• Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
• B.A. Clark University, Worcester, MA

• University of Northern 黑料社区, Associate Professor of English, 2023-Present听

• University of Northern 黑料社区, Assistant Professor of English 2016-2023听

• University of South Florida, Assistant Professor of English, 2008-2016听

Former Director of UNC鈥檚 Writing, Editing, and Publishing Major. Currently serving as the English Department鈥檚 Director of Graduate Studies.听听

I research the intersections of 21st century technologies and contemporary rhetorical theory, particularly theory that explores听difference, alterity, and human relations. My background is in postmodern theory; when I have time to read theory,听滨鈥檓听usually reading Bruno Latour, Emmanuel Levinas, Adrianna听Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and/or Trish Roberts-Miller. Recently, I have published material on how we might rebuild our faith in democracy by reconnecting with public life. I have听written听several articles on how digital technology transforms the way we think about ourselves and others, and how we can better prepare ourselves to live in a diverse and connected world. My fall 2026 sabbatical project included an upcoming chapter on how incorporating AI technologies into professional writing classes helps ease student anxiety by revealing to them the machine鈥檚听limitations, and听reinforcing the professional need to embrace a 鈥渉uman-computer-interactive鈥� approach to AI integration. I teach courses on rhetorical theory,听research writing, professional writing, non-profit communications, graphic design, and video games.听听

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• “How Teaching a HITL Approach to Prompt Engineering Can Reduce Student Resistance to AI and Develop More Confident Writers and Editors.” AI in Technical Communication: Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies. Eds. Ghetto and Vance. Publication forthcoming.  

• “Something Fun: Developing An Event that Enacts Arendt’s Public Happiness.” Just Rhetoric. Parlor Press. Accepted Dec 2024. Publication forthcoming.  

• “How I Implemented Asao B. Inoue’s Labor-Based Grading and Other Antiracist Assessment Strategies.” CEA Critic 84(2), 2022, 160-179..  

• “Toward a Professional and Technical Communication Made Whole: Jody Shipka, Creativity, Postpedagogy, and Professional and Technical Communication.” Composition Forum 33, Spring 2016. Co-authored with Megan McIntyre.  

• “Uncrossing God: How Levinas’s Ethics Might Contribute to Latour’s Politics.” Philosophy and Rhetoric Vol. 48.3, 2015, 313-337. 

• “From Constituting to Instituting: Kant, Latour, Twitter, and the Possibility of a Non-Modern University.” The Object of Rhetoric: Assembling and Disassembling Bruno Latour, 2015.  Eds. Rivers and Lynch. Co-authored with Meredith W. Johnson. 

• “Maira Kalman and/as Choric Invention.” Enculturation 18, 2014. Co-authored with Ella Browning.  

• “Postpedagogy and Web Writing.” With Mark H. Leahy. Computers and Composition 32, 2014, 84–95. 

• “Our Electrate Stories: Explicating Ulmer’s MyStory.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 18.2, January 2014.  Co-authored with Bieze, Ella R., Cagle, Lauren E., Carabelli, Jason, Dixon, Zachary P., Hopton, Sarah-Beth, Gay, Kristen N., McIntyre, Megan M.  

• “How the Internet Saved My Daughter; How Social Media Saved My Family.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 15.1, January 2011.