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Professor
Email: dillon@u.washington.edu
B.A., Yale University, 1965
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Reading and Writing Electronic Text
My scholarly work has been devoted to analyzing the workings of language in literature, academic writing, and advice writing, always with a view toward literary, textual, and discourse theory. In the last decade, I have been focusing on reading and writing electronic text, especially on new uses of the visual in online writing. I have also worked a good bit with electronic editions of literary texts using TEI. I continue to teach courses in English language and rhetorical theory but have also been developing courses in writing for the Web and more recently reading and criticism. My mission here is to publicize the rich and exciting work done on the Web so as to teach and inspire people to read and write for it. I advocate Open Source tools and ethos. I also have made and maintain "resource" sites for studying English language and sites supporting books in visual analysis. (See my homepage.)
