Michael Harker

The End(s) of Literacy: Rethinking Our Most Pressing Right and Obligation. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY). (in contract)

The Archive as Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. With Ben McCorkle and Katie Comer. Forward by Cynthia Selfe, Scott DeWitt, and H. Lewis Ulman. Utah State University Press/Computers and Composition Digital Press. January 2019. (HONORABLE MENTION: DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, Computers and Composition, 2019.)

• Promos for The Archive as Classroom

The Lure of Literacy: A Critical Reception of the Compulsory Composition Debate. Albany: SUNY Press. January 2016. Paperback edition.
Reviews of The Lure of Literacy:

• Kirk Branch’s review of The Lure of Literacy in College English
  (2017)
• Meaghan H. Brewer’s review of The Lure of Literacy in Literacy in Composition Studies (2018)
• Interview with WABE about The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

The Lure of Literacy: A Critical Reception of the Compulsory Composition Debate. Albany: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. January 2015. Print.

Published Articles and Those Accepted for Publication:

"See Harvey J. Graff, or, A Necessary Beginning for The New Humanities." With John Duffy, Patrick Berry, Mike Rose, and Peter Mortensen. "Harvey J. Graff: A Tribute." Across the Disciplines. Vol. 2, No. 1. June 2024."

"Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives." Book Review. (7 pages) Community Literacy Journal. 18.1

“Unruly Practice: Critically Evaluating The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives.” With Kathryn Comer and Ben McCorkle. Across the Disciplines. SPECIAL ISSUE: Unsettling Archival Research Across the Disciplines: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives. Eds. Gesa Kirsch, Caitlin Burns, and Walker P. Smith. Spring 2021.

“Heuristic-Based Learning and Doctoral Preparation: Revising Georgia State University’s PhD Exam in Rhetoric and Composition.” With Ashley J. Holmes and Lynee Lewis Gaillet. Composition Forum 45, Fall 2020.

“Coming of Age in the Era of Acceleration: Literacy Narratives and Composing
Temporality.” With Douglas Hall. Literacy in Composition Studies. Special Issue: Composing a Further Life. Eds. Lauren Bowen and Suzy Rumsey. Fall 2018.

“The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives as Public Utility.” With Ben McCorkle. Composition Forum. Special Issue: Public Writing in Composition. Summer 2017. Digital.

“The Digital Literacy Narratives of DMAC: Developing Contexts, Experiences, and Identities.” With Matthew Sansbury. Computers and Composition Online. Special Issue: CIWIC, DMAC, and Technology Professional Development in Rhetoric and Composition. Spring 2015. Digital.

“The Pedagogy of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. A Survey.” With Kathryn Comer. Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Vol. 35. (65-85). March 2015. Print.

“The Legibility of Literacy in Composition’s Great Debate: Revisiting ‘Romantics on Writing’ and the History of Composition.” Literacy in Composition Studies. Vol. 1, No. 2. October 2013. Digital.

“The Ethics of Argument: Rereading Kairos and Making Sense in a Timely Fashion.” College Composition and Communication. Vol. 59. No. 1 (77-97). September, 2007. Print.

Published Book Chapters and Those Accepted for Publication:

"Challenging Ageism Through Intergenerational Initiatives." Blurred Boundaries: Gender, Identify, and Academic Labor in Times of Change. Eds. Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Jessie McCrary. University of South Carolina Press, 2025. (Forthcoming)

“Presence as Participation: Reflections on COVID-19’s Impact on a Graduate Seminar at
Urban Research University.” With Keaton Lamle and Rachel Woods. Go Online! Reconfiguring Writing Courses for the New Virtual World. Eds. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale. Peter Lang Publishing. January 2022.

“Strengthening Faculty Community: Intradisciplinary Reciprocal Mentorship to Support Innovative Teaching.” With Ashley J. Holmes, Gina Caison, Mary E. Hocks, Melissa McLeod, and LeeAnne M. Richardson. Scaling Up Student Success. Eds. Jeffery Gale and Denise Domizi. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. Spring 2021.

“The Success of This Course Depends on Your Participation: Technology, Topoi, and Infrastructure in the Era of MOOCs.” Co-authored with Mary Hocks and Matthew Sansbury. The Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating Commonplaces in and Beyond the Classroom. Eds. Banaji, Blankenship, DeLuca, Obermark. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. February 2019. Digital.

“Stories within Stories: Making the Personal Public and the Public Personal with the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives.” With Paige Arrington and Ben McCorkle. Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age. Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale. Albany: SUNY Press. January 2018.

Pedagogical Publications:
Commonplace: A Citizen’s Guide to Persuasion for an Age that Desperately Needs One. Co-authored with Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Aaron McKain. McGraw Hill Companies and Learning Solutions, 2008. Digital

“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Documentary.” With Aaron McKain and Cormac Slevin.” Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cynthia Selfe. Ed. Hampton Press, 2007. Digital.

“What’s at Stake?”Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cynthia Selfe. Ed. Hampton Press, 2007. Digital.