Jason Thompson
Assistant Professor
New Media, Game Studies, Classical Rhetoric, Rhetorcial Poetics, Kenneth Burke

BA Pacific Lutheran University 1996; MFA University of Arizona 2000; PhD University of Arizona 2008
jthomp32@uwyo.edu • 307-766-6459 • Hoyt Hall 423

Office Hours: T 1:30-3:30

 Jason Thompson's research interests include New Media/Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Classical Rhetoric, and Kenneth Burke. He is an active member of the Learning Games Initiative, an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research collective invested in video game research and collaboration; and he is the founder and director of the UW Game Lab, a research facility for the study, teaching, and building of video games. In collaboration with the Game Lab technician Aaron Galloway- Perrell, Thompson launched the Games Studies Network, a blog-hosting social networking and research tool for like-minded academics and others interested in the growing field of Game Studies.

Publications:

Articles

Thompson, Jason, Theresa Enos, Stuart Brown, and David Reamer. "Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition" Rhetoric Review 27.4 (Fall 2008): 331-40.

Book Reviews

Thompson, Jason.  "The Birth of Burke's Dramatism: Review of M. Elizabeth Weiser's Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism." JAC: The Journal of Advanced Composition. Forthcoming (2009).

Refereed Chapters in Books

Thompson, Jason, and Theresa Enos. "The Rhetoric of Obfuscation and Technologies of Hidden Writing: Poets and Palimpsests, Painters and Purposes." Before the eRevolution:  Technology, Teaching, and the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Shane Borrowman. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. Forthcoming.

Thompson, Jason. "Obama, Oprah, and Yo' Momma: Jason's Notes on Rhetorical Analysis," in A Student's Guide to 1st Year Composition 26th Edition. Ed.  Meg Smith, Jim Bowman, and Jennifer deWinter. Boston: Pearson, 2005. 208-213.

Refereed Journal Articles

Thompson, Jason. "Invention Along Sophistic, Philosophic, and Christian Lines: Implications of Gorgias, Aristotle, and Augustine for Current Composition Instruction." Louisiana English Journal 12 (2009): 45-51.

Thompson, Jason, Ken McAllister, and Judd Ruggill. "Onward Through the Fog: Computer Game Collection and the Play of Obsolescence." M/C Journal12.3 (Jul. 2009). 19 Jul. 2009

Thompson, Jason, Theresa Enos, Stuart Brown, and David Reamer. "Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition" Rhetoric Review 27.4 (Fall 2008): 331-40.

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OTHER LINKS:

• Daedalus: The Interactive Media Lab @UW
• Digital Humanities Initiative