Jacob Richter

Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing

Ames Hall 2100 Foxhall Road, NW, Office 232 Washington DC 20052

Dr. Jacob D. Richter (he-him) is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. His research on composition pedagogy, technical communication, digital rhetoric, and social media’s utility for education has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Computers & Composition, Composition Forum, Convergence, Prompt, and Xchanges. He teaches courses related to First Year Composition, technical communication, social advocacy, and social media. Jacob is a content creator for the More Than Memos YouTube channel and has served as Clemson University’s Assistant Director of First Year Composition. He is a graduate of the transdisciplinary Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) PhD program at Clemson University, where he defended his dissertation “Inventing Network Composition: Mobilizing Rhetorical Invention and Social Media for Digital Pedagogy.” He has presented his work at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing conference, the Rhetoric Society of America conference, Computers & Writing, the Northeast Modern Language Association conference, and at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Jacob's current research projects examine digital civil disobedience on social media and how instructors of technical communication can teach students about democracy, election knowledge communication, and social advocacy.

Courses Taught

UW 1020: "Writing Democracy: Professional Writing's Utility for Democracy and Social Justice”

Publications

Richter, Jacob D. (2023). “Network-Emergent Rhetorical Invention.” Computers & Composition, Vol. 67 (1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102758 (Link).

Richter, Jacob D. (2022). “Participatory Counternarratives: Geocomposition, Public Memory, and the Sounding of Hybrid Space/Place.” College Composition and Communication (CCC), 74 (1), 113-135. (Link).

Richter, Jacob D. (2021). “Writing with Reddiquette: Networked Agonism and Structured Deliberation in Networked Communities.” Computers & Composition, Vol. 59, No. 1, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2021.102627 (Link).

Frith, Jordan & Richter, Jacob (2021). “Building Participatory Counternarratives: Pedagogical Interventions in Digital Placemaking.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (3), pp. 696-710. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856521991956 (Link).

Richter, Jacob D. (2021). “Cameraphone Composition: Documentary Filmmaking as Civic-Rhetorical Action in First Year Composition.” Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum, 16 (1). https://xchanges.org/media/blogs/home/16_1/richter_cameraphone_16-1.pdf (Link).

Richter, Jacob D. (2020). “The Infosphere Probe: An Annotated Bibliography for a Post-Truth Age.” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 4 (2), pp. 23-36. https://thepromptjournal.com/index.php/prompt/article/view/79/169 (Link).

Richter, Jacob D. (2020). “Inventing Networked Electracies.” Textshop Experiments, 7 (1). http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop07/inventing-networked-electracies.

Richter, Jacob D. & Taylor, Hannah. (Forthcoming 2023). “Embracing Hybrid Infrastructures.” In S. Appleford, Hankins, G., and Lang, A. (Eds.), The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. Anticipated Fall 2023.

Eatman, Megan, Richardson, Sarah, Richter, Jacob D., and Taylor, Hannah. (Forthcoming). “Reconsidering Expertise: Possibilities for Distributed Expertise and Horizontal Mentoring in Writing Pedagogy Education.” In shepherd, Singletary, Macklin, Morse, and Estrem (Eds.), (Un)Commonplaces in Graduate Teaching Assistantship Training and Experiences. Forthcoming.

Taylor, H, Swartz, H., Richter, J., & McDermott, M. “Re-Thinking the RhetComp PhD: An Interdisciplinary and Rhetoric-Centered Approach to Graduate Studies at Clemson University.” Composition Forum, Fall 2022 issue. https://compositionforum.com/issue/50/clemson.php

Liddle, Daniel, Kim, YoonJi, Kalodner-Martin, Elena, Braegger, Victoria, Durazzi, Allison, and Richter, Jacob D. (2022). “Channeling Experience: Reflections on Developing a Technical Communication YouTube Channel.” SIGDOC Conference Proceedings, Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558984 (Link).