Wendy Blanchard, fourth year, ABD
wlblanc@clemson.edu

• BA English and Film Studies, Emory U
• MAT English and Education, U of South Carolina, Columbia
• MA Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York U

Interests: Mass Media, Film Theory, Literacy and Play, Games, Ethics in Education, and Internet Education and its affect on Socialization and Emotional Health of Children

Jimmy Butts, Third Year, ABD
jmbutts@clemson.edu

• BA English, The College of Charleston
• MA English, Winthrop U

Interests: postmodern rhetorics, game studies, fictions as alternate realities, ludology, digital media, and ergodic literature

Publications:  with Bonnie Devet, Alicia Hatter, LuElla Putnam, and Jill Willis  “Looking Back: Linking Writing Lab Consultants of the Past with the Present.”  Writing Lab Newsletter 28.2 October 2003. 12-15.

Presentations: “Quixote’s Ludic Hero-Quest as a Precursor to G4M3R S7UD13S.”  Gaming Panel National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference  New Orleans, LA.  April 8-11, 2009.

“The New Billy Pilgrimage: Seeking the Complex Anti-War Stance in Vonnegut’s
Slaughterhouse-Five.”  College English Association.  Pittsburgh, PA.  March 26-28, 2009.
 
“Fanny Burney’s Evelina as a Rib to the Gothic.”  South Eastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies: Gothic Panel.  Winthrop University.  Charlotte, NC.  March 6-8, 2009.
 
“Computers Can Do Lit Crit Too: Microsoft’s New New Critical Reading of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper.”  9th English Graduate Student Association Conference: The Machine in the Garden 2.0.  University of North Carolina, Charlotte.  Charlotte, NC.  January 30, 2009.
 
“The Slave as Archetypal Metaphor in Pudd’nhead Wilson: Twain’s Persistent Meaning.” Critical Approaches to Mark Twain Panel. Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference.  Myrtle Beach, SC.  March 22-24, 2007.
 
“Hellacious Hellenism: Joyce’s Cynical (and Optimistic) View of Ireland.”  Exile and Assimilation Panel.  2007 Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies. Winthrop University.  Rock Hill, SC.  March 8-10, 2007.

Kristie Byrum, first year
kbyrum@clemson.edu

• BA Journalism, The Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA
• MA Journalism and Mass Communications, the U of South Carolina

Interests: Global Corporate and Institutional Communications, Communications Studies, Marketing Communications, Gatekeeping Theory, Agenda-Setting, Female Entrepreneurship, Feminist Scholarship.

Anthony Collamati, fourth year, ABD
acollam@clemson.edu

• BA English, Saint Anselm College
• MA English, Loyola University Chicago

Interests: Digital media, visual rhetorics, game studies, philosophy of technology, practice-based research, new materialism, screenwriting, film & video production.

Films: "The Incorruptible of Bell and Devon," 2003 Narrative Short, Exus Films, Writer and Director, Sugar in the Raw Arts Festival.

The Acedia Thing, 2003 Narrative Feature, Exus Films, Writer and Co-Director.

"Apology," 2004 Narrative Short, Katlei Productions, Writer and Director, Winner IFP Production Fund Grant, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Midwest Independent Film Festival, Flyover Film Festival.

"I Radici Dell'Amore," 2006 Documentary Short, Director and Editor, FIEIRI International Chicago Artistic Achievement Award.

Publications: "JUMP Aside." EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34, no. 3 (2011). Video. Featured in Justin Hodgson's "Making the Jump: Digital Publishing and Collaboration."

" 'From This!': Challenging the Divisions of Word, Image, and Rhetortic." PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory. 19.1-4. 211-24.

Presentations: "Darkness Rules: the Unwinding of Genesis in Byron's 'Darkness,'" Saint Anselm Mind Over Major Conference, 1997.

"Head to Head with Hagiography in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, May 1999.

"NTRUDER ALERT: Rhetorics from the Uncanny Valley," Panel presentation, Rhetoric Society of America, May 2010.

"Dead by Design: Rethinking Failure in Video Games" Games Learning and Society 6.0, June 2010.

"Multimodal Dabbling and Other Reasons Teachers of Composition Should Take More Art Classes," Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2011.

"Camera Inversions: Writing with Outtakes and Cheating the Gate,” To be presented at the Conference of College Composition and Communication, March 2012.

"Sentencing," part of "MoMLA: From Panel to Gallery" Interactive work to be exhibited at Modern Language Association Convention, January 2012.

P. Kelly Cooper, first year
pkcoope@g.clemson.edu

• BA Christian Studies, North Greenville U
• MA English, The College of Charleston / The Citadel (joint)

Interests: Mythology and Folklore, Rhetorical Grammar, Social Media, Information Design, Assessment, Screencasting, Expressivist Pedagogy, Christian Rhetoric, Young Adult Literature, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Literacy Studies.

Presentations: "Use of Online Writing Labs to Better Serve Graduate Students," Citadel Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation, March 2011.

"What is Supplemental Instruction?," Citadel Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation, March 2010.

"Student and Professor Caricatures: Where Do Perception and Reality Split?," The Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2009; Citadel Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation, April 2009; Citadel Communication across the Curriculum, November 2009.

"The Effects of Feedback and Cognitive Playfulness in Consultant Training: How Do Tutoring Attitudes and Practices Change?," (with Chris Fudge and Jessica Mixon) South Central Writing Center Association Conference, April 2009.

"Blurring Boundaries While Building Bridges," (with Judy Burges, Chris Fudge, and Jessica Mixon) Southeatern Writing Cetner Association Conference, February 2008.

Jared S. Colton, second year
jscolto@clemson.edu
 
• BA English Literary Studies, Utah Valley University
• MA English Rhetoric and Composition, Washington State University
 
Interests: Critical/Postmodern/Rhetorical Theories, Philosophies/Rhetorics
of Immanence and Transcendence, Bureaucratic Institutions, Religion and
Revelation, Deterritorializations and Becomings, Sound and Affect.

Presentations: "Don't Kill the Messenger: Rhetorics of Indoctrination." 2010
Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, May 2010.

"Toward a Reconciliation of Invitational Rhetoric." Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association Conference. Park City, Utah, October 2009.

John Dinolfo, fourth year, ABD
dinolfo@clemson.edu

• BA English, Honors Program, Villanova U
• MA English and Writing, Florida State U

Interests: Medical rhetorics. Visual communication and information design in biomedicine and healthcare. Writing across the curriculum and within the disciplines. Technical communication in the health professions. Medical humanities. Rhetorics of cross-cultural dialogue between the biomedical sciences and religion.

Publications: Chapter in book, "Seeing and Re-Viewing the Human Body: Reflections on the Rhetorics of Medical Videography." In Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Eds., Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2008.

Article, with Barbara Heifferon and Lesly Temesvari. "Seeing Cells: Teaching the Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of Biology." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4 (2007): 395-417. Article nominated for 2007 NCTE Best Article award.

Article in Online Journal (Summer 2009). New Media & Medical Humanities: Visual Rhetoric in Selected YouTube Patient/Illness Narratives. Rocky Mountain Communication Review. Vol. 6, Issue 1, Special Forum: New Media, New Relations. 

Presentations: "Lessons learned in piloting a WAC/WID course for college biology majors." International WAC Conference in Austin, TX, May 30, 2008.

Patricia Fancher, second year
pjfanch@clemson.edu

• BA Communication (Second major in Music), Columbia College, SC
• MA Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University, DC

Interests: Media studies, specifically digital media and Internet studies, blogs and blogging as a form of knowledge production and pedagogy, digital ethnography, social media, film and visual studies, critical/postmodern theories.

Publications: "The Pleasure of Death: The Construction of Masculine Citizenship in Military Recruitment Ads." Gnovis 8.2 (2008).

Conference Presentations: "New Approaches in Georgetown's American Studies Program: Digital Texts and Other Non-Traditional Formats." Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Summer Institute. Sponsored by Georgetown University, Washington, DC May 19th, 2009.

"Life through the Lens: Cyborg Subjectivity and Cinematic Hybridity." (Media)tions: Translating the Body Politic, Sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, February 27th, 2009.

"Representation of Destructive Femininity and Cyborg Subjectivity:
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Cyborg in the Film Metropolis." William A.
Kern Conference on Visual Communication: Rhetorics and Technology, Sponsored by the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 10-13, 2008.

Eric Hall, first year
eh5@clemson.edu

• BA English, The Master's College, Santa Clarita, CA
• MLitt Theology & the Arts, U of St. Andrews, Scotland

Interests: Anarchy (epistemological); the postmodern according to J.F. Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard; classical rhetoric and 15th and 16th century Humanist (re)interpretation of theology; rhetoric of technology, information design, the internet; anime and animation.

Publications: Review of Saving Leonardo, by Nancy Pearcey. Themalios, May 2011.

Sharon Henry , first year
skhenry@clemson.edu

• BA English, Minors: linguistics and philosophy, The Ohio State U
• MA English, Composition, U of Akron
• MA English, Literature, U of Akron

Interests: Critical/Literary Theory, Postmodernism, Post-structuralism & Deconstruction, Theory and Criticism,, Derridian Linguistic Theory, Rhetoric and Literature of the Vietnam War, Oral Narrative, History of the English Language, and the Graphic Novel on Film.

Presentations: "(Mis)Fortune and Fame: Racial and Gender Passing in Hurst’s Imitation of Life," College English Association 2011 Annual Conference, March 2011.

"Yo-yos and M16s: Unspoken Voices of Childhood in O’Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' " College English Association 2010 Annual Conference, March 2010.

"In the Shadow of Language: Misinterpretation and Mistranslation in A Canticle for Leibowitz," New Voices Conference: Rhetoric of the Apocalypse, October 2009.

Invited Presentations: "Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried," The Ohio State U, March 2011.

"Yo-yos and M16s: Tools and Toys in Tim O’Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' " U of Akron, November 2010.

Plato's Symposium Discussion Facilitator, The Ohio State U, November 2007.

Steven Holmes, third year, ABD
skholmes@clemson.edu

• BA English, Honors Program, Washington State U
• MA English Literature, Washington State U

Interests: Paratheories of Being (and becomings) in Critical Theory. Historiographies of Rhetoric(s) and Grammatological mutations. Deleuze. Free(d) jazz and noise. The Text. The Uncanny.

Publications: Review Article, "Ecologies and New Media Practice." Collin Gifford Brooke's Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. In Enculturation 7 (2010).

Walter Iriarte, third year (leave of absence)
wiriart@clemson.edu

• BA English Humanities, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH
• MA English, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

Research Interests: Poetry Rhetoric, Christian Rhetoric, Visual and Film Rhetoric, Information Design, Theology and Philosophy

Presentations: "Poetry Rhetoric in the Composition Class." Marshall University Writing Program, Huntington, WV, 2008.

Stephen J. Lind, third year, ABD
slind@clemson.edu

• BS Communication Studies, Liberty U
• MA Speech Communication, U of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign

Interests: Public representations of Creationism/Intelligent-Design/Evolution in the Museum, historical Puppetry, Animal Communication, Peanuts comic strips, Biblical views of communication

Publications:  "Reading Peanuts: the Secular and the Sacred." ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 4.2 (2008).

Presentations:  “Talking Animals: A Reexamination of Symbolic Animal Communication in Light of Burke’s ‘Definition of Man.’” Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences Conference. Lynchburg, VA 2005.

“Turning Puppets into Muppets: An examination of the allure of television that gave birth to a new breed of an ancient art-form.” Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference. New York City, NY 2006.

“The Gift of Language: Pondering a Biblical Approach to the Origin of Communication.” National Communication Association Annual Convention. San Antonio, TX 2006.

"Powerful Puppets: Cultural Communication from an Overlooked Venue." Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences Conference. Virginia Beach, VA 2007.

“Experiencing the Same Crisis: Creating a Shared Point of Reference” Panel: Confronting Crisis in the Communication Classroom.  Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences Conference. Virginia Beach, VA 2008.

Michael R. Lucas, first year
mrlucas@g.clemson.edu
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• BA English, Portland State U
• MA Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon U

Interests: Visual rhetorics, power and information, violence and the sacred, the creation and perpetuation of social norms, narrative tropes across mediums and cultures, the roll of artistic expression in society, creating social justice through communication and technology, and the ability of parody and discord to respond to, and disrupt, dehumanizing cultural representations. 

Videos: The Council for Humanity and the Idea Crisis of 2015, 2011 Found Footage Short, Creator.
The Integrity of the Image, 2010 Found Footage Feature, Creator.

Presentations: "Problematic Representations: 'Us' and the Celebration of Fiscal Irresponsibility in Popular Music," Reading For Class, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 2011.

Nicole McFarlane, fourth year, ABD
nmcfarl@clemson.edu

• BA Political Science UNC Charlotte
• MA English and African American Literature NC A&T State U

Interests: Visuality and Race Rhetorics, Post-pedagogy and Multimodal Composition

Publications: “Carl Owens: Biographical Entry,” African American National Biography, Oxford UP. February 2008.

Presentations: "Hearing the Same Stuff, Listening in a New Way: Contexts and Practices for Renewing Student and Teacher Engagement in First Year Composition." National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, November 2008.

"HBCU Student Ideology and Black Masculinity: The Political Economy of the Down Low Discourse,” (dis)junctions: Twelfth Annual Humanities Conference. University of California, Riverside. April 2005.

"Black Motherhood and Competing Nationalisms in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee,” (dis)junctions: Twelfth Annual Humanities Conference. University of California, Riverside. April 2005.

"Exploring, Discovering, Becoming: Beyond Multiculturalism and Diversity: Anti-Racist, Anti-Sexist, and Non-Phobic Pedagogies in the HBCU First-Year Writing Classroom,” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 2005.

“Redefining the ‘HB’ of the HBCU: Graduate Studies and the Culture Wars in the African American South,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC. December 2005.

Lauren Mitchell, third year, ABD
lmmitch@clemson.edu

• BDes Architecture, University of Florida
• MArch Architecture, University of Michigan
• MS Architectural Studies: Pedagogy, University of Florida

Interests: Beginning design, imaging metaphysics/visual rhetoric in relation to design processes, architectural tactility and narrative, the strange capitalistic spaces of “big-box” America often overlooked in architectural studies

Publications: “Seeing Practices,” in Journal of Architectural Education, 62.1: 20-26. (Blackwell P, 2008).

“Immediate Loose Fit,” Illustration for “Don’t Tear the Sheet” in Dimensions, 19, pp 9. (Taubman College 2006).

Presentations: “Producing Form and Forms of Knowledge,” Presented at the 2009 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Louisiana State University, March 2009.

Curtis Newbold, fourth year, ABD
cnewbol@clemson.edu

• BS in English, Professional and Technical Writing. Utah State University.
• MA in English, Literature and Writing. Emphasis in Professional Communication and Pedagogy. Utah State University.

Interests: Information design; professional communication; user experience & usability; visual communication; creativity; human-computer interaction; digital media; marketing

Presentations:"Teaching Creativity in Technical Communication Classrooms: More than Just a Knack." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA),October, 2009. Salt Lake City, UT.

"Reframing the Creative Process for Technical Communication."Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), March 2009. San Francisco, CA.

"Multimodal Learning in Technologically-Challenged Departments: Finding Ways to Teach with Technology."Intermountain Graduate Conference, April 2007. Pocatello, ID.

"New Media and the Media Analysis Essay: Juxtaposing Technology with Common Writing Assignments."Computers and Writing Online Conference, February 2007. Online.

"A Socio-Theoretical Comparison of Tattooing." Utah Arts and Letters, March 2008. Salt Lake City, UT.

"New Media and the Composition Classroom: Using Technology as a Pedagogical Tool to Teach Writing Essays." Intermountain Paper and Poster Symposium, April 2007. Utah State University.

Nicole Snell, fourth year, ABD
nsnell@clemson.edu

• BA English Literature, Gallaudet University
• MA English, Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition; California State U
Northridge

Interests: Visual Rhetorics, Information Design, User Experience Design, Multimodal Composition, Web Accessibility Law, Distance Learning, Assistive Technology.

Glen Southergill, second year
gsouthe@clemson.edu
 
• BS Psychology, Psychology Department, University of Arizona
• MA Professional Communication, Department of English, Clemson University
 
Interests: Rhetoric and ethics (theories and histories), UX (user experience design, information architecture, usability testing), digital composition/publication, virtual spaces and communities, game studies, rhetorics of science and technology.

Presentations: "Student Life: A User-Centered Approach to Supporting the Clemson Experience." Clemson University Office of Creative Services, Clemson, SC July 28, 2010.

With Tharon Howard, Alicia Hatter, Caroline Moore, Carly Finseth, and Katy Ross. "PPF Usability Research Report." Clemson University Assoc. Deans for Research Council, Clemson, SC April 8, 2010.

"On Business Ethics." Research Network Forum, Louisville, KY March 17, 2010.

"An Analysis of Writing Center Contributions to Transitional Learning." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Snowbird, UT October 8, 2009.

"Experiential Learning and New Media." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 6, 2009.

Joshua Abboud, Graduated May, 2011.
jmabboud@gmail.com
University of Kentucky

• B.A. Media Arts, Brigham Young U
• M.A. Media Arts, U of Arizona
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Interests:cinematic arts; ethics; image theory; spaces of media production, consumption and pedagogy; documentary film and visual ethnography.

Publications: “The (Counterinductive) Reality of Online Visualized Experiments: An Ironic Proliferation of Myths and Methods." Co-authored with Alicia Hatter, PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory (forthcoming)

“A (Re)Configuration of Film and Ethics.” Book Review Film-Philosophy (forthcoming)

Presentations: “The Paths of Time: Procedural Intervals in World of Warcraft.” PCA Conference. New Orleans, LA, April 2009.

Carolina Rhetoric Conference. Clemson, SC, March 2009. "A Cyclical Experience of Time in Online Serious Games."

“Digital Fairy Tales: Narrative Nostalgia and the Violence of Childhood Fantasies in We Are the Strange.” PCA Conference. San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“Pedagogical Opportunities in Making Earlier Contact with Cultural Criticism.” Cultural Studies Association Conference: Cultural Studies Methodology and Curriculum Roundtable. Tucson, AZ, April 2005.

Amanda K. Booher, Graduated May, 2009.
Dissertation: "Writing Prosthetic Bodies: Sampling and Remixing Constructions of
Flesh and Technologies." Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
amanda.booher@ttu.edu
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• B.A. English & Music, Case Western Reserve U
Minors: Psychology & Women's Studies
• M.A. English, Case Western Reserve U
Minors: 20th Century Literature, Multicultural Literature,
Gender Literature and Theory
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Dev Kumar Bose, Graduated, December 2011
dev.k.bose@gmail.com
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• BA English Education, emphasis in 20th Century American Literature, California State U, Long Beach: 2003.
• MA English: emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition, California State U, Long Beach: 2006.

Interests: Rhetorics of Transnational Identities and Political Ideologies,
Presocratics, Postmodernism, Marxist Theory and Criticism, Critical
Theory, Dominant Rhetorics of Eastern European Literatures

Publications: Review of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi. Information Design Journal 16.1 (February 2008).

Co-editor with Emily Ryalls et. al. Communication 150: Introduction to
Human Communication Student Handbook. Clemson University, 2006.

Presentations: “Sophistic Impressions of the Hermaphrodite as Dissident Intellectual through Danilo Kis.” International Society for the Study of European
Ideas. U of Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

“Statements, Discontinuities, and Representation: Answering Contentions
Against Postmodernism.” International Society for the Study of European
Ideas. U of Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

“Coping with Multimodal Environments: Conceptions of the Digital Marketplace.” Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Monash U Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy, July 2008.

“Private Compassion, Public Action: A Current Service Learning Model.”
International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. U of Texas, Austin, May 2008.

“Sophistic Influences on Marxist Rhetorics.” Research Network Forum.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, April
2008.

“Artistic Reflection and Subversion in Political Music.” Popular Culture/American Culture Conference. San Francisco. March 2008.

Michelle Dacus Carr, Graduated May, 2010.
mdacuscarr@gmail.com
University of Maryland

• BA English/Mass Communications, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
• MFA Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell U, Ithaca NY
• Northwestern University, ABD, Program in Performance Studies, 1990-95; Admitted to candidacy, 1992
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Sergio C. Figueiredo, Graduated May, 2011.
sfiguei@clemson.edu
Miami University (Ohio)

• B.A. English, Rowan U
• M.A. English (Composition/Rhetoric), Marshall U
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Interests: New Media Theory, Postpedagogy, Rhetorical Theory, Visual Rhetorics

Publications: “The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics.” Book Review. Journal of Popular Culture 42.2 (April 2009): 363-64.

“Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson, eds.” Book Review. JAC 30.1-2 (2010): 369-77.

“A Re/Thinking Film and Violence: Asbjørn Grønstad Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema.” Book Review. Film Philosophy (forthcoming)

Presentations: “Interactive Experience Design & Building Worlds: Selecting, Organizing and Showing a World of Information Through Comics.” Popular Culture Association Conference; New Orleans, LA; April 2009.

“acCOMICating Science.” Conference on College Composition and Communication; San Francisco, CA; March 2009.

“Developing a Writing Process Across Media.” Carolina Rhetoric Conference; Columbia, SC; February 2008.

Alicia Hatter, Graduated May, 2011.
ahatter@clemson.edu
Senior Usability Engineer at Vanguard's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia
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• B.A. English; Minors: Psychology, Creative Writing (Fiction); College of Charleston
• M.A. Literary Studies; Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition; Georgia State U
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Interests: User Experience Design, Information Design, Emotional Design,
Usability, Persuasive/Rhetorical User Interfaces, Digital Pedagogies

Publications: “Memory as Narrative, Artifact, and Performance: An
Exploration of the Intersections of Technologies, Cultures, and Brains in
a Review of Jose van Dijck's Mediated Memories." H-DigiRhet. 2 May,
2008.

“The (Counterinductive) Reality of Online Visualized Experiments: An Ironic Proliferation of Myths and Methods." Co-authored with Joshua Abboud, PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory (forthcoming)

Presentations: With Tharon Howard, Randy Nichols, and Dan Wu. “Donor Wars: An Empirical Study of User Experiences on University Donor Websites.”
Panel. Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA October 3-4, 2008.

With Tharon Howard, Randy Nichols, and Dan Wu. “Creating an User-Experience through an Interpolation Research Instrument for Giving’ Websites.” Panel. ATTW Conference, New Orleans, LA April 2, 2008.

“A Survey of Eleven Documentation Delivery System Alternatives.” Given with Dr. Tharon Howard. Society of Technical Communication Conference, Dallas, TX May 2 – 5, 2010.

“Intentional Bias: An Empirical Study of Interpellative User Experiences.” Given with Dr. Tharon Howard. Usability Professionals’ Association. Munich, Germany May 24 – 28, 2010.

“I Made This: ‘Becoming Screen Literate in the Freshman Composition Classroom.” CCCCs, Louisville, KY March 2010.

“User-Experience Design, Meet Interpellation. Interpellation, Meet Web 2.0.” Research Network Forum, San Francisco, CA March 11, 2009.

“Composing Digital Scholarship in 21st-century Contexts.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, San Francisco, CA March 11, 2009.

Jason Helms, Graduated May, 2010.
Assistant Director of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, U of Kentucky
jason.helms@uky.edu

• B.S. Biology (Pre-Medicine); Minors: Theological Studies; English Literature; Master's College
• M.A. Literature (English); San Francisco State U
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Joshua C. Hilst, Graduated May, 2010.
Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Composition, Utah Valley University
JHilst@uvu.edu

• B.A. English (Magna Cum Laude), The Master's College; Minor in Theology
• M.A. English (Rhetoric & Composition), The Ohio State U
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Clemson U

Justin Hodgson, Graduated May, 2009.
Dissertation: "Logos of Possibilities: Rhetorical Inventions/Inventional Rhetorics" Assistant Professor, U of Texas, Austin ... www.drw.utexas.edu
hodgson@utexas.edu

• B.A. English: Creative Writing, Illinois College
• M.A. English: Teaching of Writing, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Andrew Hurley, Graduated August 2011.
Assistant Professor, Clemson University.
Packaging Science
ruperth@clemson.edu

• B.S. Packaging Science, Clemson University 2006.
• M.S. Packaging Science; emphasis in design. Clemson University 2008
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Interests: Modern Pedagogy, CAD/CAM, Design Workflow, Human Factors, Consumer Experience, Sustainability and Biomaterials.

Publications: Hurley, et al. "The Design of a Data Recorder to Test the Effects of Color Contrast on 'This Side Up' Pictorial Markings on Package Orientation within
UPS Ground. Clemson University, 2008.

Literally Cubism. Featured in Cardboard and Cubism. Daily Journal. 5/26/07

Packaging Science Students Think Outside the Box. Article by Carrie DuPre.
Clemson University 9/1/07

Association of Independent Corrugated Converters. 2007, Corrugated as Art. "Literally Cubism," First Place

AICC. 2007, Corrugated as Art. "Corrugated as a Working Catalyst," Second
Place

John A. McArthur, Graduated May, 2008.
Assistant Professor, Queen's University of Charlotte (NC).
Director, School of Communication Undergraduate Programs
mcarthurj@queens.edu
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• B.S. Psychology & Religion, Furman U
• M.Ed. Higher Education Administration, U of South Carolina
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Randy Nichols, Graduated August, 2011.
Assistant Professor, Limestone College (SC, Chair of Limestone’s new Department of Professional Communication
randyn@clemson.edu
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• B.A. Bible & Theology: Southeastern U, Lakeland, FL.
• M.A. English Literature, Rutgers U, Newark, NJ.
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Interests: Digital & Theatrical Marginalization, Multimodal Cultural Essays, the “Dark Ride” as Genre, New Media and Cultural Meaning-making, Tropes of Digital Composition.

Publications: “Panel .22: A Wally Wood Meets Dada investigation.” PRE/TEXT 20 (2010)   (forthcoming)

Presentation: “Innocents Abroad: Cultural Mediacies in the Study Abroad Experience.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2010, Lousville, KY.

“Rick Rollin’: Interrupting the Machinery of the Culture Industry.” Carolina Rhetoric Conference, February 2010, North Carolina State University.

“Here Be Dragons: Interactive Dark Rides as Compositional Space.” Popular Culture Association Conference, April 2009, New Orleans.

“Cultural Literacies Across Media.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2009, San Francisco.

“The Wonderful World of Warcraft.” Carolina Rhetoric Conference, February 2009, Clemson University.

“Pecha Kucha as Compositional Form and Adobe Presenter as Pedagogical Delivery Technology.” Multi-Modal Users Group (MMUG), October 2008, Clemson University.

"Handling Dissonance in Writing Center Sessions." Southeastern Writing Center Association 2007 Conference, February 2007, Nashville, Tennessee.

“Creating A User-Experience Through an ‘Interpellation Research Instrument’
for Giving Websites.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference, April 2008, New Orleans.

“Donor Wars: An Empirical Study of User Experiences on University Donor
Websites.” Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, October 2008,
Savannah, Georgia.

Steven John Thompson, Graduated May, 2010.
Visiting-Professor at Towson U.
stevent@clemson.edu
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• B.A., Integrative Arts, New Media, with Honors in Media Studies and High Distinction, 1997, The Pennsylvania State U
• B.A., Media Studies--International Communication, with Honors and High Distinction, 1997, The Pennsylvania State U
• Certificate, Minor in Science, Technology and Society (STS), College of Engineering, 1997, The Pennsylvania State U
• A.A., Letters, Arts and Sciences, 1988, The Pennsylvania State U
• Certificate, The Mass Media in Britain, 1995, The U of Manchester, UK
• M.S., Media Arts and Science, School of Informatics, New Media Program, Indiana U, 2004
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Josephine Walwema, Graduated May, 2011.
Assistant Professorship, tenure track, in the Dept of English at Oakland U in Detroit
jwalwem@clemson.edu

• B.A. Educ. English and Literature, Makerere U, Uganda
• M.Ed. Teaching English and Literature, Makerere U
• M.A. Rhetoric and Writing, U of New Mexico

Interests: Information Design, Instructional Design, Visual Rhetorics, Technical Writing and Editing, Classical Rhetorical Theory, and Communication.

Mark Ward, Sr., Graduated December, 2010.
mlward@clemson.edu

Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at University of Houston-Victoria

• B.A. English Language and Literature, U of Virginia
• M.A. Communication, Spring Arbor U

Dan Wu, Graduated May, 2010.
Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China.
dwu@Clemson.edu

• B.A. English Language & Culture, Xi'an International Studies U, P.R. China
• M.A. Scientific & Technical Communication, Bowling Green State U
• Ph.D. Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson U

Stephanie Barczewski
Professor of History
sbarcze@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood. Oxford UP, 2000.
• Titanic: A Night Remembered. Hambledon Continuum, 2004.

Interests: Modern British Cultural History

David Blakesley
Campbell Chair in Technical Communication
Professor of English
Publisher, Parlor Press
dblakes@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen). Boston: Cengage, 2009.
• “Get Agrippa: A Comment on Chris Miles's 'Occult Retraction '." (Joshua Gunn, Morgan Reitmeyer, and William A. Covino). Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39.4 (October 2009): 380-87.
• “Open Access Book Publishing in Writing Studies: A Case Study.” (With Charles Bazerman, Mike Palmquist, David Russell). First Monday 13.1 (7 January 2008).
• The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. (Editor). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
• The Elements of Dramatism. Boston: Longman, 2002.

Interests: rhetorical theory, digital/visual rhetorics, print and digital publishing, film theory and production, information architecture, technical communication, computers and writing, content management.

Bryan E. Denham
Professor
Department of Communication Studies
bdenham@clemson.edu

Sample publication:
• "Advanced categorical statistics: Issues and applications in communication research." Journal of Communication 52.1 (2002): 162-76.

Interests: Empirical research methods, political and sports communication, media ethics, public opinon, and public policy formation

Andrea Feeser
Associate Professor
Department of Art
afeeser@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering, with artist Gaye Chan,. U of Hawaii P, 2006.
• Public Art Project with Gaye Chan: Historic Waikiki at www.downwindproductions.com.

Interests: Modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism, history of place as represented in visual and material culture

Keith Evan Green
Professor of Architecture and MS&E
Director, Intelligent Materials and Systems for Architecture (IMSA)

kegreen@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L., Walker, I, and Witte, J. (2006). "Three Robot-Room /The AWE Project." Proceedings of 2006 CHI (Montreal, Canada): 809-814.
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L., Walker, I, and Witte, J. (2005). "AWE (Animated Work Environment): Ambient Intelligence in Working Life." Proceedings for Ambience 2005, a Conference on Intelligent Ambience and Well-Being (Tampere, Finland): 1-7.
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L. J., Witte, J. C., Walker, I. D., Houayek, H., Rubinstein, J., Daniels, R., Turchi, J., Kwoka, M., Dunlop, I. and Johnson J. “Configuring an Animated Work Environment: A User-Centered Design Approach,” Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE08, Seattle, WA, July 2008.
• H. Houayek, K. E. Green, and I. D. Walker. The Animated Work Environment: An Architectural-Robotic System for a Digital Society. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag, 2009.
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L., Walker, I, and Witte, J. (2006). "Three Robot-Rooms." Proceedings of 2006 CHI (Montreal, Canada): 809-814.
Interests: human-centered computing, intelligent environments, human-robot interaction, creativity support environments

Interests: Intelligent Environments, Human Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing

Cynthia Haynes
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of First-Year Composition
Co-Chair, Colloquium on Serious Games
texcyn@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. U of Michigan P, 1998.
• MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
• "Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory." JAC 23.4 (Winter 2003). James L. Kinneavy Award for best article in JAC, 2003 (Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition).

Interests: rhetoric and composition, critical theory, digital/visual rhetorics, computer game studies, information design, serious design, feminist theory, architecture, continental philosophy

Jan Rune Holmevik
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Co-Chair, Colloquium on Serious Games
jholmev@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. U of Michigan P, 1998.
• MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
• Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy (forthcoming, MIT P)

Interests: interactive media, computer game studies, humanistic informatics, experience design

Tharon W. Howard
Professor
Department of English
Director, Usability Testing Facility
Director, Multimedia Authoring Teaching & Research Facility (Matrf)
tharon@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Visual Communication: A Writer's Guide. 2nd Ed. With Susan Hilligoss. NY: Longman, 2001.
• Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries. Co-Edited with Chris Benson, Dixie Goswami, and Walter Gooch. NY: Heinemann Boynton-Cook, 1999.

Interests: usability and user-experience design, visual communication and visual rhetorics, multimedia authoring and digital publishing, electronic community architectures, rhetorical and literary theories, professional and technical communication

Christina Nguyen Hung
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Home page: christinahung.net

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:
• A Knock at the Door, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY, 2005.
• X/Y, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, 2005. Festival Intermediale, with subRosa, Mainz, Germany, 2001.
• Digital Secrets: a think-tank forum, with subRosa, Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA), Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ, 2000.

Interests: bioart, public art, new media, and visual culture

Karyn Orgata Jones
Associate Professor, Interim Department Chair
Department of Communication Studies
karynj@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Jones, K.O. & Pelton, R. (2009). Attribute agenda setting and breast cancer coverage in newspapers. Journal of Health and Mass Communication.
• Jones, K.O. & Smith, M.R. (2007). 'Fat, furious, and forever wanting food': Prader-Willi syndrome in major newspapers, 2000-2005. Disability Studies Quarterly, 27(3).
• Jones, K.O., Denham, B. E., & Springston, J.K. (2007). Differing effects of mass and interpersonal communication on breast cancer risk estimates: An exploratory study of college students and their mothers. Health Communication, 21(2), 165-176.

Research interests: communication about disability and health in interpersonal, family, organizational, and mass mediated contexts; identity, social support and uncertainty management as frameworks for understanding disability and health.

Steven B. Katz
Roy Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
Department of English
skatz@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• "The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique)." With Myra Moses. Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies. J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V Willis, eds. SUNY P (2006): 71-105.
• "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust." Republished in Central Works in Technical Communication, Stuart Selber and Johndan Johnson Eilola, eds. Oxford UP, 2004. 195-210.
• Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse. With Ann Penrose. 2nd Edition. NY: Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication (Addison Wesley Longman), 2004.
• "Letter as Essence: The Rhetorical (Im)pulse of the Hebrew Alefbet." Journal of Communication and Religion 26 (2003): 125-160.
• The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Reader Response and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Interests: Rhetorical analysis (rhetoric and poetics, rhetorics of style, poetics of science, biotech and medical communication with the public); rhetoric and ethics (ideologies of technologies, technical communication ethics, philosophies of ethics, ethics of style); ancient alternative rhetorics (Biblical, affectintuitive, Jewish/sophistic, kabbalistic); material rhetorics (alphabetic, poetic, mystical, digital)

Michael LeMahieu
Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication, Assistant Professor
Deptartment of English
mlemahi@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975. Under Contract, Oxford University Press.
• "The Theater of Hustle and the Hustle of Theater: Play, Player, and Played in Susan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog." African American Review 44.2 (Summer 2011), forthcoming.
• "Creative Inquiry: Facts, Values, and Undergraduate Research in the Humanities." Reading, Writing, and Research: Undergraduate Students as Scholars in Literary Studies. Ed. Laura Behling (Washington, D.C.: Council on Undergraduate Research, 2009), 29-41.
• "Nonsense Modernism: The Discourse of Modernity, the Language of Feelings, and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus." Bad Modernisms. Ed. Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Duke UP, 2006), 68-93.
• "Robotic Humanities, Postwar Philosophies." Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 32.2 (Fall 2002): 51-59. Review of John McCumber, Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy in the McCarthy Era and Samuel C. Wheeler III, Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy.

Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first century literature and philosophy. Critical Theory. Intellectual History.

Brian McGrath
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair
Department of English
Chair, RCID Theory and Criticism Colloquium
mcgrath@clemson.edu

Sample Publications: Reading in the Dark: Romanticism and the Future of Unremembered Acts (under contract with Northwestern UP)

• "Keats for Beginners," Studies in Romanticism 50 (Summer 2011): 349-370.
• "Roussea's Crusoe: Or, on Learning to Read as Not Myself," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.1 (Fall 2010): 119-139.
• "Refuge for the Homeless: Not at Home: in Romanticism and Comparative Literature," Literature Compass, vol. 7 (Summer 2010): 542-554.
• "Wordsworth, 'Simon Lee,' and the Craving for Incidents," Studies in Romanticism 48.4 (Winter 2009): 565-582.
• "Thomas De Quincey and the Language of Literature: Or, on the Necessity of Ignorance," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47:4 (Autumn 2007): 847-862.
• "Towards a Poetry of the Present: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson, Book Three," Sagetrieb 18:2-3 (Fall and Winter 2002): 219-242. Also printed in William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, eds. BurtonHatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 2002): 219-242.

Interests: European Romanticism, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Reading, Literary and Aesthetic Theory, Continental Philosophy

Jeff Love
Associate Professor of German and Russian
Department of Languages
gjlove@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• F.W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Suny 2006), trans. with Johannes Schmidt;
• The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi 2004).
• Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, forthcoming May, 2008).

Interests: Narrative theory (in particular Russian formalism, the Prague school and Lotman); theory of the novel; the intersection of literature and philosophy; German idealism, modern German philosophy and critical theory; Russian philosophical thought (from the various forms of dialogism to Kojeve)

William Maker
Professor of Philosophy
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
makerw@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• Philosophy Without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel, SUNY Press, 1994
• "Identity, Difference, and the Logic of Otherness."In Identity and Difference, Ed. Philip T. Grier. Albany: SUNY P, 2007.
• "Hegel and Rorty, or How Hegel Saves Pragmatism from Itself." The Owl of Minerva (Spring-Summer 2006).

Interests: Issues in Modernity/Postmodernity, Postfoundational Philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Critical Theory

Todd May
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
mayt@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• Between Genealogy and Epistemology, 1993;
• The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, 1994;
• The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism, 1995;
• Reconsidering Difference, 1997;
• Our Practices, Our Selves, 2001;
• Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction, 2005;
• The Philosophy of Foucault, 2006.

Research Interests: Contemporary Continental Philosophy, especially recent French Thought; Anarchism; History of Philosophy

Lee Morrissey
Professor of English
Department of English
lmorris@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of English Literature, 1660-1760. U of Virginia P, 1999.
• "Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism" New Literary History, Spring, 2001.
• "Derrida's 'Nostalgeria': A Post-Colonial Reading of Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter Herman (SUNY P, 2004).
• Ed. Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005.
• "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century" section of English Literature in
Context, ed. Paul Poplawski. Cambridge UP, 2008.
• The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English
Literary Criticism. Stanford UP, 2008.

Interests: Continental philosophy, cultural and literary theory, political philosophy and theory, post-structuralism, history of criticism, globalization, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, The Enlightenment

R. Barton Palmer
Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature; film, screenwriting and British Literature
Department of English
ppalmer@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Ed., Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s (Rutgers, 2010)
• Ed. (Steven Sanders), The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (Kentucky, 2009)
• Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America (Texas, 2009)
• To Kill a Mockingbird: From Page to Screen (Methuen, 2008)
• Twentieth-Century American Fiction On Screen (Cambridge, 2007)
• Nineteenth American Fiction ON Screen (Cambridge, 2007)
• After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, Intertextuality (Texas, 2007)
• Medieval Epic and Romance (College, 2007)
• Medieval Religious And Secular Legends (College, 2007)

Interests: Late Medieval English/French literary relations, Hollywood film, film genres

Catherine E. Paul
Professor
Department of English
cpaul@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein. U of Michigan P, 2002.
• W. B. Yeats, A Vision (1925), ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. Scribner and Macmillan, forthcoming.
• "Fascist Cultural Administration and the Pound-Rudge Resuscitation of Vivaldi," Proceedings of the XXIst International Ezra Pound Conference, forthcoming.
• "Reclaiming Ritual Space: Museum Poems of the 1960s and 1970s." Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies, forthcoming.
• "Margherita Sarfatti and Italian Cultural Nationalism: Five Articles from Il Popolo d'Italia." Co-authored with Barbara M. Zaczek. Modernism/Modernity 13:1 (January 2006): 143-70.
• "Italian Fascist Exhibitions and Ezra Pound's Turn to the Imperial." Twentieth-Century Literature 51:1 (Spring 2005): 64-97.
• "Poetry Across the Curriculum: Four Disciplinary Perspectives." Co-authored with Art Young, Patricia Connor-Greene, Jerry Waldvogel. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 6:2 (June 2003): 14-44.

Interests: International modernisms, poetry and poetics, literature and visual culture, museums and curatorial theory

Diane Perpich
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, Program in Women's Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religion
dperpic@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford UP, 2008)
• "Moral Blind Spots and the Uncertainties of Ethics: Response to Bernhard Waldenfels," Interrogating Ethics, ed. James Hatley (Duquesne UP, 2006), 107-131.
• "Sensible Subjects: Levinas and Irigaray on Incarnation and Ethics," Addressing Levinas, ed. A. Kapust et. al. (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2005), 296-309.
• "Corpus Meum: Nancy’s Ontology and Feminist Approaches to Body," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 20.3 (Summer 2005), 75-91.
• "Universality, Singularity, and Sexual Difference: Reflections on Political Community." Philosophy and Social Criticism. 31.4 (June 2005), 445-460.
• "Figurative Language and the ‘Face’ in Levinas’s Philosophy," Philosophy and Rhetoric, 28. 2 (2005), 103-121.

Interests:
Contemporary European Philosophy, especially phenomenology and its reception in French thought; contemporary ethics; gender and sexuality studies; the intersection of bodies and technologies (somatechnics).

Johannes Schmidt
Associate Professor of German
Department of Languages
schmidj@clemson.edu
Skype: herr-schmidt

Sample Publication:
• F.W.J. Schelling: Philosophical Investigation into the Essence of Human Freedom (SUNY 2006), trans. with Jeff Love.
• Herder and Lessing on the Philosophy of Religion, in German (Libri 2000).

Interests: German (18th & 19th C) literature and philosophy, drama, performance/theater technology/aesthetics, literary criticism, dj-ing/hip hop culture

D. Travers Scott
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
dscott3@g.clemson.edu
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Sample publications:
• Scott, D. T. (in press). Intimate threats and intersubjective users: Telephone training films, 1927-1962. American Quarterly.
• Scott, D. T. (2011). Sound studies for historians of new media. In D. Park, S. Jones, and N. Jankowski (Eds.), The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Newness in Context, pp. 75-88. New York: Peter Lang.
• Scott, D. T. (2011). Contested kicks: Sneakers and gay masculinity, 1964-2008. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 8, 2, 146-164. Featured scholarship review in The Critical Lede cultural studies podcast.
• Scott, D. T. (2010). The postfeminist user: Feminism and media theory in two interactive media properties. Feminist Media Studies, 10, 4, 457-475.
• Scott, D. T. (2008). Tempests of the blogosphere: Presidential campaign stories that failed to ignite mainstream media. In M. Boler (Ed.), Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (pp. 271-300). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Scott, D. T. (2005). Protest email as alternative media in the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. Westminster Papers in Communication & Culture, 2, 1, 51-71.

Interests: Critical/cultural studies of technology and media, medical science and pathologization, feminism and gender studies, sexuality studies, popular culture, sound studies, visual culture.

Elisa Kay Sparks
Associate Professor
Department of English
sparks@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Co-editor, Virginia Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference. Clemson Electronic and Digital P, 2006.
• "Leonard and Virginia's London Library." Forthcoming in The Selected Papers for the 14th annual conference on Virginia Woolf at London University, June 2004.
• "Mrs. Dalloway as a Geo/Graphical Novel." The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. No. 62. Spring 2003: 6-7.
• "Leonard's Vegetable Empire: A History of the Garden at Monk's House." The Virginia Woolf Bulletin, no. 12. Jan 2003: 10-19.

Interests: Virginia Woolf, Georgia O'Keeffe, Modernism, garden history, space and place, feminist perspectives, science fiction, science fiction film, altered books, printmaking

Victor J. Vitanza
Professor
Department of English
Director, Ph.D program in RCID
Jean-François Lyotard Chair, European Graduate School (Switzerland)
sophist@clemson.edu
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Sample Publications:
• Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric. (SUNY, 1997).
• Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
• Ed. Writing Histories of Rhetoric. SIUP, 1994.
• Ed. PRE/TEXT: The First Decade. U Pittsburgh P, 1993.
• Ed. with Michelle Ballif. Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic, Graphic, Electronic. Rhetoric Society of America, 1991.
• Editor and Publisher of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory (1980- ).

Interests: Histories of Rhetorics, Historiographies, Philology, Rhetorical Invention, Theories and Pedagogies of Rhetorics and Composition, Technology and "Writing" (electracy, new media, digital studies), Architecture, Photography, Film and Video, Contemporary Continental Philosophy (French, German, Italian).

Sean D. Williams
Professor, Chair, Department of English
sean@clemson.edu

Sample Publication:
• "Positioning Technical Communication for the Creative Economy," with Linn Bekins. Technical Communication. Summer 2006.
• "3D Virtual Worlds and Technical Communication: One More Tool in the Kit." Technical Communication 55.3 (August 2008): pp 239-41.
• "User Experience Design for Technical Communication.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. October 2007.
• "Using Color as a Navigation Device in Online Information Spaces.” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Knowledge Organization.
• "Composition Meets Visual Communication: Historical Perspectives and New Questions” with Susan Hilligoss. In Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues, Eds. Danielle Devoss and Heidi McKee. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007.
• "What You See is NOT What You Get: A Cultural Analysis of WYSIWYG Web-Authoring Tools." Forthcoming in Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts: Assessing the Implications of New Media, Eds. Byron Hawk, James A. Inman, Ollie Oviedo. University of Minnesota Press.

Interests: Online Communication and its intersection with workplace communication; Information Design Theory and especially User Experience Design for online communication and virtual worlds; Digital Literacy for workplace applications; Project Management in communication design; and Visual Communication

Art Young
Former Campbell Endowed Chair. Professor Emeritus of English
Department of English
apyoung@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall, 2006. Third Edition available at WAC Clearninghouse.
• Teaching and Learning Creatively: Inspirations and Reflections, Co-Edited. Parlor Press, 2006.
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, Co-Edited. NCTE, 1998.
• Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature: Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy, Co-Edited. NCTE, 1995.

Interests: Communication Across the Curriculum; Writing in the Disciplines, Composition Studies, Writing Program Administration, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.