Karl Stolley

Associate Professor, Technical Communication
Director, Gewgaws Lab
Co-Director, Graduate Studies

Office: SH 208
Office Hours: MT 4-5:30 p.m., By appointment.
Phone: 872.228.5275
Fax: 312.567.5187
Email: kstolley@iit.edu
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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

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).

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