Professor David Kaufer

David Kaufer is the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon who specializes in textual analysis from both a writing studies and cultural-critical perspective. He is the author or co-author of four books, four textbooks, and hundreds of refereed articles and conference presentations. He was an early pioneer of the Digital Humanities, having co-designed a number of digital systems to advance knowledge in the Humanities. 

His two best known systems are Classroom Salon and DocuScope. Classroom Salon, developed with Ananda Gunawardena of Princeton, supports flipped-learning classrooms in the sciences and humanities and has a base of 30,000 users worldwide. DocuScope, developed with Suguru Ishizaki of Carnegie Mellon, is used both for textual research and writing education and is used by researchers at the Stanford Literary Lab, The Shakespeare Folger Library, The Rand Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service. He is an elected Fellow of the Rhetorical Society of America and was the inaugural winner of that National Society’s Cheryl Geisler Award for excellence in mentoring.