Key Faculty Publications

Reflection-in-Motion, by Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, considers how reflection is embedded in the daily course happenings in first year writing classrooms. She investigates how students and teachers define, identify, and practice reflection at three MSIs across the U.S., and then use that data to make suggestions about how to make space for the multitude of ways reflection is practiced. The book offers an intersectional feminist perspective of what it means to research reflection, and it concludes with pedagogical implications for teachers who want to be inclusive of students’ epistemologies.

City Housekeeping, by Liane Malinowski, uses feminist rhetorical historiography to examine how women, particularly those connected to Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago, reinterpreted gendered labor. It shows how they created space to articulate demands, negotiate with employers, and challenge industrial progress narratives amid the ethnic and racial tensions of mass migration, increased competition for work, housing, and visibility in the quickly expanding city.

Dan Card's chapter, "Boundary Waters: Deliberative Experience Design for Environmental Decision Making," is included in the collection,Technical Communication for Environmental Action. This essay collection explores how technical communication addresses complex environmental problems like climate change by examining the practice of international technical communicators in government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors, applying theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics to shape pragmatic environmental action.

In Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication: Designing Ethical Futures, Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen enable readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence. The core of our human experience and identity is forever affected by the rise of augmentation technologies that enhance human capability or productivity. These technologies can add cognitive, physical, sensory, and emotional enhancements to the body or environment. This book covers the benefits, risks, and relevance of emerging augmentation technologies such as brain-computer interaction devices for cognitive enhancement; robots marketed to improve human social interaction; wearables that extend human senses or overcome physical limitations; implantables that amplify intelligence or memory; and devices or algorithms for emotional augmentation. It allows scholars and professionals to understand the impact of these technologies, improve digital and Al literacy, and practice new methods for their design and adoption.

In Stigma Stories, Molly Margaret Kessler examines ostomies and GI conditions to argue that stigma is central to chronic illness. Based on a multi-year study involving interviews, observations, and rhetorical analysis of public health campaigns and digital content, Kessler proposes a rhetorical praxiographic approach to understand how stigma is enacted and countered. Drawing on rhetoric of health and medicine, disability studies, narrative medicine, and sociology, the book offers an innovative look at stigma's individual, interpersonal, and societal functions, showing how lived experiences can inform its dismantling.

John Logie's Writing in the Clouds explores how contemporary, internetworked writing technologies are profoundly changing composition and challenging our reliance on paper. Unlike the focus on digital composition in the 80s and 90s, this book addresses the shift to cloud-based writing, evidenced by the rise of ebooks and tablets and a decline in US paper use. Recognizing their work may never be printed, writers exploit digital affordances. The book provides history, analysis, and keywords to navigate these changes and prepare for the opportunities of cloud-based writing.