Glenn S. Ritchey III, 2025

Academic

Current Academic Status/Employment
    Ph.D., University of Central Florida, Texts & Technology (expected 2029)
    First-Year Composition Instructor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric,
    University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, August 2024-Present.
Education
    M.A., University of Central Florida, Literary, Cultural and Textual Studies (2025)
    B.A., University of Central Florida, English Literature (2023)
    Honors in the Major Thesis: Political Bodies in the Ulster Myth Cycle: Space, Conflict, and Comedy in “Scéla Mucce Meicc Da Thó.” Advisors: Stephen C.E. Hopkins, Ph.D (Chair), Alison Hudson, Ph.D, Christian Beck, Ph.D.
Teaching Experience>
    ENC 1102: Sociocultural Construct for Research Writing, (2) Sections, Spring 2025. Instructor.
    ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing, (2) Sections, Fall 2024. Instructor.
    Joyner, Veronica. ENC 4280: Technical Writing Style, Spring 2024. Grader.
    Pugh, Tison. ENL 3378: Harry Potter Studies, Spring 2024. Grader.
    Applen, JD. LIT 4433: Literature of Science and Technology, Fall 2023. Grader.
    Pugh, Tison. LIT 3132: Legend and Literature of King Arthur, Fall 2023. Grader.
Professional Activities Associate Editor, The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal.
    Encouraged the publication of undergraduate research and pre-professional scholarship.
    Assisted students throughout the writing and revision process.
    Co-led workshops on publication strategies.
    Edited all essays for publication.
    Lecture: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Track 2, Publishing Workshop series for the UCF Undergraduate Research Journal.
    Reviewed resumes with the hiring committee.
    Helped select potential applicants and judged editing tests for interviewees.
    Co-lead interviews and co-selected the final candidate with the Faculty Editor.
Humanities Contributions
    Select XML entries in Johnson’s Dictionary Online, a complete, searchable online edition of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, 1st and 4th folio editions (1755 and 1773).
Technical Skills
    Programming & Scripting: HTML, CSS, JS, Python XML (TEI encoding)
    Version Control & Development Tools: Codeberg, Git, GitHub, VSCodium, Visual Studio Code
    Design & Media Tools: Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro), GIMP, Scribus
    Publishing & Content Management: Markdown, Cargo Collective
Professional Affiliations
    American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
    Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)
    Modern Language Association (MLA)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies
    Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA)
International Conferences
    “Constraining Generativity: Rethinking Experimental Literary Futures through Collaborative Authorship and ‘Recapitating Massive,’” Electronic Literature Organization, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 2025.
    “Seen, Not Consumed: Decolonial Aesthetics and Refusing Dominant Framing from Kashmir to Belfast,” Early Researcher Conclave and Colloquium 2025: South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations, Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, 23-24 June 2025.
National Conferences
    In Progress. “From Kashmiri Theatre to Netflix: Hamid’s Colonial Relations, State-Mediated Cultural Productions, and Cinematic Propaganda,” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22-25 October 2025.
    “A Fluid Archives of Power: EPCOT’s World Showcase and Necropolitics, the Perception Machine of Global Cultures,” Bridges and Borders: The Archive, Carnegie Mellon University, Virtual, April 2025.
    “Whose Memory?: Moving the Centre by Twining the EPCOT World Showcase,” 2025 English Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2025.
    “Prejudice and Material Control in Early Irish Literature: ‘Athairne & Amairgen’ and Otherness in the Ulster Cycle,” 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Mich. Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, May 2024.
    “‘I see a sweet country’: Ireland’s Borders and the Transhistorical Body of the Literary Feminine,” 2024 Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms Conference, Carnegie Mellon English Graduate Student Colloquia, Virtual, April 2024.
    “‘Look at our revolutionary, pissing his pants’: Hamid, Adaptation, and State-Funded Depictions of Occupation and Innocence,” 2024 English Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2024.
    “Scéla Muicce Meic Da Thó: The Ulster Cycle, Nationalism, and Spatiality in Belfast’s Murals,” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, October 2023.
    “From Dindshenchas to Place and Space: Spatiality and Medieval Irish Studies.” Virtual Undergraduate Research Conference (VURC), The Center for Interdisciplinary Writing and Research, Daytona State College, Virtual, April 2023.
    “Spatiality in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Topology of a Phantom City: The Author as Cartographer,” Spatial Imagination in the Humanities, Texas State University, Virtual, May 2021.
Fellowships
    “Ancient Defenders in the Modern Body Politic: The Ulster Cycle’s Boy and Man Heroes.” Student Scholar Symposium, University of Central Florida, March 2023.
    “An Introductory Survey of the Old Irish Language” Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Poster Showcase, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Central Florida, July 2022.
Invited Presentations
    Panel Chair. "Cultural Production, Identity, and Migration." Planetary Prisms: Solidarities, Transformations, and Resistances, 14th UCF English Symposium, March 2025.
    Panelist. “Being a Good Research Mentee.” INTRO to Research Program, University of Central Florida, October 2022.
Academic Podcasting Host & Interviewer
    “Interview with Christopher Norris (Steak Mtn),” YouTube, uploaded by Glenn Ritchey III, 19 May 2025.
    Recorded for ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing.
    “Interview with John Trefry (Inside the Castle),” YouTube, uploaded by Glenn Ritchey III, 19 Nov 2024.
    Recorded for ENC 1101: Sociocultural Construct for Community Situated Writing.
Guest Appearance
    “Episode 34: History Research Projects/Posters at the 2023 UCF Student Scholar Symposium Event,” Knights HistoryCast, from the UCF Department of History, published 21 May 2023.
Awards and Honors
    Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, University of Central Florida, 2023-2024. $5,000.
    Graduate Presentation Fellowship, University of Central Florida, Fall 2023. $500.
    Patricia Angley Memorial Scholarship, Department of English, University of Central Florida, Fall 2023. $1,000.
    Dean’s List, UCF College of Arts and Humanities, Spring 2023.
    Excellence in Undergraduate Research, UCF Department of English, Spring 2023.
    Outstanding Digital Humanist, UCF Department of English, Spring 2023.
    Student Research Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Central Florida, Spring 2023. $750.
    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Central Florida, Summer 2022. $2,000.

Creative

Media Coverage

Ad Nauseum
    “Orlando sludge band Ad Nauseum drop surprise 'new' songs after years of silence,” Orlando Weekly, October 9, 2024, [link]
    “Band of the Week: Ad Nauseum,” Orlando Weekly, August 14, 2017, [link]
    “22 Orlando Bands You Should Keep an Eye and Ear Out for in 2017,” Orlando Weekly, November 30, 2016, [link]
AWG INC
    “Creecher Double Feature at Cinematique Theater,” Humid Being, May 9, 2019, [link]
Florida is Loud Fest
    “Glenn Stefani Interview,” The Vinyl Warhol, July 9, 2018, [link]
    “Best New Music Festival - Best of Orlando 2017,” Orlando Weekly, December 31, 2017, [link]
    “Why Florida is Loud Fest Needs to Be a Recurring Thing,” Orlando Weekly, December 20, 2016, [link]
    “Florida is Loud Fest Takes Over Mills Avenue All Weekend,” Orlando Weekly, December 14, 2017, [link]
    “Florida is Loud Fest to Return to Orlando This December,” Orlando Weekly, September 22, 2017, [link]
    “A New Orlando DIY Fest Offers Up All the Varying Flavors of Southern Heaviness,” Orlando Weekly, December 14, 2016, [link]
Flying Limbs
    “Band of the Week: Flying Limbs,” Orlando Weekly, December 9, 2019, [link]
    “14 Local Artists Who Are Reshaping Orlando Music Scene,” Orlando Weekly, November 29, 2017, [link]
Temperament
    “Debuts of Counterweight and Florida is Loud Fest Prove Good Harbingers of 2017,” Orlando Weekly, December 28, 2016, [link]
    “Time Waste Management and TMD Debut Fascinating Audiovisual Series,” Orlando Weekly, December 17, 2016, [link]
Witchbender
    “Noise-core Band Witchbender Plays Two Sets at The Intimate Nook on Robinson,” Orlando Weekly, June 5, 2019, [link]
    “Hot Snakes Make an Astonishing Comeback at The Abbey,” Orlando Weekly, May 4, 2019, [link]
    “Band of the Week: Witchbender,” Orlando Weekly, February 5, 2018, [link]
    “Bad Balloon Rising in the Scene Debuts Tampa Noise Rockers Vacancy”, Orlando Weekly, December 1, 2017, [link]

Place-Based Projects

Performance
    Baking, 2023 – Present.

Inspired by the work of Bill Drummond, this project explored critical making, community orature, and ephemeral cultural practices through baking scones and making jam upon request. Over the course of 2023, individuals could request scones and jam with a month’s notice, at no cost. Centered around sharing food, the gatherings emphasized oral storytelling and embodied cultural transmission, recalling traditions of orature where cultural memory and social bonds are formed through direct, personal interaction.

By positioning baking as performance and food preparation as composition, the project bridged theories of composition studies, Old Irish oral traditions, and decolonial practice, critiquing digital dependency and commodification. Like Drummond’s work, it prioritized process over product, fostering communal presence and relationality over mediated interaction.

Managed all aspects of production, from sourcing ingredients to coordinating requests and facilitating gatherings, with scones and jam distributed exclusively during in-person events.

Video Installation
    Marie, Mon Amour – Self-released, limited VHS run, 2018.

An experimental short film combining iPhone footage with distorted B-film clips, inspired by 1980s direct-to-video thrillers and avant-garde filmmakers such as Dietmar Brehm, Cecilia Condit, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film follows a memory in an off-season beach town searching for a lost lover, with intercut cemetery footage implying a mysterious murder.

    Screenings
    Manes Emporium of Doubt, October 28, 2018, Invited.
    Cinematique Theater, 2019 — during the COVID-19 lockdown as a conceptual installation for an empty audience.

Publications

Edited & Designed
    Ritchey III, Glenn S., ed. Oil Spill. By John Hoffman. Sifting Press, October 2024.

    Edited, designed, and coordinated the publication process for this short story collection, contributing both editorial oversight, layout design, and the manufacturing process.

Coverage for Oil Spill
    "'OIL SPILL’ – 6 Short Horror Stories Inspired by Stephen King & ‘The X-Files’ Available for Preorder!". Bloody Disgusting, October 2024. [link]
    "Weekend Nachos Vocalist John Hoffman Discusses His Debut Short Story Collection." No Echo, September 2024. [link]
    "***OIL SPILL INTERVIEW***." The Lo Fi Horror Guy, September 2024. [link]
    "Worshipping Fear, Absorbing Terror: An Interview with JOHN HOFFMAN About His Short Story Collection OIL SPILL." Cvlt Nation, August 2024. [link]

Independent Publications
    Lebor II – Self-published as Lebor Publications, limited pamphlet run, July 2023.

    Limited-edition pamphlet featuring fragmented experimental writing and abstract storytelling, described as “the first part of a two-part exorcism, presented in reverse order.” It blends chaotic temporal loops, decaying structures, and surreal postmodern landscapes with gothic minimalism and blending of Central Scots. Written, edited, and designed by Glenn S. Ritchey III. Managed all aspects of production, from content to exclusive distribution at Topos Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY.

    Lebor I – Self-published as Lebor Publications, limited pamphlet run, June 2023.

    Limited-edition pamphlet featuring experimental writing and object design, published to incite new ideas and retire old ones. Described as “an unmixed, unmastered, non-existing dance mix single with a bloated preamble,” it blends conceptual critique with farcical reflection. Written, edited, and designed by Glenn S. Ritchey III, with implementation of the custom typeface Amalgam by Benjamin Tuttle. Managed all aspects of production, from content to exclusive distribution at Topos Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY.

Publications, as AWG INC
    “Vacances de Printemps sans Mon Amour.” SR50 Magazine, December 2019.

    A farcical meditation on writing that blends genre disruption with surreal imagery. Drawing on Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s narrative techniques, the story reimagines the Beach Party series as an abstract, de-facto slasher, subverting genre conventions and audience expectations in arts and culture media.

    “M. Accelerated: A Deconstruction of the ‘Spaghetti Western’ and Failed Cinema.” Pallor Pink Vol. 6: This Ain’t My First Rodeo, November 2019. [link]

    A genre deconstruction reimagining the spaghetti western through the fragmented narrative style of Marguerite Duras and the iconic imagery of Sergio Leone. The work juxtaposes surreal visuals with reflective text, exploring the tension between genre conventions and personal, process-driven creation.