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BRICE PARTICELLI teaches writing at Pace University. He earned his MFA from Colorado State in 2005, his PhD from Columbia University in 2014, and he is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2017 Wilson Center Faculty Fellow. Brice has over 10 years of experience in curriculum development and teacher education. His research focuses on writing pedagogy and genre studies, and his narrative work spans personal essay, travel, and features articles, with topics built around urban development, environment, and post-colonial issues. Recent work has been published in Fourth River, Pedagogy, Gray's Sporting Journal, The Common, and Travelers' Tales Tales to Go, and one of his stories was a notable essay in Best American Essays 2017. He is working on several essays for both narrative and academic publication, while also kicking around a couple of book ideas.





EDUCATION
Ph.D., Columbia University, English Education
Ed.M., Columbia University, Teaching of English
M.F.A., Colorado State University, Fiction and Nonfiction
B.A., Goddard College, Writing and American Studies
B.A. studies, UC Santa Barbara, Cultural Anthropology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pace University
  • Associate Chair, English Department, September 2017 to present
  • Assistant Chair, English Department, January 2017 to May 2017
  • Faculty Director, Summer Scholars Institute, Feb 2015 to present
  • Lecturer, English Department, Sept 2014 to present
​​Columbia University Teachers College
  • Director, Student Press Initiative, The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers, Sept 2011 to August 2014
  • Adjunct Professor, English Education, Sept 2009 to May 2014
  • Professional Development Consultant, Student Press Initiative, Sept 2009 to Sept 2011
  • Program Manager, Continuing Education Department (CEO&I), June 2007-June 2009
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
  • Teacher Education Manager / Publication Manager, Sept 2005-June 2007
Colorado State University
  • Adjunct Professor, English Department, Sept 2002-June 2005

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS
  • Particelli, Brice. Paper Presentation. "Peer-Led Assessment in the Composition Classroom" Crossing Multiple Thresholds: Three Groups of Student Writers. NCTE Annual Conference. November 2017.
  • ---. Paper Presentation. The Atlantic Center for Learning Communities Conference (ACLC) “Writing the Local: Rhetoric(s) of Art, Experience, and Culture in a Freshmen Learning Community” October 2015.
  • ---. “Teaching with Dave Chappelle: Exploring critical understandings of culture through comedy.” Paper Presentation. Ethnography and Education Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. March 2014.
  • ---. “Project-Based Pedagogies: Ethnographies of Classroom Publishing.” Panel Lead with Marcelle Mentor, Cristina Romeo, and Alexandra Thomas. Ethnography and Education Research Forum. University of Pennsylvania. March 2014.
  • ---, and Cristina Romeo. “Investment and Agency in the Classroom: A three-school study of urban classroom publishing projects.” Paper Presentation. NCTE Annual Conference. November 2013.
  • ---. “Teaching ELL/ESL through Classroom Publishing Projects.” Workshop. Student Press Initiative Summer Institute. The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET), Teachers College, Columbia University. July 2011.
  • ---. “Project-Based Learning in the English Classroom.” Workshop. 2025 Global Challenge Think Tank. Studies in Educational Innovation (SEI). The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET). Teachers College, Columbia University. Spring 2011.
  • ---. “Project-Based Pedagogies: Developing Long-Term Projects.” Workshop. Studies in Educational Innovation (SEI) In-Practice Education Conference. The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET). Teachers College Columbia University. Summer 2010.

SELECT HONORS AND AWARDS
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate Level (Pace University and Colorado State)
  • Composition I
  • Composition II: Writing in the Disciplines
  • Introduction to Genre Studies
  • Introduction to Cultural Studies
  • Narrative Nonfiction Literature
  • Introduction to Creative Writing
  • Writing Creative Nonfiction
  • Travel Writing
  • Internship in Literary Publishing


Graduate Level (Columbia University Teachers College)
  • The Teaching of Writing 
  • Writing: Nonfiction
  • Narrative and Story
  • Writing Fiction & Personal Narrative
  • Internship in the Teaching of English 
  • Fictive and Literary Imaginings: Charting a Literary Anthropology​​​


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
  • National Council for the Teaching of English (NCTE)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)