Schell is the author of Gypsy Academics and Mother-teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor,and Writing Instruction (Heinemann, 1997), Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education (NCTE, 2001), Rural Literacies with Kim Donehower and Charlotte Hogg (SIUP, 2007), Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies co-edited with K.J. Rawson (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), and Reclaiming the Rural co-edited with Kim Donehower and Charlotte Hogg (SIUP, 2012). Eileen is currently Chair of CCCC Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession; she formerly co-chaired the Committee on Contingent, Adjunct, Part-time Faculty Issues as well as serving as a member of the Executive Committee of CCCC.