Linda Flower
Professor of English
Office: BH 145 H
Phone: (412) 268-2863
Email: lf54@andrew.cmu.edu
Cognitive rhetoric is a new area of rhetorical research that invites curiosity about the ways people actually construct meaning as they read and write. As a cognitive rhetorician I am interested in the thinking process writers go through as they read a situation, plan, write, and revise and in the different problem-solving strategies experienced and developing writers use.
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Paul Hopper
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
Office: BH 245 K
Phone: (412) 268-7174
Email: hopper@andrew.cmu.edu
Website: http://home.eserver.org/hopper/default.html
My research and teaching have been centered on the connections between rhetoric (discourse) and grammar (linguistic structure). I am interested in working out the implications of an idea first broached by me in 1988, that structure is not immanent in a language but "emerges" through repetitions of favored word groupings in discourse.
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Suguru Ishizaki
Associate Professor of English
Office: BH 145 D
Phone: (412) 268-4103
Email: suguru@andrew.cmu.edu
My research focuses on developing tools for communication design. My work in the past several years has addressed problems and opportunities associated with the design of digital communication media. In my book, Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (MIT Press, 2003), I proposed a descriptive model of design—along with a series of computational experiments—that would allow designers to represent design solutions that are responsive to dynamic changes in the information recipient's intention, in the situation, and in the information.
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Barbara Johnstone
Professor of English
Office: BH 245 H
Phone: (412) 268-6447
Email: bj4@andrew.cmu.edu
Website: http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/
My work is in an area that might be called "discourse studies," at the intersection of rhetoric, linguistics, and critical theory. I have worked on persuasive styles and strategies in the Middle East, on narrative in the American heartland, on the forms and functions of repetition in language, and on the role of the individual in language and linguistics.
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David S. Kaufer
Professor of English
Office: BH 145 F
Phone: (412) 268-1074
Email: kaufer@andrew.cmu.edu
I am a professor of rhetoric with interests in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of rhetoric, writing and written information, and technologies for text analysis and text collaboration. Between 1994 and 2009, I was Head of English at Carnegie Mellon. I was a co-founder of a well-reputed and ongoing interdisciplinary MDES (Master of Communication Planning and Information Design) program that is co-administered by the School of Design (in the College of Fine Arts) and the Department of English (in the College of Humanities and Social Ssciences) at Carnegie Mellon.
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Chris Neuwirth
Department Head, English; Professor of English and Human Computer Interaction
Office: BH 259
Phone: (412) 268-8702
Email: cmn@cmu.edu
My research activities have focused on developing theory- and research-based computer tools for reading and writing, as well as conducting empirical research that explores the effects of those tools.
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John Oddo
Assistant Professor of English
Office: BH 245 R
Email: joddo@andrew.cmu.edu
My research draws on theories of rhetoric, discourse, and multimodality to critically examine how powerful agents use language (and other symbols) to generate support for war. The focal point of my research is "intertextual rhetoric"—that is, rhetoric that operates across texts and across time.
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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Associate Professor of English, Director of Rhetoric Program
Office: BH 245 D
Phone: (412) 268-6221
Email: aritivoi@andrew.cmu.edu
My research interests are in several fields, such as rhetorical theory, rhetoric of science, intellectual history, and intercultural communication.
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Karen Rossi Schnakenberg
Teaching Professor (Emeritus) of English
Email: krs@cmu.edu
My interests lie at the intersections of course and curriculum design, professional and technical writing, the history of writing instruction in higher education, pedagogy, and the teaching of writing. In research I have a long-standing interest in methods for communicating specialized information to non-expert audiences, particularly in situations where the non-expert needs to use the information to make decisions or to inform action.
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Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
Associate Teaching Professor & Director of First-Year Writing
Office: BH 259
Phone: (412) 268-4468
Email: dfz@andrew.cmu.edu
Website: http://english.cmu.edu/first_year/index.html
I'm interested in all things related to the teaching and assessment of reading and writing—especially at the intersection of rhetoric, applied linguistics, and composition.
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James Wynn
Associate Professor of English
Office: BH 145 M
Phone: (412) 268-9765
Email: jwynn@andrew.cmu.edu
My primary interest is in the intersection of science, mathematics, and rhetoric. My forthcoming book Evolution by the Numbers explores the confluence of these three fields in the development of theories of evolution and heredity in the nineteenth century.
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James Wynn
Associate Professor of English
Office: BH 145 M
Phone: (412) 268-9765
Email: jwynn@andrew.cmu.edu
My primary interest is in the intersection of science, mathematics, and rhetoric. My forthcoming book Evolution by the Numbers explores the confluence of these three fields in the development of theories of evolution and heredity in the nineteenth century. [more]
Courses Taught:
Rhetoric of Public Policy, Science in the Public Sphere