On June 11th 2013 in San Francisco, CA, Orla Minnie Elizabeth Gerben was born to two very happy parents. Orla is an Irish name meaning "golden princess," and Minnie and Elizabeth are the names of her great-grandmothers. Even though her daddy loves and studies the Internet, he's respecting her privacy and keeping her (and all of her personal information) offline at this time. She'll, no doubt, though, be blogging and Tweeting in no time.

Chris is excited to be joining the online faculty of New York University's new MS in Professional Writing program. Though he'll continue teaching full-time at Stanford, he'll begin teaching online courses in rhetoric and style at NYU in Spring 2014. Read more about the new program here.

Chris is happy to see a second co-authored piece in 2013 with Steven J. Engel published in the form of a chapter in the book "Terms of Play" on language in videogame theory. Their chapter, entitled "Rule-Playing: Gamers' Roles in Interacting with the Rules of Play" looks at how gamers interact with the rules of games and academic settings, often in contradictory ways.

Celebrating the new year, Chris welcomed the Tigers back by watching their first win of the season. On to the first ever 162-win campaign.

Along with his old UMich pal, Steve, Chris published a piece in the 2012 CCCC IP Annual. Their piece looked at the blurry boundaries between plagiarism and collaboration in the "Harvard Cheating Scandal." You can read and download the entire thing here.