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“For a discipline to exist, there must be the possibility of formulating—and of doing so ad infinitum—fresh propositions.”
— Michel Foucault, “The Discourse on Language”
Current Research The Business Web Sites of Technical Communication Companies, Consultants, and Independent Contractors
Publications Killoran, John B. "Reel-to-Reel Tapes, Cassettes, and Digital Audio Media: Reverberations from a Half-Century of Recorded-Audio Response to Student Writing. Computers and Composition 30.1 (2013): 37-49.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. "How to Use Search Engine Optimization Techniques to Increase Website Visibility." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 56.1 (2013): 50-66.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. "Is It 'About Us'? Self-Representation of Technical Communication Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Companies on the Web." Technical Communication 59.4 (2012): 267-285.
Brief summary of my article.

Killoran, John B. "The Web Portfolios of Independent Technical Communicators . . . And the Documents of Their Clients." Technical Communication 58.3 (2011): 217-237.
Brief summary of my article.

Killoran, John B. “Digitizable Cultural Capital: Anticipations of Profit in the Web Market.” Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. Ed. Adrienne P. Lamberti & Anne R. Richards. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2011. 95-116.

Killoran, John B. "Promoting the Business Web Sites of Technical Communication Companies, Consultants, and Independent Contractors." Technical Communication 57.2 (2010): 137-160.
Brief summary of my article.

Killoran, John B. "Writing for Robots: Search Engine Optimization of Technical Communication Business Web Sites." Technical Communication 57.2 (2010): 161-181.
Brief summary of my article.

Killoran, John B. "Pursuing an Audience of Robots: Search Engines and the Marketing of Technical Communication Business Websites." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 52.3 (2009): 254-271.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. "The Rhetorical Situations of Web Résumés." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 39.3 (2009): 263-284.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. "Self-Published Web Résumés: Their Purposes and Their Genre Systems." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 20.4 (2006): 425-459.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. "ePluribus Unum? Dialogism and Monologism in Organizational Web Discourse." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 35.2 (2005): 129-153.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. “Homepages, Blogs, and the Chronotopic Dimensions of Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement.” Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Ed. Gerald A. Hauser and Amy Grim. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 213-219.

Killoran, John B. “The Gnome in the Front Yard and other Public Figurations: Genres of Self-Presentation on Personal Home Pages.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 26.1 (Winter 2003): 66-83.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. “Under Constriction: Colonization and Synthetic Institutionalization of Web Space.” Computers and Composition 19.1 (April 2002): 19-37.
Abstract of my article.

Killoran, John B. “@ home among the .com’s: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web.” Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber. Albany, NY, SUNY Press, 2001. 127-144.
Abstract of my chapter.

Killoran, John B. “Virtual Presence, Virtual Absence: The Cheshire Cat Phenomenon on the Web.” Inkshed (Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning) 18.3 (Winter 2000): 14-15.

Killoran, John B. “Under Construction: A ‘PR’ Department for Private Citizens.” Business Communication Quarterly 62.2 (June 1999): 101-104.


Conference papers Killoran, John B. “Writing, Reading, and Technology.” Our Mutual Estate 2012: Our Common Cores--Theory and Practice. Conference of the NYC Association of Assistant Principals Supervision – English. Brooklyn, 15 May, 2012.

Killoran, John B. “Search Engine Optimization and the Web Work of Technical Communicators.” Applying Research in Practice. Society for Technical Communication virtual conference. 9 November, 2011.

Killoran, John B. “Going Online to Share and Comment on Student Writing.” Our Mutual Estate 2011: 8 Ways of Looking at…Writing. Conference of the NYC Association of Assistant Principals Supervision – English. Brooklyn, 17 May, 2011.

Killoran, John B. “Intellectual Property and the Web Portfolios of Technical Communication Businesses.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, 12 March, 2009.

Killoran, John B. “Virtual Networking for Real Clients: Behind the Websites of Technical Communication Businesses.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. San Francisco, 11 March, 2009.

Killoran, John B. “The Role of Small-Business Web Sites in Supporting Business-Client Communication.” Internet Research 8.0 Conference. Vancouver, Canada, 18 October, 2007.

Killoran, John B. “Representing Professional Identities with Self-Published Web Resumes . . . and Plenty of Digitalizable Cultural Capital.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, 23 March, 2007.

Killoran, John B. “A New Medium, An Old Genre and Its Genre Systems.” Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Toronto, 30 May, 2006.

Killoran, John B. “Internet-Mediated Research using Surveys and Content Analyses.” Modern Language Association Conference. Washington, 30 December, 2005.

Killoran, John B. “Healthy Genre Systems for a Genre Transplanted to the Web.” National Communication Association Conference. Boston, 19 November, 2005.

Killoran, John B. “Value and the Art of Web Résumé Maintenance.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, 19 March, 2005.

Killoran, John B. “Monologism, Dialogism, and Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the Web Page Interface.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Bakhtin SIG. San Francisco, 18 March, 2005.

Killoran, John B. “résumé.html: A Survey of New Genre Systems for an Old Genre.” Internet Research 5.0 Conference. University of Sussex, Brighton, England, 22 September, 2004.

Killoran, John B. “Genre, Agency, and Technological Determinism: A Survey of Web Resume Authors.” Rocky Mountain Communication Association Conference. Denver, 6 March, 2004.

Killoran, John B. “From Print Objects to Web Subjects: The Reorientation of the Resume.” National Communication Association Conference. Miami Beach, 22 November, 2003.

Killoran, John B. “From Print Resume to Web Resume: The Destabilizing of a Genre.” Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Halifax, 29 May, 2003.

Killoran, John B. “Private Domains in the Public Domain: The Synthetic Institutionalization of Personal Web Space.” Internet Research 3.0 Conference. Maastricht, The Netherlands, 15 October, 2002.

Killoran, John B. "Controversy and ‘the information provider of choice’: The Reconceptualization of Ethos in a Government Web Project.” Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Toronto, 27 May, 2002.

Killoran, John B. “Homepage, Homebound; Web Log, We Blog: Web Genres for Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Las Vegas, 25 May, 2002.

Killoran, John B. “A Home(page) Divided Unto Itself: Heteroglossia as the Ground of Web Site Style.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. Chicago, 20 March, 2002.

Killoran, John B. “Archi-texture and Home Construction: Form vs. Content on the WebScape.” Conference of the Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Quebec, 25 May, 2001.

Killoran, John B. “Singular Authors / Plural Spaces: Communal Architecture for Personal Homepages.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. Quebec, 24 May, 2001.

Killoran, John B. "Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: Citizen Webmasters in Institutional Guise.” Conference on Computers and Writing. Muncie, Indiana, 18 May, 2001.

Killoran, John B. “Little Flies in Big Webs: Affinity, Modality, and Parody on the World Wide Web.”Conference on College Composition and Communication. Minneapolis, 13 April, 2000.

Killoran, John B. “To Write, Intransitively . . . But with an Indirect Object.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, 26 March, 1999.

Killoran, John B. “Under Construction: Revision Strategies on the Web.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, 3 April, 1998.

Grants Co-Recipient (with William Burgos, Cristiana Collins, and Norm Sutaria) of $7500.00 mini-grant to participate in the 2011-13 FIPSE-funded Connect to Learning national collaboration, for“E-portfolios at Long Island University, Brooklyn” (2010).

Co-Recipient (with principle investigator Prof. Jim Stratman and Prof. Fil Sapienza) of $46,581.28 Colorado Institute of Technology grant for “Advancing Colorado IT Workforce Understanding of Usability Testing Technology and Methods” (2004)

Co-Recipient (with principle investigator Prof. Brad Mudge of the English Dept.) of $2000.00 UCD Faculty Grant for “Rowlandson Web Project” (2002)

Dissertation The Virtual Squatter: Homesteading in the Electronic Metropolis. University of Waterloo, 1999.
Abstract of my PhD Dissertation.