AcadianaMOO
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Participants' Biographies
Keith Dorwick (co-chair)
is a tenured assistant professor in the English Department of the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he teaches in the rhetoric
and creative writing concentrations as well as the humanities program.
With Jonathan Alexander, he is the editor of Looking Both Ways: Bisexuality in the Media, a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality. In addition, Dorwick is co-editor (with Susan Lang and Janice Walker) of Tenure2000, a special volume of Computers and Composition;
he has previously published articles in journals and other collections
of scholarly essays, including "Weeping Stones, Living Trees: Creating
and Archiving Electronic Texts in Student and Scholarly Writing" in TnT: Texts and Technology,
ed. by Janice Walker and Ollie Oviedo (Hampton) and "Stanley Kowalski's
Not So Secret Sorrow: Queering, De-Queering and Re-Queering A Streetcar
Named Desire as Drama, Script, Film and Opera," in Interdisciplinary Humanities, both published in 2003; "Queerness, Sexuality, Technology, and Writing: How Do Queers Write Ourselves When We Write in Cyberspace?" co-edited by Jonathan Alexander and Angela Crow, Computers and Composition Online, Fall 2004; and "From Darkness to Light: Struggles with the Tenure Track," Computers and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths, (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006). With Kevin Moberly, he is the co-administrator of AcadianaMOO (http://acadianamoo.org); he is also the project director of the Dancing Project with playwright John Patrick Bray (http://dancing.notlong.com).
Kevin Moberly (co-chair) is an assistant professor of English at St. Cloud
State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He graduated in May 2005 from
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a Ph.D. in English, with
a concentration in rhetoric and concentration. He has written about
many different manifestations of "techno-culture" including Spam
e-mail, Multi-User-Dungeons, medieval-themed and science fiction role
playing games, and hacker culture. He is currently working to prepare
his dissertation for publication.
Kellie Rae Carter is an
Assistant Professor of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern
University. Her interests include: Technical Communication, Science and
Technology Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Design
of ICTs and User Interfaces, Participatory Design. She writes, "My work
integrates critical approaches borrowed heavily from poststructuralist
and cultural theory with the design of technology and communication
artifacts with the goal of designing products that serve human values
and support complex work. I am most interested in examining and
designing technologies and products that support motivated or serious
play as hybrid sites where users not only do, but also become. In doing
so, I postulate the practice of identity formation and maintenance as a
useful becoming, in the sense that the resources and technologies we
use for this work fall under the umbrella of usability and systems
support. Currently, I am experimenting with the design of experiential
landscapes as a form of task support for useful becomings and motivated
play. When I'm not designing systems, I am found hanging from walls,
otherwise known as rock climbing, spending as much time as possible on
my bike with loud and obnoxious music blaring from my iPod,
entertaining all and sundry on various fanculture websites with pithy
insights on my favorite TV passions, and engaging in various fun
multimedia activities like digital video and blogging."
Amy Clary received her Ph.D. in English from the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette in May 2005. After completing her dissertation,
“Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law and
Culture,” she moved to Alaska to work for the Denali Foundation,
an educational non-profit committed to wilderness preservation. Her
time in Denali afforded her a unique opportunity to research the
Alaskan wilderness and its many representations and simulations. Her
work has appeared in Works and Days, the Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, and the University of Paris-Sorbonne’s series Frontières.
Anthony Ellertson received his PhD. from Iowa State University
in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. He joined the WDMD program
at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2005. Anthony teaches
Interaction Design, 2D & 3D animation in games & elearning
environments, distance learning applications, and streaming media for
the web. Anthony has published and presented nationally on multimodal
composing, eportfolio development, and curricular assessment.
Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Communication and an editorial board member of Kairos.
David Fisher is an assistant professor of rhetoric and writing
at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock . He is interested in
school-to-workplace (-to-school) transitions, content management
systems, new media, and emerging literacy practices. He is the lead
software and content developer on the MyCase virtual case environment
(VCE) project, of which Lot49 is a module designed for first-year
composition, marketing communication, and document design.
Adrienne P. Lamberti is the
Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator and the
Department of English Cooperative Education Program Coordinator at the
University of Northern Iowa. Her research interests include rhetorics;
professional communication; professional communication ethics including
pedagogical; organizational culture; and discourse communities. Her
teaching interests and courses focus on written, oral, visual, and
digital communication texts; ethics; rhetorical analysis; usability
testing; discourse analysis; workplace cultures. Dr. Lamberti's
current projects include Talking the Talk: Revolution in Agricultural Communication, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2007 and Digital Documents and Their Divides: A Professional Writer's Guide to New Media with Dr. Anne R. Richards.
Elizabeth Losh's research
focuses on digital rhetoric and related ideologies of nationalism and
globalization. She has published articles about government websites,
military-funded videogames, online national libraries, and other
electronic artifacts of the virtual state. She is currently the Writing
Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine and is also an
active advocate for information literacy initiatives in higher
education. She writes a daily column on the politics of digital culture
at Virtualpolitik and is a regular contributor to Siva Vaidhyanathan's
weblog Sivacracy.
Nathan McKenzie entered the
computer game industry a decade ago and is currently a freelance game
designer, technology programmer, and member of the GLS group at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has worked on titles such as
Heretic 2, Soldier of Fortune, and Quake 4 in capacities including
general game programming and game tuning, artificial intelligence,
special effects programming, audio programming, and too many other odds
and ends to list here. His current focus is prototyping game designs
for education.
Lei Lani Michel is a Ph.D.
candidate in Language and Rhetoric at the University of Washington -
Seattle. She is currently writing her dissertation "The Rhetoric of
Finding Images," a project on the relationships in visual studies,
composition, and technology. Her research interests include finding
images online, the language of visual studies, ethics and images, and
how students write about these issues. She enjoyed teaching in the
computer-integrated expository writing classrooms at UW and worked as
an adjunct English instructor at the River Parish Community College in
south Louisiana. Other interests include dancing and the post-Katrina
recovery effort.
Katie Mills is a media scholar who teaches writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her monograph, The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television
(SIUP, 2006), provides a cultural history of the “on the
road” genre since the Beats through today’s reality TV
shows and video games. Mills advocates new cultural studies methods
across multiple media platforms for analyzing contemporary genres,
rejecting traditional studies by academic disciplines for our age of
media convergence. She is researching how multimedia formats may
benefit comp/rhet curricula; her courses in scholarly writing
incorporate sound essays, iMovies, wikis, and traditional essays.
Curtis Newbold is a graduate student in the Literature and
Writing program at Utah State University. He currently teaches two
sections of Introduction to Academic Writing and hopes to be teaching
technology and professional communication courses in the future. His
interests include rhetoric, professional communication, new media,
technology, and composition pedagogy in a digital age.
Raymond Oenbring is a Ph.D.
student in the Department of English at the University of Washington,
Seattle campus. His research interests include rhetoric of science,
linguistics, rhetoric and composition, and computer-integrated
classroom pedagogy. Recently he particularly enjoyed teaching an
intermediate composition course that looked at how online environments
reconfigure notions of authorship and readership.
Dirk Remley is a Lecturer in
the Department of English at Kent State University, where he has taught
business writing and technical writing courses for seventeen years. He
is also currently a student in KSU's Rhetoric and Composition PhD
program. His research interests include computer supported
collaborative writing, activity theory, and business writing and
technical writing pedagogies. Dirk serves on a number of committees and
councils, including the KSU Faculty Senate and the Non-Tenure Track
Faculty unit of the KSU chapter of AAUP; and he is the current
President of the College English Assocation of Ohio.
Anne R. Richards is a Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor
with the English Department of the University of Sfax, Tunisia. She
returns to Kennesaw State University's Department of English at the end
of this teaching year. In fall 2007, as a faculty fellow with KSU's
Burruss Institute and College of Humanities and Social Sciences, she
will study Arab medical illustrations. Anne and Carol David have
recently co-edited the text Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication (Parlor Press; spring 2007), and with Adrienne Lamberti she is seeking a publisher for a new anthology titled Digital Culture and Its Divides.
Annette Vee is a graduate
student in the Composition and Rhetoric Department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked in education, writing and technology
and currently teaches writing at the UW. She is interested in issues of
intellectual property and writing online, as well as the affordances of
teaching writing with technology.
Daniel J. Weinstein, PhD, Associate Professor of English at
Dakota State University, took his doctorate in American Literature from
the State University of New York at Buffalo, with a concentration in
Composition Theory. At DSU Dan teaches College Composition, English
Literature, Technical Communication, Web Design, and various forms of
writing in networked environments. Last summer, Dan served as a trainer
in South Dakota's Classroom Connections 1:1 educational laptop
computing project for middle and high school teachers. His primary
research interest: applications of improvisation in writing instruction.
Robbin Zeff is an Assistant
Professor of Writing and the Professional Technology Fellow in the
University Writing Program at George Washington University. She holds a
doctorate in Folklore and American Studies from Indiana University and
is a Teacher Consultant with the Northern Virginia Writing Project.
Zeff has a long background with technology. She wrote the landmark book
“The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet” in 1996 when there
were so few nonprofits online that one could actually count them. This
book initiated a series of books on Internet use for the nonprofit
community by John Wiley & Sons. She then moved into Internet
advertising and not only wrote the first book on online advertising
back in 1997, but ran the 10-city training
conference,”Advertising & Marketing on the
Internet.” Her research interests are in UDL (Universal
Design for Learning), using personality type indicators to help writers
better understand audience and themselves as writers, and examining how
teaching with technology is changing the role and presentation of
assignment instructions. This paper marks her return to folklore by
combing her love of teaching writing and technology with her academic
background in American folklore.
Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly
Conference Co-Chairs
Last Modified: Feb. 3, 2007
