research

Over time, my research has focused on how the complex intersections of writing, intellectual property, and technology become embedded within cultural, educational and political contexts.  More recently, I’ve been working in the areas of publishing ethics, UXD, and AI. 

publications

Brenda Glascott, Justin Lewis, and Tara Lockhart. “Feminist Editing: Learning to Engage through Collective Accountability.” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 2023.

Justin Lewis and Ted Wayland. “Writing against the Machine: Debating with ChatGPT.” TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, edited by Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler, WAC Clearinghouse, 2023.

Tara Lockhart, Chris Warnick, Brenda Glascott, Juli Parrish, and Justin Lewis, editors. Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation. Parlor Press, 2021.

Juli Parrish, Chris Warnick, Brenda Glascott, Justin Lewis, and Holly Middleton. “Investigate, Target, Implement, Persevere: Understanding the Academic Publishing Process through Editors’ Eyes.” Explanation Points! Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by John Gallagher and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Utah State UP, 2018.

Lewis, Justin. “The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language.” Popular Communication, Piracy and Social Change, edited by Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Burkart, Routledge, 2016, pp. 60-77. REPRINT

—. “CMSs, Bittorrent Trackers and Large-Scale Rhetorical Genres: Analyzing Collective Activity in Participatory Digital Space.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, vol. 46, no. 1, 2015, pp. 4-26.

—. “Participatory Archives and Technological Mediation: A RGS Approach to Understanding Tool Use in Digital Environments.” Enculturation, no. 20, 2015.

—. “The Piratical Ethos in Streams of Language.” Popular Communication, vol. 13, no. 1, 2015, pp. 45-61.

Lewis, Timothy R. Doughtery and Justin. “Progressive Caucus – Combating Institutional Neutrality: An Interview with Louise Dunlap.” Listening to Our Elders: Writing and Working for Change, edited by Christina Kirklighter Samantha Blackmon, and Steve Parks, Utah State UP, 2011, pp. 145-154.

conference presentations

The “How” and the “What”: Finding Methodological Alliances across UXD, Technical Communication and Digital Rhetoric. Computers and Writing. RIT. May 2016.

Concept Modeling and Database Architectures: Emerging Practices in Technical Communication. ATTW 2016. Houston TX. April 2016.

Organizational and Meta-Communicative Tagging: Rhetorical-Generic Investigations into Annotation of the Short Form.  Computers and Writing.  Pullman WA. June 4, 2014.

Translingualist Language Policy and Linguistic Difference: On the Tenability and Tenuousness of Translingual Approaches to Composition.  Conference on Writing Education Across Borders.  State College PA.  October 1, 2011.

Copyprivilege: Revising Copyright for Social Production, Writing Studies, and the Transnational Environment.  CCCC.  Atlanta GA.  April 8th, 2011. 

Bitter COFFEE:  Negotiating the Limits of Copyleft Discourse in Digital Pirate Counterpublics.  Computers and Writing.  Purdue University. May 21, 2010.

God Must Be Dead if You’re Alive: The Dead Kennedys, Fantasy Themes, and the Construction of Politipunks Rhetorical Sphere. Popular Culture Association of the South.  Jacksonville, FL.  Oct. 10, 2007.

Political Punk and the Creation of Rhetorical Space: The Dead Kennedys 1978-1986.  GSRD Conference.  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  May 28, 2007.

Comparative Rhetorics in Contemporary West African Cinema.  ETSO Conference.  Middle Tennessee State University.  April 14, 2007.

The Transatlantic Appeal of Washington Irving’s Sketchbook.  The Conference of the Tennessee Philological Association.  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Sept. 23, 2006.

seminars and workshops

Using AI In Class: Policies & Assignments. Olympic College, Bremerton WA, September 7, 2023.

Prompt Engineering Basics. Olympic College, Bremerton WA, September 6, 2023.

ChatGPT & Writing: A Primer. Olympic College, Bremerton WA, April 21, 2023.

“What is User Experience Design?” Dropsource, Inc. Raleigh, NC. July 2017.

Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research. Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, July 31 – August 12, 2011.

Intellectual Property in the Classroom.  Co-Presented with Dr. Rebecca Moore Howard.  Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program.  Syracuse University.  September 21, 2011.

On Textual Circulation.  The Syracuse University Spring Writing Conference.  Syracuse University.  March 29, 2011.

Searchin’ for an Answer: Generating Text with KeywordsCo-Presented with Patrick Williams and Jason Luther.  SU Writing Center – SU Bird Library Research Workshop Series.  Syracuse University.  February 21st – February 23rd, 2011. 

Workshop Leader, “Reading Nonfiction, Reading the World: Preparing Middle and High School Students for Academic Success and Informed Citizenship.  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  2008 – 2009.