A Brief Bit of Biography
Will Burdette is a Ph.D. student in the English department.
Prior to attending The University of Texas at Austin, Burdette worked for The Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission as an information specialist.
Burdette came to Austin in 2002 after completing his M.A. in English from TCU. In 2002, Burdette was a full-time VISTA serving The Sustainable Food Center.
Burdette has written and designed communications for a diverse range of entities from advertising agencies to newspapers to academic journals.
Burdette finds writing about himself in the third person awkward. But, then again, he finds a lot of things awkward. Thus, he is, understandably, interested in how he might use awkwardness as part of a really captivating public speaking style.