Programs and Areas

Katie is an Assistant Professor at OSU's Marion campus, where she teaches writing, film, digital media, and professional communication courses. Currently working on a manuscript entitled Cultivating Professional Identities in the Age of Digital Media, she is the author of papers on technology-enhanced writing pedagogy, digital media in English studies, and film. Her most recently published work is "Remixing Basic Writing," an article in Computers and Composition Online co-authored with Ben McCorkle and Amie Wolf.

Professional Interests: Digital media, literacy, film, professional writing, disability studies.

Assistant Professor on the OSU Mansfield Campus

Interests: Digital Media and Visual Rhetoric, Writing Technologies, Feminist Rhetoric, Composition Studies, Teaching with Technology, and Business and Professional Communication.

(Associate Professor and Director of DMP) (D.A., Illinois State University): Composition and rhetoric. Author of articles on computer networking and hypertext in composition studies. Received the 1993-94 Ameritech Fellowship of The Ohio State University. Also awarded the 1999 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Author of Writing Inventions: Identities, Pedagogies, Technologies and co-editor of Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts.

Associate Professor in the Department of English (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University): American literature, film, and popular culture. Author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 and articles and reviews on identity, citizenship and media in American literature and culture. Currently working on studies of early American magazines, myths of origins in popular culture of the 1920s and 30s, and the intersections between film and comics at the turn of the 20th century. Strands from these various ongoing projects are converging into a book tentatively entitled "Serial Citizenship."

Ben McCorkle is an Assistant Professor of English in the Rhetoric, Composition, & Literacy program at the OSU-Marion campus. His areas of scholarly interest include rhetorical theory, digital media studies, and visual culture. Recently a staff member of the English Department's Digital Media Project, Ben also served as a Marion L. Brittain Teaching and Research Fellow at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, & Culture. In addition to writing articles and reviews pertaining to rhetoric and composition, he recently collaborated on a visual culture textbook entitled Rhetorical Visions (eds. Brueggemann and Hesford), which was published by Prentice Hall in Fall 2006.

(Humanities Distinguished Professor) Interests: how literacy values and practices in digital environments shape, and have been shaped by historic, economic, social, cultural, material, educational, and personal factors, computer uses in educational settings. Selfe is the first woman and the first English teacher ever to receive the EDUCOM Medal for innovative computer use in higher education. She has authored or edited a number of works on digital technology, both alone and in collaboration with colleagues. Along with Scott DeWitt, she is the Director of OSU's annual Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) summer institute. She also coordinates the English Department's program of Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition. Selfe studies digital technologies to learn more about people.

(Adjunct Assistant Professor) Teaching interests include computer-intensive first-year English, technical communication, and graduate technology studies courses. He brings 15 years of experience offering K-college technology-intensive professional development institutes to teachers and students. Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University.

Leslie Tannenbaum Areas of Interest: Romantic literature, literature and art, popular culture, digital media, children's literature. Author of Biblical Tradition in William Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art and of articles on Romantic literature, popular culture, and children's literature.

Professor Ulman teaches courses in digital media, literature and environment studies, and rhetorical theory, history and criticism. He has authored Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetoric (SIUP, 1994), edited The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 (Aberdeen UP, 1990), and published articles on eighteenth-century British philosophy and rhetoric, American nature writing, and digital media. Over the past four years, he has collaborated with his students on three electronic textual editions of unpublished nineteenth-century American manuscripts.

Selected digital media projects:
Samuel Sullivan Cox's 'Journal of a Tour to Europe,' 1851 (2007)
The Letters of William B. Anderson to Mary Louisa (Fischgens) Anderson, 1862–1864 (2006)
My Dear Elizabeth: Letters from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, ca. 1837-1868 (2004)
ASLE Online Bibliography