Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology

A double rainbow over Chicago; the spires on the Hancock are barely visible.
What appears to be a bug in a piece of open source software prompts me to share an argument that I’m in the early stages of developing.

The least interesting photograph ever taken in Athens, GA.
Computers and Writing 2008 wrap-up.

UGA’s campus in the early morning.
Kairos morning workshop and redesign unveiling.

Weathered fragments I.
New design of karlstolley.com finally goes live after months of on again, off again development.
Links to my presentation materials from this year’s conferences in New Orleans.
Preliminary ideas on responding to the challenges and opportunities open source software presents to digital literacy and writing.
A new design for karlstolley.com.
I’m an assistant professor of technical communication at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. I completed my PhD in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 2007.
This fall, I am teaching graduate seminars in Information Structure and Retrieval, and Open Source in Technical Communication.
On Twitter: Drinking tea and watching the Always Sunny season finale while Stewie preens himself.