I have been on the ISU English Department faculty since 1983 and on the tenure-track faculty since 2001. My areas of interest in research and teaching include critical literacy, specifically critical composition pedagogy; critical technological literacy; multiliteracies; TA development; and popular culture. I also specialize in qualitative research methodology.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 409 Ross
• office hours: Fall 2008, by appointment
• office phone: (515) 294-3516 or (515) 294-3217
• email: blakely@iastate.edu

Selected Publications (note that in March 2007, I changed my name back to my family name: Blakely)

• Blakely, Barbara. "iPods, Viagra, and the Praiseworthy Life: Epideictic Rhetoric in Technology and Medical Print Advertising." Forthcoming in The Journal of Popular Culture.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely and Anthony Ellertson. "Technology as Critical Pedagogy: Using Flash to Incorporate Visual and Critical Technological Literacy into First-Year Composition." Special issue, Across the Disciplines focusing on "Incorporating the Visual into Writing/Electronic/Communication/Learning Across the Curriculum." December 2005. http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/visual/
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Not Just Showing Up to Class: New TAs, Critical Composition Pedagogy, and Multiliteracies." Journal of Writing Program Administration. 28.3 (Spring 2005): 31-56.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Visualizing 'Respect': Visual Media Literacy and Students' Understanding of Globalization and Technology Issues." Journal of Visual Literacy, 24.2 (Autumn 2004): 165-184.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Learning to Learn: New TA Preparation in Computer Pedagogy." Computers and Composition, 20.3 (September 2003): 295-311.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "New Perspectives: TA Preparation for Critical Literacy in First-Year Composition." Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition, 13.1-2 (September 2002): 67-80.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Critical Computer Literacy and Teacher Education." Explorations in Media Ecology, 1.2 (2002):139-150.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Critical Work in First-Year Composition: Computers, Pedagogy, and Research." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2.3 (September, 2002): 357-374.
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Using Digital Technology to Augment a Critical Literacy Approach to First-Year Composition." Chapter in Robert Muffoletto (ed.) Education and Technology: Critical and Reflective Practices. September, 2001. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press. pp. 243-260 (Chapter 9).
• Duffelmeyer, Barb Blakely. "Critical Computer Literacy: Computers in Topic and Environment." Computers and Compostion, 17.3 (December 2000): 289-307.

Upcoming Events

• The Iowa State Department of English will host the Great Plains Alliance of Computers and Writing (GPACW) in November 2008. Our Keynote Speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey!

Affiliations

• National Council of Teachers of English
• Council of Writing Program Administrators
• Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing

• Popular Culture Association

Degrees

• Ph.D. Education, Iowa State University, 1999.
• M.A. English. Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 1982
• B.S.E. English, Secondary Education; Spanish and Reading minors. Drake University, 1978