George Mason University

Faculty Member, English

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing

About

I began my career intending to become a high school English teacher, but through exposure to various individuals and communities, I found that I had an abiding interest in the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. I began to pursue questions of how to use computer technologies to support pedagogies when I began my MA work at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, culminating in the completion of a Master's thesis on the topic of hypertextual collaboration as pedagogical process in 1995. Soon thereafter I joined the staff of the online journal Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy -- an opportunity which has allowed me to read exciting, often cutting-edge scholarship and to work with exceptional scholars in the field of computers and writing.

In June of 2007 I completed my PhD in Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University. I am currently an assistant professor at George Mason University, where I have the privilege to work with exceptionally smart and humane colleagues.

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