PhD, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, 2009
MA, English, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000
BA, English, Park College, 1996
Derek Mueller, Associate Professor of Written Communication, joined EMU's Department of English Language and Literature in 2009. His teaching and research generally converges at the intersection of writing, rhetoric, and technology. More specifically, his work focuses on questions concerning new media, digital humanities, and networked digital writing activity; geospatial and visual rhetorics; data visualization and modeling methods; and theories of composition, pedagogy, and mentorship.
WRTG121: Composition II: Researching the Public Experience
WRTG326: Research Writing
WRTG328: Writing, Style, and Technology
WRTG444: Writing for the World Wide Web
WRTG505: Rhetoric of Science and Technology
WRTG516: Computers and Writing: Theory and Practice
WRTG527: Visual Rhetoric
WRTG540: Visual Rhetoric and Information Design
WRTG596: Teaching Composition on the College Level
For syllabi and selected teaching evaluations, visit http://www.derekmueller.net/rc/teaching/index.html.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011." Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012 . Steve Parks, Brian Bailie, and Heather Christiansen, eds. Anderson, SC: Parlor P, 2014. Print. Rpt. of "Views from a Distance," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
"Grasping Rhetoric and Composition by Its Long Tail: What Graphs Can Tell Us about the Field's Changing Shape," College Composition and Communication 64.1 (Sept. 2012): 195-223.
"Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
"Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011," Kairos 16.2 (Jan. 2012). Web.
"Distant Reading Methods: How (and Why) to Read 400 Scholarly Articles in One Sitting," SP: Language and Social Processes AERA SIG 32.1 (Spring 2011): 15-16.
Rev. of Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock, co-authored with Angelique Trent for Composition Forum 22 (Summer 2010). Web.
"Digital Underlife in the Networked Writing Classroom," Computers and Composition 26.4 (Dec. 2009): 240-250.