Nathans-Kelly, Traci M.

PUBLICATIONS
Review: Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World�s Greatest Chefs. Edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. Appeared in Gastronomica 6(3), 115. Fall 2006.
"In Memory of the Little Lefse Maker." Essay in the collection _Cooking Lessons: The Politics and Gender of Food_. Edited by Sherrie Inness. November 2001.
" 'If I Were A VooDoo Priestess': Women's Culinary Autobiographies." Essay in the collection _Kitchen Culture_. Edited by Sherrie Inness. University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2000.
"Tales of the Elders: An Oral History Project" on CD-ROM. _Technology, Popular Culture, and the Writing Classroom_. Edited by James A. Inman and Cheryl Reed. URL: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
"Until Thoroughly Blended: Women's Culinary Autobiography." In _Kitchen Culture: An Anthology_. Edited by Dr. Sherrie Inness (Miami University). University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2000.
"As if a cook-book had anything to do with writing: Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and the Play of Intertextuality with The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book." In time-sense: An Online
CONFERENCES
Paper Presented: "Writing for an International Audience." Society for Technical Communication Annual Summit. 3 June 2008. Philadelphia, PA.
Paper Presented: "Treachery in the Kitchen: Traveling Foreign, Eating Familiar." College English Association National Conference, March 27, 2008. Co-author is Dr. Marielle Risse, Ph.D. of Dhofar University in Salalah, Oman.
Paper Presented: "Compiled Cookbooks: Embracing their Roles as Historical Documents" at Minnesota at 150 Conference. May 2008.
Presentation: Society for Technical Communication, Four Lakes Division. Madison, WI. November 15, 2004. "Researching and designing with a culturally aware eye." The meeting's theme was "International communication and localization: Cultural and technical implications."
Paper Presented. Society for Technical Communication, Region 6 Conference, Speaker. Minneapolis, MN. October 1, 2001. "Designing Effective Scientific and Technical Presentations."
" 'Where Are Ya?': Student Perceptions of Self in a Online Classroom" Paper given at the Conference meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. August, 2000. Washington DC.
Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts. University of Texas, San Antonio. February 17-20, 2000. Paper: "Until Thorougly Blended: Women's Culinary Autobiographies."
Willa Cather on Mesa Verde: A Symposium. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. October 20-24, 1999. Paper given: "Cleaning Out the Ruins: Cather and the Novel Demeuble."
Future Tense: What's Ahead in Technical Communication. Minneapolis, MN. February 27, 1999. Presentation given: "Building a Career in Technical Communication."
Academic Affairs-Student Affairs: Creating Synergy for Learning, University of Miami. January 14-17, 1999. Paper given on Service Learning at the University of Minnesota, Crookston. Co-presentors include Dr. Doug Knowlton, Robert Nelson, and Pamela Holsinger-Fuchs.
Food, Nature, and Culture Conference: A Social Research Conference. New York. November 4-7, 1998.
The Twenty-Third Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. Morgantown, WV. October 14-17, 1998. Paper given: "Chill Before Serving: The Cookbook/Memoir as Women's Autobiographical Device." Also served as a panel chair.
Eighth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. St. Louis, MO. June 12-15, 1998. Panel chair. The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning Conference. Bloomington, MN. February 19 and 20, 1998. Attended in order to garner ideas for promoting across-curricular writing activities.
Conference on Language and Literature: Literacy and Technology. Oct. 5-7, 1997. SUNY, Cortland, NY. Paper Presented: "Making It Matter: Student Perceptions of Traditional Research Papers vs. Their Informational Web Sites."
The Edith Wharton Society: The Centenal Celebration of Wharton's _The Decoration of Houses_ June 1997. Lenox, MA. Paper presented: " 'We Shall Have Her for Dinner': Codified Behavior as Mitigated by Dining Practices in Wharton's _The Age of Innocence".

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

Grant Awards: Transforming Undergraduage Education in the College of Engineering: University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering 2010 Grant. Awarded Spring 2007 to fund online delivery of EPD 397: Technical Communication in collaboration with members of Mechanical Engineering.

Society for Technical Communication: --Senior Member

--Manager for International Technical Communication Special Interest Group (2007 and continuing)

--Committee Member: Global Strategies

--International Competition, Society for Technical Communicators, Judge. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008. Judged categories of informational materials and scholarly journals.

STC: Senior member

MLA: member

Polygon Engineering Council Outstanding Instructor Award, 2003 and 2008

Technical Communication Activities

Manager, International Technical Communication (special interest group) of the Society for Technical Communication.
Global Strategies Committee, Society for Technical Communication. Charter member.
Website re-Designer, University of Wisconsin's Energy Institute. Working with the chair of the Nuclear Physics program (Dr. Micahel Corradini) and Dr. Paul Meier, I redesigned and launched the Energy Institute's new pages. Assistant: Gage Trader. http://www.energy.wisc.edu
"Improving Technical Presentations." Webinar (three two-hour sessions) for the Engineering Professional Development department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. Participants are practicing professionals. Spring 2006 and 2007.
"Improving Technical Presentations." Customized webinar delivery (three-hour) for Ormat Technologies (Nevada/Israel/Canada) for Engineering Professional Development department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. February 14, 2006.
"Improving Technical Presentations." Webinar (two-hour) for the Engineering Professional Development department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. June 14, 2005.
'Researching and designing with a culturally aware eye." November 15, 2004. Society for Technical Communication, Four Lakes Division. The meeting�s theme was "International communication and localization: Cultural and technical implications."
Review Coordinator for Technical Communication: The Journal of the Society of Technical Communication. (Fall 2002 and ongoing). Immediate supervisor: George Hayhoe, Editor-in-Chief.
Regional ASEE. October, 2002. Paper given was "An EPICS Journey: Combining Service Learning and MultiDisciplinary Engineering Projects."
Region 6 Society for Technical Communication. October 15, 2002. Paper given was "Scientific and Technical Presentations, Part II: Documenting Resources and Accessibility-Beginning Conversations."
Panelist for "Trends in Technical Communication: Closing Session." and Society for Technical Communication, Region 6 Conference, Speaker. Minneapolis, MN. October 1, 2001. "Designing Effective Scientific and Technical Presentations."
International Competition, Society for Technical Communicators, Judge. San Diego, CA. March 2-3, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006. Judged scholarly journals category and scholarly articles sections.
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Speaker. Washington, DC. August, 2000. Session Title: "Conversations about Technology and Interaction in the Digital Age: Some Examples from Online Teaching and Scholarship." Paper Title: "'Are ya there?': Addressing and Assessing the Unknown Other in Distance Learning Settings."

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