Joe Schicke PhD Student / Instructor - Technical Communication & Rhetoric

Research Interests: writing pedagogy, alternative grading, assessment, rhetoric of sound, soundwriting, material rhetoric, and rhetoric of technology.  

Education

MA | Colorado State University | Rhetoric and Composition

BA | University of Memphis | Creative Writing  

Publications

Schicke, J., & Weedon, S. (2025). The band feeling: getting intentional about soundwriting and sonic rhetorics. Computers and Composition, 78, 102960.  

Doe, S., Kannan, V., & Schicke, J. (2015). Performing horizontal activism: expanding academic labor advocacy throughout and beyond a three stage process. Literacy in Composition Studies, 3(1). 131-142.  

Schicke, J. (2011). An autoethnography of sound: local music culture in Colorado. Currents in Electronic Literacy.  

Book Reviews

Schicke, J. (2025). Review of Rethinking peer review: critical reflections on a pedagogical practice, by Phoebe Jackson & Christopher Weaver, Eds. Technical Communication Quarterly, 35(1), 116-119. DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2025.2467041  

Schicke, J. (2024). Review of Augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence in technical communication: Designing ethical futures, by Ann Hill Duin & Isabel Pedersen. Programmatic Perspectives, 15(1).

Faye, S., Schicke, J., & Weston, J. (2024). Review of The hidden inequities of labor based contract grading, by Ellen C. Carillo. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 29(1).  

Presentations

Welker, A., Carter, G., Bradbury, K., & Schicke, J. (2025, July). Valuing student voices: using critical literacy narratives to transform writing pedagogy. International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference. Ft. Collins, CO.

Schicke, J. (2025, April). Creative conversations in the recording studio: what music production may teach us about sound. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Baltimore, MD.

Ryerson, R., Schicke, J., Blaauw-Hara, M., Ferris, H., & Wood, S. (2025, April). Resounding response: Sonic compositions, rhetorical identity, and extended remix. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Baltimore, MD.

Schicke, J. (2024, May). Phono-graphia as a rhetorical figure of presence. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference. Denver, CO.