Jesse Priest, PhD

Assistant Professor

CLASS - Writing & Literature

jesse.priest@nmt.edu
207 - 557 - 6060
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Jesse Priest helps direct the New Mexico Tech Writing Center and teaches courses in college writing and technical communication. His research interests focus on Writing Center Studies, as well as the relationship between academic knowledge and public engagement, particularly with regard to how scientists talk to people outside of their disciplines. He is also interested in writing assessment and composition pedagogy.

Research Areas

Degrees

PhD, English Composition and Rhetoric, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016.
Dissertation: "Sustainable Public Intellectualism: The Rhetorics of Student Scientist-Activists."

MA English Composition and Rhetoric, University of Massachusetts Boston.

BA English and History, University of Maine Orono.

Courses taught

Publications

"Sustainability Across the Curriculum: The Rhetorics of the Student Scientist-Activist." Writing Across the Curriculum and Essential Learning Outcomes, forthcoming.

“The Absent Professor: Rethinking Collaboration in Tutorial Sessions.” The Journal of Human Architecture 8.1, 2010.

Selected Conference Presentations

"Ecological Counter/Publics: Risks and Rewards of Discussing Publics in Terms of Ecologies." The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL., 2015.

“The Academy and its Publics: Cultural Capital and the Literacy Crisis.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN., 2014.