Jonathan AlexanderChancellor's Fellow, Professor of English, Education, and Women's Studies Campus Writing Coordinator Director, UCI Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication Core Faculty in the Culture & Theory Program Chair, Women's Studies |
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Research Interests |
Writing Studies & Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Sexuality, Science Fiction & Popular Culture | |
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Academic Distinctions | Jonathan Alexander is a three-time recipient of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Articles in the field of Computers and Composition Studies. His books have been nominated for various awards, including the Lambda Literary Award. In 2011, he was awarded the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Computers and Writing Studies. | |
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Research Abstract |
Jonathan's work focuses primarily on the use of emerging communications technologies in the teaching of writing and in shifting conceptions of what writing, composing, and authoring mean. Jonathan also works at the intersection of the fields of writing studies and sexuality studies, where he explores what discursive theories of sexuality have to teach us about literacy and literate practice in pluralistic democracies. | |
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Books in Development On Multimodality: New Media and Composition Studies. With Jacqueline Rhodes. (accepted for NCTE's Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series) Books Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing. With Elizabeth Losh. Bedford/St. Martin's. Forthcoming in March 2013 Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges. Co-edited with Serena Anderlini D'Onofrio. Routledge, 2012 Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies. With Deborah T. Meem and Michelle Gibson. Sage Publications. First Edition: January 2009. Second Edition forthcoming in February 2013 Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies. Utah State University Press. April 2008 Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web. A book in Hampton Press’s “New Dimensions in Computers and Writing Studies” series, edited by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. December 2005 (Nominated for the Computers & Composition Outstanding Book Award) Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing. Co-edited with Marcia Dickson. A book in Hampton Press’s “New Dimensions in Computers and Writing Studies." December 2005 Argument Now, a Brief Rhetoric. Co-written with Margaret Barber, PhD, focusing on the use of computers to teach writing. Pearson/Longman. Includes an Instructor’s Manual co-written with Margaret Barber and a companion Website at http://wps.ablongman.com/long_alexander_an_1/. January 2005 Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Co-edited with Karen Yescavage. Harrington Park Press Press. July 2004 (Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award) Edited Journal Issues “Public/Sex: Connecting Sexuality and Service Learning.” A special issue of Reflections, a Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. With Janell Haynes and Jacqueline Rhodes. Vol. 9.2. Spring 2010 Special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality, entitled "Bisexuality & Queer Theory." Co-edited with Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio. Vol. 9.3-4 July-December 2009 “Media Convergence,” a special collection of Webtexts for the “Print to Screen” section of Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2008. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/printscn.htm Special Issue of Computers and Composition, entitled “Media Convergence.” Vol. 25.1. March 2008 (Winner, Ellen Nold Award) Special issue of The Journal of Bisexuality, entitled “Looking Both Ways: Bisexuality and the Media.” Co-edited with Dr. Keith Dorwick. Volume 7, Numbers 1 & 2. 2007 Special issue of Computers & Composition, entitled “Sexuality, Technology, and the Teaching of Writing.” Co-edited with William P. Banks. Vol. 21.3. September 2004 (Winner, Ellen Nold Award) “Special Cluster: Queer Theory,” for JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Co-edited with Michelle Gibson. Vol. 24.1. 2004 Special issue of the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, entitled “Queer Webs: Representations of LGBT People and Communities on the World Wide Web.” Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 3. April/May 2002 Special issue of the Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity, entitled “Queer Values, Beyond Identity.” Vol. 4, No. 4. October 1999 Recent Multimedia / Creative Work "Multiplicities of Desire: 12 Poems." Forthcoming in Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry. “Queered: A Literacy Narrative.” A twenty-minute film created with Jacuqeline Rhodes. 2011 Computers and Writing Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Screened May 20, 2011 Published online at Technoculture: http://tcjournal.org/drupal/vol2/queered "daybreak: a nietzschean rhapsody." Polari: An International Journal of Queer Creative Writing. Issue 2, October 2010. http://www.polarijournal.com/current-issue.php “phonesex : a digital collage” and “dis|orientation : a straight closet.” Published online in Harlot, A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion. Volume 1, Number 1. Fall 2008. http://harlotofthearts.org/index.php/harlot/article/view/9/7 Recent Articles and Book Chapters "Repetition Compulsions: Dennis Cooper and the Ethics of Transgression." Journal of Homosexuality. (forthcoming) "Revolution Now? The Family Romances of Post-Apocalyptic Media." Los Angeles Review of Books. December 10, 2012. http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1245 "Katrina Media: The Arts of HBO's 'Treme' in the Aftermath of Trauma." Los Angeles Review of Books. September 23, 2012. http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=945&fulltext=1 “Queer Rhetoric and the Pleasures of the Archive.” With Jacqueline Rhodes. Enculturation, 2012. http://www.enculturation.net/queer-rhetoric-and-the-pleasures-of-the-archive “Queerness, Multimodality, and the Possibilities of Re/Orientation.” With Jacqueline Rhodes. Composing (Media)= Composing (Embodiment): Bodies, Technologies, Writing, the Teaching of Writing. Ed. Kristin L. Arola and Anne Frances Wysocki. Utah State UP, 2012. 187-211. "Experience, Embodiment, Excess: Multimedia[ed] [E]visceration and Installation Rhetoric." With Jacqueline Rhodes. In The New Work of Composing, edited by Deborah Journet, Cheryl Ball, and Ryan Trauman. Computers and Composition Digital Press. 2012. http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/nwc "Installation Rhetoric: A Manifesto for the Body." With Jacqueline Rhodes. College Composition and Communication Online 1.1. December 2011 Response to "Prompts, Props, and Performativity: Commemorating Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.” College Composition and Communication Online 1.1. December 2011 “The ‘Write’ Context: Embedding Information Literacy.” With Cathy Palmer and Kevin Ruminson. 2011. Journal of Information Fluency. http://if.ucf.edu/ “Queer: An Impossible Subject for Composition.” With Jacqueline Rhodes. JAC. Volume 31: 1-2. 2011 (177-206) "Whose Literacy Is It Anyway? Examining a First-Year Approach to Gaming Across Curricula." With Elizabeth Losh. Currents in Electronic Literacy. 2011. http://currents.dwrl.utexas.edu/FIP/ “Straight Eye for the Gay Guy: Composing Queerness.” Journal of Homosexuality. Volume 57.6. July 2010 (697 - 729) "Technologies of the Self in the Aftermath: Affect, Subjectivity, Composition." With Jacqueline Rhodes. Rhetoric Review. Vol. 29.2. 2010 (145-164) “Queer Rhetorical Agency: Questioning Narratives of Heteronormativity.” With David Wallace. JAC 29.4. 2009 (793-819) |
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Professional Societies |
Modern Language Association National Council of Teachers of English Association of Internet Researchers Speculative Literature Foundation |
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| Last updated | 04/01/2013 | |