Welcome. This page will always be under construction, so please bear with me and watch your head.

I earned my MA and PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in English (concentration in Rhetoric and Composition) and now I am Director of Composition at Cal. State Stanislaus . I've been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years.

My classes generally include undergraduate composition and graduate classes in rhetoric and/or teaching composition. I'm interested in teaching courses that explore rhetoric and issues of identity: gender, race/ethnicity, class,especially online. I also teach  non-western rhetoric and am developing several courses in digital rhetoric and new media; I feel it is especially important to teach graduate students, future teachers, about these topics.

My research interests include transnational literacies, comparative (and contrastive) rhetoric, new/digital media, online communities, and identity studies. My past research has been on Multiple Intelligence theory and on the Chinese educational system.

Most recently I've been studying the institutionalization of new media in the Netherlands, particularly the involvement of women, and have started a series of interviews and site visits to gather material. If you visit my research blog and look at all the posts tagged book project, you should get a pretty clear picture.

If you are one of my current students, you may be looking for our class website, or my office. On the classes page you'll find a link to specific pages and to class wikis, if the class in question uses one. I use Moodle for my classes, and you can find them here, but the classes require enrollment keys to actually join and log in. To see me in person, come to my office, which is L-195N. --That's the Library Building; always call or email first if you hope to find me outside of my office hours.

While I've tried to avoid buried links, at the same time I'm aiming for simplicity, so there are a few. If you want to see all the pages you might visit, check the site map above.

Mostly for my own benefit, I'm including a lot of links that I use a lot on this page.

I also have a research blog Else-If-Then, and I welcome any comments or questions. It covers my thoughts on my work and also has my notes on the conferences and other events I'm attending (mostly post-event) and updates on the projects and grants I'm working on. During the school year, probably it will have some comments on my classes as well, if they seem relevant!

I have a MySpace page now. ;P Right Here And I'm quite active in Facebook, but I only add friends who I actually know.