James Purdy (scholar)

James P. Purdy is an American scholar of writing and rhetoric. He is an associate professor at Duquesne University and director of its writing center, and serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition: An International Journal and Writing Spaces. His focus is on writing, publishing, and literacy in the digital age.

Purdy received his BA in English from Pennsylvania State University (2000) and his MA and PhD in English/Writing Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001, 2006). He has authored and co-authored articles on writing, pedagogy, and Wikipedia, is the co-author of The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making, and is the co-editor of four collections on digital scholarship.

Edited collections

 * The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2013. ISBN 978-1-57387-475-5.
 * The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2014. ISBN 978-1-57387-495-3. 
 * The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for Writing and Information Literacy (with Randall McClure). Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2016. ISBN 978-157387530-1.
 * Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies (with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017. https://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.7820727.