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David Coogan

Assistant Professor of English
Lewis Department of Humanities, Armour College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Siegel Hall, Room 234
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: (312) 567-3477  |  FAX: (312) 567-5187
coogan@iit.edu






Areas of Interest:
rhetoric and social change | service learning and public advocacy |
rhetoric of science and technology | computers and composition in higher education

curriculum vitae

David Coogan is an Assistant Professor of English at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he conducts research on rhetoric and social change and teaches courses in service learning, rhetoric, technical communication, composition, and literature. His research program on rhetoric and social change began with studies of educational computing and its impact on the teaching of writing. His award winning dissertation was developed into a book, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition (Ablex, 1999). Recent research focuses on service learning as the curricular vehicle for effecting change in urban communities. Professor Coogan received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition from the State University of New York at Albany in 1995.