Clemson University

Faculty Member, English

Campbell Professor in Technical Communication and Professor of English

Architecture, Arts, and Humanities

About

David Blakesley is the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of English at Clemson University. He is also the founder and publisher of Parlor Press, a scholarly publishing company. His research interests are in rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric, multimedia writing, digital and print publishing, and film. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1990 in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature.

He has authored, co-authored, or edited five books: The Elements of Dramatism (Longman, 2002), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (SIUP, 2003, 2007), Late Poems, 1968-1993 by Kenneth Burke (University of South Carolina Press, 2005), Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (Comprehensive and Brief editions, 2009, with Jeff Hoogeveen). His articles have appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, The Writing Instructor, Kairos, and numerous other journals and anthologies.

From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing at Purdue University. In 2009, he received the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field from Computers and Composition. In 2010 and 2003 he chaired the Computers and Writing Conference. From 1998 to 2003, he edited the Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory Series (Southern Illinois University Press) and now is the general editor and publisher, with Dawn Formo, of The Writing Instructor. He served as Web Developer for the Council of Writing Program Administrators and KB Journal from 2004 to 2008. In 1998 he founded and has since moderated the Kenneth Burke Discussion List.

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