Karl Stolley

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication
Co-Director, Usability Testing and Evaluation Center (UTEC)

Office: SH 208
Office Hours: MT 4-5:30 p.m., By appointment.
Phone: 312.567.3151
Fax: 312.567.5187
Email: kstolley@iit.edu
Web: karlstolley.com

Expertise

• Social media, web design, open source & open standards and other digital communication matters.
• My current research project is a book on web writing and design. I also write about user-designer activity, code-level literacy, and sustainability & digital archiving.
• I teach graduate courses in web design, information structure and retrieval, and single-sourcing and content management. I've also taught a seminar in open source in technical communication.

Education

• Ph.D., English, Purdue University

Curriculum Vitae

Research & Major Accomplishments

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

• 2008 Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Digital Scholarship Award, June 2009
• 2008 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Best Journal Design Award, December 2008 (for work on Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy)
• Kairos Graduate Student Award for Technology Service, May 2006.
• Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, Summer 2006.
• Janice M. Lauer Award for Excellence in Dissertation Work, 2005.
• Purdue University Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, 2005.
• Department of English Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, 2004.
• Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, Summer 2004.

Patents

Books

• How to Design and Write Web Pages, Greenwood Press (forthcoming).

Selected Publications

• "Using Microformats: Gateway to the Semantic Web." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (September 2009).
• "Integrating Social Media into Existing Work Environments: The Case of Delicious." Journal of Business and Technical Communication (July 2009).
• "The Lo-Fi Manifesto." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 12(3). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/
• "The Whys and Wherefores of the 3rd Kairos Design." (co-authored with Kathie Gossett and Douglas Eyman) Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 13(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/13.1/
• "Introducing Inventio." (with Madeleine Sorapure) Kairos 12(1). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.1/inventio/index.htm
• "Rhetorical Arts of Invention in Visual Communication." In R. E. Griffin, B. D. Cowden, & M. Avgerinou (Eds.). Imagery and Artistry: Animating the Mind's Eye. Loretto, PA: International Visual Literacy Association, 2006. 213-217.
• Guest Editor, "Multimedia Composition: Pedagogies, Production, Possibilities." Special issue of Computers and Composition (in process).
• "New Wings for an Old OWL: Database Solutions for Small and Large-Scale Writing Center Web Sites." (with Erin Karper) Databases in Higher Education: New Media Discourse in Composition and Rhetoric. Ed. Rich Rice and Jeffrey White. (forthcoming).
• Editor, Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed. (with David Blakesley, Bob Stein, et al.) West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2003.

Professional Society Memberships

Editorial Board Service

• Editor, Computers and Composition Digital Press
• Lead Designer and Interface Editor, Kairos, 2006-2009.
• Inventio Section Co-Editor with Madeleine Sorapure, Kairos, 2006-2009.

Professional Society Service

Grants

• Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Research Grant, March 2008

Community Service

Lauren Joyce
B.S. in Professional and Technical Communication, 2006

Lauren Joyce earned her bachelor's in Professional and Technical Communication in 2006 specializing in web design and minoring in sociology and psychology. more...