ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR and DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS

Research interests: history of technical communication, history of rhetoric, technical editing, international technical communication

Dr. Malone has a B.S.Ed. and an M.A. in English from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Missouri-Rolla (1993-1996) and an assistant/associate professor of English at Missouri Western State College (1996-2003) before returning to UMR in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed Director of Missouri S&T's technical communication programs. In that capacity, he supervises the department's six graduate teaching assistants, among other responsibilities.

He is a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication as well as a member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society and the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication. He serves as a book reviewer and an abstracter for the journal Technical Communication and writes a column on technical communication history for the online newsletter of the IEEE PCS. 

Dr. Malone was the volume editor of British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, First Series (Gale, 2001) and  British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, Second Series (Gale, 2003), for which he wrote introductions, bibliographies, and chapters on two rhetoricians. To the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford UP, 2004), he contributed thirteen biographies of Renaissance rhetoricians, grammarians, and logicians. As one of several supervisory editors for the Dictionary of British Classicists (Thoemmes Press, 2004), he selected, commissioned, and edited more than eighty short biographies of Renaissance rhetoricians, translators, and textbook writers.

In addition to these projects, Dr. Malone has published the following articles since 2000:

• "Technology and Society: Redefining Human Life: Characterizing Life in the Age of Modern Technology.” Journal of College Science Teaching 30.4 (2000): 262-66 [co-authored with Todd Eckdahl]
• "Learned Correctors as Technical Editors: Specialization and Collaboration in Early Modern European Printing Houses." Journal of Business and Technical Communication  20 (2006): 389-424
• "Technical Marketing Communication: A Sequence of Three Exercises." Proceedings of Missouri State’s 3rd Almost-Annual Conference on the Teaching of Technical Writing & Missouri State’s STC Region 6 Student Conference. Ed. Sherry Southard and Melissa Place. Springfield, MO: Missouri State Univ., 2007 [co-authored with Tara Bryan]
• "Historical Studies of Technical Communication in the United States and England: A Fifteen-Year Retrospection and Guide to Studies." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 50.4 (2007): 333-351
• "The Use of Playing Cards to Communicate Technical and Scientific Information." Technical Communication 55.1 (2008): 49-60.

His awards include the Dr. James V. Mehl Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award (2001), the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001), and the Missouri S&T Excellence in Humanities Award (2008).  He was nominated for a UMR Outstanding Academic Advisor Award in 2007.

At Missouri S&T, Dr. Malone teaches TCH COM 361 History of Technical Communication, TCH COM 331 Technical Editing, and TCH COM 411 International Technical Communication on a regular basis. This summer, he is teaching ENGL 75 British Literature I.

 

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