Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World

Carolyn Handa is a Professor of English and a faculty member in the Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies program at the University of Alabama. She has been interested in the influence of culture and visual rhetoric on the World Wide Web for well over a decade.  She wrote a chapter (“Analyzing Digital Text as Rhetorical Space: Crossing Untraditional Frontiers”) for Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy: Learning from Other Disciplines, edited by Emily Golson and Toni Glover (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Her coedited volume (with Sharon James McGee) Discord and Direction: The Post-Modern Writing Program Administrator appeared in 2005. In 2001 she was the guest editor for two special issues of Computers and Composition devoted to the subject of digital literacy, digital rhetoric, computers and composition. She has coauthored a chapter on the cultural and literacy implications of the World Wide Web for Greece and has also published several pieces on computer pedagogy and classroom design. She edited the volume Computers and Community Teaching Composition in the Twenty-first Century (Boynton/Cook, 1990) and has also published articles on the contemporary poet Elizabeth Bishop in American Poetry, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and Contemporary Authors.  Her other research interests include the social and political implications of computers in the writing classroom, collaborative learning, basic writing, and contemporary Irish poetry.