Joyce R. Walker
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 2002

TEACHING INTERESTS AND SPECIALTIES:Theories of technology and technology design; Computer-mediated teachingand communication; Composition & alternative writing practices; Media design and technical communication; Research method & methodology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Technology, Identity, and Community; Computers and Composition; Visual Rhetoric; Hypertext Theory; Narrative and Technology; Alternative Research Methodologies; History and Theories of Rhetoric; Academic Research Practices.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collection:

Digital Tools in Composition Studies. Eds. Ollie Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker,
Byron Hawk. (Hampton Press. New Directions in Computers and Composition
Studies Series, Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe, Series Eds.).

Articles:

“The Construction of Mourning: A Comparison of Web Authoring Tools for
Creating Online Memorials.” Digital Tools in Composition Studies. Eds.
Ollie Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, Byron Hawk. Hampton Press. New Directions
in Computers and Composition Studies Series, (Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia
L. Selfe, Series Eds.).

“New Media and the Teaching of Critical Race Theory: Or, ‘How my computer
taught me to speak.’” Readerly/Writerly Texts. 13.1, summer, 2005.

“Letter Writing in the Late Age of Print.” Letter Writing Manuals:
Antiquity through the present. Eds. Linda Mitchel and Carol Poster. South
Carolina UP, Forthcoming 2006.

“Narratives in the Database: Memorializing September 11th Online.”
Accepted by Computers & Composition. Fall 2005.

"Hyper-Activity: Reading and Writing in Digital Spaces." an invited
submission for the special issue on Computers & Writing 2005. Accepted by
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Fall 2005.

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