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BRICE PARTICELLI teaches writing and literature 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. Brice has over 10 years experience in curriculum development, teacher education, and the teaching of writing. His peer-reviewed research focuses on writing pedagogy and genre studies, and his narrative essays span memoir, personal essay, and travel, with topics often built around urban development, environment, and post-colonial issues. His work has been published recently in Pedagogy, Gray's Sporting Journal, The Common, and Fourth River. He is working on several short essays for both narrative and academic publication, as well as a novel, Nakimoa, set in the Pacific Islands.






EDUCATION
PhD, Columbia University, English Education
EdM, Columbia University, Teaching of English
MFA, Colorado State University, Fiction and Nonfiction
BA, Goddard College, Writing and American Studies
BA studies, UC Santa Barbara, Cultural Anthropology

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


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


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pace University
  • Assistant Chair, English Department, January 2017 to present
  • Lecturer, English Department, Sept 2014 to present
  • Faculty Director, Summer Scholars Institute, Feb 2015 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. Accepted for November 2017.
  • ---. Paper Presentation. "Dinosaurs, Dragons, and Unicorns: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Creation Museum." Young Rhetoricians Conference in College Composition and Rhetoric. Accepted for June 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. National Council for the Teaching of English (NCTE) 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
  • NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature with the New York Foundation for the Arts, 2017
  • Silver Medal, Traveler’s Tales 11th Annual Solas Awards, “Paddling the Sewershed.” March 2017.  Published as Editor's Choice, June 2017.
  • Finalist, "Learning from Nature" Contest, Creative Nonfiction and the ASU Biomimicry  Institute. "Paddling the Sewershed," 2016.
  • Research Grant, Faculty Research Forum, Pace University. Research stipend to study experiential and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching first-year students, 2014-2015. 
  • Writer-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center. Four-week funded residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT to develop nonfiction projects, July 6 to August 1, 2014.
  • Silver Medal, Traveler’s Tales 8th Annual Solas Awards, “Riding the Local.” March 2014.
  • Workshop Leader, Random House Foundation, Creative Writing Luncheon, “Revision as a Creative Process” December 2013.
  • Keynote Speaker, Taiwan Educator’s Association Conference, Keynote Address: “A Growing Sense of Audience: The Power of Curriculum-Based Publication.” Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 2013.
  • Walter Sindlinger Writing Award, Runner-up “Riding the Local: A Phenomenology of Space and Story.” August 2011.
  • Contributor, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, August 2010.
  • NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Award, 3.5 GPA while playing for UC Santa Barbara’s top-ten, DI Water Polo team. 1997-1998.

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