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Olin Bjork
English Department


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Fields of Interest
  • Computers and Writing
  • Digital Humanities
  • Milton Studies
  • Instructional and Assistive Technology
  • Textual Studies
Biographical Note
Olin Bjork is a lecturer in English at Santa Clara University who teaches critical thinking and writing, Internet culture, and advanced writing for engineers. In 2010, he completed a three-year post doc at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication and Culture, were he taught courses in technical communication and Web design. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin, where in addition to teaching literature and composition courses he served as assistant director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab, then known as the Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL), worked as the English department's webmaster, and collaborated on digital "audiotext" editions of John Milton's Paradise Lost and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for UT-Austin's Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services. His research centers on print and digital interface design for editions of literature and other texts.

Selected Publications
  • "Reinventing the Classroom Edition: Paradise Lost Book IX Flash Audiotext." Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (Summer 2009): n. pag. Web.
  • "Writing in the Wild: A Paradigm for Mobile Composition." Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Researchers. Ed. Amy C. Kimme Hea. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. 223-237. Co-written with John Pedro Schwartz.