Ilona M. McGuiness, Ph.D.

Dean of First-Year Students 

and Academic Services

Loyola College in Maryland

I. Personal Information

II. Education

• Ph.D., University of Iowa, English

Dissertation: Only Connections: Rhetoric as Collaborative Impulse in E.M. Forster's Nonfiction Prose, Richard Lloyd-Jones, Director
 
Comprehensive examinations (with distinction): Rhetoric and Composition; Modern British Novel; Nineteenth-century British Literature

• M.A., Iowa State University (Ames), English
• B.A., English, with university and departmental honors, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

III. Teaching Appointments

• Loyola College in Maryland, tenured Associate Professor of Writing, Department of Writing and Media, 1986- present
• Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Falls, Iowa, Instructor in English 1976-86 (no faculty ranking system)
• The University of Iowa, Teaching Assistant in Rhetoric Program, 1980-81; in Writing Lab Spring 1981
• Iowa State University, Teaching Assistant in Freshman Composition Program, 1973-76; in Writing Clinic, 1974-76; Adjunct Instructor, Spring 1976
  

IV. Administrative Appointments

• Dean of First-Year Students & Academic Services, 1999 - Present
• Director, Loyola College Honors Program, 1996 - 1999
• Chair, Ellsworth College English Department, 1981-86
• Director, Ellsworth College Learning Center, 1981-86

V. College Committee Work (Loyola College in Maryland)

• Curriculum Committee (Secretary, Vice-chair)
• Honors Council (Chair)
• Freshman Year Experience Committee
• Jesuit-Lay Collaboration Committee
• Service-Learning Committee
• Committee on Graduate Studies
• Committee on Studies
• Search Committee for Director of Service Learning (Chair)
• Strategic Planning Task Force on Service Learning
• Freshman Year Committee
• Council of Department Chairs
• Council of Arts and Sciences Department Chairs
  

VI. Other Faculty Service

• Member, Baltimore Area Writing Across the Curriculum Consortium Steering Committee
• Advisor, Core Advising Program
• Advisor, Writing / Media Department majors
• Speaker, College Day presentations for prospective students and parents
• Speaker, annual Loyola faculty workshops
• Developer and presenter, "Writing in the Service Learning Classroom," a cross-curricular faculty workshop
• Developer and presenter, professional seminar for writing majors
• Coordinator, Loyola/Notre Dame Library acquisitions
• Department Liaison, College Resource Center
• Speaker, Summer Orientation, "I Never Thought a College Class Was Like This'" (parents' session)
• Initiator and moderator, "Get a Life of the Mind: How to Succeed in College by Really Trying," Fall Orientation Program
• Coordinator, Faculty Associates for Service Learning
• Chair, Writing Curriculum Review Committee
• Chair, Cardin Chair Search Committee
• Chair, Director of Service Learning Search Committee
• Chair, Associate Director of Service Learning Search Committee
• Chair, search committee for writing position 1997-98
• Member, search committees for Writing / Media faculty
• House Mentor, Hammerman House Freshman Residence Hall

VII. Courses Taught

• Effective Writing
• Empirical Rhetoric
• Honors Freshman Seminar
• Biography and Autobiography (developed course)
• The Creative Eye: Description
• The Art of Prose: E.M. Forster (developed course)
• The Art of Prose: John McPhee (developed course)
• The Contemporary Essay
• The History of the Essay (developed course)
• Advanced Nonfiction Prose (developed course)
• Senior Portfolio
• Independent Study

VIII.Publications

• The Collaborative Rhetoric of E.M. Forster's Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 6 (1991): 253-271. Rpt. in E.M. Forster: Critical Assessments. Ed. J.H. Stape. Robertsbridge: Helm Information, 1998. Volume II: 322-38
• Leder, Drew and Ilona McGuiness. Making the Paradigm Shift: Service Learning in Higher Education. Metropolitan Universities 7 (1996) : 47-56.
• Rhetoric as Preventive Medicine: The Essays of E.M. Forster. ERIC March, 1995.
• Educating for Participation and Democracy. The Scholarship of Teaching, Fall 1995: 3-12.
  From Skeptic to Proponent: Faculty Involvement in Service Learning. Two Cases on Institutionalizing Service Learning: How Campus Climate Affects the Change Process. Ed. Marie Trope. Providence, RI: Campus Compact/Brown University, 1994, 27-33.
• Writing in the Humanities: Commentary. In Redesigning Curricula: Models of Service Learning Syllabi. Ed. Katherine Jackson. Providence, RI: 1994, 74-83.
• The Collaborative Rhetoric of E.M. Forster's Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 6 (1991): 253-71.
• John Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe as Satire: A Revaluation. The Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 215-31.
• Contributing bibliographer. Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1987. Ed. Erika Lindemann. New York: Longman, 1990.
• Contributing bibliographer. Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1986. Ed. Erika Lindemann. New York: Longman, 1989.
• Contributing bibliographer. Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1984-85. Ed. Erika Lindemann. New York: Longman, 1987.
• Structuring a Basic Writing Course Through Peer Interaction. Writing: A Necessary Connection. Papers from the Midwest Writing Centers Association, Iowa City: The University of Iowa, October, 1983.
• Writers Helping Writers: A Group Approach to Conceptual Development. Iowa English Bulletin 32, 1-2 (1983): 5-9.

VIIII. Book(s) In Progress

• Only Connections: Rhetoric as Collaborative Impulse in E.M. Forster's Nonfiction Prose.

X. Scholarly Presentations

• The Role of the Arts in Honors Programs. Panel presentation. Annual Conference of the Maryland Collegiate Honors Council, April 17, 1998.
• Why Service Learning? Keynote address. Faculty Workshop, St. Joseph's College of Maine, April 30, 1998.
• Theories of Learning: Service Learning and Seminar Learning. Invited panel presentation. "Challenge, Response: Rethinking Kay Issues in College Learning,: Elon College, North Carolina, September 1997.
• Service Learning: Laying the Foundations of a Successful Course. Pre-convention workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
• Why Are We Here? Service Learning Across the Curriculum. Roundtable discussion leader. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
• Shoptalk: Writing Composition. Panelist. A National Gathering: College Educators and Service Learning, Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College, Providence, RI, May 1995.
• From Skeptic to Proponent: Academic Integrity and Service Learning. Keynote Address. Ohio Campus Compact Symposium on Service Learning: Principles and Practice, Ashland University, Ashland, OH, April 1996.
• A Mutually Profitable Alliance: Educators & Service. Roundtable discussion. National Society for Experiential Education, New Orleans, LA, November 1995.
• The Nuts and Bolts of Designing a Service Learning Course. Invited talk/workshop presentation. The Shriver Center Higher Education Consortium, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, June 1995.
• Incorporating Service Learning into College Curricula. Invited talk. Faculty Development Workshop, The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD, March 1995.
• Service Learning and the Freshman Composition Class. Invited paper. Colloquium on National and Community Service, sponsored by Campus Compact and the The American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C., January, 1995.
• Rhetoric as Preventive Medicine: E.M. Forster's Essays. Paper. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN, March 1994.
• Integrating Service with the Academic Curriculum: Vision, Methods, and Outcomes. Poster session. National Association for Experiential Education, San Francisco, CA, October 1993.
• The Lessons Autobiographies Teach. Invited lecture. Howard County Library Lecture Series: The Journey Inward--Women's Autobiography, Baltimore, MD, October 1992.
• John Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe as Satire: A Revaluation. Paper. Faculty Colloquium Series, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD, April 1989.
• Writing to Improve Thinking. Panelist. Baltimore Area Consortium for Writing Across the Curriculum, Essex Community College, Essex, MD, October 1988.
• Defining Ourselves as a Discipline. Recorder. Conference for College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, March 1988.
• Structuring a Basic Writing Course Through Peer Interaction. Paper. The Midwest Writing Centers Association, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, October 1983.
• Teaching Composing and Teaching Style: A Pedagogical Problem. Paper. Conference of the Iowa Council of Teachers of English, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, October 1982.
• Writers Helping Writers: A Group Approach to Conceptual Development. Paper. Conference of the Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, IA, October 1981.
• Writers Helping Writers: A Group Approach to Conceptual Development. Paper. Conference on College Composition, San Francisco, CA, March, 1981.

XI. Professional Activities

• a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Peer Reviewer, 1992 - 1999.
• Organic Structure in McPhee's Prose. Developer and presenter. Nonfiction prose workshop for AP students at the McDonogh School, Owings Mills, MD, February 1993.
• The Humanistic Impulse of Biography and Autobiography: A Symposium. Grant Writer and director. Semester-long symposium, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Spring 1992.
• Susan Orlean, nonfiction prose reading and seminar. Grant writer, sponsor, and host. Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, November 1990.
• Re-investigating Writing Across the Curriculum at the Institutional Level. Moderator. Baltimore Arena Consortium for Writing Across the Curriculum, Towson State University, Towson, MD, February 1989.
• Journal Writing as an Academic Enterprise. Developer and leader. Loyola College Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, Baltimore, MD, March 1987.
• In-Service workshop for English Department and Learning Center faculty. Developer and leader. Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN, June 1984.
• In-Service teaching workshop for high school writing teachers of the Des Moines, Iowa, public school system. Speaker. Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, IA, February 1984.
• Psychology and Composition. Session Chair. Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Simpson College, Indianola, IA, October 1983.
• The Computer and the Composing Process. Associate session chair. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Detroit, MI, March 1983.
• Room at the Top: Conference on Management for Women. Host. Seminars on Business Communications, Des Moines, IA, November 1982.

XII. Honors and Awards

Loyola College in Maryland

• Educator for Life Award, 2000
• Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 1998
• Sabbatical for completion on book-in-progress (Only Connections: The Collaborative Rhetoric of E.M. Forster) fall semester, 1993
• Faculty Development Grant for work on book-in-progress; summer, 1983
• Dean's Grant for research at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, TX; summer 1992
• Faculty Development Grant for research at the Modern Archives, King's College, Cambridge University; summer 1989 and 1990
  

XIII. Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English, College Section
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association
• Maryland Council of Teachers of English
• International Virginia Woolf Society
• National Society for Experiential Education
• American Association of University Professors
• National Collegiae Honors Council
• Maryland Collegiate Honors Council
• Executive Board Member, 1997 - present
• Treasurer, May, 1998 - present

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