
	Christine Lynn Alfano Contact Information: Email: Office Phone: Office Location: Sweet Hall Room 320, Stanford, CA 94305 Office Hours: TH 01:00pm-02:30pm

Biography Christine Alfano has been a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric since 1998. She holds a BA from Brown University and PhD from Stanford and specializes in digital rhetoric. In her recent PWR courses, “The Rhetoric of Gaming,” “Networked Rhetoric,” "Technologies of iDentity" and "Cultural Interfaces," Christine challenges students to explore how writing in different technological modes (from traditional Microsoft Word documents, to blogs, threaded discussions, social network profiles, video blogs and wikis) transforms the modern practice of communication and how we represent ourselves online and off. She has co-authored, with Dr. Alyssa O'Brien, five textbooks focused on writing and visual rhetoric, the most recent being Envision, 3rd edition, and Envision In Depth, 2nd edition (2010). In addition, Christine is the technology specialist for the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project (ccr.stanford.edu), a project that allows Stanford PWR students to engage in intercultural collaboration with students from other universities around the world using video conferencing and other modes of communication technologies.

Websites: The Rhetoric of Gaming http://rhetoricofgaming.wordpress.com/ Networked Rhetoric http://pwrnetrhet.ning.com Resume http://www.stanford.edu/~steener/cv2007.htm Personal http://www.stanford.edu/~steener