after completing his phd at texas tech, prof. salvo spent three years at northeastern university before joining the rhetoric & composition program at purdue. his research explores professional & technical writing and rhetoric, particularly ethical issues related to writing with digital technology in academic and nonacademic settings. he leads a group of usability researchers testing purdue's online writing lab.

recent publications include:

• "the distributed gesamptkunstwerk: sound, worlding, and new media culture" with thomas rickert in computer and composition journal's special issue sound in/as composition space, 2006 (winner of the computers and composition journal's 2006 ellen nold award)
• "and they had pro tools ... " with thomas rickert in computers and composition online's issue on sound in new media, 2006 (winner of the kairos 2006-7 best webtext award)
• "rhetoric as productive technology: cultural studies in/as technical communication methodology" chapter 9 in scott, longo, willis (eds) critical power tools: technical communication and cultural studies. suny press, 2006.

prof. salvo currently serves on the editorial board of kairos, an online journal he co-founded with six other techno-rhetoricians and the tc library of the e-server, an online repository of techncial communication research.