Paul Muhlhauser Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

After meeting me, you'll find out more about my journey from Alaska to Maryland and how I survived. You'll come to understand how unprepared I was for humidity, poison ivy, and rattlesnakes. If you experience classes with me, you'll witness my expertise in remix (culture jamming & mashing movies together); transmedia storytelling; social media branding; pataphysics; and website design. If you take a class I teach, your dreams will come true and, for some of you, your wildest dreams will come true.

Education

2009: Ph.D. (emphases in rhetoric and digital media) and M.A., Washington State University

Research Interests

Remix
Transmedia storytelling
Website design
Technological equity
Pataphysics
Dating websites

Recent Courses

ENGL 2101: Remixing Popular Culture
ENGL 2103: Transmedia Storytelling
ENGL 3307: Social Media: Rhetoric and Design
FYS 1204: Tooning In
ENC 1111: Make it. Market. Sell it.
ENC 1200: You Are What You Eat

Selected Publications

Swipe Right on Find/Replace Invention, Equity, and Technofeminist Potentials of Find/Replace Technologies. Co-authored with McDaniel student Margaret Self. Published in Computers and Composition Online.
POOC Yourself: The University Beyond the Classroom. Co-authored with Daniel Schafer. Published in Kairos: a Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
The Avengendering of the Lambs: the Avengers, the Silence of the Lambs, and Remix. Co-authored with Daniel Schafer. Published in Women and Language.
Like me. Like me not. Co-authored with Andrea Campbell. Published in Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion.
How Genders Work: Producing the J.Crew Catalog. Co-authored with Kelly Bradbury. Published in Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion.

Clubs and community involvement

Faculty Advisor for McDaniel Free Press
Faculty Advisor for Asian Community Coalition

Awards and Honors

Self-awarded "docta" of pataphysics
2014 recipient of Organization of Communication, Language, and Gender Conference Creative Expression Award for Avengendering of the Lambs.
Parent of the Year, coming soon.

"I took this class because it was required."

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Paul Muhlhauser Ph.D. Associate Professor of English