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Alex Reid is a Professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences. For more than 20 years, he has studied digital rhetoric and emerging media, employing posthuman and new materialist approaches. His research specializations include media theory, digital rhetoric, posthumanism, social media, media infrastructure, game studies, professional-technical communication, and digital pedagogy. Reid earned his Ph.D. in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism from the State University of New York at Albany in 1997, with a dissertation titled Virtual Prognosis: Writing and the State. He also holds an M.A. in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing-Poetry, from New Mexico State University in 1994, and a B.A. in English and History from Rutgers University in 1991.

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.