Michael Salvo

Biography

Michael J. Salvo is Professor of Professional Writing in the English Department at Purdue University, where he directed the Professional Writing Program from 2009-2019. Routledge published Writing Postindustrial Places: Technoculture amid the Cornfields, exploring globally competitive firms in the American Midwest (2017). He also edited Rhetoric and Experience Architecture with Liza Potts (Parlor Press, 2017). He is writing a book on Artificial Intelligence with John T. Sherrill of Qatar University.

Michael is a founding member and on the editorial board of Kairos, the longest continuously publishing online journal in new media, rhetoric, and writing; he won the Hugh Burns Award in computers and writing; received the Ellen Nold Award for research published in Computers and Composition; and the Kairos Best Webtext Award.

Michael’s research on usability, program assessment, and information architecture has been published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, and has published many book chapters. He served as 2007 conference chair for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW).

Professor Salvo's research explores issues in professional & technical writing and rhetoric, particularly ethical issues related to writing with digital technology in academic and nonacademic settings. He recently published “Dialogic Ethics” in The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication edited by D. Ross. Dr. Salvo is finishing a book on Artificial Intelligence and writing titled Artificial Infrastructures with John Sherrill. Salvo teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in professional writing and rhetoric.