Department of English
Wayne State University
5057 Woodward
Detroit, MI 48202
jrice at wayne.edu
http://www.english.wayne.edu/People/faculty/ricej/index2.html/
Office phone: 313 577 8588 Education
Ph.D. University of Florida (2002)
Field: Rhetoric and Composition (Secondary areas: Hypertext Theory and Production, Media Studies, Cultural Studies)
Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Cool: Computers, Cultural Studies, and Composition
Dissertation Director: Gregory L. Ulmer M.A. University of Florida (1999)
Field: Rhetoric and Composition, Media Studies
B.A. Indiana University (1992)
Major: English Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of English.
Wayne State University (Fall 2004 - ) Courses Designed and Taught:
Tutoring Practicum: Theories and Practices of Writing (ENG 6010)
Studies in the Theory of Composition: Digital Literacy (ENG 7020)
Studies in the Theory of Composition: Theories of the Digital (ENG 7020)
Introduction to College Writing: Writing the City (ENG 1020)
Intermediate Writing: Documenting Detroit (ENG 3010)
Intermediate Writing: Writing About Space (ENG 3010)
Introduction to College Writing : Musical Stories (ENG 1020) Director of Writing/Assistant Professor of English.
University of Detroit Mercy (2002 - 2004)
Director of the Writing Program
Director of the Writing Center Courses Designed and Taught:
History of English Language (ENL 326)
Modern American English: Teaching Writing (ENL 409)
Academic Writing (Literacy/Identity) (ENL 131)
Study of Fiction (ENL 235)
Plays in Production: August Wilson and Detroit (ENL 421)
Writing Across the Curriculum: Documenting Schooling (ENL 202)
Writing Design Lab: Cyborgography (ENL 491)
Topics in Cultural Studies: Reading and Writing Detroit (ENL 467) Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Florida. (1997 - 2002)
Courses Designed and Taught in the University of Florida's Networked Writing Environment:
Freshman Composition: Introduction to Composition (ENC 1101), Freshman Composition: Writing in the Digital Age (ENC 1101), Freshman Composition: Writing About Cool (ENC 1101), Writing Through Literature: Understanding Narrative (ENC 1102), Special Topics: Writing About Cool (ENC 1145), American Literature: 1950s Attitude and Visuality (AML 2410), Writing Through Media: Digital Rhetoric - Honors and non-Honors (ENG 1131), Writing Through Media: American Popular Culture (ENG 1131), Advanced Business Writing - Graduate Level (ENC 5236) Instructor Santa Fe Community College (1996 -1997)
Courses Taught:
Prep-Writing, ESL Instructor Upward Bound (1996-1997)
High School Program at Santa Fe Community College. Elementary School Teacher Tel Aviv, Israel (1994-1995)
Taught fifth and sixth grade English. Elementary School Teacher East Flat Rock, NC (1992)
Taught fifth and sixth graders with learning disabilities in the subjects of reading, comprehension, and math skills at East Flat Rock Elementary. Teaching Interests
Composition studies, computers and writing, rhetoric, media studies, hypertext theory and production, cultural studies, 19th and 20th Century American literature, digital and cyberstudies, film studies, popular culture, critical theory. Publications
Books
The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media. By returning to the heralded 1963 composition studies' rebirth, The Rhetoric of Cool explores the missed moments during this time period, moments which proposed technology, cultural studies, and visual writing as fundamental to an emerging expression. The Rhetoric of Cool investigates these moments and redefines them in order to invent a new electronic practice. (Forthcoming Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom - single authored, composition textbook in Allyn and Bacon/Longman's Technology Series. Series Editor Victor Vitanza. (January 2004) Reviews:
When Pedagogy Does the Driving: New Ways of Approaching Technology in the College Classroom
A Review of Writing About Cool
RCCS Review New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy. Edited collection with Marcel O'Gorman featuring essays by The Florida School, graduates of the University of Florida. New Media/New Methods proposes that recent developments in media technology and critical theory indicate a cultural shift from literacy to "electracy," but academia has yet to fully acknowledge this shift. Whereas other "cyberculture" or "new media" collections offer essays about media, the essays in this project ask how media technologies--from film and video to MOO and hypertext--can instruct us in the invention of new methods of scholarship and pedagogy.(Forthcoming Parlor Press 2007) Journals
Identifying New Media. Guest Co-Editor of special issue of Post Identity (4.1). (Winter 2004) Souths: Global and Local. Special guest edited issue of The Southern Quarterly with Anne Goodwyn Jones and Denise Cummings. Selected essays from Souths: Global and Local, an interdisciplinary conference I organized and headed at the University of Florida. (December 2003) Articles
"The Making of Ka-Knowledge: Digital Aurality." Computers and Composition. Special Issue on Sound. (Fall 2006). "Celebrity, Literacy, The Alter Ego." JAC. (Forthcoming 2006 or 2007) "What Should College English Be? Networks and New Media." College English. (Forthcoming Fall 2006). "Conservative WPAs." Interrupting the Program: Critical Questions in Writing Program Administration. Eds. Jeanne Gunner and Donna Strickland. (Forthcoming). "Building Interfaces: The Maccabees." In City Building. Ed. Jason Young. Wayne State University Press. (Forthcoming) "Serious Bloggers." InsideHighered.com. Feb 20, 2006. "21st Century Graffiti: Detroit Tagging." Ctheory. June 7, 2005. "The 1963 Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Computed, or Demonstrated by any Other Means of Technology" Composition Studies (Spring 2005). "Cyborgography: A Pedagogy of the Homepage." Pedagogy. 5.1 (Winter 2005). "Cooltown: The Place of Intellectual Work." WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (forthcoming 2007). "The Rhetoric of New Media: Teaching a Rhetoric of Hypertext." In Teaching, Technology,Textuality: Trans-Atlantic Approaches to New Media and the New English. Eds. Deborah Madsen and Michael Hanrahan (2006 Palgrave-Macmillan). "The New Media Instructor: Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction." In Don't Call it That: The Composition Practicum. Ed. Sid Dobrin. (2005 NCTE). "Writing is Like Browsing."Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Ed. James Inman, Byron Hawk, and Ollie Oviedo. (Forthcoming). "Funkcomp." New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy. Eds. Jeff Rice and Marcel O’Gorman (Forthcoming 2007 Parlor Press). "The 1963 Hip Hop Machine: Hip Hop Pedagogy as Composition." College Composition and Communication 54.3, February 2003. "Writing About Cool: Teaching Hypertext as Juxtaposition." Computers and Composition (September 2003). "Introduction to Souths: Global and Local" with Denise Cummings and Anne Goodwyn Jones. Souths: Global and Local. Special guest edited issue of The Southern Quarterly (December 2003) "The Street Finds Its Own Use For Things: Hypertext, DJing, and the New Composition Studies program." Enculturation. (Fall 2002). "What is Cool? Notes on Intellectualism, Popular Culture, and Writing." Ctheory. May 10, 2002.
Reprinted in Life on the Wires, Ctheory Press, 2004. "1963: Collage as Writing Practice." Composition Forum 12:1, Winter 2001. "They Put Me In the Mix: William S. Burroughs, DJs, and the New Cultural Studies." M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture. "Mix" issue. Issue 2 April 2001. "The Handbook of Cool." Technology, Popular Culture, and the Writing Classroom. Eds. James Inman and Cheryl Reed. Kairos Special Issue 7.2. Summer 2002. "We Look at the Present Through a Rear View Mirror; or, The Future of Technology? Hold on a Minute There. . ." "Computers and Writing Townhalls 2001." Kairos 6.2. Fall 2001. "Plug and Play: Current problems in Computers and Writing." In James Inman, Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era (Fall 2002). Review Essays
"Race in Cyberspace: Cultural Studies VS. The Digital." Review essay of Race in Cyberspace. Kairos 6.1 Spring 2001. "Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age. Is it the End of Books or Is it the End of Hypertext?" Review essay of Robert Coover's "Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age." Kairos 5.2 Fall 2000. Works in Progress Books
From A to <A>: Keywords in HTML and Writing. Edited collection with Bradley Dilger. A keywords of important HTML tags and each tag’s relationship to rhetoric, writing, and writing instruction. (In preparation) Conference Presentations
"Spatial Identities: Writing Cities." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City, New York. March 2007. "Folksono(me)." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL, March 2006. "The Making of Ka-Knowledge: Digital Aurality." Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, TN, May 2006. "alt.pivotal_terms: Inventing Burke's Digital Dictionary." Kenneth Burke and His Circles. Penn State University, State College, PA. July 2005. "Writing Detroit." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2005. "Conservative Theory." Symposium for Theory, Rhetoric, and Writing. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, November, 2004. "That's WAC (WHACK)! Restructuring a Digital Writing Across the Curriculum Program." Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2004. "What Matters in Composition? TECHNO." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, Texas, March 2004. "The New Media Instructor: Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction." Modern Language Association (WPA Sponsored Panel). San Diego, California, 2003. "Funkcomp." National Council of Teachers of English. San Francisco, California, 2003. "Cooltown: The Place of Intellectual Work." WPA Summer Conference. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2003. "Cyborgography." Computers and Writing 2003, West Lafayette, Indiana, May 2003. "Theme and Technology: Seeing <a page = ‘for english b’> through HTML." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, New York, March 2003. "The Rhetoric of New Media: Teaching a Rhetoric of Hypertext." Modern Language Association (ACH Sponsored Panel). New York City, New York, December 2002. "The Street Finds Its Own Use For Things: Hypertext, DJing, and the New Composition Studies Program." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois, March 2002. "Remember When? Teaching Hypertext as Nostalgia." Computers and Writing 2001, Muncie, Indiana, May 2001. "Composition as Cool." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, Colorado, March 2001. "Writing About Cool in the Computer Classroom." Computers and Writing 2000, Forth Worth, Texas, May 2000. "1963: Collage as Cultural Reading." Popular Culture Association conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000. "Collage as A Writing Practice." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2000. "Hyper Wha? Demythologizing HTML Instruction in the Computer Classroom." Computers and Writing Online, March 2000. "Updating Vygotsky For the Computer Classroom." Computers and Writing 1999, Rapid City, South Dakota, May 1999. "Inner Speech and the Computer Classroom." Florida College English Association, St. Augustine, Florida, February 1999. "Orality and Literacy Are Still in Our Time." Florida College English Association, Mount Dora, Florida, February 1998. "Love in Krazy Kat - The Fair Form and Features of Whom Do You Suppose." Comic Arts Conference, San Diego, California, 1998. Invited Presentations
"Detroit Folksono(me)." Syracuse University. Visual & Digital Rhetoric Symposium. November 4, 2005. Invited Speaker at the Netoric Tuesday Café, January 23, 2000. "The Rhetoric of Cool (A Work in Progress)." Professional Activities
National Professional Activities
Co-Chair, Computers and Writing 2007: May 17-20, Wayne State University.
Conference on College Composition and Communication Resolutions Committee, 2006, member.
CCC Online Editor Search Committee, 2004, member. Wayne State University
Appointments Committee, 2005-6
Appointments Committee, 2004, ad hoc member.
Composition Committee, 2004-6, member.
Writing Studies Major Committee, 2004, member.
Co-organizer and Co-chair of Computers and Writing 2007 Graduate Students
Regina Hunter, M.A. 2005. "Bridging The Gap Between Classroom Preparation and Professional Demands for Technical Writers." Reader.
Lawanda Dickens, PhD (continuing). "Hip Hop and Literacy." Reader.
Nicole Wilson, PhD (continuing). "Children's Literature and New Media." Reader. University of Detroit Mercy
Course Evaluation Committee, 2003, member. Medievalist Search Committee, 2003, member Advisory Committee to Creative Writing, 2003, member. Curriculum Committee, 2003, member. Portfolio Committee, 2002, chair. Adjunct Orientation: Organized and directed pedagogy workshops for adjunct instructors, University of Detroit Mercy 2002 - present. Brown Bag Forums: Organized and directed brown bag forums for faculty development. University of Florida
Conference Organizer: Headed and facilitated Souths: Global and Local: An Interdisciplinary Conference, April 2001. First annual national conference held at the University of Florida on Globalization and the South. Organized the event as president of the English Graduate Organization. Keynote Speaker: Guillermo Gomez-Peña. Colloquium Organizer: Headed and facilitated Composition and Digital Art, Fall 2000. First annual online colloquium organized by the Computers and Writing Working Group in order to foster discussion between composition scholars and digital artists. Organized the event over a three month period. Invited speakers included Victor Vitanza, Diane Gromala, Christy Sheffield Sanford, Michael Spooner and Kathleen Blake Yancey, Michael Joyce, Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, and Mark Amerika. President English Graduate Organization (EGO) 2000-2001. Co-founder of the Computers and Writing Working Group, Spring 2000. Member of English Graduate Organization (EGO) 1999-2001. Technology
Instructional Technology Specialist for the Networked Writing Environment (NWE), May - August 2001. Webmaster for Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 2002. Webmaster for the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Florida, 2000 - 2002. Instructor in the University of Florida's Networked Writing Environment, 1997 - 2002. Grants and Awards
Wayne State University
University Research Grant, "Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network." $10,000. Summer 2006. Innovation Technology Grant, "Wikis and First Year Writing." $5,000. Winter 2006. Educational Development Grant, "Digital Literacy Initiative: Teaching Teachers to Teach with Technology." $1,985. Summer 2005. University of Detroit Mercy
McGregor Fund Grant for the Writing Program, $100,000. Principal Investigator. Ilevel Grant, $1,000. Principal Investigator. Awarded to purchase technology materials for the Writing Center. University of Florida
Department of English Teaching Award, Spring 2002. Department of English Fellowship, Spring 2001. University of Florida Presidential Recognition for Outstanding Achievement and Contributions to the University of Florida, April 2001. Department of English Teaching Award, Fall 2000. Manuscript Reviewer
Member of Editorial Board for WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators Member of Editorial Board for Enculturation Member of Editorial Board for Computers and Composition Reviewer for College Composition and Communication Reviewer for PMLA Member of Reader Advisory Board for Post Identity Reviewer of proposals for Computers and Writing 2001 - 2002. Reviewer for Addison Wesley Longman, Bedford St. Martins, Prentice Hall, and Houghton Mifflin Company. Other Related Experience
Journalist
Jerusalem Post (1994-1995), MazalU'Bracha(1996), Diamond Intelligence Briefs (1996), Adi'or (1996), Ryder Magazine (1992) References
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