James P. Purdy is an American scholar of writing and rhetoric. He is a professor of English/Writing Studies at Duquesne University and director of its writing center, and serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition: An International Journal and Writing Spaces.
Purdy received his BA in English from Pennsylvania State University (2000) and his MA and PhD in English/Writing Studies from the ...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001, 2006). He has authored and co-authored articles on writing, pedagogy, and Wikipedia, is the co-author of The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making, and is the co-editor of four collections on digital scholarship. He later co-authored Are We There Yet? Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher EducationâÂÂTwenty Years Later (2021) with Jennifer Marlow.