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At a dinner for a famous Visiting Author..., the guest of honor, who was sitting next to me, asked what I did on campus. I rattled on briefly about “advising faculty” and “online pedagogy.” Listening carefully, the Visiting Author’s eyes cleared after a moment. She pulled back from me slightly as if to get a better look, and said, “You mean distance education?"—as if I had been struggling to find a euphemistic way of explaining that I handled the campus’s medical waste.
— from "Making Distance Presence: The Compositional Voice in Online Learning" published in Computers and Composition (September 2003) More on my scholarship....

"The Rhetoric of Irritation: Inappropriateness as Visual/Literate Practice" will appear in the book Defining Visual Rhetorics edited by Marguerite Helmers and Charles Hill and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers. More on my scholarship....

Next Semester, I'm teaching

Web Design and Digital Culture (COMP 5230)

Visual Rhetoric and Culture (COMP 3220)

New Media Writing (COMP 5250)

"Most of us can still remember the sounds of drills grinding and rattling through cinderblock walls when crews first installed Ethernet cables in faculty office buildings. Did that racket signal the first breaching of what Gerald Graff has called the "systematic non-relation" among disciplines, which keeps the university from realizing its social and intellectual mission, or were we hearing only stop-gap dental work near the end of the century to keep the old university from losing its teeth altogether?"

— from "Technologizing the Conflicts: Graff and the Web," which appeared in the journal Pedagogy. More on my scholarship....