Editors' Biographies

Executive Editors and Founding Directors

Gail E. Hawisher is Professor of English and founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She has primarily published in literacy and technology studies, and co-edits with Cynthia Selfe the international journal Computers and Composition, along with the Hampton book series, New Dimensions in Computers and Composition. The book series features over 15 scholarly volumes published since 2004.  Her recent work with Cynthia Selfe includes Global Literacies and the World Wide Web (Routledge, 2000) and Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies (Utah State University Press, 1999), which won the Distinguished Book Award at Computers and Writing 2000.  She and co-author, Cynthia Selfe, have also published the book-length Literate Lives in the Information Age (Erlbaum, 2004), which uses life history interviews to look at how people take on digital literacies.  Continuing that line of research, Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections (Palgrave, 2007) was published last year. In her everyday work through the Center for Writing Studies and its programs, she likes to think that she works to change—with lots of help from good colleagues—the culture of teaching at her large research university.  

Cynthia L. Selfe is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, and the co-Founder, with Gail Hawisher of Computers and Composition Digital Press. In 1996, Selfe was recognized as an EDUCOM Medal award winner for innovative computer use in higher education—the first woman and the first English teacher ever to receive this award.  In 2000, Selfe, with long-time collaborator Hawisher, was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator award by the CCCC Committee on Computers. Selfe has served as the Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication; the Chair of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English; and, with Hawisher, the co-editor of Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Selfe has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited numerous books on computers in composition studies including Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers (Hampton Press, 2007), Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century (with G. Hawisher, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Literacy and Technology in the 21st Century, the Perils of Not Paying Attention (SIU Press, 1999), Literate Lives in the Information Age:  Narratives of Literacy from the United States (with G. Hawisher, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), Writing New Media:  Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition (with A. Wysocki, J. Johnson Eilola, and G. Sirc; Utah State University Press, 2004), Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994:  A History (with G. Hawisher, P. LeBlanc, and C. Moran, Ablex, 1996). 

Editors

Patrick W. Berry is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught courses in first-year composition, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, most recently in the context of a medium-high security prison. Originally from New York City, he completed an MA in literature at Brooklyn College while working in magazine publishing before turning to his chosen field of Writing Studies. His published work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (2007) and, more recently, in the coauthored chapters of Ubiquitous Learning (2009) and Technological Ecologies & Sustainability (2009). His research focuses on how teachers negotiate their personal literacy histories with their understandings of literacy theories and on how those negotiations figure into their perspectives on literacy and its teaching. He is also currently working on the forthcoming multimodal book project Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times (with Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe).

Jason Palmeri is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Interactive Media Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio—where he also serves as Coordinator of the Digital Writing Collaborative. Jason's book, Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy, will be forthcoming form Southern Illinois University Press in spring 2012. He has also published numerous articles about digital writing pedagogy in journals such as Computers and Composition and Technical Communication Quarterly.

Richard (Dickie) Selfe is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW) at the Ohio State University. The CSTW conducts research and provides services on writing in 21st-century contexts through a Writing Center, WAC & Outreach programs, a Writing Minor, and the Student Technology Consultant program. Selfe’s academic interests lie at the intersection of communication pedagogies, programmatic curricula, and the social/institutional influences of digital systems. His most recent book-length project is entitled Sustainable Communication Practices: Creating a Culture of Support for Technology-rich Education (2005). Selfe’s recent publications also include “Anticipating the Momentum of Cyborg Communicative Events” (2010), “English Studies and the University Experience as Intellectual Property: Commodification and the Spellings Report” (2007), “Teacher Quality: The perspectives of NCTE members” (2006).

Karl Stolley is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he teaches graduate courses in information architecture, including standards-based Web design. His research areas include digital production literacy, the rhetorical impact of open formats and standards, and visual rhetoric. Karl also serves as co-editor of the Inventio section for the online journal Kairos, and is playing a central role in Kairos' visual and structural redesign. He maintains a blog and portfolio at http://karlstolley.com.

Professor H. Lewis Ulman teaches courses in digital media, literature and environment studies, and rhetorical theory, history and criticism at Ohio State University. He has authored Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetoric (SIUP, 1994), edited The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 (Aberdeen UP, 1990), and published articles on eighteenth-century British philosophy and rhetoric, American nature writing, and digital media. Ulman regularly collaborates with his students on electronic textual editions of unpublished nineteenth-century American manuscripts. He is also a founding partner in the Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) with Cynthia L. Selfe. 

Melanie Yergeau is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. A recipient of the 2009 Kairos Best Webtext Award, she researches how disability studies and digital technologies complicate our understandings of writing and communication. She has published in College English, Disability Studies Quarterly, Computers and Composition Online, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Along with John Duffy, she served as a guest editor for the Summer 2011 special issue of DSQ on disability and rhetoric. Active in the neurodiversity movement, Melanie serves on the Board of Directors of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN). She blogs semi-regularly at aspierhetor.com.

Project Directors

Kristine Blair is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Bowling Green State University. In addition to publications on gender and technology, online learning, electronic portfolios, and the politics of technological literacy acquisition, Blair has served as the editor of the journal Computers and Composition Online since 2003. In 2007 she received the national Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Computers and Composition. Blair currently directs the Digital Mirror Computer Camp, an outreach initiative for girls in grades 6-8 funded by a national American Association of University Women Community Action Grant.

Stephanie Vie is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Writing Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where she teaches professional and technical writing, first-year composition, public speaking, and science fiction. Her research interests are in online social networking and computer games, particularly how these technologies impact literate practices.  She is an Assistant Editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and a copyeditor for Community Literacy Journal at Michigan Technological University.  Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition, e-Learning, and Computers and Composition Online. 

Blog Editors

Tim Lockridge is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught courses in digital media, web design, creative writing, composition, and pedagogy. His dissertation is a history of hacking, exploring the relationship between print technologies and digital counterpublics. He is an assistant editor at Kairos, and his scholarship has appeared in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture and the Journal of College Writing. Tim also received an MFA from Virginia Tech, and his poetry has appeared in many literary publications.

Ryan Trauman is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His dissertation argues for a historically situated approach to new media design. He is co-editor of a book of born-digital scholarship with Debra Journet and Cheryl Ball (CCPD & Utah State University Press, 2011). Trauman teaches each summer at the Digital Media and Composition Institute at the Ohio State University. His scholarship has appeared in Computers and Composition Online and Kairos, and he is co-author of a chapter in Teaching with Student Texts (USUP, 2011). His creative nonfiction has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly. Two of his video essays have been screened at the SSML Midwestern Film Festival, one of which is distributed by the Center for Digital Storytelling (2006). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (The JUMP), and he blogs regularly at his informal, professional blog, New Media Scholar.