ABSTRACT
Throughout her distinguished career, Cynthia Selfe has set the standard of excellence in digital rhetoric, work she continues as the OSU Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University. In graduate school at the University of Texas in the 1970s, Selfe learned to do word processing on a mainframe, and in 1986, while many campuses were still debating the usefulness of personal computers, Selfe published her first book, Computer-Assisted Instruction in Composition: Create Your Own. Since then she has written, co-authored, and edited dozens of articles, journal special issues, and books, including (with Patrick W. Berry and Gail E. Hawisher) Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times (2012). Selfe co-directs the 11-day Digital Media and Composition Institute held at Michigan Tech, and with Gail Hawisher she founded the highly influential Computers and Composition: An International Journal; this and other work led to their being awarded the Technology Innovator Award from the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication in 2000. She also received the CCCC Exemplar Award for outstanding contributions to the field in 2014.
