King, Matt R.

Publications and Digital Scholarship  

• “Procedural Rhetorics / Rhetoric’s Procedures: Rhetorical Peaks and What It Means to Win the Game.” Currents in Electronic Literacy (Summer 2010). 
• “Remapping Rhetorical Peaks: A Video Game for First-Year Writing.” Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2008).
• Rhetorical Peaks. Videogame developed for the Digital Writing and Research Lab. Played in classes at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, James Madison University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Kennesaw State University, and Louisburg High School (Kansas).

Conference Presentations 

• Rhetoric Society of America Conference; Philadelphia, PA. “Beyond the Symbolic Frame: Revisiting Burke” on the Kenneth Burke panel. May 2012.
• Conference on College Composition and Communication; St. Louis, MO. “Rhetorical Gaming and Procedural Engagement” on the Procedures, Play, and Possibility Spaces panel. March 2012.
• Rhetoric Society of America Conference; Minneapolis, MN. “Sublime Identification and Kenneth Burke’s Call to Rhetoric” on the Kenneth Burke and Identification panel. May 2010.
• Modern Language Society Conference; Philadelphia, PA. “Rhetorical Peaks: Gaming in the Writing Classroom” on the Virtual Worlds and Pedagogy panel. December 2009.
• Conference on College Composition and Communication; San Francisco, CA.
  “Welcome to Rhetorical Peaks, a Video Game for First-Year Writing” on the We Got Game: Effective Strategies for Using New Media Games in Writing Instruction panel. March 2009.
• Midwest Modern Language Society Conference; Cleveland, OH. “The Micro-Sublime in the Postmodern” on The Sublime in the Modern World: Too Much, Too Late, Too Soon? panel. November 2007.
• American Literature Association; Boston, MA. “‘It’s hard to know how we should feel about this’: The Rhetorical Sublime in the Work of Don DeLillo and David Lynch” on the Don DeLillo and His Contemporaries panel. May 2007.
• THATCamp Unconference. April 2011. Houston, TX.
• THATCamp Unconference. August 2009. Austin, TX.