Bump Halbritter
- (He/Him)
- drbump@msu.edu
- Ernst Bessey Hall, 276
- Associate Professor
- Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures
Biography
Bump Halbritter is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and former director of the First-Year Writing Program at Michigan State University. His research and teaching involve the integration of audio-based, video-based, and audiovisual writing into scenes of college writing and scholarly research. Bump’s 2013 article, “Time, Lives, and Videotape: Operationalizing Discovery in Scenes of Literacy Sponsorship,” co-authored with Julie Lindquist, received The Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English. Bump’s book, Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, received the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for 2013. Bump has served on the CCCC Executive Committee (2017–2019). Bump writes and records music under the name Hope Junkies and has released albums in 2024 and 2026.
Research Areas
Literacy, Writing Pedagogy, Learning Theory, Audio-Visual Writing and Rhetoric, Documentary, Soundwriting, Music Writing, Narrative Inquiry
Education
Ph.D., English/Rhetoric & Composition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
M.A., English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
B.A., Pennsylvania State University.
Works
Monograph:
Halbritter, Bump. Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. 2013. Awarded the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, 2013.
Edited Collections:
Lindquist, Julie, Bree Straayer, and Bump Halbritter, eds. Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. NCTE Press. 2023. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/swr/documentarian/
Lindquist, Julie, Bree Straayer, and Bump Halbritter, eds. Recollections from an Uncommon Time: #4C Documentarian Tales, Unabridged. 2023. Digital collection hosted by The Cube @ MSU. http://documentarians.org/
In Press:
Halbritter, Bump, Lindquist, Julie, and Bree Straayer, eds. Recollections from Our Common Places CCCC 2021–2023 Documentarian Tales. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. NCTE Press. 2026.
Articles and Chapters:
Lindquist, Julie and Bump Halbritter. “What’s the Way In?: Some Lessons and Considerations about Inventing as Collaborative Team, from a Collaborative Team.” Chapter 28, Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Danielle DeVoss and John Gallagher, Eds. Colorado State/Utah State Press. 2019. 120-127.
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “What’s the Way Forward?: Some Lessons and Considerations about Revising from Feedback as a Collaborative Team, from a Collaborative Team.” Chapter 59, Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Danielle DeVoss and John Gallagher, Eds. Colorado State/Utah State Press. 2019. 247-255.
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “Collecting and Coding Synecdochic Selves: Identifying Learning Across Life-Writing Texts.” How Stories Teach Us: Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship. Amy Robillard and D. Shane Combs, Eds. Peter Lang Press. 2019. 47-75.
Lindquist, Julie and Bump Halbritter. “Documenting and Discovering Learning: Reimagining the Work of the Literacy Narrative.” With Julie Lindquist. College Composition and Communication (Feb. 2019, 70:3). 413-445.
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “Sleight of Ear: Voice, Voices, and the Ethics of Voicing.” Soundwriting Pedagogies. Courtney Danforth, Kyle Stedman, and Michael Faris Eds. Computers and Composition Digital Press. 2018. http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/soundwriting/halbritter-lindquist/index.html
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “Witness Learning: Building Relationships between Present, Future, and Former Selves.” Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action. Mary Sheridan, Megan Bardolph, Andrew Holliday, and Megan Hartline, Eds. Lexington Press, 2018. 43-60.
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “It’s Never About What It’s About: Audio-Visual Writing, Experiential-Learning Documentary, and the Forensic Art of Assessment.” The Routledge Companion to Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. Routledge, 2018. 317-327.
Dryer, Dylan B., Darsie Bowden, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Susanmarie Harrington, Bump Halbritter, & Kathleen Blake Yancey. “Revising FYC Outcomes for a Multimodal, Digitally Composed World: The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (Version 3.0).” Volume 38, Number 1. Fall 2014.
Halbritter, Bump, and Julie Lindquist. “Time, Lives, and Videotape: Operationalizing Discovery in Scenes of Literacy Sponsorship.” College English. Volume 75, Number 2. November 2012. 171-198. Awarded the Richard Ohmann Outstanding Article in College English Award for 2013.
Halbritter, Bump. “Editor’s Introduction.” CCC Online. Volume 1, Number 1. January 2012. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8552537/ccconline/issue1-1/EditorsIntros/index.html
Halbritter, Bump. Respondent. “Master Hands, A Video Mashup Round Table.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Ed. James J. Brown, Jr. and Richard Marback. 11: n. pag. Web. 17 October 2011. http://www.enculturation.net/11
Halbritter, Bump, Noah Blon, and Caron Creighton. “Big Questions, Small Works, Lots of Layers: Documentary Video Production and the Teaching of Academic Research and Writing.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 16.1 Web. 15 August 2011. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/16.1/praxis/halbritter/index.php
Halbritter, Bump. “Aural Tools: Who’s Listening?” Digital Tools in Composition Studies. Ed. Joyce Walker, Byron Hawk, and Ollie Oviedo. Hampton Press. 2010.
Halbritter, Bump, and Todd Taylor. “Remembering Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Volume 26, Issue 3-4, 2006. DVD format, 75 minutes. 2007.
Halbritter, Bump, and Todd Taylor. “Remembering Composition (The Book): A DVD Production.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Volume 26, Issue 3-4, 2006. 389-396.
Halbritter, Bump. “Musical Rhetoric in Integrated Media Composition.” Computers and Composition. Special Issue. Sound in/as Compositional Space: A Next Step Toward Multiliteracies. Guest Ed. Cheryl Ball and Byron Hawk. Volume 23, Issue 3, 2006. 317-334. Print.
Artistic and Community Works:
Halbritter, Bump (writer, performer, producer, engineer). Time Horizons. Hope Junkies. Jan. 7, 2024. https://open.spotify.com/album/4Tk8fkrev5mhm58JBfQdHk?si=DqWsaiyfSeGEBob4S2wh3Q
Halbritter, Bump (editor, writer, and talent). “CCCC 2020 Documentarian Overview.” With Julie Lindquist and Bree Straayer-Gannon. Online video recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6u0t19NUI Dec. 2019.
Halbritter, Bump (musical composer, performer, and producer). “My Rock On Journey: Terri.” Story by Terri. MI Homeless Voice. Ben Lauren, producer. MI Homeless Speakers Bureau. Online audio recording. https://soundcloud.com/mi-homeless-voice/my-rock-on-journey. September 2019. Web. 1 October 2019.
Halbritter, Bump (musical composer, performer, and producer). “The Chain is Broken: Denessa.” Story by Denessa. MI Homeless Voice. Ben Lauren, producer. MI Homeless Speakers Bureau. Online audio recording. https://soundcloud.com/mi-homeless-voice/the-chain-is-broken. September 2019. Web. 1 October 2019.
Forthcoming:
Halbritter, Bump (writer, performer, producer, engineer). And Now We Know More. Hope Junkies. Jan., 2026.
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