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Ph.D. in Texts and Technology

The Ph.D. in Texts and Technology program is part of a growing interdisciplinary field combining scholarly study, creative production, and assessment of digital media texts. The curriculum emphasizes theory and practice in new media supplemented by historical grounding in pre-digital media studies. This innovative program prepares students for research, teaching, and program development. Areas of research and production include digital editing, Web design, multimedia production, distributed education, entertainment, publishing, information architecture, and visualization. Graduates from the Texts and Technology program have gone on to such positions as: Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Director of Course Design and Production, Dean of Distance Learning, and Managing Editor.

For more information about admissions and program requirements and University graduate policies, consult the UCF Graduate Catalog. If you have more questions, please contact the T&T Program Assistant.

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Recent Dissertations

• 2009

  Russell Carpenter – Political Spaces and Remediated Places: Rearticulating the Role of Technology in the Writing Center

  Edward Scott – Digital Research Cycles: How Attitudes Toward Content, Culture, and Technology Affect Web Development

  Debra Winter – Information-Seeking Strategies of Early Doctoral Students

• 2008

  Brian Blackburne – Seeing How Safety Flies: Visual and Digital Rhetorics and Airline Safety Communications

  Anthony Crisafi – The Digital Dissertation: Hermeneutics and Heuretics of a Digital Text

  Lynn Koller – The Fragmented Patient: A Proposal for the Review of the Shifted Gaze

  David Scoma – Identical Cousins: The Evolution of Loop-Based Cinematic Techniques in Twentieth Century Motion Pictures and Their Applications in Early Digital Cinema

  April Van Camp – Chickees, Sofkee, and Disney Princesses: Technological Trends and Transformation in the Brighton Seminole Tribe of Florida

• 2007

  Heather Eaton – Women, the Web, and Welsh Rarebit: Postfeminism, Hypertext, and the Rhetoric of Industry Leading Cooking Websites

  Michelle Ferrier – The Hperrhetoric of the Quilt: Agency in a Technologized World

  Lori Mumpower – The Spatiality of Distance Learning: An Institutional Critique of Distance within the University of Central Florida English Department

  Joey Templeton – Technology and Its Impact on the Learning Processes of Children Ages 5-8: A Metaanalysis with Proposals for the 21st Century Classroom

• 2006

  Tom Cavanagh – Kiosk Culture: Reconciling the Performance Support Paradox in the Post-Modern Age of Machines

  Tammy Powley — Memory-Craft: The Role of Domestic Technology in Women’s Journals

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Faculty

Melody Bowdon
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Technical and Professional Communication; Gender and Technology; Service-Learning and Higher Education; Distance-Learning

James Campbell
Associate Professor
Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction

Paul M. Dombrowski
Professor
Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

Madelyn Flammia
Associate Professor
Research Interests: International Technical Communication; Virtual Teams; Visual Communication; Document Design and Layout; Publication and Production; International Studies

Shaun Gallagher

Research Interests: Phenomenology and philosophical psychology; Cognitive Science; Embodied cognition; Action theory; Self and personal identity; Time

Mark L Kamrath
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture; Atlantic Studies; Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

Martha Marinara
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Queer Theory and Composition; Gender Studies and Feminist Theories; Fiction; Poetry

Barry Mauer
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monuments

Kevin Meehan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature and Educational Development

Patrick D. Murphy
Professor
Research Interests: Nature-oriented Literature; Contemporary Multicultural American Literature; Comparative Asian American and Asian Literatures; Modern American Poetry; Ecocriticism; science fiction; bodied subjecthood and identities; Bakhtinian dialogics

Tison Pugh
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

Craig Saper
Professor
Research Interests: Digital Rhetoric New Media StudiesOnline and Digital ScholarshipVisual Poetry Networked ArtHeuretic Cultural Studies

Blake Scott
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Rhetorics of Biotechnology and Public Health Policy; History of Rhetoric; Theory and Teaching of Composition; Technical and Professional Communication

David L. Wallace
Department Chair
Research Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; alternative rhetorical theory and practice; feminist and queer theory.

Elizabeth Wardle
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Scholoarship of Writing Program Administration; first-year composition as Writing Studies; disciplinarity of Writing Studies; genre theory; activity theory; transfer of writing-related knowledge

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