James J. Brown, Jr.
Curriculum Vita

Department of Rhetoric and Writing
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B5500
Austin TX 78712-1122

jimbrown [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu

Education

University of Texas at Austin. Doctoral Candidate in English, concentration in Digital Literacies and Literatures (2004-Present). Dissertation defense: May, 2009.

Dissertation: "Hospitable Texts"
Advisor: D. Diane Davis
Dissertation Committee: N. Katherine Hayles, Cynthia Haynes, Clay Spinuzzi, Margaret Syverson

Carnegie Mellon University. M.A. Literary and Cultural Studies (Spring 2004)

Ohio University. B.S. Communications (Spring 2000)

Academic Appointments

Assistant Instructor. University of Texas at Austin (2004-present)
Assistant Director. Computer Writing and Research Lab (2006-2008)

Publications

Articles

"Essjay's Ethos: Rethinking Textual Origins and Intellectual Property." College Composition and Communication. (Forthcoming.)

"From Friday to Sunday: The Hacker Ethic and Shifting Notions of Labour, Leisure and Intellectual Property." Leisure Studies 27.4 (2008): 395-409.

"Evil Bert Laden: ViRaL Texts, Collision, and Community." Fast Capitalism 4.1 (2008).

"(Re)Make it New." Currents in Electronic Literacy. Spring 2008.

"In Between Lauding and Deriding: A pedagogical review of MySpace." Co-authored with Lacey Donohue. Currents in Electronic Literacy. Spring 2007.

Book Chapters

"Edit This Page: Wikipedia and the Responsibilities of Digital Rhetorics." The Responsibilities of Rhetoric. Eds. Barbara Warnick and Michelle Smith. Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press. (Forthcoming.)

"Speech Hacks." The Computer Culture Reader. Eds. Judd Ruggill, Joseph Chaney, & Ken McAllister. Newcastle, UK.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Reviews

Review of Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject, by Thomas Rickert. Co-authored with Joshua Gunn. Philosophy & Rhetoric. (Forthcoming.)

Review of Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America by Martin Kevorkian. E3W Review of Books. Spring 2007.

Conference Presentations

"1995: Quickness and Composition." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. April 2009.

"Is Aristotle on Twitter?" South by Southwest Interactive. Austin, TX. April 2009.

"Edit This Page: Wikipedia and the Responsibilities of Digital Rhetorics." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA. May 2008.

"The 'Why?' Question." A multimedia presentation for a special panel entitled "Rhetoric and the Amateur." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA. May 2008.

"Evil Bert Laden: Reality and ViRaL Texts." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

"Hospitable Texts." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. State College, PA. July 2007.

"Wikipedia: Modeling a Middle Way for Rhetoric." Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 2007.

"Creative Commons in Composition: The Collaborative Construction of a Classroom Identity." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 2007.

“Hijacking Scapegoats: Kenneth Burke, Technology, and the ‘Doctrine of Use.’" National Communications Association Conference. San Antonio, TX. November 2006.

“What's in the Box? Locke's Abstraction in Computer Programming.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, TN. May 2006.

“Regions of Experience in the First-Year College Curriculum.” College English Association Conference. San Antonio, TX. April 2006.

“The Grace of a Fat Penguin: The Articulations of Linux Subculture.” SWTexas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2005.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Instructor. University of Texas at Austin (2004-Present)

Courses

RHE 309S: Anthologics (Fall '08)

RHE 312: Inventing Electracy (Fall '07, Spring '09)

RHE 309K: Arguing the Digital Divide (Fall '05, Spring '06)

RHE 309S: Issues of Access in the U.S. (Summer '05)

RHE 306: First-Year Writing (Fall '04, Spring '05)

E 314J: Literature and Computer Programming (Fall '06)

Awards

English Department Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2008)

University of Texas Department of Rhetoric and Writing, James L. Kinneavy Award for Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition for "Essjay's Ethos: Rethinking Textual Origins and Intellectual Property" (2008)

Nominee, William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2007, 2008)

Graduate Student Professional Development Award (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Service

Department

Member. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2006-2007)
Co-Chair. First-Year Forum Book Selection Committee (2005-2006)
Member. First-Year Writing Committee (2004-2006)
Systems Developer. Computer Writing and Research Lab (2004-2006)

National

HASTAC Scholar. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced
Blogger. Rhetoric Society of America's Blogora (2007-present)
Member. Rhetoric Society of America Site Selection Committee (2007-present)
Reviewer. Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines (2004-2005)

Technical Experience

Circuit Designer. MCI. Richardson, TX (2000-2003)
Programming Languages: Java, PHP
Web Design: CSS, HTML, Drupal CMS

Professional Organizations

Conference of College Composition and Communication
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
Modern Language Association
National Communications Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America