Department of English
Purdue University

Teaching and Research Interests

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

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, 2007-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

Administrative Positions

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

Responsibilities: Oversee undergraduate major in Professional Writing (~90 students in major) and develop graduate specialization; hire, train, and supervise 30 TAs and lecturers; develop, assess, and improve undergraduate curriculum, including core technical, business, and multimedia writing courses (2,400 students/year; 120+ sections); secure grants; manage program budget; manage technology support/ purchases; develop and maintain program’s Web site, http://www.digitalparlor.org/pwenglish; co-Direct the Open Source Development and Documentation Project.

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 Web site; 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 Web site 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)

Publications

Books

The Thomson Handbook, Comprehensive Edition (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen). Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, 2008. 1,175 pages.

The Brief Thomson Handbook (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen). Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, 2008. 636 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

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

 “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

“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.

"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.

“Introduction: Notes on Visual Rhetoric” (with Collin Brooke). Enculturation 3.2 (Fall 2001). http://www.uta.edu/huma/enculturation/ (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): 805-819.

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://www.kbjournal.org/modules.php?name=WorksBy

Blakesley, David, et al. “Secondary Bibliography: Works about Burke.” KB Journal 1.1 (Fall 2004). http://www.kbjournal.org/modules.php?name=WorksAbout

Taking Burke On(line): The Kenneth Burke Bibliography and Archival Project. Internet. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/dblakesley/burke/projects.html. 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. http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/guide/index.html

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)

Articles under Review

“Open Access Book Publishing in Writing Studies: A Case Study.” (With Charles Bazerman, Mike Palmquist, and David Russell). First Monday (Fall 2006). 10,300 words.

Publishing and Entrepeneurship

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

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 2/15/2007

Books published as of 4/20/2008

• Agena, et al., Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed
• Baude, The Flying House
• Bazerman, et al., Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
• Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures
• Bertolucci , Winter Journey (trrans. Nicholas Benson)
• Biaz , Small Maps of the World
• Biaz, Moon Dance
• 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
• 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
• Enos, R., and Beard, Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years
• 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
• Harris, Rhetoric and Incommensurability
• Henze, Selzer, & Sharer, 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition
• 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
• Killeen, Signs Following
• 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
• 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]
• Ohlgren, Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation
• Pesques, Nicholas, Physis (trans. Cole Swensen)
• Porter, Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse
• Reid, The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition
• Riley, A Map of Faring
• Rueckert, Faulkner from Within
• Ruskin, The Two Paths
• Saltzman, Nearer (Essays)
• Savett, Child in the Road [poetry]
• Schuldt, Verge [poetry]
• Thompson, The Book of the Floating World
• Thompson, The Book of the Floating World, Expanded Edition [poetry/photography]
• Thomson, The Country of Lost Sons
• 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; Catherine Hobbs, University of Oklahoma
• Lenses on Composition Studies, Edited by Sheryl Fontaine, California State University Northridge, and Susan Hunter, Clayton State University
• New Media Theory, Edited by Byron Hawk, George Mason University
• Perspectives on Writing, Edited by Michael Palmquist, Colorado State University
• 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
• Second Language Writing, Edited by Paul Matsuda, University of New Hampshire
• Prospects in Visual Rhetoric, Edited by Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• Visual Rhetoric, Edited by Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• Writing Program Administration, Edited by Susan McLeod, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Margot Soven, LaSalle University
• 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)

Guest Editor (with Karl Stolley). "Multimedia Composition: Pedagogies, Production, Possibilities." Computers and Composition. (September 2006 issue in process).

Editorial Board, Purdue University Press (2004 - present)

Consulting Editor, KB Journal. http://www.kbjournal.org (2003-present)

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 (1985-1986)

Teaching Experience

Graduate Courses Taught

Hutton Lecture Series in Rhetoric and Composition (1 sem.)
Kenneth Burke and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (3 sem.)
Rhetoric and Digital Publishing (1 sem.)
Professional Writing Practicum (3 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

Introduction to Entrerpreneurship and Innovation (1 sem.)
Business Writing (Study Abroad: “Visual Communication in Intercultural Contexts," Oxford; "Art and Culture" Florence; "Tourism and Golf," Glasgow)
Computer-Aided Publishing (1 sem.)
Multimedia Writing (2 sem.)
Advanced Professional Writing (1 sem.)
Business Writing (8 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.)

Teaching Awards

Outstanding Faculty Member, Clinical Center-Achieve Program (Southern Illinois University), 1999

Dissertations and MA Theses Directed and Co-Directed

Completed PhD committees directed at Purdue: Nicole Brown (2002), Colin Charlton (2005), Kelly Pender (2005), Erin Karper (2003), Michael Kapper (2004), Geof Carter (2007), James Beasley (2007)

Current PhD committees directing: Marc Santos, Jeremy Tirrell

Completed MA committees: Catherine Shuler

Number of PhD and MA Committees Served on at Purdue (as of 1/17/2007): 36
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

Grants

Teaching and Research Grants and Awards

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

“Fostering Community, Group Work, and Collaboration in Online Education: Launching the Second Life Project at Purdue.” IDC/ITaP. 2008 ($3,000).

“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.

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

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

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

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

Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, “Developing English 420E (Business Writing for Entrepreneurs) and English 421E (Technical Writing for Entrepreneurs) (with Richard Johnson-Sheehan), Spring 2007

"Integration of Digital Publishing in Teaching and Learning.” Hewlett-Packard Digital Publishing for University Teaching and Learning Grant. Co-PI, with Jan Allebach (Engineering), Dino Felluga (English Literature), Ed Coyle (Engineering). ($90,000), 2005–2006. Purdue U.

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 2001 Multimedia Instructional Preparation Lab, 2001

“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

Research Development Grant, "The Cultural Value of Literacy." ($7,380, 1990; $7,115, 1991), 1990-1992

Grant Applications in Process

“Developing Web-to-Print Technologies at Purdue University.” H-P Labs and H-P University Relations. (With Linda Bergmann). $76,350. 2008. [under review]
Internal [Submitted]

“Purdue Center for Serious Games and Learning in Virtual Environments.” Provost’s Program for Instructional Innovation. With William Watson (Education) and Michael Witt (Libraries). $25,000. 2008. [under review]

Teaching and Research Grants Applied For

Model International Department Grants Competition. For Internationalizing the professional writing curriculum and internships ($25,000), 2001

Medical Decision Modeling Project (with MDM, Inc). Submitted for Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund (Purdue’s portion, $37,000), 2001

Community Engagement

Member and Secretary. Tippecanoe County Human Relations Commission. Member and Secretary. 2003-Present.

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

Web Developer, Council of Writing Program Administrators. http://www.wpacouncil.org. 2004 - present.

Managing Editor and Web Developer, KB Journal.
http://www.kbjournal.org (2005-present)

Program Chair, Computers and Writing 2003, http://www.cw2003.org. Hosted by the Professional Writing Program at Purdue, May 22-25, 2003.

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

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

Council of Writing Program Administrators
Executive Board, http://www.wpacouncil.org, 2000-present
Web Developer, 2004 -
Chair, "Digital WPA" Subcommittee
Production Editor, WPA: Writing Program Administration (8 issues; 2000 - 2004)

Tenure Reviews
Robert Darden, Baylor University (2004)
James Comas, University of Missiouri (2004)
Ken McAllister, University of Arizona (2003)
Barbara L'Eplattenier, University of Arkansas, Little Rock (2003)
Ann George, Texas Christian University (2002)
Phillip Eubanks, Northern Illinois University (2001)

CCCC Resolutions Committee 2001-2002

Membership in Professional Associations:

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Kenneth Burke Society
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
Editors Group

Editorial Boards and Review

Production Consultant and Editorial Board, Pre/Text, 2004 - present
Editorial Board, Purdue University Press, 2004 - present
Editorial Board, Sycamore Review, 2004 - present
Editorial Board, Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists, 1994 - present
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

Other

Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum. CCCC, 2001-2005.

Invited Lectures

“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

“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, 2007-2008
• Undergraduate Studies Committee 2001, 2004 - present
• Primary Committee 2004 - present
• Academic Computing Committee (Chair) 2002-2004
• 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

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

University Committees Chaired

• University Visual Arts Committee (2007-present)
• Educational Technology Advisory Committee (2007-present)

Member

• Entrepreneurship Committee, Burton D. Morgan Center (2005 - 2007)
• Visual Arts Committee (2001-2006, 2007-present)
• Educational Technology Advisory Committee (2007-present)
• 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

• 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
• Literary Awards Judge, Department of English, 2000 - present
• 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

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