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Wide
Research Center | Michigan State University | Rhetoric & Writing
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Bill
Hart-Davidson
Co-Director, Wide Center
hartdav2@msu.edu
www.msu.edu/~hartdav2
Bill Hart-Davidson
teaches in the Rhetoric and Writing and Professional Writing
programs at Michigan State University. He is also co-director
of the Writing in Digital Environments research center. His
research explores the influences of technology on literate
activity, with a special focus on the development of new technologies
for understanding and enacting writing practices. |
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Ellen
Cushman
cushmane@msu.edu
www.msu.edu/~cushmane
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Associate Professor at MSU, Ellen
Cushman's teaching and research take place at the intersections of critical,
digital, and community literacies. She teaches courses in Professional
Writing, English Education, Rhetoric and Writing, and Critical Studies in
Language and Pedagogy. As part of a new qualitative study on Cherokee language and cultural preservation, she developed with the students in her multimedia writing class a CD-Rom and website in collaboration with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to be released in Fall 2005 at the annual Cherokee National Holiday.
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Jeff
Grabill
Co-Director, WIDE Center
grabill@msu.edu
www.msu.edu/~grabill
Jeff Grabill
teaches in the professional writing and rhetoric and writing
programs at Michigan State where he is also Director of Professional
Writing and Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments
Research Center. His current work focuses on understanding
the civic rhetorics of technologically and scientifically
complex places. |
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Dànielle
Nicole DeVoss
devossda@msu.edu
www.msu.edu/~devossda
DeVoss
teaches core courses in the Professional Writing undergraduate
program and in the Rhetoric & Writing graduate program
at Michigan State University. DeVoss' research interests include
visual rhetoric, computer/technological literacies; feminist interpretations
of and interventions in computer technologies; professional
writing; technical communication; gender/identity play in
online spaces; online representation and embodiment; and issues
of rhetoric in disciplines such as nursing and medicine. DeVoss
is currently working with Heidi McKee on an edited collection
on issues of digital writing research, Digital Writing
Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues.
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Jim
Porter
porterj8@msu.edu
www.rhetoric.msu.edu/porter
Porter is Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan
State University, where he also serves as Director of Rhetoric & Writing in
the College of Arts & Letters and Co-Director of the WIDE Research Center.
He has authored or co-authored four books, including Audience and Rhetoric
(1992) and Professional Writing Online (2001), a web-based textbook. His
book Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing (1998) won the Computers
and Composition Best Book award. Porter's current research focuses on the
intersections of rhetoric theory, professional communication, and digital
writing, with particular emphasis on issues of delivery and distribution;
digital copyright and information policy; and ethical issues in
Internet-based research.
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