Jared Colton
(he/him/his)
English
Associate Professor; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Contact Information
Office Location: Logan (MAIN 323E)Phone: +1 435 797 8412
Email: jared.colton@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
PhD, Clemson University, 2014
MA, Washington State University, 2010
BA, Utah Valley University, 2008
Expertise
Ethics; rhetoric; politics; accessibility
Biography
Dr. Jared S. Colton is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and an associate professor of technical communication and rhetoric in the Department of English at Utah State University. His research addresses the intersections of rhetorical theory and ethics within technical communication and related fields, from concerns of pedagogy to digital media. His research and teaching investigates how classical and contemporary ethical frameworks can inform the practice and critique of communication in digital media and accessibility technologies. He has work published in Rhetoric Review, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and other journals. His co-authored book Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues was published with the University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press..
Select Publications
Walwema, J., Colton, J.S., & Holmes, S. (2022). Introduction to Special Issue on 21st-Century Ethics in Technical Communication: Ethics and the Social Justice Movement in Technical and Professional Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(3), 257-269.
Colton, J.S., Edenfield, A., & Holmes, S. (2019). Workplace Democracy and the Problem of Equality. Technical Communication 66(1), 53-67.
Colton, J.S., & Holmes, S. (2018). Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues. University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press.