Jan 24 2008
About
About this site…
This is the blog/homepage/portal for one Steven D. Krause, aka Professor Steven D. Krause, aka Steve, aka sitedad, aka a host of names not repeatable here. It used to be two different blogs, but now it is one. Why? Read more here if you really want to know.
Professional Biography
I am a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Most of my teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels explores the connections between writing and technology. Some of my recent scholarship has appeared in the journals Kairos, Computers and Composition, College Composition and Communication Online, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. I’ve also given presentations at many different conferences.
I’m currently the coordinator of our undergraduate and graduate programs in writing, and I am on quasi-sabbatical in order to work on a project tentatively titled Blogs As Writerly Spaces.
Much more than you probably want to know…
Not So Professional Biography
I’m happily married to Annette Wannamaker, who is also a professor at Eastern Michigan University. We have a son named William Steven Wannamaker Krause (Will for short) who is pretty much the coolest kid in the world as far as we’re concerned. We have a very high-strung border collie/sheltie/etc. mix of a dog named Sophie. We all live in a lovely little house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which is right next to Ann Arbor.
I was born in 1966 in West Allis, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee), and I lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and Davenport, Iowa before moving to what I think of as my home town, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Because of the school stuff I talk about on the academic side of things, I’ve lived in Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, and now Michigan.
My idea of fun (though not necessarily in this order) includes hanging around with the family, food (eating it and cooking it), dieting, politics, watching TV, playing with computers, exercising at the gym, golf, reading, writing, gardening, shopping, hanging around in coffee shops, and generally goofing around.