Joshua Abboud, third year
jmabboud@gmail.com

• B.A. Media Arts, Brigham Young U
• M.A. Media Arts, U of Arizona

Interests: Genre and narrative theories of visual media; spaces of media
production, consumption and pedagogy; documentary film and visual ethnography.

Presentations: "Digital Fairy Tales: Narrative Nostalgia and the Violence of Childhood Fantasies in We Are the Strange." Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. San Francisco, March 2008.

Wendy Blanchard, second year
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

Amanda K. Booher, graduates Fall, 2009
Dissertation: "Writing Prosthetic Bodies: Sampling and Remixing Constructions of
Flesh and Technologies"
a.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

Interests: Medical Rhetorics, Bodies, Genders, Identities, Bioethics, Pop
Cultures, Critical/Post-modern Theories, Archives, Rhetorics of
Science, Writing Theories, Visual Rhetorics

Publications: with Robert Biscup and Vinod Podichetty. "History of Spinal Fusion Surgery." Spinal Arthroplasty: The Preservation of Motion. Vaccaro AR, Papadopoulos S, Traynelis VC, Haid RW, Sasso RC, eds. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2007. 21-35.

Clemson University Student Workbook, 2007-2008 Edition. Co-author
(textual revisions) with Kelly Lauridsen, Caroline Parsons, & Justin
Hodgson.

Rev. of Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture, by Elizabeth
Klaver. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 35.1-2 (2008):
164-166.

Presentations: "Simulation of Healing: Baudrillard and the Medicalized Body in House." 2006 National Communication Association Annual Convention. San Antonio, November 2006.

"Evaluating the Site of Entertainment: Student Section Papers in Rhetoric and Media," Panel Respondent. National Communication Association Annual Convention, 2006, San Antonio, TX.

"Writing the Prosthetic Body: Sampling and Remixing Constructions of Flesh and Technology." Research Network Forum, CCCC. March 2007, NYC.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience Design," Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Boston, March 2007.

Medical Rhetoric Workshop, Rhetoric Society of America, Summer
Institute, June 2007. I participated in the workshop and presented a
draft of my dissertation as part of a work-in-progress session.

“From Tap Shoes to Grenade Launchers: Implications of Prosthetics in
Pop Culture on Conceptions of Bodies and Technology.” Project
Biocultures Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 2007.

“’I’m just Cherry’: The Role of Zombie Amputations and Machine Gun
Legs in Reconceptualizing the Body.” Pop Culture Association/American
Culture Association National Conference. San Francisco, March 2008.

“The Body and Physical Difference I: Cybourg Bodies,” Chair. Pop
Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference.
San Francisco, March 2008.

“Prosthetics and Rhetorics of Enhancement: Reconceptualizing the
Techno-body.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA,
May 2008.

Dev Kumar Bose, fourth year
dbose@clemson.edu
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• B.A. English Education, emphasis in 20th Century American Literature, California State U, Long Beach: 2003.
• M.A. 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.

Alicyn Butler, fourth year
alicynb@clemson.edu

• B.A. Communication (Public Relations), U of Maryland, College Park
• M.A. Advertising, U of Texas, Austin

Interests: Entertainment Public Relations, Popular Culture Studies, Identity, Self-Esteem Development, Rhetorics of Fashion, Eating Disorders and Other Addictions, Public Service Announcements, University Relations, Pedagogy

Jimmy Butts, First Year
jmbutts@clemson.edu

• A.B. English, The College of Charleston
• M.A. English, Winthrop University

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.

Michelle Dacus Carr, fourth year, ABD
mdacus@clemson.edu

• BA English/Mass Communications, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
• MFA Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell U, Ithaca NY
• Northwestern University, ABD, Doctoral Program in Performance Studies, 1990-95; Admitted to candidacy, 1992

Interests: Creative Writing, Composition, the Humanities, Across the Curriculum Programs, Racial Rhetorics

Presentations: "WAC @ the HBCU: I," NCTE, November, 2006, Nashville, TN.

"WAC @ the HBCU: II," 6th Annual WAC Conference, May, 2006, Clemson U, SC.

“Breaking Faith: Rhetorical Reinscriptions of Racism.” Translation and Transitions Conference. University of Miami. February 2008.

“Rhetorics of Silhouette in the Work of Kara Walker.” Conference on College Composition RNF, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2008.

“Barack Obama and the Politics of Technology.” 3rd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Monash University, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. July 2008.

“A Study of Genre in Discipline-Specific Writing.” IEEE IPCC. Concordia University, Montreal. July 2008.

Anthony Collamati, second year
acollam@clemson.edu

• B.A., English, Saint Anselm College
• M.A., English, Loyola University Chicago

Interests: Violence and religion in film and news media, myth and narrative structure, Italian public culture and the problem of war, social justice, popular experiences of Roman Catholic ritual, visual rhetorics, cultural productions of fantasy.

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

"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.

"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.

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

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

Yuanrong Ding, first year
dingyuanrong@gmail.com

• B.A. English Education, Jilin Normal U, P. R. China
• M.A. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Northeast Normal U, P. R. China

Interests: Rhetorics and Visual Rhetorics, Communication Studies, Cognitive Semantics, Information Design, New Media and Technologies, Pedagogy, SLA , Curriculum Development and Course Design

Publications: Yuanrong Ding; Mingcai Sui, Semantic Criteria for analyzing Interlanguage of Non-English Majors, Teaching English in China (TEIC), revised, 2009.

Yuanrong, Ding; Shuying An, The Cognitive Construction of English Metaphoric Compounds, 21st Century’s Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2007.

Yuanrong Ding, Pragmatic Analysis of Interjections, 21st Century’s Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2002.

Yuanrong Ding, On Famous Feminine Characters from the Masculine Perspective of Shakespeare, 21st Century’s Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2000.

John Dinolfo, fourth year
dinolfo@clemson.edu

• B.A. English, Honors Program, Villanova U
• M.A. 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, "Seeing and Re-Viewing the Human Body: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Medical Videography." In Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Eds., Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P (in press, 2008).

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

Sergio C. Figueiredo, third year
sfiguei@clemson.edu
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• B.A. English, Rowan U
• M.A. English (Composition/Rhetoric), Marshall U

Interests: Visual Rhetorics and Self-representation Online; Rhetorics of Violence; Critical Pedagogies; Political Communication; Sports communication; Scientific and Technical Communication; Rhetorical Theories

Publications: Review of The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson. Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming).

Presentations: "Developing a Writing Process Across Media." Carolina Rhetoric Conference; Columbia, SC; February 2008.

Alicia Hatter, third year
ahatter@clemson.edu
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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

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.

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.

Jason Helms, fourth year, ABD
jmhelms@clemson.edu
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• B.S. Biology (Pre-Medicine); Minors: Theological Studies; English Literature; Master's College
• M.A. Literature (English); San Francisco State U

Interests: Graphic Novels, Rhetorics of Metatextuality (and vice-versa), Mechanical Reproduction and Identity, Classical Studies/Linguistics, Popular Culture, HTML, Film Theory

Publications: “Miller’s Tale: Comics as Electracy.” PRE/TEXT 19.1-4 (2009): 75-95.

“The Task of the Name: A Reply to Carol Poster.” Philosophy and Rhetoric,
Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2008. 278-287.

“Total Interaction: Theory and Practice of a New Paradigm for the Design
Disciplines.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 50,
No. 2, June 2007. 180-181. (Book Review)

“Fragile Things.” RedFence.com, July 8, 2007. (Book Review)

“Falling Man.” RedFence.com, October 19, 2007. (Book Review)

“Omega the Unknown.” RedFence.com, December 31, 2007. (Book Review)

“Readings and Re-readings.” RedFence.com, September 25, 2006. (Book Review)

“Only Revolutions.” RedFence.com, September 30, 2006. (Book Review)

“Forward.” Interpretations. San Francisco: San Francisco State University,
Spring 2006. 9-10.

"Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth and Metamorphses," Interpretations (Spring 2005).

Presentation: "Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth and Metamorphses," Part of the 'Gendering Humanism: Public and Private Selves in English Renaissance Literature' delivered to the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 25, 2006.

“300: From Cool Comic to Cool Film.” Part of the “Visual Rhetoric of
Comics, 'Spectacle' and Mail Art” panel delivered to the Conference on
College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 4, 2008.

”iStr8ne: Electracy in We Are the Strange.” Part of the “Communication and
Digital Culture VI: We Are the Strange” panel delivered to the Pop Culture
Association / American Culture Association National Conference, San
Francisco, March 21, 2008.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience
Design," with Amanda K. Booher, Justin Hodgson, Xiaoli Li, and Mac
McArthur. Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
National Conference, Boston, March 2007.

“Foucault’s Pendulum as a Metaphor for Foucault’s Pendulum.” Delivered to
the Association of Graduate Students in English Spring Conference:
“(dis)locating power, (re)locating identity,” California State University
Northridge, March 20, 2004.

“Cold Fusion: Teaching Writing Across the Cool Media.” Part of the “Not
just for fun: Tinker Toys, comics, and rock n/ roll“ panel delivered to
the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, May
31, 2008.

Joshua C. Hilst, fourth year, ABD
jhilst@clemson.edu

• B.A. English (Magna Cum Laude), The Master's College; Minor in Theology
• M.A. English (Rhetoric & Composition), The Ohio State U

Interests: Composition theories; Rhetorical theories; Film Theories;
Rhetorics of Science; The Graphic Novel; Rhetorics of the University

Presentations: "One Less...Argument: Rhetoric, Science, Values" International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. May 2008, Austin, TX.

"Cinematic Invention: What Movies Have That Writing Wants."
Research Network Forum, CCCC. March 2008, New Orleans, LA.

Justin Hodgson, graduated, Spring 2009
Dissertation: "Logos of Possibilities: Rhetorical Inventions/Inventional Rhetorics" www.drw.utexas.edu
hodgson@mail.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

Interests: Rhetorical Invention; Electronic Discourses; Critical and Cultural Studies; Visual Rhetorics; Multimedia Authoring; Digital Pedagogy and Learning Environments

Publications: Clemson University Student Workbook, 2007-2008 Edition
Co-author (textual revisions) with Kelly Lauridsen, Caroline Parsons, and
Amanda Booher.

"Digital Spectacle and the Production of the Cultureal," PRE/TEXT
19.1-4 (1998, 2009). 167-85.

"Professional Rhetorics Course Design," Composition Studies (forthcoming).

"New Media Scholars, Old Media Students: A Complicating of the Guard." Rocky Mountain Communication Review (forthcoming).

Presentations: "Transdisciplinary Power of Multimedia Composition: Engaging Students Beyond Text." 28th Annual Association for Integrative Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2006.

"Unfoundings: Going back to Move Forward." Research Network Forum, CCCC, NYC, 2007.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience Design." Annual PCA.ACA Conference, Boston, 2007.

"Professional Rhetorics: Rethinking Communication and Composition"
CCCC, New Orleans, LA, 2008.

"Blurring the Boundaries of Writing and Speaking: a pilot project"
Carolina Rhetorics Conference, USC, Columbia, SC, 2008.

Steven Holmes, first year
skholmes@clemson.edu

• B.A. English, Honors Program, Washington State U
• M.A. 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.

Andrew Hurley, second year
ruperth@clemson.edu

• B.S. Packaging Science, Clemson University 2006.
• M.S. Packaging Science; emphasis in design. Clemson University 2008

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

Walter Iriarte, first year
wiriart@clemson.edu

• B.A. English Humanities, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, OH
• M.A. 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.

Xiaoli Li, fourth year
xiaoli@clemson.edu

• B.A. English Language & Culture, Xian International Studies U, Xi'an, China
• M.A. English with a Scientific & Technical Communications emphasis, Bowling Green State U

Interests: Intercultural Communication, Professional Communication Pedagogy, Online Writing Environments and Styles, Information Design (not in any particular order)

Publications: "Collaborative Learning with Computer Technology in Business Communication Class," the ABC Tampa Conference Proceedings, 2006

"Living and Working in China: Understanding Communication Requirements," the STC's 48th Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.

Presentations: "What Does a Localized Technical Communication Program in China Look Like," CCCC, Research Network Forum, March 2007, NYC.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding User Experience Design," Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, April 2007, Boston, Massachusetts.

"Assessing Students' Service-Learning Projects," 28th Association for Integrative Studies National Conference, October 2006, Atlanta, Georgia

Stephen J. Lind, first year
slind@clemson.edu

• B.S. Communication Studies, Liberty U
• M.A. 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.

Mac McArthur, graduated, Spring 2008
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

Interests: Instructional Communication and Pedagogy, Issues in Space & Proxemics, User-Experience Design, Media & Popular Culture Studies

Publications: Rev. of Blogging for your Business (Byron & Broback, 2006) in Business Communication Quarterly. (September 2007).

"Composing Podcasts: Engaging 'digital natives' in the communication
classroom." Communication Teacher (2008, forthcoming).

"Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style." Journal of Communication Inquiry (2009, January, forthcoming).

Presentations: "Orality: The Spoken Word, Panel Participant: Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding User Experience Design." Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. March 2007. Boston, MA.

"Instructional Proxemics." Work-in-Progress Presentation at the Research Network Forum, CCCC, March, 2007, NYC.

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Nicole McFarlane, second year
nmcfarl@clemson.edu

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

Interests: intersections of race and space, African American rhetorical praxes, gender studies, media and discursive power processes, social disparity and technological access, composition pedagogy, new literacies

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, first year
lmmitch@clemson.edu

• B.Des., Architecture, University of Florida
• M.Arch., Architecture, University of Michigan
• M.S., 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.

Keith Morton, fourth year, ABD
keithm@clemson.edu
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• B.A. Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois U at Carbondale
• M.A. Communication Studies, U of Missouri at St. Louis

Interests: Intercultural Communication, New Media, Pedagogy, Videogame Studies, Film Theory, Machinima. Disability Studies, Children's Culture.

Presentations: "Divorcing the Kinesthetic and Cognitive Marriage in Children's Learning Videogames." CGames USA Conference, Louisville, 2007.

"Accommodation of People First Language." National Communication Association Conference (NCA), Chicago, 2007

"Intercultural Communication and Pedagogy." Research Network Forum at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, 2008.

"Interpolation of University Donor Websites" (Author, Non-Presenter). Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), New Orleans, 2008:

"The People's Aesthetic." PCA/ACA (Popular Culture), San Fransisco, 2008.

"Mod-to-Learn." International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC), Austin, 2008.

Curtis Newbold, second year
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: Professional communication; visual rhetoric; document design and
presentation; creativity; technical and business writing; graphic art and animation;
interactive learning; pedagogy; sports media; marketing.

Presentations: "A Socio-Theoretical Comparison of Tattooing: Phenomenology, Sociation, and Body Modification, Analysis Revised." Utah Arts and Letters, March 2008. Salt Lake City.

“New Media and the Composition Classroom: Using Technology as a Pedagogical
Tool to Teach Writing Essays.” Intermountain Paper and Poster Symposium, April
2007. Logan, UT

“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, February 2007.

Randy Nichols, third year
randyn@clemson.edu
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• B.A. Bible & Theology: Southeastern U, Lakeland, FL.
• M.A. English Literature, Rutgers U, Newark, NJ.

Interests: Theatrical Marginalization & Video Ethnographies, the “Dark Ride”
as Genre, the Digital Flaneur in the Virtual City, a Stoloniferous Approach
to Multi(com)plicities in Research and Pedagogy.

Presentation: "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.

Barbara J. Ramirez, second year
bjram@clemson.edu

• B.A., English Education, Clemson U
• M.A., Literature, Clemson U

Interests: The Rhetorics of Studio Space as it translates Across the Disciplines

Nicole Snell, second year
nsnell@clemson.edu

• B.A. English Literature, Gallaudet University
• M.A. English, Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition; California State U
Northridge

Interests: Critical/Postmodern/Rhetorical theories, Digital Media and Pedagogy, Information Design for online learning environments, Information Exchange between marginalized discourse communities across different media, Technology’s role in uniting and dividing entities within marginalized
communities, Miscommunication, Visual Rhetorics, Dichotomy

Steven John Thompson, fourth year
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

Interests: Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometries, Ethics, Globalization, Iconicology, Media Iconics, New Media Informatics, Performance Aesthetics, Philosophy of STS, Online Rhetorics, Virtual Warfare, and Visual Rhetorics.

Publications: "Internet Connectivity: Addiction and Dependency Study." Penn State McNair Journal, 1996.

"Fearful Symmetries." Artciencia.com, Portfolio, Ano II, Numero 4. Agosto-Outubro, 2006. ISSN 1646-3463.

“Apocalyptic Iconics: One Network Under Islam, Ubiquitous, With Media Surveillance Of All,” Media and the End of the World Anthology, Peter Lang Publlishing, December, 2008.

Rev of The Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media by Ken Smith, Sandra Moriarty, Gretchen Barbatsis and Keith Kenney. Business
Communication Quarterly, forthcoming July, 2008.

Presentations: "Internet Connectivity: Addiction and Dependency Study," presented at the Ronald McNair Conference of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, 1996.

"Bastard Media: New Media, Obscenity, and Public Access," presented at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium at the U of Iowa, 2007.

"Iraqonics: Positing Media Iconics and Semiotics as Weapons on
Western Consciousness." International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Analyses of Aggression and Terrorism at the University of
Madrid, Spain, 2007.

“Shut Up or Die: The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons, Media Behaviorism, and
Systemic Defiance,” Zakopane, Poland, 2008. Coloquios Internationales Sobre
Conflicto Y Agresion (CICA), Society for Terrorism Research (STR), and
Polish Association of Social Psychology (PASP), Institute of Psychology,
Jagiellonian University at Kraków.

“New Media Quicritiques: Pedagogical Practices in Visual Thinking and Group
Collaboration,” Vienna, Austria, 2008. Best Practices Session at ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education at Vienna University of Technology.

“Recognizing Rhetoriconics: The Strategic Positing of Rhetorics for Iconic
Media,” New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008. Research Network Forum pre-conference of the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication.

“Romancing the Bone: Access, Intimacy, and the Grammatologies of
Craigslist.org,” San Francisco, California, 2008. Internet Culture Area of Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference.

“Caught in the Middle: Between Terrorist Media and Psychosis,” Manhattan,
Kansas, 2008. The 17th Annual Cultural Studies Conference: Extremism and the Excluded Middle at Kansas State University.

“Information Design Finally Defined: The Art, Science, and Technology of
Rhetorical Diligence in Media Discourse for Schematic Evidence of Cognitive Structures in Representational Display,” Miami, Florida, 2008. The Second International Conference on Design Principles & Practices at The University of Miami Conference Center.

“Recursive/Relaxative/Redemptive: Poesis of Fractal Art in Techne of New Media,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009. Expertise: Media Specificity and Interdisciplinarity International Conference at Tel Aviv University.

“Evolution of McLuhan’s Icon War: Symbolism and Symbiosis of Terrorism in Media Warfare,” Basel, Switzerland, 2009. Eikones Summer School, NCCR Iconic Criticism, Seminar 3 on Possessed Pictures and Images: From Magic Icons to Animation in Painting, Photography, and Cinema at University of Basel.

“Masking Visual Persistence in Media Warfare: Digitality, Icon Value, and Iconic Storage,” Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2009. Coloquios Internationales Sobre Conflicto Y Agresion (CICA) and Society for Terrorism Research (STR) International Conference on Political Violence and Collective Aggression: Considering the Past, Imagining the Future, co-organized by the Social and Policy Research Institute at University of Ulster.

Josephine Walwema, third year
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.

Lin Wang, third year
Linw@clemson.edu

• B.A. Broadcasting and Television Science, Dalian U of Technology, P. R. China
• M.A. Philosophy, Dalian U of Technology, P. R. China

Interests: Media ethics; Marxist philosophy; Virtual community; Law, Order, and Conflicts in MMOG.

Mark Ward, Sr., third year
mlward@clemson.edu
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• B.A. English Language and Literature, U of Virginia
• M.A. Communication, Spring Arbor U

Interests: Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication, Cultural
Models/Cognitive Anthropology, Speech Codes/Ethnographies of Speech,
Organizational Communication, Technical Communication, Holocaust Studies,
Leadership Studies, Media History, Religious Rhetorics, Religion and
Media, Professional Writing

Publications: Music in the Air: The Golden Age of Gospel Radio. Greenville, SC: Ambassador International, 2005.

Air of Salvation: The Story of Christian Broadcasting. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1994.

"The Banality of Culture? Reassessing the Social Science of the Goldhagen
Thesis on Its Own Terms." Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and
History (Vol. 14, No. 1, Summer 2008, pp. 1-34).

"The Banality of Rhetoric? Assessing Steven Katz's 'The Ethic of Expediency' against Current Scholarship on the Holocaust." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. In press, 2008.

"Squaring the Learning Circle: Cross-Classroom Collaborations and the
Impact of Audience on Student Outcomes in Professional Writing." Journal
of Business and Technical Communication. In press, 2008.

"Rhetoric, Culture, and the History of Gasoline Marketing in the United
States, 1958-2008." Oil-History Journal. In press, 2008.

"The Banality of Culture? (Part 2) Ordinary Men, Ordinary Germans, 'ordinary communicators.' " Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. In press.

"'I Was Saved at an Early Age': An Ethnography of Fundamentalist Speech
and Cultural Performance." Manuscript submitted for publication.

"Concentrated Religion: The Impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on
Religious Radio Ownership and Programming." Manuscript submitted for
publication.

"Dark Preachers: The Impact of Radio Consolidation on Independent
Religious Syndicators." Manuscript submitted for publication.

Presentations: "The Banality of Culture? (Part 2) Recovering
Nazi-Era Cultural Models through Discourse Analysis of 'Ordinary German'
Autobiographies." Accepted for NCA/Ethnography Division, November 2008,
San Diego.

"'Pastor, Preacher, Brother, Ladies': Rhetoric as a Generative Source of
Cultural Alienation in American Protestant Fundamentalism." Accepted for
NCA/Religious Communication Association, November 2008, San Diego.

"'I Was Saved at an Early Age': An Ethnography of Fundamentalist Speech
and Cultural Performance." Accepted for International Association for
Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), November 2008, Louisville KY.

"Revisiting 'The Ethic of Expediency': New Perspectives on Technical
Communication and the Holocaust." Accepted for CCCC, April 2009, San
Francisco.

"Becoming an Effective Communicator," Faculty In-Service Training for Eucon International College, July 31-August 4, 2006, Saipan, MP.

"Teaching Broadcast History in the Age of New Media," South Carolina Broadcast Educators Conference, January 17, 2003, Columbia, SC.

Dan Wu, third year
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

Interests: WAC (Writing-Across-the-Curriculum), Chinese Higher Education, Digital Media Literacy, Technical & Business Communication and Pedagogy; English/Chinese Translation Studies.

Publications: "Superpowers on the Olympic basketball court: U.S. v. China through four nationalistic lenses." With Billings, A.C., McArthur, P.J. & Licen, S. International Journal of Sport Communication, 2009 (in press), 2(4).

"A review of Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum." With Li, X. The WAC Journal, 2008 (19), 89-91.

Sprinting for Band 8. With Liu,Y., Pan, X., Liang, Y. & Yuan, Y. Beijing, China: World Publishing Corporation, 2006.

Skills and Training for Test of English Majors Band 8. With Liu,Y., Zhong, Y., Huang, J., Hu, G. & Pan, X. Xi’an, China: Xi’an Jiaotong University Press, 2002.

Presentations: "Dao, Mao, and science, doctrine: The shaping and shifting of Chinese ideology for the Cultural Revolution." 2009, November. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.

"Challenges, responses, and social supports: A study of Chinese students’ adaptation to a Midwestern U.S. university." 2009, June. Chinese Association for Intercultural Communication, Beijing, China.

"Introducing WAC into China." 2009, March. Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, CA.

"Living in Second Life and learning a second language." 2009, February. Carolina Rhetoric Conference, Clemson, SC.

"Donor wars: An empirical study of user experiences on university donor websites." With Hatter, A. & Nichols, R. 2008, October Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA.

"Nihao, WAC! Introducing WAC to China." 2008, June. International Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Conference (IWAC), Austin, TX.

"Creating an user-experience through an interpolation research instrument for 'giving' websites." With Hatter A., Nichols, R. & Howard, T. 2008, April ATTW Conference, New Orleans, LA.

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

Andrew C. Billings
Associate Professor
Dept. of Communication Studies
acbilng@clemson.edu

Sample publication:
• Billings, A.C. & Eastman, S.T. "Framing identities: Gender, ethnic, and national parity in network announcing of the 2002 Winter Olympics." Journal of Communication 53.4 (2003): 369-386.

Interests: Mass media content and effects, sport, gender, ethnicity, nationality, television promotion, popular culture

Bryan E. Denham
Associate 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)
Home Page
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

Kate Hawkins
Professor and Department Chair
Communication Studies
hawkin5@clemson.edu

Sample Publication:
• with A.C. Hane, "Adolescents' perceptions of print cigarette advertising: A case for counteradvertising." Journal of Health Communication 5 (2000): 83-96.

Interests: Health communication (particularly with adolescents), mediated health communication, group communication, gender and communication, empirical methods

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.

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

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)

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

Judith M. Melton
Professor of German and Women's Studies
Co-Chair, Body Colloquium
jmlton@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• The Face of Exile: Autobiographical Journeys. U of Iowa P, 1998.
• "Body Obsessions: The Economic and Social Impact of Women's Body Image in the Popular Media." Against Ourselves. Eds. Keller Cushing Freeman, Jeanine Halva-Neubauer, Emrys P, 2003, 51-75.

Interests: autobiography, women's studies, women's body image in popular culture, Holocaust Studies

Lee Morrissey
Professor
Chair, Department of English
Chair, Theory-Criticism Colloquium
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

Catherine E. Paul
Associate 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
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

Elisa Kay Sparks
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of Women's Studies
Chair, Colloquium on Place-Space
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

Summer Smith Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of MA in Professional Communication
Director of Advanced Writing Program
slsmith@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• "Assessment in Client-Based Technical Writing Classes: Evolution of Teacher and Client Standards." Technical Communication Quarterly 15:2 (Spring 2006): 111-39.
• "The Role of Technical Expertise in Engineering and Writing Teachers: Evaluations of Students' Writing." Written Communication 20:1 (January 2003): 37-80.
• "The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 48:2 (May 1997): 249-68.

Interests: Assessment of technical writing, teaching of writing, research methodologies, client-based pedagogy, communication across the curriculum

Michael V. Vatalaro
Professor of Art and Ceramics
Chair, Department of Art
vatalam@clemson.edu

Sample Publication:
• 2003 Scripts College Ceramic National Invitational

Interests: Ceramic Art including vessels and sculpture

Victor J. Vitanza
Professor
Department of English
Director, Ph.D program in RCID
Jean-François Lyotard Chair, European Graduate School (Switzerland)
sophist@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric. (SUNY, 1997).
• 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, Rhetorical Invention, Theories of Rhetorics, Technology and "Writing" (electracy, new media, digital studies); Architecture, Photography, Film, and Video; Contemporary Continental Philosophy.

Sean D. Williams
Associate Professor
Department of English
Associate Dean of the Graduate School
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
Campbell Endowed Chair and 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.