Darin Payne is a rhetoric and composition specialist who teaches graduate courses in computers and composition, theories and practices of writing pedagogy, rhetorics of popular culture, and postmodern rhetorical theory; he teaches undergraduate courses in writing for electronic media, teaching composition, advanced argumentation, and first-year writing, among others. He is currently serving as the English Department's Composition and Rhetoric graduate concentration advisor.

Darin's focus of research involves the structural and discursive conditions within which intellectual work--particularly that of higher education and the writing classroom--takes place and by which it is inevitably mediated. That broad but directive focus has allowed him to teach and publish on rhetorics of technology, spatial power, and institutional contexts. He has published in a variety of journals including College English; JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory;Rhetoric Review;Works and Days; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; The Journal of Electronic Publishing; and Teaching English in the Two Year College. His work has also appeared in anthologies by Oxford UP, SUNY P, and Erlbaum. He is now working on two books: a monograph under contract with Parlor Press, The Rhetoric of Pedagogic Structure: Mediating Identity and Difference in Composition Studies; and an anthology he is co-editing with Daphne Desser, Globalization and the Teaching of Writing: Remapping Composition Studies.

In 2002, Darin presented research at the Oxford Roundtable, an international think-tank on issues relevant to higher education held bi-annually in Oxford, UK. In 2004 he served as co-chair for the 20th annual Computers and Writing Conference here in Hawai'i and is looking forward to returning to future CW gatherings. He also presents research regularly at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Selected Awards
The College of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Excellence in Teaching Award (2005).

The Arts and Sciences Faculty Award (2002).

Areas of Interest
rhetorics of technology and space; new media rhetorics; globalization; collaborative communication, and cultural reproduction.

Link to courses: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~darinp.

Education
BA, Creative Writing, The University of Victoria
MA, Rhetoric and Composition, Eastern Washington University
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, The University of Arizona