Paul Muhlhauser Ph.D.
- Professor of English
English
After meeting me, you'll find out more about my journey from Alaska to Maryland and how I survived. You'll come to understand how unprepared I was for humidity, poison ivy, and rattlesnakes. If you experience classes with me, you'll witness my expertise in remix (culture jamming & mashing movies together); transmedia storytelling; social media branding; pataphysics; and website design. If you take a class I teach, your dreams will come true and, for some of you, your wildest dreams will come true.
Education
- 2009
- Ph.D. (emphases in rhetoric and digital media) and M.A., Washington State University
Research Interests
- Remix
- Transmedia storytelling
- Website design
- Technological equity
- Pataphysics
- Dating websites
Recent Courses
- ENGL 2101: Remixing Popular Culture
- ENGL 2103: Transmedia Storytelling
- ENGL 3307: Social Media: Rhetoric and Design
- FYS 1204: Tooning In
- ENC 1111: Make it. Market. Sell it.
- ENC 1200: You Are What You Eat
Selected Publications
- Swipe Right on Find/Replace Invention, Equity, and Technofeminist Potentials of Find/Replace Technologies. Co-authored with McDaniel student Margaret Self. Published in Computers and Composition Online.
- POOC Yourself: The University Beyond the Classroom. Co-authored with Daniel Schafer. Published in Kairos: a Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
- The Avengendering of the Lambs: the Avengers, the Silence of the Lambs, and Remix. Co-authored with Daniel Schafer. Published in Women and Language.
- Like me. Like me not. Co-authored with Andrea Campbell. Published in Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion.
- How Genders Work: Producing the J.Crew Catalog. Co-authored with Kelly Bradbury. Published in Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion.
Clubs and community involvement
- Faculty Advisor for McDaniel Free Press
- Faculty Advisor for Asian Community Coalition
Awards and Honors
- Self-awarded "docta" of pataphysics
- 2014 recipient of Organization of Communication, Language, and Gender Conference Creative Expression Award for Avengendering of the Lambs.
- Parent of the Year, coming soon.
Dr. Muhlhauser’s courses are really great for getting real-world experience that you can put on a resume. I got a couple of jobs just from doing those courses. For a marketing internship, I was able to point to a food blog I had done and say, ‘Look at all this stuff that I’ve created and worked on!’ It was really good for resume building.