Clay Spinuzzi is an associate professor of rhetoric at The University of Texas at Austin. Spinuzzi's interests include workplace communication and organization, technologically mediated work, and research methods and methodology. His book Tracing Genres through Organizations was published by MIT Press in 2003 and was named NCTE's 2004 Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication. His second book, Network, was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.