Richard E. Parent Assistant Professor of English 435 Old Mill University of Vermont Burlington, VT  05405 802.656.3312 REParent@uvm.edu Fall 2007 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 9-10:30am

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EDUCATION: B.A., University of North Texas; M.A., Mills College; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

CV: For a copy of my curriculum vita in PDF, please click here

COURSES I TEACH AT UVM:

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

RESEARCH FIELDS: Digital literacy; hermeneutics; rhetoric; media theory; composition; dystopian narrative; popular culture and countercultural studies; children's and young adult literature; postmodernism

CURRENT RESEARCH: I am currently revising a book on the affective power of digital media and its influence on the composition and interpretation of digital works