Santa Clara University

Phone: 408.554.4934

Email:
objork@scu.edu

Room number: 219

Courses taught:

Critical Thinking & Writing

Dr. Olin Bjork

Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer

Olin Bjork recently 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. In 2008, 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, worked as the English department's webmaster, and collaborated on digital "audiotext" editions of John Milton's Paradise Lost (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/miltonpl) and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/leavesofgrass) for UT-Austin's Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services.  His current research centers on print and digital interface design for editions of literature and other texts.

Courses Taught:
Critical Thinking and Writing, Internet Culture and the Information Society, Practical Business Rhetoric, Technical Writing
 
Research Interests:
Computers and Writing, Digital Humanities, Interface Design, John Milton, Textual Studies

Curriculum Vitae