Brendan Riley, Ph.D.

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Brendan Riley

Apologies for the puffery: it's what's expected of a profile page.

I am a member of the English Department faculty at Columbia College Chicago, a liberal arts school for the performing and media arts. I teach Composition, New Media, and Cultural Studies classes at Columbia. I also serve as the English Department's Technology and Pedagogy Coordinator, a position in which I help other instructors develop their use of technology in the classroom. I'm probably best known around campus for my popular J-session class, "Zombies in Popular Media," which has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and FoxNews Online.

I earned my Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2004, where I studied Film and Media Studies as well as Rhetoric and Composition. My research interests include: Rhetoric and Composition theory, particularly work in the sub-field of Computers & Writing; New Media studies; Grammatology (the study of the history of writing); and Film and Media Studies. My essay, "Warren Ellis is the Future of Superhero Comics" appeared in the edited collection The Amazing Transforming Superhero; I contributed the short essay on "The Hard-Boiled Detective" for American Icons, a collection of essays about 100 key figures in American culture. My work has also appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Kairos and Computers and Composition Online, among others. I am a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Popular Culture and I serve (or have served) on the Executive Boards for both the Midwest and National Popular Culture Associations.

I also have pretty broad experience with web design and programming web applications.

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Contact me:

Email is the fastest, best way to reach me.
By email: briley [at] colum.edu (for issues regarding Columbia or my research)
or email: briley [at] curragh-labs.org (for other communications)
or phone: 312.369.8817
or mail: Brendan Riley, Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60605

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