Richard Simpson

BIO:

Dr. Richard Simpson is an Associate Professor of English at UMPI, specializing in the Media and Cultural Studies concentration, the Film Studies Minor, and cross-disciplinary courses within the BFA Intermedia concentration. He earned his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and holds an MA in English from the University of Florida.

His research explores collaborative knowledge-making through community-engaged participatory writing pedagogies, intertwining material, affective, and discursive practices. This work has garnered recognition through a National Endowment for the Humanities Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Additionally, Dr. Simpson has been awarded a Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University and a Louis O. Kelso Fellowship from the Rutgers School of Labor and Management Relations.

Dr. Simpson’s scholarship examines the pedagogical implications of environment and urban space. His 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. Currently, he is writing a book that investigates the rhetorics of pedagogic space, particularly how the teaching narratives framing labor production in early nineteenth-century American landscapes continue to influence urban infrastructure design on a global scale.

Website: https://www.rfsimpson.com/