Clemson University

Faculty Member, English

Director of First-Year Composition

Architecture, Arts, and Humanities

About

Research Interests
Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Associate Professor of English. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, multimodal pedagogy, virtual worlds, critical theory, computer games studies, serious design, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. Her projects range from teaching rhetoric in virtual learning environments (MOOs, MMRPG's), and with Jan Rune Holmevik (also now here at Clemson) she co-chairs the RCID PhD program Serious Games Colloquium. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Beta Rhetoric: Writing, Technology, and Deconstruction.

Recent Publications

"Accidental Metaphysics: What Animals Don't Think About" forthcoming in JAC vol.32 (Fall 2011)

"Casuistic Code" in From A to <A>: Keywords in HTML and Writing. eds. Jeffrey Rice and Bradley Dilger. University of Minnesota Press (2011).

“Post-Conflict Pedagogy: Writing in the Stream of Hearing” in Beyond Post-Process Pedagogy. ed. Sid Dobrin. Utah State University Press (2011).

“Facing the Faraway Nearby”  JAC 28.3-4 (2009).

“Torture and Absolution: The Shadow Twin Towers of Atro/City” Fast Capitalism 4.1. 2008 http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/4_1/haynes.html

“In Visible Texts: Memory, MOOs, and Momentum” in The Locations of Composition. SUNY Press, 2007. 55-70.

“Learning by Heart: Memory, MOOs, and Morphology,” Changing Language Education through CALL. London: Routledge, 2006. 197-228.

“Armageddon Army: Playing God, God Mode Mods, and the Rhetorical Task of Ludology” in Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media 1.1 (January 2006). 89-96.

“Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory” JAC. 23.4 (Winter 2003).