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Michelle Sidler
Michelle Sidler received her PhD in English from Purdue University with a specialization in rhetoric and composition. She currently serves as Interim Department Head, Coordinator of Composition, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, technology, science, and literacy.
Her primary areas of research interest are science and technology, computer-mediated composition instruction, and rhetorical theory. Her current research explores the cultural and rhetorical implications of technology on the writing and researching practices of scientists. She recently co-edited an anthology of major works in computerized writing instruction, Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook, and has published articles in Rhetoric Review, Computers and Composition, and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.
Representative Publications
- “Rhetoricians, Facilitators, Models: Interviews with Technology Trainers.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Forthcoming, 2008.
- Co-editor (with Richard Morris and Elizabeth Overman Smith). Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2007.
- “Playing Scavenger and Gazer with Scientific Discourse: Opportunities and Ethics for Online Research.” Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Heidi McKee and Danielle DeVoss, eds. Hampton: 2007.
- “The Rhetoric of Cells: Understanding Molecular Biology in the Twenty-First Century.” Rhetoric Review 25 (2006): 58-75.
- "The Not-So-Distant Future: Composition Studies in the Culture of Biotechnology Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 129-145.