Casey McArdle
235A Bessey Hall
434 Farm Ln
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyWriting, Rhetoric, and CulturesExperience ArchitectureRhetoric and WritingFirst Year WritingProfessional and Public Writing
Director of Experience Architecture
Assistant Professor
Biography
Casey McArdle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. He teaches Experience Architecture and has several publications and conference presentations that focus on online interaction via academic, professional, and social spaces. His research interests examine experience architecture, learning experience design, generative artificial intelligence, online writing instruction, leadership, web development, user experience research, user experience design, and rhetorical theory.
Media Mentions
Teach Access Announces Its First Academic Hub in the Nation: Michigan State University’s College of Arts and Letters Collaborates with National Nonprofit
Teach Access
June 20, 2024
Teach Access announces partnership with Michigan State University: XA undergraduate program to co-sponsor an intern
Teach Access Release
April 4, 2023
Pivoting in a Pandemic: Online Writing Strategies to Help Us All “Do It Better”
NCTE Publication | Council Chronicle
November 28, 2020
Awards and Honors
2024 Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field
Computers and Composition
2024
2021 Fixed-term and Academic Specialist Leadership Excellence Award
College of Arts and Letters
2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award Winner — Borgman, Jessie and Casey McArdle. Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors. WAC Clearinghouse, 2019. Print.
#iteachmsu Award—Awarded for outstanding teaching faculty at MSU, 2019
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy —Service Award for Graduate Students and Adjuncts, 2017
Courses
AL 111: Introduction to Accessibility in the Humanities
XA 111: Introduction to Accessibility in Experience Architecture
XA 242: Introduction to Experience Architecture
XA 333: Researching Experience Architecture
XA 466: Experience Architecture Capstone
WRA 101: Writing as Inquiry
WRA 110: Science and Technology
WRA 150: History of American Thought
WRA 210: Introduction to Web Authoring
WRA 401: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Innovation
WRA 482: Information and Interaction Design
WRA 491: Fundamentals of Professional Writing
WRA 891: Fundamentals of Experience Architecture
Publications
Borgman, J., & McArdle, C. (Eds.). (2023). PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders. WAC Clearinghouse.
McArdle, C. (2023). Deploying UX Methods in an Intro to Accessibility Class: How to Get Student Buy-In Across Disciplines. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, ACM SIGDOC.
McArdle, C., Potts, L., & Tegtmeyer, R. (Forthcoming). Experience Architecture: Developing an Interdisciplinary UX Undergraduate Degree. Programmatic Perspectives. Forthcoming.
Lauren, B., McArdle, C., Ismirle, J., & Instone, K. (Forthcoming). Building collaborations across industry-academic professional spheres: A cross-case synthesis. In R. Weber & J. Robinson (Eds.), Collaborations and Partnerships in UX. WAC Clearinghouse.
Borgman, J., & McArdle, C. (2022). Continuous Delivery: A PARS Online Course Development Cycle. Computers and Composition, 66.
Borgman, J., & McArdle, C. (Eds.). (2021). PARS In Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors. WAC Clearinghouse.
Meeks, M. G., Hart-Davidson, B., & McArdle, C. (2021). Feedback. In Introduction to Professional and Public Writing OER.
Borgman, J., & McArdle, C. (2019). Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors. WAC Clearinghouse.
Sonka, K., McArdle, C., & Potts, L. (2021). Finding a Teaching A11y: Designing an Accessibility-Centered Pedagogy. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 64(3), 264-274.
Ristich, M., McArdle, C., & Rhodes, J. (2021). Assessing the Limits of Program Strategy: “Archi-Strategy” in an Age of Disruption. Programmatic Perspectives, 12(1), 127-151.
McArdle, C. (2016). Mobile Learning Just Keeps on Running: Renegotiating Online Collaborative Spaces for Writing Students. In C. Lutkewitte (Ed.), Mobile Technologies and the Writing Classroom (pp. 117-132). NCTE Press.
McArdle, C. (2015). Review of The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media, by José van Dijck. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 19(3).
McArdle, C. (2014). Critical Response. Review of English is For Squares: Thomas was Alone as a Classroom Text by Anne Meuser. The Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects, 5.2.
McArdle, C. (2012). Using Web 2.0 to Foster Community and Public Writing in Composition Classrooms. In C. Lutkewitte (Ed.), Web 2.0: Applications for Composition Classrooms (pp. 67-78). Fountainhead Press.
McArdle, C. (2011, November 11). Critical Response. Review of 10 and 2, Are You? by Tanya Patel. The Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects, 3(1).
McArdle, C. (2008). Working with Introductions and Conclusions. In J. Grutsch-McKinney & N. Caswell (Eds.), Writing Center Tutor Training Guide. Muncie: Ball State University.
McArdle, C. (2008). Working with Citations. In J. Grutsch-McKinney & N. Caswell (Eds.), Writing Center Tutor Training Guide. Muncie: Ball State University.