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Rik Hunter is an Assistant Professor of English at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He completed my PhD in the UW-Madison English department's Composition and Rhetoric program in 2010.

You can contact him at rhunter [at] sjfc [dot] edu.

Rik's research interests include collaborative writing, new media, fan studies, collective intelligence, and authorship and audience. His dissertation, (currently) titled "A Hypersocial-Interactive Model of Writing: 
Collaboration, Conversation, and Composition in an Online Fan Community of Writers," develops an understanding of how the interaction of wiki technology and the social practices of the WoWWiki community shape collaborative online composition and requires a more social mindset.

In addition to his studies at UW-Madison, he was also a student at Northern Michigan University (BFA 96; BS,02; MA, 04), where he studied Art & Design (drawing; painting; graphic design; film and digital video production) and English (creative writing, literature, and writing and reading pedagogy) and spent a lot of time on the trails of the U.P. and along the shores of Lake Superior XC skiing, mountain biking and hiking. These days, he’s exploring Rochester, often on he recently rebuilt 1987 Schwinn Le Tour.

Among other jobs, he has worked as a cable television cameraman, construction worker, Alaskan fisherman, as well as a dishwasher and paperboy (both jobs with pretty good tips!). Between his BFA and BS, he studied Persian-Farsi at the Defense Language Institute during his service as a military intelligence “voice and signal communications interceptor and analyst” in the U.S. Army.