Nels P. Highberg

Nels P. Highberg is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Hartford, where he also serves as Director of the First-Year Reading and Writing Program and the Program in Gender Studies.  He has spent his academic life transgressing traditional disciplinary boundaries by taking graduate courses in departments as diverse as art history, education, English, film, women’s studies, history, science studies, and architecture.  This has led to teaching a wide range of course from Professional Editing and Rhetroics of Gender Activism to Interdisciplnary Perspectives on Pain, Graphic Memoirs, and Virus Narratives.  He is the co-editor of Landmark Essays in Basic Writing and Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom, both from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Medical Humanities Review, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Feminist Teacher, and Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present.

In February 1999, Nels started his first online journal, hand-coding much of it in HTML.  He remembers when Friendster seemed like a radical idea and has been playing in various online environments over the last decade.  These days, he can be found on his blog and has active accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Delicious.