I’m a doctoral candidate in the UMN Department of
Writing Studies, where I study authorship and ownership in networked
texts. My dissertation, “Textual Curators and Writing
Machines: Authorial Agency in the 1728 Chambers’
Cyclopaedia and Wikipedia,” explores the sort of authorship
that occurs within the tight genre constraints of the western
encyclopedic tradition. I also examine the ways digital affordances
impact encyclopedic authorship, particularly when bots are introduced,
as well as the pragmatic implications that fluctuating authorship
situations pose
for contemporary copyright law. I expect to defend the project in
spring 2009.
My areas of focus include digital rhetoric, rhetorical theory,
intellectual property theory and law, distance learning, and technical
& professional communication. I’ve been lucky enough
to teach courses that deal with all of these areas here at UMN, and to
teach them in both physical and digital environments. Over the past
five years, I’ve received both departmental and university
teaching awards, and have also been the recipient of an IAP Fellowship
for my work on authorship in blogs.
You can download my full CV here (PDF).
Email: kenne329 [at] tc [dot] umn [dot] edu
AIM: IamKristaK
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