Jonathan AlexanderCampus Writing Coordinator and Professor, English |
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Research Interests |
Writing Studies, Composition/Rhetoric, New Media Studies, Sexuality Studies, Science Fiction Studies | |
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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. Jonathan also works on several editorial boards and has been named as one of the founding editorial board members for Computers and Composition Digital Press. | |
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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. | |
| Publications |
Books Understanding Rhetoric. With Elizabeth Losh. Under contract with Bedford/St. Martin's Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies. With Deborah T. Meem and Michelle Gibson. Sage Publications. December 2008 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 Special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality, entitled "Bisexuality & Queer Theory." Co-edited with Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio. Forthcoming “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 Articles and Book Chapters “Queer: An Impossible Subject for Composition.” With Jacqueline Rhodes. JAC. Forthcoming "Literacy and Difference: A Provocation." Journal of Writing Program Administration. Forthcoming "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. Forthcoming "Technologies of the Self in the Aftermath: Affect, Subjectivity, Composition." With Jacqueline Rhodes. Rhetoric Review. Forthcoming "A YouTube of One's Own: Coming Out as Rhetorical Action." With Elizabeth Losh. In LGBT Identity and New Online Media. Forthcoming "Queer Rhetorical Agency: Questioning Narratives of Heteronormativity." With David Wallace. JAC. Forthcoming “Crusin’ Composition Texts: Negotiating Sexual Difference in First-Year Readers.” With Samantha Blackmon, Will Banks, and Martha Marinara. College Composition and Communication (in press) “Gaming, Student Literacies, and the Composition Classroom: Some Possibilities for Transformation.” College Composition and Communication (in press) “The Queer Turn in Composition Studies: Reviewing and Assessing an Emerging Scholarship.” With David Wallace. College Composition and Communication (in press) '"The Scholars formerly known as ....’: Bisexuality, Queerness, and Fucking (with) Identity Politics.” With Karen Yescavage. Critical InQueery: A Reader. Edited by Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke. Ashgate Press (in press) “Dorian Gray in the Twentieth Century: The Politics and Pedagogy of Filming Oscar Wilde’s Novel.” Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Philip E. Smith. Modern Language Association Press. 2009 “Muddying the Waters: How Bisexuality and Transgenderism Problematize Binary Constructs of Sexuality, Gender, and Sex.” With Karen Yescavage, PhD. Sex, Gender and Sexuality: The New Basics. Edited by Abby L. Ferber. Oxford University Press. 2009. (21-31) “Queer Eye for the Comp Program: Towards a Queer Critique of WPA Work.” With William P. Banks. For The Writing Program Interrupted: Making Space for Critical Discourse. Edited by Donna Strickland and Jeanne Gunner. Boynton/Cook. 2009. (86-98) “Media Convergence: Creating Content, Questioning Relationships.” Introductory essay for a special Issue of Computers and Composition, entitled “Media Convergence.” Volume 25.1. March 2008 (1-8) Where the Bisexuals Are…Or Not…” With Keith Dorwick, PhD. Introductory essay for “Looking Both Ways: Bisexuality and the Media.” The Journal of Bisexuality. Vol. 7, Nos. 1 & 2. 2007 (7-12) “Bisexuality in the Media: A Digital Roundtable.” The Journal of Bisexuality. Online interview and discussion essay. Vol. 7, Nos. 1 & 2. 2007 (115-124) “Peer Review Re-Viewed: Where Peer-Reviewers Look and What They Say.” With Eric Paulson, PhD, and Sonya Armstrong. Research in the Teaching of English. 41.3, February 2007 (304-335) “‘A Real Effect on the Gameplay’: Computer Gaming, Sexuality, and Literacy.” With Carlos Velez and Mack McCoy. Gaming and Literacy. Edited by Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe. Palgrave Press. 2007 (167-190) “‘Straightboyz4Nsync’: Queer Theory and the Composition of Heterosexuality.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Volume 25.2. February 2006 (371-395) “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing the Body in Narratives of Gender.” College Composition and Communication. Volume 57.1. September 2005 (45-82) “Sexuality, Technology, and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Overview.” With Will Banks, PhD. Introductory essay for a special issue of Computers & Composition. Vol. 21.3. September 2004 (273-293) “Queerness, Sexuality, Technology, and Writing: How Do Queers Write Ourselves When We Write in Cyberspace?” A MOO conversation among Jonathan Alexander, Barclay Barrios, Samantha Blackmon, Angela Crow, Keith Dorwick, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Randal Woodland. Computers & Composition Online. Fall 2004 (http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/rhodes/CCOintro.htm) “In Their Own Words: How LGBT Youth Represent Themselves on the Web.” A research paper commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Published and made available in pdf format online at http://www.glaad.org/programs/csms/. February 2004 “Queer Composition(s): Queer Theory in the Writing Classroom.” With Michelle Gibson, PhD. A scholarly essay introducing a “special cluster” of essays on queer theory and teaching writing. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. 24.1. 2004 (1-21) “The ‘YOUth & AIDS Web Project’: Web Publishing as Service Learning in First-Year Writing Courses.” Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. Vol. 8, No. 2. Spring 2004 (5-23) “A ‘Sisterly Camaraderie’ and Other Queer Friendships: A Gay Teacher Interacting with Straight Students.” The Teacher's Body: Questions of Embodiment, Identity, and Authority. Edited by Diane P. Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes. State University of New York Press. July 2003 (161-177) “Dorian Gray, Tom Ripley, and the Queer Closet.” With Deborah T. Meem. Comparative Literature and Culture Web. Vol. 5, Issue 4. December 2003. (http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/) “Seeing What We Want to See: Searching for Bisexual Representation in ‘Threesome’ Films.” With Karen Yescavage, PhD. The Journal of Bisexuality. Vol. 3 No 2, 2003 (109-127) “Digital Spins: The Pedagogy and Politics of Student-Centered E-Zines.” Computers & Composition. Vol. 19, No. 4. December 2002 (387-410) “Ravers on the Web: Resistance, Multidimensionality, and Writing (about) Youth Cultures.” CoverWeb · Beyond Normal: Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces, C & W 2002. Edited by Susan Antlitz, Will Banks, Ron Fortune, and Jim Kalmbach. Kairos. Vol. 7, Issue 3. Fall 2002 (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/binder2.html?coverweb.html#de) “Queer Webs: Representations of LGBT People and Communities on the World Wide Web.” Written as guest editor for a special edition 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 (77-84) “Homo-pages and Queer Sites: Studying the Construction and Representation of Queer Identities on the World Wide Web.” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies. Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 3. April/May 2002 (85-106) “The Pleasure and Pain of Chasing Amy: Analyzing Reactions to Blurred Identities and Sexualities.” With Karen Yescavage, PhD. The Journal of Bisexuality. Vol. 1, No. 4. 2001 (117-135) “Out of the Closet and Into the Network: Sexual Orientation and the Computerized Classroom.” Computers and Composition. Vol. 14, No. 2. August 1997. (207-216) Republished in Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2008 (207-217) |
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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 | 11/09/2009 | |