Doctor of Philosophy: English (Rhetoric/Composition and Critical Theory) University of Texas at Arlington, 2000.

• Dissertation: "Mapping a Mirage: Vitalism, Forgetting, and De/Composition Pedagogy"
• Director: Dr. Victor J. Vitanza

Master of Arts: Humanities (Philosophy and Anthropology) University of Texas at Arlington, 1995.

• Master's paper: "The Liberation Myth: Foucault and Sub/Pop Music."

Bachelor of Arts: Interdisciplinary Studies (Philosophy, Music, and Art History) University of Texas at Arlington, 1990.

Rhetoric and Composition

• Histories and Historiographies of Rhetoric and Composition
• New Materialism and Composition
• Sonic Rhetorics

Computers and Writing

• Digital Publics, Networks, and Ecologies
• Technical Communication and Posthumanism
• Writing with Sound

Professor, University of South Carolina, from Spring 2020 to the present for the English Department.

Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, from Fall 2010 to Fall 2019 for the English Department.

Associate Professor, George Mason University, from Fall 2007 to Spring 2010 for the English Department.

Assistant Professor, George Mason University, from Fall 2001 to Spring 2007 for the English Department.

Assistant Professor, James Madison University, from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001 for the Writing Program.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, from Fall 1995 to Spring 2000 for the English Department.

A Counter-History of Composition won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award for the best book published on composition theory in 2007.

A Counter-History of Composition received honorable mention for MLA's Mina Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language in 2008.

The William Richey Award for Best Faculty Mentor, The USC Graduate English Association, 2011.

Books:

Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Girshin, Thomas. Review of Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object. Composition Forum 41 (Spring 2019): http://compositionforum.com/issue/41/girshin-review-hawk.php

VanKooten, Crystal. Review of Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object. Rhetoric Review 38.4 (2019): 487-489.

Windleburn, Maurice. "Reviewing the Book Review": Review of Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object. Textshop Experiments 7 (2020):http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop07/resounding-the-rhetorical

Eckstein, Justin. Review Essay. "The Rhetoric of Sound Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 51.3 (2021): 240-246.

A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

Miller, Susan. Rev. of 'A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, by Byron Hawk'. Rhetoric Review 27.3 (2008): 315-319.

Roderick, Noah. Rev. of 'A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, by Byron Hawk'. Composition Forum 20 (Summer 2009): http://compositionforum.com/issue/20/counter-history-review.php

Venus, Wesley. Rev. of 'A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, by Byron Hawk.' Kairos 14.1 (2009): http://www.technorhetoric.net/14.1/reviews/venus/index.html

Miller, Thomas P. Rev. of 'A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, by Byron Hawk'. Rhetoric Review 29.2 (2010): 209-212.

Kyburz, Bonnie. Rev. of 'A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, by Byron Hawk.' The Journal of Teaching Writing 25.1 (Spring 2010): 99-103.

Sirc, Geoffrey. "Resisting Entropy." CCC 63.3 (2012): 507-519. (review of four books including Counter-History)

with David Rieder and Ollie Oviedo, eds. Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker, eds. Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.

Articles and Chapters:

with Gabriela R. Ríos. "The Rhetorical Force of Embodied Listening: Indigenous Songs as Active Sites of Relationality." RSQ: Forum on Rhetorical New Materialisms. 52.2 (2022): 174-182.

"Enculturation and Scholarly Editing as Network Coordination." Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing. Ed. Greg Giberson, Megan Schoen, and Christian Wisser. Utah State University Press, 2022. 181-191.

"Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language." Networked Humanities: Within and Without the University. Ed. Jeff Rice and Brian McNely. Clemson, SC: Parlor Press. 2018. 242-251.

"Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical." Special Issue on Keywords. RSQ 48.3 (2018): 315-323.

with Greg Stuart. "English Composition as a Sonic Practice." Routledge Companion to Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. New York: Routledge, 2018. 38-47.

with Chris Lindgren and Andrew Mara. "Utopian Laptop Initiatives: From Technological Deism to Object-Oriented Rhetoric." Writing Posthumanisms. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin. Clemson, SC: Parlor Press, 2015. 192-213.

"Stitching Together Events: Of Joints, Folds, and Assemblages." Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Ballif. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2013. 106-127.

"Curating Ecologies, Circulating Musics: From The Public Sphere to Sphere Publics." Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology. Ed. Sid Dobrin. New York: Routledge, 2012. 160-179.

"Vitalism, Animality, and the Material Grounds of Rhetoric." Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks. Ed. Jeremy Packer and Stephen Wiley. New York: Routledge, 2011. 196-207.

"Reassembling Post-Process: Toward a Posthuman Theory of Public Rhetoric." Beyond Post-Process. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin, J. A. Rice, and Michael Vastola. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2011. 75-93.

Oleksiak, Timothy. Rev. of 'Beyond Post-Process'. Composition Studies 40.1 (Spring 2012): http://www.compositionstudies.uwinnipeg.ca/bookreviews/online/40-1/Oleksiak.pdf

"The Shape of Rhetoric to Come: Musical Worlding as Public Rhetoric." Pre/Text 20.1-4 (2010): 7-42.

with Andrew Mara. Introduction. "Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication." Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly 19.1 (2010) 1-10.

with Joyce R. Walker. Introduction. "From Stasis to Activity: Centering Digital Tools on Processes and Practices." Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. ix-xxvi.

with David Rieder. Introduction. "On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies." Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008. ix-xxiii.

"Toward a Rhetoric of Network (Media) Culture: Notes on Polarities and Potentiality." JAC: Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and Emerging Network Culture 24.4 (2004): 831-850.

Rpt. in Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric, and Culture in a Posthuman Age. Eds., Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson. Foreword by Cindy Selfe. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008. 145-162.

"Toward a Post-Techne: or, Inventing Pedagogies for Professional Writing." Technical Communication Quarterly 13.4 (Fall 2004): 371-392.

"A Rhetoric/Pedagogy of Silence: Sub-version in Paul Kameen's Writing/Teaching." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 3.3 (Fall 2003): 377-397.

"Hyperrhetoric and the Inventive Spectator: Remotivating The Fifth Element." The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. Ed. David Blakesley. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. 70-91.

with Thomas Rickert and Matthew Levy. "Ensample: Virtual Musics and Viral Assemblages." PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite) 3.1 (September 1999).

with Thomas Rickert. " 'Avowing the Unavowable': On the Music of Composition." Introduction. Enculturation: Writing/Music/Culture 2.2 (Spring 1999): http://enculturation.net/2_2/intro.html

"Structuring Destructions: (the) Will to Order the Computer Classroom." Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 3.2 (Fall 1998): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/features/hawk/bridge.html

Responses and Reviews:

"You Can Do That in Rhetoric and Composition." Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Danielle Devoss and John Gallagher. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2019. 32-34.

"Oscillation as a Mode of Listening." Special Issue on Sound. Argumentation and Advocacy 54.4 (2018): 333-337.

"A Diagrammatics of Persuasion." Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric. Ed. Laurie Gries and Collin Brooke. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2018. 308-314.

"Embodying Heurisis: Tagmemics, Complexity, and Flow." JAC 33.3-4 (2014): 723-732.

Rev. of Sonic Persuasions: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age, by Greg Goodale. Philosophy and Rhetoric 47.2 (2014): 219-226.

"College English as Network." College English 75.4 (March 2013): 436-443.

"Posthumanism as a Sustainable Model: Ecology, Institutionality, and Disciplinary Change." Proceedings for the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference, 2007. http://www.cptsc.org/pro/2007.pdf

Rev. of Writing Machines, by N. Katherine Hayles. JAC 24.1 (2004): 243-251.

with David Rieder. "Toward a Post(human) Techne." Rev. of High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman, by R. L. Rutsky. Technical Communications Quarterly 11.2 (Spring 2002): 234-236.

"Editing (Journals?) in the Late Age of Print." Rev. of Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, eds. E. Loizeaux and N. Fraistat. Enculturation: Special Multi- journal Issue on Electronic Publication 4.1 (Spring 2002): http://enculturation.net/4_1/hawk

Rev. of Western States Composition Conference. Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 6.1 (Spring 2001): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.1/binder.html?news/reviews.htm

"Semiotics." Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 2001. 359-360.

"E-journals: Popular Forces or Struggling Rock Bands?" M/C Reviews 15 (Sept. 1999): http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/features/ejournal/forces.html

Rev. of Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors, by Peter S. Donaldson. Post Script 17:2 (1998): 103-106.

"A Logic of Sense: Stupidity and the Dumbing Up of America (?)." Rev. of The Truman Show and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Enculturation: On the Film/Image 2.1 (Fall 98): http://enculturation.net/2_1/hawk.html

"Equal Opportunity Psychoanalysis." Rev. of The Symptom of Beauty, by Francette Pacteau. Enculturation 1.1 (Spring 1997): http://enculturation.net/1_1/hawkrev.html

New Media:

Collaborative Keynote. "Continuing the Conversation of Rhetoric's Keywords." Carolina Rhetoric Conference. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. April 12-13, 2019.

"Podcast Interview: The Shape of Composition to Come." Rhetoricity. (Spring 2016): http://rhetoricity.libsyn.com/byron-hawk-on-the-shape-of-composition-to-come

"Gesture Ecologies: Sound Art as Compositional Practice." IDRS15. April 20, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGY-y9KbK4

Arcane. Worlds Colliding. Tribunal/Divebomb, 2014.

"Response to Amiri Baraka: An Image Puncept." Pea River Journal. Aug. 27, 2014. http://peariverjournal.com/2014/08/27/apunceptonthenameamiribaraka/

"Re-Opening Public Rhetoric: Corbett's 'The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist'." Enculturation 13 (Spring 2012): http://enculturation.net/re-opening-public-rhetoric

with Christian Smith. "'Digimortal': Sound in a Posthuman World." Currents in Electronic Literacy: Writing with Sound (Spring 2011): http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/2011/digimortalsoundinaworldofposthumanity

with Virginia Kuhn, Victor Vitanza, et al. "From Gallery to Webtext." Kairos: The Manifesto Issue. Eds. Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl Ball. 12.3 (Summer 2008): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/topoi/gallery/

"Podcast Interview." Knowing, Doing, and Making Digital. Clemson: RCID (Spring 2008): http://rcid.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/kdm-digital-an-inaugural-event/

MOO Interview. Kairos Meet The Prospective Author. Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 4.1 (Fall 1999): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/binder.html?response/kmta/Hawk.html

Guest Editing:

"Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication." Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly. Co-editor with Andrew Mara, 2010.

"Sound in/as Compositional Space: A Next Step in Multiliteracies." Special Issue of Computers and Composition. Co-editor with Cheryl Ball, Fall 2006.

Editing:

Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Editor, 1996-present.

The Writing Instructor. Web Projects Review Editor, 2001-present.

New Media Theory. Book series for Parlor Press. Editor, 2004-present.

Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism. Book series for Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, co-edited by Rachel Riedner and Kevin Mahoney. Editorial Advisory Board, 2006-present.

Rhetoric + Digitality. Book series at the University of Alabama Press, co-edited by Casey Boyle, Michele Kennerly, and Damien Smith Pfister. Editorial Advisory Board, 2020-present.

Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Editorial Advisory Board, 2023-present.

Work in Progress:

with Thomas Rickert. "Sonic Rhetoric and Aurality." Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Cambridge (chapter, forthcoming)

"Counter-Traditions in Ecologies of Composition: Three Models of Futurity." Rhetorical Ecologies, NCTE (chapter, forthcoming)

"Stomp Box Logic: Sirc, Noise, and the Nonpositive Affirmative." Pre-Text (article, forthcoming)

"Distant Non-Publics: Participation and Digital Space in Adaptive Project Management Methodologies." (article, in progress)

with Greg Stuart. "Performance Pedagogy and the Closing of Contingency." (article, in progress)

Invited Talks:

"Composing and Publishing Digital Scholarship." Workshop co-leader. Computers and Writing Conference. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. May 19-22, 2022.

"Futures of New Materialism." Workshop co-leader with Thomas Rickert and Diane Keeling. 9th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Syracuse, NY. June 1-4, 2021.

"Periodic Futurity: Toward Afrofuturist Sonic Rhetorics." Carolina Rhetoric Conference. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. February 28, 2020.

"On the Futures of Creative Research." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. New Mexico State University. Las Cruses, NM. November 2-3, 2018.

"Sonic Field Methods: From Gesture Ecologies to Genre Ecologies." Digital Field Methods Institute. University of Texas. Austin, TX. July 9-13, 2018.

"What is Rhetoric's Role in CCCC?" 69th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Rhetoric SIG. Kansas City, MO. March 14-17, 2018.

"Sonics Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Jonathan Alexander. 7th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Bloomington, IN. May 25-27, 2017.

"Borders as Resonators." Carolina Rhetoric Conference. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. February 10-11, 2017.

"New Materialist Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Thomas Rickert. 6th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Madison, WI. June 5-7, 2015.

"Gesture Ecologies: Sound Art as Compositional Practice." Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. April 9-10, 2015.

"Composition as a Quasi-Object." Indiana University. Bloomington, IN. April 10, 2014.

"Networked Histories: Entanglements of Communication and Composition." Co-presenter with Pat Gehrke. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 28, 2013.

"Material Rhetorics." Workshop co-leader with Thomas Rickert. 5th Biennial RSA Summer Institute. Lawrence, KS. June 3-9, 2013.

"Writing as Rhetorical Action: Ethics in the 'Context of Use.'" The University Writing Program. George Washington University, Washington DC. May 9, 2008.

"Identifying Web 2.0: Remixing Institutional Identities." MITH: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. March 27, 2007.

"On Small Tech: Cultural and Educational Ecologies." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Plenary Speech, Research Network Forum. New York, NY. March 21-24, 2007.

"Toward a Vitalist (Posthuman?) Ecology: Can There be NO Negative in a Technological Environment?" 53rd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. The Kenneth Burke Society SIG. Chicago, IL. March 20-23, 2002.

Conference Presentations:

"AI and Music Composition." 109th Annual Convention National Communication Association. National Harbor, MD. November 16 - 19, 2023.

"The Ontological Sublime: Quasi-Objects and Rhetorical Futurity." 108th Annual Convention National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA. November 17 - 20, 2022.

"Sonic Energy as a General Rhetoric." 20th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 26-May 29, 2022.

"Third Rock: Vitality, Subjectivity, and Planetary Personhood." 20th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 26-May 29, 2022.

"Recording as Rhetorical Environment: Persuasive Ecologies and Pedagogical Spaces." 72nd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. April 7-10, 2021.

"Period as (future) Rhythm (machine)." Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 4-5, 2019.

"Performance Pedagogy and the Closing of Contingency." 70th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 13-16, 2019.

"Oscillation as a Mode of Listening." Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing. Middle Tennessee State/Belmont University. Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN. September 6-8, 2018.

"Ecologies of Composition: Counter-Tradition in Composition and Rhetoric." 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 31-June 3, 2018.

"Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical." 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 31-June 3, 2018.

"Transforming Soundscapes: Field Recording as a Compositional Practice." 69th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 14-17, 2018.

"Grain as Punctum: Barthes and the Quasi-Materiality of Voice." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 27-28, 2017.

"Mediation through Excommunication." Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 13-14, 2017.

"Sounding the Rhetorical." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. October 21-23, 2016.

"Sonic Timbre in Extreme Post-Doom." 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Atlanta, GA. May 27-29, 2016.

"Popular Music and the Formation of Sphere Publics." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 30-31, 2015.

"Acoustic Ontology: How Forests Dwell." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 2-3, 2015.

with Brian Harmon. "Making Documentary as Multimodal Research Method." Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Canada. January 8-10, 2015.

"Rhetorical Detachments and the Roaring 80s: The Formation and Impact of RSA's Conference." 16th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. San Antonio, TX. May 22-26, 2014.

"Stomp Box Logic: Sirc and Sound." 65th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 19-22, 2014.

"Future and Enduring Roles for Digital Journals and Editing." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. November 8-10, 2013.

"On Material Composition: 'Postcomposition' as Material Rhetoric." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 25-26, 2013.

"Notes Toward a Liberated Network Language." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 11-12, 2013.

"A Posthumanist Rationale for Professional Writing?" 16th Annual Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Las Vegas, NV. March 13, 2013.

with Pat Gehrke. "Networked Disciplines: Convergences of Communication and Composition." Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. February 15-16, 2013.

"Objects Unbound: Composing Materialist Rhetorics." 15th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. May 25-28, 2012.

"Stomp Box Logic: Loops, Layers, Feedback." 28th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. May 17-20, 2012.

"Some Possible Futures for Social-Epistemic Historiography: Networks, Ecologies, and Emergences." 62nd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 21-25, 2012.

"Non-Place and Digital Space: The Transformation of the Local in Popular Music." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 21-22, 2011.

"Non-places and Micro-publics: Musical Worlding in Supermodernity." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 13-15, 2011.

"Circulating Musics: Digital Ecologies in 'Reverb Nation'." 27th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. May 19-22, 2011.

"(Post)Disciplinary Networks: Texas as Topos, Chora, and Kenon." 61th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 6-9, 2011.

with Casey Boyle. "Mixing Methods Beyond Triangulation: Toward Method Assemblages as Writing." 4th International Conference on Writing Research Across Borders. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA. February 17-20, 2011.

"Rhetorics of Assemblage versus Audience, or How to Emerge with Things." 14th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN May 28-31, 2010.

"Re-Opening Public Rhetoric: Corbett's 'The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist'." 60th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 18-21, 2010.

"The Shape of Rhetoric to Come: Musical Worlding as Public Rhetoric." Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 23-24, 2009.

"On Apparatuses and Inventing the University." South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC. October 15-17, 2009.

"Vitalism, Animality, and the Material Grounds of Rhetoric." Materializing Communication and Rhetoric Symposium. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. September 25-26, 2009.

"What the Representative Body Can Do: On Mapping and Representation." 59th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, California. March 11-14, 2009.

"Toward a 'New Cultural Studies': From Disciplines to Networks." Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century. George Washington University. Washington D.C. June 12-13, 2008.

"On 'The New Cultural Studies': Disciplinary Others and Exclusionary Divides." 13th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA. May 23-26, 2008.

"Katrina Did Not Take Place: Notes on Baudrillard and the Virtual Event." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 1-5, 2008.

"Sustainability as the Ground of Professional Writing: Posthumanism, Ecology, and Institutional Change." Annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 25-27, 2007.

"Posthumanism as a Sustainable Model: Ecology, Institutionality, and Disciplinary Change." Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. October 11-13, 2007.

"Identifying Web 2.0: Institutional Identities and the Grounds of Research." 23rd Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. May 17-20, 2007.

"Ethos, Voice, Identity: Remixing Identities in Online Environments." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY. March 21-24, 2007.

"Extending the Distributed University: Toward a Counter-Ethics of Expediency." Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century. George Washington University. Washington D.C. July 10-11, 2006.

"Rhetoric of Revolution: Open Hand Remix." 57th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 22-25, 2006.

"Audience-Community-Network: Blogging as a Multi-Layered Activity." 56th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. San Francisco, CA. March 16-19, 2005.

"A Counter-History of Composition." Convergences: Symposium for Theory, Rhetoric, and Writing. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. November 4-7, 2004.

"Vital Power from Aristotle to Burke: Entelechy Toward Deleuze." Annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 22-23, 2004.

"Adoration and Affect: 'Critical' Writing about Music; or, a Pedagogy for Pop Critics." 93rd Annual National Council of Teachers of English Convention. San Francisco, CA. November 20-25, 2003.

"Inventing (via) the Virtual: Hypertext and Movement in the Writing Process." 19th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. May 22-25, 2003.

"Right to Rhetoric: WAC, WID, and the Access to Rhetorical Inquiry." 6th Annual Western States Composition Conference. University of Washington. Seattle, WA. October 24-26, 2002.

"The 'New' Rhetoric: Technology and the Revitalization of Rhetorical Discourse." 18th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University. Normal, IL. May 16-19, 2002.

"On the Emergence of Critical Rhetorics: Or, Why Students are Already Critical Theorists." 53rd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 20-23, 2002.

"The 3Cs--Creed, Code, and Cult: Teaching in a Society of Control." 5th Annual Western States Composition Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 25-27, 2001.

"E-journal or Just Journal: Do E-journals Need the Qualification?" 51st Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, CO. March 14-17, 2001.

" 'On the Way' to a Post-Process Heuristics." 4th Annual Western States Composition Conference. The University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. October 12-14, 2000.

"The Crisis of Criticism: From Musicologist to Pop Critic." Popular Culture Association in the South Conference. Nashville, TN. October 5-7, 2000.

"CyberSpace and CyberWriting: Notes on Baudrillard's America and the Hypertext Essay." 16th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Graduate Research Network. Ft. Worth, TX. May 25-28, 2000.

"Ethics and the Self in Composition Studies." 51st Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. Minneapolis, MN. April 12-15, 2000.

"Toward a Theory of Exposure: Critical Auto/Ethnography as a Form of Expository Writing." 3rd Annual Western States Composition Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. October 21-23, 1999.

"Disciplinarity and Pedagogy in a World of Decomposition." 50th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. Atlanta, GA. March 24-27, 1999.

"James Berlin's Will to Map: Wrestling with Devils and Angels." 5th Annual Gorgias Society National Conference. The University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX. February 27, 1999.

"Structuring Destructions: The Will to Order the Computer Classroom." 14th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. May 28-31, 1998.

"Literacy and Ascendancy: The Future of Composition Studies in a Media Age." 4th Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX. April 18, 1998.

"Rogerian Rhetoric: Pedagogy and the Ethos of Seduction." 49th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. April 1-4, 1998.

"Remotivating the Filmic Image: Hyperrhetoric and the Inventive Spectator." 7th Annual E.G.A.D. Symposium. Texas A&M University-Commerce. Commerce, TX. July 19, 1997.

"A Ca(u)se for Invention: Bitzer's 'Rhetorical Situation' as/and Classical Topoi." 3rd Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX. April 27, 1997.

"Sublimation, Simulation, and the Current State of Pop Music." 27th Annual Popular Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 26-29, 1997.

"Hegel's History: A Critical Look at the Dialectic as Narrative Structure." Mythopoeic Texts and Iconic Images Conference. The University of Houston at Clear-Lake. Clear-Lake, TX. October 4-5, 1996.

"Total Recall: Misrecognition, Ideology, and Resistance." 2nd Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX. April 27, 1996.

"The Liberation Myth: Foucault and Sub/Pop Music." 4th Annual Theoretical Approaches to Marginalized Literatures Conference. The University of Montana. Missoula, MT. April 12-13, 1996.

Professional Activity:

• Digital Field Methods Institute. University of Texas, July 2023.
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2023
• Manuscript reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2023
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2023
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2022
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2022
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2022
• RSA reviewer, 2021
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2021
• Manuscript reviewer, RSQ, 2021
• Manuscript reviewer, Alabama University Press, 2021
• Guest Speaker, RSA Remote Forum on Publishing, 2020
• Classroom Guest (online), Clemson University, 2020
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2020
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2020
• Manuscript reviewer, RSQ, 2020
• Manuscript reviewer, University of Michigan Press, 2020
• RSA conference organizing committee, 2018-20
• Manuscript reviewer, Bloomsbury Press, 2019
• Manuscript reviewer, Southern Illinois University Press, 2019
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2019
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2019
• CCCC Proposal Reviewer, 2019
• Guest Speaker (online), Wayne State University, 2019
• RSA conference organizing committee, 2018-20
• Manuscript reviewer, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
• Manuscript reviewer, Southern Illinois University Press, 2018
• Manuscript reviewer, College Composition and Communication, Summer 2018
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2018
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2018
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2018
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Summer 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, University of Michigan Press, Spring 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, Utah State University Press, Spring 2017
• Guest Speaker (online), Trisha Campbell, Salisbury University, 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, Polity Press, Spring 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, SIUP, Spring 2017
• Manuscript reviewer, Bloomsbury/Continuum Press, Fall 2016
• RSA 2016 Research Network Group Leader
• Manuscript reviewer, Review of Communication, Spring 2016
• MLA Division Executive Committee Member, Teaching of Writing 2015
• RSA 2016 Proposal Reviewer, 2015
• Manuscript reviewer, MIT Press, 2015
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2014
• Manuscript reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2014
• Manuscript reviewer, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2014
• Manuscript reviewer, Composition Forum, 2013
• Manuscript reviewer, Composition Studies, 2013
• Manuscript reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2013
• Manuscript reviewer, Lexington Books, 2013.
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2012
• Manuscript reviewer, College Composition and Communication, 2012
• Journal editor's workshop, Computers and Writing 2012
• Online editor's roundtable, Computers and Writing 2012
• Manuscript reviewer, Routledge, 2011
• Tenure and Promotion reviewer, 2011
• Manuscript reviewer, College English, 2011
• Computers and Writing Conference, Town Hall presenter, 2011
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2011
• Guest Speaker (online), Kelly Sassi North Dakota State University, 2011
• Guest Speaker (online), Colorado State University, 2010
• Manuscript reviewer, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010
• Sponsor for Mason UG student panel at Longwood University, Spring 2009
• Sponsor for Mason MA student panel at CCCC, Spring 2009
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2009
• Guest blogger on Blogora, Rhetoric Society of America, Spring 2009
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2008
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2007
• Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century, Conference co-organizer, Spring/Summer 2006
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2006
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2004
• Manuscript Reviewer, SUNY Press, Fall 2004
• Manuscript reviewer, Digital Arts and Culture Conference. Melbourne, Australia, 2003
• Computers and Writing Conference, session chair, 2003
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2003
• Pre/Text Re/inter/view: Geoffrey Sirc, discussion participant, Fall 2003
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2002
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, Computer Connection moderator, 2002
• Computers and Writing Conference, GRN moderator, 2002
• Pre/Text Re/inter/view: Paul Kameen, discussion participant, Fall 2002
• Manuscript Reviewer, Houghton Mifflin, 2002
• Manuscript Reviewer, ABLongman, 2002
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2001
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, session chair, 2001
• journals@gmu.edu, discussion list for journal editors, founder/moderator, 2000-present
• Western States Composition Conference, session chair, 2000
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, session chair, 2000
• Gorgias Society National Conference, conference committee member, 1998-99
• Illuminations: the Critical Theory Website, with Douglas Kellner, webmaster, 1997-2002
• CCCC Contributing Bibliographer, 1997
• Arlington Humanities Colloquium, committee co-chair, 1997, member, 1995-98
• Gorgias Society, secretary, 1998-99, member, 1995-2000
• Graduate Humanities Student Organization, president, 1996-97, treasurer, 1995-96

Departmental Activity:

University of South Carolina

• Undergraduate Committee, 2023-2024
• Undergraduate Committee, 2022-2023
• Graduate Committee, 2021-2022
• Undergraduate Committee, 2021-2022
• Tenure and Promotion Committee, chair 2020-2021
• Graduate Committee, 2020-2021
• Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2019-2020
• Graduate Committee, 2019-2020
• Search Committee (WC Director), 2019
• Graduate Committee, 2018-2019
• First Year English Committee, 2018-2019
• Guest Speaker, Orientation Faculty Roundtable, Fall 2018
• First Year English Committee, 2017-2018
• SPARC Graduate Research Grant Reviewer, 2017
• First Year English Committee, 2016-2017
• Composition Pedagogy Working Group, Fall 2016
• Search Committee (Ling/RC), 2015-2016
• First Year English Committee, 2015-2016
• Composition Pedagogy Working Group, Fall 2015
• Host for Public Lecture and Performance, Boyfriend, Spring 2015
• Guest Speaker, Project Publish Graduate Workshop, Spring 2015
• First Year English Committee, 2014-2015
• Heidegger reading group, Fall 2014
• Host for Public Lecture and Performance, Thomas Stanley and Mind Over Matter Music Over Mind, Fall 2013
• Search Committee (RC), 2013-2014
• First Year English Committee, 2013-2014
• Host for Public Lecture, Susan Hekman, Spring 2013
• Search Committee, chair (RC), 2012-2013
• Rhetoric Committee, 2012-2013
• Job Placement Committee, 2012-2013
• Web/Publicity Committee, 2012-2013
• PhD Admissions Committee, Spring 2012
• Graduate Committee, 2011-2012
• Rhetoric Committee, 2011-2012
• Job Placement Committee, 2011-2012
• Search Committee (18th-DH), 2011-2012
• Workshop on CCCC proposals, Spring 2011
• Guest Lecture in Engl 701, Spring 2011
• Workshop on Journal Publication. 4th Annual Carolina Rhetoric Conference, Spring 2011
• Undergraduate Committee, 2010-2011
• Rhetoric Committee, 2010-2011
• Web/Publicity Committee, 2010-2011
• Job Search Committee, 2010-2011

George Mason University

• Ad hoc Curriculum Committee, 2009-2010
• Graduate Committee, 2009-2010
• RPT Sub-committee chair, Fall 2009
• Salary Committee, Spring 2009 and Fall 2009
• Committee Coordinator, Spring 2009
• Ad hoc Curriculum Committee, 2008-2009
• Text and Community Committee, 2008-2009
• Blog Workshop, Fall 2008
• Book Proposal Workshop, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
• RPT Sub-committee chair, Fall 2008
• Ad hoc Teaching Load Committee, 2007-08
• Ad hoc Curriculum Committee, 2007-08
• Ad hoc Tenure Committee, Fall 2007
• Appointments Committee, 2007-08
• Workshop for TAC, Blogs in Advanced Composition, Summer 2007
• Organized Guest Lecture for PWE, Carolyn Miller, Spring 2007
• Workshop for TAC, Blogs in Advanced Composition, Summer 2006
• Appointments Committee, 2006-07
• Guest Lecture in 697 (Terry Zawacki), Spring 2006
• Appointments Committee, 2005-06
• Grade Appeal Committee chair, Spring 2005
• Workshop for TAC, Web Design Tutorial, Fall 2004
• Text and Community Committee, 2004-05
• Undergraduate Committee, 2004-05
• Guest Lecture in 701 (Amelia Rutledge), Spring 2004
• Undergraduate Committee, Spring 2004
• Futures of English Committee, Spring 2003
• Guest Lecture in 701 (Rosemary Jann), Fall 2002
• Technology in the English Curriculum, Special Web Projects Committee, 2002-03
• Library/Media Resources Committee, 2002-03
• Composition Committee, 2001-Spring 2007
• Appointments Committee, 2001-02
• Technology Committee (JMU), AY 2000-01
• First Year English Committee (UTA), Fall 1998
• Evaluation of Core Curriculum Committee, critical thinking in First Year English (UTA), Spring 1998
• Graduate Research Assistant, Webmaster for English Department (UTA), Spring & Fall 1998, Spring 1999
• Computers/Composition Textbook Review Committee chair (UTA), Spring, Summer, & Fall 1998
• Composition Handbook Review Committee (UTA), Spring 1998

Dissertations/Theses:

Dissertations

• Poalena Comouche, Dissertation: "Feminist Historiography and New Materialism." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2022-present (chair)
• Claire Silva, Dissertation: "Composition History: Call and Response." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2022-present (reader)
• Ian Campbell, Dissertation: "Rhetoric and the Ecologies of Plants and Animals." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2022-present (reader)
• Jennifer Reeher, Dissertation: "Rhetoric of Health and Medicine." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2021-present (reader)
• Mary Elizabeth Smith, Dissertation: "Digital and Procedural Rhetoric." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2020-present (reader)
• Heather Buzbee, Dissertation: "Feminist Historiography." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2019-present (reader)
• Michael Kennedy, Dissertation: "Rhetoric and Peace Negotiations." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2019-present (reader)
• Lindsey Kim, Dissertation: "Engaging Plain Language as a Site of Rhetorical Practice: An Analysis of Three Case Studies." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2019-present (reader)
• Kyle Allen, Dissertation: "Economies of Circulation: From Rhetorical Ecologies to Rhetorical Economies." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2018-present (chair) - Instructor, University of Colorado, Denver
• Sebastian Ivy, Dissertation: "Rhetorical Improvisation: Exercising Expanded Rhetorical Sensitivities." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2017-present (chair) - Instructor, Boston College
• Mary Fratini, Dissertation: "Reuniting Rhetoric: Conversation and the Future of Rhetorical Pedagogy." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2013-present (reader)
• Kathryn Mann, Dissertation: "Multimodal Composition." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2020-2023 (reader) - Instructor, Francis Marion University
• Brian Harmon, Dissertation: "Diffracting The Christine: Documenting a Building Multiple." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2012-2023 (chair) - Marketing Specialist at Correlated Solutions, Inc.
• John Purfield, Dissertation: "Anthropocene Composition: Teaching Terminal Generations in the Pre-Apocalyptic Classroom." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2019-2023 (chair) - Instructor, University of Colorado, Denver
• Nathan DeProspo, Dissertation: "After Erasure: Contingency and the Persistence of Subjectivity." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2017-2022 (chair) - Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
• Schuler Benson, Dissertation: "Methodological Mutability: Shifting Research in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2018-2022 (chair) - Instructor, Georgetown University
• Gareth Rees-White, Dissertation: "Trans-Atlantic Composition: The History of British Academic Writing." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2018-2022 (reader) - Instructor, University of South Carolina
• Amber Lee, Dissertation: "Metaphors of Memory: Complexity and the Fourth Canon." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2015-2022 (reader) - Assistant Professor, Emerson College
• Lee Bauknight, Dissertation: "Professional Pursuits: Pedagogy, Scholarship, and the Future of TA Education." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2014-2021 (reader) - Instructor, West Chester University
• Lisa Bailey, Dissertation: "Kairotic Silence: Possibilities for Invention through a Pedagogy of Silence." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2010-2021 (reader) - Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Illinois Chicago
• Ian Derk, Dissertation: "A New Kind of Community: Belonging and Community Formation through Community Radio in South Phoenix." Ph.D. in Communication, Arizona State University, 2018-2021 (reader) - Lecturer, ASU Downtown
• David Stubblefield, Dissertation: "The Leap in Place: Rethinking Key Concepts in the History of Composition and the Return of Lore." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2017-2018 (reader) - Instructor, University of South Carolina, Union
• Alana Hatley, Dissertation: "Rhetoric and Plants" Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2015-2018 (reader) - Lecturer, University of Houston - Clear Lake
• Steven LeMieux, Dissertation: "Parasitic Rhetoric | Rhetorical Parasites." Ph.D. in English, University of Texas, 2016-2018 (reader) - Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
• Ben Harley, Dissertation: "Writing with Risk: Danger, Discourse, and Event-Based Pedagogy." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2015-2018 (chair) - Assistant Professor, Northern State University
• Nathaniel Street, Dissertation: "Refiguring Representation in Writing Program Administration." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2012-2016 (reader) - Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University
• Gerald Jackson, Dissertation: "Queer Practices, Queer Rhetoric, Queer Technologies: Studies of Digital Performativity in Gendered Network Culture." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2014-2016 (reader) - Senior Technical Content Writer, SCORCH
• Erica Fischer, Dissertation: "As the Occasion Demands: Constraint-Based Practice in Rhetoric and Composition." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2011-2016 (co-chair) - Instructor, University of South Carolina
• Jonathan Maricle, Dissertation: "Risky Business: Case Study Pedagogy and Business Communication." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2010-2016 (reader) - Owner/Senior Consultant at Resonator
• Justine Wells, Dissertation: "A Taste for Things: Sensory Rhetoric Beyond the Human." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2013-2015 (co-chair) - Associate Professor, New Mexico State University
• Trisha Campbell, Dissertation: "Public History and Social Archives: Toward a New Materialist Rhetoric of Murder." Ph.D. in English, University of Pittsburgh, 2013-2015 (reader)
• Tony Stagliano, Dissertation: "Tactical Encounters: Material Rhetoric and the Politics of Tactical Media." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2012-2015 (co-chair) - Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
• Matt Boedy, Dissertation: "Rhetoric, Evil, and Intellectual Work." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2012-2015 (reader) - Associate Professor, University of North Georgia
• Julie Nelson, Dissertation: "Phantom Rhetorics: Extending Rhetorical Theories of Pathos with Affect Theory." Ph.D. in English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2013-2014 (reader) - Assistant Professor, University of Tampa
• Christian Smith, Dissertation: "From Capture to Care: Attention, Digital Media, and the Future of Composition." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2011-2014 (chair) - Associate Professor, Coastal Carolina University
• Grace Hagood, Dissertation: "Itinerant Invention: Movement in Games and Composition." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2011-2013 (chair)
• Casey Boyle, Dissertation: "Abundant Rhetoric: Media, Memory, and the Multiplicity of Composition." Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, 2009-2011 (reader) - Associate Professor, University of Texas
• David Johnson, Dissertation: "The Colonizing Word: Rhetoric and Other Folklore." Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, George Mason University, 2008-2011 (chair)
• Scot Barnett, Dissertation: "All That We Cannot See: Rhetoric and Ethics in the Age of Wireless Computing." Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2010 (reader) - Associate Professor, Indiana University

Theses

• Kamran Shams, Thesis: "Decolonial Rhetorics and Food." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Fall 2023-Spring 2024 (chair)
• Kenneth Root, Thesis: "Rhetoric and Social Media." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Fall 2021-Spring 2022 (reader)
• Sebastian Ivy, Thesis: "From the Multi to the Modal: Relations in Multimodal Composition." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Spring 2015-Fall 2016 (chair)
• Ashley Moore, Thesis: "Patient Agency, Terministic Screens, and the Role of the Public in the Cases of Karen Ann Quinlan and Terri Schiavo." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Spring 2015-Spring 2016 (reader)
• Erin Cromer, Thesis: "Literacy Crisis, Technology, and the Radical Reversal of Power." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Spring 2012-Spring 2013 (chair)
• Joseph Wyszynski, Thesis: "Rhetorical Perspectives on American Civil-Military Relations." Master of Arts in English, University of South Carolina, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 (reader)
• Farah Dang, Thesis: "Buying Women's Work: Cross-country Approaches to Transferring Childcare," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2010-Summer 2011 (reader)
• Fatima Pashaei, Thesis: "Unstable Situations: A Rhetorical Approach to Studying Blogs about Muslim Issues," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2009-Spring 2010 (chair)
• Maureen Soyars, Thesis: "Facebook and the Transition from Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2009-Spring 2010 (chair)
• Jennifer Borwey, Thesis: "Overcoming Mere Rhetoric: Cross-Disciplinary Rhetorical Education and Development," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 (chair)
• Alison Sbeih, Thesis: "Writing within the Modern Machine," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 (reader)
• Mary Ann Burns, Thesis:"Interactive Experiences for Association Publications," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2009 (reader)
• Erin Cassidy, Thesis: "How Visual Rhetoric Supplements Technical Communication: A Study of Professional Writing," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2009 (reader)
• Rachel Wimer, Thesis:"A Rhetorical Analysis of the Evolution of Style Guides in the Computer Age," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 (reader)
• Katherine S. Packard, Thesis: "A Prescription for Change: The Professional Writer in the Healthcare Industry," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2008 (reader)
• Lauren Hersh Cassidy, Thesis: "Collaborative Writing across Distances: An Ethnographic Study of Workplace Writing across Coasts and Cultures," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2008 (reader)
• Kelly S. Vandersluis, Thesis: "Creating Social Action Through Facebook," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2008 (chair)
• Jennifer Church, Thesis: "Mitigating Entropy in a Post-Merger or Acquisition Environment: Managing the Human Factor for Successful Integration," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Summer 2007-Spring 2008 (chair)
• Cynthia A. Kolbfleisch, Thesis: "Tradition versus Technology: Is E-learning Really Worth the Hype?" Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Summer 2007-Spring 2008 (chair)
• Kristin Robin Youmans, Thesis: "Redefining the Digital Dialectic: The Dialectics of User-Generated Media," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2007-Fall 2007 (chair)
• Chris Quay, Thesis: "Reorganization: Financial World's Shift to the Center," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2007 (chair)
• Heidi Lawrence, Thesis: "Emerging Genres in Professional Writing: Corporate Rhetoric and New Media," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2007 (chair)
• Alycia Eck, Thesis: "Click: How Smart Web Applications Lead to Unthinking Users," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2007 (reader)
• Amiee Weinstein, Dissertation: "Technology and Second Language Writing: A Study in Discussion," Doctor of Arts in Community College Education, George Mason University, Spring 2006 (reader)
• Carol Horen, Thesis: "Whose News is it Anyway?: The Merging of News Organizations and Online Communities," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2006 (chair)
• Lisa Aszklar, Thesis: "Media Bias: A Content Analysis of the Cindy Sheehan Antiwar Protest of August 2005," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2006 (reader)
• Mehroo Siddiqui, Thesis: "Gender Violence in Pakistan," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 (reader)
• Marjorie Clarkson, Thesis: "Caught in Chaos: Saved by the World Wide Web from Institutional Power," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2005-Fall 2005 (chair)
• Arthur Pitts, Thesis: "How the U. S. Government Violates Individual Reputations," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Summer/Fall 2005 (chair)
• Tiffany Zattiero, Thesis: "Unraveling Hawthorn's 'Young Goodman Brown'" Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2005 (reader)
• Jessica McCaughey, Thesis: "Application Fees, Survivor Guilt, and Dance Lessons: A Look at What's Keeping First-Generation College Students Down," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2005 (reader)
• Erin Pressley, Thesis: " 'What is a Blogger?': A Poststructuralist Examination of a New Collaborative Textuality," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2003 (reader)
• Jeanne Trapani, Thesis: "Establishing Avid Publishing LLC, a Small, Independent Publishing Company," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Spring 2003 (reader)
• Gavin Rodkey, Thesis: "The Essential Role of Writers in the Design of Company Web Sites," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, George Mason University, Fall 2002 (reader)

Honors Theses/Projects

• Sarah Ammons, Honors Thesis: "The Benefits of Service Learning and University-Sponsored Community Gardens," Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, University of South Carolina, Spring 2021 (reader)
• Dylan Gonzales, Honors Project: "Columbia Water Events: Field Recording as Sound Art," Bachelor of Arts in Music, University of South Carolina, Spring 2016 (reader)
• Anna Ridenour, Honors Project: "Girl's Rock! Columbia's Use of Technology in Columbia's DIY Music Scene," Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Spring 2016 (chair)

• Rhetoric Society of America
• Rhetoric Society of Europe
• National Council of Teachers of English
• College Composition and Communication
  
  
• Modern Language Association
• Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
• Popular Culture Association
• Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Byron Hawk is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. His primary 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. He has published in journals such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation and Advocacy, College English, Pedagogy, Technical Communications Quarterly, JAC, and Pre/Text. He is also the editor of the online journal enculturation, a book series for Parlor Press titled New Media Theory, and two collections on technology, Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools with David Rieder and Ollie Oviedo (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), and Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker (Hampton Press, 2010).