Bradley Dilger
- Professor; Director of Writing // English
Research Focus
Writing research methods; web-based research infrastructure; sustainable mentoring
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PhD, University of Florida, 2003
Biography
Bradley Dilger uses qualitative research methods to study writing. He is one of the leaders of Crow, the Corpus & Repository of Writing, the first learner corpus linked to a repository of pedagogical texts. Crow researchers are creating digital tools to study writing and develop sustainable practices for interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanistic social sciences. With Neil Baird, Dilger is building InterviewCraft, an online repository dedicated to interview research methods in writing studies, developed after an interview-based study of writing transfer conducted at Western Illinois University (2010–2014).
Dilger’s research has been published in journals such as Composition Forum, CCC, Written Communication, and JBTC. He co-chairs the SIGDOC Student Research Competition with Dr. Allegra Smith (Georgia Tech).
Dilger joined the Purdue faculty in Fall 2014, after 11 years at WIU. He currently directs the department’s writing programs.