Thomas
J. Rickert
Curriculum Vitae
Email: trickert@purdue.edu
Homepage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~trickert/
Ph.D. — University of Texas at Arlington, 2000 (Rhetoric
and Composition/Cultural Studies/Critical Theory)
M.A.
— University of Texas at Arlington, 1993 (Literature and Rhetoric)
B.A.
— Berea College, 1987 (Philosophy and English)
Purdue
University: Associate Professor (2007 – present)
Assistant
Professor of English (2001 – 2007)
Western
Oregon University – Assistant
Professor of English (2000 – 2001)
University
of Texas at Arlington – Graduate
Teaching Assistant (1989 – 2000)
Tarrant
County Junior College – Instructor, part-time (1997 – 98)
El
Centro Community College – Instructor,
part-time (1992 – 1994; 1997)
AREAS OF INTEREST
Histories and Theories of
Rhetoric (Classical, Modern, and Postmodern), Critical Theory, Composition,
Cultural Studies, Complexity Theory, Psychoanalysis, New Media and Digital
Culture, Music
Books:
Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject. U of
Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Essays:
"Music@Microsoft.Windows: Composing
Ambience." The Writing Instructor
May 2010. http://www.writinginstructor.com/rickert
"The
Play's the Thing: An Exploratory in Identification, Randomness, and
Bullshit." Pre/Text 19.1-4
(1998; in print 2009): 147-64.
"New Media and the
Fourfold." With Jennifer Bay. JAC
28: 1-2 (2008) 209-44.
"Towards the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer
on Emplaced Invention." Philosophy
and Rhetoric
40.3 (2007): 251-73.
"The Distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, Worlding, and New Media Culture."
With Michael J. Salvo. Computers and
Composition 23 (2006): 296-316.
"In the House of Doing:
Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience."
JAC 24.4 (2004): 901-27.
"From the Nodular to the Linked: Mark C. Taylor
and Our Emerging Culture of Complex Interactive Networks." With David Blakeley. Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and
Network Culture. JAC 24.4 (2004):
821-30.
"Interview with Mark C.
Taylor." With David Blakesley. JAC
24.4 (2004): 805-19.
"'Hands Up, You're Free': Composition and
Pedagogy in a Post-Oedipal World." JAC 21.2 (Spring 2001): 287-320.
"'Avowing the Unavowable': On the Music of
Composition." With Byron Hawk. Enculturation 2.2 (Spring 1999) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/
Chapters:
"Dwelling with New Media." With Jennifer
Bay. In RAW: Reading and Writing New
Media. Ed. Cheryl Ball and Jim Kalmbach. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2010. 117-140.
"Invention in the Wild: Locating Kairos in Space-Time." Locations of Composition. Eds. Chris
Keller and Christian Weisser. SUNY Press, 2007. (forthcoming)
"Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of
Music." Rhetorical Agendas:
Political, Ethical, and Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. New York: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 2005. 157-63.
Multimedia Essays:
". . . And They Had Pro-Tools." With Michael
J. Salvo. Computers and Composition
Online. Special Issue on Sound and Multiliteracies (Fall 2006) http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/home.htm
"EnSample: Virtual
Musics and Viral Assemblages" – multimedia project on writing and
sampling
with Byron Hawk and Matthew Levy. Pre/Text
Electra(Lite) 3.01 (1999) http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT3.1/
Response Essays, Reviews, and Pedagogical
Publications:
Book Review: "Is This Where You Live?":
Reviews of How the University Works:
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation—Marc Bousquet; Inside the Teaching Machine: Rhetoric and
the Globalization of the U. S. Public Research University—Catherine Chaput;
Buying into English: Language and
Investment in the New Capitalist World—Catherine Prendergast; Academic Charisma and the Origins of the
Research University—William Clark. College
English 72.3 (January 2010): 293-310.
Book Review: Jody Dean, Žižek's Politics. Quarterly Journal of Speech 94.2 (2008): 226-230.
"Enjoying Theory: Žižek, Critique,
Accountability." JAC 22.3 (Summer 2002): 627-40.
Book Review: Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History
and Theory of Self-Persuasion (Jean Nienkamp). Enculturation 4.2
(2002) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/
Companion Website for Writing in an Electronic
World (Beth Kolko, Alison Regan, Susan Romano). Allyn and Bacon/Longman
(2001). [Supporting material: questions,
exercises, links, etc.] http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kolko_awl/
"Engaging Modernisms, Emerging Posthumanisms, and
the Rhetoric of Doing: A Response to John Trimbur, W. Ross Winterowd, and Susan
Searls Giroux." JAC 20.3 (Summer 2000): 672-84.
"Review: Kismet—Curious Yellow." Pre/Text Electra(Lite) 3.01 (1999)
http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT3.1/
"Review: In
Memoriam Gilles Deleuze—Deleuze Tribute CD." Enculturation: A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 1.2
(Fall 1997) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/
Works in Press:
"Being Delicious." With Collin Brooke. In Beyond Post-Process. Eds. Sid Dobrin,
Jeff A. Rice, and Michael Vastola. Utah State UP (forthcoming)
"Tarrying with the <Head>: The Emergence of
Control through Protocol." From A to
<A>: Keywords for HTML and Writing. Eds. Bradley Dilger and Jeff
Rice. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, December 2010.
Works in Progress:
Rhetorical Ambience:
Persuasion, Agency, and Environment
(book manuscript; prospectus and 50% of manuscript drafted)
Guest-Edited Journal
Issues and Online Discussion Forums:
JAC Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and Network Culture.
With David Blakesley. JAC 24.4 (2004).
Enculturation
Special Issue on Music, Writing, and Culture. 2.2 (Spring 1999) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/
Discussion leader (one of six) for Pre/Text
Re/Inter/View on Empire (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri). February 2003
http://www.pre-text.com/ptlist/reinvw.html
AWARDS
James L. Kinneavy Award, 2001, for "'Hands Up,
You're Free': Composition in a Post-Oedipal World" in JAC 21.2
(Spring 2001): 287-320
Ellen Nold Award, 2007, for best article of the year
in Computers and Composition Studies (for "The Distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, Worlding, and
New Media Culture," co-authored with Michael Salvo).
Kairos Best Webtext Award, 2007, for best webtext of
the year in the field of Rhetoric and Composition (for "...And They Had
Protools," co-authored with Michael Salvo).
Gary A. Olson Award, 2007, for best book of the year
published in rhetoric and cultural studies (Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric,
Žižek, and the Return of the Subject).
FELLOWSHIPS
Center for Humanistic Studies
(Purdue University), Spring 2008
INVITED LECTURES
"Doxa and Ambience." University of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2007
"Acts of
Enjoyment." Indiana University, April 9, 2010.
Undergraduate:
English 1301 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking I
(Expository Writing)
English 1302 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking II
(Argumentative Writing)
English 2303 Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking III
(Literary Writing)
English 2309 World Literature
English 2329 American Literature
English 1613 Expository Writing
English 1623 Introduction to Writing about Literature
English 091 Developmental Writing
English 101 Composition
English 102 Argumentative Writing
English 141 Introduction to American Literature
English 104 Fiction
English 105 Drama
English 106 Poetry
English 106 Introductory Composition (2 times)
English 406 Review Writing (2 times)
English
440 The Teaching of Writing
Graduate:
English
680C Cultural Studies and Composition (3
times)
English 680I Institutional Discourses: The Contemporary
University in Crisis (3 times)
English 680P Public Rhetorics
English 622 Classical Rhetoric
English
626 Postmodernism, Rhetoric, and
Pedagogy (6 times)
English
505 Practicum: Teaching First-Year
Composition (2 semester course; taught 3 times)
English
531 Literary Theory: Cultural Studies
Writing
596 Rhetorical Invention
Chair:
3 dissertation
committees (completed)
6
dissertation committees (in progress)
Co-chair:
2
dissertation committees
Reader:
24
dissertation committees (completed)
12
dissertation committees (in progress)
Book Series Editor: Parlor Press,
Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition (2007 – present)
Editorial Board: Enculturation (1997- present)
Editorial
Board: The Writing Instructor (2007 -
present)
Manuscript Reviewer, Pittsburg University Press
(2009); Southern Illinois University Press (2002; 2010); SUNY Press (2003);
Longman (2004); Parlor Press (2004); Norton (2005)
Essay Reviewer, Communication
and Critical/Cultural Studies (2009); Rhetoric
Society Quarterly (2009-2010)
Manual of Campus Resources for TASP Remediation, UTA
(1998)
Faculty Consultant and Reader, AP Reading in English
Language and Composition (ETS), Daytona Beach, FL (June 2002; June 2003; June
2004; June 2006)
"Rhetorics of Revealing Versus Persuasion, or How
to Dwell with Things." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May
2010. (national conference)
"Ambient Composition: Exteriorizing Donald
Murray's 'The Interior View." Conference on College Composition and Communications.
Louisville, KY. March 2010. (national conference)
"Strange Fabrics: We Are the Institution."
U. of S. Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia, SC. October 2009.
(national conference, by invitation)
"In Media Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream . .
. And Scream . . . And Scream . . . ." Media Ecology Association
Conference. St. Louis, MO. June, 2009.
"Techne
+ Logos." U. of S. Carolina
Engaging Theory Conference. Columbia, SC. October 2008.
"Rhetoric beyond
Critique: Plans for Vitalization" Conference on College Composition
and Communications. New Orleans, LA. April 2008.
"Dwelling and the Problem of Sufficiency."
Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2007.
"Ideology and Doxa:
From Matters of Critique to Matters of Production." Conference on College
Composition and Communications. New York, 2007. (Forthcoming.)
"On the Leap: Reason,
Faith, Legitimation." Rhetoric
Society of America Conference. Memphis, TN. May 2006.
"The Rhetorical Situation as Poker Match, or
Identification at Play." Conference on College Composition and
Communications. Chicago, IL. March 2006.
"Chora
and Community in the Timaeus’ Tale of
Two Cities." Conference on College Composition and Communications. San
Francisco, CA. March 2005.
"TBA." Convergences: First Annual Symposium
for Theory, Rhetoric, and Writing. North Carolina State University. November
2004.
"'Push th' Little Daisies': Some Thoughts on Marc
Bousquet, WPAs, and Power." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy
Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2004.
"Parasitical Problems: Rethinking Composition as
a Complex Adaptive System." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2004.
"Language, Music, and Affect, Or, Why Nietzsche
Chills with Marc Bolan in the Eternal Garden." Rhetoric Society of America
Conference. May 2004.
"Critical Subject to Come: Nachträglichkeit,
Emergence, and Culture." South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference
on Psychoanalysis. February 2003.
"The Costs of Accounting: Justifying Rhetoric in
the Corporate University." Western States Composition Conference. Seattle,
WA. October 2002.
"The Academy at Loose Ends:
Identity-Scholarship-Network." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2002.
"Shangri-La-Ti-Da: Teaching, Technology, and the
Corporate University." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Las Vegas,
NV. May 2002.
"An Inquiry into Power in Deleuze's Society of
Control." Western States Composition Conference. Tempe, AZ. October 2001.
"From the Communications Triangle to the Lacanian
Graph of Desire: Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Discourse." Research in
progress presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communications.
Denver, CO. March 2001.
"Disrupting The
Matrix: Movie Industry Depictions of Virtual Reality and the Telos
of Control." Computers and Writing Conference. Ft. Worth, TX. April 2000.
"Politica
Phantasmagoria: Ideology in Criticism, Pedagogy, and Politics."
Research in progress presented at the Conference on College Composition and
Communications. Atlanta, GA. March 1999.
"Transforming Notions of
Space: Mapping the Computer Classroom." Computers and Writing
Conference.
University of Florida, Gainesville. May 1998.
"The New Science of Roland Barthes." Third
Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. University of Texas at Arlington. April
1997.
"Negotiating the Implosion: Ethical Possibility
in the Postmodern Classroom." Conference on College Composition and
Communications. Phoenix, AZ. March 1997.
"The Sign of our Future Reign: Strange Days Are Here Again." Sixth
Annual EGAD Conference. East Texas State University, Commerce. July 1996.
"Reproducing in Thrall: Literacy and the Problem
of Critique." Conference on College Composition and Communications. Milwaukee, WI. March 1996.
"Reading Demonization: Problems Concerning
Convention in Les Liaisons Dangereuses."
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS). Dallas, TX. November 1995.
"Natural's Not an It: Postmodernism and
Alternative Rock." First Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium.
University of Texas at Arlington. April 1995.
"Hyperliteracy." Conference on College
Composition and Communications. Washington, D.C. March 1995.
"Revolution and Youth in Milan Kundera's Life is Elsewhere and Immortality." Graduate Conference
on Language and Literature. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. March 1994.
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
Head Search Committee (2010)
Advanced Writing Committee
(2009 - present)
Rhetoric and Composition Job
Search Committee (2007-08)
Policy Committee, Purdue
(2006-present)
Introductory Writing
Committee, Purdue (2001-present)
Grievance Committee, Purdue
(2001- 2003)
2003 Computers and Writing
Conference Planning Committee, Purdue (2002-03)
Ph.D. Preliminary Examination
Committee, Purdue (2002)
Technology Textbook Advisory
Committee, UTA (1998)
Conference
on College Composition and Communication
Modern
Language Association
National
Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric
Society of America
National
Communication Association