Ryan Eichberger teaches courses in writing and digital studies. His expertise is in ecocritical studies of computing, which examine the cultures and more-than-human worlds that surround and interact with electronic tools and technologies. He regularly offers additional courses in journalism, disability studies, and science communication.
As a teacher, Ryan aims to create situations where students can engage in genuinely felt discussion about complicated and timely subjects. He likes to get students moving around and taking part in tactile learning with media and artifacts. Above all, Ryan’s goal is that students should have room to figure out how to be good citizens of the world.
Ryan's research focuses on the rhetoric of technology and environment, ranging from visual studies of glacier photography in Iceland to usability studies of neurodivergent experiences related to syllabus design. He is currently reseaching the relationship between AI boosterism and the plantation logics of empire. He advocates AI skepticism.
When not teaching or researching, Ryan loves baking, wildlife photography, and science fiction. Talk to him about birds.
Fall 2025 Courses
- WRIT 120: Being Good Ancestors in the Web of Life
- ENGL 285: Digital Rhetoric and New Media Literacies
Spring 2026 Courses
- ENGL 273: Disability, Rhetoric, and the Environment
- ENGL 288: Literary and Investigative Journalism
- WRIT 211: Science in World and Word