Day, Michael (J.)

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DAY, Michael (J.)

PERSONAL:

Son of Rosemary Day (a potter and artist); married; wife's name Takako; children: Emi (daughter). Education: Dartmouth College, B.A. (English), 1978; University of Wyoming, M.A. (English), 1982; University of California—Berkeley, Ph.D. (rhetoric), 1996. Hobbies and other interests: Performing with Seventh Cavalry drum-and-bugle corps, hiking, playing piano.

ADDRESSES:

Office—English Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. Worked variously as a sailing instructor, cook, fishing boat deckhand, and U.S. Forestry Service timber-stand examiner. Teacher in universities in Osaka and Köbe, Japan; South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, associate professor of English, 1992-99; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, assistant professor of English, 1999—. Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, traveling workshop consultant, 1997—.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English (member of assembly on computers in English, 1992—).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Academy of American Poets Award, University of Wyoming, 1981.

WRITINGS:

A Place for Yourself, Jelm Mountain, 1982.

(Editor with Susanmarie Harrington and Rebecca Rickly) The Online Writing Classroom, Hampton Press (Cresskill, NJ), 2000.

Also author of numerous chapters, articles, and Web texts.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Tech/Web 2000: Technical Communications and the World Wide Web in the New Millennium; research on e-mail overload, coping strategies, rhetorical conventions and strategies in online discourse.

SIDELIGHTS:

Michael Day told CA: "I write as a way to find out what I think. Beyond the familiar 'publish or perish' requirement of academia, I write out of an interest in sharing what I know with others. For relaxation and exploring the limits of the human imagination, I write poetry.

"My writings are generally on topics related to teaching writing using computers and the Internet."