Richard Matthew Doyle

Richard Matthew Doyle is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University's College of the Liberal Arts, with affiliate status in Information Science and Technology. He also serves as Digital Director of Zebrapedia.org. A scholar of rhetoric, science studies, and technoculture, his work bridges philosophy, biology, and media theory. His research explores how technological and biological systems interpenetrate human consciousness, evident in his trilogy on information biology: On Beyond Living, Wetwares, and Darwin's Pharmacy.

Education includes a BA from Georgetown University (1986), MA and PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley (1989, 1993), and a MIT postdoc in Science, Technology & Society (1994). His teaching spans diverse topics like nanotechnology, Sanskrit rhetoric, and Philip K. Dick studies. He has written extensively on cryonics, plant intelligence, and psychedelic ethnobotany, blending academic rigor with experiential inquiry.

Recent publications explore entheogenic healing (e.g., Healing with Plant Intelligence), the rhetoric of biotechnology (LSDNA), and posthumanist theory. His work often critiques how scientific models shape cultural perceptions of life and consciousness.