Research Interests
Writing across academic disciplines and in contexts outside the academy, and across populations (students, faculty, community); Writing program administration; World Englishes and the spread of Western theories of writing/communication; digitizing contemporary writing research for accessibility; re-defining academic labor in the light of new digital research and design practices and workforce conditions/expectations these new practices produce; equitable international publication practices that provide and encourage diversity and access; Multimodal writing pedagogies and productions
Research Projects
Current
The Research Exchange (REx), an international searchable database of contemporary writing research (http://researchexchange.colostate.edu/). Having collected data into REx, we are now editing the material for publication, and analyzing it to provide a framing essay for a peer reviewed, open access database that will outline what writing scholars have been/are researching over the last ten years, what they have stopped researching, what populations they are using, what materials they are studying, and what questions for future research they are posing, etc. As a new type of publication that makes visible the hidden work of digital projects and much of our academic labor, REx will be an interactive, searchable journal, that invites other frame essays, provides research method models, connects researchers, and mentors new scholars. Another team of scholars is designing a companion structure that will allow researchers to upload and store raw data for other researchers (similar to a linguistic corpus for writing researchers).
Series co-editor: International Exchanges on the Study of Writing (http://wac.colostate.edu/books/), a joint open access and print publication (Parlor Press) that addresses “worldwide perspectives on writing, writers, teaching with writing, and scholarly writing practices, specifically those that draw on scholarship across national and disciplinary borders to challenge parochial understandings of all of the above. The series aims to examine writing activities in 21st-century contexts, particularly how they are informed by globalization, national identity, social networking, and increased cross-cultural communication and awareness. As such, the series strives to investigate how both the local and the international inform writing research and the facilitation of writing development.”
Collaborative writing through technology: Having worked with colleagues in Lebanon via multiple online tools and platforms, pooling our research findings and perspectives for publications, we are starting to explore issues of translation, cultural constructions of collaboration, publication, and “academic work.”
Past
The Research Exchange has been an eight year project of design, usability testing, and paradigm shifting: convinced colleagues to think differently about what academic work is and how it might be valued.
Intersections of visual and alphabetical texts and their analysis, focusing particularly on art, design and architecture.
Writing processes across the academic curriculum (particularly in arts and sciences and pharmacy)
Teaching Projects
Current
Past
- Blogs– for Classes
- ListServ for the English Department
- Digital Newsletter
- Women in Science Website