Cynthia Selfe

Cynthia "Cindy" Selfe is an author, editor, scholar, and teacher in the field of Writing Studies, with a speciality in the subfield of computers and composition. She is Humanities Distinguished Professor Emerita in the English Department at the Ohio State University where she taught from 2006 until her retirement in 2016. Prior to that, she taught at Michigan Technological University. In 1976 she enrolled in the University of Texas for her doctorate, where she was taught by Rhetoric and Composition scholars such as James Kinneavy, Lester Faigley, Steve Witte, Maxine Hairston, and John Ruszkiewicz. After joining the faculty of the English Department at the Ohio State University, Selfe co-directed their annual Digital Media and Composition institute (DMAC) and coordinated the program for Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition. She founded Computers and Composition Digital Press with Gail Hawisher in 2007. Selfe also co-founded the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) with H. Loius Ulman, which houses over 3500 entires from authors around the world.

Computers and composition Selfe's approach to the subfield of computers and composition has been described as "a focus on thinking through how technology complements and enriches classroom practices/pedagogical goals while simultaneously allowing for a shift from an instructor-centered classroom to a student-centered classroom." She warned that the discourse (at the time) about the "internet revolution" erasing sexism, racism, and other systemic ills was misguiding people.

Personal life Cynthia Selfe is married to humanities scholar Richard "Dickie" Selfe; they have two dogs named Comal and Lupe (Guadalupe). Soon after her chair's address, in 2000, Selfe and her frequent co-author Gail Hawisher won the Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. Seven years later, Selfe and Hawisher added co-author Patrick Berry when they updated and reformatted that publication as a fully interactive online book-length text entitled Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times. This digital publication received the CCCC Research Impact Award and CCCC Advancement Knowledge Award (2013) as well as CCCC Research Impact Award (2013).