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Reid, Alexander

Alexander (“Alex”) Reid is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Composition Program in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. Reid’s work in digital rhetoric and new media composition is informed by nonhuman frameworks including object-oriented ontology, actor-network theory and assemblage theory. Additionally, Reid cites rhetoricians Victor Vitanza and Greg Ulmer and poststructuralists such as Gilles Deleuze and Pierre-Félix Guattari, among others, as scholars who have informed his work throughout his career. Reid maintains a weblog named Digital Digs where he writes and discusses topics related to new media, post and nonhuman issues, the state of post-secondary education and more.

Academic Career

Reid has been an assistant and associate professor in the State University of New York system since 2001. He began his tenure with [SUNY at Cortland] in 2001, where he was an Assistant Professor until 2004. From 2004-2009, Reid was an Associate Professor at Cortland. In 2009, Reid relocated to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he now teaches.

Additionally, Reid held a fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Assistant Professor position at Penn State Capital College in addition to teaching at SUNY Albany and New Mexico State University.

Reid has taught undergraduate and graduate classes that include, among other subjects, first-year composition, creative writing, literature, professional and technical writing, poetics and digital research and pedagogy.

Reid earned his Ph.D. in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism from the State University of New York at Albany in 1997 with a dissertation titled Virtual Prognosis: Writing and the State.

Scholarship

In addition to digital composition and rhetoric, Reid’s research interests new media, higher education, and composition and rhetoric pedagogies. His publications include articles that have appeared in journals such as Kairos and omputers and Writing and a book.

In 2007, Reid book The Two Virtuals: Composition and New Media was published by Parlor Press. In The Two Virtuals, Reid explores how two conceptions of the virtual—the virtual reality familiar through technology alongside a less investigated philosophy of virtuality — impact the materialities and pedagogy of composition and rhetoric in a time when computers, networks, and new media nonhuman theories are occupying spaces once populated only by traditional humanistic frameworks.

Reid has participated in over two dozen conference presentations with topics that range from new media authorship and writing assessment to applied critical theory and agency.

Professional Affiliations

Reid is a co-editor of Praxis, a part of the of the online journal Kairos.

While at SUNY Cortland, Reid was a consultant for the Seven Valleys Writing Project, a National Writing Project Site.

At SUNY Cortland, Reid also sat on the technical advisory board for Wagadu, a journal of transnational women’s and gender studies.

Awards

In 2008, Reid’s weblog Digital Digs won the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award given by Kairos.

The Two Virtuals was named a 2007 Honorable Mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory given by the online journal JAC.