Lecturer, Writing<\/p>\n
Amy Propen earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota in 2007. She also holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Geography and English from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on how visual, material, and written artifacts and genres function rhetorically to give voice to underrepresented groups or allow for the creation of new knowledge-making practices. Underpinning my scholarly work is the notion that rhetoric and technical communication can function in the service of advocacy. Her research interests include visual and material rhetorics, environmental rhetorics, digital and posthuman rhetorics, rhetoric and technical communication as advocacy work,\u00a0writing in the disciplines, classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, animal studies, human geography, critical cartographies, and critical GIS.<\/p>\n