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Gregory Wickliff

English
Summary | Full Profile
Office: Fretwell 290H
Phone: 704-687-0617
Email: gawickli@uncc.edu
Academic Interests
american photography
deliberative rhetoric
environmental rhetoric
photographic technology
rhetoric of science
technical texts
usability testing
visual rhetoric
Related People
Mary Muesing

 

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Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University

Areas of Interest
Greg Wickliff’s recent research has been focused on the rhetoric of nineteenth-century American photography in scientific and technical texts, and he is at work on a book on the subject.

In 2017 he was a recipient of the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Technical Communication.

Selected Publications, Presentations, Fellowships

Wickliff, Gregory A. “Draper, Darwin, and the Oxford evolution debate of 1860.” Earth Sciences History 34 (2015): 124-151.

Resident Scholar – Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, awarded for Summer 2014

Lemelson Center Fellow – National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution, Summer 2010

“John William Draper’s Early Research in Radiation 1832-1845.” National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution. Inventing American Photography Symposium. November, 2011.

“John William Draper at Hampden Sydney College, 1836-1839.” Atkinson Museum. Hampden Sydney College. November, 2010.

“John William Draper’s Experiments in Light, Photography, and Publishing.” Daguerreian Society Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. October, 2010.

Wickliff, Gregory A. “Light Writing: Technology Transfer and Photography to 1845” Technical Communication Quarterly 15 (2006): 289-313.

—. “Astronomical Rhetoric: Nineteenth-century Photographs as Models of Meaning.” Words and Images: Working Together -Working Differently. Nancy Allen, Ed. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2002. 140-163.

—. The Daguerreotype and the Rhetoric of Photographic Technology.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 12 (1998): 413-436.

—. “Photography, Geology, and Environmental Rhetoric in the American West of 1860-1880.” Technical Communication Quarterly,6 (1997): 41-75.

Classes Taught

  • ENGL 6062 Topics in Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Science and Technology
  • ENGL 6685 Seminar in American Literature: Vladimir Nabokov
  • ENGL 6195 Teaching College English
  • ENGL 6116 Technical/Professional Writing
  • ENGL 6008 Topics in Technical Communication: Deliberative Rhetoric; Topics in Technical Communication: Visual Rhetoric; Topics in Technical Communication: Usability Testing; Grant & Proposal Writing
  • ENGL 4204/5204 Expository Writing
  • ENGL 4183/5183 Editing Technical Documents
  • ENGL 4182/5182 Writing and Designing Computer-based Documents
  • ENGL 4181/5181 Writing User Documents
  • ENGL 4180/5180 Theories of Technical Communication
  • ENGL 3300 American Literature Survey
  • ENGL 3180 Language and Digital Technology
  • ENGL 2100 Writing About Literature
  • ENGL 2116 Introduction to Technical Communication

Professional Appointments

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte , 1991- present

English Department-

  • Undergraduate Program Director & Assoc. Chair,  2007-2012; Fall 2017
  • Coordinator, Technical & Professional Writing Programs, 2012 – present

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