Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Interim Chairperson; William J. Beal Distinguished Professor; Graduate Faculty
She/Her/Hers
Office: 235 Bessey Hall
Email: devossda@msu.edu
Website: www.danielledevoss.org
Research Areas
Digital/Technological Literacies, Digital-Visual Rhetorics, Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity, Intellectual Property Issues in Digital Space
Profile
DeVoss’ work has most recently appeared in College English; Computers and Composition; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.
DeVoss co-edited (with Heidi McKee) Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (2007, Hampton Press), which won the 2007 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. She also co-edited (with Heidi McKee and Dickie Selfe) Technological Ecologies and Sustainability, the first title to be published by Computers and Composition Digital Press, the first digital press in the U.S. with a university press imprint. The book is available at: http://ccdigitalpress.org/tes/.
In November 2010, DeVoss published–with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl and Troy Hicks–a National Writing Project book, titled Because Digital Writing Matters (Jossey-Bass). In 2012, DeVoss published Understanding and Creating Multimodal Projects (Bedford/St. Martin’s). Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation (with Heidi McKee) was published by the Computers and Composition Digital Press in 2013 and is available at http://ccdigitalpress.org/dwae/. Most recently, DeVoss published Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies (with Jim Purdy; 2016, University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative); Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms (with C.S. Wyatt, 2017, Parlor Press); and Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition (with John Gallagher; 2019, Colorado State University Press/Utah State University Press).
Education
Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 2001
Selected Courses Taught
WRA 202: Introduction to Professional Writing
WRA 360: Designing Print and Digital Documents
IAH 241e: Creativity–Social Entrepreneurship
CAS/AL 114: Creativity and Innovation in Entrepreneurship
WRA 885: PhD Graduate Proseminar