{"id":50266,"date":"2018-03-28T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/?page_id=50266"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:00:57","slug":"brenta-blevins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/brenta-blevins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenta Blevins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--media-float-right umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">english and linguistics<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Brenta Blevins<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-brenta-blevins\">Brenta Blevins<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"50267\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/brenta-blevins\/brenta-blevins-headshot-3-of-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"801,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1476175897&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"brenta-blevins-headshot-3-of-7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-684x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"brenta-blevins-headshot-3-of-7\" class=\"wp-image-50267\" srcset=\"\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-200x300.jpg 200w, \/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-684x1024.jpg 684w, \/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-690x1034.jpg 690w, \/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7-465x697.jpg 465w, \/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/files\/2018\/03\/Brenta-Blevins-Headshot-3-of-7.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Brenta Blevins specializes in rhetoric and composition, with a particular focus on digital rhetoric and writing across multiple media and genres. She researches how we communicate in an era of evolving communication technologies by analyzing the new media of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. She often teaches and writes about multimodality, or the use of multiple communication modes, such as words, images, sound, and gesture in combination, whether in traditional or digital media. Other interests include literacy in traditional and new media writing; digital rhetoric used in personal expression and social persuasion; workplace writing, including technical writing; and futurism as a means of predicting, shaping, and understanding the future of humanity. Dr. Blevins teaches courses in Writing Studies and Digital Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B.A., Virginia Tech; M.A., Radford University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. <a href=\"http:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/faculty-member\/sblevin2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UMW Directory Profile.<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenta Blevins Brenta Blevins specializes in rhetoric and composition, with a particular focus on digital rhetoric and writing across multiple media and genres. She researches how we communicate in an era of evolving communication technologies by analyzing the new media of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. She often teaches and writes about multimodality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2471,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-50266","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brenta Blevins - English and Linguistics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cas.umw.edu\/enli\/brenta-blevins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brenta Blevins\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brenta Blevins Brenta Blevins specializes in rhetoric and composition, with a particular focus on digital rhetoric and writing across multiple media and genres. 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