John T. Sherrill

Biography

Dr. Sherrill’s research focuses on intersections among feminism, technical communication, and DIY/Craft/Hacker/”Maker” communities. For more than a decade, he has engaged with digital fabrication technologies—investigating emergent communities of alternative making in relation to identity and feminist activism—and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in mass-customization processes. He has published in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ), Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, as well as the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) International Conference on Design of Communication Proceedings (SIGDOC). His recent book Artificial Infrastructures, co-authored with Michael Salvo, investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries. It is available open-access via the WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/artificial/

Dr. Sherrill previously taught in the Middle East as an assistant professor of professional writing at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. He completed his MA and PhD in English - Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University with concentrations in Professional and Technical Writing as well as Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital Writing. He is also an alum of Michigan Tech’s Scientific & Technical Communication (STC) program.