Geoff Sauer is an assistant professor in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication Program in the English Department at Iowa State University. His research studies the history of publishing, particularly the recent history of a variety of media (including music, film, video and software distribution, as well as traditional monographs and serials). He teaches courses in rhetorical theory, multimedia production, intellectual property and cultural theory. He is the director of the EServer, a nonprofit online publishing venture in the arts and humanities (by some estimates, the most visited humanities website in the world). It hosts a variety of online resources, including websites about American culture (such as Bad Subjects and Cultural Logic), literature (such as The David Mamet Review and The Thoreau Reader), art (such as Cultronix), and technical and professional communication (such as the EServer TC Library). He is also the director of the ISU Studio for New Media, an interdisciplinary research institute organized to support, further, and coordinate work with digital media currently done by individuals across multiple departments at Iowa State.