Senior Instructor

About

  • Role

    Faculty

  • Position

    • Senior Instructor
    • Upper Divison Composition Program Specialist

  • Concentration

    • Rhetoric and Composition

  • Department

    • English and University Composition Program

  • Education

    • BA in Creative Writing
    • MA in Rhetoric and Composition

  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

Joe Schicke was born in St. Louis, MO and grew up in Memphis, TN. He moved to Ft. Collins in 2007, earned a Master's degree in English from CSU in 2011, and taught writing courses at community colleges for nine years. Since coming to CSU in 2020, Joe has taught various lower and upper division courses in the University Composition Program. He is currently a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.

Joe's areas of interest are rhetorical theory, multimodality, genre studies, material rhetoric, writing pedagogy, alternative grading, and assessment. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Joe is a singer/songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and session musician.

Publications

Schicke, J., & Weedon, S. (2025). The band feeling: getting intentional about soundwriting and sonic rhetorics. Computers and Composition, 78, 102960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102960

Schicke, J. (2025). Review of Rethinking peer review: critical reflections on a pedagogical practice, by Phoebe Jackson & Christopher Weaver, Eds., Technical Communication Quarterly, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2025.2467041

Schicke, J. (2024). Review of Augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence in technical communication: designing ethical futures, by Ann Hill Duin & Isabel Pedersen, Programmatic Perspectives, 15(1). https://programmaticperspectives.cptsc.org/index.php/jpp/article/view/86

Faye, S., Schicke, J., & Weston, J. (2024). Review of The hidden inequities of labor based contract grading, by Ellen C. Carillo. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 29(1). https://www.technorhetoric.net/29.1/reviews/faye-et-al/index.html

Schicke, J. (2023). Review of Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, 7. https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/alra/v7/schicke.pdf

West Side Joe & The Men of Soul (2021). Keep On Climbin'. Self-released. https://westsidejoeandthemenofsoul.bandcamp.com/album/keep-on-climbin

Doe, S., Kannan, V., & Schicke, J. (2015). Performing horizontal activism: expanding academic labor advocacy throughout and beyond a three stage process. Literacy in Composition Studies, 3(1). 131 – 142. https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/833

Schicke, J. (2011). An autoethnography of sound: local music culture in Colorado. Currents in Electronic Literacy. https://currents.dwrl.utexas.edu/2011/anauthethnographyofsound.html