ABSTRACT
Cynthia L. Selfe is currently Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University, where she teaches courses in computers and composition, a relatively recent specialty that her scholarship has helped to define. She is the author of several books examining digital literacy and computer-assisted instruction, including her most recent Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Perils of Not Paying Attention. In addition, she has co-authored and co-edited 16 books, including her most recent (with Gail Hawisher) Literate Lives in the Information Age and Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition (with Anne Wysocki, Johndan JohnsonEilola, and Geoffrey Sirc). She is also a founding editor of the journal Computers and Composition, and she continues to serve, along with Hawisher, as the print editor of that journal today. She has served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (1997-98) and on several key NCTE and MLA committees that deal with computers and composition interests. She earned her Master’s of Education from the University of Texas at Austin 1977 and then her doctoral degree, again from UT, in 1981, focusing on curriculum and instruction as well as English and composing processes. Following her graduation from Texas, Selfe was hired by Art Young, then the Head of the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University. She earned tenure at Michigan Tech in 1987. She was promoted to full in 1991 and served as Chair of the Humanities Department until 1999. While on the faculty of Michigan Tech, Selfe served as a Visiting Professor of Composition and Communication at Clemson University and as the Watson Professor at the University of Louisville. In 2005, she left to join the faculty at the Ohio State University.
