Writing and Rhetoric: Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing
Douglas Eyman is Director of the PhD in Writing and Rhetoric. He teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, editing, web authoring, advanced composition, and professional writing. His current research interests include investigations of digital literacy acquisition and development, new media scholarship, electronic publication, information design/information architecture, teaching in digital environments, and video games as sites of composition. Eyman is the senior editor and publisher of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, an online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on computers and writing since 1996.
Dr. Eyman is teaching at the Mason Korea campus for the Spring 2020 semester.
His publications include Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and Play/Write: Games, Writing, Digital Rhetoric (co-edited with Andrea Davis, Parlor Press, 2016).
His scholarly work has appeared in Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication, Cultural Practices of Literacy (Erlbaum, 2007), Digital Writing Research (Hampton Press, 2007), Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (Hampton Press, 2008), Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (Chicago, 2015), and Microhistories of Composition (Utah State, 2015).
Douglas earned his PhD in Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University (2007).
Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. (2015). University of Michigan Press, Digital Culture Books series, http://www.digitalculture.org/books/digital-rhetoric/
Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games. (2016). co-edited with Andrea Davis. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.
Text/Design/Code – Advice on developing and producing a scholarly webtext. (2019). In John Gallagher & Danielle DeVoss, (Eds.), Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition (pp. 206-209). Fort Collins: University of Colorado Press.
Text, design, code: Digital rhetoric in academic and professional writing. (2018). In Shirley Logan and Wayne Slater, (Eds.), Perspectives on Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability (pp. 221-233). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
The rise of multimodal languages in academic publishing. (2018). with Cheryl Ball and Andrew Morrison. In Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis, (Eds.), Global Academic Publishing: Policies, Practices, and Pedagogies (pp. 117-136). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Publishing.
Digital rhetoric as evolving field: Traditional and contemporary practices. (2016). Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, 23: http://enculturation.net/looking-back-and-looking-forward
From player to maker: The value of rhetoric in an age of ubiquitous gaming. (2016). PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 21: 45-57.
Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code. (2014). with Cheryl Ball. Composition Studies, 42.1: 114-117.
Writing, Rhetoric, and Design: A Virtual Collaboration Case Study. (2010). In Beth Hewett and Charlotte Robideaux, (Eds.), Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Processes (pp. 350-359). Hershey: IGI Press.
Usability: Methodology and Design Practice for Writing Processes and Pedagogies. (2009). Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies (pp. 213-228). Ed. Susan Miller-Cochran and Rochelle Rodrigo. Cresskill: Hampton Press.
Computer Gaming and Technical Communication: An Ecological Framework. (2008). Technical Communication, 55.3: 242-50.
Digital Literac(ies), Digital Discourses, and Communities of Practice: Literacy Practices in Virtual Environments. (2007). Cultural Studies of Literacy Practices (pp. 181-95). Ed. Victoria Purcell-Gates. Mahwah: Erlbaum.
ENGH 301: The Fields of English
ENGH 302: Advanced Composition
ENGH 375/507: Web Authoring and Design
ENGH 380: Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric
ENGH 388: Professional and Technical Writing
ENGH 501: Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric
ENGH 503: Theory and Practice of Editing
ENGH 505: Document Design
ENGH 508: Digital Rhetoric
ENGH 613: Technical and Scientific Writing
ENGH 724: Professional Writing Theory and Research
ENGH 797: Projects in Professional Writing
ENGH 824: Topics in Professional Writing
PhD in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University (2007)
MA in English, UNC-Wilmington (1995)
BA in English, Wittenberg University (1991)
Play/Write: Games, Writing, Digital Rhetoric. Invited Presentation. The Play of Composition Symposium, College Park MD, April 2016.
State of Play: Writing Studies Methods for Researching Games. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston TX, April 2016.
Edit, archive, preserve, curate – Key practices for digital scholarship. 31st Computers and Writing Conference, Menomonie, WI May 2015.
Defining Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice, Pedagogy. Invited Presentation. Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium, Bloomington IN, April 2015.
Player Communities and the Construction of Ethos: Established and New Gaming Communities. Poster. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa FL, March 2015.
Games as Research Context in the Digital Humanities. Presentation. 30th Computers and Writing Conference, June 2014.
The Writing Center as Research Center: A Conceptual Inquiry. Presentation. Writing Research Across Borders, Paris, Feburary 2014.
Text, Code, Design: Mulitimodal Editing for Multimodal Texts. Invited Presentation. South Atlantic MLA, November 2013.
Digital Rhetoric and the Infrastructure of DH. Invited Presentation. CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, October 2013.
Encomium of Ethos: The Dwelling Place of Mechanization. 29th Computers and Writing Conference, June 2013
Students as Scholars: A Framework for Inquiry-Based Learning in the Writing Curriculum. Invited presentation. Cengage TeamUP Composition Conference, April 2013.
Digital Rhetorics on the Hill: Social Media and Information Flows between the Government and its Citizens. Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2013.
Locating Digital Rhetoric. Invited presentation. St. Joseph’s University, Department of Communications. February, 2013
redibility and the network: Evaluating and establishing digital ethos. Networked Humanities: From Within and Without the University. Lexington, KY. February, 2013
Kellie Gray, ’It Wasn’t Supposed to be Hairy’: From Variant Glyphs to Rendered Ecologies of Code, Constraint, and Culture (2019)
Colleen Reynolds, 21st-century Rhetorical Practices for Business-to-Business Sales Professionals and Sales Educators that Synthesize Shakespeare and Improvisation with Theories of Kenneth Burke (2017)