Adam Jeffrey Phillips
Assistant Professor of Instruction &
Associate Director of First-Year Writing
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620
Education
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition, May 2022
University of South Florida, Department of English
Secondary Areas:
Professional and Technical Communication Certificate, Department of English
Digital Humanities Certificate, Departments of History and English
Dissertation: Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres
Director: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, University of South Florida
Member: Dr. Norbert Elliot, New Jersey Institute of Technology Member: Dr. Liane Robertson, University of South Florida Member: Dr. Kristen Gay, University of South Florida
M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, July 2015
Florida Atlantic University, Department of English
B.A. English, Literature, May 2010
Youngstown State University, Department of English and World Languages
Research Areas
Generative AI (Gen AI), Ethics, and Writing; Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Writing Program Administration; First-Year Composition; Digital Rhetoric; Multimodal Composition; Writing Analytics; Writing Assessment; Curricular Assessment
Selected Graduate Coursework
Technical Communication and Rhetorical Theory
Professional & Technical Communication Theory, Dr. Lisa Melonçon
Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Dr. Carl Herndl
Rhetoric of Technology, Dr. Lisa Melonçon and Dr. Carl Herndl
Studies in Composition Theory, Dr. Elizabeth Metzger
Studies in the History of Rhetoric, Dr. Nathan Johnson
Rhetorics of Incarceration, Dr. Wendy Wolters-Hinshaw
Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods, Dr. Norbert Elliot
Studies in Composition Research, Dr. Lisa Melonçon
Writing Program Administration
Writing Program Administration, Dr. Kristin Gay
Professional Writing Practicum, Dr. Lisa Melonçon
Practice in Teaching Composition, Dr. Joseph Moxley
Digital Humanities
Introduction to Digital Humanities, Dr. Steven Jones
Digital Humanities Capstone, Dr. Steven Jones
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Phillips, A., & Tackitt, A. (2026). Structuring AI-Assisted Review to Support Revision. (Pending Publication)
Phillips, A. (2025). Charting the Currents: A Deep Dive into the Writing Studies Job Market for Early Career Scholar-Teachers. (Composition Forum, vol. 55).
Martinez, D., Mechenbier, M. X., Hewett, B. L., Melonçon, L., Harris, H. S., with St. Amant, K., Phillips, A., & Bodnar, M. I. (2019). A Report on a U.S.-based National Survey of Students in Online Writing Courses. Research in Online Literacy Education.
Textbooks
Contributor to A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing (5th Edition) (2018)
Contributor to Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers (3rd Edition) (2015)
Grants and Fellowships
Phillips, A. (2026). Childcare Grant. Sponsor: Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Funded: $150
Phillips, A. (2024). Professionalization Funding. Sponsor: USF English Department
Funded: $600
Phillips, A. (2025). Professionalization Funding. Sponsor: USF English Department
Funded: $75
Phillips, A. (2024). Professionalization Funding. Sponsor: USF English Department
Funded: $750
Phillips, A. (2023). Professionalization Funding. Sponsor: USF English Department
Funded: $750
Phillips, A. (2020). Childcare Grant. Sponsor: Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Funded: $300 *never disbursed due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Phillips, A. (2018; 2020). Conference Presentation Grant. Sponsor: Student Government Association, University of South Florida.
Funded: $500; $500
Phillips, A. (2018). Digital Humanities Summer Institute Travel Grant. Sponsor: Department of English, University of South Florida.
Funded: $1,200
Phillips, A. (2015). Conference Presentation Grant. Sponsor: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Funded: $500
Conference Activity
Phillips, Adam. “Beyond the Triangle: Rhetorical Assemblages and Distributed Agency in the Age of Generative AI,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cleveland, March 2026.
Phillips, Adam. “Assemblage Theory as a Framework for Decentralizing Hierarchies in Writing Program Administration,” Council of Writing Program Administrator’s National Conference, Online, June 2025.
Phillips, Adam. “Rhetorical Assemblages as a Heuristic for First-Year Writing: Accounting for the Abundance of ‘Flux’ Within Contemporary Communicative Situations,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, April 2024.
Phillips, Adam. “What to Expect When You’re Expecting . . .To Graduate,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, February 2023.
Phillips, Adam. “Measuring Knowledge (Re)circulation: A Corpus Analysis of an FYW Curriculum Through the Frameworks of Assemblage Theory and LCS Patterns,” Journal of Writing Analytics Virtual Symposium, Online, May 2021.
Phillips, Adam. “Assemblages of Knowledge: Tracing Knowledge (Re)circulation across Genres in FYC,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Online, April 2021.
Phillips, Adam. “Researching the Academic Commonplace: Innovating Research Methods for Digital Texts in FYC,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, Online, March 2020. *switched to asynchronous online due to Covid-19 pandemic
Phillips, Adam. “Restaurant Rhetoric: ‘Nudging’ the Audience Through Gustatory and Olfactory Sensory Recall,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, March 2018.
Phillips, Adam. “Multimodality in FYC: Integrating Meaning,” EGSS Conference, Florida Atlantic University—Boca Raton, April 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Anticipating the Curve: Meaning Making Through Innovative Tools,” Workshop Participant, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, March 2015.
Phillips, Adam. “Deconstructing ‘Phallacies’: Subverting Male Hegemony Through Sexual Prosthetics and Dildonics,” EGSS Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, November 2014.
Phillips, Adam. “Cyborg Pleasures: Technological Sexual Innovations for the Posthuman/Postgender World,” CSSA Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, October 2014.
Phillips, Adam. “Literature in Freshman Composition: The Re-emergence of an Unanswered Question,” EGSS Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, November 2013.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Courses Taught at the University of South Florida
· ENC 1101 Composition I
· ENC 1101 Composition II
· ENC 2210 Technical Writing for Health Sciences
· ENC 3250 Professional Writing
· ENC 3310 Expository Writing
· ENC 3416 New Media for Technical Communication
· ENG 4906 Composition Workshop
Service
Service to the Department
Panelist, Career Pathways for Professional and Technical Writing, Spring 2026
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Adjunct Faculty Visitation Committee, Fall 2025 – Present
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction Search Committee, St. Pete, Summer 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction Search Committee, Tampa, Summer 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Instructor Promotion Committee, Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Assistant Professor of Instruction Search Committee (Tampa), Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Assistant Professor of Instruction Search Committee (Sarasota-Manatee), Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, USF Writes Pedagogy Committee, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, USF Writes Research Committee, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, USF Writes Administrative Committee, Spring 2023 - Present
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, First-Year Composition Committee, Fall 2022 - Present
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, English Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2022 - Spring 2025
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Rhetoric and Composition/Professional and Technical Communication Committee, Fall 2022 - Present
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Digital Humanities Committee, Spring 2024
Department of English, University of South Florida
Member, Academic Writing Committee, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
Department of English and Writing, University of Tampa
Member, USF Writes Administrative Committee, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Department of English, University of South Florida
Service to the Discipline
Reviewer, Journal of Writing Assessment
Reviewer, FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty
Reviewer, Composition Forum
Chair, Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee, Spring 2026
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Summer 2025
College Composition and Communication
Member, Advancement of Knowledge Award Selection Committee, Fall 2025
College Composition and Communication
Reviewer, Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference, Summer 2025
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member, Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee, Spring 2025; Spring 2024
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member, Forum Editor Search Committee, Fall 2024
College Composition and Communication
Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Summer 2024
College Composition and Communication
Member, Graduate Research Award Committee, Spring 2023
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Summer 2023
College Composition and Communication
Reviewer, Innovate Conference, Spring 2023
Online Learning Consortium
Reviewer, Accelerate Conference, Fall 2022
Online Learning Consortium
Service to the University
Expert, MOOC: GenAI in Action: Impacts and Possibilities, USF Innovative Education, Spring 2025
University of South Florida
Member, Faculty Senate Committee Council on Technology for Instruction and Research, Fall 2023-Present
University of South Florida
Member, Committee on Alternative Admissions, Fall 2022-Present
University of South Florida
English Department Liaison, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Fall 2022-Summer 2025
University of South Florida
Member, Subcommittee on AI-Enabled Course Criteria, Summer 2024-Fall 2024
University of South Florida
Technical Skills
Generative AI and Writing
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Bard, Bing, Microsoft CoPilot, and many more
Computational Text Analysis
AntConc; RAND-Lex; DocuScope; Voyant; NVivo
Graphics and Web
Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, WordPress
Workshops and Certifications
Making Your Identity as a WPA (2026), Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Education (2026), Anna Mills; OneHE, Online
Accessibility, Inclusive Communities, & Conferences Spaces (2025), Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Mindful Leadership for WPAs: Part II (2025). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Materiality and Writing Studies (2025). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Questioning the Blank Page: Generative AI as Part of the Writing and Reading Process (2025). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Balancing Administrative Values and Priorities (2025). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Supporting Student Writers (2025). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Mindful Leadership for WPAs: Part I (2024). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Leveraging Student Assessment (2024). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Grant Writing Workshop (2024). Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA), Online
Moving Forward (2024). Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Choose Your Own Adventure (2024). Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
AI in Education Explorer (2024). Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Strengthening Foundations (2023). Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Online Instruction Certification (2020). University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (2018). University of Victoria, British Columbia, CN
Online Instruction Certification (2017). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Research Network Forum (2015). Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL
Memberships
Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Member, Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA)
Member, Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Member, Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
Member, National Education Association (NEA)
Member, Florida Educators Association (FEA)