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Dr. Joe Wilferth, Professor and Head of the Department of English, joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
in 2002. He teaches courses that include Introduction to
Rhetorical Analysis, Professional Writing, Writing Beyond the Academy,
and Environmental Rhetorics. His teaching is complemented by
service to the University that has included in recent years chairing
the search committee for a new Head of the Art Department, chairing the
First Year Reading Experience Committee, membership on the Strategic
Planning Task Force (for the UT System), the Sustainability Committee,
the Efficiency and Effectiveness Committee, the Campus Master Plan
Steering Committee, and more. He is currently on the UTC
Chancellor Search Committee. Likewise, Dr. Wilferth chairs the
Young Southern Student Writers (YSSW) contest and coordinates with the
Chattanooga Arts & Education Council the annual YSSW awards
ceremony. Dr. Wilferth has served on the editorial board for Computers and Composition Online. His publications in recent years have included a co-edited collection with Dr. Kevin DeLuca
(University of Utah) for the online journal Enculturation.
This
special issue contains a collection of essays devoted
to the subject of "image events" or staged acts of protest that are
designed for media distribution. Dr. Wilferth's chapter “Training
in Multimodal Technologies Requires Training in Assistive Technologies”
is forthcoming (2013) in Preparing Writing Teachers for the Multimodal Age: Professional Development Models (Utah State UP). In addition to these scholarly works, Dr. Wilferth has recently published poems in Cape Rock and Southern Indiana Review. Dr. Wilferth values most his students and the learning that takes place within and without the walls of the university. Teaching is, after all, why he entered this strange world of academics. E-mail Joe Wilferth at Joe-Wilferth@utc.edu |
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