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As Associate Professor of Technical and Professional Communication in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, I study the impact that technologies and policies have on diverse publics within the contexts of medicine, urban development, and political discourse. Previously, I was a faculty member in the English Department at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN, where I developed an undergraduate professional writing major, coordinated the Academic Development Program (UST's Basic Writing program), and served as interim chair of the English Department. I also currently serve as the co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal. 

I have taught graduate courses on political rhetoric, writing for health & medicine, and technical comics in TPC; as well as undergraduate courses in grant writing; business writing; and race, gender, and technology; among others. My goal in these courses has been to teach students the rhetorical work that documents perform so that they carefully consider how they write, design, edit, and structure the artifacts that they produce—whether they are digital, visual, textual, collaborative, etc.