Introduction

[cj]

My name is CJ Jeney (rhymes with Monet) and I'm a PhD student in Rhetoric /
Composition / Literature in the English department at Arizona State
University.  Why the 3-fold discipline? Perhaps because of the history of
Rhet/comp studies in the US. Many of the founders and members of the National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) came from "traditional" (whatever I mean
by that) English literary criticism backgrounds.  Recently the degree tracks
and requirements at ASU have been modified to reflect changes in the
professions, and in other rhet programs across the country, but I like being
rhet/comp/lit.

I have taught college English for 11 years, as both a Teaching Assistant
and an
Adjunct at various colleges and at Arizona State.

I'm preparing for comprehensive exams, and mapping out my dissertation, which
concentrates on  drawing classical and modern rhetorics into the discussion of
Computers and Writing. Aristotle, Cicero, Quintillian and their descendants
belong on the web as certainly as do Yardeni (y2k guru) and Dilbert
(everyone's
lobotomized alter-ego), and yet it seems safe to say that computer networked
writing lends a previously unanticipated dimension and irony to theoretical
works originally docked and locked onto the mothership Codex. Catch me in
Rapid
City, ND in May, at the  Computers and Writing conference:

http://cw99.sdsmt.edu/


CJ





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CJ Jeney
Arizona State University

http://www.public.asu.edu/~starbuck/
azcacti at asu.edu
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