U. of California Professor Paul Dourish: the Sexiest Man Alive?

Paul Dourish, an informatics professor at the University of California at Irvine, appears to be attracting a fan base among scholars, according to Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the university. In a blog post this week, she observes that Mr. Dourish, whose research centers on human-computer interaction, has inspired a “has a posse” sticker in his name and an “I Heart Paul Dourish” confession from a new-media scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

“I’ve served on committees with Dourish and think [his book], Where the Action Is is a good read, but I probably couldn’t tell you his height, weight, or eye color,” Ms. Losh writes. “Have I missed something about my supposed heartthrob colleague?” —Andrea L. Foster