Steven Fraiberg
252 Bessey Hall
434 Farm Ln
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyWriting, Rhetoric, and CulturesGlobal Studies in Arts and HumanitiesJewish StudiesRhetoric and WritingFirst Year Writing
Associate Professor
Biography
My research broadly attends to literacy, mobility, and globalization. Grounded in ethnographic and sociocultural traditions, I have two research strands at the moment. The first attends to the global innovation systems and transnational entrepreneurs with a focus on the Israeli/Palestinian high-tech industries. Second, I am involved in studying global shifts in higher education. More specifically, I recently completed a book with two colleagues, Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities, on the ways the social, linguistic, and cultural landscape in U.S. higher education is being reshaped by the rapid influx of Chinese international students.
Research Interests
Globalization in Higher Education and Workplaces, Startup Entrepreneurs and Innovation Systems, Composition Studies, Multi-Translingualism
Education
Ph.D. English with a Concentration in Writing Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.S. Technical Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.A. English, University of Michigan
Research or Academic Affiliations
Jewish Studies Program, http://jsp.msu.edu/
Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, http://globalstudies.msu.edu/people/affiliated-faculty/
Google Scholar Profile
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N6UhMzYAAAAJ&hl=en
Projects
Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities
Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities. (Co-authored with Xiaoye You and Xiqiao Wang). Utah State University Press, 2017.
Startup Nation: Studying Transnational Entrepreneurial Practices in Israel’s Startup Ecosystem
“Startup Nation: Studying Transnational Entrepreneurial Practices in Israel’s Startup Ecosystem.” Spec. issue of Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 33.1. (2017): 1-39.
*Received award for NCTE Best Original Collection of Essays in Scientific and Technical Communication
Weaving Relationship Webs: Tracing how IMing Practices Mediate the Trajectories of Chinese International Students
“Weaving Relationship Webs: Tracing how IMing Practices Mediate the Trajectories of Chinese International Students.” (Co-authored with Xiaowei Cui). Computers and Composition. 39.1. (2016): 83-103.
Outsmarting the Nation, Together: Subversive Virtual Fraternity in the Israeli Men’s Magazine Blazer
“Outsmarting the Nation, Together: Subversive Virtual Fraternity in the Israeli Men’s Magazine Blazer.” Israel Studies Review. (Co-authored with Danny Kaplan). 30.1 (2015): 83-103.
Re-assembling Technical Communication: Mapping out a Framework for Studying Multilingual-Multimodal Practices in the Context of Globalization
“Re-assembling Technical Communication: Mapping out a Framework for Studying Multilingual-Multimodal Practices in the Context of Globalization.” Spec. issue of Technical Communication Quarterly. 22.1 (2013): 10-27.
* Nominated for NCTE Best Original Collection of Essays in Scientific and Technical Communication
A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Studying L2 Composing
“A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Studying L2 Composing.” (Co-authored with Xiaoye You). EFL Teaching and Research. 35.3 (2012): 263-70. Print.
Composition 2.0: Toward a Multilingual and Multimodal Framework
“Composition 2.0: Toward a Multilingual and Multimodal Framework.” Spec. issue of College Composition and Communication. 62.1 (2010): 100-126. Print.
* Reprinted in Multimodal Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Claire Lutkewitte. New York: Bedford St. Martin’s Press. 2014. 497-516
Courses
AL 891: Reassembling Composition and Rhetoric: Studying Language and Culture in Local and Global Contexts
WRA 870: Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
WRA 260: Rhetoric, Persuasion and Culture
WRA 195H: Writing Ethnography Across Communities and Cultures
WRA 1004: Preparation for College Writing
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