His research interests include the rhetoric of digital interfaces, best practices for teaching digital composition, and the effects of technology on popular culture consumption and practices. Pepper earned his PhD from Purdue University where he received the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants’ Excellence in Graduate Instruction Award. His work can be found in the book collectionsWriting the Digital Generation(2010) and CLASH!: Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching Students the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo(2011). His work has also appeared online in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric and Society (2013).