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Byron Hawk is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are histories and theories of composition, rhetorical theory and technology, sonic rhetorics, and rhetorics of popular music. He is the author of Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) and A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), which won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2007 and received honorable mention for MLA's Mina Shaughnessy Prize in 2008.

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University of South Carolina:

Spring 2024

Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

  • ENGL 797 - Current Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition
  • ENGL 462 - Technical Writing

Spring 2020

Fall 2019

  • ENGL 468 - Digital Writing: Writing with Sound
  • ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

Spring 2019

  • ENGL 795 - Professional Writing and Rhetoric
  • ENGL 692 - Teaching Rhetoric and Composition

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

  • ENGL 890 - New Material Rhetorics
  • ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

  • ENGL 890 - Sonic Rhetorics
  • ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

Fall 2016

Spring 2016

  • ENGL 387 - Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

Fall 2015

Spring 2015

  • ENGL 460 - Advanced Writing: Writing with Sound

Fall 2014

  • ENGL 790 - Composition Studies: Histories and Historiographies of Composition

Spring 2014

  • ENGL 791 - Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Fall 2013

  • ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition

Spring 2013

  • ENGL 890 - New Materialism
  • ENGL 701b - Teaching Rhetoric and Composition: Argument

Fall 2012

Spring 2012

  • ENGL 791 - Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
  • ENGL 701b - Teaching Rhetoric and Composition: Argument

Fall 2011

  • ENGL 790 - Composition Studies: Histories and Historiographies of Composition
  • ENGL 439 - Special Topics: Rhetorical Approaches to Popular Music

Spring 2011

  • ENGL 795 - Professional Writing and Rhetoric
  • ENGL 467 - Topics in Rhetoric: Rhetorical Approaches to Popular Music

Fall 2010

  • ENGL 790 - Composition Studies: Histories and Historiographies of Composition
  • ENGL 460 - Advanced Writing: Digital Rhetoric

George Mason University:

  • ENGL 797 - Projects in Professional Writing and Rhetoric
  • ENGL 697 - Composition Theory
  • ENGL 611 - Studies in Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Complexity
  • ENGL 611 - Studies in Rhetoric: Rhetorics, Ecologies, Networks
  • ENGL 611 - Studies in Rhetoric: Computers and Writing
  • ENGL 610 - Teaching Literature
  • ENGL 508 - Digital Rhetoric
  • ENGL 505 - Electronic Publication and Design
  • ENGL 501 - Intro to Professional Writing
  • ENGL 410 - Technical Writing
  • ENGL 344 - Digital Writing
  • ENGL 342 - Web Authoring and Design
  • ENGL 334 - Critical Approaches to Popular Music
  • ENGL 309 - Introduction to Nonfiction
  • ENGL 302 - Advanced Composition
  • ENGL 101 - Composition

James Madison University:

  • GHUM 251 - Modern Perspectives (The Birth and Death of the Human)
  • GRWI 102D - Reading and Composition: Rhetoric and History
  • GWRI 102A - Reading and Composition: Effective Arguments
  • GWRI 101 - Reading and Composition: Expository Writing

University of Texas at Arlington:

  • ENGL 3371 - Advanced Exposition
  • ENGL 1302 - Argumentative Writing
  • ENGL 1301 - Expository Writing