welcome!

Thanks for stopping by my site. I’m Julie Platt.

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and writing at Michigan State University. My research looks at the digital literacies of contemporary American poets. I’m also interested in digital and visual rhetoric, multimodal writing pedagogies, and creative writing studies.

I work as a graduate research assistant in charge of technology, media, and professional development in MSU’s newly-established Center for Applied Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Arts and Humanities (CAITLAH). This fall, I’ll also be a graduate fellow in MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. I am the Creative Editor of the online rhet/comp journal Technoculture, and I write for Inside Higher Ed‘s GradHacker blog.

Throughout my graduate career I’ve had the privilege of teaching a variety of college-level writing courses, including first-year composition, advanced composition, and the craft of poetry. I also taught creative nonfiction writing to gifted and talented junior high and high school aged students through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Program for several years. I have taught in traditional and hybrid classroom environments.

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and completed my BA in English at Saint Vincent College. I have an MA in English from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.

I have a wonderful rat terrier named Dobson whom I love taking pictures of!

what’s with the title?

Aristotle Julep is an anagram of my full name, Julie Rose Platt. It’s quite serendipitous that I found an anagram that references both the father of Western rhetoric and a classic cocktail (whose name coincidentally comes from the ancient Persian gulab, meaning “rose”).