Dr. Wolff is an associate professor of Communications and Digital Media in the Communications Studies department and Director of Saint Joseph's Community Garden, focusing on sustainability and social justice.
Prior to joining St. Joe’s, Dr. Wolff was Associate Professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate classes that asked students to explore the connections between and among technologies and writing.
PhD, English (Computers and English Concentration)
The University of Texas at Austin, 2006
MA, English and Creative Writing, University of Cincinnati, 1997
BA, English (departmental honors) Union College (New York), 1994
Associate Professor, Rowan University, 2011 - 2015
Assistant Professor, Rowan University, 2006 - 2011
Dr. Wolff's current research project is a large-scale study of fan communities on Twitter. He is specifically looking at Bruce Springsteen fans, but the findings will have broader appeal for understanding how Twitter is facilitating (or not) how people are composing communities online. This study builds on prior work in which Dr. Wolff investigated how Web 2.0 applications are transforming how we understand what it means to write online.
Wolff, W.I., Ed. (2017). Bruce Springsteen and Popular Culture: Essays on Rhetoric, Social Consciousness, and Contemporary Culture. London: Routledge.
Wolff, W.I. (2015). Baby, We Were Born to Tweet: Springsteen Fans, the Writing Practices of In Situ Tweeting, and the Research Possibilities for Twitter. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 19(3). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.3/topoi/wolff/index.html
Wolff, W.I. (2014). Springsteen, Tradition, and the Purpose of the Artist. BOSS: The Bi-annual Online Journal of Springsteen Studies. 1(1). pp. 36 – 73.
Wolff, W.I. (2013). Interactivity and the invisible: What counts as writing in the age of Web 2.0. Computers & Composition. 30. pp. 211 – 225.
Emerging Artist Fellowship (Photography), Delaware Division of the Arts, 2012–2013.
