Department of English
Purdue University

Teaching and Research Interests

Professional Writing, Visual Rhetoric, Multimedia, Modern Rhetorical Theory, The History of Rhetoric, Technical Communication, Digital and Print Publishing, Rhetoric and Film, Virtual Worlds, Gaming

Education

PhD, English, University of Southern California, 1990

Dissertation: “Kenneth Burke and Rhetorical Inquiry in American Criticism, 1920-1950”
Director: Donald C. Freeman. Committee: James Paul Gee, Thomas Gustafson, Ellen Quandahl, and W. Ross Winterowd.
Emphasis: Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature

MA, English, San Diego State University, 1986

Thesis: "Manner as Form in Aristotle's Rhetoric"
Director: William A. Covino
Emphasis: The Teaching of Writing

BA, San Diego State University, 1983

Major: English
Minor: Astronomy

Professional Positions

• Professor of English, Purdue University, 2006-present
• Associate Professor of English, Purdue University, 2000-2006
• Founder and Publisher, Parlor Press, 2002-present
• Associate Professor of English, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, 1996-2000
• Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, 1989-1996
• Assistant Lecturer, University of Southern California, 1986-1989
• Teaching Assistant, San Diego State University, 1984-1986

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Innovation

Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Purdue Discovery Park, 2007–2008 (Founding class). Sponsored by the Kaufmann Foundation. ($5,000)

Founder and Publisher, Parlor Press (2002–present). Scholarly publishing company.

Administrative Positions

Director of Professional Writing (Purdue, August 2000 - present)

Responsibilities: Oversee undergraduate major in Professional Writing (~80 students in major) and develop graduate specialization; hire, train, and supervise 35 TAs and lecturers; develop, assess, and improve undergraduate curriculum, including core technical, business, and multimedia writing courses (2,400 students/year; 120+ sections); collaborate with Purdue's Writing Lab and OWL; secure grants; manage program budget; manage technology support/ purchases; develop and maintain program’s website, http://www.digitalparlor.org/pwenglish/.

Director of Writing Studies (Southern Illinois University, May 1997 - July 2000)

Responsibilities: Oversee all facets of the writing program's administration: design and develop curriculum of first-year composition, technical writing, and advanced composition; train and supervise 95+ graduate teaching assistants; design and manage writing placement and assessment; develop and maintain Department webite; collaborate with the directors of the writing center, technology and English studies, and university core curriculum.

Chair, Communication Across the Curriculum (Southern Illinois Univ., June 1998 - July 2000)

Responsibilities: Direct full-scale implementation of communication across the curriculum program at SIUC; develop teaching and learning resources in both traditional and online formats for instructors in all disciplines; foster creative uses of instructional technology; conduct campus-wide workshops; manage program’s budget; create and maintain website at http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/.

Acting Director of Technology and English Studies (Southern Illinois Univ., August 1999- July 2000)

Responsibilities: Oversee instructional support for computer-mediated communication in distance learning and other Web-based courses; develop infrastructure; solve networking issues and ensure Y2K readiness.

Instructional Coordinator (University of Southern California, 1987-1988)

Responsibilities: GA training and support.

Assistant to the Director of Composition (San Diego State University, 1985-1986)

Awards and Honors

Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, 2009.

W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory for 2008 (Honorable Mention) from JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, for the Parlor Press book, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition by Alexander Reid.

Instructional Development Center Distance Education Award. Information Technology at Purdue and Continuing Education. 2008 ($5,000)

W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory for 2007 from JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, for the Parlor Press book, Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse by Kevin Porter.

Council of Writing Program Administrators Outstanding Book Award for 2004–2005 for the Parlor Press book, Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline, edited by Barbara L'Eplattenier & Lisa Mastrangelo

Distinguished Service Award, Kenneth Burke Society, 2005
Outstanding Faculty Member, Clinical Center-Achieve Program (Southern Illinois University), 1999
Outstanding Service Award, First-Year Experience, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, 1990
Outstanding Service Award, Student Orientation Programs, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, 1990

Publications

Books

Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen; formerly The Thomson Handbook). Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, 2008. 1,138 pages.

The Brief Thomson Handbook (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen). Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, 2007. 569 pages

Late Poems 1968-1993 by Kenneth Burke: Attitudinizings Verse-wise, While Fending for One's Selph, and in a Style Somewhat Artificially Colloquial. Ed. Julie Whitaker and David Blakesley. University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Includes all of Kenneth Burke’s previously uncollected poetry written after 1968 and critical introductions to the collection.

Review: KB Journal 3.1 (Fall 2006). By Miriam Clark. See http://kbjournal.org/latepoems

The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. (Editor) (135,000 words; 15 contributors); includes “Introduction: The Rhetoric of Film and Film Studies” (7,000 words), introductions to Parts I, II, and III, and “Sophistry, Magic, and the Vilifying Rhetoric of The Usual Suspects" (5,300 words). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 378 pp. Paperback edition published in 2007.

Reviews: " Envisioning Theory: Rhetoric and/of Film." JAC 23.4 (2003) by John Muckelbauer.

American Communication Journal 6.4 (2003). By Elisia L. Cohen.  See http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss4/reviews/blakesley.htm

Choice 41.1 (September 2003): 470

"Review Essay." College English (June 2005).

Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed. With Kate Agena, Christopher Berry, David Blakesley, Jennie Blankert, Chris Eklund, Serkan Gorkemli, Jingfang Ren, Bob Stein, Karl Stolley, and Rita Wu. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2003. ISBN: 1–932559–00–0. TK3 Book: http://www.parlorpress.com/digital.html.

Newspaper Story: "'Digital Dimensions' of Publishing Explored at Conference." Journal-Courier Online (PDF version). May 25, 2003. See http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~blakesle/journal-courier.pdf

The Elements of Dramatism. Boston: Longman, 2002. 208 pp. (82,000 words)

Review: Rhetoric Review. 21.4 (2002). By Dana Anderson.

Articles

“Get Agrippa: A Comment on Chris Miles’s "Occult Retraction.’” (With Joshua Gunn, Morgan Reitmeyer, and William A. Covino). Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39.4 (October 2009): 380-87.

“Open Access Book Publishing in Writing Studies: A Case Study.” (With Charles Bazerman, Mike Palmquist, and David Russell). First Monday. 13.1 (7 January 2008). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2088/1920 [10,300 words]

“And Now . . . Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950 to 1955.” KB Journal. 3.2. Spring 2007. http://kbjournal.org/som

“A Burkeian Reading of White Noise.” Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s White Noise. Ed. John Duvall and Tim Engles. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. 169–79.

 “Burke's New Boiks: Get 'em While They're Hot and Before They're Not. . . .” KB Journal 3.1. Fall 2006. http://kbjournal.org/books

"From Nodes to Nets: Our Emerging Culture of Complex Interactive Networks." (With Thomas Rickert.) JAC 24.4 (2004): 821-830.

Forward. Internet-Based Workplace Communication: Academic and Industry Perspectives. Ed. Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St. Amant. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishers. 2004.

“Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.” Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Marguerite Helmers and Charles Hill. Erlbaum. February, 2004. (9,500 words plus illustrations)

"Coverweb Introduction: Discovering Digital Dimensions." Kairos 8.2. Fall 2003. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/8.2/binder2.html?coverweb/coverweb1.html (4 nodes).

“Directed Self-Placement in the University.” Directed Self-Placement: Principles and Practices. Ed. Daniel Royer and Roger Gilles. Hampton Press. 2003.

“Southern Illinois University Carbondale as an Institutional Model: The English 100/101 Stretch and Directed Self-Placement Program” (with Erin Harvey and Erica Reynolds). In Directed Self-Placement: Principles and Practices. Ed. Daniel Royer and Roger Gilles. Hampton Press. 2003.

“Being Reasonable: A Response to Richard Marback.” JAC 22.1 (Winter 2002): 151-59.

“Facing the Perilous Future of Academic Publication” and “A Multi-Journal Collaborative Issue on Electronic Publication.” Enculturation 4.1 (Spring 2002) http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_1/intro/blakesley1.html and http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_1/intro/blakesley2.html

“Directed Self-Placement in the University.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 25.3 (Spring 2002): 9-39. http://wpacouncil.org/wpa25n3

“Introduction: Notes on Visual Rhetoric” (with Collin Brooke). Enculturation 3.2 (Fall 2001). http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_2/introduction.html (5 Nodes)

“Kenneth Burke’s Pragmatism-Old and New.” Kenneth Burke and the 21st Century. Ed. Bernard Brock. SUNY Press, November 1998.

"Eviscerating David Cronenberg." Enculturation 2.1 (1998). Hypertext Essay. Available http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_1/blakesley/. (Reviewed in Film-Philosophy, May 1999)

"Neopragmatism." Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy. Greenwood Press, 1998.

Essays in The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Eds. John C. Tibbetts and James Welsh. NY: Facts on File, 1998. “Frankenstein” (1500 words); “The Exorcist” (500 words); “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (1500 words); “Strangers on a Train” (1000 words); “Flowers for Algernon” (500 words); “Martin Eden” (500 words); “The Thirty-Nine Steps”(1000 words); “War of the Worlds” (1000 words); “Heart of Darkness” (1500 words); “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1000 words)

 “Reconceptualizing Grammar as an Aspect of Rhetorical Invention.” The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 191-203.

“He/Man and the Masters of Discourse.” Gender Issues in the Teaching of English. Ed. Nancy McCracken and Bruce Appleby. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 23-38.

“So What’s Rhetorical about Criticism? A Subjective Dialogue Featuring Kenneth Burke and Fredric Jameson.” Textuality and Subjectivity: Essays on Language and Being. Eds. Dale Gowen, Ken Mendoza, and Eitel Timm. Columbia, SC: Camden, 1991. 14-20.

“Maxim-izing Literacy.” Discurrendo 3.2 (Spring 1990): 2-5.

“The History of Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing.” The Writing Instructor 8.1 (Fall 1988): 3-6.

“Cultural Noise.” Discurrendo 1 (Jan. 1988): 8-11.

Reviews and Interviews

"An Interview with Mark C. Taylor." (With Thomas Rickert.) JAC 24.4 (2004): 805-19.

Review. Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. Kairos 6.1 (Spring 2001). <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/ or http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.1/reviews/blakesley/remediator.html>

Guest Moderator/Interviewer, PRE/TEXT, The List. Re/Inter/View with Timothy Crusius, Nov. 1999. http://www.pre-text.com/ptlist/reinvw.html

Review. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy: An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination by William A. Covino. Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 2.1 (Spring 1995): 71-74.

Review. Reorienting Rhetoric: The Dialectic of List and Story by John D. O’Banion. The Kenneth Burke Society Newsletter 10.1 (June 1995): 22-25.

Interview. “Bruce C. Appleby on Popular Culture, Gender, and Writing Instruction.” The Writing Instructor (Spring 1994): 124-36.

In-House and Other Publications

Blakesley, David. “A Bibliography of the Works of Kenneth Burke.” KB Journal 1.1 (Fall 2004). http://kbjournal.org/worksbykb

Blakesley, David, et al. “Secondary Bibliography: Works about Burke.” KB Journal 1.1 (Fall 2004). http://kbjournal.org/worksaboutkb

Taking Burke On(line): The Kenneth Burke Bibliography and Archival Project. Internet. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/dblakesley/burke/. Includes the Burke Bibliography Project, Overview of the Burke/Hugh Duncan Correspondence, Conference Paper Repository, and the FBI Files. May, 1999-present.

Integrating Written, Oral, Visual and Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants (with Chris Costello). Communication Across the Curriculum Program, Southern Illinois University, 1999.

Contracted/Accepted Work

Illuminating Rhetoric: A Guide to Seeing, Reading, and Writing. Mayfield Publishing Co./McGraw-Hill, Under contract. (Projected length: 300,000 words; 25% complete)

Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age, 2nd edition. Boston: Cengage. 2010.

Publishing and Entrepeneurship

Faculty Affiliate, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Discovery Park, Purdue University (2004 - present)

Parlor Press. Scholarly publishing company. Founder, sole owner, and publisher. 2002 - present.

Books published as of 11/10/09

• Agena, et al., Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed
• Armstrong, ed., Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur: A New Modern English Translation Based on the Winchester Manuscript
• Baude, The Flying House [poetry]
• Bazerman, et al., Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
• Bazerman, et al., Genre in a Changing World
• Bendall, Under the Quick [poetry]
• Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures
• Bertolucci , Winter Journey (trrans. Nicholas Benson)
• Biaz , Small Maps of the World
• Biaz, Moon Dance
• Bloom, Writers without Borders
• Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato (trans. Charles Ross)
• Burke, Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950–1955
• Burke, Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (ed. by Scott Newstok)
• Burke, Letters from Kenneth Burke to William H. Rueckert, 1959–1987
• Byard, Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies
• Carroll, When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues
• Clay, The Wash
• Connor-Greene, et al., Teaching and Learning Creatively: Inspirations and Reflections
• David & Richards, Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication
• Dew and Horning, Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics
• Eble & Gaillet, Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis
• Enos, R., and Beard, Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years
• Enos, R., Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence
• Enos, T., and Borrowman, The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration
• Fleckenstein, Hum, and Calendrillo, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real
• Foster, Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
• Gross, Harmon, and Reidy, Communicating Science
• Gu, From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China
• Guinzio, Quarry (poetry)
• Harris, Rhetoric and Incommensurability
• Henze, Selzer, & Sharer, 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition
• Hernandez, The Prison Poems
• Holbo, et al., Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science?
• Holbo, Framing Theory's Empire
• Horning & Becker, Revision: History, Theory, and Practice
• Huglen and Clark, Poetic Healing
• de Guerville (ed. Kane), Au Japon
• Killeen, Blood Orbits [poetry]
• Killeen, Signs Following [poetry]
• Kleine, Searching for Latini
• Lauer, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
• L'Eplattenier & Mastrangelo, Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline
• Lipson and Binkley, Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics
• Lisk, These Beautiful Limits
• Logie, Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates
• Long, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics
• Matsuda, Ortmeier-Hooper, and You, The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land
• McLeod & Soven, Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum
• Mcleod, Writing Program Administration [reference guide]
• Morrison, The Lost Girl [novel]
• Neighbors, Between the Twilight and the Sky [poetry]
• Ohlgren, Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation
• Ostergaard, Ludwig, and Nugent, Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre
• Pesques, Nicholas, Physis (poetry, trans. Cole Swensen)
• Porter, Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse
• Ramage, Argument in Composition
• Reid, Senior Citizens Writing II
• Reid, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition
• Rice and O’Gorman, New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy
• Rickel, remanence [poetry]
• Rzicznek, Divination Machine [poetry]
• Riley, A Map of Faring [poetry]
• Rueckert, Faulkner from Within
• Ruskin, The Two Paths
• Saltzman, Nearer [essays]
• Saltzman, Obligations of the Harp [essays]
• Savett, Child in the Road [poetry]
• Schuldt, Verge [poetry]
• Selzer and Wess, Kenneth Burke and His Circles
• Silver, Sarah Heckford: Lady Traveler in the Transvaal
• Tardy, Building Genre Knowledge
• Taub, What Stillness Illuminated
• Thompson, The Book of the Floating World
• Thompson, The Book of the Floating World, Expanded Edition [poetry/photography]
• Thomson, The Country of Lost Sons
• Tietge, Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse
• Tiffany, Puppet Wardrobe
• Volkmer, Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story
• Warnock, Effective Writing: A Handbook with Stories for Lawyers
• Weinberger, Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams
• Winterowd, Searching for Faith: A Skeptic's Journey
• Winterowd, Senior Citizens Writing

Parlor Press Book Series

• Aesthetic Critical Inquiry, Edited by Andrea Feeser, Clemson University
• Free Verse Editions, Edited by Jon Thompson, North Carolina State University
• Glassbead Books, Edited by John Holbo, National University of Singapore
• Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition, Edited by Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay, Purdue University and Catherine Hobbs, University of Oklahoma
• Lenses on Composition Studies, Edited by Sheryl Fontaine and Stephen Westbrook, California State University Northridge
• New Media Theory, Edited by Byron Hawk, George Mason University
• Perspectives on Writing, Edited by Susan McLeod and Mike Palmquist
• Prospects in Visual Rhetoric, Edited by Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition (WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press), Edited by Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara
• The Renaissance, Edited by Charles Ross, Purdue University
• The Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Edited by Alan Gross, University of Minnesota
• Second Language Writing, Edited by Paul Matsuda, University of New Hampshire
• Visual Rhetoric, Edited by Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• Writing Program Administration, Edited by Susan McLeod and Margot Soven
• Writing Travel, Edited by Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina

Editorships

General Editor and Publisher (with Dawn Formo), The Writing Instructor. http://www.writinginstructor.com (2000 – present)

Special Issue Editor, "Complexity Theory" (with Thomas Rickert). JAC 24.4 (2004)

Editorial Board, Purdue University Press (2004 - present)

Managing Editor and Web Developer, KB Journal. http://www.kbjournal.org (2003-2008)

Special Issue Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Technology. "Discovering Digital Dimensions." (January 2004).

Founder and Series Editor, Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory. Southern Illinois University Press.

Books in the Series:

• Amy Devitt, Writing Genres (Spring 2004)
• Michael Carter, Where Writing Begins: Reconstructing the Postmodern in Composition (2003)
• Edward Schiappa, Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Spring 2003)
• Catherine Hobbs, Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Eighteenth-Century Language and Rhetoric (Fall 2002)
• Bruce McComiskey, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (Fall 2001)
• Ernesto Grassi, Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition. Reprint, with a new introduction by Timothy W. Crusius. (2001)
• Michelle Ballif. Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure (2001)
• Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams, eds. Unending Conversations: Essays by and about Kenneth Burke. (2001)
• D. Diane Davis. Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter (2000)
• Timothy W. Crusius. Kenneth Burke and the Conversation After Philosophy (1999)

Production Editor, WPA: Writing Program Administration (2000 – 2004)

Guest Co-Editor (with Collin Brooke) Visual Rhetoric, Spec. issue of Enculturation, http://enculturation.gmu.edu/. (December 2001).

Managing Editor, The Writing Instructor (printed version; 1988-1989)

Special Issues: Composition and Literature, The History of Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing, Literacy of the Deaf, Orality and Literacy.

General Editor, Pacific Review, San Diego State University, (1985-1986)

Teaching Experience

Graduate Courses Taught

Hutton Lecture Series in Rhetoric and Composition (1 sem.)
Digital Rhetorics and Design Studio (2 sem.)
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Technology (4 sem.)
Rhetoric and Digital Publishing (1 sem.)
Professional Writing Practicum (5 sem.)
Visual Rhetoric (2 sem.)
The History of Rhetoric (5 sem.)
Modern Rhetorical Theory (4 sem.)
Culture and Politics of Literacy (2 sem.)
Teaching College Writing (3 sem.)
Literary Theory Applied to Film (2 sem.)
Advanced Expository Writing (2 sem.)
Modern English Grammars (1 semester)

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Business Writing (6 sem.) (includes “Visual Communication in Intercultural Contexts," Oxford, UK; "Business and Art," Florence, Italy; "Business and Tourism," Glasgow, Scotland)
Computer-Aided Publishing (2 sem.)
Multimedia Writing (2 sem.)
Advanced Professional Writing (2 sem.)
Business Writing (3 sem.)
Res. Methods in Prof Writing (3 sem.)
Advanced Composition (11 sem.)
Literary Studies of Film (2 sem.)
Lit and the Modern World (3 sem.)
Interm. Expository Writing (3 sem.)
The Appreciation of Literature (10 sem.)
Freshman Composition (many sem.)

Courses Administered in the Last Five years

ENGL 419: Multimedia Writing (4 sections annually)
ENGL 420: Business Writing (80 sections annually)
ENGL 420Y: Business Writing (12 sections annually; distance education)
ENGL 420E:  Business Writing for Entrepreneurs (6 sections annually)
ENGL 421: Technical Writing (32 sections annually)
ENGL 421Y: Technical Writing (12 sections annually; distance education)
Undergraduate English major in Professional Writing (“Writing and Publishing” and “Technical Writing” tracks).

Dissertations and MA Theses Directed and Co-Directed at Purdue
Completed PhD committees directed at Purdue: Jeremy Tirrell (2009), Marc Santos (2009) James Beasley (2007), Geof Carter (2007), Colin Charlton (2005), Kelly Pender (2005), Erin Karper (2003), Michael Kapper (2004), Nicole Brown (2002)

Current PhD committees directing: AmyLea Clemons, Catherine Shuler
Completed MA committees: Catherine Shuler
Number of PhD and MA Committees at Purdue (as of 10/15/2009): 51

Service on Dissertation and MA Theses Committees (Summary)
Total MA and PhD Committees at Southern Illinois U: 65 (12 directed).
Committees service at other universities: Catherine Hungerford (University of Queensland, Australia), Joddy Murray (Syracuse University)

Student Honors
David Tietge. Title: Post World War II Rhetoric of Science and Its Impact on Civic Ideology in a Nuclear Age. (Runner-Up, 1997 SIUC Outstanding Dissertation Award. Published as Flash Effect (Ohio University Press, 2002)

Internship Supervision and Undergraduate Mentoring

• Sydney and London Internship Students (supervise; ongoing)
• Dammon Dean’s Scholar Program (mentoring of Brittany Esposito), College of Liberal Arts, Purdue 2007
• Internship Sponsor (under the aegis of ENGL 488 or 490): Betsy Gutwein, Megan Hertzler, Sarah Sczepanski, Alan Mizimakoski, Susan Bales (working the Jennifer Bay)
• Internship Adviser for Crouse Scholarship in Digital and Print Technologies: Erin Wilson (2008), Beth Kaniewski (2007). Kindra Hunckler (2005), Arthur Bottorff (2004), Betsy Gutwein (2003), Rachel Mack (2002)
• Internship Adviser for London and Sydney Study Abroad. Purdue U: Sara Conn (2008); Keri James, Dawn Hunt (2007);

Pedagogical Innovation and Curriculum Development

Purdue University

• Development of new course, ENGL 420E, “Business Writing for Entrepreneurs.” Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. (2007)
• Developed ENGL 420Y (Business Writing) and 421Y (Technical Writing), for delivery as distance education courses (2005–present)
• Designed new Professional Writing content management system and community networking website, and wrote and rewrote teacher resources, software documentation, and technology nodes (2005–present) http://www.digitalparlor.org/pwenglish
• Co-Founder and Director (with Charlie Lowe), Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP), 2005-present, http://www.digitalparlor.org/osddp (2004 –present)
• Member of Subcommittee: Entrepreneurship Certificate Development, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Discovery Park (2004–2007)
• Created ENGL 419: Multimedia Writing for the Professional Writing major (2002)
• Revised course description and goals for ENGL 419 (Multimedia Writing), ENGL 420 (Business Writing) and ENGL 421 (Technical Writing), F 2000, F 2004, F 2007

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Designed and implemented new Directed Self-Placement system for incoming students (1998–2000)
• Developed new course in Basic Writing (1998)
• Designed new mentoring system for 100 new and continuing TAs
• Created “Integrating Written, Oral, Visual and Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants” (with Chris Costello), 1998.
• Conducted Writing Across the Curriculum Workshops (1998–2000)
• Coordinated adoption of campus-wide writing handbook (1998)
• Revised all first-year composition courses (1998)
• Revised technical writing course (1998)
• Developed undergraduate course on the Culture and Politics of Literacy (1992)

Grants

Teaching and Research Grants Awarded

Instructional Development Center Distance Education Incentive Award. Information Technology at Purdue and Continuing Education. 2008 ($5,000)

Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Internship (DURI) Program. 2006–2007. ($600).

Instructional Development Center (IDC) and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). “Fostering Community, Group Work, and Collaboration in Online Education: Launching the Second Life Project at Purdue” $3,000. Summer-Fall 2007

Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, “Developing English 420E (Business Writing for Entrepreneurs)” Spring 2007 (~$12,000)

Study Abroad Teaching Award. "Business and Tourism," Glasgow, Scotland, May-June, 2006

Study Abroad Teaching Award. "Business and Art," Florence, Italy, May-June, 2005

Purdue Office of Engagement ($1,500). Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects. For “Open Source Development and Documentation Project ,” Fall 2004

“Fostering Student Learning in Collaborative Digital Publishing, Multimedia Portfolio Development, Digital Writing, and Peer Mentoring”; Specialized Software and Hardware Fund Proposal (with Irwin Weiser, Dino Felluga, Shirley Rose, Linda Bergmann, Samantha Blackmon, Jennifer Bay, Michael Salvo, Tammy Conard-Salvo. ($33,000). May 2004

Instructional Computing Grant (awarded; for continuing development of Instructional Multimedia Preparation Lab in Heavilon 402) ($21,000). 2003/2004

Study Abroad Teaching Award. "Visual Communication in Intercultural Contexts," Oriel College, Oxford UK (June-August 2003)

“Building the Foundation for the Center for Digital Publication.” eEnterprise Center at Discover Park. 2nd Round. With Dino Felluga, Susan G. Miller, and Patricia Sullivan ($33,063). Feb-March 2003

Purdue Office of Engagement ($1,500). For “English 203 Service Learning Project for Human Relations Commissions of Greater Lafayette,” Fall 2002

Instructional Computing Development Grant ($10,000). For development of Multimedia Instructional Preparation Lab, 2001
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

“Teaching the University Core Curriculum at an Internet Distance” (Principal Author) Distance Learning Program Development Grant, Southern Illinois University $385,000 total for three years ($137,000, 2000; $124,000, 2002; $124,000, 2003); 2000
SIUC Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship Program “Teaching the Introductory Literature Course” ($3,000), 1991

External Teaching-Related Grants

“Short Courses in Technical Writing and Editing for INDOT Engineers.” (With Linda Bergmann and Richard Johnson-Sheehan). Indiana Department of Transportation, Office of Research and Development. ($29,000), 2008.

Invited Lectures

• “New Realities for Academic Presses in Trying Economic Times.” Invited Keynote. Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication San Francisco, March 11, 2009
• “Rhetorics of Engagement and Networked Learning,” Clemson University, Campbell 2008 Communication across the Curriculum Speakers Series, October 9, 2008.
• “Drupal Design and Development,” Arizona State University, Provost’s Communication Group, July, 2007
• “Visual Rhetoric,” Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Department of English, April 6, 2007
• "Multimedia Composing," University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Department of Rhetoric and Writing. Nov. 14, 2006.
• "From Writer to Auteur: What Is an Author in an Age of Visual Rhetoric and Multimedia?" Culbertson Memorial Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 27 2005.
• “Kenneth Burke, Word Man.” Featured Speaker. Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition,” University Park, PA, 12 July 2005.
• Books and Coffee. Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City. Purdue University (February 19, 2004).
• “Multimedia Projects to Foster Student Learning,” Williams College (MA). All-day workshop for faculty and IT staff. (Feb 27, 2004)
• “Déjà Vu and Rhetoric.” Northern Illinois University, Department of English (Graduate Student Association) 27 February 2002.

Conference Presentations

“Open Source, Open Access, and Commons-Based Peer Production: Creating a Sustainable University Culture.” Computers and Writing Conference (Davis, CA, 20 June 2009).

“Indy Films and Videographers in Composition: The Visual Rhetorics and Pedagogies of Identity.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (San Francisco, CA, 13 March 2009).

“Publishing as a WPA.” 2008 Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (Denver, CO, 11 July 2008).

“Trialogue: The Future of Burke Studies.” Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, Villanova University (Philadelphia, PA, 20 June 2008).

“The Perils of Putting in an Oar before You Catch the Tenor or Test the Salmon Mousse: The Responsibilities of Scholarship in an Age of Electronic Glut.” Rhetoric Society of America (Seattle, WA, 25 May 2008)

“Michelangelo, Drupal Designer.” Computers and Writing 2008, University of Georgia (Athens, 24 May 2008).

“Open Source Format Issues” (Town Hall). Computers and Writing 2008, University of Georgia (Athens, 23 May 2008).

 “Using the CCCC Position Statement on Writing Assessment to Guide Assessment Practices: An Individualized Consultation Workshop.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (New Orleans, LA, 2 April 2008).

 “Toward a POD and Open Access Content Model in Digital Publishing.” Digital Printing and Publishing/Chameleon Federation, Bologna, Italy, September 24, 2007

“The Digital Printing and Publishing Process.” Digital Printing and Publishing/Chameleon Federation. (San Luis Obispo, CA, 23 April 2007). Poster session.

“Mr. Spock Mind-Melds with Kenneth Burke, Out Pops a Theory of Identification as Mind Reading.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (Chicago, IL, 24 March 2006).

"The Prospects and Politics of Book Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition." Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (San Francisco, CA, March 2005).

"The Parlor: A Role-Playing, Interactive, Scripted, Multimedia Extravaganza." Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (San Francisco, CA, March 2005).

“Multimedia Composing.” Town Hall I. Presenter and Moderator. Computers and Writing 2004 (Honolulu, Hawaii, June 10, 2004)

“The Politics and Prospects of Publishing in Computers and Writing.” Town Hall II. Presenter and Moderator. Computers and Writing 2004 (Honolulu, Hawaii, June 10, 2004)

"Digital Spaces: The Future of Publishing in Composition Studies." Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (San Antonio, TX, March 2004).

"Kenneth Burke and Visual Literacy." Conference on College Composition and Communication. CCCC (San Antonio, TX, March 2004).

“What Is Visual Rhetoric, and What Is Its Tradition?” (Position Statement). Alliance of Rhetoric Societies (Evanston/Northwestern University, September 11-14, 2003).

“The ABCs of Digital Publishing: Portfolios, CDs, Journals, Books.” Computers and Writing 2003 (West Lafayette/Purdue University, May 22, 2003).

"It Looks Like a Book!" A Course in Publishing eBooks, Printed Books, and Multimedia CDs.” Computer Connection. CCCC (New York, March 20, 2003).

“Kenneth Burke and Visual Culture” (Seminar Leader). 2002 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society (New Orleans, May 23-26, 2002)

“Teaching Dramatism.” 2002 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society (New Orleans, May 23-26, 2002)

“This Is Not a Paper”: The Interanimation of the Verbal and the Visual.” Computers and Writing 2002. (Normal, Illinois, May 18, 2002)

“The Writing Instructor: A Networked Journal and Digital Community.” Teaching, Learning, and Technology 2002: Discover, Envision, Empower. Purdue University, Feb. 2002.

“Creating Virtual Spaces and Real Opportunities for Digital Publication.” Full-Day Workshop. Computers and Writing 2001. Muncie, IN, May, 2001

"The Virtual Resurrection of The Writing Instructor." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March, 2001

"Prophesying after the Event.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March, 2001

“The Writing Instructor: A Networked Journal and Digital Community.” Teaching, Learning, and Technology 2001: A Cyber Odyssey. Purdue University, Feb., 2001

"Resisting the Bureaucratization of the Imaginative in Writing Program Administration: A Report on the Integration of Stretch and Directed Self-Placement. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April, 2000

"Rhetoric, Identification, and the Art of Cookery in Thomas Harris's Hannibal. Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April, 2000

"Taking Burke On-Line: The Kenneth Burke Bibliography and Archival Project." Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, Iowa City, May, 1999

"The Vilifying Rhetoric of The Usual Suspects." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, March, 1999

"'At the Very Start, One’s Terms Jump to Conclusions': Kenneth Burke,Rhetoric, and Ideological Inquiry." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, March, 1999

"The Dissociative Memory and ‘Purposive Forgetting’ in the Poetic Process: Burke’s Revision of Freudian Theory.” National Communication Association, New York, November, 1998

"The Promise and Peril of (Virtually) Teaching a Graduate Seminar for New GAs in a Writing Program." Computers and Writing Conference. Gainesville, FL, June, 1998

“William Carlos Williams’s Influence on Kenneth Burke” Modern Language Association. Toronto, December, 1997

“Eviscerating David Cronenberg.” Popular Culture Association Conference San Antonio, March, 1997

“Harry Chapin Interviews Kenneth Burke: A Video Presentation with Commentary on Burke’s Rhetoric as Personal Cure.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, March, 1996

“Bad Boy Ethics: Consubstantiality and the Rhetoric of Identification in Strangers on a Train.” Literature/Film Association. Ocean City, December, 1995

“Introductory Remarks on Burkeian Literacy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Washington DC, March, 1995

“Deconstructing a Gender Bender: The Strange Case of M. Butterfly.” Literature/Film Association Conference. Baltimore, MD, November, 1994

“Putting in My ‘Or’: Is Kenneth Burke’s History/Conversation Analogy a Representative Anecdote for Composition?” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Nashville, TN, March, 1994

“Kenneth Burke’s Pragmatism—Old and New.” Kenneth Burke Society. Airlie, VA, April, 1993

“The Present State of Scholarship in Literacy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Diego, CA, March, 1993

“Composing Alternative Forms, Pragmatically Speaking.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Cincinnati, OH, March, 1992

 “The Colloquial Commerce of Thought.” International Rhetoric Council. Southeastern Louisiana University, March, 1992

“(Un)Comfortable Ambiguity.” Conference on Writing in the Classroom. Edwardsville, IL, February, 1992

“Triangulating Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Penn State University, PA, July, 1991

“Composing Alternative Forms, Pragmatically Speaking.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric & Composition. Penn State University, PA, July, 1991

“The Dialogics of Reading and Writing.” Conference on Writing in the Classroom Edwardsville, IL, March, 1991

“So What’s Rhetorical about Criticism? A Subject Study Featuring Kenneth Burke and Fredric Jameson.” International Rhetoric Council. San Diego, CA, Nov., 1990

“Democracy as Critical Freedom in Kenneth Burke’s Early Work.” Kenneth Burke Society Convention. New Harmony, IN, May, 1990

“Writing through Hegemony: Composing Individual and Community Perspectives.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, Il, March, 1990

“Publishing and Getting Published.” Modern Language Association,  New Orleans, Dec., 1988

University Service

Departmental Committees

Purdue

• Policy Committee 2001, 2004–2006, 2007–present
• Undergraduate Studies Committee 2001, 2004–2007, 2008 (Chair)
• Primary Committee 2004–present
• Academic Computing Committee (Chair) 2002–2004
• Search Committee for Continuing Lecturers in Professional Writing and Introductory Composition, 2003–2006
• Search Committee for Associate/Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition (member) 2003–2004
• Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Professional Writing (Chair) 2002–2003
• Advanced Writing Committee 2000–2001, 2007–2008

Southern Illinois University

• Tenure Review Committee 1997 - 2000
• Merit Review Committee 1997 - 2000
• Writing Studies Committee (Chair) 1997 - 2000
• Policy Committee (ex-officio) 1997 - 2000
• Travel Committee 1997 - 1999
• Election Committee 1997 - 1999
• Search Committee for Rhetoric and Composition 1996
• Search Committee for Creative Nonfiction 1994
• Search Committee for Rhetoric and Composition 1993
• Alan M. Cohn Research Award Committee 1992, 1995
• First-Year Composition Committee 1990 - 1997
• Job Placement Committee 1989 - 1990

College and University Committees and Councils

Purdue

• Educational Technology Advisory Committee (Chair), ITaP, 2006–present
• Visual Arts Committee 2001–2004, 2005–present
              Chair, Sculpture on Campus Competition (2002, 2004)
              Chair (2007–present)
• Search Committee, Associate Director of Distance Learning, Continuing Education (2008)
• Search Committee, Director of eLearning Technologies at Purdue (2006–2007)
• Faculty Affiliate, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Discovery Park, Purdue University (2004–present)
• Entrepreneurship Certificate Committee, Burton D. Morgan Center 2005–2006.
• College of Liberal Arts Senate 2002–2005, 2008-present
• Liberal Arts Grievance Committee 2001

  Southern Illinois University

• Communication Across the Curriculum (Chair) 1998 - 2000
• Computing Advisory Committee 1998 - 2000
• Internet 2 Planning Committee 1999 - 2000
• University Assessment Director Search Committee 1999
• University Core Curriculum Planning Committee 1999 - 2000
• Campus-Wide Assessment Committee Advisory Council 1998 - 2000
• University Core Curriculum Advisory Committee 1997 - 2000
• Ad-Hoc Committee on Writing Across the Curriculum 1997 - 1998
• CoLA Writing Across the Curriculum Committee 1991- 2000
• CoLA Teaching and Learning Committee (Chair) 1992 - 1993
• CoLA Teaching and Learning Committee 1991 - 1992
• CoLA Council Executive Committee 1992 - 1993
• College of Liberal Arts Council 1991 - 1993

Other

• Proposal Reviewer, Teaching and Learning with Technologies 2005 (ITaP)
• Literary Awards Judge, Department of English, 2000–present
• Teaching Incentive Grant Proposal Reviews, 2002
• Instructional Computing Grant Reviewer, College of Liberal Arts, 2004
• Faculty Advisor, A.E.G.I.S. (Grad. Student Association) 1990 - 1997
• Course Coordinator for English 121 ("Western Literary Tradition") 1996
• Graduate Assistant Teaching Mentor 1990 - 1999
• Mentor, MAGIC Program 1989 - 1992, 1994
• Lecture. “Tips from the Profs.” Student Orientation Programs, August 1990, 1992
• Organized Literacy Colloquium, “Exploring the Culture of Literacy” 1991, 1992
• Outstanding Service Award, First-Year Experience 1990

Community Engagement

Local Government
Member and Secretary. Tippecanoe County Human Relations Commission. 2003–present.

Engagement Grants

• Purdue Office of Engagement ($350). Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects. For "Usability Study and White Paper Project for the Tippecanoe County Human Relations Commission." Fall 2008.
• Purdue Office of Engagement ($1,500). Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects. For “Open Source Development and Documentation Project ,” Fall 2004.
• Purdue Office of Engagement ($1,500). For “English 203 Service Learning Project for Human Relations Commissions of Greater Lafayette,” Fall 2002.

Service Learning Projects

• Co-Founder and Director (with Charlie Lowe), Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP), 2005-present, http://www.digitalparlor.org/osddp

Public Lectures

• “How to Become a Published Author.” English Tea Hour, West Lafayette Public Library. 2008.
• “Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” Mr. Lyle’s 6th grade class at Happy Hollow School. West Lafayette, IN (Nov. 2007)

Professional Service

Conference Chairing and Planning

Program Chair, Computers and Writing 2003, "Discovering Digital Dimensions" (3-D @ Purdue). http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2003/. Hosted by the Professional Writing Program at Purdue, May 22–25, 2003. 400 attendees.

Chief Conference Planner, 2002 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, New Orleans, LA. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/dblakesley/burke/call2002.html

Program Co-Planner, 1999 Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, Iowa City, IA.

Web Development

Web Developer, Council of Writing Program Administrators. http://wpacouncil.org. 2004–2008. Design, develop, and maintain new content management system and community networking website, membership tracking and payment system, weblogs, and voting mechanisms. Hosted at Purdue.

Web Developer and Managing Editor, KB Journal. http://www.kbjournal.org. Design, develop, and maintain new journal website. Hosted at Purdue. 2005-2008.

National Committees

• Executive Board, Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2000–2008
           Chair, "Digital WPA" Subcommittee; Trademarks Subcommittee; Journal Subcommittee
• NCTE Visual Identity Committee, 2006–present
• James Berlin Memorial Dissertation Award Committee, 2005, Conference on College Composition and Communication
• CCCC Resolutions Committee 2001–2002
  

Grant Application Assessment and Review

• Instructional Innovation Grant Program, Purdue 2007
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2007 (2). 1. “Strategic Knowledge Clusters Applications” (Feb) and 2. “Moving Subjects-Moving Computers” (Dec, 2007)
• Josephine Nevins Keal Faculty Fellowships, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. (April, 2007)
  Judge
• Book Award Selection Committee. Conference on College Composition and Communication (NCTE), 2008.
• John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award (formerly Kairos Best Academic Weblog Award), for an outstanding blog devoted largely to academic pursuits. Sponsored by Kairos and awarded at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, 2007
• Purdue Literary Awards, 2000–present

Membership in Academic and Professional Societies

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Kenneth Burke Society
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Rhetoric Society of America

Referee for Promotion at Another Institution

• Baylor University (2004)
• Clemson University (2008)
• Indiana University (2007)
• Louisiana State University (2006)
• Northern Illinois University (2001)
• Ohio State University (2008)
• Penn State University (2007)
• Syracuse University (2006)
• Texas Christian University (2002)
• University of Arizona (2003)
• University of Arkansas, Little Rock (2003)
• University of Minnesota (2005)
• University of Missouri (2004, 2008)
• University of Texas at Arlington (2007)

Editorial Boards and Review

• Production Consultant and Editorial Board, Pre/Text, 2004 - present
• Editorial Board, Purdue University Press, 2004 - present
• Advisory Board, Sycamore Review, 2004 - present
• Editorial Board, Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists, 1994 - 2002
• Reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1999 - present
• Reviewer, College Composition and Communication, 2004 - present
• Reviewer, College English, 1999 - present
• Reviewer, JAC, 1999 - present
• Reviewer, Rhetoric Review 2004 - present
• Reviewer, Western States Communication Journal, 2004 - present
• Contributing Editor, The Writing Instructor, 1993 - 1996

Manuscript Reviews for Presses

• Columbia University Press (1)
• Longman Publishers (4)
• National Council of Teachers of English (1)
• University of South Carolina Press (4)
• University of Pittsburgh Press (4)

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