Bio

Eric Mills is a freelance writer/editor and new media theorist based in Denver, Colorado. Relocated from Buffalo, NY, Eric is the Technical Director for Great Education Colorado, an organization that advocates for adequate funding for public education in Colorado. Eric took his Master's Degree in American Literature and Critical Theory, and he graduated from University Cum Laude with degrees in Philosophy and American Literature.

Always looking to learn something new, Eric builds web sites and remodels old city houses. He has taught university courses on Protest and Social Reform, and designed non-native English speaking curricula for universities in China.

 

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Currently

• Technical Director
  Great Education Colorado, a nonpartisan, statewide, grassroots organization of parents and other public school supporters that advocates for adequate funding for public education in Colorado.
    
• Founding Editor
  WineandWheels.com, a journal written by Eric Mills and Lisa Rothgery containing wine reviews and tandem bicycle rides with helpful tips, useful products, websites, gear, and a healthy sense of humor.
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Upcoming

• March 2008
  • Rose Family Medicine Residency has hired Eric to redesign their web site. Look for it coming soon...

Recent Projects

• 2008
  • Access Family Medicine, a new group of freshly graduated physicians need a web presence.
  • 2007
  • Great Education Colorado, a 501c3 non-profit designed with css and simple html with an emphasis on simplicity and integration with the supporter platform, Democracy in Action [link]
  • Great Education Action a c4 non-profit companion site to Great Education Colorado.
  • KVK Photography, a photography blog that needed journal incorporation and post streamlining.
  • Ontologist, Local Matters Inc., an internet, voice and wireless technology solutions company that empower local media publishers and service providers to maximize their success in the local search market. By using software and services to build Yellow Pages Internet offerings, we were able to shorten Yellow Pages publishers time-to-market and lower their total technology costs.
• 2006
  • Editor, Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, Bernadette Wegenstein (Cambridge , Mass. : MIT Press, 2006).
  • "Getting Under the Skin breaks the impasse over embodiment and disembodiment haunting recent studies in new media through a brilliant critical engagement with the traditions of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and corporeal feminism. Arguing that our notions and experiences of embodiment are enmeshed in a dialectical tension of fragmentation/holism framed by media, Wegenstein draws on various sources of popular culture to demonstrate that at the turn of the millennium, the body has turned into an 'organ without a body' or, better, into an 'organ instead of a body.' Her timely reconceptualization of the body as the basis for media offers new direction for thinking about the body and human agency in an era of nanoscale fragmentation and rapidly blurring distinctions between hardware and life."
    
  • --Tim Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society, Duke University
• 2005
  • Faculty, D'Youville College
  • Designed and instructed composition, advanced composition, and literature courses using a workshop model that engages university students in critical thinking and writing through the analysis of texts, topical debate, and metacognitive critique of argument essays and personal essays. Course themes include Protest and Social reform, The American Dream, and The Postmodern Family. Read my philosophy of teaching statement.

Elsewhere

• Flickr photos, online photo album of Eric Mills with family, mountains, and his kitty cat.
• Tumble Log, Eric's life online, abridged
• Mills-Bros.com, an online scrapbook belonging to two brothers, Brian and Eric Mills, who spend too much time on the internet.

Contact

personal email to eric at eamills.com

Wine and Wheels related to info at wineandwheels.com

Great Education related to webmaster at greateducation.org