Rate My Professor Alex Reid

Reid's career includes positions at several institutions. He joined the University at Buffalo in 2009 as an Associate Professor in the English Department and was later promoted to Professor in the Department of Media Study. Prior roles encompass Associate Professor of English and Professional Writing at SUNY Cortland (2004-2009), Assistant Professor there (2001-2004), Assistant Professor of Humanities and Writing at Penn State Capital College (1999-2001), and Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1997-1999). He is the author of key books such as The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition (Parlor Press, 2007), which received an Honorable Mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory in 2008, and Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities. Additionally, he co-edited Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing (WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2010). Notable publications include “Portable Composition: iTunes University and Networked Pedagogies” in Computers and Composition (2008), “Miscellanea U: Post-disciplinary Networks in Social Media” in On the Horizon (2009), and “Tuning In: Infusing Media Networks into Professional Writing Curriculum” in Kairos (2008). Reid received the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award for Digital Digs in 2008 and was named an Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador in 2020. His work has influenced discussions in digital humanities, composition studies, and media theory.