Marc Santos

Faculty

Associate Professor

Email marc.santos@unco.edu
Location Ross 1140B
Office Hours Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30 pm, Zoom available via email request
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Education

  • Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  • M.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
  • B.A. Clark University, Worcester, MA

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • University of Northern Colorado, Associate Professor of English, 2023-Present 
  • University of Northern Colorado, Assistant Professor of English 2016-2023 
  • University of South Florida, Assistant Professor of English, 2008-2016 

Former Director of UNC’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing Major. Currently serving as the English Department’s Director of Graduate Studies.  

Research Expertise & Interests

I research the intersections of 21st century technologies and contemporary rhetorical theory, particularly theory that explores difference, alterity, and human relations. My background is in postmodern theory; when I have time to read theory, I’m usually reading Bruno Latour, Emmanuel Levinas, Adrianna Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and/or Trish Roberts-Miller. Recently, I have published material on how we might rebuild our faith in democracy by reconnecting with public life. I have written several articles on how digital technology transforms the way we think about ourselves and others, and how we can better prepare ourselves to live in a diverse and connected world. My fall 2026 sabbatical project included an upcoming chapter on how incorporating AI technologies into professional writing classes helps ease student anxiety by revealing to them the machine’s limitations, and reinforcing the professional need to embrace a “human-computer-interactive” approach to AI integration. I teach courses on rhetorical theory, research writing, professional writing, non-profit communications, graphic design, and video games.  

Publications

  • “How Teaching a HITL Approach to Prompt Engineering Can Reduce Student Resistance to AI and Develop More Confident Writers and Editors.” AI in Technical Communication: Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies. Eds. Ghetto and Vance. Publication forthcoming.  
  • “Something Fun: Developing An Event that Enacts Arendt’s Public Happiness.” Just Rhetoric. Parlor Press. Accepted Dec 2024. Publication forthcoming.  
  • “How I Implemented Asao B. Inoue’s Labor-Based Grading and Other Antiracist Assessment Strategies.” CEA Critic 84(2), 2022, 160-179.. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866359 
  • “Toward a Professional and Technical Communication Made Whole: Jody Shipka, Creativity, Postpedagogy, and Professional and Technical Communication.” Composition Forum 33, Spring 2016. Co-authored with Megan McIntyre. http://compositionforum.com/issue/33/techcomm.php 
  • “Uncrossing God: How Levinas’s Ethics Might Contribute to Latour’s Politics.” Philosophy and Rhetoric Vol. 48.3, 2015, 313-337. 
  • “From Constituting to Instituting: Kant, Latour, Twitter, and the Possibility of a Non-Modern University.” The Object of Rhetoric: Assembling and Disassembling Bruno Latour, 2015.  Eds. Rivers and Lynch. Co-authored with Meredith W. Johnson. 
  • “Postpedagogy and Web Writing.” With Mark H. Leahy. Computers and Composition 32, 2014, 84–95. 
  • “Our Electrate Stories: Explicating Ulmer’s MyStory.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 18.2, January 2014.  Co-authored with Bieze, Ella R., Cagle, Lauren E., Carabelli, Jason, Dixon, Zachary P., Hopton, Sarah-Beth, Gay, Kristen N., McIntyre, Megan M. http://technorhetoric.net/18.2/praxis/santos-et-al/index.html