ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2019-present
Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication

• Podcasting: Producing Audio Stories
• Get Published: Revising Your Manuscript for Publication
• Science and Sustainability
• Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of Writing
• Tū Kupu: Writing and Inquiry
• Writing for the Public
• Digital Technical Writing
• Written Communication in the Information Sciences
• Communication in the Sciences

Fulbright Scholar, 2023-2024
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Podcasting American Culture
• Introduction to Academic Writing
  
• ​Artificial Intelligence and Writing
  

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, 2014-2019
Associate Instructor, 2014–2019
Multilingual Program Assistant, 2017
Online Instructional Designer, 2015–16

• Podcasting: Persuading with Sound
• Visual Rhetoric: The Video Essay 
• Service Learning Writing
• Technical and Professional Writing
• Cross-Cultural Composition
• Multilingual Composition
• Online Composition
• First-Year Composition

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Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, 2012-2013
University of Montenegro

• English Communication and Conversation
• Anglophone Current Events
• American Drama and the American Accent

EDUCATION

Indiana University – Bloomington, IN
Ph.D., English: Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication
Dissertation: "Accumulating Character: Time and Ethos in Rhetorical Theory"
June 2019
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​Indiana University – Bloomington, IN
M. A., English Literature, 2015

University of Texas – Austin, TX
B. A., English, 2008
B. A., Special Honors in Plan II Honors, 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Wise, Beck...Collin Bjork, and Susan Thomas. "A scholarly dialogue: Writing scholarship, authorship, academic integrity and the challenges of AI."
Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 43, no. 3, 2024. 

Choong, Philip and Collin Bjork. "The Student Podcaster as Narrator of Social Change?"
College Composition and Communication, vol. 74, no. 3, 2023. 

Clarke, Kyra and Collin Bjork. "'Listening closely' to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder." Convergence, 2023. 

Bjork, Collin. "Book Review of Science Research Writing for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English. 2nd ed. By Hilary Glasman-Deal." Journal of Second Language Writing, vol. 56, 2022. 
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Bjork, Collin and Frida Buhre. "Resisting Temporal Regimes, Imagining Just Temporalities."
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3, 2021, pp. 177-181.

Buhre, Frida and Collin Bjork. "Braiding Time: Sami Temporalities for Indigenous Justice."
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3, 2021, pp. 227-236.

​Bjork, Collin. "Plato, Xenophon, and the Uneven Temporalities of Ethos in the Trial of Socrates."
Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 54, no. 3, 2021, pp. 240-262.
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Bjork, Collin. "Integrating Usability Testing and Digital Rhetoric in Online Writing Instruction."
Computers and Composition, vol. 49, 2018, pp. 4-13.

DISSERTATION

Accumulating Character: Time and Ethos in Rhetorical Theory
Chair: Dana Anderson
Committee: John Schilb, Freya Thimsen, Justin Hodgson, and Scot Barnett
"Accumulating Character" argues that both rhetoric and theories of ethos can gain complexity by understanding how non-kairotic conceptions of time—especially ones that emerge from the ancient concept of chronos—impact rhetorical ecologies. Through the analysis of cultural texts and digital media, I develop a theory of "cumulative ethos" that highlights the ways that character accumulates rhetorical force over time.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Criminal Judgments: True Crime Podcasting and Online Public Discourse" 
Nordic Rhetoric Conference, 2024
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

"The Present and Future of Writing Instruction at Massey University" 
ALANZ 1st Writing Symposium, 2024
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

"Sound Judgments: True Crime Podcasting and Civic Discourse" 
Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 2024
Denver, USA

"The Legal and Ethical Obligations of True Crime Podcasting" 
NZ Podcast Summit, 2024
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

"Podcasting for Fulbright Researchers" 
Fulbright Mediterranean Conference, 2023
Alicante, Spain

"Sound Judgments? Assessing the Rhetorics of Civic Deliberation in True Crime Podcasting" 
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, 2023
Penn State University, USA

"Reimagining Justice in True Crime Podcasting" 
Podcast Studies Symposium: ICA Pre-Conference, 2023
Toronto, Canada
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"What Kind of Listeners Do True Crime Podcasts Invoke?" 
Disruption, Voice, and Listening Conference, Birmingham UK 2022
Online

"Student-Podcasters as Narrators of Social Change?" 
Computers and Writing Conference, 2022
Online

"Reimagining Justice in True Crime Podcasting" 
Emerging Research in Podcast Studies Symposium, 2022
Online

"Just Audio Stories: True Crime Podcasting, Genre, and Justice" 
Rhetoric Society of America Institute, 2021
Online

"Time, Ethos, and the Trial of Socrates" 
Rhetoric Society of Europe Conference, 2019
Ghent, Belgium

"Bitcoin and Posthuman Cumulative Ethos" 
Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2018
Louisville, KY

"Tracing Sonic Ethos: Sampling Kanye's Character" 
Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing, 2018
Nashville, TN

"Rhetoric and Non-Kairotic Time" (workshop participant)
International Rhetoric Workshop, 2018 
Ghent, Belgium

"Cumulative Ethos: Chronos, Character, and Kanye West" 
Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 2018
Minneapolis, MN

"Teacherly Ethos in Synchronous Multimodal OWI"
Computers and Writing Conference, 2018
Fairfax, VA

"Theorizing Chronos for Rhetoric" (workshop participant)
Midwest Winter Workshop, 2018 
Bloomington, IN

"The (Re)Making of Kanye West's Ethos" 
Award Winner: Best Graduate Student Paper in Rhetoric and Culture
Rhetoric Society of Europe Conference, 2017
Norwich, England

"Multimodality and Multiliteracies in Online Writing Instruction" 
Computers and Writing Conference, 2017
Findlay, OH

"Ethics of the Interface: A Process of Virtue" 
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2017
Portland, OR

"Translingual Pedagogies and Vernacular English Literatures" 
Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2016
Louisville, KY

"Composing the Video Essay" 
Computers and Writing Conference, 2016
Rochester, NY

"Mechanics of the Video Essay" (digital showcase)
Computers and Writing Conference, 2016
Rochester, NY

"Toward a Narrative-Based Pedagogy" 
Why the Humanities? Conference, 2015
Kent, OH

"Beyond Public Diplomacy: Sketching a Model for Human Rights Advocacy as a Fulbrighter" 
Fulbright Conference, 2014
Washington, D. C.

invited Lectures

"Blogging Science"
Guest Lecture for Massey University's Science and Sustainability, 2021
Online 

​"Podcasting: A-Z"
Guest Lecture for Massey University's The Publishing Project, 2020
Face-to-Face and Online 

​"Writing a Winning Abstract"
Guest Lecture for Massey University's Graduate Research School 2020, 2021
Online 

​"Public Research Communication"
Guest Lecture for Massey University's Graduate Research School 2020, 2021
Online 

"Scientific Credibility and Scientific CRAAP"
Guest Lecture for Massey University's Science and Sustainability, 2020
Face-to-Face and Online 

"Multimodal Online Classrooms"
Co-Presenter with Kevin Eric Depew
Inaugural Webinar for the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, 2016
Online Webinar

workshop organizer

​"Online Writing Instruction for Multilingual Writers: Strategies for Access"
Co-Facilitator
Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2018
Kansas City, MO

awards

Vice Chancellor's Early Career Teaching Award
Massey University, 2022

Innovative Teaching Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Massey University, 2021

Culbertson Dissertation Completion Fellowship
​Indiana University, 2019

English Department Summer Research Fellowship
​Indiana University, 2018

Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award 
​Indiana University, 2018
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HASTAC Scholar
​Indiana University, 2017
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Best Graduate Student Paper in "Rhetoric and Culture"
Rhetoric Society of Europe, 2017

Olofson Summer Research Fellowship
​Indiana University, 2017

Composition Program Third-Year Teaching Award: Nominated
​Indiana University, 2017

Composition Program Second-Year Teaching Award: Nominated
​Indiana University, 2016

Composition Program First-Year Teaching Award: Winner
​Indiana University, 2015

Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Grant
​Indiana University, 2014

John Robert Moore Memorial Fellowship
​Indiana University, 2013

Fulbright: English Teaching Assistantship
​University of Montenegro, 2012–2013

related work experience

Science Communication Curriculum Consultant
Professor Christopher Uhl, 2016
Penn State University, State College, PA

Technical Writer
National Instruments, 2008–2012
Austin, TX

service

AI in Healthcare Committee Member 
Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor, NZ Govt 2023–2024

Erasmus+ Student Application Reviewer
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2023–2024

Computers and Writing Conference Committee Member
United States, 2022–2023

Chair of the Manawatū Chapter of SCANZ
Science Communication Association of New Zealand, 2020–2021

Fulbright Campus Advisor
Massey University, 2020–present

Emergency Online Teaching Webinars
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, 2020

Section Editor and Board Member
​Research in Online Literacy Education, 2016–2020
Little Rock, AR

Founding Member
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, 2016–present
Little Rock, AR

Multilingual English Conversation Instructor
Monroe County Public Library, 2015–2018
Bloomington, IN

Educational Policies Committee Member
​Graduate and Professional Student Government, 2016–2017
Indiana University

Ambassador for Graduate Student Teachers
​Graduate and Professional Student Government, 2016–2017
Indiana University

Composition Committee Co-Chair
​English Graduate Student Advisory Committee, 2016–2017
Indiana University

Assistant to the Seminar Coordinator
Fulbright Enrichment Seminar, 2015–2016
Atlanta, GA

Co-Producer and Co-Director of The Vagina Monologues
American Corner, 2012–2013
Podgorica, Montenegro

College Application Advisor
American Corner, 2012–2013
Podgorica, Montenegro

digital skills

Podcasting; Adobe Premiere, Audition, Illustrator, Acrobat; iMovie and GarageBand; Audacity; Qualtrics; HTML; XML; CSS; LabVIEW

languages

Māori
Beginner proficiency in reading and aural comprehension

Spanish
Beginner to intermediate proficiency in reading and aural comprehension

Slovenian
Beginner proficiency in reading and aural comprehension

Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
Beginner proficiency in reading and aural comprehension