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Joe Essid
Joe Essid directs the Writing Center at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in writing pedagogy, literature, and cyberculture. He is a Richmond native who did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, then earned a Master's and Ph.D. at Indiana University. His research interests include technology in the writing-intensive classroom, virtual worlds and their development, and the history of technology. His academic writing has appeared in Computers and Humanities, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and anthologies about technology and writing. He freelances as a science-fiction writer, with recent work in the anthology Catastrophia and forthcoming in Hagerty Magazine. He writes op-ed pieces about energy, localism, homesteading, transportation, and education for Style Weekly, Eighty One, and RVA. When not being an academic, he can be found keeping bees and learning the trade of an organic farmer.
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