Professor,
Department of English, Purdue University
+1-309-259-0328 ~ dilger@purdue.edu ~ @cbdilger
I study and teach writing transfer, networks, and programs using mixed empirical methods. I’m starting my ninth year at Purdue University, where I direct our first-year writing program, Introductory Composition at Purdue. Previously, I was professor at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. I earned my PhD from Florida in 2003.
Curriculum vita: brief (2pp PDF) or inclusive (27pp PDF), in Purdue’s “Form 36” style).
Slide deck for CIGSA grant writng workshop, November 29, 2022
I recently returned to the director (WPA) position for Introductory Composition at Purdue. I began work on August 15, 2022, which was the first day of our Fall 2022 orientation, 174 days ago.
I have two research projects. First, a collaborative longitudinal study of writing transfer, with sixteen student and fourteen faculty participants from a regional state comprehensive university. My collaborator Neil Baird and I are writing up our findings as a series of articles. See more on our web site.
I’m also developing Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing, with Shelley Staples, Ashley JoEtta, Michelle McMullin, Randi Reppen, and a team of graduate and undergraduate students from Purdue, Arizona, Northern Arizona University, and other universities. Our Crow platform is up and running! And I'm glad to say we have been awarded two major grants: a 2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grant, and a $142,000 grant from Humanities Without Walls. See our recent blog posts for more information.
Please contact me if you need access to any of the scholarship I describe here.
I also have recent work in the collection Florida (Jeff Rice, ed, Parlor 2015) and the collection Networked Humanities (Brian McNely, ed, Parlor 2017).
Slide deck for ENGR 103, September 2022: Written communication in the workplace>
In Fall 2022, I will host the Hutton Lectures in Rhetoric & Composition. I currently advise
Shelton Weech,
Kailyn Shartel Hall, and
Marisa Yerace. Past advisees include
Dr. Allegra Smith,
Dr. Rebekah Sims,
Dr. Hadi Banat,
Dr. Michelle McMullin, and
Dr. Derek Sherman. Find my list of current, future, and past courses.Conference presentation materials
Other stuff