George Mason University

Byron Hawk

Associate Professor

Byron Hawk received a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Arlington in Rhetoric/Composition and Critical Theory (2000). His primary research interests are histories and theories of composition and rhetoric and technology, specifically the intersection of invention, pedagogy, complexity theory, and new media. He has published articles in the edited volume The Terministic Screen and the journals Pedagogy, Technical Communications Quarterly, and JAC and is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity (U of Pittsburgh P, 2007), which won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award for the best book published in 2007 on composition theory. He is also the editor of the electronic 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 (U of Minnesota P, 2008), and Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker (Hampton P, in press).

Email: bhawk@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.3174
Office: Science & Tech. I 105

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