For more than a decade, Zuern‘s teaching and scholarship has gravitated toward the rhetoric and aesthetics of digital art, theories of hypertext and multimedia writing, and philosophical — especially ethical — issues connected with technology. With a background in graphic design, he tries to import the best elements of the studio model of instruction with students in literature and writing classes. As chair of the Educational Planning and Policy Committee, he guided the committee through the development of a set of criteria for evaluating a new proposal for computer-mediated courses, in particular, distance-learning courses.