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Scholarship
Research
Interests
Areas
of major focus:
- History and theory of rhetoric
and composition studies (emphasis in computers and writing, digital rhetoric, medieval
rhetoric, and rhetorical memory) ;
- Medieval
literature and language (Old and Middle English, and Old Norse);
and
- Orality-literacy studies
and media ecology of oral, manuscript, print, and digital culture.
Areas
of secondary focus:
- Digital Humanities;
- Medievalism;
- British literature;
- Science fiction and fantasy; and
Dissertation
"Remembering That Which We Forgot: Reviving the Canon of Memory"
(in progress)
Select Publications
Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of
T.A. Shippey. Ed. Andrew Wawn, Graham Johnson, and John Paul Walter.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2007.
“The Arthurian Material in Holkham Hall MS. 669.” ANQ
18.4 (2005): 15-20.
“Pre-Visions: The GRN Online” in “Visions, Re-Visions,
and Pre-Visions: The Graduate Research Network 2001 and Beyond,”
ed. Janice Walker. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy 7.1
(2002). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/response/GRN/grnonline.html
Select Past and Upcoming Conference Presentations
“Becoming Acquainted with the Silent Underground: Academics and Severe Writing Difficulties.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Las Vegas, NV. 13-16 March, 2013. (Accepted.)
“Secondary Orality and Mobocracy: A Response.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. St. Louis, MO. 22 May 2012.
“Memoria as the Technologization of Memory.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Louisville, KY. 19 March 2010.
“Database Rhapsody from the ‘Singer of Tales’ to ‘Geek DJs.” Computers and Writing. University of California, Davis. 20 June 2009.
“Social Memory Studies in the Composition Classroom.” M/MLA Annual Convention. Cleveland, OH. 11 November 2007.
“Old Practices and New Literacies: Composing with Words and Images.” Jacobson Symposium in Teaching with Technology. Creighton University, Omaha. 31 March 2007.
“Social Memory Studies and the Canon of Memory.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. New York, NY. 23 March 2007.
“Memory as Composition: Monastic Rhetoric, Cognitive Science,
and Imageword.” M/MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 10 November 2006.
“Ong's Digital Turn: Published and Unpublished Writings after
Orality and Literacy.” Computers and Writing 2006.
Texas Tech, 27 May 2006.
“Developing a Local Digital Culture: A Grassroots Initiative.”
Co-presented with Gina Merys. Conference on College Composition
and Communication 2006, Chicago, IL, 22-25 March, 2006.
“Holt's Who's Afraid of Beowulf? and Pratchett's The
Last Hero: Comedic Fantasy and the Reception of Old Norse Literature.”
MLA Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 28 December 2004.
“Rethinking Threading: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis of Synchronous
Discussion” Co-presented with Sharon Cogdil and Judy Kilborn.
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2004, San Antonio,
TX, 25 March 2004.
“'Swa begnornodon Geata leode': Beowulf as Traumatic
Memory.” MLA Convention. San Diego, CA. 28 December 2003.
“Taking the Long View: Digital Culture and the Legacy of Walter
J. Ong and Marshall McLuhan.” Walter J. Ong Online Symposium,
Saint Louis University. September 19, 2003.
“The MOO Essay: Remediating the Essay for MOO.” Computers
and Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette. 24 May 2003.
“Writing a Virtual Body: Readability on the MOO.” Co-presented
with Sharon Cogdill, Tari Fanderclai, and Judy Kilborn. Conference
on College Composition and Communication 2003, New York, NY, 20 March
2003.
“Remembering That Which We Forgot: Reviving Medieval Memoria
for the Contemporary Classroom.” (Invited.) English Graduate
Society Conference. Texas Tech, Lubbock. 22 February 2003.
“Germanic Ethos and Christian Ethics in the Lord of the Rings.”
M/MLA Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN. 10 November 2002.
“Arthur Condensed: The Tradition in The New Cronuclys.”
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo. 2 May 2002.
“Digging Composition: Using MOOs as a Writing Space.” Computers
and Writing Online. Online at NouSpace <http://www.nouspace.net:7000/>.
25 May 2002. Log of discussion at <http://www.nouspace.net:7000/2267>.
“The Act of Killing in Beowulf: A Semantic Study.”
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo. 9 May 1999.
“The Marriage of Ballad and Romance in the Stanzaic Morte
Arthur.” Mid America Medieval Academy Conference. University
of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City. 27 February 1999.
“Virtuous Knight, Adulterous Lover: Presentation of Lancelot
in Chretien's The Knight of the Cart and Malory's The Book
of Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.” American Library Association's
“The Many Realms of Arthur” Graduate Student Symposium.
Portland State University, Portland, OR. 5 December 1996.
Select Colloquia and Talks
“The Orality-Literacy Debate and Academic Error.” Research
Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. 22 March, 2006.
“Teaching Composition, the Literary Scholar, and Professionalization:
Making Teaching FYC Matter.” English Department Writing Program's
Fall Training Workshop. Saint Louis University, St. Louis. 16 August
2004.
“Textual Scholarship of Digital Texts: A Preliminary Survey.”
Graduate Research Network, Computers and Writing. Kapi'oloni Community
College, Honolulu. 10 June 2004.
“Using the Student Portfolio.” English Department Writing
Program's Fall Training Workshop. Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
19 August 2003.
“Going Digital: Technology in the Literature Classroom.”
(Invited.) English Department. Texas Tech, Lubbock. 21 February 2003.
“Towards an Ethical Understanding of Standard English.”
1818 Colloquium. Saint Louis University, St. Louis. 20 November 2002.
“Assignment Sequencing.” English Department Writing Program's
Fall Training Workshop. Saint Louis University, St. Louis. 20 August
2002.
“Connections MOO and You.” Computers in Writing-Intensive
Classrooms-Approaches to Integrating Computers. Michigan Technical
University, Houghton. 20 June 2002.
“She learned romance late in life': Persuasion and The
Wife of Bath's Tale.” Mickelgemote I: The English Graduate
Organization Colloquium. Saint Louis University, St. Louis. 14 November
2000.
Work Online
Digging Composition:
Using MOO as a Writing Space (Computers and Writing Online 2002)
Medieval Memory Annotated
Bibliography
Ong's Orality and Literacy
Publications
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