Jeff Pruchnic (bb3685)
University information
Title: Assoc Dean, Grad Stud Acad Aff
Unit: English
Department: College of Liberal Arts & Science
Contact information
5057 Woodward, Room 9308
Detroit, 48202
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department:
English
Title:
Associate Professor
Secondary Title:
Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Graduate School
Phone:
313-577-7699
Email:
jeffpruchnic@wayne.edu
Office:
9407.2, 5057 Woodward
Website:
https://about.me/jeff.pruchnic
Research interest(s)/area of expertise:
Rhetoric and composition; critical theory; science, technology and media studies
Education – Degrees, Licenses, Certifications:
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2006
Selected publications:
- Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition (Routledge, 2013)
- The Effects of Student-Fashioning and Teacher-Pleasing in the Assessment of First-Year Writing Reflective Essays (with Ellen Barton, Thomas Trimble, Sarah Primeau, Hillary Weiss, Nicole Guinot Varty, and Tanina Foster Moore; Journal of Writing Assessment 14.1, 2021)
- Correlating What We Know: A Mixed Methods Study of Reflection and Writing in First-Year Writing Assessment (with Ellen Barton, Thomas Trimble, Sarah Primeau, Nicole Guinot Varty, and Tanina Foster Moore; Composition Forum 46, Fall 2021)
- Platform Utopianism after Democracy (with Antonio Ceraso; in Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy, 2020)
- Slouching Toward Sustainability: Mixed Methods in the Direct Assessment of Student Writing (with Chris Susak, Jared Grogan, Sarah Primeau, Joe Torok, Thomas Trimble, Tanina Foster, and Ellen Barton; Journal of Writing Assessment 11.1, 2018)
- The Cyburke Manifesto, or, Two Lessons from Burke on the Rhetoric and Ethics of Posthumanism (in Burke + The Posthuman, 2017)
- The Future of Forgetting: Rhetoric, Memory, Affect (with Kim Lacey; Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.5, 2011)
- Open Source Culture and Aesthetics (with Antonio Ceraso; Criticism 53.3, 2011)
- Ironic Encounters: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the 'Liberal Bias' of Composition Pedagogy (JAC 30.1/2, 2010)
- Neurorhetorics: Cybernetics, Psychotropics, and the Materiality of Persuasion (Configurations 16.2, 2008)
- Rhetoric, Cybernetics, and the Work of the Body in Burke's Body of Work (Rhetoric Review 25.3, 2006)
Graduate School
Title:
Associate Dean of Student Success
Phone:
313-577-0213
Email:
bb3685@wayne.edu
Areas of Expertise:
As Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the Graduate School, Jeff Pruchnic, Ph.D., oversees graduate fellowships, scholarships and awards, Ph.D. student milestones and time extension requests. He supports graduate program directors and graduate students across campus in matters of interpretation of policy, program management and student issues.
Dr. Pruchnic joined the Wayne State faculty in 2006 as faculty member specializing in Rhetoric & Writing Studies within the Department of English. His research is focused on the cultural impact of new media and technologies.
