Contact Information

Biography

 Revise the first sentence to read 鈥淒r. Jim Purdy is a Professor of English/Writing Studies and Director of the University and Community Writing Centers. He holds the Pierre Schouver, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Mission. He received his doctorate in English with a specialization in writing studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His research and teaching interests include composition and writing center theory, digital humanities, digital writing and research practices and spaces, expertise, intellectual property, and Wikipedia. His research studies the research and writing practices of scholars (from novices to professionals), particularly ways in which those practices are mediated by digital technologies.

He received two Presidential Awards for Excellence: one in Service to the Mission in 2025 and one in Excellence in Teaching in 2016. He also was selected for an Inaugural Faculty Honors Showcase Award in 2025.

He has published two co-authored books: Are We There Yet? Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education鈥揟wenty Years Later (Utah State University Press), co-written with Jennifer Marlow, and The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making (Routledge), co-written with Karen J. Lunsford. In addition to publishing in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes, he has also co-edited four books, including Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies (University of Michigan Press) with D脿nielle Nicole DeVoss.

Education

  • Ph.D., English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
  • M.A., English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
  • B.A., English, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000

 
Graduate/Cross-listed Upper-level Graduate
  • ENG 569-02/WSGS 568: Contemporary Romance
  • ENGL 460W/568: Genre and Multimodality 
  • ENGL 438W/569/WSGS 569: Actresses and Archives 
  • ENG 566: Literary Theory 
  • ENGL 539/WSGS 550: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Editors 
  • ENGL 575: Scientific Writing II


Undergraduate

  • English 313W: Writing and Research in Digital Spaces
  • English 302W/JMA 485: Facebook, Flickr, and Web 2.0 Writing
  • EQ 120/HONR 154: Will Gen AI Replace Authors? 
  • HONR 105: Honors Inquiry II
  • HONR 104/IHP 104: Honors Inquiry Freshman Seminar I
  • IHP 101: Logic and Rhetoric
  • UCOR 102: Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing
  • BRDG 101: Writing and Analysis
  • UCOR 101: Thinking and Writing across the Curriculum


Independent Studies 

  • Digital Literacies in Writing and Publishing
  • Queer Studies in Composition

 

Writing Center

  • Staff Instruction
  • Writing consultant orientation
  • Bi-weekly professional development meetings


Faculty Workshops (selected)

  • Approaches to Assessing Writing with Generative AI
  • Approaches to Peer Writing Workshops 
  • Better Business Communication
  • Designing Effective Writing Projects
  • Email Management Strategies to Maximize Productivity
  • Ethical Approaches to Gen AI Use in First-Year Writing
  • Five Writing Activities for Any Day 
  • Grading Writing to Encourage Revision 
  • (How) Should We Teach Grammar?: Strategies for Responding to Sentence-Level Writing Mistakes
  • Planning a Writing-Intensive Course
  • Responding to Five Common Student Writing Struggles 
  • Strategies for Responding to Student Writing 
  • Strategies for Submitting Articles to Peer-Review Journals 
  • Teaching Writing to Digital Natives
  • Wikipedia Is Good for You!: Using Wikipedia to Teach Research-based Writing
  • What Are Writing-Intensive Courses? 
  • Why the Writing Center Is Better than AI


Student Workshops (selected)

  • Academic Integrity for Graduate Students 
  • AMA Citation and Source Use and Professional Writing for Physician Assistants
  • APA Citation and Source Use for Nursing 
  • CVs and Cover Letters for Graduate School
  • MLA Source Use and Citation 
  • Scientific Writing Article Conventions and the Publication Process 
  • Strategies for Successful Research-based Writing
  • Structural and Sentence-Level Conventions of Scientific Writing
  • Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Business Writing
  • Writing a Literature Review in Forensic Science 
  • Writing Effective Thesis Statements 

Plenary

  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淲hat Variables Affect GenAI Assessment of Academic Writing?鈥� International Congress on Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, and Society, Oludeniz, Turkey, 15 October 2026.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淎pproaches to Engaging with Generative AI to Support Graduate Research-Writing.鈥� Consortium on Graduate Communication Conference. Online, 13 June 2024.
  • Insana, Lina, John Marx, James P. Purdy, and Andreea Ritivoi. "Plenary II: Innovative New Programs: From Concept to Course Catalog." Modern Language Association ADE-ADFL (Association of Departments of English-Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) Summer Seminar East, Pittsburgh, PA, 7 June 2019.
  • Brown, Renee, Brian Fallon, Harvey Kail, Soma Kedia, Ron Maxwell, James P. Purdy, Jon Olson, and Ben Rafoth. "A Recollection of Events: Toward a History of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 20 October 2007.

Keynote

  • Purdy, James P. "Literacies in a Digital World: Approaches to Teaching Tomorrow's Digital Scholar." Nassau Community College Faculty Development Day, Garden City, NY,
    21 April 2017.
  • Purdy, James P. "Literacies in a Digital World: Approaches to Teaching Tomorrow's Digital Scholar." Pace University Faculty Institute, Pleasantville, NY, 17 May 2016.

Featured

  • Purdy, James P. "Teaching Literacies across the Curriculum in a Digital World." Rockland Community College Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning 10th Anniversary Celebration, Suffern, NY, 3 November 2016.
  • Purdy, James P. "Literacy, Literacies, and Student Research-Writing Behaviors." Illinois State University Writing Program Colloquium Series, Normal, IL, 27 October 2016, isuwriting.com/2016/12/05/jim-purdy-visiting-speaker-2016-2017/.

Respondent

  • Purdy, James P. "A Discussion of 鈥榃hat Can Design Thinking Offer Writing Studies?'" University of Pittsburgh Composition/Rhetoric Reading Group, Pittsburgh, PA,  27 September 2015.

Refereed

  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淲ikipedia Engagement as Community-Centered Practice in Writing and Language Pedagogy.鈥� Roundtable. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cleveland, OH, 6 March 2026.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淚s There Space for Gen AI in Writing Centers?鈥� International Writing Centers Association鈥擭ational Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Cincinnati, OH, 17 October 2025.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淒oes Generative Artificial Intelligence Love Our Writing? A Study of Gen AI as Coach, Grader, and Peer Reviewer.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, MD, 11 April 2025.
  • Baker Maya, Emily Harling, Anna Kreienberg, and James P. Purdy. 鈥淓xpanding Our Understanding of 鈥楶eer鈥�: Insights from Community Writing Center Initiatives with Seniors and Returning Citizens.鈥� National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Tacoma, WA, 19 October 2024.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淎I Stories: What Can Wikipedia Teach Us about Generative AI?鈥� Computers and Writing Conference, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, 22 June 2024.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淭he Transactional and the Poetic: Authorship in AI Policy Statements.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tacoma, WA, 4 April 2024.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淲ikipedia鈥檚 Invitational Approach to Expertise.鈥� Computers and Writing Conference, University of California Davis, CA, 24 June 2023.
  • Purdy, James P., and Renee Brown. 鈥淟ooking Ahead to NCPTW 2023: Proposing and Hosting a 鈥楳averick鈥� Writing Center Conference.鈥� National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. University of Nebraska Omaha, 29 October 2022.
  • Marlow, Jennifer, and James P. Purdy. 鈥淭he Will to Remember: Intervention through Preserving and Analyzing our Computers and Writing Conference History.鈥� Computers and Writing Conference, East Carolina State University, Greenville, NC, 21 May 2022.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淐ollaborative Dialogue: Community Engagement and the University Writing Center.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication, Online, 9 March 2022.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淚nformation and Intellectual Property Literacy in an Age of Bots: YouTube鈥檚 Content ID System.鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication, Online, 8 April 2021.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淎 Writing Center and Community Confluence: Moving the Writing Center into the Community.鈥� National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Online, 30 October 2020, https://thencptw.org/online2020/index.php/conference-program/a-writing-center-and-community-confluence-moving-the-writing-center-into-the-community/.
  • Lunsford, Karen J., and James P. Purdy. "Beyond Remix and Open Access: Ethical Lenses for Making Intellectual Property Decisions." Computers and Writing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 22 June 2019.
  • Michael Day, E. Ashley Hall, Jennifer Marlow, and James P. Purdy. "From T-Shirts and Conference Programs to Email and Chat Transcripts: Discovering our Identity through Preserving and Analyzing our Computers and Writing Conference History." Featured Town Hall Session. Computers and Writing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 21 June 2019.
  • Lunsford, Karen J., and James P. Purdy. "The Problem with 鈥楶ractical Wisdom' Offered by (Digital) Intellectual Property Gatekeepers." Computers and Writing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 26 May 2018.
  • Day, Michael, E. Ashley Hall, Jennifer Marlow, and James P. Purdy. "Planning for Change, Building in Redundancy: Preserving Our Computers and Writing Conference Archives." Computers and Writing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 25 May 2018.
  • Purdy, James P. "Digital Design: Using Cross-Disciplinary Language to Teach Literacies across the Curriculum." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO, 16 March 2018.
  • Marlow, Jennifer, and James P. Purdy. "What a Wonderful (Sub)field..." Computers and Writing, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH, 2 June 2017.
  • Purdy, James P. (respondent). "Cultivating Library/FYC Partnerships: Assessment, Information Literacy Instruction, and Beyond." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, 18 March 2017.
  • Purdy, James P. "A Study of Writing in Wikipedia: Ten Years Later." Computers and Writing, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, 22 May 2016.
  • Lunsford, Karen, and James P. Purdy. "Intellectual Property Stories in Writing Studies." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, 7 April 2016.
  • Purdy, James P. "Design Thinking in the Writing Center." International Writing Centers Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 10 October 2015.
  • Lunsford, Karen, and James P. Purdy. "Innovations for IP and IRB." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, 20 March 2015.
  • DeVoss, D脿nielle Nicole, Russell Carpenter, Andy Frazee, James P. Purdy, David Sheridan, and Douglas Walls. "Making Spaces: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Rhetoric of Design." Computers and Writing, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 7 June 2014.
  • Purdy, James P. "鈥業 Do Not Like Using Books': Why Students Characterize Themselves as Strong or Weak Researchers." Computers and Writing, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 7 June 2014.
  • Purdy, James P. "Why Are We Invoking Design? An Analysis of Use of Design in Computers and Composition Scholarship." Computers and Writing, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, 8 June 2013.
  • Ball, Cheryl, Kris Blair, Virginia Kuhn, James P. Purdy, Naomi Silver, and Joyce R. Walker. "Futures of Composition." Computers and Writing, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, 7 June 2013.
  • Purdy, James P. "Challenging Public Perceptions: Why First-Year Writing Students Select Research Resources as Their Favorite." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, 15 March 2013.
  • Naydan, Liliana, Millie Mo, Ethan Fried, James P. Purdy, Jon Olson, and Grace Schmidt. "Convers[at]ions in the Writing Center: Turning Ideas and Identities." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Chicago, IL, 3 November 2012.
  • Purdy, James P. "Putting Our Multimedia Where Our Mouth Is: The Architexture of a New MA Concentration." Computers and Writing, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 20 May 2012.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Scholarship on the Move: Digital Manifestations of Scholarly Activity." Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, 23 March 2012.
  • Purdy, James P. "More than Delivery: Thoughts on Writing an Open Text as a Knowledge-Making Practice." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, 9 April 2011.
  • Purdy, James P. (co-presenter for workshop). "Making a Case for Tenure and Promotion within/outside Rhetoric and Composition. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, 6 April 2011.
  • Purdy, James P. "The Three Gifts of Digital Archives." Computers and Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 21 May 2010.
  • Purdy, James P. (speaker on roundtable). "Composition 2.0: Teaching and Learning Writing in an Age of Freeware, Webware, and Data-Driven Applications." Computers and Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 21 May 2010.
  • Purdy, James P. "Rethinking Our Approach to Plagiarism Detection Services: Researching Student Researchers." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY, 19 March 2010.
  • Purdy, James P. "Digital Archives and Plagiarism Anxiety: An Argument for Viewing Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives." Computers and Writing, University of California, Davis, CA, 20 June 2009.
  • Purdy, James P. "Aren't Media Already Multiple?: Reflections on Proposing a Course in Multimodal Composition." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, 14 March 2009.
  • Purdy, James P. "The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 17 October 2008.
  • Purdy, James P. (speaker on roundtable). "The Instability of New Media Performed in One-Minute Provocations-Roundtable." Computers and Writing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 25 May 2008.
  • Purdy, James P. "Attitudes, Activities, and Associations: Survey Data on How Composition Students See Themselves as Researchers." Computers and Writing, University of Georgia. Athens, GA, 23 May 2008.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, 3 April 2008.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker "Making a Case for Digital Research in the First Year Writing Classroom." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: Rhetorics and Technologies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 9 July 2007.
  • Purdy, James P. "When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia." Computers and Writing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 18 May 2007.

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  • Purdy, James P. "Teaching the Digital Humanities: Opportunities, Tips, Resources." 91制片厂 Digital Humanities Roundtable, Pittsburgh, PA, 21 September 2018

Book

  • Marlow, Jennifer, and James P. Purdy. Are We There Yet? Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education: 20 Years Later. Utah State University Press, 2021, https://ccdigitalpress.org/book/arewethereyet.
  • Lunsford, Karen J., and James P. Purdy. The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making. Routledge, 2020.

Edited Volumes

  • Purdy, James P., and D脿nielle Nicole DeVoss, editors. Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. University of Michigan Press, 2017, www.digitalculture.org/books/making-space/.
  • McClure, Randall, and James P. Purdy, editors. The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for Writing and Information Literacy. Information Today, Inc., 2016
  • Purdy, James P., and Randall McClure, editors. The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing. Information Today, Inc., 2014.
  • McClure, Randall, and James P. Purdy, editors. The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students. Information Today, Inc., 2013. 

Journal Articles

  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淲ikipedia鈥檚 Invitational Approach to Expertise.鈥� Computers and Composition, vol. 81, 2026, pp. 1鈥�13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2026.103013. 
  • Nadra, Samir, and James P. Purdy. 鈥淚s GenAI a Good Editor of Academic Writing?鈥� Computers and Composition, vol. 80, 2026, pp. 1鈥�13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2026.102993.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淭hrough Thick and Through Thin: Domains of and Tensions Surrounding Expertise in a Subset of Writing Studies Scholarship.鈥� Composition Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, 2025, pp. 80鈥�99.
  • Johnson, Gavin P., Charles Woods, Laura L. Allen, Amber Buck, Ashanka Kumari, James P. Purdy, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, and Jason Tham. 鈥淕enerosity in Computers and Writing: Doing What Gail, Halcyon, Johndan, and Bill Taught Us.鈥� Computers and Composition, vol. 74, 2024, pp. 1鈥�12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102889. 
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淎 Decade of Writing on Wikipedia: A Comparative Study of Three Articles.鈥� First Monday, vol. 25, no. 9, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i9.10857.
  • Lunsford, Karen J., and James P. Purdy. Webtext design by Erika Carlos. "Mapping the IP Landscape: Reflections on Ownership, Authorship, and Copyright for Writing Instruction." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 24, no. 1, 2019, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/24.1/topoi/lunsford-et-al/index.html.
  • Purdy, James P. "What Can Design Thinking Offer Writing Studies?" College Composition and Communication, vol. 65, no. 4, 2014, pp. 612-641.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Liminal Spaces and Research Identity: The Construction of Introductory Composition Students as Researchers." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, Composition, and Culture, vol. 13, no. 1, 2013, pp. 9-41.
  • Purdy, James P. "Why First-Year College Students Select Online Research Resources as Their Favorite." First Monday, vol. 7, no. 3, no. 2012. www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4088/3289.
  • Walker, Janice R., Kristine Blair, Douglas Eyman, Bill Hart-Davidson, Mike McCloud, Jeff Grabill, Fred Kemp, Mike Palmquist, James P. Purdy, Madeleine Sorapure, Christine Tulley, and Victor J. Vitanza. "Computers and Composition 20/20: A Conversation Piece, or What Some Very Smart People Have to Say about the Future." Computers and Composition, vol. 28, no. 4, 2011, pp. 327-346.
  • Purdy, James P. "Three Gifts of Digital Archives." The Journal of Literacy and Technology, vol. 12, no. 3, 2011, pp. 24-49. http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/uploads/1/3/6/8/136889/jlt_v12_3_purdy.pdf.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work" Profession, 2010, pp. 177-195.
  • Purdy, James P. "The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments." Computers and Composition, vol. 27, no. 1, 2010, pp. 48-58.
  • Purdy, James P. "When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia." College Composition and Communication, vol. 61, no. 2, 2009, pp. W351-W373. www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CCC/0612-dec09/CCC0612When.pdf.
  • Purdy, James P. "Anxiety and the Archive: Understanding Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives." Computers and Composition, vol. 26, no. 2, 2009, pp. 65-77.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 11, no. 2, 2007. kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/binder.html?topoi/purdy-walker/index.htm.
  • Purdy, James P. "Calling Off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, 2005, pp. 275-295 *Reprinted in Johnson, T. R., ed. Teaching Composition: Background Readings, 3rd edition, St. Martin's, 2008, pp. 305-324.

Book Chapters

  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淭he Writing Center as GenAI Writing Education Hub.鈥� Artificial Intelligence and Writing Program Administration: Sustainable Approaches to a Rapidly Changing Future, edited by Julie Christoph, George Cusack, and Kara Wittman. Parlor Press, forthcoming 2026.
  • Purdy, James P. 鈥淭he Construction of Authorship and Writing in Journal and Publisher AI Policy Statements.鈥� Composing with AI, edited by Nupoor Ranade and Douglas Eyman. Utah State University Press, 2025. https://ccdigitalpress.org/book/composing-with-ai/chapters/Policy-Purdy/.
  • Purdy, James P. "The ACRL and WPA Frameworks in Conversation for Tomorrow's Researcher-Writer." Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 2, Upper-Level and Graduate Courses, Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks Series, edited by Grace Veach, Purdue University Press, 2019, pp. 51-64.
  • Purdy, James P. "91制片厂 Writing Center." Writing Program Architecture: Thirty Cases for Reference and Research, edited by Bryna Siegel Finer and Jamie White-Farnham. Utah State University Press, 2017, pp. 303-18.
  • Purdy, James P. "Going Digital: Ideas for Updating the Statement for a Digital World." Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna Goldstein, and Michael Pemberton, Parlor Press, 2017, pp. 225-43.
  • McClure, Randall, and James P. Purdy. "Ever Mindful of the Changes: What We Know About Student Use of Emerging Technologies." The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing, edited by James P. Purdy and Randall McClure, Information Today, Inc., 2014, pp. 21-34.
  • Purdy, James P. "Scholarliness as Other: How Students Explain Their Research-Writing Behaviors." The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students, edited by Randall McClure and James P. Purdy, Information Today, Inc., 2013, pp. 133-159.
  • Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. "Scholarship on the Move: A Rhetorical Analysis of Scholarly Activity in Digital Spaces." The New Work of Composing, edited by Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, and Ryan Trauman, Computers and Composition Digital Press and Utah State University Press, 2012. http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/nwc/chapters/purdy-walker/.
  • Purdy, James P. "Wikipedia Is Good for You!?" Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 1, edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky, WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2010, pp. 205-224. writingspaces.org/essays/wikipedia-is-good-for-you *Reprinted in Barry, Terri Trupiano et al. A Student Guide: Reading, Writing, Researching in the Sciences, Great River Technologies, 2012. 
  • Lovett, Maria, James P. Purdy, Katherine E. Gossett, Carrie A. Lamanna, and Joseph Squier. "Writing with Video: What Happens When Composition Comes Off the Page?" RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media: A Collection of Essays and New Media, edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Jim Kalmbach, Hampton Press, 2010, pp. 287-304. 

Invited Scholarly Review
  • Purdy, James P. "Circulating Ethical Digital Writing.鈥� College English, vol. 83, no. 4, 2021, pp. 312鈥�322.

Research: Internal

  • Presidential Faculty Summer Writing Award, $5,000: 2025
  • Paluse Grant, Center for Catholic Faith and Culture, $6,000: 2024鈥�2025
  • English Department Nominee, Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts: 2014, 2017, 2019
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $1,278: 2018
  • Presidential Scholarship Award, $5,000: 2018
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $2,000: 2016
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $1,500: 2015 
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $1,550: 2014 
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $1,570: 2013 
  • Presidential Scholarship Award, $5,000: 2011
  • Wimmer Family Foundation Grant, $2,727: 2009

Research: External

  • Nominee, Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, Are We There Yet?:2022
  • Nominee, CCCC Outstanding Book Award, Are We There Yet: 2022
  • Nominee, Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: 2021
  • Nominee, CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award, The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: 2021
  • Winner, "29 Best Property Law Books of All Time," BookAuthority, for The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: 2020
  • Bronze Medal, Education Theory/Commentary Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards, for The Next Digital Scholar: 2015
  • Finalist, Educational/Academic Category, USA Best Books Awards, for The Next Digital Scholar: 2014
  • Silver Medal, Education Theory/Commentary Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards, for The New Digital Scholar: 2014 
  • Ellen Nold Award for the Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies, for "Valuing Digital Scholarship": 2011
  • Kairos Best Webtext Award, for "Digital Breadcrumbs": 2008

Teaching: Internal

  • Course Development Grant, Department of English, $500: 2026
  • Digital Storytelling Lab Focus Group, Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, $500: 2026
  • Community Engaged Learning Course Development Grant, Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research, $2,000: 2026
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $2,940: 2025
  • Eugene P. Beard Presidential Prize for Innovation and Distinction, $10,000: 2025
  • AI Teaching Innovation Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, $200: 2024
  • Spirit of CTE Award: 2023
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $3,000: 2023
  • John G. Rangos, Sr. Prize, $1,000: 2023
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $3,000: 2022
  • John G. Rangos, Sr. Prize, $2,500: 2022
  • Center for Teaching Excellence Creative Teaching Award (with Sarah Wright), $1,000: 2022
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $3,000: 2021
  • John G. Rangos, Sr. Prize, $1,000: 2021
  • NEH Endowment Competition Grant, $3,000: 2020

Teaching: External

  • Project Pericles Civic Engagement Mini-Grant, $1,000: 2025鈥�2026
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight on Humanities Grant, 鈥淭aking Humanities to the Hill: University Community Writing Center Storytelling Initiatives,鈥� Award: ASB-299651-24, $59,983: 2024鈥�2025, 2026鈥�2027
Service 
  • Inaugural Faculty Honors Showcase Award, Faculty Senate: 2025
  • Presidential Award for Excellence in Service to the Mission: 2025
  • Faculty Excellence in Service to the Mission Award, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts: 2025