J.Rice

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Jeff Rice
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Department of English
University of Missouri
107 Tate Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
ricejr at missouri dot edu
http://web.missouri.edu/~ricejr

Education
University of Florida Ph.D. (2002)
Field: Rhetoric and Composition (Secondary areas: Hypertext Theory and Production, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory)
Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Cool: Computers, Cultural Studies, and Composition
Dissertation Director: Gregory L. Ulmer

University of Florida M.A. (1999)
Poifeck Writing: Updating Vygotsky for the Computer Classroom
Field: Rhetoric and Composition, Media Studies
Director: Gregory L. Ulmer

Indiana University B.A. (1992)
Major: English

Academic Appointments

University of Missouri

Associate Professor, Department of English 2009 – present

Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2007-2009

Director, Campus Writing Program, 2008 -

Director of Composition, Department of English, 2007-2008

Wayne State University

Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2004-2007

University of Detroit Mercy

Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2002-2004

Director of Writing, Department of English, 2002-2004

University of Florida

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 1997-2002

Santa Fe Community College

Instructor, Developmental Writing, ESL Reading, Writing, and Listening and Speaking, 1996-1997

Publications
Books
From A to <A>: Keywords in Markup.
Edited collection with Bradley Dilger. A keywords of important HTML tags and each tag’s relationship to rhetoric, writing, and writing instruction. (Under contract University of Minnesota Press)

New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy (Parlor Press 2008)
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.

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007)
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.

Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom. (January 2004)
Single authored, composition textbook in Allyn & Bacon/Longman’s Technology Series. Series Editor Victor Vitanza. The textbook asks students to learn from electronic media rhetorical strategies for web writing.

Journals
Souths: Global and Local. (December 2003)
Special guest edited issue of 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.

Articles and Chapters

“English <A>.” From A to <A>: Keywords in Markup. (Forthcoming 2010).

“Networked Exchanges, Identity, Writing.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 23.3 (July 2009).

“Woodward Paths: Motorizing Space.” Technical Communication Quarterly. 18.3 (June 2009).

“Building Interfaces: The Maccabees.” Pre/Text. 20 (2009)

“Navigation, Composition, and Browsers,” In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Ed. James Inman, Byron Hawk, and Ollie Oviedo (Forthcoming Hampton Press 2009).

“Folksono(me).” JAC.  Volume 28. (2008).

“Funkcomp, ” In New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy. Eds. Jeff Rice and Marcel O’Gorman (Forthcoming 2008 Parlor Press).

“Conservative WPAs,” In Interrupting the Program: Critical Questions in Writing Program Administration. Eds. Jeanne Gunner and Donna Strickland. (Forthcoming Boyton/Cook).

“Urban Mapping: A Rhetoric of the Network.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (38.2 March 2008)

“The Logic of Too Much: Network Boxes.” College Composition and Communication. (59.2 December 2007) 299-311.

“Cooltown: The Place of Intellectual Work.” WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (Spring 2007) 93-109.

“The Making of Ka-Knowledge: Digital Aurality.” Computers and Composition. Special Issue on Sound.
(Volume 23 Issue 3 2006) 266-279.

“Celebrity, Literacy, The Alter Ego.” JAC. (Volume 26 Number 1 & 2 2006) 103-128.

“What Should College English Be? Networks and New Media.” College English. (Volume 69 No 2,
November 2006) 127-133.

“Serious Bloggers.” InsideHighered.com. Feb 20, 2006. N.P.

“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) 148-161.

“The New Media Instructor: Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction,” In Don’t Call it That: The
Composition Practicum. Ed. Sid Dobrin (2005 NCTE) 266-283.

“21st Century Graffiti: Detroit Tagging.” Ctheory. June 7, 2005. “1,000 Days of Theory” series. N.P.

“The 1963 Composition Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Computed, or Demonstrated by any Other
Means of Technology.” Composition Studies. (Spring 2005) 55-73.

“Cyborgography: A Pedagogy of the Homepage.” Pedagogy. 5.1 (Winter 2005) 61-75.

“The 1963 Hip Hop Machine: Hip Hop Pedagogy as Composition.” College Composition and Communication (February 2003) 453-471.

“Writing About Cool: Teaching Hypertext as Juxtaposition.” Computers and Composition (Volume 20 Issue 3, September 2003) 221-236.

“The Street Finds Its Own Use For Things: Hypertext, DJing, and the New Composition Studies Program.” Enculturation 4.2 (Fall 2002) N.P.

“What is Cool? Notes on Intellectualism, Popular Culture, and Writing.” Ctheory. May 10, 2002. Reprinted in Life on the Wires, Ctheory Press, 2004. N.P.

“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 (2003)

“The Handbook of Cool.” Technology, Popular Culture, and the Writing Classroom. Eds. James Inman and Cheryl Reed. Kairos Special Issue 7.2. Summer 2002. N.P.

“1963: Collage as Writing Practice.” Composition Forum. 12.1. (Winter 2001) 19-39.

“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.

“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.

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.

Grants and Awards
University of Missouri
2008 Excellence in Teaching With Technology Award. $500. September 2008
A&S Alumni Organization Grant. $1,000. Spring 2008.
Big 12 Fellowship. $2,500. Spring 2008

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.

Administrative Experience
University of Missouri

Director, Campus Writing Program 2008-

Director of Composition, 2007-2008

Responsible for overseeing 50 Graduate Teaching Assistants and 10 Non-Tenure Track Faculty teach over 100 sections of English 1000 each semester. Director of the Composition Staff, a six person supervision and mentoring body. Also responsible for overseeing four other composition courses: Intermediate Composition, Professional Writing, Advanced Composition, and Writing Nonfiction Prose. Responsible for Non-Tenure Track hiring, curriculum development, mentoring, assessment, and other related activities.

Wayne State University
Digital Literacy Initiative, principal figure, 2004-2007
Head of Provost initiated directive to integrate technology into all first year courses. Set up and maintained Drupal, Wiki, and weblog sites for instructors to teach from. Began technology based teaching practicum for first year graduate students. Received two related grants to carry out this work.

University of Detroit-Mercy
Director of Writing/Director of the Writing Center, 2002-2004
Responsible for staff of 15 adjunct instructors and staff of six Writing Center tutors. Rewrote writing placement procedures, rewrote the curriculum for first year writing, organized instructor and tutor orientation, and restructured the Writing Center into a campus wide operation.

Teaching Experience
University of Missouri
Assistant Professor of English, 2007 – present
Undergraduate Courses
English 1000: Writing About Media

Graduate Courses
English 8010: Theories and Practices of Composition

Wayne State University
Assistant Professor of English, 2004-2007
Undergraduate Courses
ENG 5790: Writing Theory: The Rhetoric of Pleasure
ENG 1020: Introduction to College Writing: Writing the City
ENG 3010: Intermediate Writing: Documenting Detroit
ENG 3010: Intermediate Writing: Writing About Space
ENG 1020: Introduction to College Writing: Musical Stories
ENG 1020: Introduction to College Writing: Writing About Media

Graduate Courses
ENG 6010: Tutoring Practicum: Theories and Practices of Writing (taught 3 times)
ENG 7020: Studies in the Theory of Composition: Theories of the Digital
ENG 7020: Studies in the Theory of Composition: Digital Literacy

University of Detroit Mercy
Assistant Professor of English, 2002 – 2004
Undergraduate Courses
ENL 326: History of English Language
ENL 409: Modern American English: The Teaching of Writing
ENL 131: Academic Writing: Literacy/Identity
ENL 235: Study of Fiction
ENL 421: Plays and Production: August Wilson and Detroit
ENL 202: Writing Across the Curriculum: Documenting Schooling
ENL 491: Writing Design Lab: Cyborgography
ENL 467: Topics in Cultural Studies: Reading and Writing Detroit

University of Florida
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1997 – 2002
Undergraduate Courses
ENC 1101: Freshman Composition: Introduction to Composition
ENC 1101: Freshman Composition: Writing in the Digital Age
ENC 1101: Freshman Composition: Writing About Cool
AIM (Achievements in Mainstreaming)
ENC 1102: Writing Through Literature: Understanding Narrative
ENG 1145: Special Topics: Writing About Cool
AML 2410: American Literature: 1950s Attitude and Visuality
ENG 1131: Writing Through Media: Digital Rhetoric – Honors and non-Honors
ENG 1131: Writing Through Media: American Popular Culture

Graduate Courses
ENC 5236: Advanced Business Writing

Santa Fe Community College
Instructor, 1996 –1997
Developmental Writing, ESL Reading, Writing, and Listening and Speaking.

Conference Presentations

“Networked WPAs.” WPA Conference. Minneapolis, MN. July 2009.

“Plato Comes to Missouri.” Media Ecology Association Conference. St. Louis, MO. June 2009.

“1949: Kerouac and Computer Memory.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.

“Folksonomic Cities: 8 Mile.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2008.

“Woodward Paths: Motorizing Space.” Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA, May 2008.

“Spatial Identities: Writing Cities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York
City, NY. March 2007.

“Networked Academics.” Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
Conference (Hastac). Wayne State University, February 23, 2007.

“The Making of Ka-Knowledge: Digital Aurality.” Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, TN, May 2006.

“Folksono(me).” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL, March 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, NC. November, 2004.

“That’s WAC (WHACK)! Restructuring a Digital Writing Across the Curriculum Program.” 2004
Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2004.

“What Matters in Composition? TECHNO.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.
San Antonio, TX. March 2004.

“The New Media Instructor: Cultural Capital and Writing Instruction.” Modern Language Association
(WPA Sponsored Panel). San Diego, CA. December 2003.

“Funkcomp.” National Council of Teachers of English. San Francisco, CA, November, 2003.

“Cooltown: The Place of Intellectual Work.” WPA Summer Conference. Grand Rapids, MI, July, 2003.

“Cyborgography.” Computers and Writing 2003, West Lafayette, IN, May 2003.

“Theme and Technology: Seeing <a page = ‘for english b’> through HTML.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New York City, NY. March 2003.

“The Rhetoric of New Media: Teaching a Rhetoric of Hypertext.” Modern Language Association (ACH
Sponsored Panel). New York City, NY. 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, IL, March 2002.

“Remember When? Teaching Hypertext as Nostalgia.” Computers and Writing 2001, Muncie, IN. May
2001.

“Composition as Cool.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO. March
2001.

“Writing About Cool in the Computer Classroom.” Computers and Writing 2000, Forth Worth, TX. May
2000.

“1963: Collage as Cultural Reading.” Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. April 2000.

“Collage as A Writing Practice.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis,
MN. 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, SD., May
1999.

“Inner Speech and the Computer Classroom.” Florida College English Association, St. Augustine, FL.
February 1999.

“Orality and Literacy Are Still in Our Time.” Florida College English Association, Mount Dora, FL. February
1998.

“Love in Krazy Kat – The Fair Form and Features of Whom Do You Suppose.” Comic Arts Conference,
San Diego, CA. 1998.

Speaking Engagements

“8 Mile: Networked Decision Making.” University of Illinois, Program for Research in the Humanities’ Digital Literacies Reading Group.” March  3, 2009.

Tampa 860 AM interview on “Cool” for the CEO Lounge. April 18, 2008.

“Detroit Folksono(me).” Syracuse University. Visual & Digital Rhetoric Symposium. November 4, 2005.

“Digital Detroit.” Wayne State University Humanities Lecture. Fall 2005.

Invited Speaker at the Netoric Tuesday Café, January 23, 2000. “The Rhetoric of Cool (A Work in
Progress).”

Professional Activities
National Professional Activities
Composition/Computes and Writing Activities
Co-Chair, Computers and Writing 2007: May 17-20, 2007. Wayne State University. National conference with over 300 registered attendees. Managed and oversaw all aspects of the conference’s planning.
Conference on College Composition and Communication Resolutions Committee, 2006, member.
CCC Online Editor Search Committee, 2004, member.

Manuscript Reviewer
Member of Editorial Board for Computers and Composition
Member of Editorial Board for WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member of Editorial Board for Enculturation
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.

University of Missouri-Columbia
Composition Committee, 2007-present, chair.
Graduate Studies Committee, 2007-present, member.
Curriculum Committee, 2007-present, member.
Campus Writing Board, 2007-present, member.
Wayne State University
Appointments Committee, 2005-present, member.
Appointments Committee, 2004, ad hoc member.
Composition Committee, 2004-6, member.
Writing Studies Major Committee, 2004, member.

University of Detroit Mercy
Course Evaluation Committee, 2003-04, member.
Medievalist Search Committee, 2003, member.
Advisory Committee to Creative Writing, 2003-04, member.
Recruitment Committee, 2003-04, member.
Curriculum Committee, 2003-04, member.
Portfolio Committee, 2002, chair.
Adjunct Orientation: Organized and directed pedagogy workshops for adjunct instructors.
Writing Center Orientation: Organized and directed pedagogy workshops for Writing Center tutors.
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
University of Missouri
Mizzou Wiki: Installed and maintain programmatic wiki for all first year writing courses.
http://comp.missouri.edu/wiki/
Mizzou Blogs: Installed and maintain programmatic blog system for all writing instructors and
students. http://comp.missouri.edu/blogs/
Composition Program Website. Installed and setup composition website. http://comp.missouri.edu/

Wayne State University
ENL 1020 Wiki: Installed and maintained wiki for all first year writing courses.
ENL 3010 Wiki: Installed and maintained wiki for intermediate writing courses.
Drupal Portal: Installed and maintained Drupal site for use in teaching practicum.

University of Florida
Webmaster for the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 2002.
Instructional Technology Specialist for the Networked Writing Environment (NWE), May – August 2001.
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.

Other Related Experience
Journalist
Jerusalem Post (1994-1995), MazalU’Bracha (1996), Diamond Intelligence Briefs (1996), Adi’or (1996), Ryder
Magazine (1992)

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