updated 1.30.09

Research Interests: intellectual property, plagiarism, writing technologies, first-year composition, creative nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy

Current and Future Projects:

  • Plagiarism Narratives: interviewing students adjudicated for plagiarism violations about their writing methods, opinions on plagiarism, and use of computer tools
  • Time-Traveling Students: investigating links between students' approaches to composition and different methods of time travel (in Lost, Star Trek, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Kurt Vonnegut)
  • De/Re/Composition: planning pedagogical materials for a writing course that emphasizes collaboration, remixing, and rhetoric