Greg
Wickliff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Education
- M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University
- B.A., Miami University
Areas of Interest
Greg Wickliff's recent research has been focused on nineteenth-century photography published in scientific and technical texts, and he is at work on a book on the subject. His most recent article "Light Writing: Technology Transfer and Photography to 1845" appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly in summer 2006.
Selected
Publications and Presentations:
Wickliff, Gregory A. "Light Writing: Technology Transfer and Photography to 1845" Technical Communication Quarterly 15 (2006): 2893-313.
---. "Astronomical Rhetoric: Nineteenth-century Photographs as Models of Meaning." Words and Images: Working Together -Working Differently. Nancy Allen, Ed. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2002. 140-163.
---. And Kathleen Blake Yancey."The Perils of Creating a Class Website: It Was the Best of Times, It was . . ." Computers and Composition, 18 (2001): 177-186.
---. The Daguerreotype and the Rhetoric of Photographic Technology." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 12 (1998): 413-436.
---. "Photography, Geology, and Environmental Rhetoric in the American West of 1860-1880." Technical Communication Quarterly,6 (1997): 41-75.
---. "Assessing the Value of Real Group Projects in an Introductory Technical Communications Course." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 11 (1997): 170-191.
*NCTE award for the best article on methods of teaching Technical or Scientific Communication
---. "A Hypertext Authoring Course, Portfolio Assessment, and Diversity." Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Irwin Weiser and Kathleen Blake Yancey, Eds. Logan , Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997: 295-308.
"Deleuze, Image Theory, and Nineteen Century American Medical Photography." Composition and Communication. New York , NY : March, 2003.
"Issues and Directions in Visual Rhetoric." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Denver , CO : March, 2001.
"The Image of Health: Nineteenth-century Medical Photography." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis , MN : April, 2000.
Classes Taught
- ENGL 6062 Topics in Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Science and Technology; Topics in Rhetoric: Hypertext
- ENGL 6685 Seminar in American Literature: Vladimir Nabokov
- ENGL 6495 Internship in College Teaching
- ENGL 6195 Teaching College English
- ENGL 6116 Technical/Professional Writing
- ENGL 6008 Topics in Technical Communication: Deliberative Rhetoric; Topics in Technical Communication: Visual Rhetoric; Topics in Technical Communication: Usability Testing
- ENGL 4410/5410 English Internship
- ENGL 4400/5400 English Composition Practicum
- ENGL 4204/5204 Expository Writing
- ENGL 4183/5183 Editing Technical Documents
- ENGL 4182/5182 Writing and Designing Computer-based Documents
- ENGL 4181/5181 Writing User Documents
- ENGL 4180/5180 Theories of Technical Communication
- ENGL 4008/5008 Topics in Technical Communication: Writing Hypertext
- ENGL 3141 American Literature of the Romantic Period, 1870-1920
- ENGL 3142 American Literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic Periods,
- 1870-1920)
- ENGL 3300 American Literature Survey
- ENGL 2100 Writing About Literature
- ENGL 2116 Introduction to Technical Communication
- ENGL 1103 Accelerated College Writing and Rhetoric
- ENGL 1102 Writing in the Academic Community
- ENGL 1101 English Composition
- HNRS 3700 Peace, War, Technology
- LBST 2213 Science - The Environment
- ASPIRE Summer Program for High School Students
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte , 1991- present Administrative Appointments:
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, since 2007
Associate Chair, since 2007
Community Service
- Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Ñ UNC Charlotte Chapter Board Member, 1995-1999;
- President 2000-2001, Board Member 2002-2003
- Faculty Sponsor Ñ Society for Technical Communication Student Chapter, 2001-2003
- Advisory Board Ñ Cabarrus County Natural Heritage Inventory Project 1999-present
- Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Ñ President 2006-present; Vice President 2003-2005
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Ñ Outstanding
- Dissertation in Technical Communication Selection Committee 2005
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