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Education
Ph.D., English – Field of Study: Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2016
M.A., English, University of Louisville, May 2009
B.A., English – Writing Emphasis, Belmont University, May 2007
Academic Employment
Associate Professor. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2022-present.
Assistant Professor. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2016-22.
Assistant Instructor. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin. 2011-16.
Temporary Full-Time Instructor. Department of Literature, Languages, and Philosophy; Tennessee State University. 2010-11.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of English, University of Louisville. 2007-09.
Books
Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education. Penn State University Press, 2022.
Rice, Jenny, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler, editors. Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change. Parlor Press/Intermezzo, 2018.
Select Refereed and Invited Publications
“When Feelings Move, Whose Feelings Matter? Critical Race Theory Bans and the Affective Politics of Public Education.” Journal for the History of Rhetoric, vol. 26, no. 2, 2023, pp. 243–254.
“Developing and Teaching Games-Focused English Courses.” Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom, edited by Tison Pugh and Lynn Ramey, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 15-25.
“The Bandwidth of Podcasting.” Tuning in to Soundwriting, edited by Kyle D. Stedman, Courtney S. Danforth, and Michael J. Faris, Intermezzo, 2021.
Detweiler, Eric, and Kate Pantelides. “Predicting Futures, Performing Feminisms: Chronology and Ideology in Writing Classrooms.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 19, no. 1, 2020, pp. 157-170.
Detweiler, Eric, and Elizabeth McGhee Williams. “A Living Rhetorical Enterprise: The RSA Oral History Initiative.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 5, 2019, pp. 566-582.
“Sounding Out the Progymnasmata.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019, pp. 205-218.
“The Weirdness of Rhetoric, The Rhetoric of Weirdness.” Textshop Experiments, vol. 5, 2018.
“A Podcast?! Whatever Gave You That Idea? Some Reverberations from Walter Benjamin’s Radio Plays.” Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change, edited by Jenny Rice, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler, Intermezzo/Parlor P, 2018.
“Toward Pedagogical Turnings.” ADE Bulletin, vol. 155, 2018, pp. 52-60.
“Disfiguring Socratic Irony.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, vol. 49, no.2, 2016, pp. 149-172.
“‘/’ ‘And’ ‘-‘? An Empirical Consideration of the Relationship Between ‘Rhetoric’ and ‘Composition.'” enculturation, vol. 20, 2015.
With Scott Nelson et al. “Crossing Battle Lines: Teaching Multimodal Literacies Through Alternate Reality Games.” Kairos, vol. 17, no. 3, 2013.
Select Conference Presentations
Respondent. “(Re)Making Sense: Composition and Rhetoric at the End of Rationality.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. 2023.
“Beyond Authority and Agency: Recharging Educational Networks and Technologies.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore, MD. 2022.
“When Feelings Move, Whose Feelings Matter?” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium. Baltimore, MD. 2022.
“Sonic Approaches to Inclusivity and Social Justice.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. 2022. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19.
“Sounds Difficult: The Challenges and Possibilities of Studying Digital Audio.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Conference & Colloquium. Victoria, British Columbia, CA. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19.
“Established and Emergent Sonic Genres in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. 2020. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19.
“Teaching Games and Game Studies in English Courses: A Curricular Walkthrough.” Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, CA. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19.
“Expanding the Audio Narrative: Podcasting Beyond Story.” Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference. Detroit, MI. 2020. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19.
“Everything’s a Narratio: Rhetoric’s Relevance to the Rise of Digital Storytelling.” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference. Austin, TX. 2019.
“Toward Future Methodologies for Studying the Circulation of Podcasts.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. 2018.
“Serial Uncertainty: The Rhetoric and Ethics of True Crime Podcasts.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
“A Bellowing Lecture Followed by a Tense, Suspicious Silence: On Welcome to Night Vale and Academic Podcasting.” Computers & Writing Conference. Rochester, NY. 2016.
“A Podcast?! Whatever Gave You That Idea? Some Reverberations from Walter Benjamin’s Radio Plays.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA. 2016.
Courses Taught
Graduate
History of Rhetoric: Ancient to Renaissance
History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary
Digital Rhetoric and Writing
Rhetoric and Sound Studies
Undergraduate
Digital Writing
Public Writing and Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Recorded Sound
The Languages of Video Games
Fermentation, Culture, and Writing
Advanced Composition
Video Games and/as Literature
Research and Argumentative Writing
Expository Writing
Grants, Awards, & Honors
Co-PI. Open Educational Resources Development Grant. Tennessee Higher Education Commission. 2023-24. $19938.
Outstanding Achievement in Instructional Technology Award. MTSU Foundation, Middle Tennessee State University. 2018.
Innovation Grant. Instructional Technologies Development Committee, Middle Tennessee State University. 2017-18.
Best Webtext Award. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 2014. For “Crossing Battle Lines: Teaching Multimodal Literacies through Alternate Reality Games.”
Disciplinary Leadership & Service
Digital Communications Officer. Rhetoric Society of America. 2020-present.
Editorial Board Member. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 2019-present.
Section Editor. Sonic Projects Section, enculturation. 2018-present.
Host and Producer. Rhetoricity. 2015-present.
Assistant Editor. Intermezzo. 2015-22.
Co-chair. Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing. 2018.
Project Coordinator. Rhetoric Society of America 50th Anniversary Oral History Project. 2018.
University Leadership & Service
Program Director. Public Writing and Rhetoric Major. College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State University. 2022-present.
Chair. Virginia Derryberry Scholarship Committee. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2020-present.
Faculty Advisor. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2019-present.
Facilitator. “Navigating the Digital Humanities” Faculty Learning Community. Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technologies Center, Middle Tennessee State University. 2019-20.
Chair. Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Voting Rights Committee. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2018-19.
Social Media Coordinator. Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University. 2016-19.
Assistant Director. Digital Writing and Research Lab, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin. 2013-15.
Assistant Director. Virtual Writing Center, University of Louisville. 2008-09.