Professional Writing Faculty

Gerald Alred, Professional Writing Theory and Pedagogy, Cross-Cultural Theory and Professional Writing, Bibliographic Research, Negative Messages in Business Communication

Dave Clark, Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Management, Open Source Software Communities, Knowledge Management, Information Design, and Single Sourcing

Patricia Mayes, Discourse, Sociolinguistics, Language and identity, Language and power

Peter Sands, Intellectual Property Law, Digital writing and art, Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, Online teaching and writing, Utopianism and Science Fiction

Rachel Spilka, Professional writing theory and research; technical editing; business writing and advanced business writing; project management; issues of quality and contextualization; changing notions of audience; identity and exclusion issues for minority students

William Van Pelt, Cultural factors in international Web design Rhetorical Theory, Communication, Writing, and Information Technology, Poetics and Literary Criticism, Online pedagogy and writing, Romanticism in English literature and culture

Carolyn Kott Washburne, Creative Nonfiction, Editing and Publishing, Internship in English

Anne Wysocki, New media aesthetics, composition, culture, and rhetorics; technologies of communication; pedagogy