Casper, Christian | Faculty

Ph.D., Teaching Professor in Technical Communication, College of Engineering

306 Gorguze Family Laboratory

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734-615-9063

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About Christian

Christian Casper teaches rhetoric and argumentation in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where his pedagogical interests lie in communication within the fields of aerospace, biomedical, chemical, and materials engineering and in the first-year and capstone design experiences.

He uses his scholarly interests in rhetorics of science and technology, genre theory, and discourse analysis to develop pedagogical tools to improve communication practices in engineering, particularly within the design–build–test cycle.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, North Carolina State University
M.A., English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University
M.S., Chemistry, University of Michigan
B.S., Liberal Arts and Sciences (major: Chemistry, minor: Biology), Iowa State University

Publications

Casper, C. F. (2016). The online research article and the ecological basis of new digital genres. In A. G. Gross & J. Buehl, Eds. Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age (pp. 77–98). Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Casper, C. F., Fowler, R., & Wisniewski, E. (2013). Review of the book Solving Problems in Technical Communication, edited by J. Johnson-Eilola & S. Selber. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 56(3). 256–259.

Casper, C. F., & Miller, C. R. (2010). Digital rhetoric and science. In S. Priest, Ed. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication (pp. 224–227). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Casper , C. F. (2007). In praise of carbon, in praise of science: The epideictic rhetoric of the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 21(3), 303–323.