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Jennifer deWinter

Assistant Professor
Co-Director Professional Writing

Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 15
Phone: +1-508-831-6679
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
jdewinter@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Professional Writing
• Interactive Media and Game Development

Educational Background

• BA, Eastern Washington University, 2000
• MA, Eastern Washington University, 2002
• PhD, University of Arizona, 2008

Research & Teaching Interests

New media theory and praxis; spatial and visual rhetorics; histories and theories of rhetoric; post-colonial theory; Japanese rhetoric and culture

Recent Publications

• "Disrupting Intellectual Property: Collaboration and Resistance in Wikis," in Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, ed. Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. 109-122 (With Stephanie Vie)

•  "Press Enter to 'Say': Using Second Life to Teach Critical Media Literacy," Computers and Composition 35.3 (2008): 313-322 (With Stephanie Vie)

• "A Bibliographic Synthesis of Rhetorical Criticism," Rhetoric Review 25.4 (2006): 388-407

• "Multi-Media Narratives: The Videogame in an Emerging Mega-Literacy," Works and Days 22.43/44 (2004): 73-91

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