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Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Technical and Professional Communication, 2018-present
Affiliate Faculty in Rhetoric and Composition & Ethnic Studies
Department of English
Thomas Harriot College of Art and Sciences
East Carolina University

Assistant Professor, Technical and Professional Communication, 2013-2018

Department of English
Thomas Harriot College of Art and Sciences
East Carolina University

Instructor, Technical Communication, 2011-2013

Department of Technical Communication
School of Letters and Sciences
Arizona State University

Graduate Assistant, Rhetoric and Composition, 2008-2013

Department of English
College of Art and Sciences
Illinois State University

Education
Ph.D., English Studies, Illinois State University, 2013
Dissertation title: “Theorizing an Apparent Feminism in Technical Communication”
Winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication
Graduate Certificate, Women’s and Gender Studies, Illinois State University, 2013
M.A. English, Professional Writing and Rhetorics, Illinois State University, 2009
B.A. English, Composition, Truman State University, 2007
B.A. Communications, Journalism, Truman State University, 2007
Minor Concentration, Spanish, Truman State University, 2007

Publications
Edited Collection
Frost, E. A. & M. F. Eble (Eds.). (forthcoming). Interrogating Gendered Pathologies. Utah State
University Press.
Edited Special Issue

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 Meloncon, L., & Frost, E. A. (Eds.). (2015). The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine [Special issue].
Communication Design Quarterly, 3(4).
Novotny, Maria, De Hertogh, Lori Beth, & Frost, E. A.. (Forthcoming Fall 2020). Rhetorics of
Reproductive Justice in Public and Civic Contexts. [Special issue]. Reflections: A Journal of
Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric.
Frost, E. A., Patterson, GPat, & Moeller, M. (TBA). Inclusivity in the Rhetorics of Health and
Medicine. [Special issue].
Chapters
Frost, E. A. (2018). “Apparent feminism and risk communication: Hazard, outrage, environment,
and embodiment.” In Angela M. Haas & Michelle F. Eble (Eds.), Key theoretical contexts:
Teaching technical communication in the twenty-first century. Logan: Utah State University
Press.
DeAngelis, C., & Frost, E. A. (2017). “A Rhetorical approach to scientific communication pedagogy
in face-to-face and digital contexts.” In Kathryn Northcut & Han Yu (Eds.), Scientific
communication: Principles, practices, and methods. New York: Routledge Studies in
Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture.
Haas, A. M. & Frost, E. A. (2017). Toward an apparent decolonial feminist rhetoric of risk. In Derek
Ross (Ed.), Topic-driven environmental rhetoric (pp. 168-186). New York: Routledge Studies
in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture. Honorable Mention, 2018 CCCC
Technical and Scientific Communication Awards, Best Original Collection of Essays in
Technical or Scientific Communication.
Frost, E. A. & Sharp-Hoskins, K. (2015). “Authorial ethos as location: How technical manuals
embody authorial ethos without authors.” In Amy Robillard & Ron Fortune (Eds.),
Authorship contested: Cultural challenges to the authentic, autonomous author (pp. 71-
88). London: Routledge.
Articles
Pennell, T., Frost, E. A. & Getto, G. (2018). “Valuing Contra-Professionalization: Analyzing
Successful Professionalization Practices in Technical and Professional Communication.”
Programmatic Perspectives 10(2): 71-99. [See associated grant.]
Frost, E. A. & Haas, A. M. (2017). “Seeing and knowing the womb: Examining rhetorics of fetal
ultrasound toward a decolonization of women’s bodies.” Computers and Composition: An
International Journal, 43, 88-105.
Frost, E. A. (2016). “Apparent feminism as a methodology for technical communication and
rhetoric.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 30(1): 3-28.
Moeller, M. E. & Frost, E. A. (2016). “Food fights: Cookbook rhetorics, monolithic constructions of
womanhood, and field narratives in technical communication.” Technical Communication
Quarterly, 25(1), 1-11. **Selected for Best of Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2017 **
Meloncon, L. & Frost, E. A. (2015). “Charting an emerging field: The rhetoric of health and
medicine and its importance in communication design.” Communication Design Quarterly,
3(4), 7-14.
Combs, S., Frost, E. A., & Eble, M. F. (2015). “Collaborative course design in scientific writing:
Experimentation and productive failure.” Composition Studies, 43(2).

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 Frost, E. A. (2015). “Apparent feminist pedagogies: Embodying feminist pedagogical practices at
East Carolina University.” Programmatic Perspectives, 7(2), 110-131.
Frost, E. A. & Eble, M. F. (2015). “Technical rhetorics: Making specialized persuasion apparent to
public audiences.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 4(2).
Frost, E. A. (2014). “An apparent feminist approach to transnational technical rhetorics: The
ongoing work of Nujood Ali.” Peitho, 16(2), 183-199.
Frost, E. A. (2014). “Apparent feminist pedagogies: Interrogating technical rhetorics at Illinois
State University.” Programmatic Perspectives, 6(1), 110-131.
Frost, E. A. (2013). “Transcultural risk communication on Dauphin Island: An analysis of ironically
located responses to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Technical Communication Quarterly,
22(1), 50-66.
Frost, E. A. (2011). “Why teachers must learn: Student innovation as a driving factor in the future
of the web.” Computers and Composition, 28(4), 269-275.
Frost, E. (2010). “Visual culture and the Alice books: How John Tenniel changed text-image
relationships.” Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Technical Communication and Writing Journal,
6(2).
Proceedings
Frost, E. A. (2019). “Invitation to Enact Resistance.” CPTSC 2018 Conference Proceedings.
Frost, E. A. (2014). “Case study research and experiential knowledges.” CPTSC 2013 Conference
Proceedings.
Frost, E. A. (2013). “Apparent feminism: Technical communication's obligation to intervene in
public rhetorics.” CPTSC 2012 Conference Proceedings.
Frost, E. (2010). “Navigating genre: How a technological pedagogy can empower Millennials.”
Proceedings of the 75th Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication
Conference.
Reviews
Frost, E. A. (2019). “Review of Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies. Southern Illinois University
Press.” Peitho 21(2). 538-546.
Frost, E. A. (2017). “Review of Bounding biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of
Alternative Medicine. University of Chicago Press.” Rhetoric Review 36(2). 182-185.
Frost, E. A. (2016). “Review of Rhetorical accessability: At the intersection of technical
communication and disability studies. Baywood.” Journal of Technical Writing and
Communication 46(2).
Frost, E. A. (2016). “Review of Rhetoric of pregnancy. Baywood.” Journal of Business and Technical
Communication 30(1), 113-118.
Frost, E. A. (2013). “Review of toward a technofeminist ethic of care.” Sweetland Digital Writing
Collaborative. http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org.
Frost, E. A. (2013). “Review of pedagogies of science and medical writing.” Sweetland Digital
Writing Collaborative. http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org.
Frost, E. A. (2012.) “Review of differential makings: Enacting theories of raced experience in
digital writing research and pedagogy.” Sweetland Digital Writing Collaborative.
http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org.
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 Frost, E. A. (2010). “Review of Bray, Francesca. (1997). Technology and gender: Fabrics of power in
late imperial china. Berkeley: U of California P.” Computers and Composition, 27(4), 324-
327.
Grants
Eble, M. F., Caswell, N. I., & Frost, E. A. (2015). “Stigma, Cake, and Death Cafes: Medicolegal
Literacies and End-of-life Rhetorics.” National Endowment for the Humanities. [Requested
$292,576; not awarded]
Frost, E. A., Getto, G., & Pennell T. (2014). “Analyzing Successful Professionalization Practices in
Technical and Professional Communication.” Council for Programs in Scientific and
Technical Communication. [Requested and awarded $1,500]
Frost, E. A. (2014). “Using Active Learning to Develop Leadership Abilities of Students in English
3820: Scientific Writing.” BB&T Center for Leadership Development. [Requested $1,000;
not awarded]
Frost, E. A. (2014). “Writing in Professional Contexts, Situated Learning, and Usability: Facilitating
Authorship Practices for Business Writing Students.” ECU Teaching Grants Committee.
[Requested $2,777; not awarded]

Presentations
National & International Conferences
“Digital Resistance to Reproductive Injustice.” Mini-workshop. Co-presenter with Sharon Yam,
Bethany Johnson, Marika Seigel, Lori Beth De Hertogh, Maria Novotny. Computers &
Writing, East Lansing, MI, June 2019.
“Performing Good Feminist in Textbook Writing.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Philadelphia, PA, March 2019.
“The Impact of Medical Imaging on Bodily Matters.” Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY,
October 2018.
“Decolonizing Technical Communication Syllabi.” Co-panelist with PhD students Alicia Hatcher,
Temptaous McKoy, Cecilia Shelton, and associate professor Matt Cox on a panel designed to
showcase graduate student cohort development and pedagogical mentoring called
“Invitation to Enact Resistance.” Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication, Minneapolis, MN, October 2018.
“Using Feminist Methodologies to Build Healthcare.” Co-panelist with Dawn Opel. Feminisms and
Rhetorics, Dayton, OH, October 2017.
“North Carolina’s Anti-Trans House Bill 2: Realizations, Reflections, and Resistance.” Console-ing
Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism.
July 2017.
“Enabling Inclusive Interface Design: The Emotional Turn in Wearable Technologies.” Co-
presenter with Nicole I. Caswell and Michelle F. Eble. Computers & Writing, Findlay, OH,
June 2017.
“Sociomedico Slippage: Consent and Digital Medical Imaging.” Co-panelist with Amy Koerber, Lori
Beth De Hertogh, Sheri Rysdam on “Reproductive Discourses as Sites for Rhetorical

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 Cultivation of Social Action.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Portland, OR, March 2017.
“Building and Sustaining Scientific Writing Curricula in Technical Communication Spaces.”
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Savannah, GA, October
2016. [Accepted; not presented. CPTSC cancelled for Hurricane Matthew.]
“Complicating Standard Care: Changing Public Discourses Through Medical Digital Imaging
Technologies.” Member of the Medical Rhetorics SIG Roundtable: “Rhetorics of Health and
Medicine: A Roundtable Examining The Breadth And Future Actions of an Emerging Sub-
Field.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, April 2016.
“Apparent Feminism and Risk Communication: Hazard, Outrage, Environment, and Embodiment.”
Member of Roundtable: “Social Justice Curricula & Pedagogy: Preparing Technical
Communicators for Active & Responsible Advocacy.” Association of Teachers of Technical
Writing, Houston, TX, April 2016.
“Feminist Methodologies, Class Action Lawsuits, and Making Collaborative Spaces.” Co-panelist
with Marie Moeller and Gina Kruschek on “Women’s Ways of Making It Through Role-
Perception: How Complementary Feminist Methodologies Can Re-Orient Fashion,
Cookbooks, and Legal Rhetorics.” Feminisms and Rhetorics, Tempe, AZ, October 2015.
“Risks to Embodiment and Environment: Evolving Rhetorics in an Online Graduate Course in Risk
Communication.” Co-panelist with Tim Amidon, Chris Brandmeier, and Michelle Eble on
“ Constructing Participatory Infrastructures: Engaging Communities that Mediate Risk
through Communications and Technologies.” Conference on Community Writing, Boulder,
CO, October 2015.
“System Error: An Apparent Decolonial Feminist Response to the Co-Option of Risk.” Co-panelist
with Angela Haas, Flourice Richardson, and Donnie Johnson Sackey on “Bodies of Public
Interest: Rhetorics of Risk and Social Justice.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Tampa, FL, March 2015.
“Not Normally Valued: Queering Methodologies, Risky Research, and Institutional Review Boards.”
Co-panelist with Matt Cox and Michelle Eble. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing,
Tampa, FL, March 2015.
“Integration, Connections, and Contexts: (Re)designing Texts and Institutional Spaces for a
Business Writing Course.” Co-panelist (with Matt Cox and Michelle Eble). Council for
Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Colorado Springs, CO, September
2014.
“Teaching from an Apparent Feminist Body.” Co-panelist (with Michelle Eble, Flourice Richardson,
and Matt Cox). “New Points of Access: Integrating Theoretical Frameworks for Teaching
Technical Communication.” Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Indianapolis, IN, March 2014.
“Efficiencies of Health and Risk: Data and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Co-panelist (with
Marie Moeller and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins). “Cultural Data-Shaping: On Embodied Technical
Communication, Identification, Visualization, and Risk.” Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing, Indianapolis, IN, March 2014.
“Case study research and experiential knowledge: Required for graduation?” Co-panelist (with
Barbi Smyser-Fauble and Katrina Dunbar). “Reflections on Methods Education Necessary in
Technical and Scientific Communication Curricula.” Council for Programs in Technical and
Scientific Communication, Cincinnati, OH, October 2013.
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 “Complicating Efficiency: An Apparent Feminist Perspective on Risk Mediation.” Co-panelist (with
Marie Moeller and Abby Dubisar). “Complicating Composition: Technical Communication’s
Investments in Public Discourses, Metaphors, and Gendered Bodies.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, March 2013.
“Apparent Feminism: Technical Communication’s Obligation to Intervene in Public Rhetorics.” Co-
panelist (with Angela M. Haas, Flourice Richardson, Godwin Agboka, and Gerald Savage).
“Transgressing Business as Usual in Technical Communication Programs.” Council for
Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Houghton, MI, October 2012.
“Apparent Feminist Pedagogies: A New Theoretical Approach.” Graduate Research Network,
Raleigh, NC, May 2012.
“Forging Connections: Interlacing Feminisms, Technical Communication, and Gender Studies.” Co-
panelist (with Marie Moeller and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins). “Gateway to the Danger Zone:
Technical Communication’s Considerations of Feminisms, Relationships, Representations.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, March 2012.
“Taking Care To Avoid Constructions Of Monolithic Womanhood: Perspective-Based Critiques.”
Feminisms & Rhetorics, Mankato, MN, October 2011.
“Medical Check-In Kiosks and Patient Agency.” Co-panelist (with Lee Brasseur, Matthew Kim, and
Flourice Richardson). “Research Methods in Composition.” Computers & Writing, Ann
Arbor, MI, May 2011.
“Visioning Trans/Intercultural Communication: Ironic Reversal in the Responses of Citizens and
Authorities to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Graduate Research Network, Ann Arbor,
MI, May 2011.
“Poaching (Re)Production: Why FYC Needs Medical Rhetoric.” Co-panelist (with Marie Moeller
and Barbara Heifferon). “Widening the Community: Re-thinking and Re-framing Medical
Rhetoric/Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA,
March 2011.
“Local Versus Guerilla: Ironic Reversal in the Responses of Citizens and Authorities to the
Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” Co-panelist (with Susan Youngblood and Stevens Amidon).
“Meltdowns, Tornadoes, and Oil Spills, Oh My! New Perspectives in Risk Communication.”
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Atlanta, GA, March 2011.
“Navigating Genre: How A Technological Pedagogy Can Empower Millennials.” The 75 th Annual
Convention of the Association for Business Communication Conference, Chicago. October
2010.
“Prescription and Poaching: An Examination of How Chinese and American Women Make Sense of
Reproductive Technologies and Cultures.” Computers & Writing, West Lafayette, IN. May
2010.
“Race, Rhetoric, & Technology: Case Studies of Decolonial Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy.”
Co-panelist (with Angela M. Haas and Jonathan Myers). Computers & Writing, West
Lafayette, IN. May 2010.
Local & Regional Conferences
“Applying Ecological Economics to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” Teaching &
Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 2012.
“Playing Katniss Everdeen: Embodying the Uber-Feminist in The Hunger Games.” Midwest Modern
Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 2011.
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 “Back Away From the Bump: Re-Visualizing Representation of Pregnant Bodies.” Co-presenter
with Anjanette Riley and Adriene Galindo on collaboratively-produced panel entitled “New
Directions for Rhetorical Inquiry: Medical Rhetoric, Representations, and Deaf Culture.”
New Directions Conference, Normal, IL, February 2011.
“Tactical Teaching: Letting Student Intervention Guide Classroom Practice.” Poster presentation,
Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 2011.
“Poaching (Re)Production: A Feminist Proposal for the Analysis of Health Rhetoric in Community-
Centered FYC Classrooms.” New Directions Conference, Normal, IL, February 2009.
“Prescription and Poaching: How do Chinese and American Women Make Sense of Reproductive
Technologies?” Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium, Normal, IL, 2010.
“Inner Spaces: An Examination of Fetal Ultrasound Rhetoric.” Women’s and Gender Studies
Symposium, Normal, IL, April 2009.
“Teaching in Four Colors: Using Multi-modal Texts in the Classroom,” Graduate English
Organization Conference, Kirksville, MO, April 2009.
“Informed Consent: The Rhetoric of Fetal Ultrasound,” New Directions Conference, Normal, IL,
February 2009.
Invited Lectures and Workshops
“Feminisms, Ecologies, and the Deepwater Horizon disaster.” International Women’s Day
Celebration, East Carolina University, invited speaker. March 12, 2019.
“Feminist Credibility: Negotiating Subjectivity in Public Spaces.” Keynote Presentation [paid],
HASTAC Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop, June 2017.
“Food Fights: Monolithic Constructions of Womanhood, Feminist Reclaimings of Materials Genres,
and Cookbooks as Memory.” Keynote Presentation, English Studies At Large Conference,
Normal, IL, February 2015.
“Food Fights: Cookbook Rhetorics, Technical Communication, and Feminisms.” Faculty Speaker
Series, Department of English, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, February 2015.
“Navigating the Job Market,” English 8100: Professional Seminar, Spring 2015
“On Feminisms.” Guest Panel Participant in Kimberly Thompson’s Women’s Studies course, East
Carolina University, Fall 2014.
“Using Social Media Effectively.” Guest Lecture in Therese Pennell’s Writing for Business and
Industry course, East Carolina University, Fall 2014.
“Surviving Graduate School,” English 8100: Professional Seminar, Fall 2014
“CV Workshop.” English Graduate Student Organization. October 1, 2014.
“Developing An Online Identity Workshop” Doctoral English Student Organization. April 11, 2014.
“Feminisms and Risk Communication: Hazard, Outrage, Environment, and Embodiment,” Gender
to a Tea, invited speaker, April 17, 2014.
“Danger and the Internet: Why Internet Technologies are Not a Democratizing Medium.” Panel
title: Social Media Benefits & Challenges: Cyber Networking & Outreach; Cyber Bullying,
Stalking & Pornography. International Women’s Day Celebration, invited speaker. March 4,
2014.

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 “Workshopping your Social Media Plan,” University Writing Program Professional Writing
Workshop Series on Developing a Digital Portfolio. February 14, 2014
“Workshopping your Professional Website,” University Writing Program Professional Writing
Workshop Series on Developing a Digital Portfolio. February 21, 2014
“Workshopping your CV,” University Writing Program Professional Writing Workshop Series on
Developing a Digital Portfolio. February 28, 2014
“Maintaining Work/Life Balance: Teaching Writing Across the Disciplines, Professions, and
Genders.” University Writing Program. Oct. 8, 2014.
“Theorizing an Apparent Feminism in Technical Communication.” Guest Lecture in Angela Haas’s
History and Theory of Technical Communication course, Illinois State University, Fall 2014.
“Writing Manuscripts: From Abstracts to Publication.” Lunch and Learn, Vidant Medical Center,
presentations for health science researchers. April 17, 2014.
“From Research Idea to Research Plan.” Lunch and Learn, Vidant Medical Center, presentations for
health science researchers. April 3, 2014.
“Exploding Monocultures of Gender: Perspectives on Health and Medical Rhetorics.” Downtown
Dialogues, Greenville, NC. November 13, 2013.
“Developing a Digital Portfolio,” University Writing Center Grand Opening (Invited Presentations).
September 24 and 25, 2013
“Cultural Studies and Feminisms.” Guest Lecture in Matt Cox’s Cultural Studies in Technical and
Professional Communication course, East Carolina University, Fall 2013.

Teaching
East Carolina University, Fall 2013 – present
HNRS 2011: Public Relations & Leadership: Writing Science for/with the Public
I developed and taught this Honors College course to introduce students from various disciplinary
backgrounds to civic science, scientific literacy, writing for the public, and participatory action
research—including in-class field research at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC.
Students in this course also were partnered with graduate students in English 7765: Health and
Medical Rhetorics for a semester-long mentoring assignment.
ENGL 3820: Scientific Writing 

I have done significant work revitalizing this course, which is an important part of the curriculum
for pre-medical students (many of whom go on to work in underserved areas) and a writing
elective for students from various disciplinary backgrounds. The course introduces students to
systematic study of science writing and scientific writing. I have developed sections of this course
that focus on the development of a scientific article as well as sections with an explicit
concentration on civic science practices. I have led students in various sections of this course over
the past several years in engagin in peer review with students in other classes, editing a science
communication journal issue, and working on a client project regarding science curriculum for a
local grade school.
ENGL 3880: Writing for Business and Industry

I have assisted in revitalizing this course, which is a service course aimed mostly at business
majors. As part of this revitalization effort, I co-authored a custom textbook (see “Teaching
Publications” section) to lead instructors and students of this course through a rhetorical
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framework for technical communication that students then practice utilizing through complex
professional communication scenarios. The goal of this work was to integrate social issues and
technical considerations, rather than siloing knowledge into separate chapters.
ENGL 3885: Writing and Document Design

I developed and taught this course to introduce students from various disciplinary backgrounds to
document design and a semester-long study of the relationship between form and content.
ENGL 4885: Digital Writing

I developed and taught this course to introduce students to hypertext, digital writing, and the
digital humanities.
ENGL 4999: Professional Seminar

I developed and taught this course to help senior English majors develop professionalization
practices. This is a senior-level seminar in which students practice developing materials for job
applications, engage in mock interviews, and explore the career and life possibilities in a non-
linear field like English.
ENGL 6702/7701: Research Methods in Technical and Professional Communication

I first taught this graduate-level course as English 6702. Later, I participated (as an ad hoc
committee member) in a revision to the MA-level curriculum which re-defined this course and
several other research methods options. The resulting version of this course, which has been re-
numbered English 7701, explores various research methods in technical and professional
communication and asks students to reflect on the nature of those methods, study the
relationships between methods and theories, and practice methods-driven research.
ENGL 7750: Writing Public Science

I developed and taught this graduate-level course, which is a survey of civic science methods and
topics with emphasis on activism, rhetorical practice, and scientific literacy.
ENGL 7765: Health and Medical Rhetorics

I developed and taught this graduate-level course which included in-depth examination of
rhetorics and cultural practices surrounding health and medical issues. The course centers on
historical understandings of health and their influence everyday life and practice, how industry
interrelates with public health, and how medical discourses participate in the construction of the
body and what constitutes health in the social sphere. Students in one section of this course also
were partnered with graduate students in Honors 2011: Health and Medical Rhetorics for a
semester-long mentoring assignment.
ENGL 7765: Risk Communication

I developed and taught this graduate-level course, which brings together current understandings
of risk communication—its theories, methodologies, and ideologies—with the gendered realities
that both support and contradict particular understandings of risk to interrogate constructions of
risk that are situated historiographically and culturally. In one section of this course, I created an
online space (http://riskcomm7765.wordpress.com) where students did the bulk of our
community-based work. This requires students to think about risk at a meta-level, as they mediate
possible risks to their ethos in a public space. It also helps them to build ethos in the field, as this
public site creates a place for them to engage with the authors of the works they are reading. In
the very first week, for example, risk communication consultant Peter Sandman joined the
discussion. Perhaps just as importantly, learning to navigate this space shakes students out of
their preconceptions about course management systems and encourages them to see a wide
variety of digital technologies as spaces for intellectual and activist work.

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 ENGL 7780: Theory of Professional Communication 

I developed this course to survey theories relevant to the field of professional and technical
communication. The course focuses on four critical junctures: 1) the beginnings of the formalized
discipline in the post-WWII era 2) the social turn 3) the cultural turn and other modern
approaches 4) recent historiographical efforts to think about technical communication more
broadly. The course also investigates key terms for the field and requires attention to the
importance of technical communication pedagogy in the developing theoretical underpinnings of
professional communication.
ENGL 7790: Public Interest Writing

I developed and taught this graduate-level course, which takes a wide view of the domain of public
interest writing and includes study of public policy. I’ve taught sections of the course focused
especially on bioethics, medical technologies, and environment as well as legal rhetorics.
ENGL 8780: Technology, Communication, and Embodiment

I developed and taught this 8000-level seminar (8780 is the topics course Seminar in Professional
Communication) focused on the intersections of technical language, meaning-making via
technology, and cultures of embodiment including health and medical rhetoric.
ENGL XXXX: Directed Reading: Teaching Practical Writing: Technical and Professional
Communication and/in Prisons

I collaborated with a graduate student, Christian Matthews, to develop this course to support his
work going into a correctional facility to teach professionalization-oriented writing skills.
Illinois State University, August 2008 – June 2013
ENG 101: Composition as Critical Inquiry

I developed and taught this liberal arts requirement for all freshmen, which includes study of basic
composition, the modes of rhetoric, revision practices, peer review methods, MLA formatting and
style, and beginning critical theory.

ENG 101.10: Composition as Critical Inquiry


I developed and taught this alternative to English 101 with a co-teacher. This course differs from
English 101 in that it provides extra support for students by meeting five days per week rather
than two or three days per week.
WGS 120: Women, Gender, and Society 


I developed and taught this elective for students of all levels. This course examines how systems of
gender shape societies around the world and how individual and collective actions transform the
gender system of a society.
ENG 145: Writing in the Academic Disciplines
I developed and taught this introduction to research-based writing for multiple academic
audiences.
ENG 249: Technical and Professional Writing I

I developed and taught this introduction to technical and professional writing. This course
includes study of manuals, reports, proposals, audience analysis, formatting and style. I have
taught this course with special emphases on the relationship between form and content, the
importance of feminist perspectives, and the necessity of ethical considerations.
ENG 283: Rhetorical Theory and Applications

I developed and taught this course, which is a critical and analytical examination of the nature and

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 historical development of rhetorical theory and its applications to contemporary discourse. I have
taught this course with special emphases on feminist perspectives.
Arizona State University, Spring 2011 – June 2013
TWC 200: Impact of Communications Technologies on Society

I developed and taught this course, which focuses on organizational issues and the historical
development of technical communication.
TWC 361: Writing for Health Care Management

I collaborated with nursing faculty and taught this course for nursing professionals looking to
study strategies, formats, and techniques for effective writing and presentation of information. I
have taught this course to a wide-range of student audiences, including community college
students enrolled in a special program with ASU as well as many non-traditional students
returning to college after years of workplace experience.
TWC 401/501: Principles of Technical Communication

I developed and taught this course, which explores information design principles to produce
effective written, oral, and electronic technical communication as well as developing in students
an understanding of rhetorical and audience analysis.
TWC 421: Principles of Writing with Technology

I developed and taught this course, which focuses on understanding the historical and social
impact of technology on writing, with emphasis on multimedia design, computer-mediated
communication, and hypertext.
TWC 431: Principles of Technical Editing

I developed and taught this course, which introduces students to the basic principles of technical
editing (for print and electronic media) including copyediting, reviews, standards, style, and
project management.
TWC 451: Copyright and Intellectual Property in the Electronic Age

I developed and taught this course for both graduate and undergraduate students. This course
explores issues related to copyright and intellectual property laws, with emphasis on electronic
environments and authorship studies. This class moves from development of a historical
understanding of copyright and intellectual property law to theoretical and practical examinations
of its intersection with electronic media.

Teaching Publications
Davis, C., Kruschek, G., Cox, M. B., Frost, E. A., & Eble, M. F. (2018). Writing in professional contexts.
Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press. [custom textbook, not peer reviewed]
Frost, E. A. (Forthcoming). “Positionality.” In A. M. Blakeslee and C. Fleisher, Becoming a Writing
Researcher (pages forthcoming). Mahwah, NJ: Routledge. [textbook]

Advising
Dissertation Director
Abigail Morris. “Encouraging Preventative Action by Employing Effective Rhetoric in Public
Communication of the Zika Hazard and Associated Risks.” Defense expected Spring 2020.

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 Gina Kruschek. “Stigma in Healthcare Systems and the Rhetorics of Disclosure.” Defense expected
Summer 2019.
Carleigh Davis. “Mimetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication.” Summer 2018.
Alana Baker. “Pragmatic Feminist Empiricism: An Original Analytical Framework for Technical
Communication.” Spring 2017. *Winner of the 2019 East Carolina University Humanities and Fine
Arts Best Dissertation Award.
Dissertation Committee Member
Ruby Kirk Nancy. “Genre Fluidity and Writing Identity.” Defense expected Fall 2019.
Cecilia Shelton. “On Edge: A Techne of Marginality.” Defense expected Summer 2019.
Temptaous McKoy. “Y’all Call It Technical Communication; We Call It #ForTheCulture.” Defense
expected Summer 2019.
Kimberly Thompson. “Rhetorical Lifelines: Queer and Feminist Survival in Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose
of Versailles.” Spring 2019.
Janine Butler. “Integral Captions and Subtitles: Designing a Space for Embodied Rhetorics and
Visual Access.” Spring 2017.
Deborah Welsh. “‘Surprise! You’re Dead!’: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster and Opening
Statements in the Court of Public Opinion.” Fall 2014.
Comprehensive Examination Director
Abigail Morris. Spring 2018.
Gina Kruscheck, Fall 2017.
Alana Baker, Spring 2016.
Comprehensive Examination Committee Member
Ruby Kirk Nancy, Spring 2018.
Cecilia Shelton, Spring 2018.
Zach Lundgren, Spring 2018.
Carleigh DeAngelis, Fall 2017.
Kimberly Thompson. Spring 2015.
PhD Student Advisor & Annual or Preliminary Review Director
Gina Kruschek. Fall 2015.
Abigail Morris. Fall 2016.
PhD Student Preliminary Review Committee Member
Alicia Hatcher. Fall 2018.
Temptaous McKoy. Fall 2016.
Zach Lundgren. Fall 2016.
Cecilia Shelton. Fall 2016.
Stephanie West-Puckett. Fall 2014.
Thesis Director
Frances Norge. “Student Retention at Tidewater Community College: A Technical and Professional
Communication Aproach to Create a Comprehensive Document to Help Students Defeat Their
Obstacles and Stay in School.” Fall 2018.

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 Cecily Timmons. “The Rhetoric of Food and Health in the Southern Appalachians:
Building a framework for cultural understanding.” Fall 2017.
Norah Almutairi, Thesis Committee Chair. “Universal language.” Spring 2016.
Thesis Committee Member
Sterling James. “First Year Composition: Variations of Teaching Styles.” Spring 2017.
Candice Ratley. “Students’ Conceptions of Learning and Correlation Between Approaches to
Learning in Biology: A Descriptive Study.” Fall 2015.
Comprehensive Assessment Project Director
Christina Bundy. Expected Fall 2019.
Katie Baldwin. Spring 2019.
Maizul Cobeo. Spring 2019.
Elizabeth Cole. Spring 2019.
Stephanie Santiful. Spring 2019.
Rebecca Whitman. Summer 2018.
Linda Strauss. Fall 2017.
Kevin Welch. Fall 2017.
Joshua Gardner. Spring 2017.
Kimberly Guest. Fall 2015.
Melissa Lamaffar. Fall 2015.
Abigail Morris. Spring 2015.
Comprehensive Assessment Project Committee Member
Christian Matthews. Spring 2019.
Brittany Hart. Expected Fall 2018.
Wesley Carmichael. Expected Fall 2018.
Jamal-Jared Alexander. Fall 2017.
Wes Carmichael. Fall 2017.
Sarah Beth Robbins. Spring 2017.
Shane Combs. Spring 2015.
Cristy Binder. Spring 2015.
Kourtney Moore. Spring 2015.
Megan Rudolph. Fall 2014.
Graduate Assistant Mentoring/Supervising
Emily Tucker, Communications Assistantship. Summer 2018.
Gina Kruschek, Research Assistantship. Summer 2018.
Abigail Morris, Research Assistantship. Summer 2018.
Jamal-Jared Alexander, Research Assistantship. “Health Literacies.” Summer 2017 & Fall 2017.
Joshua Gardner, Directed Reading. “Feminist Rhetorics and Political Discourse.” Spring 2017.
Abigail Morris, Directed Reading. “Risk Communication.” Fall 2016.

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 Christina Rowell, Sponsored Project for Research and Creative Achievement Week. “The Rise of
the Fitbit: Body-Monitoring as Habit, Addiction, and Motivation.” Spring 2015.
Carleigh DeAngelis, Pedagogical Training for English 3820: Scientific Writing. Spring 2015.
Therese Pennell, Research Assistantship. “Analyzing Successful Professionalization Practices in
Technical and Professional Communication.” Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
Shane Combs, Research Assistantship. “Collaborative Course Design in Scientific Writing.” Summer
2014.
I have overseen 20 graduate assistantships in my role as Communicators Coordinator, which
entails training assistants in social media protocol and planning, institutional web authoring
software, and news writing as well as facilitating teamwork and introducing them to our
departmental culture.
• Sterling James, Spring 2016
• Emily Tucker, Fall 2017 • Joshua Gardner, Fall 2015
• Christian Matthews, Fall 2017 • Sterling James, Fall 2015
• Wes Carmichael, Spring 2017 • Gina Kruschek, Summer 2015
• Gabrielle Carrero, Spring 2017 • Carleigh DeAngelis, Summer 2015
• Emily Tucker, Spring 2017 • Abigail Morris, Summer 2015
• Amanda Smith, Fall 2016 • Abigail Morris, Spring 2015
• Gabrielle Carrero, Fall 2016 • Kristi Wiley, Spring 2015
• Amanda Smith, Summer 2016 • Thomas Cox, Spring 2015
• Sterling James, Summer 2016 • Rexford Rose, Spring 2015
• Joshua Gardner, Spring 2016

Undergraduate Advising
From 2017 to 2019 I regularly advised 12-15 undergraduate students.

Positions Held
Academic positions (non-teaching)
Graduate Assistant, Illinois State University Writing Program, August 2010 – May 2012. Conducted
observations of instructors, oversaw Illinois State’s writing labs, supported the technology needs
of approximately 40 graduate teaching assistants and 20 non-tenure track faculty, developed bi-
weekly professional development training modules for instructors, and maintained the Program’s
web presence.
Copy editor, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning In and Across the Disciplines, funded by the
Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, May 2011 – May 2012.
Performed comprehensive copy-editing for a book-length edited collection.
Website developer, Illinois State University Writing Program, May 2011 – May 2012. Proposed,
created, developed, usability tested, and maintained a new website for the Writing Program. Also
trained others in the use of this website.
Graduate co-copy editor, Gauisus: Selected Scholarship on Teaching and Learning at Illinois State
University, 2004-2009, funded by the Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning, January 2010 – May 2010. Performed comprehensive copy-editing for a book-length
edited collection. Also recruited and coordinated with an undergraduate co-copy editor.
Graduate Assistant, 2009 Graduate Research Network (GRN) Executive Committee, Computers &
Writing, University of California-Davis, January 2009 – May 2009. Assisted in the organization of
the 2009 GRN, including work on developing a logo.

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 Heartland Community College, Normal, IL College Reading and Learning Association certified
Master Tutor, August 2009 – June 2013
Writing tutor, University Center for Learning Assistance, Illinois State University, August 2008 –
December 2008
Related Employment
Communication Consultant, Tower Sign & Signal, Inc., Hettick, IL, July 2014 – present. Manage
website for private construction company.
Technical Communication Consultant, The Hile Group, Normal, IL, May 2008-July 2009.
News Editor, The Courier newspaper, Lincoln, IL, February 2008-August 2009.
Investigative reporter, The Courier newspaper, Lincoln, IL, August 2007-February 2008.
Editor in Chief, Detours magazine, Kirksville, MO, April 2006-May 2007.
Features Editor, Index newspaper, Kirksville, MO, December 2005-May 2006.
Freelance Movie Critic, August 2005-June 2007.
Copy editor, Detours magazine, Kirksville, MO, May 2005-April 2006.
Staff writer, Detours magazine, Kirksville, MO, May 2005-April 2006.
News reporter, Index newspaper, Kirksville, MO, January 2004-May 2004.

Institutional Service
Member, University Committee on Academic Integrity, Fall 2018 - present
Member, Ethnic Studies Committee, Spring 2019 – present
Presenter, Feminist Fridays, “Women and Gaming,” Women’s and Gender Office
Website Developer, East Carolina University Department of English, Summer 2018 (Optimize
English department website for software migration from Commonspot to Wordpress.)
Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, 2017-2018
Chair, Departmental Student Scholarships and Awards Committee, 2017-
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Proposal of Bachelor of Science in English, Spring 2017-
Founder & Facilitator, PhD Jobs Group (englishjobsgroup.wordpress.com), Fall 2015-
Member, PhD Program Working Group, Fall 2013-
Peer teaching observer, numerous departmental colleagues and students, Fall 2013-
Faculty Judge, Research and Creative Activity Week 2018
Communications Coordinator, East Carolina University Department of English, January 2015 –
December 2017 (Manage website, social media, public relations, and internal communications for
English department of 70+ faculty.)
Consultant, Campus Recreation and Wellness mission/vision/values revision, Spring 2017
Member, Departmental Student Scholarships and Awards Committee, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Member, Departmental Graduate Committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2017
Member, Search Committee for Chair of the English Department, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on MA Research Methods Courses, Fall 2014-Spring 2015

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 Ambassador, ECU Sponsorship of English Studies At Large Conference, 2014 & 2015
Moderator, English Graduate Student Organization Conference, 2014
Judge, ECU Women's History Month Essay Contest, Spring 2014
Co-organizer, International Women’s Day Celebration, March 4, 2014
Designer, graduate recruitment materials for 2014 & 2015 advertisements for the conference
program of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Designer, graduate recruitment flyers for PhD program and for all graduate programs

Professional Service
Conference on College Composition and Communication Technical and Scientific Communication
Awards Selection Committee Member, 2018-19
Peer Reviewer (Editorial Board Member), Technical Communication Quarterly, 2018 – present
Peer Reviewer (Editorial Board Member), Rhetoric Review, 2018 – present
Peer Reviewer (Editorial Board Member), Communication Design Quarterly, 2018 – present
Peer Reviewer (Editorial Board Member), Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology,
2018 – present
Reviewer, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Meeting 2019, Pittsburgh, PA
Occasional reviewer, Medical Humanities
Occasional reviewer, connexions international professional communication journal
Occasional reviewer, Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Occasional reviewer, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Occasional reviewer, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Occasional reviewer, World Medical and Health Policy
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Association for Business Communication, 2012 – 2017
Reviewer, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Meeting 2018, Kansas City, KS
Reviewer, Proposals for 2018 SIG Medical Rhetorics Special Interest Group Roundtable at the
College Conference on Composition and Communication
Reviewer, special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on “The Medical Humanities and/or
the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine”
Member, 2017 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium Program Committee
Reviewer, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Meeting 2017, Portland, OR
First-round reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Meeting
2017, Portland, OR
Reviewer, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference 2016, Ann Arbor, MI
Reviewer, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Annual Meeting 2016, Houston, TX
First-round reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Meeting
2016, Houston, TX

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 First-round reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Meeting
2015, Tampa, FL
Moderator, Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2015, Tampa, FL

Community Service
Regent, Susanna Coutanch Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 2019-2021
Contributing writer, Pitt County Women’s Journal, 2019 -
Vice Regent, Susanna Coutanch Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 2017-2019
Vice Chair Chapter Website Review, North Carolina Volunteer Information Specialists Committee,
Daughters of the American Revolution, 2018-2021

Professional Development
Leadership Development
East Carolina University Chancellor’s Leadership Academy, Spring 2017
BB&T Faculty Leadership Fellows Program, Spring 2016
Advanced Writing Across the Curriculum Academy, Summer 2015
Writing Across the Curriculum Academy, Spring 2015
Harriot College of Arts and Sciences College Faculty Leadership Seminar: Fostering Civic
Engagement in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fall 2014
Professional Development
Gold Faculty Writing Group, East Carolina University, April 2014-present
“Caring Science in Online Instruction.” Dr. Kathy Sitzman, Office for Faculty Excellence. Training
recorded Jan. 21, 2016; completed April 2, 2019.
“Using Text Expansion and Automation for Better Responses to Student Writing.” English Faculty /
Staff Development Series DE Workshop. Oct. 11, 2017.
Encouraging a Proactive Student Body in the Distance Education Classroom, Office for Faculty
Excellence, East Carolina University, Nov. 9, 2016
Grants in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Grants Program seminar, East Carolina University,
Fall 2015
SPSS Statistics Workshop, Office for Faculty Excellence, East Carolina University, Fall 2015
Conveying and Sustaining Caring in Online Classrooms, East Carolina University, Sept. 8, 2015
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory: Feminist Scholars Digital
Workshop, Summer 2015
Teaching Online, Office for Faculty Excellence workshop, East Carolina University, Fall 2014
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory: Feminist Scholars Digital
Workshop, Summer 2014
Re-envisioning Evaluation: Responding to Student Writers, Office for Faculty Excellence
workshop, East Carolina University, Spring 2014
QEP I: Metacognition and the Writing Intensive Course, Office for Faculty Excellence and the
University Writing Program workshop, East Carolina University, Spring 2014

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 QEP II: Strategies to Promote Metacognition in WI Courses, Office for Faculty Excellence and the
University Writing Program workshop, East Carolina University, Spring 2014
QEP III: Implementing Metacognition Assignment Workshop, Office for Faculty Excellence and the
University Writing Program workshop, East Carolina University, Spring 2014
Building the NIH Proposal, Grants Program seminar, East Carolina University, Fall 2013
RAMSeS Workshop, Grants Program workshop, East Carolina University, Fall 2013
Curriculum Development Workshop: Connections for Success, Office for Faculty Excellence
workshop, East Carolina University, Fall 2013
Online Teaching and Learning Workshop, Illinois State University, 2011
Assessment Workshop, Illinois State University, 2011
Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 2011
Safe Zone-trained GLBTQ Ally, Illinois State University, September 2011
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Summer Institute, Illinois State University, 2010
Sustainable Teaching, Learning, and Living Symposium, Normal, IL, 2010
Study Abroad, Salamanca, Spain, May 2004-July 2004
Professional Affiliations
Association for Business Communication
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Omicron Delta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Rhetoric Society of America
Sigma Tau Delta

Awards and Honors

2019 Inductee, Servire Society, East Carolina University (100+ hours of community service)
2018 Southeast Division Winner, Women’s Issues Essay Contest (Family division), Daughters of the
American Revolution
2017 Bertie Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English, East Carolina University
2017 Finalist, East Carolina University Alumni Association and Robert L. Jones Outstanding University
Teaching Award
2015 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication Winner
Sorenson Best Dissertation Award Nominee, Illinois State University
Invited Participant at International Symposium on Discourses of Health, Medicine, and Society: Emerging
Roles and Evolving Practices, Sept. 5-6, 2013, University of Cincinnati
Invited Participant at First International Critical Medical Humanities Symposium, Nov. 4-5, 2013,
Durham, UK.
Illinois State University Outstanding University Graduate Student Teaching Award Winner, 2010-2011
Illinois State University Outstanding Academic/Educational Program of the Year (awarded to Erin Frost
and Gretchen Frank for Sigma Tau Delta’s English Studies At Large Conference)
Future Alumni Leader Winner, Department of English, 2010-2011
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2010 Sigma Tau Delta Scholarship for Outstanding Service and Leadership in English Studies
First Place, News Reporting, 2009 Illinois Associated Press Editors Association
First Place, Staff General Excellence, 2009 Illinois Press Association Contest
Second Place, Staff General Excellence, 2008 Illinois Press Association Contest
Third Place, Most Innovative Project, 2008 Illinois Press Association Contest
Honorable Mention, Spot News Photography, 2008 Illinois Press Association Contest
2007 Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Grant
Apple Award for Best College Magazine Nationally, Detours Magazine, 2006 and 2007
First Place, Editorial Excellence, 2006 Illinois Associated Press Editors Association
Apple Award for Best College Newspaper Nationally, Index newspaper, 2005 and 2006
Truman State University President’s Honorary Full Tuition Scholarship, 2003-2007

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