Faculty

richard simpson

Richard Simpson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences-Tampa
Office: BEH 102
rfsimpson@usf.edu
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BIO
Richard Simpson received his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and MA in English from the University of Florida. His research on collaborative modes of knowledgemaking through community-engaged participatory writing pedagogies linking material, affective, and discursive practices has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Dr. Simpson is also recipient of a Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University and a Louis O. Kelso Fellowship from the Rutgers School of Labor and Management Relations. His research examines the pedagogical function of environment and urban space and recent publications include, “Allegory or Algorithm: The Smart City as Monument” in Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) and “Toward an Alaskan Critical Regionalist Pedagogy: Mapping the Cruise Ship Industry through Visual Spatial Tactics” in Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Dr. Simpson is currently writing a book on the rhetorics of pedagogic space and, specifically, how the teaching narratives that historically frame relations of labor production embedded within early nineteenth century American landscapes now inform urban infrastructure design on a global scale.

Dr. Simpson has taught in the English Department at the University of Miami and the University ofAlaska Southeast where he also served as Chair of the Environmental Studies Program. He currently teaches composition, expository writing, and professional and technical writing in the Department of English and serves as editor of Positions, the podcast of the Cultural Studies Association.