| Professor of English and Chair
Lewis Department of Humanities
Editor (outgoing), Business Communication Quarterly
Email: riley@iit.edu
Voice: 312.567.3566
Fax: 312.567.5187
Siegel Hall, Suite 218
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 South Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60616 USA
Spring 2010 office hours: M 4–6 p.m., and by appt.
Spring 2010 classes:
COM 428-01 & 528-01 Document Design (M 6:25–9:05 p.m.)
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• Vita (PDF)
• Resources
Recent and upcoming activities:
• Co-author, with Jo Mackiewicz, Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Visual Media (Pearson, in press).
• Co-author, with Frank Parker, 5th edition of Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises (Allyn & Bacon, 2010).
• Session on "Publishing in Business Communication Journals," with David Russell (editor, Journal of Business and Technical Communication) and Robyn Walker (editor, Journal of Business Communication), Assn. for Business Communication 74th Annual Convention, Portsmouth, VA, November 2009.
• Co-author, with Michael Davis, "Ethics Across the Graduate Engineering Curriculum: An Experiment in Teaching and Assessment," Teaching Ethics, 2008 (published fall 2009), vol. 9(4), pp. 25-42.
• Program Committee and Associate Conference Coordinator, 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS), November 2009.
• Co-PI, NSF Grant, "Ethics in the Details."
• Editorial Review Board, Texas Tech University Press Series in Technical Communication and Rhetoric.
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NSF Grant: "Ethics in the Details"
Work continues on "Ethics in the Details," a 3-year project supported by a National Science Foundation grant for $238,663 and administered through the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession (CSEP) by PI Michael Davis (Humanities/CSEP), with co-PIs Kathryn Riley (Chair, Humanities) and Vivian Weil (CSEP/Humanities).
"Ethics in the Details" involves collaboration with engineering faculty and engineering graduate students at the IIT, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Howard University in Washington, DC. The grant funds workshops that teach faculty and students to develop "micro-insertions"––small ways to add ethical issues to problems in the graduate engineering curricula. The grant team is also assessing this method in graduate courses and in a nanotechnology research lab at UIC. Examples of ethical issues covered include whistleblowing, national security concerns, conflicts of interest, and cross-cultural differences in ethics.
In addition, the grant supports development of an online "Ethics In-Basket," an archive of ethics problems that can be accessed from anywhere, to disseminate ethics problems to engineering faculty worldwide. Graduate students in IIT’s Technical Communication program are helping to develop the website and edit the problems. The site itself is being tested for usability at IIT’s Usability Testing and Evaluation (UTEC) with assistance from UTEC director Susan Feinberg.
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