• Curriculum Vitae

I¹m currently involved in two ongoing scholarly projects: Katy Powell (Virginia Tech University) and I are editing a collection of essays on socially progressive research methodologies. Contributors include Sandra Harding, Joanne Addison, Stuart Blythe, Ellen Barton, Ellen Cushman, Chris Haas & Kerrie Farkas, Gail Hawisher & Cindy Selfe, Gloria Jacobs, Brian Huot & Michael Williamson, Gesa Kirsch, Richard Marback, Sharon McGee, Christa Teston. In addition to an introductory chapter on socially progressive research epistemologies (co-authored with Katy), I have also co-authored (with Beth Tomlinson and Jennifer Castillo) a chapter in the collection, ³Feminist Research Theories, Subjectivity in Empirical Research, and the Creation of Research Problems.²

Chris Haas and I have been working for the last several years on a large corpus of naturally-occurring instant messaging conversations. Our research team (comprised at various times of graduate students and undergraduates) has developed a taxonomy of IM language features and used it to code the over 30,000 word corpus. Our analysis has allowed us to make several arguments about language change, language forms, and what writing is now ¬arguments we¹ve made in presentations at several national conferences and in manuscripts currently under review. We are now putting together a book-length project based on our three year research project. We are currently working with Jessica Heffner, a KSU undergraduate, on several projects involving undergraduate ¬ faculty research collaboratives.

Areas of Interest

Writing Technologies, Empirical Research, and Writing Instruction

Selected Recent Publications

³Gender matters: Literacy, Learning, and Gaming in One American Family.² Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections. Eds. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

³Thinking about Multimodality.² (with Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe). Multimodal Composition for the 21st Century:  A Resource Book for Teachers. Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. 2007.

³Literacy Work in a Technology-Rich Culture: Issues at the Intersection of Labor, Technology, and Writing Instruction.² Co-authored with Patricia Sullivan. Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy. Eds. Patricia Sullivan and Pamela Takayoshi. Hampton Press, 2006.

Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy. Co-edited with Patricia Sullivan. 21 chapters authored by (among others): Charles Bazerman, Marilyn Cooper, Janet Carey Eldred, Richard Miller, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Victor Vitanza. Hampton Press, 2006.

³Accepting Roles Created for Us: The Ethics of Reciprocity.² Co-authored with Katy Powell. College Composition and Communication 54 (2003): 394¬422.