People
Paul Prior
Paul Prior is Professor of English and the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For Fall 2009, he is serving as Acting Director of the Center for Writing Studies; in Spring 2010, he will return to his position as Associate Director of CWS.
Contact Information
275 English Building | MC-718
217-333-3024 or 217-333-3251
pprior@illinois.edu
Webpage:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/pprior/Prior/home.html
Publications
In a series of situated studies that draw on theoretical frameworks from cultural-historical activity theory and dialogic semiotics, he has explored connections among writing, reading, talk, learning, and disciplinarity. This work has appeared in articles, book chapters, and a 1998 book, Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy (Lawrence Erlbaum). He has also co-edited with Charles Bazerman What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices (Lawrence Erlbaum). Current projects include studies of the writing process as dispersed, embodied, and situated literate activity and a study that traces the remediation of an interactive online art object.