Karl Stolley

Karl Stolley is an associate professor of digital writing and rhetoric at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL, where he teaches graduate courses on Web design, information architecture, and the rhetoric of technology. He also directs Gewgaws Lab, an open-source design and development research group as well as the Digital Communication Research and Instruction Lab. His publications have appeared in such journals as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Stolley earned his doctorate from the Rhetoric and Composition program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, where he was webmaster of the world-renowned Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). He has also served as interface editor for Kairos and led its redesign, which was awarded the Council of Editors of Learned Journals' Best Journal Design Award in 2009--the first Web-based journal to receive such a distinction.

Stolley maintains a Web presence at http://karlstolley.com/ and is on Twitter @karlstolley.