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I am Associate Professor and Director of Digital Media Studies in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. I teach courses in Digital Media Studies and Business and Technical Writing as part of the Department’s Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy program.

My primary research areas are digital media, rhetoric and writing theory, and professional and technical communication, but I am also interested in visual communication, the history of rhetoric, digital literacies, and the digital humanities. I earned my M.A. in rhetoric and writing studies from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, I was an Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Editing in the Department of English at West Virginia University. Before that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.

In my research I have investigated the relationship between printing and knowledge-creation, the revision practices of Wikipedia editors, and the connections between writing and network structures. For more information about my research, you can view my full CV or visit my author page at Google Scholar.