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Jason Palmeri

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I am currently finishing a book manuscript entitled, “Deleted Scenes: Composition’s Multimodal Unconscious.” Challenging the persistent notion that composition has historically been focused on words alone, this book recovers the ways in which past compositionists in the 60s, 70s, and 80s studied and taught alphabetic writing as a profoundly multimodal thinking process that shares affinities with other forms of composing (visual, aural, spatial, gestural). Looking closely at the ways in which past compositionists responded to the “new media” of their day, this book demonstrates that writing teachers have a substantial history of engaging analog technologies for composing moving images and sounds—a history that predates the rise of the personal computer or the development of the graphical web. In recovering composition’s multimodal heritage, I ultimately aim to: 1) elucidate the ways in which multimodal composing can enhance the students’ invention and revision of alphabetic texts; 2) demonstrate the unique disciplinary expertise compositionists bring to multimodality; 3) offer a critical perspective about both the over-exuberance and the fear that often accompany the introduction of new technologies in our field.

In addition to the book project, I also have been working on articles about the use of political video remix in composition courses, about the role of vlogging in the 2008 election, and about the representation(s) of blindness in composition studies.