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Publications

Books
Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman. Co-Edited with Chris Mays and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins. Penn State UP (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric), 2017.

Reviewed in Rhetoric Review 37.3 (2018)
Reviewed in KB Journal 13.1 (2017)
Reviewed in International Journal of Communication 12 (2018)

Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. Co-Edited with Paul Lynch. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.

Reviewed in Rhetoric Review 35.1 (2016): 65-67
Reviewed in Composition Studies 45.1 (2017): 221-224
Reviewed in International Journal of Communication 11 (2017)
Reviewed in Rhetoric and Public Affairs 21.3 (2018)

Literature as Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke. Co-edited with Ryan Weber. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2010.

Book Chapters
“Apathy.” A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary. Ed. Michele Kennerly. Penn State UP, 2021. 139-154.

“Brewing Influence: The Mixology of Morals.” Co-authored with Katie Dickman. In Cookery. Eds. Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein. Birmingham: Alabama University Press, 2020. 21-42.

“Better Footprints.” In Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches. Eds. George F. McHendry, Jr., Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, and Samantha Senda-Cook. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. 169-196.

“New Materialisms, Networks, and Humanities Research.” Co-authored with Jenny Bay, Laurie Gries and Derek Mueller. In Networked Humanities. Eds. Brian McNely and Jeff Rice. Parlor Press, 2018.

“Augmented Publics.” Co-authored with Casey Boyle. In Circulation, Rhetoric, and Writing. Eds. Laurie Gries and Collin Brooke. Utah State University Press, 2018. 83-101.

“A Predestination for Posthumanism.” Co-authored with Steve Katz. In Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman. Penn State UP, 2017. 142-161.

“Encomium of QWERTY.” Co-authored with Jim Brown. In Rhetorical Ontologies: Rhetoric Through Everyday Things. Eds. Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. 212-225.

“Rhetorics of (Non)Symbolic Cultivation.” In Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology. Ed. Sid Dobrin. New York: Routledge, 2012. 34-50. Routledge Series in Rhetoric and Communication.

“We Are a Cyborg: Extensions of the Cybernetic into the Semiotic.” In Semiotics 2006. Ed. Benjamin Smith and Terry J. Prewitt. New York: Legas, 2006: 245-255.

Media Projects
“We Have Never Been Critical” (Video Project). Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture. October 2013.

Rhetorical Theory/Bruno Latour (Video Series). Eenculturation. July 16. 2012.

“Alien Relationship” (Video Project). OO Frequency: An Object-Oriented Media Channel. O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies. Spring 2012.

“Encyclopedias in Tweed?” (Podcast). The Notebook. Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. September 2012.

Conference Proceedings
“I Told U So! Classical and Contemporary Ethos and the Stabilization of Self.” The Responsibilities of Rhetoric: Proceedings of the 2008 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Michelle Smith and Barbara Warnick. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2010. 281-288.

Responses, Review Essays, and Reviews
Review of Being-Moved by Daniel Gross. Philosophy & Rhetoric 56.4 (2023): 190-198.

Review of Medium Design Keller Easterling. Co-authored with Casey Boyle. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 52.2 (2022).

Review of Climate Politics at the Border by Kenneth Walker for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29.4 (2022): 1362-1263.

“Speculative Air Studies” Criticism 2015.

Response to “One Train Can Hide Another.” Co-authored with Paul Lynch. College English 77.6 (July 2015): 581-586.

Review of Beyond Reductionism: A Passion for Interdisciplinarity. Eds. Katharine Farrell, Tommaso Luzzati, and Sybille van den Hove. Impact 4.2 (2015).

Review of Bodily Arts: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language, by Debra Hawhee. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 13.3 (2010): 519-522.

“The Muddled Emotions of Muggles.” Rev. of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling. Sycamore Review 18.1 (Fall and Winter 2005): 101-103. Anthologized in Political Issues in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series (Social Issues in Literature). Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Chicago: Greenhaven, 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Webtexts
“The Rhetorical Taskscape of Readability Surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk.” Co-authored with Jeremy Tirrell. Intermezzo (2023).

”Rhetorical Drift.” Co-authored Caroline Gottschalk Druschke. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 52.2 (2022): 147-156.

“Tracing the Human in Amazon Mechanical Turk through Rhetorical Text Mining.” Co- authored with Jeremy Tirrell. Intermezzo (2022).

“Consensual Attending.” Communication and the Public 5.2 (2020): 55-64.

“Ambient Captioning.” Co-authored with Casey Boyle. amodern 9, 2020.

“Anchirhetoricis latouri.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.5 (2017): 424-431. Forum: Bruno Latour on Rhetoric.

“Paying Attention with Cache” enculturation 23 (2016).

“Geocomposition in Public Writing and Rhetoric Pedagogy” College Composition and Communication 67.4 (June 2016): 576-606.

“Ecologies of Race in the Public Rhetoric Classroom.” Present Tense 5.3 (2016).

“A Version of Access.” Co-authored with Casey Boyle. Technical Communication Quarterly 25.1 (2016): 29-47.

“Ecologies of Deception: Psychology, Rhetoric, and Agency.” Co-authored with Maarten Derksen. Quarterly Journal of Speech 101.4 (2016): 633-654.

“Speculative Usability.” Co-authored with Lars Söderlund. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 46.1 (2016): 125-146.

“Deep Ambivalence and Wild Objects: Toward a Strange Environmentalism.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 45.4 (2015): 420-440.

“The Place(s) of Mentorship and Collaboration.” Co-authored with Katie Zabrowski. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 7 (2015).

“The Mechanics of New Media (Science) Writing: Articulation, Design, Hospitality and Electracy” Co-Authored with Christopher Grabau, Katherine Kavanaugh, and Katie Zabrowski. In Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 19.2 (2015).

“Tracing the Missing Masses: Vibrancy, Symmetry, and Public Rhetoric Pedagogy.” enculturation 17 (2014).

“All of the Things: Engaging Complex Assemblages in Communication Design.” Co-authored with Brian McNely. In SIGDOC ‘14: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.

“Circumnavigation: An Interview with Thomas Rickert.” Kairos 18.2 (2014).

“Dappled Discipline at Thirty: An Interview with Janice M. Lauer.” Co-authored with Kyle Vealey. Rhetoric Review 33.2 (2014): 165-180.

“Composing the Carpenter’s Workshop.” Co-authored with Jim Brown. O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies 1.1 (2013): 27-36.

“Ecological, Pedagogical Public Rhetoric.” Co-authored with Ryan Weber. College Composition and Communication 63.2 (2011): 187-218 [lead article].

“In Defense of Gut Feelings: Rhetorics of Decision-Making.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 1.2 (2011).

“Future Convergences: Technical Communication as Cognitive Science.” Technical Communication Quarterly 20.4 (2011): 412-442. Special 20th Anniversary Issue.

“Productive Strife: Andy Clark’s Cognitive Science and Rhetorical Agonism.” Co-authored with Jeremy Tirrell. Janus Head 12.1 (2011): 39-59.

“First-Year Composition Takes the University’s Agonism Online.” Kairos 13.2 (2009): Praxis Section. Co-authored with Marc C. Santos, and Ryan P. Weber.

“Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 38.3 (2008): 189-206 [lead article]. Nominated for a NCTE Scientific and Technical Communication Award.

Works in Progress
Research Project, “Following Mechanical Turks: Articulating the Human in ‘Human Intelligence Tasks.’” Co-PI with Jeremy Tirrell. Ongoing Research Project hosted through Intermezzo.

Book Chapter, “Environmental Rhetoric.” Co-authored with Casey Boyle and Jenny Rice. In Cambridge History of Rhetoric: Volume V 1900-. Eds. Daniel M. Gross, Steven Mailloux and LuMing Mao. 

Book, Geocomposition (in progress, preface, introduction and two chapters drafted).

Article, “The Santa Clause Problem: Rhetorical Pedagogies of the Real” (in progress, 9,000 words).

Conference Presentations

“Making Inquiry.” Roundtable. 18th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. 2018.

“Sound Attention.” Symposium on Sound Rhetoric and Writing Nashville, TN. 2018.

“Serial Exposition.” Conference of College Communication and Composition, Portland, OR. 2017.

“Local Rhetorics.” Roundtable. National Association of Communication Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 2016

“Telling Posthumanist Stories.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. 2016.

“Rhetoric, Habitually.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. 2016.

“Speculative Usability II.” The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Tampa, FL. 2015.

“Traffic Jams, Fog, and Road Kill: Recomposing Attention on the Interstate.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. 2013.

“Rhetorical Carpentry: Making Objects that Attend to Objects.” Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University. University of Kentucky. 2013.

“Restructuring Thought: Leveraging Ong for an Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science.” Conference on College Communication and Composition. Saint Louis, MO. 2012.

“‘The iPhone is Part of My Mind Already’: Rhetoric and the Cultivation of Body and Mind.” Conference on College Communication and Composition. Atlanta, GA. 2011.

“Institutional Critique as Technical Writing Pedagogy.” The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Louisville, KY. 2010.

“I told U So! Classical and Contemporary Ethos and the Stabilization of Self.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA. 2008.

“Technical Communication and the Articulation of Science and Politics.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. New Orleans, LA. 2008.

“Virtual Space/Real People: Using Digital Environments to Connect First-Year Composition Classrooms and Foster New Rhetorical Encounters.” Presented with Marc C. Santos and Ryan P. Weber. Computers and Writing Conference. Wayne State University. 2007.

“A Child’s Guide to Terrorism: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Equipment for Living.” Popular Culture Association. Atlanta, GA. 2006.

“Just the Facts?: A Rhetorical Look at a Victorian Cautionary Tale.” Conference on College Communication and Composition. San Francisco, CA. 2005.

“Kenneth Burke and George Schuyler on Race: The Trained Incapacity of Scapegoating.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 2005.

“Toward More Durable Rhetorics: Building Future Praxis through Reinventing Historic Epistemologies.” Roundtable sponsored by Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine), 18th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. 2018.

“Shared Attention.” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Toronto, CA. 2018.

“Deep Think Tank: Rhetorical Circulation.” Conference on Community Writing, Workshop, Boulder, CO. 2017.

“Rhetoric Under the Influence.” National Association of Communication Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 2016.

“Rhetoric Under the Influence.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. 2016.

“Speculative Deliberation.” Conference on College Communication and Composition. Tampa, FL. 2015.

“Bruno Latour and Rhetorical Theory: A Roundtable.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX. 2014.

“Assessing Popular Science in the Classroom.” The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 2013.

“Reframing Deception: Psychology, Rhetoric, and Agency.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Philadelphia, PA. 2012.

“Action Constituting Motion: Revisiting Burke to Revive Ecology.” 8th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society. Clemson University. May 2011.

“The Distributed Wisdom of Students.” Computers and Writing Conference. Purdue University. 2010.

“Attitude, Anthropology, and Appetite: The Material Relevance of Rhetoric.” Triennial Kenneth Burke Society Conference. Villanova University. 2008.

“Writing Historical Reality: Jamestown and the Shaping of Environment through the Expectations of Culture.” Conference on College Communication and Composition. New Orleans, LA. 2008.

“Productive Strife: Andy Clark’s Cognitive Science and Rhetorical Agonism.” Presented with Jeremy Tirrell. From Brain to Human Culture: Intersections Between the Humanities and Neuroscience. Bucknell University. 2007.

“We Are a Cyborg: Extensions of the Cybernetic into the Semiotic.” American Semiotics Society. Purdue University. 2006.

“Kenneth Burke’s Literary Reviews Rephrased: Examining the Influence of His Literary Reviews on His Larger Works.” Triennial Kenneth Burke Society Conference. Penn State University. 2005.

“‘Rising or Falling:’ A Logological Look at the Theological Disputes in Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Michigan College English Association. Michigan State University. 2005.

“Fact as Fancy: A Cautionary Victorian Tale.” Michigan College English Association. Western Michigan University. 2004.

Invited Presentations & Workshops

“Serialized Storytelling.” Talk at Digital Writing and Rhetoric Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. March 2017.

“Hiding and Seeking Rhetoric’s Sensorium.” Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies Department Faculty Colloquium. University of Kentucky. August 2016.

Invited guest appearance in Jenny Rice’s Graduate Seminar “Composition Theory Practicum.” University of Kentucky. October 2015.

“Love Your Monsters: A Worser Apocalypse.” English in the World Speaker Series. Saint Louis University. April 2014.

Invited Roundtable on Researching Teaching. Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. March 2013.

“Quick, Easy, and (Mostly) Free New Media Production.” Saint Louis University. Poetry Workshop. April 2012.

“Crafting Experience: Digital Technology and Writing” Writing to Learn at a Jesuit Institution. January 2012

“Rhetoric and New Media.” Georgetown University. Approaches to the Teaching of Writing (graduate seminar). November 2010.

“Tutoring Technical Writing.” Purdue University Writing Lab. 2007.

Workshop on design notebooks, project charters, and travel writing for students in Purdue’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. In conjunction with Purdue Writing Lab. Purdue University. 2007.

“The ANT and the Frenchman: Tracing Rhetoric Through Bruno Latour.” Talk delivered to Department of English, Pittsburgh University. December 2016.

“Paying Attention with Cache.” Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium. Bloomington, IN. 2015

Invited guest appearance in David Rieder’s Graduate Seminar “Rhetoric and Digital Media.” North Carolina State University. September 2015.

“Instructional Designers: Collaboration, Invention, Reflection.” Learning Studio Spring Colloquium. Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. April 2013.

“Teaching w/ New Media Technology.” 1818 Fall Colloquium. October 2012.

“Jesuit Pedagogy Brown Bag Workshop” (with Paul Lynch). Saint Louis University. Writing Program. April 2012.

“Teaching with Technology.” Saint Louis University. 1818 Fall Colloquium. October 2011.

“The Question Concerning Writing.” Georgetown University. Approaches to the Teaching of Writing (graduate seminar). November 2009.

Email Ethics Lecture and Workshop. Krannert School of Management Professional Development Workshop Series. In conjunction with Purdue Writing Lab. Purdue University. 2006 and 2007.

Invited panel discussion with Pheng Cheah, author of Spectral Nationality. Globalization and Resistance Conference. Purdue University. 2006.