About me
Douglas Eyman is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing and Rhetoric Programs at George Mason University. He teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, web authoring, new media, and professional writing. His current research interests include the affordances and constraints of composing with AI/LLMs, new media scholarship, teaching in digital environments, and video games as sites of composition. With Dr. Nupoor Ranade, he recently co-edited both a special issue of Computers and Composition on "Composing with AI" and an edited collection on AI in Writing Studies.
Prior publications include Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (University of Michigan Press, 2015), Play/Write: Games, Writing, Digital Rhetoric (co-edited with Andrea Davis), and Games and Play in China and the Sinophone World (co-edited with Li Guo and Hongmei Sun, 2024). His scholarly work has been published in Enculturation, Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, and Technical Communication, as well as chapters in Digital Writing Research (2007), Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (2008), Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (2015), Global Academic Publishing (2018), Playing with the Rules (2021), Editors in Writing (2022), and TextGenEd (2023), among others.
Eyman is Senior Editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, an online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on computers and writing since 1996. Eyman has twice won the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field (2015, 2023) and was recently awarded the CCCC Technology Innovator Award (2024) for his work as a mentor and leader in the field of Computers and Writing.