Dr. Bruce Maylath
Office: Minard 320D
Phone: 231-7176
Email: Bruce.Maylath@ndsu.edu
Joining the NDSU English Department as a professor in fall 2007, Bruce Maylath earned his degrees in
English at Kalamazoo College (BA, 1980), Michigan State University (MA, 1987), and the University of
Minnesota (PhD, 1994). He also studied Norwegian language and literature at the University of Oslo, both as
an undergraduate (1978) and graduate student (1980-81). His interests range from Ibsen's messages in
naming characters to the continuing legacy of the Norman Conquest on writing assessment today to the effect
of guided authoring and content management systems on the translation of technical documents.
Before coming to NDSU, Prof. Maylath began his teaching career at the high school level in Michigan, moved
on to community colleges, and after graduate school joined the faculty at the University of Memphis. Moving
back north, he helped found, in 2000, the University of Wisconsin-Stout's Program in Technical
Communication, serving as its initial director until July 2007. As vice-president, and later president, of
the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, he helped establish the CPTSC/ATTW
Roundtable series in Europe, starting in London in 2000 and continuing in Milan in 2003 and Limerick in
2005.
His current research takes up translation issues in technical communication. His best-known book chapters
appear in Carolyn Rude's Technical Editing, 3rd & 4th eds., and Deborah S. Bosley's Global Contexts:
Case Studies in International Technical Communication. Books he has co-edited include Approaches to
Teaching Non-Native English Speakers across the Curriculum (Jossey-Bass, 1997) and Language Awareness: A
History and Implementations (Amsterdam University Press, 2000). Other publications appear in the Journal
for Business and Technical Communication, Business Communication Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of
English, and numerous other journals and books.
In the fall of 2008, he is teaching ENGL-209 Introduction to Linguistics and ENGL-467 English Studies
Capstone Experience; in spring 2009, ENGL-321 Writing in the Technical Professions, ENGL-360 Grammatical
Structures/English and ENGL-453/653 Social and Regional Varieties of English.
Updated August 29, 2007.