Department Archives: Texts and Technology Ph.D.

UCF Texts and Technology hosted two workshops for the program’s Graduate Teaching Associates. Led by Eric Main, Associate Director of UCF’s Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning, the sessions were based on the book How Learning Works: Seven Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan Ambrose, et al. The workshops address students’ prior learning and […]

J.D. Applen recently published a book with Routledge titled Writing for the Web: Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites. The book unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. Presenting information in digestible parts, this text enables students to write and construct realistic and manageable websites with a strong theoretical […]

Texts & Technology Ph.D. student Mark Pollitt has been active at national and international conferences. On January 29, he presented a paper, “History, Historiography, and the Hermeneutics of the Hard Drive,” at the 9th International Federation of Information Processing, Working Group 11.9 Conference in Orlando. On February 21, he will present “A Narratological Approach to […]

Dr. Michelle Ferrier is a digital content architect and Associate Professor of Communications at Elon University. She is also the founder and managing editor of LocallyGrownNews.com, and Vice President of Journalism That Matters, a nonprofit organization focused on the new news ecology and media entrepreneurship. With varied experience as a community activist, educator, entrepreneur, media consultant, […]

Texts and Technology alumnus Tom Cavanaugh was recently recognized for his team’s excellent work in distance learning at UCF by the Sloan Consortium, a higher-education association that promotes online learning. The award for UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning is one of just a handful of various institutional and individual awards to be presented Oct. 11 […]

T&T student Jasara Hines presented her paper “Fetishizing Food: Man’s Power over the Age Old Battle with Food” as part of a panel on “Myths of Stardom: Gods and Monsters: The Construction and Influence of Celebrity” at the biennial Film and History Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that took place on September 26-30, 2012. The 2012 […]

A number of T&T students and faculty are presenting their work at the IEEE Professional Communication Society conference, currently going on October 8-10, 2012. The conference is being hosted at UCF on the upper floors of the Student Union. Presenters include professors Rudy McDaniel, Paul Dombrowski, Robert Lindgren, and Madelyn Flammia; students Carolyn Glasshoff and […]

Congratulations to Texts and Technology student Sonia Stephens, winner of the CAH 2011-2012 Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and alumni Stacey DiLiberto, Ph.D., winner of the CAH 2011-2012 Award for Innovative Dissertation. Sonia Stephen’s interests are in the broad field of science communication, particularly in using digital tools to communicate about science and ecology. […]

Dr. Russell Carpenter came to Eastern Kentucky University in fall 2009 as the first director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity where he is also Assistant Professor of English. While a Texts & Technology student at UCF, he studied writing center spaces through the lens of cultural and political geographies in an attempt to […]

As part of the Department of Texts and Technology, Scot A. French and Robb Lindgren recently presented their research in conferences on the national and international level. Scot A. French presented a paper at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Chicago on January 7, 2012. The presentation focused on French’s efforts to combine digital […]