About

I am an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. I study the literacy and learning activities surrounding social media.

Research Areas: digital literacies and cultures; social media, especially videogames; learning sciences.

Official Bio (conveniently written in third person)

Alice Daer (formerly Robison) (Ph.D. 2006, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition studies in the English department at Arizona State University, where she specializes in new media. Her primary research interests are literacy learning and social media; she also offers graduate courses on those topics. Alice’s work on videogame design as a writing process and new media literacies has appeared in Computers and Composition, the Journal of Media Literacy, and eLearning. She is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Literacies of Backchannels.”

Alice has also advised several digital learning grants sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. At ASU she is a faculty researcher on the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory (SMALLab) Project in the Arts, Media and Engineering program. Her work on SMALLab is combined with a role in the development of the Quest to Learn school, a project run by the Institute of Play in New York City. Previously, she was an academic advisor to the  New Media Literacies Project at MIT and a founding member of the Games+Learning+Society research initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.