Geoffrey Sauer

Geoffrey Sauer
Geoffrey Sauer, presenting at an IEEE Conference
Born	October 10, 1968 Bloomington, Indiana
Occupation	ProfessorIowa State University
Title	Director, EServer.org
Website	http://home.eserver.org/geoff/

Geoffrey Sauer (born 1968 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American new media theorist who researches technologies including open source software and collaborative multimedia development in the context of the history of publishing. He is the director of the open-access electronic text archive the EServer, an electronic text archive, which is according to Alexa the most popular website in the arts and humanities. He is also the director of the Studio for New Media at Iowa State University, as well as an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication in the ISU English Department.

Sauer was born in 1968 in Bloomington, Indiana, and grew up from age three in Mobile, Alabama, the son of an English professor (David) and an academic librarian (Janice). He began working at age eight on his father's accounts on PDP-11 and VAX-11/750 minicomputers at his father's university.

Sauer attended the University of Notre Dame's Honors Program and there was influenced by the work of scholars such as Jacques Derrida, and Pierre Bourdieu. In 1990 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study at Carnegie Mellon University and in 1998 received a PhD in Literary and Cultural Theory, with a dissertation about miscommunication between employees and managers in 1990s Internet projects, and its origins in British and French publishing history.