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Cynthia Selfe (b. 1951) is an academic and scholar in fields related to rhetoric, composition studies, digital media, digital literacy and rhetoric of technology. Humanities Distinguished Professor Emerita (retired) at Ohio State University, Selfe is the first woman and the first English studies professor to receive the Eeducom (now known as Educause) Medal for innovative computer use in higher education, awarded in 1996. Among her editorial roles, Selfe served as editor and a co-founder of Computers and Composition Digital Press, editor and a co-founder of the peer-reviewed journal Computers and Composition: An International Journal, and founder of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) along with H. Louis Ulman of The Ohio State University. Selfe was the recipient, with co-authors Gail Hawisher and Patrick Berry, of the CCCC Research Impact Award and the CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award for their book Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times. Selfe was also the 2014 CCCC Exemplar Award Winner, an award she shared with long-time collaborator Gail Hawisher.

Biography
Selfe was an early champion of the field of computers and writing along with a number of other scholars, including her frequent collaborator Gail Hawisher and other pioneers such as Hugh Burns. Selfe has always aimed at drawing humanists' attention to the socio-cultural field in which technology circulates, to study how technology affects literacy in context, and to broaden humanists' understanding of "the text" beyond paper-based and print-based genres.

Education
Cynthia Selfe received her PhD at the University of Texas-Austin in 1981.

Awards and Honors

 * 1996 First woman and first English teacher to receive the EDUCOM Medal award for her use of computers in higher education
 * 2000 The Technology Innovator Award from the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication with Gail Hawisher
 * 2013 The CCCC Research Impact Award and CCCC Advancement Knowledge Award for “Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times” with co-authors Gail Hawisher and Patrick Berry.

Research
Selfe used to work with other scholars such as her collaborator Gail Hawisher and other pioneers such as Hugh Burns. Cynthia Selfe drew attention to technology and its use for teaching literacy and expanding the understanding of the text as a paper-based and print-based genre.

Special programs
She coordinated the Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition program at OSU and directed the university’s Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) summer institute

Books

 * Berry, Patrick W, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2012
 * Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
 * Selfe, Cynthia L. Computer-assisted Instruction in Composition: Create Your Own. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 1986. Print.
 * Selfe, Cynthia. Creating a Computer-Supported Writing Facility: A Blueprint for Action. Houghton, Mich: Michigan Technological University, 1989. Print.
 * Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. Print.
 * Selfe, Cynthia L, and Gail E. Hawisher. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
 * Berry, Patrick W, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2012. Internet resource

Edited Collections

 * Selfe, Cynthia L, ed. Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007
 * Selfe, Cynthia L, Gail E. Hawisher, and Derek V. Ittersum, eds. Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Articles

 * Blair, Kristine L, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Gail E. Hawisher. "Letter from the Editors." Computers and Composition. 28.2 (2011): 77-78
 * Selfe, C. L. (2009). The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing. College Composition and Communication, 60(4), 616–663. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40593423
 * Selfe, Cindy. “An Apprehensive Writer Composes.” When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing-Process Problems. Ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford Press, 1985. #-#. Print. Selfe, Cindy. "Redefining literacy: The Multilayered Grammars of Computers." Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction. *Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989. Print.
 * Holdstein, Deborah H, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Computers and Writing: Theory, Research, Practice. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. Print.
 * Hilligoss, Susan and Cynthia L. Selfe. “Studying Literacy with Computers.” Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1994. Print.
 * Hawisher, Gail E, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1997. Print.
 * Selber, Stuart A. Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives. Greenwich, Conn: Ablex Pub. Corp, 1997. Print.
 * Forces of conservatism and change in computer-supported communication facilities : programmatic and institutional responses to change / Richard J. Selfe & Cynthia L. Selfe
 * Yancey, Kathleen B, and Brian A. Huot. Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Greenwich, Conn: Ablex Pub. Corp, 1997. Print. Contextual evaluation in WAC programs / Cynthia L. Selfe --
 * McCracken, H T, Richard L. Larson, and Judith Entes. Teaching College English and English Education: Reflective Stories. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 1998. Print. Collaborative computer encounters : teaching ourselves, teaching our students / Gaile E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe
 * Hawisher, Gail E, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. Print.
 * Introduction. The passions that mark us : teaching, texts, and technologies / Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe --
 * Lest we think the revolution is a revolution : images of technology and the nature of change / Cynthia L. Selfe --
 * Hawisher, Gail E, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web. London: Routledge, 2000. Print.
 * Conclusion : hybrid and transgressive literacy practices on the Web / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. *Yagelski, Robert, and Scott A. Leonard. The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 2002. Print.
 * Critical technological literacy and English studies : teaching, learning, and action / Richard J. Selfe and Cynthia L. Selfe
 * Harrington, Susanmarie. The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the Wpa Outcomes Statement. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. Print.
 * Expanding our understanding of composing outcomes / Cynthia L. Selfe and Patricia Freitag Ericsson
 * Selfe, Cynthia L, Gail E. Hawisher, and Derek V. Ittersum. Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.
 * Selfe, Cynthia L. Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007. Print. Thinking about multimodality / Pamela Takaayoshi & Cynthia L. Selfe -- Words, audio, and video : composing and the processes of production / Cynthia L. Selfe, Stephanie Owen Fleischer, & Susan Wright
 * Blair, Kristine, Radhika Gajjala, and Christine Tulley. Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and
 * Social Action. Cresskill, N.J: Hampton Press, 2009. Print. Response : Paying attention to digital media : three feminist corollaries / Cynthia Selfe --