Starting in the Fall semester John Jones will be joining the EMAC faculty as a senior lecturer.

John received his M.A. from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied rhetoric and composition. After graduating, he taught technical writing and composition courses at UT-Chattanooga before entering the English Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at UT-Austin, where he studies writing practices in new media environments.

From 2007-2009 John was Assistant Director of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing’s Digital Writing and Research Lab at UT-Austin. While at the DWRL, John founded Viz., a website and blog investigating rhetoric and visual culture. In 2010, Viz. was awarded the John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award by Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

John is currently working on a dissertation exploring the effects of digital networking on writing practices. You can follow him on Twitter.