Johndan JohnsonEilola

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Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Johndans Website
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Johndan Johnson-Eilola

• Currently teaching at Clarkson University as
  Director, Eastman Kodak Center for Excellence in
  Communication (2000-present).
• Formerly taught at Purdue (1994-2000) and New
  Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  (1993-1994).
• PhD from Michigan Technological University1993.

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Awards and Honors

• Computers and Composition Distinguished Book
  Award
• Nell Ann Pickett award, Hugh Burns Award, Kairos
  best article, Ellen Nold best article award.
• Teaching Excellence Award (Purdue) Outstanding
  PhD student Michigan Tech.

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Professional Interests

• CCCC Intellectual Property Committee, Chair
• ACM SIGDOC Executive Committee (1997-present)
  1999 Conference Co-Chair 1999 Program Co-Chair
• ATTW Ethics Committee (1997-1999)
• ATTW Committee on Recruitment (1997-1998)

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Editorial Boards

• Computers and Composition
• Kairos
• Sycamore Review
• Text Technology
• The Writing Instructor

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Presentations

• Johndan has presented workshops and lectures at
  numerous national, regional and faculty
  gatherings including
• CCCC
• Computers in the Writing Intensive Classroom
  (MTU)
• Association for Teachers of Technical Writing
• American Educational Research Association

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Publications

• Computers Composition
• Writing on the Edge
• RhetNet
• Journal of Advanced Composition
• Technical Communication
• Numerous book chapters and appearances in edited
  collections

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On literacy

• "literacy" is an appropriate term any longer,
  since it still, despite the work of our best
  thinkers, connotes a building block approach in
  coming to technology.
• I think we've lost the battle in terms of
  attaching "critical" to "literacy" in a
  productive way. We may want to think in terms of
  "appropriating technology" or something like
  that.

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On becoming political

• "Think Globally, Act Locally" would probably be
  glib here, although it's often the only (local)
  possibility. Maybe "Think Locally, Act Out"?
  Local action is always important, but the local
  must always be expanded in order to lend
  tendential force to other articulations in other
  contexts.

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On critical literacy

• Even getting people to open up the question of a
  critical literacy (of any sort) remains an often
  impossible task.
• On one hand, we have the postmodernists
  celebrating the collapse of meaning inherent in
  the death of grand narrative on the other, we
  have cultural conservatives (and much of the
  mainstream) still believing that the whole grand
  narrative is still in force.

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Unifying the field

• I do think activism now requires seizing control
  of the means of communication.
• how people manage and work within information
  saturated spaces.
• Johndans standard disclaimer to grad students
  "I AM NOT A ROLE MODEL."

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Brief Annotated Bibliography

• From Kairos, Spring 1996, Stories and Maps
  Postmodernism and Professional Communication
• the new emphasis on spatial rather than
  temporal or historical concerns goes by a number
  of titlespostcapitalism, networked workplaces,
  nonhierarchical managementwe must reposition
  ourselves as mapmakers rather than authors.

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Another Useful Article Brief

• Computers and Composition 13.3 1996 (with Stuart
  A. Selber) Policing Ourselves Defining the
  Boundaries of Appropriate Discussion in Online
  Forums  (Best Article Award)
• considers some positionings and restrictions
  that both validate and invalidate participants'
  conversational topics.

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Listen to Johndan

• Radio Johndan