John Harwood

Biographical Information

In addition to directing ETS, Harwood is Penn State's representative for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Learning Technologies Initiative. He chairs the Implementation Committee of Penn State's student-computing initiative, and serves on the Computing and Information Systems Committee of the Faculty Senate. In addition, he is an active member of the Teaching and Learning Consortium, which seeks to improve the environment for teaching and learning at Penn State as well as an active member of the New Media Centers. Harwood currently serves as editor of the "Electronic Campus" section of a Jossey-Bass journal, About Campus.

Research and Teaching

Harwood's main research interests are the humanities—including computing in the humanities. He has researched 17th-century and 18th-century British literature; technologies for teaching and research in the humanities; information technology and its cultural implications; the history of science, especially the early Royal Society and its major Fellows (Boyle, Hooke, Newton, Evelyn and others); and the history of rhetoric and technology. His current research examines John Evelyn (1620-1706), a founding member of the Royal Society. More information about Dr. Harwood's research as well as a list of major publications can be found on his Web site. Harwood has taught a broad range of courses at Penn State. As a former director of composition programs, he is interested in all kinds of writing courses and in how information technology enhances teaching and learning. He has taught several courses drawing on Web-based resources to support teaching and learning. Most recently he taught a seminar in the 18th-century British history of ideas. See www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/t/jth/recent.htm for more information.

Publications:

For a list of John Harwood's publications, see www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/t/jth/academic.html.