Geoffrey Middlebrook
Geoffrey Middlebrook is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Dornsife College Writing Program. He joined the University of Southern California faculty in 2002, where he has established himself as an authority on writing in digital environments.
In 2004 Dr. Middlebrook received a USC Curricular Enhancement Jumpstart grant; was a recipient in 2007 of the USC Provost's Prize for Teaching with Technology; in 2009 was awarded a USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching grant; in 2010 received a USC Teaching with Technology grant, a USC Learning Environments grant, and the USC Advanced Writing Teaching Award; and was the recipient of a USC Faculty Development grant in 2011.
Along with delivering frequent presentations and training sessions on campus and nationally, Dr. Middlebrook is active as a member of the USC New Media Consortium Campus Leader Board, USC General Education Subcommittee of the University Committee on Curriculum, USC Blackboard Advisory Committee, and USC Committee on Information Services; he was also on the USC College Technology Services Strategic Planning Committee, USC Strategic Planning Committee's Subcommittee on Academic Culture and Faculty Profile, USC Critical Thinking Committee, and USC Learning Environments Task Force. Off campus, he served on the Reinvention Center Assessment Network's E-Portfolios, Rubrics, and Tools Working Group, and was a member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction.
Professor Middlebrook has published in the journals Kairos and Computers and Composition Online, and his chapter "Showcase Hybridity: The Role of Blogfolios," will appear in the forthcoming book Portfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios in Public Workplaces, to be published by Parlor Press.
As a CET Faculty Fellow, Dr. Middlebrook participates in the conversation on means of teaching and modes of learning that are student centered, technologically enhanced, and sensitive to the career objectives of undergraduates and graduates alike.