Patrick W. Berry is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. His research includes the award-winning born-digital Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times (2012, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, Utah State University Press/Computers and Composition Digital Press) and the award-winning Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison (2018, Southern Illinois University Press). His current project is a born-digital monograph that offers a much-needed analysis of the supports available to those impacted by the criminal legal system and the potential role that literacy and the humanities can play in helping this population rebuild their lives.

He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level includes courses in composition, rhetoric and ethics, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, including a medium-high security prison. He is currently director of Project Mend, an initiative that focuses on writing and publishing as a means by which formerly incarcerated individuals and their families can reimagine themselves, their communities, and their future.

Patrick is also director of the Digital Humanities IlM at Syracuse University.

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.

Literacy Studies, Computers and Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing, Rhetoric and Ethics, Histories of Rhetoric and Composition, Higher Education in Prison, Transnational Literacies, Qualitative Research Methods

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Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

“CCDP as a Case Study for Digital Publishing Efforts,” with Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, Tim Lockridge, and Melanie Yergeau. Sweetland Digital Writing Collective. Invited, 2016.

http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2016/11/21/ccdp-as-a-case-study-for-digitalpublishing-efforts.

Provocations: Reconstructing the Archive featuring Jody Shipka, Alexandra Hidalgo, Erin R. Anderson, and Trisha N. Campbell. Ed. Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2016.

“(Re)voicing Teaching and Learning in Paseo Boricua,” with Alexandra Cavallaro, Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. Youth Community Inquiry: New Media for Community and Personal Growth. Ed. Bertram C. Bruce, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Nama R. Budhathoki. New York: Peter Lang, 2014. 95-105.

“Sustaining Narratives of Hope: Literacy, Multimodality, and the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School,” with Alexandra Cavallaro, Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. English Education 46.4 (2014): 279-99.

“Doing Time with Literacy Narratives.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 14.1 (2014): 137-60.

“Transnational Literate Lives: An Emerging Research Methodology for a Globalized World,” with Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, Shafinaz Ahmed, Vanessa Rouillon, Gorjana Kisa, and Mirza Nurdic. Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. Ed. Katrina Powell and Pamela Takayoshi. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 385-408.

Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2012.

“Moving Images of Literacy in a Transnational World,” with Gail E. Hawisher, Hannah Kyung Lee, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Synne Skjulstad. Computers and Composition Online. Fall 2010.

“Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: Balancing Tradition and Change,” with Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher. Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Ed. Dànielle N. DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee, and Richard Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2009.

“Ubiquitous Writing and Learning: Digital Media as Tools for Reflection and Research on Literate Activity,” with Gail E. Hawisher, Paul Prior, Amber Buck, Steven E. Gump, Cory Holding, Hannah Lee, Christa Olson, and Janine Solberg. Ubiquitous Learning. Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 254-64.

“Critical Remediation: Locating Eliza.” Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11 (2007): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/index.html.

“Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity,” with Paul Prior, Janine Solberg, Hannah Bellwoar, Bill Chewning, Karen Lunsford, Liz Rohan, Kevin Roozen, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, Jody Shipka, Derek Van Ittersum, and Joyce Walker. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11 (2007): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/index.html.

Outstanding Book in Community Writing, Coalition of Community Writing, 2019, for Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison. Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

CCCC Research Impact Award 2013 for Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2012.

CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award 2013 for Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2012.

Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award 2008 Award for Kairos publication “Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity: A Collaborative Webtext,” 2007

Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. Graduate School. Syracuse University, 2022.

Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University, 2016 This award, sponsored by the Syracuse University Meredith Professors,

Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Graduate Circle Faculty Mentorship Award Syracuse University, Spring 2014