Dr. Nathan Johnson is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Florida. His research areas are institutional rhetorics, rhetorical theory/history, and science and technology studies. His first book, Architects of Memory, details turning points during the 20th century when mnemonic logics were built into modern information technologies. Architects makes a case for the centrality of rhetoric's art of memory in the development of data infrastructures. The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine recognized his book as an honorable mention for their 2021 Book Award. Dr. Johnson was recognized with the Rhetoric Society of America's Fellows' Early Career Award. He gave the 2018 Alice G. Smith Lecture, which honors a scholar or author whose achievements have been instrumental in the development of librarianship or information studies. He won the National Communication Association's Distinguished Book Chapter Award for Philosophy of Communication. Dr. Johnson's writing has appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Enculturation, Poroi, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and numerous other venues.