About Gardner Campbell, Ph.D. 0


Gardner Campbell Gardner Campbell is Associate Professor of English and Special Assistant to the Provost at Virginia Commonwealth University, where for nearly three years he also served as Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success as well as Dean of the innovative University College. Dr. Campbell serves on the DEI Board of Directors, and has led several key initiatives in collaboration with DEI.

Before coming to VCU, Gardner was Senior Director for Networked Innovation in the Division of Technology-Enhanced Learning & Online Strategies (TLOS) at Virginia Tech, where he also served as an Associate Professor of English. Prior to his appointment at Virginia Tech, Gardner was founding Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, as well as Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Learning in the Honors College. Before coming to Baylor, he was Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, where from 2003-2006 he also served as Assistant Vice-President for Teaching and Learning Technologies.

Dr. Campbell has been involved in teaching and learning technologies for over two decades, including work at the University of San Diego and the University of Richmond. Gardner received his B.A. in English from Wake Forest University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute (2005), was chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia from 2006 to 2008, and has served on program committees for both EDUCAUSE and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. From 2009-2012, Gardner was on the Board of Directors of the New Media Consortium (Vice-Chair, 2010-2011, Chair 2011-2012 and 2017). A past member of the ELI Advisory Board (2007-2011) and the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (2011-2013), Gardner currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and the Journal of Information Fluency. Gardner is a life member of the Milton Society of America (Executive Committee, 2004-2007). He was secretary of the Literature/Film Association in 2006, and for six years served as a contributing editor for Literature/Film Quarterly. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on Renaissance literature, film, and teaching and learning technologies. Recent presentations include keynote or plenary presentations at the annual meeting of Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia in Melbourne, Australia, the AMICAL conference at John Cabot University in Rome, the annual meeting of the Directors of Educational Technology for the California Higher Education system (DET/CHE), the University of Santa Clara, Carleton College, Open Education 2012, Union College, Northhampton Community College, Boston College, the Campus Technology 2012 Executive Summit, E-Learn 2012, SUNY-Buffalo, and many others in the US as well as Canada and Sweden. His essay on "Temptation" was recently published in the Cambridge Companion to Milton's "Paradise Lost" (Cambridge UP, 2014). Other recent publications include scholarly articles on Milton's poetry and prose (Duquesne University Press, MLA Press), an essay in the curated print and online editions of "Hacking the Academy" (University of Michigan Press), an analysis of Orson Welles' work in the 1944 film of "Jane Eyre" (Literature/Film Quarterly), separate essays on networked learning, personal cyberinfrastructures, faculty development, and podcasting (EDUCAUSE Review), and an essay on information technologies in higher education (Change).

You can read Gardner's blog, "Gardner Writes," at gardnercampbell.net, where you can also find his CV, Awards, and selected Talks on video. See also comprehensive list of talks available.

Find him on Twitter: @gardnercampbell.


Doug and Gardner
Doug Engelbart and Gardner Campbell