Will Burdette
Cirriculum Vitæ
professional experience
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Department of Rhetoric and Writing / assistant instructor / present
- Digital Writing & Research Lab / Communications Group Leader / present
- Humanities Institute / technician / 2008-’09
- Undergraduate Writing Center / consultant / 2008-’09
- Bat City Review / managing editor / 2007-’09
- English Department / teaching assistant / 2007-’08
- Texas Department of Transportation
- Online Information Services / info specialist III / 2005-’07
- Texas Department of Transportation / info specialist II / 2005
- Texas State Library and Archives / info specialist I / 2003-’05
- Sustainable Food Center / full-time VISTA volunteer / 2002-’03
- W.L. Adams Writing Center / writing consultant / 2001-’02
- descant (fiction and poetry journal) / associate editor / 2000-’02
- Texas Christian University / graduate assistantship / 2002
- Stuart Bacon (ad and PR agency) / copywriter / 1999-’00
- Harcourt Brace / Custom Publishing intern / 1998
- Image (student magazine) / editor in chief / 1998
- TCU Daily Skiff / opinion editor, writer, photographer / 1996-’99
education
- University of Texas / English Department / Ph.D. program / present
- Texas Christian University / M.A. / rhetoric & composition / 2002
- Texas Christian University / B.A. / English / 1999
publications and presentations
- Computers and Writing Conference / “Unfit For Print: Composition As Sound Writing” / May 2010
- RSA / “The Responsibility of Artful Curricula” / May 2010
- CCCC / “Twitter is Out of Style” / March 2010
- SXSW Interactive / “Swarming Plato’s Cave: Rethinking Digital Fantasies” / March 2010
- Computers and Writing Conference / “Academic Audio: It’s Not the Same as Reading” / June 2009
- SXSW Interactive / “Is Aristotle on Twitter?” / March 2009
- CCTE / “Audible Accessibility: Counting (On) Academic Recording,” / March 2009
- Bibliography and Textual Studies Workshop / “Gardner, Inc.: Representations of Power in Multimedia” / January, 2009
- Computers and Writing Conference / “Remixing Found Objects in Digital Writing Environments” / May 2008
- CCCC / “Found: A More Commodious Language” / April 2008
freelance work
- Anastasia Drabicky photography / Web site design / 2009
- MarcPS / Web site design / 2008
- Key West Magazine / webmaster / 2007
- Fort Worth Weekly / contributor / 2001-’02
- National Center on Education & the Economy / researcher / 2001
- fusion29 design / proofreader / 1999
- Stuart Bacon / proofreader & editor / 1998-’99
- Boys’ Life / contributor / 1998
- The TCU Magazine / contributor / 1998
- The Overland Park Sun / sports writer / 1995
honors
- Professional Development Award / DWRL / 2010
- Professional Development Award / UT Office of Graduate Studies / 2008, 2009
- nominee / Livingston Outstanding Grad. Student Employee Award / 2008
- 1st place / The Betsy Colquitt Graduate Poetry Award / 2002
- 1st place / The TCU Thursday Group Nonfiction Prose Contest / 1999
- 1st place / The David John Ball Memorial Prize (portfolio prize) / 1999
- 2nd place / The Nancy Evans Memorial Award for Texas Writing / 1999
- 1st place / The Lorraine Sherley Prize (portfolio prize) / 1998
- 1st place sweepstakes (+5 other awards) Image magazine / TIPA Awards / 1998
- Chairman’s Citation / TCU Department of Journalism / 1998
- Silver Sail Award / TCU Daily Skiff / photography / 1996
associations, organizations, committees, etc.
- HASTAC Scholar, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory / fall 2009
- member, First Year Forum Book Selection Committee / 2008-’09
- member, Conference on College Composition and Communication
- member, Conference of College Teachers of English