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Richard Parent

Richard Parent, Assistant Professor

  • B.A. University of North Texas
  • M.A. Mills College
  • Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Area of expertise

Digital literacy, culture and rhetoric; composition and multimodal composition; contemporary narrative; media theory; hermeneutics; video game studies. [C.V.]

Contact Information
Email: Richard Parent

Office: 429 Old Mill

Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 10:00-12:30 and by appointment.

Phone: (802) 656-8997

Website: Richard Parent

Dr. Richard Parent received his B.A. from the University of North Texas, and his M.A. from Mills College. He came to the University of Vermont in 2005, and researches and teaches classes relating to digital literacy. He investigates the ways computers and digital technologies have influenced the ways we read and write, the types of works we read and write, and the cognitive impact digital technologies have on our abilities and interests in reading and writing. His courses at UVM have given students the opportunity to explore new modes and technologies of writing, to use digital technologies to tell new stories in new ways, to understand the ways digital culture has changes our offline lives, to apply ancient and modern writings on rhetoric to the seemingly disembodied spaces of cyberspace, to research the unique literacy opportunities and requirements of illustrated novels, and to question what is the future of text and literariness using hermeneutical theories of interpretation. He is currently completing a book on using the playful aspects of literacy to improve our pedagogies of composition and interpretation in digital and traditional print media. He also maintains a weblog, Digital Digressions, an online repository for investigations into and reflections on digital culture, popular culture, visual and prose rhetorics, and other items significant to 21st century life.

Web sites for the courses he teaches at UVM can be found here:

  • Digital Composing (Fall 2005, 2009)
  • Hyper Hermeneutics: Understanding Narrative in the Digital Age (Fall 2005)
  • Writing Bodies: Rhetorics of the Flesh (Spring 2006, Fall 2009)
  • Expository Writing (online) (Summer 2006)
  • TAP: Literature in a Wired World (Fall 2006, 2008)
  • The Illustrated Novel (Fall 2006, Spring 2009)
  • Lives Online: CyberCulture Studies (Spring 2007)
  • Introduction to Children's Literature (Summer 2007)
  • Composing Digital Narratives (Fall 2007)
  • Practicum in Teaching Writing (Fall 2007, 2008)
  • Literacy in the 21st Century (Spring 2009)
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