Derek N. Mueller

Dr. Derek N. Mueller is a professor of rhetoric and writing. His teaching and research attends to the interplay among writing, rhetorics, and technologies.

Mueller regularly teaches courses in visual rhetorics, writing pedagogy, first-year writing, and digital media. He continues to be motivated professionally and intellectually by questions concerning digital writing platforms, networked writing practices, theories of composing, and discipliniographies or field narratives related to writing studies/rhetoric and composition.

Along with Andrea Williams, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, and Jen Clary-Lemon, he is coauthor of Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies (Inkshed/Parlor, 2017). His 2018 monograph, Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline (Colorado State University Open Press’s #writing Series) argues for thin and distant approaches to discerning disciplinary patterns. His other work has been published in Kairos, Enculturation, Present Tense, Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, and JAC.

Mueller earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program in 2009. He holds an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City  and a B.A. from Park University. 

For further information, please visit Mueller’s personal website.