e-mail: bazerman@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Charles Bazerman is Professor of English and Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent book Constructing Experience contains several theoretical, research, and pedagogic essays. Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science won several awards including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers' Association and the National Council Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Writing. He also co-edited Textual Dynamics of the Professions and has written numerous textbooks, including the forthcoming Involved: Writing For College, Writing For Your Self and The Informed Writer, now in its fifth edition. His research interests include the psycho-social dynamics of writing, the rhetoric of science and technology, and rhetorical theory. Currently he is completing a book examining the rhetorical and representational work that made Edison's incandescent light a social reality, The Languages of Edison's Light. He also edits the Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Book Series . At University of California, Santa Barbara he runs the interdisciplinary research focus group on Science Technology and Culture Studies and he is affiliated with the Program in Language, Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) the Transcriptions project on the culture of information. He is also affiliated with the Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC), at UC San Diego.