Nikki Dreste, M.A.
Education
M.A., Kean University
B.A., Kean University
Research Interests
Research interests include digital storytelling and multimodal literacy, game-based writing pedagogy and game studies, writing transfer, and folklore studies.
Publications
Presentations/Invited Talks
| Co-presenter of ELE, “Whose Dragon Is It Anyway?: Improvisation Comedy and Tabletop RPG Skills in the Transfer-Attentive Writing Classroom”, Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2020. [Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic precautions.]
Co-presenter, “Whose Dragon Is It Anyway? Improvisation Comedy and Tabletop RPG Skills in the Transfer-Attentive Writing Classroom”, Regional CCCC Summer Conference 2019. Roundtable member: “Understanding the Reluctant Writer in First Year Composition”, NJCEA 42nd Annual Conference, March 2019. Panel member: “If We Can Teach What We Are: Performative Roles and Identities in Contingent Writing Faculty”, Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2019. Individual Presentation Title: “‘Switching to My Off-Spec’: Performing as a Gamer in Writing Classroom and Contingent Faculty Spaces.” Panel member: “Re-writing culture: Digital representation and ethnography’s web-text (r)evolution”, Computers and Writing in Pullman, Washington, 2014. “NaNoRebels: Repurposing Literacy Sponsorship in Online Communities”, Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014. |
Forthcoming
Prof. Dreste is currently working on an essay that compares her approaches in the writing classroom to her relatively new experience as a tabletop-roleplaying game (TTRPG) game master, and reflects on the transfer of knowledge happening between them.
She is also working on a science-fantasy novel about the hero’s journey, star-stuff, and the lasting echo of the human spirit in the multiverse.
Courses
Frequently Taught Classes
- College Composition I (EN 101)