Associate Director, Sweetland Center for Writing; Co-Director, Digital Rhetoric Collaborative; Chair, Executive Committee; Chair, University Advisory Committee; Chair, Lecture Review Committee; Teaching Professor
He/Him/His
About
I like the interactions between computers and old media. Like, can writing be the same if we put pen on paper or if we press buttons on a keyboard? And with writing I mean the process of it: the thinking, composing, revising of it. I like to think about writing, and how it shapes our thoughts. An epistemology, so to speak. But basically, I am a teacher who thrives seeing other people experience the overwhelming adventure of writing. Anything. Anywhere. In any medium. On any occasion.
Fields of Study/Research Interests
Rhetoric and Composition; Multimodality and Digital Media; Cultural Studies; Writing Center Pedagogy
Recent Awards and Grants
Academic Innovation Fund, March 2023, June 2020, April 2019
Digital Studies Teaching Award, May 2020
Rackham Dean's Strategic Initiaties Fund, April 2020
CRLT Instructional Development Fund, March 2020
Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs Funding for Research on Teaching and Learning, August 2019
Select Publications
"The Dissertation ECoach: Supporting Graduate Students as They Transition to Dissertation Writing." Computers and Composition (2024)
"Writing the Selfie." Prompt 2.2 (2018)
"The Rhetoric of Memes." Syllabus 5.1 (2016)
"An Epic of Riots: The Multitude as hero in Handsworth Songs." The Journal of Popular Culture 47.4 (2014): 742-59.
Affiliations
NCTE
MLA
