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Background

Sean Fenty joined The Writing Institute in 2012, serving first as a lecturer, then as Associate Director of First-Year Writing, and since 2017 as the Director of The Writing Institute. He earned his MA (2002) and a PhD (2008) in English, with a focus on New Media Studies, at the University of Florida, and his BA in English and Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. Since 2000, he has taught a variety of writing courses at the University of Florida, City College of Gainesville, the University of Louisville, and ßÙßÇÂþ»­. In addition to his administrative and teaching duties for The Writing Institute, he is also the Writing Coordinator for the Educational Opportunity Program's intensive pre-freshmen summer program. He has presented and published on topics such as reading and writing program administration, writing pedagogy, writing in new media, hypertext, videogame narratives, and comics.

Education

• BA, University of South Florida
• MA, PhD, University of Florida

Research Interests

• Writing Pedagogy
• Comics Studies
• Interactive Fiction
• New Media Literacies
• Writing Program Administration