Robison

Last name: Robison
Position: Assistant Professor of English
Website: http://alicerobison.org/about
Brief Bio: I'm an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. I study digital literacies, especially with regard to social media and videogames. In addition to graduate courses on social media and videogames, I teach an undergraduate first-year writing course. I am currently at work on a book-length work titled "The Digital Literacies of Backchannels."
Full Bio: I’m an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where I am a member of the Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics Program. I teach first-year writing courses and graduate courses on videogames and social media.
Before I came to ASU I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, where I worked with Henry Jenkins on the New Media Literacies Project. I did my PhD in English (Rhetoric and Composition Studies) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was a founding member of the Games+Learning+Society program in the School of Education. It was directed by James Paul Gee and Kurt Squire, with whom I worked to develop some of the early research on videogames and literacy learning.
My work has shifted a bit from videogames to social media more broadly. I consider myself a digital literacies researcher, especially with regard to how people use language in social media spaces, both online and off.

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