Jay Johnson
jaypjohnson [at] gmail [dot] com
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, August 2018
PhD, English with an emphasis is Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies
Dissertation Title: “Issues with Reality: Defining and Exploring the Logics of
Alternate Reality Games”
Committee: Stuart Moulthrop (chair), Anne Frances Wysocki, Lane Hall, Thomas
Malaby, Anastasia Salter
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, May 2008
MA, English-Creative Writing
Focus on digital, multimodal, and experimental fiction
University of Wisconsin—Madison, December 2004
BS, English
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Communication Fall 2010 – Present
Gateway Technical College, Kenosha, WI
- Designed, wrote Wisconsin Technical College System state curriculum, and taught Games & Culture course, 2013.
- Taught and designed course sequence for:
- first- and second-semester First Year Composition courses (English Composition 1, English Composition 2);
- introductory technical communication course (Technical Reporting);
- digital rhetoric and communication course (Writing for Digital Media);
- developmental writing course (Intro to College Writing).
- Taught “Digital Life”-themed composition & rhetoric course, 2014 – Present.
- Designed and taught a special section of English Composition 1 as a sustainability-themed alternate reality game, Fall 2013.
- Created program expectations for English Composition 1, 2013.
- Piloted first themed composition section, 2013.
- Online teaching certification:
- Creating an Effective Online Learning Environment, Spring 2011;
- Assessing for Performance Online, Fall 2012.
- Departmental digital pedagogy and tools presenter, 2011 – Present.
- Writing Placement Test Departmental Study, Co-Principal, 2011 – 2013.
- Faculty Advisor. 2018 – Present.
- Promise program orientation presenter and writing bootcamp instructor, 2017 – Present.
- Participated in college-wide call nights to increase recruitment and retention, 2016 – Present.
Program Effectiveness Chair/Coordinator Fall 2017 – Present
Communication Department, Gateway Technical College
- Organized, coordinated, and oversaw the administration of annual assessments for all sections of 6 Communication Department courses on all 3 of the college’s campuses.
- Managed, analyzed, reported, and presented assessment data for department and College.
- Developed and revised assessments for multiple courses.
- Conducted full departmental Curriculum Review, 2017 – 2018.
- Assisted with the development of ALP English Composition 1 course through assessment and Faculty Inquiry Group, 2018 – Present.
- Coordinated faculty voting on textbook adoption, acquisition of review copies from publishers, and ordering/inventory with campus bookstore.
- Researched Open Educational Resources with campus librarians.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2009-Spring 2010
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
- Taught and designed course sequence for first-year composition course English 101.
- Participated in annual program norming and portfolio assessment for English 101.
Associate Lecturer Fall 2008-Spring 2010
University of Wisconsin—Parkside, Kenosha, WI
- Taught and designed course sequence for first-year composition courses English 100 and English 101.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed:
“This Is Not a Game: Alternate Reality Games as a First Year Composition
Course Structure,” GLS 8.0 Proceedings. ETC Press, 2012.
Fiction:
“Anaphylaxis.” GUERNICA/a magazine of art & politics. May 2009.
CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
“What Happens When Collective Bargaining All But Disappears: Trials and Triumphs in Higher Education Organizing in Wisconsin Post-Act 10,” presented at the National Education Association Leadership Summit, February 14 – 16, 2017.
“Meeting Multimodal Needs and Multimedia Expectations in the Composition Classroom,” presented at the WTCS General Education Conference, April 11, 2014.
“This Is Not a Writing Class!” presentation and workshop facilitated at the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) conference, October 23 – 26, 2013.
“When the Outside Looks In: Accountability, Assessment, and Apprehension in
a Technical College Setting,” panel presented with Kathryn Nordhaus and Katy J.
Vopal at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC),
March 14 – 17, 2013.
“Examining Placement Testing,” presented at the Wisconsin Technical College
System Assessment Conference, February 28-March 1, 2013.
“This Is Not a Game: Alternate Reality Games as a First Year Composition
Course Structure,” poster presentation at Games, Learning, + Society (GLS), June
13-15, 2012.
“Un/Available Designs: Exploring the Multimodal Rhetorics of Lynda Barry’s
‘Common Sense’ in the First Year Composition Classroom” proposed as part of
“Re-Working Visual Literacy through Comics: Production and Analysis in Composition”
panel for the Conference on College Composition and Communication
(CCCC), April 6-9, 2011.
Participant, THATCamp – Chicago unconference, Northwestern University, November 20, 2010.
“Publishing Creative Writing” panel, Parkside Writers Conference, UW—Parkside,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, May 7, 2010.
“This Is Not a Game: Alternate Reality Games as Composition Course Structure,”
presented at Emerging Compositions and Other Digressions: UWM FYC
Professional Development Conference in Composition, UW—Milwaukee, May 1,
2010.
“Facilitating Communication and Collaboration Across English 101 Using
Web-based Resources” presented at The Sixteenth Annual First-Year Composition
Graduate Student Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
December 7, 2009.
“Reading Androids: Binaries, Hybrids, and Simulation in the Metageneric novel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” presented at Liminal Literature: Borders
and Genre, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin—Madison Department of
English and the Anonymous Fund at the University of Wisconsin—Madison,
February 26 – 28, 2009.
“So How Do I Get Published, Anyway?” panel presented at the Fox Cities Book
Festival, Neenah, Wisconsin, April 14 – 19, 2009.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education), New York City, May 26 – 30, 2020.
Educating Anxious Minds, Learning & the Brain, San Francisco, Feb 14-16, 2020.
NEA Higher Education Conference & Leadership Summit, Denver, March 14 – 17, 2019.
Lilly Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning National Conference, Austin, Jan 4 – 6, 2018.
Madison College 5th Annual Flexible Learning Conference, Madison, October 13, 2017.
Lilly Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning National Conference, Bethesda, June 2 – 5, 2016.
NEA Higher Education Conference and Leadership Summit, Dallas, February 25 – 28.
NEA Higher Education Conference, San Diego, April 1 – 3, 2016.
NEA Leadership Summit, Anaheim, February 27 – March 1, 2015.
CAMPUS & COMMUNITY SERVICE
Gateway Technical Education Association, 2010 – Present
President, 2014 – 2016; 2018 – Present
President-Elect, 2013 – 2014
Past-President, 2016 – 2018
Campus Representative, 2012 – 2013
- Represented faculty, counselors, advisors, librarians, and lab technicians in negotiations and meet and confer discussions with administration.
- Represented individual employees in personal meetings with the College to facilitate mutually beneficial outcomes for the employee, all staff, students, the College, and community.
- Initiated outreach to the community and District Board of Trustees.
- Participated in and presented at multiple state and national training seminars through WEAC and the NEA.
- Publicly represented College employees’ concerns about workplace and classroom issues.
Campus Civic Action Plan Committee
Gateway Technical College, 2016 – Present
- Developed criteria, measurements, and strategies for satisfying the College’s commitment to utilizing its resources to challenge the prevailing social and economic injustices that threaten our democratic future.
- Part of Campus Compact organization.
LGBTQ Safe Zone Trainer
Gateway Technical College, 2015 – Present
- Trained College employees and students on LQBTQ culture and issues and to become Safe Zone certified.
New Student Orientation
Gateway Technical College, 2014 – Present.
- Led panels and workshops for new students.
- Created video to help students understand the expectations of college courses.
Presidential Strategy Committee for Culture of Excellence
Gateway Technical College, 2014 – 2015
- Helped identify and implement measures and strategies for increasing employee engagement to support the College’s 3.2.1 Strategic Vision development and improvement.
Digital Advisory Board for English
Pearson Publishing, 2014 – 2016
- Guide the development of Pearson Digital products, such as interactive texts, tools, and CMSs, for English discipline, from ideation to testing.
Webmaster
National Association of Media Literacy Educators (NAMLE) 2013 Conference
- Solely developed and built a custom Drupal website featuring schedules and individual user accounts using for the 2013 NAMLE Conference.
Faculty In-Service Presenter and Trainer—Presentation Strategies and Digital Media
Gateway Technical College, 2011 – Present
- Led workshops and short classes on Prezi, Google Drive, WordPress, and other digital media tools, with a focus on pedagogical and personal contexts.
Faculty Advisor, Kenosha
Gateway Gazette (Student Newspaper), 2010 – 2012
cream city review, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 2006 – 2011
Editor-in-Chief, 2007- 2011
Web Editor, 2006 – 2007
- Oversaw all daily operations of a nationally-distributed biannual literary journal.
- Grew national distribution and secured funding to found and maintain three literary prizes of $1,000 each.
- Launched a new website and electronic submissions database management system, both early adoptions for literary journals. .
Judge, Short Fiction Contest
Vital Source Magazine, May 2008
Judge, Short Fiction Contest
Shepherd Express, April 2006
READINGS
“And Nothing But,” CutBank and cream city review AWP reading, Columbia College,
Chicago, February 14, 2009.
“And Nothing But,” UW—Milwaukee Student/Faculty reading, Linneman’s Riverwest
Inn, Milwaukee, January 17, 2008.
DIGITAL PROFICIENCIES
CMS: WordPress, Drupal, MediaWiki
Language: HTML, CSS
Software: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Limited experience with:
UNIX, PHP, MySQL, Inform7
HONORS, AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) Scholarship, 2013
Star Faculty Award Nominee, Gateway Technical College, 2010-2019
Online Teaching Certification, Gateway Technical College, Fall 2012
THAT Camp Bootcamp Fellowship, November 2010
Wisconsin State Technical College Certificate (3-year), 2010-2013
Faculty Innovation with Technology grant, Gateway Technical College, 2010-2011
James Sappenfield Award for Outstanding Graduate Studies, UW—Milwaukee, 2009
Best New American Voices 2009 Nominee, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 2007
University Writing Award, New School University, 2005
Academic Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2004
NASA Space Grant, Arizona State University, 1999-2000
President’s Scholarship, Arizona State University, 1999-2000
Sun Devil Award, Arizona State University, 1999
National Merit Finalist, 1999