Daniel Thomas Libertz

Asst Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: daniel.libertz@baruch.cuny.edu

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Biography
Teaching
Research and Creative Activity
Grants
Honors and Awards
Service

Education

Ph.D., Critical and Cultural Studies (English), University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA

M.A., English, State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz NY

B.A., English and Secondary Education, The College of New Jersey Ewing NJ

Semester	Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Name
Fall 2023	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2023	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2022	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2022	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2022	ENG	4950	Advanced Topics in Language, L
Spring 2022	ENG	4950	Advanced Topics in Language, L
Spring 2022	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Spring 2022	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2021	ENG	2150H	Honors - Writing II
Fall 2021	ENG	2150H	Honors - Writing II
Spring 2021	ENG	4950	Advanced Topics in Language, L
Spring 2021	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2021	ENG	4950	Advanced Topics in Language, L
Spring 2021	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2020	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2020	ENG	2100	Writing I

Journal Articles

Libertz, D. (2021). Amplification by Counterstory in the Quantitative Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 51(5).

Libertz, D. (2018). Framed for Lying: Statistics as In/Artistic Proof. Res Rhetorica, 5(4).

Helms, K. T., & Libertz, D. (2014). When Service Members with Traumatic Brain Injury Become Students: Methods to Advance Learning. Adult Learning, 25(1).

A Framework for Social Justice Quantitative Literacy Pedagogy Across the Curriculum. In Progress.

Practicing Adult Reading.

A Discourse-Based Interview Study of Activist, Advocate, and Public Writers' Use of Quantification. In Progress.

Preparing for a New Paradigm: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Grades and Experience in In-Person, Hybrid, and Online Writing Courses. In Progress.

Risk-Taking in Labor-Based Grading Contracts for Collaborative Multimodal Writing. In Progress.

Preparing for a New Paradigm: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Grades and Experience in In-Person, Hybrid, and Online Writing Courses. In Progress.

An Interview Study of Writing Program Administrators' Emotional Relationships to Their Labor. In Progress.

A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics.

An Interview Study of Writing Program Administrators' Emotional Relationships to Their Labor. In Progress.

Book Chapters

Libertz, D. (2022). Statistical Framing: A Conceptual Tool for Rhetors. In Fahnestock, J., & Harris, R. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

Libertz, D. (2019). Simulating Facebook's Newsfeed for Writing Pedagogy. The Proceedings of the Annual Computers & Writing Conference: 2018 (p. 11). The WAC Clearinghouse.

Presentations

Libertz, D. T., Blankenship, L. G., & Schreiber, C. F. (2024, February 17). Lessons Learned and Hopeful Ways Forward for Online, Hybrid, and In-Person First-Year Writing Instruction and Writing Program Decision Making. Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Libertz, D. T. (2024, May 17). Embodying Climate Numerically: Exploring the Quantitative Rhetoric of Climate Change Activists and Advocates. 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Baltimore, MD

Libertz, D. T. (2024, March 17). Using Data Feminism for Quantitative Writing toward Social Justice. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online

Libertz, D. (2021, August 31). Acting on Quantity in Activist and Advocate Rhetoric. Dartmouth Writing Research Seminar. : Dartmouth College.

Libertz, D. (2021, June 30). Statistics and Activist Rhetoric. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. : Rhetoric Society of America.

Baily, A., Libertz, D., Ramdass, H., Schreiber, C., Collins, D., & Gilbert-Hickey, M. (2021, April 16). Composing an Antiracist Academy: Reimagining Writing, Reflexivity, and Convention in the Composition Classroom. Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference. Online: CUNY.

Libertz, D. (2021, August 31). Acting on Quantity in Activist and Advocate Rhetoric. Dartmouth Writing Research Seminar. : Dartmouth College.

Libertz, D. (2021, June 30). Statistics and Activist Rhetoric. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. : Rhetoric Society of America.

Libertz, D. (2020, March 31). Learning identities for integrated numeracy and literacy.. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI: National Council of Teachers of English.

Libertz, D. (2019, March 31). Building statistical frames: A method for studying the circulation of statistics. Camp Rhetoric. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University.

Libertz, D. (2019, March 31). Ethically and persuasively making quantitative arguments to multiple audiences in WPA work. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Research Network Forum. Pittsburgh, PA: National.

Libertz, D. (2019, March 31). Building statistical frames: A method for studying the circulation of statistics. Camp Rhetoric. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University.

Libertz, D. (2018, May 31). Simulating Facebook’s newsfeed for public writing pedagogy. The Computers and Writing Annual Conference. Fairfax, VA: National Council of Teachers of English.

Libertz, D. (2018, May 31). Re-inventing statistics: Studying the circulation of public quantitative rhetoric of race and crime. 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN: Rhetoric Society of America.

Libertz, D. (2018, May 31). Simulating Facebook’s newsfeed for public writing pedagogy. The Computers and Writing Annual Conference. Fairfax, VA: National Council of Teachers of English.

Libertz, D. (2017, March 31). Student (writing) teaching: Looking to the 1930s for using student writing as a pedagogical object. College English Association Annual Conference. Hilton Head Island, SC: College English Association.

Libertz, D. (2017, May 31). Using words and images to misuse statistics in Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics: Implications for rhetoric and composition pedagogy. 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA: Rhetoric Society of America.

Libertz, D. (2016, April 30). A melding of New Critical theory and practice: Reading, textbooks, and student experience, 1950- 1970. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX: National Council of Teachers of English.

Libertz, D. (2015, March 31). Extending quantitative literacy: A critical approach to numbers as course content in composition. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Research Network Forum. Tampa, FL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Libertz, D. (2015, July 31). Ordinary language and specialized knowledge as (productively) contentious partners in composition classrooms. Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. Boise, ID: Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Libertz, D. (2013, April 30). Real and metaphysical meat in Woolf’s The Waves. Biopoetics and Animal Aesthetics Graduate Symposium. New Paltz, NY: SUNY New Paltz English Department.

Libertz, D. (2013, April 30). Quantification rhetoric in charity documents: What numbers do for and to the people they help. Shifting Tides-Anxious Borders Annual Conference. Binghamton, NY: SUNY Binghamton.

Libertz, D. (2013, April 30). Real and metaphysical meat in Woolf’s The Waves. Biopoetics and Animal Aesthetics Graduate Symposium. New Paltz, NY: SUNY New Paltz English Department.

Libertz, D. (2012, May 31). Where’s your ID(entification)? Locating a direction for Occupy Wall Street. Conference on Activism, Rhetoric, and Research. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University.

Other Scholarly Works

Libertz, D. (2018). Small Sentences, Big Ideas: Paying Attention to Certainty and Doubt. 945 words.

https://community.macmillanlearning.com/t5/bits-blog/small-sentences-big-ideas-paying-attention-to-certainty-and/ba-p/6646

Libertz, D. (2018). Small Sentences, Big Ideas: Paying Attention to Certainty and Doubt. 945 words.

https://community.macmillanlearning.com/t5/bits-blog/small-sentences-big-ideas-paying-attention-to-certainty-and/ba-p/6646

Libertz, D. (2018). Writing with Certainty in the Disciplines: Sentence Confidence.

https://community.macmillan.com/docs/DOC-9151-writingwith- certainty-in-the-disciplines-sentence-confidence

Libertz, D. (2018). Writing with Certainty in the Disciplines: Sentence Confidence.

https://community.macmillan.com/docs/DOC-9151-writingwith- certainty-in-the-disciplines-sentence-confidence

Libertz, D. (2018). Small Sentences, Big Ideas: Paying Attention to Certainty and Doubt. 945 words.

https://community.macmillanlearning.com/t5/bits-blog/small-sentences-big-ideas-paying-attention-to-certainty-and/ba-p/6646

Libertz, D. (2018). Small Sentences, Big Ideas: Paying Attention to Certainty and Doubt. 945 words.

https://community.macmillanlearning.com/t5/bits-blog/small-sentences-big-ideas-paying-attention-to-certainty-and/ba-p/6646

Libertz, D. (2018). Writing with Certainty in the Disciplines: Sentence Confidence.

https://community.macmillan.com/docs/DOC-9151-writingwith- certainty-in-the-disciplines-sentence-confidence

Libertz, D. (2018). Writing with Certainty in the Disciplines: Sentence Confidence.

https://community.macmillan.com/docs/DOC-9151-writingwith- certainty-in-the-disciplines-sentence-confidence

Libertz, D. T. Meaningfulness in the Work of Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty.

In Progress.

Libertz, D. T. Meaningfulness in the Work of Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty.

In Progress.

Libertz, D. T. Meaningfulness in the Work of Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty.

In Progress.

Libertz, D. T. Meaningfulness in the Work of Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty.

In Progress.

Title	Funding Agency Sponsor	Start Date	End Date	Awarded Date	Total Funding	Status
Having Numbers in Social Movements: The Material-Symbolic Force of Quantification in Activist Rhetoric	PSC CUNY 53	07/01/2022	06/30/2023	04/15/2022	3499.99	Completed
Having Numbers in Social Movements: The Material-Symbolic Force of Statistics in Activist Rhetoric	PSC CUNY 52	07/01/2021	12/31/2022	04/15/2021	3499.45	Completed
Having Numbers in Social Movements: The Material-Symbolic Force of Quantification in Activist Rhetoric	PSC-CUNY 54	07/01/2023	06/30/2024	04/18/2023	3499.48	Funded - In Progress

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
Lillian B. Lawler Fellowship	Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh	2020	Awarded to two graduate students per year. Applicants evaluated based on potential for an outstanding career in research and teaching. Monetary value approximately $22,000.
Bedford New Scholar	Bedford/St. Martin's English Editorial Department	2018	Beford/St. Martin's solicits nominations for outstanding scholar-teachers in composition and rhetoric from graduate programs around US. Nominees are interviewed, and those selected visit Bedford's offices to work on textbook materials. Honorarium was $1,000.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award	State University of New York at New Paltz English Department	2013	<sub>Awarded each year to promising graduate student in department.</sub>
Bonner Foundation Community Scholarship	Bonner Foundation	2006	Scholarship for students active in community to work in Trenton, NJ. I worked in housing, doing most of my work at Habitat for Humanity.

Department

Committee Name	Position Role	Start Date	End Date
Associate Director of First-Year Writing	Associate Director of First-Year Writing	8/1/2020	5/31/2021

College

Committee Name	Position Role	End Date
Department Secretary	Department Secretary	Present
Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching First-Year Writing Seminar	Committee Member	Present
Writing Program Adjunct Faculty Hiring Committee	Committee Member	Present
Writing Program Adjunct Faculty Hiring Committee	Committee Member	Present
Ad Hoc Department Chair and Executive Committee Online Election Committee	Committee Chair	Present
Writing Program Adjunct Faculty Hiring Committee	Committee Member	Present
Department Secretary	Department Secretary	Present
Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching First-Year Writing Seminar	Committee Member	Present
Ad Hoc Grade Appeal Committee	Committee Member	Present
Ad Hoc Department Chair and Executive Committee Online Election Committee	Committee Chair	Present
Writing Program Adjunct Faculty Hiring Committee	Committee Member	Present
Ad Hoc Grade Appeal Committee	Committee Member	Present
Director of First-Year Writing	Director	12/29/2023
Director of First-Year Writing	Director	12/29/2023
Ad Hoc Grade Appeal Committee	Committee Member	7/11/2022
Ad Hoc Grade Appeal Committee	Committee Member	7/11/2022
Composition Committee	Committee Chair	5/31/2022
Associate Director of First-Year Writing	Associate Director	5/31/2022
Associate Director of First-Year Writing	Associate Director	5/31/2022
Composition Committee	Committee Chair	5/31/2022
Lecturer Hiring Committee for Multiple Positions	Committee Member	4/22/2022
Lecturer Hiring Committee	Committee Member	4/22/2022
Lecturer Hiring Committee for Multiple Positions	Committee Member	4/22/2022
Lecturer Hiring Committee	Committee Member	4/22/2022
Support in Hiring	Reviewer and Attendee	3/16/2022
Support in Hiring	Reviewer and Attendee	3/16/2022
Associate Director of First-Year Writing	Associate Director of First-Year Writing	5/31/2021
Observations of Faculty	Faculty Mentor	3/26/2021
Observations of Faculty	Faculty Mentor	3/26/2021
Curriculum Revamp Rhetoric/Linguistics/Writing Course Descriptions and Titles Revisions Sub-Committee	Committee Member	2/12/2021
Curriculum Revamp Rhetoric/Linguistics/Writing Course Descriptions and Titles Revisions Sub-Committee	Committee Member	2/12/2021

University

Committee Name	Position Role	Start Date	End Date
CUNY Writing Discipline Council	Attendee, Meeting	8/28/2023	Present
CUNY Writing Discipline Council (Representative)	Attendee, Meeting	8/1/2021	5/31/2022
CUNY Writing Discipline Council (Officers)	Secretary, Alternate	8/1/2021	5/31/2022
CUNY Writing Discipline Council (Representative)	Attendee, Meeting	8/1/2020	5/31/2021
CUNY Writing Discipline Council Spring 2021 Online Teaching Webinar Planning Committee	Committee Member	12/1/2020	1/31/2021

Professional

Organization	Position Role	Organization State	Organization Country	Start Date	End Date	Audience
Rhetoric Society of America	Reviewer, Conference Paper	Maryland	United States	9/7/2021	Present	National
Conference on College Composition and Communication Local Arrangements Committee, Sub-Committee Hospitality	Chairperson	Pennsylvania	United States	8/1/2018	3/31/2019
Conference on College Composition and Communication Local Arrangements Committee, Sub-Committee Registration and Volunteers	Committee Chair	Pennsylvania	United States	8/1/2018	3/31/2019