My primary research involves the investigation of various historical periods which have involved collisions of media: Classical Greece (the shift from an oral to a literate culture), Early Modern Western culture (from manuscript to print culture), and the late 20th century (print to digital culture). Accompanying such shifts in media culture have been parallel shifts in philosophical theories of subjectivity (What is this being which thinks/speaks/writes?), as well as rhetorical theory (How ought that thinking/speaking/writing be done for best persuasive effect?). My interests lie in figuring out how these various histories fit together, how they help make sense of one another.
SAMPLE WRITING
 "Harbingers of the Printed Page: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Delivery as Remediation" (PDF, from Rhetoric Society Quarterly)
“Writing Our Way through Technology: A Proposal for Merging Process and Product in the Computer-Supported Classroom.” (PDF, from Technology in the College Classroom. Vol. 2: Humanities, with J Chambley)
"Ars Bellum, Ars Rhetorica: More Fragments and Meditations on Peacemaking Potentials in Postmodern Discourse Theory" (PDF, from the ARWT Newsletter)
SAMPLE DIGITAL MEDIA/ONLINE WRITING
 "Expanding Composition Audiences with Podcasting" (From Computers and Composition Online, co-written with Doug Dangler and Time Barrow)
"Five Ways of Looking at the Computer-Supported Composition Classroom (With Apologies to Wallace Stevens)" (From ACE Online, co-written with J Chambley and mirrored on this site)
"So Be the News Already! A Review of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People" (From Currents in Electronic Literacy)
::A Bubbling Cauldron of Rank Miscellany:: (My blog covers topics ranging from techno-pedagogy, digital media, rhetorical theory, and general geekery. Since 2003.  Subscribe)
The Marshall McLuhan Digital Fortune Teller
biblioTECH (a collaborative work with J Chambley) |
