:: Biographical Statement
Jim Frost is Director of Programs in Professional Writing. He has taught a wide variety business and technical communication courses at Texas A&M University, the University of Minnesota, and Boise State University before coming to the University of Illinois. In addition to his academic background, Jim has run a publishing company and worked extensively as a free-lance photographer.

:: Education
: Ph. D. English
Texas A&M University
: M.A. English
University of Texas, Pan American
: B.A. Media Communications
Governors State University

:: Research Interests
: Visual Rhetoric
: Environmental Rhetoric
: Information Design

:: Publications
Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman’s Remarkable Horse. (publisher, photographer, and chapter author) Black Canyon Communications, 2002 (winner of the Idaho Library Association’s “Idaho Book of the Year”).

Equus Evolves. (publisher) Black Canyon Communications, 2002.

Trolley. (publisher) Black Canyon Communications, 2002.

Black Canyon Quarterly. (publisher, photographer, and occasional author) Black Canyon Communications, 2002-2003.

“Designing Documents.” in St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, 6th edition, Axelrod and Cooper, 2001.

“Oral Presentations.” in St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, 6th edition, Axelrod and Cooper, 2001.

“Modernism and a New Picturesque: The Environmental Rhetoric of Ansel Adams.” Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Environmental Discourse: Connections and Directions (ATTW Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication, Vol. 11) Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, edited by William Karis and Nancy Coppola, 2000.

“Web Teaching” Book review in Journal of Business and Technical Communication Volume 13 (1) pp. January 1999.