Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Professor of Rhetoric, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Professor of Rhetoric & New Media, Texas Christian University.

ACE Fellow 2014-2015.

PhD, Syracuse University, 2003; MFA, Poetry, Southwest Texas State University, 1999; M.Ed., Adult Education and Higher Learning, University of Oklahoma, 1995; B.S., United States Air Force Academy, 1990.

Research Interests: image studies, new media, multimodal/multimedia composing, language theory, rhetoric, and poetry.

Dissertation Title: Imagining the Non-Discursive: Image and the Affective in Inventing and Composing

Publications:

• Kinematic Rhetoric: Time-affect, Non-discursive Images in Motion (Anthem Press, 2022)
• Anaphora: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2020)
• Non-Discursive Rhetoric: Image and Affect in Multimodal Composition (SUNY 2009)