Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Florida (May 2020)
M.A. in English, Auburn University (2014)
B.A. in English, University of Montevallo (2010)
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island (2020-Present)
Department of Professional & Public Writing (Primary Appointment)
Department of Natural Resources Science (Secondary Appointment)
Senior Fellow, Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island (2021-present).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Books
Rhetorical Ecologies. Co-edited with Sidney I. Dobrin. NCTE, 2024.
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature. Co-edited with Steven Petersheim. Lexington Books, 2015.
Featured Articles & Book Chapters (Recent & Selected)
"North Woods Project: Mobilizing Digital Field Methods and Art-Based Research for Science Communication and Environmental Advocacy." Co-Authored with Joseph Ahart, AnnaFaith Jorgensen, Ashley Katusa, Erin Edmonds, & Travess Smalley. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 29(1), Forthcoming Aug. 2025 (In Press). [View the Demo Webtext Site].
"Augmenting for Accessible Environments: Layering Deep Mapping, Deep Accessibility, and Community Literacy." Co-Authored with Leah Heilig, Ally Overbay, & Taylor Roberts (2024). Communication Design Quarterly, 12(2), [Open Access .pdf]DOI: 10.1145/3655727.3655731.
“Tracking Memes in the Wild: Visual Rhetoric and Image Circulation in Environmental Communication.” Co-Authored with Aaron Beveridge, Hannah MacDonald, Abbey Greene, and Julian Garrison. Frontiers in Communication (Science & Environmental Communication section), 2022, vol. 7 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.883278/
“A Counterhistory of Rhetorical Ecologies." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2021, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 336-352, https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2021.1947517 [Received Honorable Mention for ARSTM’s 2022 Article of the Year Award].
“Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design.” Co-authored with Shannon Butts. Communication Design Quarterly, 2021, vol.9, iss. 1, pp.4-19 ([Open Access Online First]), https://doi.org/10.1145/3437000.3437001 [Awarded the 2022 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication].
“Sylvan Rhetorics: Roots and Branches of More-Than-Human Publics.” Rhetoric Review, February 2019, vol. 38 no. 1, pp. 63-78, https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2019.1549408 [Awarded the 2020 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication].
“Trees, Anti-Advocacy, and Visual Rhetoric in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax),” invited submission for EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin. McFarland, 2020.
“(Re)Placing the Rhetoric of Scale: Ecoliteracy, Networked Writing, and MEmorial Mapping.” Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy. Eds. Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey. Routledge, October, 2019, doi.org/10.4324/9780429399121-6.
“Plato’s Apocalyptic Rhetoric: Interpreting Bioregionalism in the Critias-Timaeus Dialogues.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2016, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 548-563, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isw049.
Madison Jones, Leah Heilig and Aidan Donnellan. 2024. "Creating Open-Access Augmented Reality Experiences." In The 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC '24), October 20-22, 2024, Fairfax, VA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 Pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691684
Leah Heilig, Madison Jones, Lehua Ledbetter, and Alexandria Neelis. 2023. "Cultivating Reciprocity Through Place-Based and Community-Engaged Research Methods." In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 252–254. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623059
Public & Creative Writing
Books
Losing the Dog (Poetry Collection). Salmon Poetry, Forthcoming.
Reflections on the Dark Water (Poetry Collection). Solomon & George, 2016.
Poetry Journals & Anthologies (Selected from 50+)
“Writer's Retreat” Southern Review. Summer 2022.
“Sandhill Cranes” Southern Poetry Review. Fall 2020 (58.1). Reprinted in Poets for Science, Winter 2024.
“Tree Cutter’s Song” and “Three Chicken Day.” Asheville Poetry Review. Spring 2020 (26/27.1).
“Deep Fade,” “At Heaven's Dirty Riverbank,” and “Trace.” Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Contemporary Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jessica Cory. West Virginia UP, 2019.
“Bird Clock” and “Flyover.” Tar River Poetry. Fall 2019 (59.1).
“Sunfall with Bat House.” North American Review. Winter 2019 (304.1). Reprinted in Poets for Science, Winter 2024.
“Driving Home from the Psychiatric Hospital.” Prairie Schooner. Spring 2019 (93.1). Reprinted in A Tether to this World: Mental Health Recovery Stories. Main Street Rag Press, 2021. Available Open Access via Project MUSE.
“Pastoral.” Crab Orchard Review. Fall 2018 (23.2).
“Middle of Nowhere, Five-Thirty.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Spring 2018 (25.2), https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isy038.
“Blackberry” and “Nocturne.” Michigan Quarterly Review. Fall 2017 (56.4).
"Bangor Cave." Town Creek Poetry. Spring 2013 (7.1).
Brief Essays & Book Reviews
"Foreword: Why Ecologists Should Study Electracy,"" in Miami Virtue: Choragraphy of the Virtual City, by Gregory L. Ulmer with John Craig Freeman, Barbara Jo Revelle, and William Tilson. Brill, December 2022.
University of Rhode Island’s Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities (2024)
University of Rhode Island’s Research, Scholarship and Creative Work Excellence Award in the College of Arts and Sciences (2023)
Honorable Mention, the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine's Article of the Year Award. For "A Counterhistory of Rhetorical Ecologies" (2022).
CCCC/NCTE’s Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. For “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” (2022).
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference Travel Award (2022)
CCCC/NCTE’s Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication. For “Sylvan Rhetorics: Roots and Branches of More-Than-Human Publics” (2020).
Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Florida (Fall 2019).
Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Florida (Spring 2018).
Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, Auburn University (Spring 2014).
Harper Travel Award, South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference (Spring 2013).
Fellowships & Residencies
Hoverlay Creators and Ambassadors Fellowship (2023-Present)
Science Communication in the Parks (SCIP) Fellowship Mentor, Ecological Society of America and National Parks Service (2024-2025)
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, $5,000 (2021)
Residency, Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope, AL (Summer 2020).
Graduate School Preeminence Fellowship, University of Florida (Fall 2015-Summer 2019).
~$8,100,000. Collaborator (Research Translation Core Team). Rainer Lohmann (PI). STEEP II: Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 2022-2027.
$29,952.71. Co-PI. Amelia Moore (PI). Madison Jones, Marcus Nevius, Kendall Moore. Augmenting Manissean Public Memory, Sense of Place, & Belonging on Block Island. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2022-2023.
$750,000. Co-PI. Tolani Olagundoye (PI), Alissa Cox, Christina DiCenzo, Michelle Fontes, Madison Jones, Becky Sartini, Christine Turenius-Bell, Kate Venturini. Rhode Island Agriculture and Food Systems Fellowship Program (RIAFSFP). National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2022-2026.
Internal
$20,000. PI (with Amelia Moore). Phase II: Development for Augmenting Manissean Public Memory, Sense of Place, and Belonging on Block Island. University of Rhode Island Proposal Development Grants. Office of Research Development, 2023.
$5,000. PI. Visualizing Stormwater Infrastructure: A Digital Walking Tour at Roger Williams Park. University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute, Catalyst Grant, 2023.
$5,000. PI. Phase II: The North Woods Project Implementation Grant. University of Rhode Island, North Woods Small Grants Opportunity, 2022.
$7,000. PI (with Travess Smalley). Digital Infrastructure for The North Woods Project. CAREERS Cyberteam NSF Program, 2023.
$5,000. PI. The Digital Classroom in the Augmented Forest: Rhetorical Field Methods for Place-Based Teaching and Research. University of Rhode Island, North Woods Small Grants Opportunity, 2022.
$5,000. PI. Augmenting Counter-Tourism: A Deep Mapping Project on Block Island. University of Rhode Island Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Summer Research Program, 2021.
University of Rhode Island, Assistant Professor (2020 to Present)
Graduate Seminars
Rhetorical Field Methods for Science Communication (BES 521) [Offered every fall semester]: This course offers rhetorical training for field-based science communication. Students will gain knowledge of theories, methods, and practices appropriate to writing about field experiences and communicating field research.
Visualizing Environmental Advocacy (WRT534/NRS530) [Offered every spring semester]: Examines visual approaches to environmental advocacy; analyzing and writing about visuals in journal articles, scientific research, proposals, popular press; rhetorical analysis of scientific visuals and visualization.
Graduate Writing in the Life Sciences (WRT 533) [Offered every fall semester]: Seminar in graduate writing in life sciences; analyzing and writing journal articles, proposals, popular press; rhetorical analysis of scientific writing.
Undergraduate Courses
Science Writing (WRT 334) [Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025]: Scientific principles, ethics, and best practices for communicating science to public audiences.
Digital Rhetoric (WRT 235) [Spring 2024]: Create digital, visual, and multimedia content. Critically explore identity, usability, design, and rhetoric in contemporary publication. Begin a collection of digital artifacts for the capstone course, WRT495.
University of Florida, Graduate Teaching Fellow (2015-2020)
Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine
College Composition and Communication
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America
Rhetorical Ecologies. Sidney I. Dobrin & Madison Jones (eds.), NCTE, 2024.
Writing the Environment in 19C Amer. Literature. Steven Petersheim & Madison Jones (eds.), Lexington, 2015.
Director, Digital Writing Environments, Location, & Localization (DWELL) Lab at URI
Jones, M., Beveridge, A., MacDonald, H., Greene, A., & Garrison, J. (2022). "Tracking Memes in the Wild: Visual Rhetoric and Image Circulation in Environmental Communication"Frontiers in Communication, 7, DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.883278.
Jones, M. (2024). "Local," in Keywords in Making: A Rhetorical Primer, Tham, J. (ed.), Parlor Press.
Jones, M. (2024). "The Energy of Place in Florida Springs Activism," in Grassroots Activisms Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts, Phillips, L., Warren-Riley, S. and Bates, JC. (eds.), Ohio State UP.
Jones, M. (2020). "Trees, Anti-Advocacy, and Visual Rhetoric in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax)," in Ecocomix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, S. Dobrin (ed.), McFarland.
Jones, M. (2019). "(Re)placing the rhetoric of scale," in Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy, S. Dobrin and S. Morey (eds.), Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9780429399121-6.