Much of my research to date has been focused in theories of literacy and communication technologies. I am particularly interested in how practices and discourses of literacy pedagogy, research, and scholarship are socially and ideologically designed, situated, and developed. My work in this area is most fully explored in my book (Hampton Press - in press), Professing Literacy in Composition Studies.
My interests have more recently turned to research on environmental rhetoric and sustainability. The latter is especially important to me not only as an subject of personal scholarly interest, but as an important conversation in academic and public arenas to which Humanities scholars need to lend their voices. My recent work in this area includes two articles, "Sustainable Development: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Writing Classroom," co-authored with rhetoric doctoral candidate, Zach Waggoner (Composition Studies), and "'Enjoy Illusions, Lad, and Let the Rocks be Rocks': Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea as a Parable for a Rhetoric of Sustainability and Environmental Literacy" (forthcoming in Paradoxa). As a proponent of Interdisciplinarity I have also collaborated with faculty in the Geographical Sciences to design and teach a Learning Communities project on Sustainability.
In addition to these interests, I am the founder and co-director of the annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference which is now in its tenth year. http://www.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wsrl/wsrl.html
Peter Goggin
My interests have more recently turned to research on environmental rhetoric and sustainability. The latter is especially important to me not only as an subject of personal scholarly interest, but as an important conversation in academic and public arenas to which Humanities scholars need to lend their voices. My recent work in this area includes two articles, "Sustainable Development: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Writing Classroom," co-authored with rhetoric doctoral candidate, Zach Waggoner (Composition Studies), and "'Enjoy Illusions, Lad, and Let the Rocks be Rocks': Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea as a Parable for a Rhetoric of Sustainability and Environmental Literacy" (forthcoming in Paradoxa). As a proponent of Interdisciplinarity I have also collaborated with faculty in the Geographical Sciences to design and teach a Learning Communities project on Sustainability.