Douglas Eyman

Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Other Positions:

N/A

Research Theme:

Digital Society Engaging in critical reflection that examines the implications of digital innovation to ensure that innovators are sensitive to designing and innovating responsibly and that key stakeholders – including users, innovators, policy-makers, and the public at large – are informed about technology’s social, ethical, political, and economic impacts

Key Interests:

digital rhetoric, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing

Education:

PhD, Writing and Rhetoric, Michigan State University

Douglas Eyman is Director of Writing and Rhetoric Programs at GMU. He teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, web authoring, new media, and professional writing. His current research interests include investigations of AI as a writing tool, 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 open-access online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on computers and writing since 1996.

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).

College:

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Contact Douglas:

Email: deyman@gmu.edu