Patrick Berry's Blog

Patrick W. Berry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a 2009-2010 HASTAC scholar and has been an editor for Computers and Composition Digital Press and a member of the Youth Community Informatics initiative at the University of Illinois. He has taught courses in first-year composition, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, most recently in the context of a medium-high security prison. Originally from New York City, he completed an MA in literature at Brooklyn College while working in magazine publishing before turning to his chosen field of Writing Studies. His published work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (2007) and, more recently, in the coauthored chapters of Ubiquitous Learning (2009) and Technological Ecologies & Sustainability (2009).