Composing Media Composing Embodiment

About the Authors

ab O uT ThE auThOrS Kristin Arola is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Technology and Culture program at Washington State University. Her essays on digital pedagogy and representation have appeared in Computers and Composition, Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, and The Journal of Literacy and Technology. She is also co-author of the IX: Visualizing Composition series and has recently co-edited the third edition of CrossTalk in Comp Theory. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Anne Frances Wysocki teaches written , visual, and digital rhetorics. Lead author of Writing New Media: Theory and applications for expanding the teaching of composition and The DK Handbook, she has also designed and produced software to teach 3D visualization and geology. Her new media pieces have won the Kairos Best Webtext award and the Institute for the Future of the Book’s Born Digital Competition. … Jonathan Alexander is Professor of English and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as Campus Writing Director. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies and the co-authored Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies. In 2011, he was honored with the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Computers and Writing. Jen Almjeld is an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University. Her research interests include new media theory, identity, gender, and composition pedagogies with recent publications in upcoming collections Girls, Cultural Productions and Resistance and Preparing Writing Teachers for the Multimodal Age. She is also currently co-authoring a multimodal textbook called CrossCurrents: Cultures, Communities, Technologies. Kristine L. Blair is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches in the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Writing. She serves as editor of both Computers and Composition and Computers and Composition Online. In 2007 she received the Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s 7Cs Committee, and in 2010 she received the Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. Jay Dolmage is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is the editor of The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. His essays on rhetoric, writing, and disability studies have appeared in Cultural Critique, Rhetoric Review, and the collection Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods & Methodologies (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). He also recently edited a special issue on disability studies for the journal Open Words. 292 composing (media) = composing (embodiment) Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He is author of the book Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2011), which investigates the impact of mobile media on practices of everyday life and the production of lived, embodied spaces. He has also published recent articles on locative media, digital mapping, game studies, and surveillance technologies. Kristie S. Fleckenstein is Professor of English at Florida State University. She is the author of Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom, winner of the 2009 W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory, and Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching, winner of the 2005 Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Best Book of the Year Award. In addition, she has co-edited two books and published more than 40 articles and books chapters that cluster around her research interests of visuality and rhetoric, feminist theory, and composition pedagogy. Dr. Matthew S. S. Johnson is a rhetoric-composition specialist at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His work on composition and game studies has appeared in Dichtung Digital, College Composition and Communication and College English as well as the collections Writing and the Digital Generation, From Hip-Hop to Hyperlinks, and TechKnowledgies. He was guest editor of the “Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming” special-issue of Computers & Composition and serves as Reviews Editor for the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. Ben McCorkle is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University at Marion, where he teaches courses on composition, the history and theory of rhetoric , and digital media production. He is the author of the book Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study, published by Southern Illinois University Press. He...