Michigan State University

Danielle Nicole DeVoss

Biography

DeVoss received her PhD in 2001 from Michigan Technological  University. She is currently chairperson of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures and William J. Beal Distinguished Professor. She has served in multiple department and college administrative roles, including as Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in WRAC and as Director of Digital Humanities and Director of the Creativity Exploratory in the College of Arts & Letters.

DeVoss regularly teaches courses in the undergraduate Professional and Public Writing program and in the graduate programs in Rhetoric and Writing in WRAC.  She has also taught in the program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities and was previously core faculty in the MSU Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

DeVoss’ research interests include digital/technological literacies; digital-visual rhetorics; social and cultural entrepreneurship; and intellectual property issues in digital spaces

Works

BOOKS

Gallagher, J., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.). (2019). Explanation points: Publishing in rhetoric and
composition. Boulder: Colorado State University Press / Utah State University Press.

Wyatt, C. S., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.). (2017). Type matters: The rhetoricity of letterforms.
West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press.

Purdy, J., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.). (2016). Making space: Writing instruction, infrastructure,
and multiliteracies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Digital Rhetoric
Collaborative.

Rife, M., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.). (2014). Cultures of copyright. New York: Peter Lang.

McKee, H., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.). (2013). Digital writing assessment and evaluation.
Computers and Composition Digital Press / Utah State University Press.

DeVoss, D.N. (2012). Understanding and creating multimodal projects. Boston, MA:
Bedford/St. Martins.

Rife, M. C., DeVoss, D. N., & Slattery, Shaun. (Eds.). (2011). Copy(write): Intellectual property
in the writing classroom. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press.

DeVoss, D.N., Eidman-Aadahl, E., Hicks, T., & The National Writing Project. (2010). Because
digital writing matters. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Selfe, D., DeVoss, D. N., & McKee, H. (Eds.). (2009). Technological ecologies and
sustainability: Methods, modes, and assessment. Computers and Composition Digital Press /
Utah State University Press.

McKee, H., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.) (2007). Digital writing research: Technologies,
methodologies, and ethical issues. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (Winner, Computers and
Composition Distinguished Book Award, 2007)

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

Drever, E; Brooks, S. S.; Mehr, R.; Maggio, S.; & DeVoss, D. N. (2024). Writing identity, identity writing | identity matters, matters of identity. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 8(1).

Flores, W.; Williams, T.; Boyles, C.; Arola, K.; & DeVoss, D. N. (2023). Graduate student and faculty development in multimodal composing. S. Khadka & S. B. Pandey (Eds.), Professionalizing multimodal composition: Faculty and institutional initiatives (pp. 25-42). Utah State University Press.

Boyles, C.; Boyles Peterson, A.; & DeVoss, D. N. (2022). How to multimodal: An institutional–infrastructural exploration. S. B. Pandey & S. Khadka (Eds.), Multimodal composition: Faculty development programs and institutional change (pp. 15-32). Routledge.

Feigenbaum, P., Lauren, B., & DeVoss, D. N. (2022). Community literacy as justice entrepreneurship: Envisioning the progressive potential of entrepreneurship in a post-Covid field. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 21(1).

Alvarez, S., Baumann, M., Day, M., Echols, K., Gordon, L., Kumari, A., Matravers, L., Newman, J., Nichols, A., Ray, C., Udelson, J., Wysocki, R., & DeVoss, D. N. (2019). On multimodality: A multivocal manifesto. In S. Khadha & JC Lee (Eds.), Bridging the multimodal gap: From theory to practice (pp. 17–29). Utah State University Press.

Greenwood, A., Lauren, B., Knott, J., DeVoss, D. N. (2019). Dissensus, resistance, and ideology: Design thinking as a rhetorical methodology. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 33(4), 400–424.

 

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