Research Areas
My major areas of research within rhetoric and composition include technical communication, visible rhetorics, women’s and gender studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. I am also interested in medical and health rhetorics, journalism, and teaching composition.
Journalism Publications
I have several years of experience in journalism and files of publications to match; journalism publication information is available upon request. Those interested may be able to find articles by searching my name at www.lincolncourier.com, where I was most recently employed in the journalism field.
Selected Scholarly Publications
“Seeing and Knowing the Womb: Examining Rhetorics of Fetal Ultrasound toward a Decolonization of Women’s Bodies.” Co-authored with Angela Haas, Ph.D. Under review at Rhetoric Review.
“Review of Bray, Francesca. (1997). Technology and gender: Fabrics of power in late imperial china. Berkeley: U of California P.” Computers and Composition. Forthcoming December 2010.
“Navigating Genre: How A Technological Pedagogy Can Empower Millennials.” Proceedings of the 75th Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication Conference. October 2010.
Selected Presentations
International
“Navigating Genre: How A Technological Pedagogy Can Empower Millennials.” The 75th Annual Convention
of the Association for Business Communication Conference, Chicago. October 2010.
National
“Poaching (Re)Production: Why FYC Needs Medical Rhetoric.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication 2011, Atlanta, GA. Co-presenter with Marie Moeller and Barbara Heifferon on panel entitled
“Widening the Community: Re-thinking and Re-framing Medical Rhetoric/Writing.” Accepted for presentation
March 2011.
“Prescription and Poaching: An Examination of How Chinese and American Women Make Sense of Reproduc-
tive Technologies and Cultures,” Computers and Writing 2010, Purdue University. May 2010.
“Race, Rhetoric, & Technology: Case Studies of Decolonial Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy.” Co-present-
er with Angela Haas and Jonathan Myers. Computers and Writing 2010, Purdue University. May 2010.
Regional/Local
“Poaching (Re)Production: A Feminist Proposal for the Analysis of Health Rhetoric in Community-Centered
FYC Classrooms,” New Directions Conference, Illinois State University, February 2009.
“Prescription and Poaching: How do Chinese and American Women Make Sense of Reproductive Technolo-
gies?,” Women and Gender Studies Symposium, Illinois State University, 2010.
“Teaching in Four Colors: Using Multi-modal Texts in the Classroom,” Graduate English Organization Confer-
ence, Truman State University, April 2009.
Webs
Visit my blog site to see a listing of websites I've created. I create websites using Dreamweaver, GoLive, or web-based applications.