John Logie is a Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies within the College of Liberal Arts. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1999 and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993. His academic career at the University of Minnesota began in 1999, where he has advanced to full professor and previously served as Director of Graduate Studies in Writing Studies. Logie's research specializations center on rhetorical theory, rhetoric of electronic writing spaces, sophistic rhetoric, writing in internet spaces, visual rhetoric, remix cultures, rhetorical invention, copyright, and the conflicts that emerge from shifts in communicative technologies. His expertise spans peer-to-peer technologies, authorship, internet studies, and visual rhetoric. He has advised doctoral dissertations in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication and served as co-investigator on an NSF-funded project, HCC-Small: Understanding and Supporting Online Question-Asking (2008-2013).

Logie is best known for his books Writing in the Clouds: Inventing and Composing in Internetworked Writing Spaces (2021), which received the MLA Mina Shaughnessy Prize and the CCCC Best Book Award, and Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (2006). His most widely read peer-reviewed article, "1967: The Birth of 'The Death of the Author'" (2013, College English), reevaluates Roland Barthes' essay in its original context as a pre-digital instance of networked multimedia. Additional key publications include "Internet protests, from text to web" (2013, co-authored with Laura Gurak), "Dark days: Understanding the historical context and the visual rhetorics of the SOPA/PIPA blackout" (2014), "Peeling the layers of the onion: Authorship in mashup and remix cultures" (2014), "I Have No Predecessor to Guide My Steps": Quintilian and Roman Authorship (2003, Rhetoric Review), and editorial contributions such as the introduction to Information Communication and Society (2013, co-authored). Currently, Logie is working on a book-length project exploring graphic memoirs and their prevalence among banned books in the United States.

Professional Email: logie@umn.edu