Associate Professor of English, George Mason University

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about

Byron Hawk is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His research interests are histories and theories of composition, rhetorical theory and technology, and rhetorics of popular music. He is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), which won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2007 and received honorable mention for MLA's Mina Shaughnessy Prize in 2008.

gmu links

projects

Enculturation - On-Line Journal edited by myself and Darren Cambridge. Covers a wide variety of topics within the framework of Cultural and Rhetorical Studies.
DigitalB - Digitalb is my academic blog.
Facebook
Bystory - An Ulmer-styled hypertext project that combines autobiography, family history, (popular) culture, and theory.
Borges's Library - A remix hypertext project.
Open Hand Remix - A remix digital video.
Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies Symposium - An intimate conference at George Washington Univeristy.
The Writing Instructor - A Digital Community and Networked, Refereed Journal. I serve as hypertext review editor.
Semiotics - Hypertext project that provides a simple introduction to semiotics for first-year students. Also contains short summary/applications of Barthes and Baudrillard.
Illuminations - Critical Theory resource site I worked on with with Douglas Kellner. Also see the updated mirror site.

resources

journals-L@listserv.gmu.edu - Rhetoric and Composition journal editors discussion list. Also see Journal Links.
Encult Web-Bin - Links for Rhetoric and Composition, Critical Theory/Cultural Studies, Journals.
Computers and Writing Resources - Links for articles, hypertext, pedagogy.
Electronic Publication Resources - Some more "techy" links.
Prof/Tech Resources - Some more links.
GHUM 251 Resources - Links for the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Postmodernism.
Letters of Recommendation - Info for students and profs.