Trey Conner, PhD

Biography

Education

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition and the Teachin of English (2006), Pennyslvania State University.
Dissertation: The Lost Book of Rhythm

M.A., English (2002), Pennsylvania State University.
Thesis: Ecstatic Rhetoric: cartography of La Monte Young's "Dream House"

B.A. with Honors, English (1999) University of Florida

Teaching

ENC 4260 Advanced Technical Writing
ENC 1101 and ENC 1102 Freshman Composition
ENC 4931/6421 Special Topics: "Piloting Pedagogies"
IDH 4000 Honors Seminar
ENC 3310 expository writing course exploring 'zine culture and compositional technique
ENC 3250 Professional Writing
ENC 2210 Technical Writing
ENC 4311 Advanced Composition
ENC 6421 Special Topics in Rhetoric and Technology: “Community Literacy”

Research Interests

Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication, Digital Pedagogy, Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, History and Theory of Rhetoric

Publications

Electronic Book: Wyrd to the Wiki: Lacunae Toward Wiki Ontologies. Liquid Books Series of the Open Humanities Press, 2010.

Chapter: “You Can’t Step Into the Same Network Twice: Community Literacy, Client-Based Communication, and the Evolution of Networked (Re)Publics” with Morgan Gresham and Jill McCracken. in Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models, and Applications, Melody Bowdon and Russell Carpenter, eds., IGI Global academic publishers.

Article: “Communitas in Technical Writing,” with Morgan Gresham and Jill McCracken, accepted, in peer review, for inclusion in the Journal for Technical Writing and Communication special issue on open source technology.

“MyCompWiki” online invention adjunct for Pearson's mycomplab. Pearson Publishing.

“Emboldened Linking.” Kairos/Praxis, Summer 2007 issue.

Recent Conference Presentations

Presentation: “Place Matters.” Computers and Writing 2010: Virtual Worlds. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 20-24, 2010.

Presentation: “Student Philanthropy Boards: Documenting the Process.” 13th Annual Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Lousiville, KY, March 17th, 2010.

Presentation: “Building Networks, Growing Networked (Re)Publics: Community Literacy and Client-Based Communication.” Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2009.

Presentation: “Sustainable Identities and the Shaping of Digital Communicative Acts.” Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing: @ School @ Work @ Play. University of California, Davis, June 18-21, 2009.

Presentation: “Wii Wave: Riding the Waves.” 60thAnnual Convention Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009.

Presentation: “Service Learning and Civic Engagment at USFSP.” Florida Institute on Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship. Orlando, Florida, November 17-19, 2008.

Presentation: “Infodynamics of Sound.” Conference for the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, November 13-16, 2008.

Presentation: “Writing/Unwriting.” 7th Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Writing. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, October 16-18, 2008.

Presentation: “Sonic Rhetoric.” 13th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Westin Inn, Seattle, Washington, May 23-26, 2008.

Presentation: “A Case-Study in Open Source Culture.” Computers and Writing 2008:Open Source. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, May 21-24, 2008.

Student Organizations

N.A.T.U.R.E student organization
Faculty coordinator for N.A.T.U.R.E. (Natural and Transcendental Universal Reality Exploration), a group of student and community activists, artists, and scholars led by USFSP students, 2010, ongoing.

Sigma Tau Delta
Faculty coordinator for the USFSP chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society, 2010-11.

Committees

USFSP Faculty Technology Committee
Lead, Learn, and Serve Coordinating Committee
USFSP Writing Program Steering Committee
First Year Composition Assessment Committee
Professional and Technical Writing Assessment Committee
USFSP Strategic Planning Subcommittee on Sustainability