Adam Banks Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education Adam J. Banks is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education and new Faculty Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Prior to arriving at Stanford he served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky and the Syracuse University Writing Program. He is the author of Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age and Race, Rhetoric and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground, which was awarded the Computers and Composition 2007 Best Book Award.