Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D
David Blakesley, Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of English at Clemson, will be presenting his talk "Future of English Studies in the Digital Age." Dr. Blakesley teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in digital and print publishing, rhetorical theory, visual rhetorics, information design and architecture and multimedia writing in virtual and game worlds. He has authored, co-authored or edited five books: The Elements of Dramatism (Longman, 2002), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (SIUP, 2003, 2007), Late Poems, 1968-1993 by Kenneth Burke (University of South Carolina Press, 2005), Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (Comprehensive and Brief editions; Cengage, 2008-2009). In 2002, he founded Parlor Press, a scholarly publishing company. In 2009, and in large part due to his work with epublishing and digital humanities, Dr. Blakesley received the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field from Computers and Composition.
