Associate Professor
Melissa Bianchi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She teaches graduate courses in the M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program as well as undergraduate courses in game studies and writing.
Dr. Bianchi’s research interests bridge composition and rhetoric, media studies, game studies, and ecocriticism. Specifically, her scholarship participates in ecomedia studies about how video games complicate notions of environmental responsibility, ecological agency, and the non- and posthuman. She has presented her ideas on these and related topics at national and international conferences, as well as in refereed journals, such as Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment (2017); Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2014); and others. Her scholarship also appears in edited collections, including Ecogames (2024), EcoComix (2020), Mediating Nature (2019), and more.
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About Melissa M. Bianchi
Melissa Bianchi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She teaches graduate courses in the M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program as well as undergraduate courses in game studies and writing.
Dr. Bianchi’s research interests bridge composition and rhetoric, media studies, game studies, and ecocriticism. Specifically, her scholarship participates in ecomedia studies about how video games complicate notions of environmental responsibility, ecological agency, and the non- and posthuman. She has presented her ideas on these and related topics at national and international conferences, as well as in refereed journals, such as Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment (2017); Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2014); and others. Her scholarship also appears in edited collections, including Ecogames (2024), EcoComix (2020), Mediating Nature (2019), and more.
| 2018 - Present | Assistant Professor, Nova Southeastern University ‐ Halmos College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Communications, Media, and the Arts | |
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| 2021 | Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Nova Southeastern University ‐ Halmos College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Communications, Media, and the Arts | |
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| 2017 - 2018 | Webmaster, University of Florida ‐ Department of English | |
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| 2014 - 2016 | Writing Tutor, University of Florida | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2019 - Present | Editor, One Shot: A Journal of Critical Games & Play | 2018 - Present | Member, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts Curriculum Committee, Nova Southeastern University | 2016 - 2018 | Reviewer, Imagetext: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies | 2016 - 2018 | Editor, Trace: Journal of Writing, Media, and Ecology | 2014 - 2018 | Member, Science Fiction Working Group, University of Florida | 2014 - 2018 | Coordinator, Trace Innovation Initiative, University of Florida | 2015 - 2016 | Volunteer, Newcomers’ Booth, CCCC, Tampa, FL and Houston, TX | 2014 - 2016 | President, Digital Assembly, University of Florida | 2016 | Reviewer, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, East Lansing, MI | 2014 - 2015 | Coordinator, Center for Children’s Literature and Culture, University of Florida | Member, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) | Member, Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) | Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) | Collaborator, Online Journal, Trace | Member, Popular Culture Association (PCA) | Collaborator, Super PAC Scramble and SeeWorld |
Honors and Awards
- 2017-2018 Teaching Mentor Fellowship, Writing Program, University of Florida
- 2017 CLAS Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida
- 2012-2016 Graduate StudentFellowship, Department of English, University of Florida
- 2015 Participant. “MassMine: Collecting and ArchivingBig Data for SocialMedia HumanitiesResearch,” National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2011 Outstanding First-Year Teacher of Writing, Writing Program, University of Florida
- 2010-2012 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Baskin Fellowship, Department of English, University of Florida
| 2018 | Ph.D., English, University of Florida | |
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| 2012 | M.A., English, University of Florida | |
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| 2010 | B.S., Biology, University of Florida | |
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| 2010 | B.A., English, University of Florida | |
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Contact Information
(954) 262-8436
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