Patrick W. Berry is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught courses in first-year composition, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, most recently in the context of a medium-high security prison. Originally from New York City, he completed an MA in literature at Brooklyn College while working in magazine publishing before turning to his chosen field of Writing Studies. His published work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (2007) and, more recently, in the coauthored chapters of Ubiquitous Learning (2009) and Technological Ecologies & Sustainability (2009). His dissertation, "Beyond Hope: Rhetorics of Mobility, Possibility, and Literacy," focuses on how teachers negotiate their personal literacy histories with their understandings of literacy theories and on how those negotiations figure into their perspectives on literacy and its teaching.