Jeff Pruchnic
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Graduate School
313-577-7699
9407.2, 5057 Woodward
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EnglishJeff Pruchnic
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Rhetoric and composition; critical theory; science, technology and media studies
Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2006Selected publications
- Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition (Routledge, 2013)
- The Effects of Student-Fashioning and Teacher-Pleasing in the Assessment of First-Year Writing Reflective Essays (with Ellen Barton, Thomas Trimble, Sarah Primeau, Hillary Weiss, Nicole Guinot Varty, and Tanina Foster Moore; Journal of Writing Assessment 14.1, 2021)
- Correlating What We Know: A Mixed Methods Study of Reflection and Writing in First-Year Writing Assessment (with Ellen Barton, Thomas Trimble, Sarah Primeau, Nicole Guinot Varty, and Tanina Foster Moore; Composition Forum 46, Fall 2021)
- Platform Utopianism after Democracy (with Antonio Ceraso; in Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy, 2020)
- Slouching Toward Sustainability: Mixed Methods in the Direct Assessment of Student Writing (with Chris Susak, Jared Grogan, Sarah Primeau, Joe Torok, Thomas Trimble, Tanina Foster, and Ellen Barton; Journal of Writing Assessment 11.1, 2018)
- The Cyburke Manifesto, or, Two Lessons from Burke on the Rhetoric and Ethics of Posthumanism (in Burke + The Posthuman, 2017)
- The Future of Forgetting: Rhetoric, Memory, Affect (with Kim Lacey; Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.5, 2011)
- Open Source Culture and Aesthetics (with Antonio Ceraso; Criticism 53.3, 2011)
- Ironic Encounters: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the 'Liberal Bias' of Composition Pedagogy (JAC 30.1/2, 2010)
- Neurorhetorics: Cybernetics, Psychotropics, and the Materiality of Persuasion (Configurations 16.2, 2008)
- Rhetoric, Cybernetics, and the Work of the Body in Burke's Body of Work (Rhetoric Review 25.3, 2006)