“Since we only ever find ourselves in the middle of practices, enmeshed through varying activities through which we become incorporated and reincorporated, that’s where we too shall begin. Not with a traditional introduction but in the middle of a practice, a plateau.”
—Casey Boyle, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice
RHETORIC | COMPOSITION | TECH COMM
andrewhollinger.com | (956) 802-3732
I am a writer and teacher, husband and father, an amateur bookbinder and linoprint artist, a Diet Coke and iced tea drinker (unsweet, I know some of y’all think that’s yucky). I’m learning to play guitar. I like listening to audiobooks, and I’m a fan of basketball. (I may also have other important qualities and characteristics.)
I live and work in deep South Texas at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as an assistant professor (formerly as coordinator of, and lecturer in, the first year writing program). Before working at the university, I was a high school teacher. My scholarship focuses on writing program administration, pedagogy, materiality, genre theory, event and design, and maker rhetorics.
Writing, teaching, learning—these are the (work) things I find meaningful, interesting, and important.
PhD, Technical communication and Rhetoric
Texas Tech University | 2021
Dissertation, “Quitting Out Loud: The Agential Realism and Emergent Phenomena of Quit Lit”
MFA, Creative Writing
University of Texas—Pan American | 2012
Thesis, Another Sort of Life
BA, History