Directors
John Jones (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor and Director of Digital Media Studies in the Department of English at OSU. His primary research areas are digital rhetoric and writing, digital culture, and professional and technical communication. In his research, John has investigated the revision practices of Wikipedia editors, community formation on Twitter, the influence of network structures on writing and persuasion, and the effects of wearable technologies on writing and rhetoric. He is the co-editor, with Lavinia Hirsu, of Rhetorical Machines, a collection that explores the interconnected nature of technology and rhetorical practice. He serves as DMAC Director.
Scott Lloyd Dewitt (he/him/his) is Associate Professor of English in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy program at The Ohio State University where he conducts writing studies research in digital media, writing analytics, teaching writing at scale, and the study of public communication to imagine new methods for teaching college writing. An OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award recipient for his pioneering teaching approaches with technology, DeWitt has served as the director of The Digital Media Project, the English Department’s digital media production and teaching studio. Professor DeWitt is the author of Writing Inventions: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies (SUNY, 2002), which offers instructional stories, histories, and classroom applications and connects the theoretical aspirations of the field with the craft of innovative computer-enhanced composition instruction. Writing Inventions was awarded the “Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award” in 2003. He is the editor of a scholarly collection of curated exhibits (with H. Louis Ulman and Cynthia Selfe), Stories That Speak To Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013). He is currently working on a large-data project that examines a corpus of 5000+ pieces of student writing collected when he was the director of Ohio State’s First-Year Writing Program. With colleagues at Ohio State, he was the co-recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant supporting the development of a general education writing MOOC and the co-developer of WEx, The Writers Exchange, a peer-review platform for student writers. He is currently working on a text analytics project studying public writing about Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for HIV prevention with researchers at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center and One Community Health in Sacramento, CA.
Liz Miller (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at Ohio State. She is the Associate Director for DMAC 2021, having been a participant for DMAC 2018 and a consultant for 2019. Liz’s current research delves into care networks among graduate students, particularly focusing on mental health strategies for surviving in a disabling institution. She is also the graduate research associate for the Building Healthcare Collectives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration that seeks to foster work at the intersections of medicine, rhetoric, and disability studies.
Natalie Kopp (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in the Ohio State English department, specializing in community writing, literacy, and narrative studies. Having participated in DMAC 2020, she is excited to join the team as a Graduate Consultant this year. Natalie’s current research deals with the development of open access community creative writing programs and the ways community practitioners can draw on critical pedagogies to create more collaborative, empowering, and informed writing spaces.