Adjunct Faculty

Michael earned his B.A. in English from Creighton University, his M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and his Ph. D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Florida State University. His research focuses on techne and historiography in examining how assumptions about what writing and rhetoric is shape the study of what writing and rhetoric does. His dissertation, “Tracing Techne: Distributed Histories Of Invention, Creativity, And Text-technologies In Rhetoric And Composition Scholarship From The 1990s,” interrogated the absence of direct discussions of techne in disciplinary scholarship, and suggested a data curation methodology for tracing impressions of techne to enrich histories for writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. 

Michael also works in the digital humanities with interests in engaging in public scholarship and in using data feminism and computational methods in writing and rhetorical research. He is interested in the roles that technology, digital and otherwise, play in our writing, literacy, and scholarship. Michael brings attention to technology into his teaching through utilizing a variety of digital composition and production tools, from HTML and CSS to Adobe InDesign, with a focus on design thinking and user experience.