Education 

Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2000

Areas of Specialization

   • Histories and Historiographies of Rhetoric and Composition
   • Computers and Writing
   • Rhetoric and New Materialism
   • Sonic Rhetoric
   • Writing with Sound

Professional Accolades 

   • A Counter-History of Composition won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award for the best book published on composition theory in 2007.
   • A Counter-History of Composition received honorable mention for MLA's Mina Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language in 2008.

Selected Publications 

BOOKS
   • Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
   • A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
   • with David Rieder and Ollie Oviedo, eds. Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
   • with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker, eds. Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.

RECENT ARTICLES
   • "Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language." Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University. Ed. Jeff Rice and Brian McNely. Clemson, SC: Parlor Press, 2018. 242-251.
   • "Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical." Special Issue on Keywords. RSQ 48.3 (2018): 315-323.
   • with Greg Stuart. "English Composition as a Sonic Practice." Routledge Companion to Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. New York: Routledge, 2018. 38-47.
   • with Chris Lindgren and Andrew Mara. "Utopian Laptop Initiatives: From Technological Deism to Object-Oriented Rhetoric." Writing Posthumanisms. Ed., Sidney I. Dobrin. Clemson, SC: Parlor Press, 2015. 192-213.
   • "Stitching Together Events: Of Joints, Folds, and Assemblages." Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Ballif. Southern Illinois UP, 2013. 106-27.
   • "Curating Ecologies, Circulating Musics: From The Public Sphere to Sphere Publics." Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology. Ed. Sid Dobrin. NY: Routledge, 2012.
   • "Vitalism, Animality, and the Material Grounds of Rhetoric." Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks. Eds. Jeremy Packer and Stephen Wiley. NY: Routledge, 2011. 196-207.
   • "Reassembling Post-Process: Toward a Posthuman Theory of Public Rhetoric." Beyond Post-Process. Eds. Sidney I. Dobrin, J. A. Rice, and Michael Vastola. Utah State U P, 2011. 75-93.
   • "The Shape of Rhetoric to Come: Musical Worlding as Public Rhetoric." Pre/Text 20.1-4 (2010): 7-42.
   • with Andrew Mara. Introduction. "Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication." Special Issue of Technical Communications Quarterly 19.1 (2010) 1-10.

Recent Presentations

Invited Talks
   • "Sonic Field Methods: From Gesture Ecologies to Genre Ecologies." Digital Field Methods Institute. University of Texas. Austin, TX. July 9-13, 2018.
   • "What is Rhetoric's Role in CCCC?" 69th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Rhetoric SIG. Kansas City, MO. March 14-17, 2018.
   • "Sonics Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Jonathan Alexander. 7th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Bloomington, IN. May 25-27, 2017.
   • "New Materialist Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Thomas Rickert. 6th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Madison, WI. June 5-7, 2015.
   • "Gesture Ecologies: Sound Art as Compositional Practice." Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. April 9-10, 2015.
   • "Composition as a Quasi-Object." Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. April 10, 2014.
   • "Networked Histories: Entanglements of Communication and Composition." Co-presenter with Pat Gehrke. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 28, 2013.
   • "Material Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Thomas Rickert. 5th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Lawrence, KS. June 3-9, 2013.

Conference Presentations
   • "Ecologies of Composition: Counter-Tradition in Composition and Rhetoric." 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 31-June 3, 2018.
   • "Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical." 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 31-June 3, 2018.
   • "Transforming Soundscapes: Field Recording as a Compositional Practice." 69th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 14-17, 2018.
   • "Grain as Punctum: Barthes and the Quasi-Materiality of Voice." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 27-28, 2017.
   • "Mediation through Excommunication." Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 13-14, 2017.
   • "Sounding the Rhetorical." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. October 21-23, 2016.
   • "Sonic Timbre in Extreme Post-Doom." 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA. May 27-29, 2016.
   • "Popular Music and the Formation of Sphere Publics." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 30-31, 2015.
   • "Acoustic Ontology: How Forests Dwell." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 2-3, 2015.
   • with Brian Harmon. "Making Documentary as Multimodal Research Method." Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada. January 8-10, 2015.
   • "Stomp Box Logic: Sirc and Sound." 65th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 19-22, 2014.
   • "Future and Enduring Roles for Digital Journals and Editing." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. November 8-10, 2013.
   • "On Material Composition: 'Postcomposition' as Material Rhetoric." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 25-26, 2013.
   • "Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 11-12, 2013.
   • "A Posthumanist Rationale for Professional Writing?" 16th Annual Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Las Vegas, NV. March 13, 2013.
   • with Pat Gehrke. "Networked Disciplines: Convergences of Communication and Composition." Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. February 15-16, 2013.