Jesse Rice-Evans | she/her/hers
2021 Recipient of the Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities through NYFA
Education:
Ph.D. in English | Composition & Rhetoric, CUNY Graduate Center, expected 2022 | GPA: 4.0
Disability Studies, Neuroqueer Rhetorics, Access Pedagogy, and Instructional Design | Dissertation: Femme Rhetorics: Intersections of Embodied, Digital, and Disabled Languaging | Committee: Eric Lott, Carmen Kynard, Amy Wan | Courses: #BlackGirlMagic: @ the Intersections of Literacies, Publics, Pedagogies, and Black Feminisms; Intersectionality and Activist Research in the Movement for Black Lives; Writing With Attitude: Critical Experimental Writing; Digital Humanities; Rhetoric and the Culture Wars; Independent Study: Embodiment and Disability Studies; Independent Study: Academic Publishing
M.A. in Language & Literacy, City College of New York, 2017 | GPA: 4.0
Summa Cum Laude | Focus: Genre Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Center Pedagogy | President, Institute for the Emergence of 21st-Century Literacies, 2016-2017 | Courses: Composition Pedagogies, The Teaching of Composition and Literature, How the Eye Writes: Living in a Visual World, Basic Writing Theory & Practice, Race & Gender Theory in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom
Administrative and Pedagogy Experience:
Web Development and Documentation Fellow, CUNY Humanities Alliance, August 2019 – present
Provide ongoing technical support for graduate teaching fellows and students at LaGuardia Community College, including digital pedagogy development, WordPress troubleshooting and network management, and sharing best practices for accessibility, navigability, and flexibility teaching online; developing new site architecture for revamped Humanities Alliance site layout, including curating standout content from previous courses, developing intuitive and simple menus, and centering web accessibility on the CUNY Academic Commons.
Access Consultant, August 2018 – present
Co-Chair of English Student Association 2020 Conference Disability is Not A Metaphor: Access and Accessibility | Doctoral Student Association Accessibility Ad Hoc Committee 2020 – present | consulted on many CUNY projects, and other educational and cultural events in New York City, focusing on broad-scale access protocols for in-person and distance events during COVID-19 in particular
Digital Pedagogy Fellow, OpenLab at City Tech, May 2018 – present
Workshop and Pedagogy Coordinator: Open Digital Pedagogy in Gateway Courses; Creating Your Course Site; Working With Your Students; Supporting Student Success; Getting Started on the OpenLab; Designing and Assessing Student Work on the OpenLab; Grow Your Club on the OpenLab; Provide in-person and asynchronous support to faculty, staff, and student members on WordPress, BuddyPress, course architecture, accessibility, and others; develop, submit, and present at local and regional conferences. Collaborate on instructional design and materials for college-wide adoption of distance learning during COVID-19; create multimedia support, including screencasts, audio instructions, and interactive workshop materials focused on curriculum design for distance learning and digital pedagogy.
Project Manager: Health & Illness Administrator, January 2016 – present
Coordinate travel to 2-5 weekly medical appts while enrolled full-time in MA and PhD programs and working multiple roles (FTE); consult 9+ medical departments and facilitate communication (medical records, updating medications, symptoms) between them; balance 200+ insurance bills with hospital fees to find true cost to patient; file insurance appeals and advocate for coverage of durable medical equipment, medication, and treatments with insurers; proven excellent time management skills; effective facilitation amongst disparate stakeholders; forensic data collection and analysis skills; researched and developed at-home physical therapy regimen for immuno-compromised patients; provide coordinated support for appointment and testing scheduling using Doxy.me, Outlook, Google Calendar, and other meeting-specific software; detailed note taking during appointments for liaising with other medical offices and practitioners; thorough knowledge of and compliance with HIPAA; maintain updated and detailed personal medical records for patient files; research symptom management, new treatments, and appropriate diagnostic and clinical models using medical databases and journals.
Graduate Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, City College of New York, August 2016 – June 2019
Recipient of 2017 Feder Pedagogical Enrichment Grant | ENGL 110: First-Year Writing | Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar (FIQWS) 110: First-Year Writing | ENGL 210.07: Writing for Engineers | FIQWS 110: Self and Other in Literature | FIQWS 110: That’s So Gay!: An Introduction to Queer Texts in the US
Editorial Intern, Review of Disability Studies, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, May 2018 – August 2018
Develop and expand the journal’s creative and multimedia texts section, solicit texts from emerging writers in disability studies, collaborate with authors on long-term editing projects, participate in assigning and reviewing peer review documents and protocols, and attend editorial board meetings.
Writing Consultant, Seattle Central College, January 2014-December 2014
Worked one-on-one with SCC students in the tutoring center on reading comprehension, academic and professional writing, job and application materials; developed tutoring materials focused on first-year composition, lab reports for STEM majors, and creative writing assignments. Worked with SCC faculty and tutoring center administration on developing pedagogical training for writing consultants and tutors in math, sciences, engineering, and writing studies.
Senior Writing Consultant, UNC Asheville Writing Center, January 2011-December 2013
Developed trainings on direct communication, LGBTQ+ competence, and rhetoric studies for writing consultants. Mentored and provided one-on-one professional development sessions with peer writing consultants; performed classroom visits to discuss writing in specific disciplines, academic writing, research projects, and creative writing.
Lecturer, UNC Asheville English Department, January-May 2012
Developed, proposed, and taught LANG 325: Creative Biographies under guidance from Dr. David Hopes
Select Research, Residencies, and Presentations:
How do we make interdependence work?: On Crip Time and Slowness
Society for Disability Studies Conference, with Andréa Stella, April 2021
Developing an Access Statement & Disrupting Deficit Narratives on Disability and Chronic Illness
CUNY Graduate Center Teaching and Learning Center Winter Institute, January 2021, Co-Facilitated by Jesse Rice-Evans & Sakina Laksimi
Open Pedagogy in the Classroom: Theory and Praxis
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and Open Educational Resources Showcase, October 2020
Access, OER, and Open Pedagogy: City Tech’s OpenLab
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and Open Educational Resources Showcase, October 2020
Host & Conference Co-Chair
Access is Not a Metaphor | English Student Association, 2020 – canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Counselor
Camp Access | Upgrade Accessibility, 2020
Workshop Faculty
Poets House | Queer Poetics, summer 2020
Teaching the Femme Archive
Society for Disability Studies Conference, with Andréa Stella, April 4, 2020 – rescheduled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Performer
Geographies of Gender | belladonna* collaborative reading, First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum, March 7, 2020
Open Pedagogy in the Classroom: Theory and Praxis
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and OER Showcase, with City Tech OER Faculty Fellowship program, March 20, 2020 – rescheduled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Bridging Digital Gaps: Access on City Tech’s OpenLab, CUNY IT Conference, with OpenLab Community Team, December 5, 2019
Access Pedagogy, HASTAC Digital Fridays webinar, December 13, 2019
The OpenLab at City Tech: Community, Collaboration, and Access
CUNY DHI Lightning Talks, October 30, 2019
Current and Future Digital Projects at the CUNY Humanities Alliance
CUNY DHI Lightning Talks, October 30, 2019
HASTAC Scholar, 2019 – 2021
A Commons for Open Learning: Voices from New York City College of Technology’s OpenLab
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) Conference, with OpenLab Co-Directors and stakeholders
New York City College of Technology, 2019
Get Us Bodied: Experiments in Hybridity as Access in Crip/Queer/Crazy Bodies at the City College of New York
Computers and Writing Conference, with Andréa Stella, 2019
Performing Intersectionality in First Year Composition: Queer Theory, Feminism, and Embodiments
Conference on College Composition & Communication, with Andréa Stella, 2019
Towards a Liberatory Pedagogy: Activism and Trans Competency in the Writing Center
Northeastern Writing Center Association Conference, with Zefyr Lisowski, 2018
Between IRL and Digital Spaces: CUNY’s CompComm Faculty Playfully Collaborating
Computers and Writing Conference, Symposium on CUNY Graduate Students’ Pedagogical Strategies, 2018
Equity, Health, & Learning: Social Determinants of Academic Success
The Futures Initiative: A University Worth Fighting For, panelist, 2018
Opening the OpenLab at City Tech: Meeting CUNY’s Challenges
CUNY IT Conference, with OpenLab Community Team, 2018
Community & Academic Service:
Resources Editor, Anti-Ableist Composition Collective, 2021-present
Co-Chair, ESA Conference, 2019-2020
Committee Member, GC Access Now!, 2018-present
Co-Chair, Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community, 2019-present
Co-Chair, Graduate Center Poetics, 2019-present
Doctoral Student Mentor, CUNY Graduate Center English Department, 2018-2020
President, Institute for the Emergence of 21st-Century Literacies, City College of New York, 2015-2017
Digital Projects:
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