November 2017 - December 2017.
  • Member, Developmental Education Advisory Committee. March 2016 - December 2017.
  • Alternate, REP Representative. August 2012 - May 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, Programmatic Perspectives. 2016.
  • Member, Hiring Committee: Budget Analyst. October 2016 - December 2016.

2015

  • Member, Living Learning Community Task Force. 2013 - 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Composition Forum. September 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015.
  • Chair, Online Courses Committee. August 2012 - August 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, WPA: Writing Program Administration. June 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015.
  • Chair, Hiring Committee: Senior Lecturer in English (Assistant Director of the Writing Center). May 1, 2015 - July 1, 2015.

2014

  • Member, TRACS Steering Committee. 2007 - 2014.
  • Co-Chair, Mentoring Committee. August 2013 - August 2014.
  • Liaison, TRACS Faculty Liaison. September 2007 - August 2014.

2013

  • Reviewer / Referee, The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Peitho. 2013.
  • Member, Hiring Committee: Assistant Professor of English (Rhetoric). 2012 - 2013.
  • Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Executive Committee’s Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on the Writing Major. 2005 - 2013.

2011

  • Member, Lower Division Studies Committee. 2010 - 2011.

2010

  • Reviewer / Referee, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). College Composition and Communication. 2010.
  • Member, Professional Writing Committee. August 2009 - May 2010.
  • Judge, Writing Center Essay Contest. January 2010 - April 2010.

2009

  • Communications Co-Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology & Pedagogy. 2007 - 2009.
  • Interim Faculty Coordinator, Residential College. August 2007 - May 2009.
  • Faculty in Residence, Residential College. August 2006 - May 2009.

2008

  • Member, Hiring Committee: Faculty in Residence for Residential College. September 2007 - May 2008.

2006

  • Member, Hiring Committee: Microcomputer Laboratories. 2005 - 2006.

2005

  • Member, Computer Committee. Clemson University. August 2003 - May 2005.

2004

  • Member, Curriculum Committee. Clemson University. September 2003 - June 2004.

2003

  • Mentoring Coordinator, Illinois Heartland Chapter: Society for Technical Communication (STC). 2001 - 2003.
  • Member, Society for Technical Communication. 1999 - 2003.

2002

  • Vice President 2, Illinois Heartland Chapter: Society for Technical Communication. 2002.

2001

  • Founder, Professional-Student Mentoring Committee, Illinois Heartland Chapter: Vice President 2, 2002Society for Technical Communication (STC). 2001.

1999

  • Member, Twin Cities Chapter: Society for Technical Communication. 1994 - 1999.

1998

  • Member, Distance Learning Development Team. University of Minnesota. 1997 - 1998.
  • Member, Policy Board Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing. University of Minnesota. 1997 - 1998.

1997

  • Rapapport, Minnesota Governor Arnie Carlson’s Digital Technology Summit. University of Minnesota. July 1977 - November 1997.

1996

  • Member, Twin Cities Chapter: Society for Technical Communication Special Publications Committee. 1996.

1995

  • Member, User Group. University of Western Sydney-Nepean, Australia. 1995.
  • Member, Writing/Teaching Group. University of Western Sydney-Nepean, Australia. 1995.
  • Member, Master’s Development Group. University of Western Sydney-Nepean, Australia. 1995.
  • Member, Computer Committee. University of Minnesota. 1994 - 1995.

1994

  • Reviewer / Referee, English Online. 1994.
  • Web-cam Writing Mentor, University of Minnesota. 1994.
  • Member, Instructional Technology Committee. Illinois State University. 1993 - 1994.
  • Member, Society for Technical Communication. 1992 - 1994.

1993

  • Author, “Dædalus for the Stevenson Macintosh Classrooms: Student’s Guide.” Illinois State University. 1993.
  • Author, “Dædalus for the Stevenson Macintosh Classrooms: Instructor’s Guide.” Illinois State University. 1993.

1992

  • Vice President, SIGMA TAU DELTA (∑T∆), Western Illinois University. 1992.
  • Member, SIGMA TAU DELTA (∑T∆), Western Illinois University. 1989 - 1992.

1991

  • President, SIGMA TAU DELTA (∑T∆), Western Illinois University. 1991.
  • Editor, Elements. October 1990 - May 1991.

1990

  • Co-Coordinator, Sigma Tau Delta (∑T∆), Western Illinois University, Creative Writing Workshops with the Gerentology Program. 1990.