What about my work as teacher and scholar? My primary academic interests deal with the humanities and, more broadly, computing in the humanities. I have a joint appointment in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the department of English. I am a member of the CIC's Learning Technologies Initiative, which seeks to promote innovation in and collaboration among a dozen excellent universities. I have spoken at many major professionals meetings about the role of information technology in teaching and research.
Some of my current research deals with John Evelyn (1620-1706), a founding member of the Royal Society. You can access these files directly from your browser by typing that location rather than a URL. Or you can click on Evelyn to get a list of these files. Please note: some of these files (e.g., Evelyn's Diary) are quite lengthy.
Other areas of research include:
Books
The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle, ed. and annotated by John Harwood. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), lxix + 331 pp.
The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy, ed. and annotated by John Harwood. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), xv + 408 pp.
Critics, Values and Restoration Comedy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), xiv + 177 pp.
Selected Chapters and Articles
"Elements of Quality in Online Education: Into the Mainstream” (with Gary Miller), ed. John Bourne and Janet C. Moore (Sloan Consortium, 2004), 149-57.
“Bringing Technology to the Learning Enterprise: A Talk with Carole A. Barone of Educause,” About Campus, 7 (September-October, 2002): 21-24.
“Does a College Curriculum Have a Life Cycle?” in Judith V. Boettcher, Mary M. Doyle, and Richard W. Jensen, eds. Technology-Driven Planning: Principles to Practice (Ann Arbor: Society for College and University Planning, 2000), 137-44.
“Writing Science and Science Writing: Robert Boyle and Rhetorical Theory” in Robert Boyle Reconsidered, ed. Michael Hunter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 37-56..
“The English 202 Initiative: Computers in Composition” in 101 Success Stories of Information Technology: The Joe Wyatt Challenge, ed. Judith V. Boettcher (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 300-4.
“The Rhetoric of Graphics in Micrographia” in Robert Hooke: New Studies, ed. Simon Schaffer and Michael Hunter (Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press, 1989), 119-47.
“Training and Evaluating Traditional and Non-Traditional Instructors of Composition” (with Betsy Brown), Journal of Basic Writing, 3 (Summer 1984): 63-73.
“Freshman English Ten Years After: Writing in the World,” College Composition and Communication 33 (October 1982): 281-83.
“The Teaching of English, Social Mobility, and the Ideology of Merit,” English Journal (April 1980): 30-37.