Collin Gifford Brooke is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing, and currently serves as the Chair for the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, following several years as Director of that department’s doctoral program in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric. He joined the Syracuse University faculty in 2001, prior to which he was an assistant professor of English (rhetoric and professional writing) at Old Dominion University. He received a PhD in Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a BA in English from Carleton College.

He is the author of Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media (2009), which received the Computers and Composition Outstanding Book Award. With Laurie Gries, he is the co-editor of the collection Circulation, Writing & Rhetoric (2018). He has served as a technology consultant for several professional organizations, developing online resources ranging from journal archives and conference websites to mobile conference programs. He is also the author of dozens of journal articles, book chapters, and academic talks, primarily focused around topics associated with digital rhetoric.

In addition to digital rhetoric, his research and teaching interests include visual rhetoric, information design, network studies, digital humanities, the sociology of institutions and knowledge, rhetorical histories and theories, educational technology (particularly its role in the writing classroom), rhetorical genre studies, game studies & game design, and tropology. Recently, he has taught courses on the procedural rhetorics of games, the television series Dark Mirror, and a popular Winterlude course on style.

He is currently developing a (general audience) book manuscript that explores the relationship between democracy and rhetorical tropes. Much of the initial work for that project is taking place publicly on his Substack, Commonplace Brooke (https://cgbrooke.substack.com/ ).

"Joseph Janagelo and the Analogics of New Media." CCC 59.2 (Dec 2007): 284-294.
[with Paul Bender] "Isolation, Adoption, Diffusion: Mapping the Relationship Between Technology and Graduate Programs in Rhetoric and Composition." Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition. Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano, eds. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006. 265-286.
"Weblogs as Deictic Systems: Centripetal, Centrifugal, and Small-World Blogging." Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2005).
"Perspective: Towards the Remediation of Style." Enculturation 4.1 (2002).
Second place, Kairos Best Webtext Award, 2002.