Digital Bibliography

A few descriptors about me.

• Ph.D student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville (2010).
• Teaching college writing since the fall of 1995. (North Dakota State, U of Colorado, Bel-Rea Institute, Sullivan U, Spalding U, U of Louisville).
• Midwestern kid at heart.

Teaching challenges/interests

• Access to and flexibility within digital technologies as teaching and learning resources.
• Awareness and negotiation of discourse communities and the self.
• Strategies for fostering student engagement with course goals.
• Commitment to teaching as reflective practice and scholarly pursuit.

Research towards my dissertation

(Committee: Debra Journet (Dir.), Bruce Horner, Joanna Wolfe)
My dissertation examines rhetorical patterns within the warrants for digital technologies as part of Comp pedagogy. Specifically, I am working to reframe much of this scholarship in terms of cultural materialism. Although my data set is yet unclear, the major figures I’m reading include: Raymond Williams, Christina Haas, Bruce Horner, Andrew Feenberg, Cynthia L. Selfe, Gunther Kress, etc.

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Ryan Trauman
937 Shelby Pkwy
Louisville, KY 40204
502-759-4083
ryantrauman(at)gmail.com

School
Ryan Trauman
Department of English
Bingham Humanities 315
University of Louisville
2211 South Brook
Louisville, KY 40292
rwtrau01(at)louisville.edu