Faculty Profiles

Dr. Miriam F Williams

Chair, 2026 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards Selection Committee. June 1, 2025 - Present.
Member, Digital Humanities Search Committee. May 6, 2025 - Present.
Member, Digital Humanities Search Committee. May 6, 2025 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Ethics and Information Technology (EITN). March 2024 - Present.
Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). June 2021 - Present.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Business and Technical Communication. June 1, 2020 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Technical Communication Quarterly. October 2016 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Member of Program Committee for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. January 2016 - Present.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. January 2015 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Business and Technical Communication. October 2009 - Present.

Editor, Editor-in-Chief of Technical Communication. December 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025.
Organizer, Created "How to Chair an MATC Thesis Committee Manual for New MATC Faculty". August 2025.
Member, AI and Honor Code Task Force. August 15, 2024 - August 15, 2025.
Member, Hiring Committee for Assistant Professor of English for MATC Program. August 2024 - May 2025.
Member, Department of English Faculty Mentor. February 2023 - May 2025.

Member, Associate Chair of Department of English. August 15, 2019 - August 15, 2024.
Special Issues Editor, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. August 2021 - May 31, 2024.

Member, Editor of Texas State's Successful Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Application. November 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022.
Presenter, Presented Proposal to Add English 3303 to Texas State's Core Curriculum. November 7, 2022.
Member, Annual Review Committee for Assistant and Associate Professors of English. 2010 - August 1, 2022.
Organizer, Cuentos and Testimonies Journal. August 2021 - May 2022.

Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Best New Journal Awards Committee. September 2021 - November 2021.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research. March 2008 - June 2021.
Member, African American Literature Search Committee. October 1, 2020 - March 2021.
Member, Member of the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication's Diversity Committee. December 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021.

Chair, MATC Director Search Committee. August 15, 2019 - February 20, 2020.
Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Dissertation (CCCC) Award in Technical Communication Selection Committee. September 2019 - January 31, 2020.

Chair, Doctoral Program Proposal Committee. September 1, 2016 - November 2019.
Member, Hearing Tribunal. April 2019 - September 2019.
Speaker, Quality Enhancement Plan Kickoff Keynote Speaker for Texas A&M Central Texas. “Communities of Writers: Valuing Audience, Style, Ethics, and Collaboration”. September 4, 2019.

Graduate Advisor, Director Master of Arts in Technical Communication (MATC) Program. January 2013 - August 2018.
Chair, M.A. in Technical Communication Committee. January 1, 2013 - August 2018.
Member, Hiring Committee for the English Department's IA/TA's, Texas State University. August 1, 2005 - August 2018.
Member, Distance Education Steering Committee. August 2015 - May 2018.

Member, Award for Excellence in Online Teaching. November 1, 2017 - November 30, 2017.
Member, Faculty Mentor for Associate Professor Aimee Roundtree. August 1, 2015 - August 1, 2017.
Member, Suspension and Appeals Committee. August 1, 2015 - August 1, 2017.
Member, Liberal Arts Representative on Faculty Senate Academic Computing Committee. August 1, 2015 - May 1, 2017.
Reviewer / Referee, Proposal Reviewer for the Annual Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. April 2008 - January 2017.

Member, Rhetoric and Writing Committee (formerly known as the Professional Writing Committee) for the English Department at Texas State University. 2005 - 2015.
Member, Hiring Committee for Director of Faculty Development, Spring 2015 -Fall 2015. January 2015 - December 2015.
Member, Hiring Committee for Assistant Director of Faculty Development, Spring 2015 -Fall 2015. January 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
Member, Hiring Committee for Director of Faculty Development. January 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
Reviewer / Referee, Reviewed proposed article for Special Issue of Connexions International Professional Communication Journal, titled Professional Communication and Social Justice in the Global South. August 2015.
Reviewer / Referee, Member of Program Committee for the 2015 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. January 2015.

Member, Texas State University Common Experience Committee: “From Segregation to Integration: Exploring Democracy’s Promise”. 2013.
Participant, University’s E-Textbook Pilot Program. 2013.
Member, Hiring Committee for Texas State University’s Emergency Management Coordinator. September 2012 - 2013.
Member, Department Mentor for Assistant Professor, Nelly Rosario. 2009 - 2013.
Member, Master of Arts in Technical Communication Committee, Texas State University. August 2004 - August 2013.
Other, Protégé in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' (AASCU) Millennium Leadership Initiative. June 2012 - June 2013.
Reviewer / Referee, Technical Communication Quarterly. May 2013.
Guest Speaker, Texas State University’s Round Rock Graduation Reception. May 8, 2013.
Attendee, Liberal Arts Council Meeting. April 3, 2013.

Member, Presidential Fellow: Co-authored Texas State's successful proposal for reclassification to Emerging Research University. September 2011 - September 2012.
Other, Usability Lab Planning. 2011 - 2012.
Member, Hiring Committee for Tenure Track faculty in Technical Communication. 2011 - 2012.
Member, Hiring Committee for Tenure Track faculty in Rhetoric and Composition. 2011 - 2012.
Organizer, “Maintaining Classroom Civility” Texas State University Professional Development Faculty Workshop. October 17, 2012.
Member, University Council. September 2011 - September 2012.
Member, Emergency Procedures Posters and Videos. August 2011 - August 2012.

Chair, Master of Arts in Technical Communication Comprehensive Portfolio Exams. 2009.
Presenter, Texas State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, Preparing Documentation for Tenure and Promotion. November 20, 2009.
Participant, Roundtable discussion for PhD programs in Rhetoric & Composition and Technical Communication & Rhetoric. November 11, 2009.
Reviewer / Referee, Pearson Education/Longman Technical Communication textbook, Strategies for Technical Communication written by Laura Gurak and John Lannon. March 2009.
Reviewer / Referee, “Quick Review” of Pearson Education Technical Communication textbook, Technical Communication Today 3e, by Johnson-Sheehan. March 2009.

Member, Round Rock Higher Education Center Fall On-Site Registration. July 2005.
Member, Round Rock Higher Education Center Information Night. May 2005.

Member, Technology Committee, National Black Graduate Student Association. 2003 - 2004.
Member, Arts in Technical Communication Program Advisory Board Member, Texas State University. 2002 - 2004.

Co-Chair, Registration for the Graduate English Society’s Annual Conference at Texas Tech University. 2003.