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Steven Fraiberg

  • (He/Him)
  • Director of Professional and Public Writing, Associate Professor
  • Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures
Biography

I am an associate professor and Director of Public and Professional Writing. My research and teaching attends to multilingual language and literacy practices in the context of globalization. This scholarship focuses on two core areas. The first focuses on the language and literacy practices of transnational entrepreneurs in global startup innovation systems with a focus on the Israeli and Palestinian high-tech industries and the complex links between them. Second, I am involved in studying global shifts in higher education. More specifically, I wrote 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 was being reshaped by the rapid influx of Chinese international students. I am also an editor of the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series for the WAC Clearinghouse.

Works

Unsettling start-up ecosystems: Geographies, mobilities, and transnational literacies in the Palestinian start-up ecosystem

“Unsettling start-up ecosystems: Geographies, mobilities, and transnational literacies in the Palestinian start-up ecosystem.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 35.2 (2021): 219-253.

*Received award for Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Technical and Scientific Communication Award for the Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.

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 CCCC 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

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