Byron Hawk is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His primary research interests are histories and theories of composition and rhetoric and technology, specifically the intersection of invention, pedagogy, complexity theory, and new media. He has published articles in the edited volume The Terministic Screen and the journals Pedagogy, Technical Communications Quarterly, and JAC and 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 for the best book published in 2007 on composition theory. He is also the editor of the electronic journal Enculturation, a book series for Parlor Press titled New Media Theory, and two collections on technology, Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools with David Rieder and Ollie Oviedo (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), and Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker (Hampton Press, in press).

Associate Professor, George Mason University, from Fall 2007 to the present for the English Department.

• ENGL 611 Studies in Rhetoric: Rhetorics, Ecologies, Networks
• ENGL 501 Intro to Professional Writing
• ENGL 410 Technical Writing
• ENGL 302 Advanced Composition

Assistant Professor, George Mason University, from Fall 2001 to Spring 2007 for the English Department.

• ENGL 697 Composition Theory
• ENGL 611 Studies in Rhetoric: Computers and Writing
• ENGL 610 Teaching Literature
• ENGL 505 Electronic Publication and Design
• ENGL 501 Intro to Professional Writing
• ENGL 344 Digital Writing
• ENGL 309 Introduction to Nonfiction
• ENGL 302 Advanced Composition
• ENGL 101 Composition

Assistant Professor, James Madison University, from Fall 2000 to Spring 2001 for the Writing Program.

• GHUM 251 Modern Perspectives (The Birth and Death of the Human)
• GRWIT 102D Reading and Composition: Rhetoric and History
• GWRI 102A Reading and Composition: Effective Arguments
• GWRI 101 Reading and Composition: Expository Writing

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Arlington, from Fall 1995 to Spring 2000 for the English Department.

• ENGL 3371 Advanced Exposition
• ENGL 1302 Argumentative Writing (Team Taught & Computer Classroom)
• ENGL 1301 Expository Writing (Computer Classroom)

Books:

A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

with David Rieder and Ollie Oviedo, eds. Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

with Ollie Oviedo and Joyce R. Walker, eds. Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (in press).

Articles:

with David Rieder. Introduction. "On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies." Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

with Joyce R. Walker. Introduction. "From Stasis to Activity: Centering Digital Tools on Processes and Practices." Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (in press).

"Toward a Rhetoric of Network (Media) Culture: Notes on Polarities and Potentiality." JAC: Special Issue on Mark C. Taylor and Emerging Network Culture 24.4 (2004): 831-50.

Rpt. in Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric, and Culture in a Posthuman Age. Eds., Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson. Foreword by Cindy Selfe. Hampton Press, 2008. 145-62.

"Toward a Post-Techne: or, Inventing Pedagogies for Professional Writing." Technical Communications Quarterly 13.4 (Fall 2004): 371-92.

"A Rhetoric/Pedagogy of Silence: Sub-version in Paul Kameen's Writing/Teaching." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 3.3 (Fall 2003): 377-97.

"Hyperrhetoric and the Inventive Spectator: Remotivating The Fifth Element." The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film. Ed. David Blakesley. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 2003. 70-91.

co-authored with Thomas Rickert and Matthew Levy. "Ensample: Virtual Musics and Viral Assemblages." PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite) 3.1 (September 1999): <http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT3.1/ensample/index.htm>

co-authored with Thomas Rickert. " 'Avowing the Unavowable': On the Music of Composition." Introduction. Enculturation: Writing/Music/Culture 2.2 (Spring 1999): <http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_2/intro.html>

"Structuring Destructions: (the) Will to Order the Computer Classroom." Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 3.2 (Fall 1998): <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/features/hawk/bridge.html>

Reviews, Entries, and Interviews:

w/ Virginia Kuhn, Victor Vitanza, et al. "From Gallery to Webtext." Kairos: The Manifesto Issue. Eds. Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl Ball. 12.3 (Summer 2008): <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/index.html>

Podcast Interview. Knowing, Doing, and Making Digital. Clemson: RCID (Spring 2008): <http://rcid.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/kdm-digital-an-inaugural-event/>

Rev. of Writing Machines, by N. Katherine Hayles. JAC 24.1 (2004): 243-51.

co-authored w/ David Rieder. "Toward a Post(human) Techne." Rev. of High Technê: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman, by R. L. Rutsky. Technical Communications Quarterly 11.2 (Spring 2002): 234-36.

"Editing (Journals?) in the Late Age of Print." Rev. of Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, eds. E. Loizeaux and N. Fraistat. Enculturation: Special Multi- journal Issue on Electronic Publication 4.1 (Spring 2002): <http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_1/hawk>

Rev. of Western States Composition Conference. Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 6.1 (Spring 2001): <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.1/binder.html?news/reviews.htm>

"Semiotics." Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 2001. 359-60.

"E-journals: Popular Forces or Struggling Rock Bands?" M/C Reviews 15 (Sept. 1999): <http://www.media-culture.org.au/reviews/features/ejournal/forces.html>

MOO Interview. Kairos Meet The Prospective Author. Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 4.1 (Fall 1999): <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/binder.html?response/kmta/Hawk.html>

Rev. of Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors, by Peter S. Donaldson. Post Script 17:2 (1998): 103-106.

"A Logic of Sense: Stupidity and the Dumbing Up of America (?)." Rev. of The Truman Show and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Enculturation: On the Film/Image 2.1 (Fall 98): <http://enculturation.gmu.edu/2_1/hawk.html>

"Equal Opportunity Psychoanalysis." Rev. of The Symptom of Beauty, by Francette Pacteau. Enculturation 1.1 (Spring 1997): <http://enculturation.gmu.edu/1_1/hawkrev.html>

Editing:

"Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication." Special Issue of Technical Communications Quarterly. Co-editor with Andrew Mara, Upcoming in 2010.

Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism. Book series for Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, co-edited by Rachel Riedner and Kevin Mahoney. Editorial board member, 2006-present.

"Sound in/as Compositional Space: A Next Step in Multiliteracies." Special issue of Computers and Composition. Co-editor with Cheryl Ball, Fall 2006.

New Media Theory. Book series for Parlor Press. Editor, 2004-present.

Digital Arts and Culture Conference. Melbourne, Australia. Manuscript reviewer, 2003.

The Writing Instructor. Hypertext Review Editor, 2001-present.

Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Editor, 1996-present.

Invited Talks:

"Writing as Rhetorical Action: Ethics in the 'Context of Use.'" The University Writing Program. George Washington University, Washington DC. May 9, 2008.

"Identifying Web 2.0: Remixing Institutional Identities." MITH: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. March 27, 2007.

"On Small Tech: Cultural and Educational Ecologies." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Plenary Speech, Research Network Forum. New York, New York. March 21-24, 2007.

"Toward a Vitalist (Posthuman?) Ecology: Can There be NO Negative in a Technological Environment?" 53rd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. The Kenneth Burke Society SIG. Chicago, Illinois. March 20-23, 2002.

Conference Presentations:

"Toward a 'New Cultural Studies': From Disciplines to Networks." Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century. George Washington University. Washington D.C. June 12-13, 2008.

"On 'The New Cultural Studies': Disciplinary Others and Exclusionary Divides." 13th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA. May 23-26, 2008.

"Katrina Did Not Take Place: Notes on Baudrillard and the Virtual Event." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 1-5, 2008.

"Sustainability as the Ground of Professional Writing: Posthumanism, Ecology, and Institutional Change." Annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. October 25-27, 2007.

"Posthumanism as a Sustainable Model: Ecology, Institutionality, and Disciplinary Change." Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. October 11-13, 2007.

"Identifying Web 2.0: Institutional Identities and the Grounds of Research." 23rd Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. May 17-20, 2007.

"Ethos, Voice, Identity: Remixing Identities in Online Environments." 58th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, New York. March 21-24, 2007.

"Extending the Distributed University: Toward a Counter-Ethics of Expediency." Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century. George Washington University. Washington D.C. July 10-11, 2006.

"Rhetoric of Revolution: Open Hand Remix." 57th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, Illinois. March 22-25, 2006.

"Audience-Community-Network: Blogging as a Multi-Layered Activity." 56th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. San Francisco, California. March 16-19, 2005.

"A Counter-History of Composition." Convergences: Symposium for Theory, Rhetoric, and Writing. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. November 4-7, 2004.

"Vital Power from Aristotle to Burke: Entelechy Toward Deleuze." Annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. October 22-23, 2004.

"Adoration and Affect: 'Critical' Writing about Music; or, a Pedagogy for Pop Critics." 93rd Annual National Council of Teachers of English Convention. San Francisco, California. November 20-25, 2003.

"Inventing (via) the Virtual: Hypertext and Movement in the Writing Process." 19th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. May 22-25, 2003.

"Right to Rhetoric: WAC, WID, and the Access to Rhetorical Inquiry." 6th Annual Western States Composition Conference. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. October 24-26, 2002.

"The 'New' Rhetoric: Technology and the Revitalization of Rhetorical Discourse." 18th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. May 16-19, 2002.

"On the Emergence of Critical Rhetorics: Or, Why Students are Already Critical Theorists." 53rd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, Illinois. March 20-23, 2002.

"The 3Cs--Creed, Code, and Cult: Teaching in a Society of Control." 5th Annual Western States Composition Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. October 25-27, 2001.

"E-journal or Just Journal: Do E-journals Need the Qualification?" 51st Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver, Colorado. March 14-17, 2001.

" 'On the Way' to a Post-Process Heuristics." 4th Annual Western States Composition Conference. The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. October 12-14, 2000.

"The Crisis of Criticism: From Musicologist to Pop Critic." Popular Culture Association in the South Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. October 5-7, 2000.

"CyberSpace and CyberWriting: Notes on Baudrillard's America and the Hypertext Essay." 16th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. Graduate Research Network. Ft. Worth, Texas. May 25-28, 2000.

"Ethics and the Self in Composition Studies." 51st Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 12-15, 2000.

"Toward a Theory of Exposure: Critical Auto/Ethnography as a Form of Expository Writing." 3rd Annual Western States Composition Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. October 21-23, 1999.

"Disciplinarity and Pedagogy in a World of Decomposition." 50th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Research Network Forum. Atlanta, Georgia. March 24-27, 1999.

"James Berlin's Will to Map: Wrestling with Devils and Angels." 5th Annual Gorgias Society National Conference. The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. February 27, 1999.

"Structuring Destructions: The Will to Order the Computer Classroom." 14th Annual Computers and Writing Conference. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. May 28-31, 1998.

"Literacy and Ascendancy: The Future of Composition Studies in a Media Age." 4th Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. April 18, 1998.

"Rogerian Rhetoric: Pedagogy and the Ethos of Seduction." 49th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, Illinois. April 1-4, 1998.

"Remotivating the Filmic Image: Hyperrhetoric and the Inventive Spectator." 7th Annual E.G.A.D. Symposium. Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas. July 19, 1997.

"A Ca(u)se for Invention: Bitzer's 'Rhetorical Situation' as/and Classical Topoi." 3rd Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. April 27, 1997.

"Sublimation, Simulation, and the Current State of Pop Music." 27th Annual Popular Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, Texas. March 26-29, 1997.

"Hegel's History: A Critical Look at the Dialectic as Narrative Structure." Mythopoeic Texts and Iconic Images Conference. The University of Houston at Clear-Lake, Clear-Lake, Texas. October 4-5, 1996.

"Total Recall: Misrecognition, Ideology, and Resistance." 2nd Annual Arlington Humanities Colloquium. The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. April 27, 1996.

"The Liberation Myth: Foucault and Sub/Pop Music." 4th Annual Theoretical Approaches to Marginalized Literatures Conference. The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. April 12-13, 1996.

Professional Activity:

• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2008
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2007
• Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies for the 21st Century, Conference co-organizer, Spring/Summer 2006
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2006
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2004
• Manuscript Reviewer, SUNY Press, Fall 2004
• Computers and Writing Conference, session chair, 2003
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2003
• Pre/Text Re/inter/view: Geoffrey Sirc, discussion participant, Fall 2003
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2002
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, Computer Connection moderator, 2002
• Computers and Writing Conference, GRN moderator, 2002
• Pre/Text Re/inter/view: Paul Kameen, discussion participant, Fall 2002
• Manuscript Reviewer, Houghton Mifflin, 2002
• Manuscript Reviewer, ABLongman, 2002
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, RNF moderator, 2001
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, session chair, 2001
• journals@gmu.edu, discussion list for journal editors, founder/moderator, 2000-present
• Western States Composition Conference, session chair, 2000
• Conference on College Composition and Communication, session chair, 2000
• Gorgias Society National Conference, conference committee member, 1998-99
• Illuminations: the Critical Theory Website, with Douglas Kellner, webmaster, 1997-2002
• CCCC Contributing Bibliographer, 1997
• Arlington Humanities Colloquium, committee co-chair, 1997, member, 1995-98
• Gorgias Society, secretary, 1998-99, member, 1995-2000
• Graduate Humanities Student Organization, president, 1996-97, treasurer, 1995-96

Departmental Activity:

• Ad hoc Teaching Load Committee, 2007-08
• Ad hoc Curriculum Committee, 2007-08
• Ad hoc Tenure Committee, Fall 2007
• Appointments Committee, 2007-08
• Workshop for TAC, Blogs in Advanced Composition, Summer 2007
• Organized Guest Lecture for PWE, Carolyn Miller, Spring 2007
• Workshop for TAC, Blogs in Advanced Composition, Summer 2006
• Appointments Committee, 2006-07
• Guest Lecture in 697 (Terry Zawacki), Spring 2006
• Appointments Committee, 2005-06
• Grade Appeal Committee chair, Spring 2005
• Workshop for TAC, Web Design Tutorial, Fall 2004
• Text and Community Committee, 2004-05
• Undergraduate Committee, 2004-05
• Guest Lecture in 701 (Amelia Rutledge), Spring 2004
• Undergraduate Committee, Spring 2004
• Futures of English Committee, Spring 2003
• Guest Lecture in 701 (Rosemary Jann), Fall 2002
• Technology in the English Curriculum, Special Web Projects Committee, 2002-03
• Library/Media Resources Committee, 2002-03
• Composition Committee, 2001-Spring 2007
• Appointments Committee, 2001-02
• Technology Committee (JMU), AY 2000-01
• First Year English Committee (UTA), Fall 1998
• Evaluation of Core Curriculum Committee, critical thinking in First Year English (UTA), Spring 1998
• Graduate Research Assistant, Webmaster for English Department (UTA), Spring & Fall 1998, Spring 1999
• Computers/Composition Textbook Review Committee chair (UTA), Spring, Summer, & Fall 1998
• Composition Handbook Review Committee (UTA), Spring 1998

Theses/Dissertations:

• David Johnson, Dissertation: "The Colonizing Word: Rhetoric and Other Folklore,"  Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Spring 2008-present (chair)
• Katherine S. Packard, Thesis: "A Prescription for Change: The Professional Writer in the Healthcare Industry,"  Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2008 (reader)
• Lauren Hersh Cassidy, Thesis: "Collaborative Writing across Distances: An Ethnographic Study of Workplace Writing across Coasts and Cultures," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2008 (reader)
• Kelly S Vandersluis, Thesis: "Creating Social Action Through Facebook," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2008 (chair)
• Jennifer Church, Thesis: "Mitigating Entropy in a Post-Merger or Acquisition Environment: Managing the Human Factor for Successful Integration," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Summer/Fall 2007-Spring 2008 (chair)
• Cynthia A Kolbfleisch, Thesis: "Tradition versus Technology: Is E-learning REally Worth the Hype?" Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Summer/Fall 2007-Spring 2008 (chair)
• Kristin Robin Youmans, Thesis: "Redefining the Digital Dialectic: The Dialectics of User-Generated Media," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring/Summer/Fall 2007 (chair)
• Chris Quay, Thesis: "Reorganization: Financial World's Shift to the Center," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2007 (chair)
• Heidi Lawrence Thesis: "Emerging Genres in Professional Writing: Corporate Rhetoric and New Media," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2007 (chair)
• Alycia Eck. Thesis: "Click: How Smart Web Applications Lead to Unthinking Users," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2007 (reader)
• David Meng, Dissertation: "Teaching Culture with Technology," Doctor of Arts in Community College Education, Fall 2006-present (reader)
• Christopher de la Torre, Thesis: "A Technological Shift Toward the Organic in Online Literary Journals," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Fall 2006-present (reader)
• Amiee Weinstein, Dissertation: "Technology and Second Language Writing: A Study in Discussion," Doctor of Arts in Community College Education, Spring 2006 (reader)
• Carol Horen, Thesis: "Whose News is it Anyway?: The Merging of News Organizations and Online Communities," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2006 (chair)
• Lisa Aszklar, Thesis: "Media Bias: A Content Analysis of the Cindy Sheehan Antiwar Protest of August 2005," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2006 (reader)
• Mehroo Siddiqui, Thesis: "Gender Violence in Pakistan," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Fall 2005/Spring 2006 (reader)
• Marjorie Clarkson, Thesis: "Caught in Chaos: Saved by the World Wide Web from Institutional Power," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2005/Fall 2005 (chair)
• Arthur Pitts, Thesis: "How the U. S. Government Violates Individual Reputations," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Summer/Fall 2005 (chair)
• Tiffany Zattiero, Thesis: "Unraveling Hawthorn's 'Young Goodman Brown'" Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Fall 2005 (reader)
• Jessica McCaughey, Thesis: "Application Fees, Survivor Guilt, and Dance Lessons: A Look at What's Keeping First-Generation College Students Down," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2005 (reader)
• Erin Pressley, Thesis: " 'What is a Blogger?': A Poststructuralist Examination of a New Collaborative Textuality," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Fall 2003 (reader)
• Jeanne Trapani, Thesis: "Establishing Avid Publishing LLC, a Small, Independent Publishing Company," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Spring 2003 (reader)
• Gavin Rodkey, Thesis: "The Essential Role of Writers in the Design of Company Web Sites," Master of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing, Fall 2002 (reader)

• Rhetoric Society of America
• National Council of Teachers of English
• College Composition and Communication
• Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
• Modern Language Association
• Popular Culture Association
• Council of Editors of Learned Journals