James R. Gapinski to present at UMass “Engaging Practices” Conference

Mar 6, 2015

The Conium Review‘s Managing Editor, James R. Gapinski, will present at the upcoming Engaging Practices: A University of Massachusetts Boston Conference on the Teaching of Composition.

The presentation, titled “New Media and the Role of Video Games in Composition Classrooms,” is scheduled for Saturday, March 28th at 1:45pm at UMass’s Boston campus.

James teaches composition and writing at Bunker Hill Community College, and his teaching methods incorporate a number of new technologies. Presentation highlights include discussions of video games as literature, ludo narrative, interactive fiction, and new literacies in college-level composition programs.