JULIE ROSE PLATTDepartment of Rhetoric and WritingMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824Email: plattju1@msu.eduTwitter: @aristotlejulepWebsite: http://aristotlejulep.com

EDUCATION Ph.D. Rhetoric and Writing, Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing (Expected August 2013)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan M.F.A. Creative Writing, Poetry Emphasis, August 2007

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio M.A. English, Creative Writing Emphasis, June 2005

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio B.A. English, May 2002

Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania Magna Cum Laude

POETRY COLLECTIONS In the Kingdom of My Familiar. Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013. Imitation Animals. Gold Wake Press, 2009.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS “For My Parents, Who Imitate Animals and Accuse Each Other of Crimes” and “Proof of Life.” Barn

Owl Review 5 (Spring 2012). “Teaching With Technology: Remediating the Teaching Philosophy Statement.” With Dànielle

Nicole DeVoss, Phillip Michael Alexander, Karissa Chabot, Matthew Cox, Staci Perryman-Clark, Barb Gerber, Donnie Johnson Sackey, and Mary Wendt. Computers and Composition 29.1 (March 2012).

“Kingdom of Cream” and “Love Poem.” Weave Magazine 7 (Winter 2012). “For My Parents, Who Dismiss Common Superstitions About Birth Order.” Birdfeast Magazine 1

(Winter 2012). “Image Manipulation and Ethics in a Digital-Visual World.” With Dànielle Nicole DeVoss.

Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2011). “When I Played Indian: An Unfinished Intervention.” Moon City Review 2010 (Fall 2010). “Karner Blue Butterfly Hunt,” and “Great White.” Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2010 (Summer

2010). “Review of Chris Funkhouser’s Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995.

Kairos 14.1 (Fall 2009). “Review of Jan Beatty’s Red Sugar.” Mid-American Review 29.1 (Fall 2008). “Les Yeux Sans Visage.” Hayden’s Ferry Review (Spring 2008). “Epistemology.” Quarter After Eight Vol. 14. (Spring 2008). “If We Were Wheels, I Would Believe in God.” The Laurel Review 42.1. (Spring 2008).

“The Memory Auctioneer’s Last Call.” Barn Owl Review 1 (Spring 2008). “Review of Karin Gottshall’s Crocus.” Mid-American Review 28.1 (Fall 2007). “Carnegie Bridge.” Harpur Palate (Spring 2007). “The Finwife is Dismissed” and “Eulalia of Meridia.” RHINO (2007). “To Take the Curse Off of the Fields.” Bellingham Review (Spring 2007). “Developing the Presence of a Reader in the Work of Novice Writers.” Best of the AWP Pedagogy

Papers 2007. <http://awpwriter.org/conference/exemplarypapers_07.pdf> “Precession Lesson” and “Pod.” Santa Clara Review (Winter 2006/2007). “Robinet’s Lover Meditates on a Piece of Cryolite.” The Cream City Review 30.2 (Fall 2006). “Review of Jay Hopler’s Green Squall.” Mid-American Review 26.2 (Spring 2006). “Hurricane Scale” and “The Beautiful Cookbook.” Reed 59 (2006). “The Tale of the First Bread” and “Snake Shed.” New Delta Review 23.1 (Winter 2005).

OPEN-SOURCE PUBLICATIONS

“Pets in Grad School.” GradHacker (April 15, 2012)<http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/pets-grad-school>

“The Perils of Perfectionism.” GradHacker (February 26, 2012). <http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/perils-perfectionism>

“Academic Book Club.” GradHacker (February 12, 2012)<http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/academic-book-club>

“(Even More) Distraction-Free Writing Tools.” GradHacker (January 24, 2012).<http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/even-more-distraction-free-writing-tools>

“The Daily Dozens: A Writing Exercise.” GradHacker (January 9, 2012). <http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/daily-dozens-writing-exercise>

“On Publication: Tips From a Poet.” GradHacker (July 20, 2011). <http://www.gradhacker.org/2011/07/20/on-publication-tips-from-a-poet/>

“Keeping a Teaching Journal.” GradHacker (June 15, 2011). <http://www.gradhacker.org/2011/06/15/keeping-a-teaching-journal/>

PRESESENTATIONS, READINGS, & LECTURES “Creating a CMS that Works: Online Classes with WordPress and Other Web Technologies.” With

Phillip Michael Alexander. Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2011. “Critical Digital-Visual Analysis.” With Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. Computers and Writing Conference,

Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2011. “The Dream of a Common Silence: Poetry Beyond Print Culture.” Conference on College

Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2011. Invited poetry performance, Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, East Lansing, Michigan,

October 2009. “When I Played Indian: A Rhetorical Intervention.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, East

Lansing, Michigan, October 2009. Invited poetry performance, Hungry Young Poets Series, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2009. “Remediate This: Making the Ubiquitous Transparent in Poetics and Play.” Panel with Phillip

Michael Alexander and Lee Sherlock. Computers and Writing Conference, Davis, California, June 2009 (accepted).

“Challenging the Boundaries of First-Year Composition: Reflections and Strategies for Invention, Arrangement, and Revision.” Panel with Steven Lessner, Lee Sherlock, and Katie Wittenauer. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, California, March 2009.

“Open-sourcing Ourselves: Remixing and Remediating the Teaching Philosophy Statement.” Panel with Phillip Michael Alexander, Matthew Cox, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Staci Perryman-Clark, and Donnie Johnson Sackey, and Mary Wendt. Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2008.

“Open-sourcing Ourselves: Remixing and Remediating the Teaching Philosophy Statement.” Panel with Phillip Michael Alexander, Matthew Cox, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Staci Perryman-Clark, and Donnie Johnson Sackey. Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, Georgia, May 2008.

“You, Too, Are Opensource: Digital Identity in the Composition Classroom, from Theory to Practice.” Panel with Phillip Michael Alexander and Matthew Cox. Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, Georgia, May 2008.

“Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project.” Panel with Jen Almjeld, Kristine Blair, Erin Dietel-McLaughlin, and Meredith Graupner. Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.

“The Girl in the Mirror.” Panel with Jen Almjeld, Kristine Blair, Erin Dietel-McLaughlin, and Meredith Graupner. Battleground States Graduate Student Conference, Bowling Green, Ohio, February 2008.

“Bring Out Your Dead: Reviving Dead Free-Verse Poems With Form” seminar taught at the Mid-American Review Winter Wheat writing workshops, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 2007.

“Developing the Presence of a Reader in the Work of Novice Writers.” Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2007.

Reading of Creative Work, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 2006. “Take My Poem—Please! Exploring Humorous Disruption in Contemporary Poetry Performance.”

Humor and English Studies Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, October 2006. “Bring Out Your Dead: Reviving Dead Free-Verse Poems With Form” seminar taught at the Mid-

American Review Spring Harvest writing workshops, Bowling Green, Ohio, March 2006. Reading of Creative Work, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, March 2006. Featured reader and lecturer at Teen Poetry Night, Wood County Library, Bowling Green, Ohio,

February 2006. “Writing Crossing Writing: How Rhet/Comp and Creative Writing Intersect, and How to Make

them Work in Your Classroom. With Erika Lundbom and Gary McDowell. Seminar taught at the Mid-American Review Winter Wheat writing workshops, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 2005.

“Art-house Othello/Cineplex Othello/Grindhouse Othello: The Permeability of Film Genres in Oliver Parker’s Othello, Tim Blake Nelson’s O, and Jack Hill’s Switchblade Sisters.” Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2005.

“Scavenger Pedagogy: How Stealing from the Copy Room Empowered My Teaching.” Humor and English Studies Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, November 2004.

Featured Reader, Hemmingway’s Poetry Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2003. Reading of Creative Work, Marilyn Bates Book Release Party, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January

2003.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University, August 2007-July 2012. Taught one to two first-year writing courses per semester (spring and fall). Courses have included WRA 110—Writing: Science and Technology, WRA 150—Writing: The Evolution of American Thought, as well as WRA 1004 – Introduction to College Writing. Courses included online and hybrid sections, and courses taught entirely in computer labs and in a computer lab/standard classroom split. More information and course specifics (syllabi, examples) available upon request.

Writing Instructor, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (Carlisle Site), 2004-2007. Taught one to two courses per summer. Course was an intensive three-week college-level class in

creative nonfiction/personal essay writing to academically gifted 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students. Supervised and worked closely with a teaching assistant in instructing students. Course specifics available upon request.

Teaching Associate, Bowling Green State University, 2005-2007. Taught one writing course per semester (spring and fall). Courses included the first-year writing courses English 111: Introduction to Writing and English 112: Varieties of Writing, and a creative writing and literature course, English 205: Craft of Poetry. Course specifics available upon request.

Teaching Associate, Ohio University, 2003-2005. Taught one writing course per quarter (fall, winter, spring). Courses included the first-year writing courses English 151: Writing and Rhetoric and English 152: Reading and Writing, and an advanced composition course, English 306J: Women in Writing. Course specifics available upon request.

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS Research Fellow, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH), Michigan State

University, August 2012–present. Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Applied Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Arts and

Humanities (CAITLAH), Michigan State University, August 2011 – present. Graduate Research Assistant, Poetry in Elementary Education Project, Michigan State

University, Spring 2009 – Summer 2010. • Project Consultant, Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Michigan State

University, 2007-2008. • Assistant to the Director, Creative Writing Program, Bowling Green State University, 2006-

2007. • Graduate Assistant, Creative Writing Special Programs, Ohio University, 2004-2005.

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS Creative Editor, Technoculture (tcjournal.org), October 2011-present. Assistant Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Editor, Mid-American Review, 2005-2007. Submissions Reader, Hotel Amerika, 2004-2005. Submissions Reader, Quarter After Eight, 2003-2005.

ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY SERVICE • Proposal Reviewer, Computers and Writing Conference, Winter 2011. • Instructional Assistant, Web Design Workshop, Lansing Community Media Center, Spring

2010. • Member, Planning Committee, Feminisms and Rhetorics 2009 Conference, Michigan State

University.

• Staff, Digital Mirror Camp, Bowling Green State University, 2007. • Member, Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice Research Cluster at the Institute for the Study of

Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, 2006-2007. • Member, BFA Curriculum Development Committee, Bowling Green State University, 2006-

2007. • Senator, Graduate Student Senate, Bowling Green State University, 2006-2007. • Secretary, Graduate Writer’s Club, Bowling Green State University 2006-2007. • Logistics Chair, Winter Wheat Writing Festival Planning Committee, Bowling Green State

University, 2005.

AWARDS • Summer Academic Fellowship, Michigan State University, $3100.• Named “Learning Leader” by Michigan State University Department of Residence Life in 2009

and 2010. Emerging Artist Award, Moon City Press, $50. Devine Poetry Fellowship, Bowling Green State University, $2500.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS • Member, Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) • Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) • Fellow, Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

REFERENCES Available upon request.