Instructors

	Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Associate Professor of English, came to The Ohio State University in 1992. For ten years, he taught writing, developed academic programs, and conducted research in computers and composition studies on the Marion Campus. An OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award recipient for his pioneering teaching approaches with technology, DeWitt moved to the Columbus campus of OSU in 2002 to become the director of The Digital Media Project, the English Department's digital media production and teaching studio. Professor DeWitt is the author of Writing Inventions: Identites, Technologies, Pedagogies (SUNY 2002), offers instructional stories, histories, and classroom applications and connects the theoretical aspirations of the field with the craft of innovative computer-enhanced composition instruction. Writing Inventions was awarded the “Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award” in 2003. In 2004, DeWitt directed the Battelle Endowment Institute for New Media and Writing Studies on the OSU campus. His current research looks at the creation of spaces for digital media and composition production.
	Cynthia L. Selfe is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, and the co-editor of Computers and Composition: An International Journal . In 1996, Selfe was recognized as an EDUCOM Medal award winner for innovative computer use in higher education--the first woman and the first English teacher ever to receive this award. In 2000, Selfe was presented with the Outstanding Technology Innovator award by the CCCC Committee on Computers. Professor Selfe has served as the Chair of the national Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Chair of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English. Selfe is the author of numerous articles and books on computers including Literacy and Technology in the 21 st Century, the Perils of Not Paying Attention (SIU Press, 1999), Creating a Computer-Supported Writing Facility (Computers and Composition Press, 1989), and Computer-Assisted Instruction in Composition: Create Your Own (NCTE, 1986).. She is a co-author of Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (with Gail Hawisher, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004), Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition (with A. Wysocki, Johndan Johnson Eilola, and Goeff Sirc; Utah State University Press, 2004), Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History (with Gail Hawisher, Paul LeBlanc, and Charles Moran, Ablex, 1996), and Technical Writing (with Mary Lay, Billie Wahlstrom, Stephen Doheny-Farina, Ann Hill Duin, Sherry Burgus Little, Carolyn D. Rude, and Jack Selzer, Irwin, 1995 and 2000). Selfe has also co-edited numerous collections of essays on computers, including Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web (with Gail Hawisher, Routledge, 2000), and Passions, Pedagogies, and 21 st Century Technologies (with Gail Hawisher, Utah State University Press and the National Council of Teachers of English, 1999). For the past 20 years, Selfe has directed Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC), a summer institute at Michigan Technological University that enrolled more that 550 participants from the U.S., Egypt, Japan, the Netherlands, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Norway.
	Richard "Dickie" Selfe is Senior Instructional Technology Consultant at The Ohio State University where he works with faculty and students across the College of Humanities on instructional technology projects. His interest is in communication pedagogy as well as the social/institutional influences of electronic media on our culture and teaching. Dr. Selfe's most recent book-length project is titled Sustainable Communication Practices: Creating a Culture of Support for Technology-rich Education. Selfe's recent publications also include "Techno-Pedagogical Explorations: Toward Sustainable Technology-rich Instruction," 2003 and "Examining the Relevance of Technology Use in English Studies: Using Technology-Rich Communication Facilities as Sites of Teaching," 2002.
	H. Lewis Ulman is Associate Professor English and currently serves as Assistant Dean for Research and Instructional Technology in the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University and recently served on the University Senate's Council on Libraries and Information Technology. He has also served as Director of the Computers in Composition and Literature Program (CCL, now the Digital Media Project or DMP) in the Department of English and as a member and chair of the Modern Language Associations Committee on Computing and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research. He regularly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on digital media in English studies. Professor Ulman's current areas of teaching and research include multimodal digital literacy, electronic textual editing, the ways in which virtual technologies affect our construction and experience of landscapes.
	Cheryl Ball teaches and researches new media texts from efferent and aesthetic perpsectives and across a range of theoretical frameworks. She’s published in Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, and Convergence. It is her goal to only publish in journals that start with the letter C. However, sponsored by the letter K, she co-edits, Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy.

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