scholarship

This page lists selected scholarly works. Complete CV available here.

Books

The Available Means of Persuasion:
Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric

David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, Anthony J. Michel
Parlor Press, 2012. Parlor Press | Amazon

Many have argued that we are seeing a shift to “multimodal rhetoric” — rhetoric that combines visual, aural, and other elements. In The Available Means of Persuasion, we attempt to tease out the implications of this shift specifically for public rhetorical practices. What are the implications of the fact that stakeholders can increasingly deliberate and advocate using not just words but photographs, animations, videos, and more?

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Multiliteracy Centers:
Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric

David M. Sheridan and James A. Inman, Editors
Hampton Press, 2010. Hampton Press | Amazon

Writing centers have a long history of facilitating conversations between composers and knowledgeable peers. What happens if we expand the mission of writing centers to include twenty-first century forms of communication, like videos, web sites, podcasts, animations, and more?

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Selected Chapters & Articles

“The Circulation of Touch:
Very Simple Machines for Creating TactileTextual Experiences.” Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Michael J. Faris and Steve Holmes. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2022: 45-71.

“Digital Composing as a Distributed Emergent Process:
Technology-Rich Informal Learning Spaces and Learning Ecologies“
In James P. Purdy and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Editors
Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies
Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, University of Michigan Press, 2015

“Fabricating Consent:
Three-Dimensional Objects as Rhetorical Compositions“
Computers and Composition, 2010.