Michael Salvo
- Professor // English
- Affiliated Faculty // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Facultyy // Art and Design // Rueff School
Research Focus
Technical & Professional Communication; Rhetoric & Ethics; Experience Architecture; Artificial Intelligence
Curriculum vitae
Office and Contact
Room: SC 266
Email: salvo@purdue.edu
Biography
Michael J. Salvo is Professor of Professional & Technical Writing. He directed the Professional Writing Program from 2009-2019. Artificial Infrastructures (with John Sherrill) was just published by the WAC Clearinghouse (2025). Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.
Routledge published his book Writing Postindustrial Places: Technoculture amid the Cornfields, exploring globally competitive firms in the American Midwest (2018). He also edited Rhetoric and Experience Architecture with Liza Potts (Parlor Press, 2017). Michael is a founding member and on the editorial board of Kairos.
Michael has published research on usability, program assessment, and experience architecture and has published many book chapters. He has recently been teaching Conspiracy Rhetoric, Rhetoric & Technology, and Rhetoric & Artificial Intelligence.