Faculty Research Interests
Faculty members in the Professional Writing program bring in-depth backgrounds throughout a broad scope of research interests, to develop students’ capabilities in communicating complex information with clarity for a variety of subjects, audience levels, and purposes.
| Faculty Member |
Research Interest |
| Chrysanthe Demetry |
- Women in engineering and outcomes of K-12 outreach
- Materials science and engineering education
- Pedagogical research, course design, and measurement of student learning
- Project-based learning
- Experiential international education
|
| Jennifer deWinter |
- Computer game theory
- Cultural studies
- Writing assessment
- Computer game development
- Professional writing
|
| Michael Elmes |
- The role of place in business research and education
- Social entrepreneurship
- Workplace governance, control, and resistance
- Business education including ethics and social entrepreneurship
- Leading organizational change
- Organizational resilience
|
| Brent Faber |
- Organizations and change
- Health care systems
- Epistemology
- Analytics, metrics
|
| Lorraine D. Higgins |
- Rhetoric and composition
- Writing across the curriculum
- Medical communication
|
| Ryan Smith Madan |
- Politics of language and education
- Cultures of scholarship and cultures of teaching
- Narrative knowledge-making; narrative-writing pedagogies
- Two-year-college composition
- Post-colonial theory
|
| Angel A. Rivera |
- Modernity and modernization
- Caribbean literature
- Film studies
- Gender studies
- Literary theory
|
| Scott P. Runstrom |
- Information architecture
- User and task analysis
- Digital media and online communication
- Usability testing
|
| Ruth Lynette Smith |
- Moral grammars and rubrics of abstraction
- Social contracts and civil discourse criteria
- Constructions of moral and rhetorical agency
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