Jayde Rice
Teaching InstructorAbout
Jayde Rice is a queer rhetorician with an interest in the Furry Fandom. His current research is focused on identity definition in queer communities such as the Furry Fandom and on the ways in which personal definitions of identity shape and are shaped by other definitions, particularly official definitions or those held by outsiders. A key part of this research involves the concept of strategic exclusion (SE): the practice through which queer communities re-define themselves to rhetorically downplay their least normative traits and exclude their least normative members in order to mitigate stigma and pursue acceptance in heteronormative society.
Rice grew up near Dallas Texas and moved to North Carolina in 2014. He has been a student at ECU since 2015 and has taught courses in English since 2017. He is the recipient of the Bertie E. Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019-2020) as well as an Honored Instructor Award from the Campus Living and Residence Hall Association (2018). And he has given presentations on strategic exclusion twice: at the UNC Asheville Virtual Queer Studies Conference in 2021 and at Computers & Writing in 2022.
Education
- B.A., English, University of North Texas
- M.A., English, East Carolina University
- (Expected) Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication, East Carolina University
Research Interests
- Queer Theory
- Queer Rhetorics
- Disability Studies
- The Furry Fandom
Courses Taught
- ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing
- ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines
- ENGL 2885: Writing and Document Design
- ENGL 3820: Scientific Writing
- ENGL 3880: Writing for Business and Industry
Selected Publications and Presentations
- 2021 “Strategic Exclusion: The Furry Community as an Example of Identity Maintenance in Stigmatized Communities.” UNC Asheville Virtual Queer Studies Conference 2021, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
- 2022 “Strategic Exclusion: The Furry Community as an Example of Identity Maintenance in Digital Spaces.” Computers & Writing 2022, East Carolina University.
Awards
- 2020 Bertie Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2019-2020, East Carolina University, Department of English
- 2018 Honored Instructor Award, East Carolina University, Campus Living and Residence Hall Association