Faculty

Teaching Assignments: Com 110, English 101, COM 267-- Electronic Media Writing: Theory and Practice (Upcoming Assignment - Fall 2010)

Research Interests: Internet radio, accessibility, social effects of technology

Publications/Presentations:

• "Hacks, Mods, Easter Eggs, and Fossils: Intentionality and Digitalism in the Video Game." Playing the Past: University of Florida Game Studies Conference Proceedings. Journal of Lyrics from Robert Johnson. In press.
• "Inviting Subversion: Tmesis in Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto." A Strategy Guide for Studying the Grand Theft Auto Series: An Edited Collection of Essays. (accepted)

Teaching Assignments:

RSQ Editorial Assistant, ENG 323 - "Writing in the Rhetorical Tradition," ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetoric & Digital Politics, Critical Theory, Composition Theory & Technology

Home Town: Charleston, WV

Publications/Presentations:

• http://culture-cast.org/ - ongoing - designer and editor.
• "The Rhetor Behind the Curtain: The Visual Rhetor in Digital Parody" SSCA, Louisville, 2007
• "The Writer as Remixer: An Argument for the Interscriptor" CCCC, New York, 2007.

Teaching Assignments:

• ENG 101 "Academic Writing and Research"
• ENG 317 "Designing Web Communication"
• Assistant Co-Director, First-Year Writing Program (with Kati Fargo) 2010-11
• University Outstanding TA award recipient, 2010

Research Interests: Open source software development communities and communication; physical computing (esp. Arduino-related projects); digital humanities avenues of research

Home Town: Greenville, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• Brock, K. & Ware, J. (2011). Tones of discourse: The Arduino microprocessor as translator and re-signifier. To be presented at Computers & Writing, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Brock, K. (2011). One hundred thousand billion icons: Digital cybertext and computational Oulipian writing. Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
• Rodrigo, R., Matsuda, P.K., Selfe, C., Anson, C., Yancey, K.B., Glau, G., Bahrainwala, L., Fargo, K., & Brock, K. (2011). We are 113! Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
• Brock, K. (2010). Behind the screen: Cyber-awareness and perceptions of paranormal technology. Presented at the Resurrection of the Paranormal: Investigating Otherness in 21st Century English Studies Symposium, Raleigh, NC.
• Brock, K. (2010). Open source software and the construction of electronic identities. Presented at the Carolina Rhetoric Conference, Raleigh, NC.
• Brock, K. (2009). Paul Virilio and the electronic zombie apocalypse. Presented at the New Voices: Literature and Rhetoric of the Apocalypse conference, Atlanta, GA.

Research Interests: telepresence and corporeality; usability; trust in CMC

Publications/Presentations:

• First commentary on "XML and the new design regime". ACM Journal of Computer Documentation 26(2): 43-44 (2002)
• Book Review: Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 19: 121-125 (2005)

Teaching Assignments: ENG 101, COM 110, ENG 323

Research Interests: Ihe History of Composition Studies, Archival Research, Pedagogy, Composition Theory

Home Town: Concord, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• J. Burr and K. Lyles. Access to Art Offline and Online: Who Looks at Art, Where, and Why, 2009 NCSU Graduate Research Symposium.
• J. Burr. The Snowsuit Effort: A Digital Representation of an Urban Space, 2008 NCSU Graduate Research Symposium.
• Burr, L. de Hertogh, and K. Warner. From Tutoring to Teaching and Back: How Writing Center Work Helps First Year Teachers of Composition. Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA), Nashville, 2007.
• J. Burr and K. Warner. Consultant Consultant Collaboration in the Writing Center. Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA), Chapel Hill, 2006.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Eng 101

Research Interests: Communication and identity construction in online social networks; power, agency, and subjectivity in digital technologies.

Home Town: Vancouver, WA

Publications/Presentations:

• Clark, L.E. (2010, April). The Virtually Commodified: Women's Representations of Self in Social and Mass Media. Gender, Bodies, and Technology, Roanoke, VA.
• Clark, L.E. (2010, March). Virtual Embodiment and Construction of Identity in Online Social Networks. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.

Teaching/Research Assignments: RA with Dr. David Berube, Director of the Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCOST) project

Research Interests: Organizational & Institutional Trust, Public Engagement, Public Communication of science and technology.

Home Town: Santa Rosa, CA

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]
• Berube, D.M., and Faber, B., Scheufele, D.A., with Cummings, C.L., Gardner, G.E., Martin, K.N., and Temple, N.M. (2009) White Paper: Communicating Risk in the 21st Century. Sponsored by NSF NIRT #0809470 - Applied Nanoscience: Public Perception of Risk 2007-2011 and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
• "Nano: Risk and Deliberation: A critique of current public engagement models" A paper presented at the Society of Risk Analysis Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, 2008
• "FROM TAXES TO AXIS: An Exploration of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias in the State of the Union Addresses of President George W. Bush" A paper presented at the Invitational Masters Student Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 18, 2008

Teaching/Research Assignments: Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Editorial Assistant: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Research Interests: Media studies, Rhetoric or Popular culture, film and television, with a little bit of critical/cultural studies.

Home Town: Little Genesee, NY

Publications/Presentations:

• Dickerson, J.A. (2009, November). A Framework for the Rhetorical Examination of Digital Technologies. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
• Dickerson, J. (2007, November). Heroes, transformers, and the emerging world of immersive marketing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
• Dickerson, J.A. (2005, May). Utopian and dystopian master narratives in a posthuman world. Paper selected for the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Research Interests:Subjectivity and experience in new media arts, issues of power and space in digital poetics and mobile technologies, applications of augmented and virtual reality in art and/or games.

Home Town: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Publications/Presentations:

• DUARTE, F.C.P. Net artes, origens, heranças e tendências. In: II Simpósio Nacional da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Cibercultura, 2008, São Paulo. Anais do II Simpósio ABCIBER, 2008.
• DUARTE, F. C. P. Materialidade do dispositivo e o autoreferencialismo nas net artes. In: 6º Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia, 2007, Brasília. Anais do 6º Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia, 2007.
• DUARTE, F. C. P. Atravessamentos materiais nas net artes. In: I Congresso Internacional de Artes e Novas Tecnologias, 2007, São Paulo. Anais do I Congresso Internacional de Artes e Novas Tecnologias, 2007.
• DUARTE, F. C. P. . Poéticas do dispositivo nas net artes. In: XXX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, 2007, Santos. Anais do XXX Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, 2007.
• DUARTE, F. C. P. ; TAVARES, M. T. "option=process" Interatividade em net art. In: XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, 2005, Rio de Janeiro. Anais do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, 2005.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 101, Fiction 288, ENG 422, First-Year Writing Program Assistant Director

Research Interests: Auditory rhetoric, auditory literacy, recuperating a study of sound in composition and rhetoric

Home Town: Fairfax, VA

Publications/Presentations:

• Fargo, K. M. (2008). Using First Year Composition Blogs to Create Space for Collaborative Ownership. Panel paper presented at the Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2008.
• Fargo, K.M. (2010) I Hear Ya!: Teaching Listening Practices and Auditory Rhetoric in a Musical Ethnography. Panel paper presented at CCCC in Louisville, KY, March 2010.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 331: Communication for Engineers

Research Interests: Mobile technologies, politics of technology, mobilities, social space

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]

Teaching Assignments:

ENG 426: Analysis of Style

ENG 101: Academic Writing & Research

Research Assistantship:

Graduate Advisor, Campus Writing & Speaking Program with Dr. Chris Anson and Dr. Deanna Dannels; Graduate Assistant to Dr. Chris Anson for 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication planning

Research Interests:

Rhetoric of place, composition studies and place pedagogies, technology and learning spaces, innovative learning spaces (such as learning commons, multiliteracy centers, and adaptable classrooms)

Home Town: Hapeville, GA

Publications/Presentations:

• Gierdowski, D. and Oswald, R. (2011, May). Gazing Across the Boundaries: Students' Private, Public, and Academic Digital Literacies. Presented at Computers & Writing, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Gierdowski, D. (2011, March). Bull City Rising: The Metaphor of Light at the Site of the Durham Performing Arts Center. Presented at the Southern States Communication Association Conference, Little Rock, AR.
• Gierdowski, D. (2011, March). The Tutor as Teammate: A Qualitative Study on the Function of Communication in the Writing Center Conference. Presented at the Southern States Communication Association Conference, Little Rock, AR.
• Oswald, R and Gierdowski, D. (2011, February). Altering Our Assumptions: A Study of the Digital Literacy Skills of First-Year Writing Students. Presented at the North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing, Raleigh, NC.
• Gierdowski, D. (2010, May). Digital Materiality: The Virtual Wall® as Commemorative Material Rhetoric. Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 214, ENG/COM 395, STS 214

Research Interests: Research in the rhetoric of the body, neuroscience, and new media technologies

Home Town: Los Angeles, CA

Publications/Presentations:

• Gruber, David. forthcoming, 2011. Theatrical Bodies: Acting out Comedy and Tragedy in Two Anatomical Displays. Visual Communication Quarterly.
• Gruber, David, et al. March, 11. Rhetoric and the Neurosciences: Exploration and Engagement. POROI, 7(1).
• Gruber, David. Aug, 10. From the screen to me, 1984-2008: computer television commercials and the human-computer relationship. Media History, 16(3).

Teaching Assignments: COM 110, COM 202

Research Interests: Internet radio, accessibility, social effects of technology

Publications/Presentations:

• Thompson, T.L, Robinson, J.D., & Gutschmidt, A.M. (2003). Willingness to donate organs and family communication about organ donation: A test of the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Nation Communication Association, San Diego, May.
• Gutschmidt, A.M. (2005). Examining Collaboration in the Classroom Through the Use of Weblogs. (Masters Thesis)
• Gutschmidt, A. "A Perpetual State of Arrested Development: The Communicative Implications of Fantasy Theme Usage." SSCA conference. Louisville. 30 Mar. 2007.

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 267

Research Interests: Public broadcasting, HD Radio(R) broadcast technology adoption, use of communication technologies to improve adult education and adult literacy.

Home Town: Washington, D.C.

Publications/Presentations:

• Hamilton, Fredessa (1988). "Utilization of Telecommunications Technologies to Promote Minority Higher Education in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)". Presented at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) annual conference.

Teaching Assignments: COM 110

Research Interests: Identity, Embodiment, Rhetorical Studies, Game Studies

Home Town: Flomaton, AL

Teaching Assignments: English 214

Research Interests: Intellectual Property, Game Studies, Qualitative Methodologies

Home Town: Birmingham, AL

Publications/Presentations:

• Hey Guys, The Raid has Changed (2009) Proquest UMI. (Masters Thesis).
• Someone Else is There: Presence and Aspects of Third Place Theory in World of Warcraft (2010) Presented at the Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, LA.

Teaching/Research Assignments:

2011-2012 - Research Assistant, Dr. Victoria Gallagher

2009-2011 - Teaching Assistant, English Department

Research Interests: Memory Studies, Digital Media Theory & Digital Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory & Criticism, Rhetoric of Science & Technology

Home Town: Painesville, OH

Publications/Presentations:

• Kalin, J. (2011, November). Visual practices of digital network memory: Inventing and remembering with digital images, places, and publics. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA. Top Papers in the Visual Communication Division.
• Kalin, J. (2011, November). The scene of digital public memory: A tropological detour through the topoi of memory. Paper to be presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA.
• Kalin, J. (2011, April). Memory spaces, spatial memories: The invention(s) of digital memory. Paper presented at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA.
• Kalin, J. (2010, November). Doing what come naturally? Student perceptions and use of collaborative technologies. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA. Top Papers in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning.
• Kalin, J. (2010, November). Genetic information and the constitution of medical subjects: Critical junctures in genome sequencing. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Kalin, J. (2010, May). Critical junctures in genome sequencing: Constituting medical subjects and articulating healthy lives. Paper presented at the biannual conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN.

Teaching/Research Assignments:
Research Assistant to Carolyn R. Miller
Instructor of Record for ENG 331 -- Communication for Engineering and Technology

Research Interests: Genre theory, rhetorical style, rhetoric of science, nuclear energy, and social media.

Home Town: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Publications/Presentations:

• Kelly, A.R., & M. Kittle Autry. (2011). "A Humanistic Approach to the Study of Social Media: Combining Social Network Analysis & Case Study Research." Proceedings for the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Pisa, Italy: ACM.
• Kelly, A.R., & M. Kittle Autry (2011). "Big Power, Big Controversy: The Proposed Duke-Progress Energy Merger and Environmental Controversy in the Carolinas." Environments, Risks, & Digital Media Symposium. Raleigh, USA.
• Kelly, A.R., N. Abbott, R.A. Harris, & C. DiMarco. (2010). "Toward an Ontology of Rhetorical Figures." Proceedings for the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
• Kelly, A.R., J. Wallace, K. Cerar, N. Randall, P. McClelland, A.M. Seto, & S.D. Scott. (2010). "Solar Scramble: Design and Development of an Educational Children's Game for Multi-Touch Collaborative Tables." Proceedings for the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
• Kelly, A.R., A. McDougall, & N. Abbott. (2009). "Rhetorical Models for Computational Systems." Proceedings for the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN, USA.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetorical criticism, particularly of popular culture, environmental rhetoric, genre theory, teaching with technology

Home Town: Winchester, Ontario, Canada

Publications/Presentations:

• 2011. Carolina Rhetoric Conference (Columbia, SC). "Framing Climate Change as 'Debate': Implications for Burden of Proof and Public Understanding of Science."
• 2011. NC Symposium on Teaching Writing (Raleigh, NC). "The Hybrid Composition Classroom: Teaching from Two Platforms." With Lauren Clark, Wendi Sierra, and Kate Maddalena, NCSU.
• 2010. "Review of America, America." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Geoff Hamilton. New York: FactFinder.
• 2010. "Gendered Nature in Online Environments: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Conservation Websites." Presented at NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC.
• 2009. "Do They Really Read What We Write?: A Study of Student Reactions to Electronic Grading and Commenting." Presented at NC Symposium on Teaching Writing, Raleigh, NC. With Wanda D. Lloyd.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Organizational Communication COM 456 (GTA); NSF Grant (RA with Stein); Public Speaking COM 110 (Instructor)

Research Interests: Film theory, history, and criticism; reconceptualizing authorship and genre studies; phenomenology, intersubjectivity, and ethical theories in cinematic spectatorship

Home Town: Plymouth, MN

Publications/Presentations:

• Larson, S. (2008, November). A sociocultural and neo-formalist analysis of "Kansas": Towards a rhetoric of the 1980s farm debt crisis & new Depression film. Paper presented at the conference of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
• Larson, S. (2009, April). Pan Nalin''s "Samsara" as revisionist update of Hermann Hesse''s novel "Siddhartha" (1922). Paper delivered at the conference of the Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 101, English 323, English 332, and Campus Writing & Speaking Program Graduate Consultant

Research Interests: Literacy Theory and Studies, New Media, and Rhetorical Theory

Home Town: Florence, SC

Teaching/Research Assignments: First Year Writing Program

Research Interests: Epistemology and rhetoric, Sociolingustics, SciFi and postmodern folklore, rhetoric of science (physics and astrophysics, ecology, forestry.) And Doctor Who.

Home Town: Raleigh, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• Maddalena, K. (2010) I need you to say "I": Why first person is important in college writing. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing.http://writingspaces.org/
• Maddalena, K.(2010) Comparing Conversations: Two Sociolinguistic models for teaching about academic discourse. Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.
• Maddalena, K.(2009) Mundane Science Fiction: Another article about the benefits of exercise. TASK Newsletter, 2: Not What if, What if Not http://www.tasknewsletter.com/kate2.html

Teaching/Research Assignments: RA for Dr. Vicki Gallagher, Visual Rhetoric COM 451, Media History & Theory COM 257, Public Speaking COM 110

Research Interests: Visual communication; research methods; new media / social media strategies; public relations; communication across the curriculum

Home Town: Cleveland, OH

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]
• Martin, K. N. & Johnson, M. (2010). Digital Credibility and Digital Dynamism in Public Relations Blogs. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17(3), 162-174.
• Dannels, D.P., Gaffney, A. A. & Martin, K. N. (2010, in-press). Students' Talk about the Climate of Feedback Interventions in the Critique, Communication Education, 59 (4), 453-472.
• Gallagher, V. J., Martin, K. N., Ma, M. (Accepted for publication). Visual Wellbeing: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Visual Design, Design Issues.
• Gallagher, V. J., Zagacki, K. & Martin, K. N. (Accepted for publication). Materiality and Urban Communication: The Rhetoric of Communicative Spaces. In J. Packer and S. Wiley (Eds.) Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks, Routledge.
• Dannels, D. & Martin, K. (2008) Critiquing Critiques: A Genre Analysis of Feedback Across Novice to Expert Design Studios. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22, 135-159.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 216: Technologies for Texts; RA w/ Dr. Miller

Research Interests: Digital rhetoric; Internet memes; philosophy/rhetoric of technology; social media; Internet culture; digital identity; rhetorical criticism

Home Town: Jefferson, IA

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]
• Frith, J., Morain, M., Cummings, C. and Berube, D. (2011). Review: The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains; You are not a gadget: A manifesto. Journal of Communication, 61(1).
• Morain, M. (2011, April). Internet culture and the rhetori---IMMA LET YOU FINISH!: What kairos can tell us about Internet memes and viral media. Presented at CCCC. Atlanta, GA.
• Morain, M. (2010, December). Ragin' contagion: Viral media and the social amplification of risk. Presented at the annual conference of the Society for Risk Analysis. Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Morain, M. (2010, May). i'm in ur head, shapin' ur interwebz: Internet memes, user agency, and rhetorical transmission. Paper presented at the biannual conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN.

Research Interests: Digital culture, new media and social change

Home Town:Concepción, Chile

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 367, COM 307

Research Interests: Aural Subjectivity, Critical Race Theory, Sound Studies, Identity

Home Town: Kingston, MA

Publications/Presentations:

• "Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness." in Sounds of the Future, McFarland, Winter 2009.
• November 2008. National Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA Award Paper, 'Top Paper in Semiotics and Communication':
  "We're the Paran Maum: Linda Linda Linda, Aural Semiotics, and Sonic Identity."
• August 2008. University Film and Video Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
• Invited presenter. Presented two papers:
  "Teaching 'Audio Culture' in Film Studies" and "Joe Strummer and the Transgressive Power of Aural Subjectivity."

Teaching/Research Assignments:
COM226: Introduction to Public Relations
COM327: Critical Analysis of Communication Media
COM456: Organizational Communication

Research Interests: space and mobility, infrastructure, power, cyberattack, cultural studies.

Home Town: West Chester, PA

Publications/Presentations:

Selected:

• Packer, J. & Oswald, K. F. (2010). From Windscreen to Widescreen: Screening Technologies and Mobile Communication. The Communication Review 13(4).
• Oswald, K. F. (2010, November). Mobilizing "Smart:" Networked landscapes and infrastructure convergence. Accepted to the 96th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
• Packer, J. & Oswald, K. F. (2009, November). Public Air and Private Lines: An Analysis of Auto-mobile Privatization. Presented at the 95th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
• Oswald, K. F. (2009, May). Re-representing space: Critical junctures in the production of early radio and broadband. Presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago IL.

Teaching/Research Assignments:
COM 467: Gender, Sexuality, & Media
ENG 282: Introduction to Film
COM 267: Electronic Media Writing
COM 110: Public Speaking

Research Interests: Film history & theory, Television studies, Cultural studies, HBO and cable television, Popular representations of activism

Home Town: Houma, LA

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]
• "Joanna Newsom Covers in the Blogosphere" in Visions of Joanna Newsom. Bradley Buchanan (ed.). (Sacramento, CA: Roan Press, 2010)
• "Invisible Children and the Cyberactivist Spectator," Nebula 6.4 (December, 2009)
• "HBO and the AIDS Epidemic: Subscribing to a Neoliberal Solution," National Communication Association Conference (Chicago, 2009)
• "'If PBS Doesn't Do It, Who Will?': HBO and the Negotiation of Profit and Public Service," Unthinking Television: 6th Annual Visual Cultures Symposium (George Mason University, 2009)
• "A Love Unspecified: Scrubs and Network Television's Recoding of Masculinity," National Popular Culture Association Conference (New Orleans, 2009)
• "The Importance of the Image: Visual Rhetoric and Oliver Stone's JFK," National Communication Association Conference (San Diego, 2008)

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 331: Communication for Engineering and Technology; ENG 317: Designing Web Communication

Research Interests: Rhetoric of A.I., Online Information Design, Space in digital environments, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Game Design and Development, Mobile Technologies

Home Town: Raleigh, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• Phelps, C. G. (2008). "The New Optimized Article Genre". Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Cashman, S. & Phelps, C. G. (2009). The role of role-play in pervasive location-based mobile games. In A. de Souza e Silva & D. M. Sutko (Eds.), Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
• Phelps, C. G. (2009). "Advancing Online Community: The Internet, Artificial Intelligence, and Religion". Presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 333; ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetoric of Science and Social Science; Interdisciplinary Communication; Rhetoric of Popular Culture

Home Town: Englewood, OH

Publications/Presentations:

• Rash, Z. (2009). One conflict, two stories: Practitioners' and scientists' incommensurable narratives about APA's history. Presented at the National Communication Association 95th Annual Convention, Chicago IL. November 13, 2008.
• Rash, Z. (2009). Football fan blogs as recipes for presence. Presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM. February 27, 2009.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Graduate Assistant Director, First-Year Writing Program; COM 267; ENG 101; ENG 323; ENG 332; TA for COM/ENG 321; University Outstanding TA Award recipient

Research Interests: media, culture, and construction of individual identity; technologies of matching

Home Town: Gibsonville, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• "Self-Evaluation in Self-Placement: Exploring Factors in Student Course Choice." D. Shepherd. Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention in Atlanta, GA. April 2011.
• "Watching Tina Fey Make Liz Lemonade: 30 Rock's Post-Feminist Feminism." S. Pepper and D. Shepherd. National Communication Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA. November 2010.
• "Identity Construction in Match.Com User Profiles." D. Shepherd. National Communication Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA. November 2010.
• "Public Sphere, New Media, and the Problem of Presence." D. Shepherd. National Communication Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA. November 2010.
• "Problematizing Presence in the Networked Writing Classroom." D. Shepherd and S. Miller-Cochran. Thomas R. Watson Conference in Lousville, KY. October 2010.
• "Is There a Space in this Class? Designing Effective and Efficient Learning Environments with New Technologies." D. Shepherd (1 of 9 presenters). Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY. March 2010.
• "Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere." C.R. Miller and D. Shepherd. Theories of Genre and Their Application to Internet Communication. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. John Benjamins Publishing. 2009.
• "Matchmaking and the Problem of Being Single." D. Shepherd. NCA 95th Annual Convention in Chicago, IL. November 2009.
• "Making Lemonade: Budget Crises as Opportunities for Positive Change." S. Miller-Cochran and D. Shepherd. Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Conference. September 2009.
• "'The Closet and the House-Tops': Communication Technologies, Interiority, and the Paradox of Privacy." D. Shepherd. The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?, An ICA Pre-Conference Organized by New Media & Society in Chicago, IL. May 2009.
• "Match.com, Genre, and the Construction of Self." D. Shepherd. 13th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Seattle, WA. May 2008.
• "Toward A New Understanding of Appropriateness in the Digital Rhetorical Situation." D. Shepherd. Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society in Villanova, PA. June 2008.
• "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog." C.R. Miller and D. Shepherd. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblog. 2004.
• "Brunettes Get Better Grades: Consubstantiation and the Girls' Screen Tee." D. Shepherd. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. April 2006. (Accepted but not presented.)
• "'In the plus column': The Timeliness of Faith." D. Shepherd. Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Nashville, TN. May, 2004.
• "'A real girl for once': Containment in 'Halloween.'" D. Shepherd. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. March, 2004.

Research Interests: Impact of digital environments on language, cognition, and written composition, secondary literacy

Home Town: Laurinburg, NC

Publications/Presentations:

• Oswald, R. It's the End of the World as We Know It, Composition in the 21st Century. Presented at the 9th Annual EGSA Conference, Charlotte, NC: January 2009.

Publications/Presentations:

• [NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository]

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 100

Research Interests: Digital public spheres, online communities, social networks, and online issue advocacy.

Home Town: Provo, UT

Research Interests: Digital media influences on innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity

Home Town: Sand Lake, NY

Publications/Presentations:

• Nanotechnology, Society and Literature conference panel presenter, Dec 6-7, 2007, Lowell MA

Teaching/Research Assignments: Research Assistant: "Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL" $1.8 million dollar NSF research grant
Instructor: Public Speaking

Research Interests: Visual Communication, Multimedia Production, Multi-modal Composition, Technology and Pedagogy

Home Town: Milwaukee, WI

Publications/Presentations:

• Ware, J. (2011). From an Honorific to a Pejorative: Diversity in Wake County Public Schools. CCCC, Atlanta, GA.
• Brock, K. & Ware, J. (2011). Tones of discourse: The Arduino microprocessor as translator and re-signifier. To be presented at Computers & Writing, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Ware, J. (forthcoming). "Cancer Networks" Encyclopedia of Social Networks. Sage Publications.
• Invited Supplemental Media Publications in Anderson, D. (2011). Write Now: Reading, Writing, Cultural Networks. New York: Pearson. Web.
  Ware, J. (2011). Comparisons and Contrasts, Digital Video Strategies 1, Digital Video Strategies 2.
  Ware, J. and Hall, E.A. (2011). Brochures, Designing Effective Presentations, Informational Graphics, Internet Sources, Using Sensory Details.
• Hall, E.A. and Ware, J. (2011). Causes and Effects, Drafting. Extended Definitions, Evaluating Sources 1: Bias and Credibility, Evaluating Sources 3: Summarizing and Paraphrasing, Fair Use and Intellectual Property, Narrowing a Thesis, Paraphrasing, Resumes and Business Letters, Revising, Summarizing
• Invited Instructor Manual chapters in Anderson, D. (2011). Write Now: Reading, Writing, Cultural Networks. New York: Pearson.
  Chapter 9, Proposals; Chapter 10, Explanatory research essays; Chapter 14, Understanding Research; Chapter 15, Conducting Research; Chapter 18, Thesis Statements and Topic Sentences; Chapter 23, Comparisons and Contracts; Chapter 25, Visual Rhetoric Strategies; Chapter 26, Document Design; Chapter E1, Presentations; Chapter E3, Audio Essays; Chapter E6, Business Letters and Resumes; Chapter E8, Digital Videos
• Stein, S., Schaffer, H., & Ware, J. (2011). Poster Presentation "Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL." NSF ITEST 8th Annual Summit, Washington DC.
• Ware, J.; Cayton, C & Patterson, L. (2011). "Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL: Teachers' use of dynamic technology in the mathematics classroom." Poster session. Math, Science, and Technology Education Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC.
• Ware, J. (2010). "Mathematics Teachers' critical evaluations of Dynamic Geometry Software in 1:1 classrooms." Campus Writing and Speaking Program Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC, 2010.
• Stein, S., Schaffer, H., & Ware, J. (2010) Poster Presentation "Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL." NSF ITEST 7th Annual, Washington DC.
• Ware, J.; Cayton, C & Patterson, L. (2010). "Scaling Up STEM Learning with the VCL." Poster session. Math, Science, and Technology Education Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC.
• Ware, J. (2010). "The Blueprint posting: form and style in an online discourse community." C& W Indiana.

Research Interests: International non-profit management, philanthropy,fundraising, marketing, public relations, cross-cultural communication and volunteerism.

Home Town: Heilbronn, Germany

Publications/Presentations:

• "Take Stock of Your Assets: Assessing Motivational Experiences and Behaviors of Museum Volunteers and Members" published by Dr. Müller Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2008.
• Presenter, 2008 Center for Nonprofit Success, Winston-Salem, NC
• Presenter, 2007 Southeast Administrative Conference of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Atlanta, GA