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About Me:
I am a Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where I study composition, digital rhetoric, technical communication, and digital multimodal composing and teach undergraduate courses on a range of topics from risk communication to electronic literature in the literature, composition, and Public & Professional Writing programs in the Department of English.
Before coming to Pitt in 2005, I spent over a decade as a paramedic, instructor, and emergency management specialist for emergency services and public policy agencies across New York State. During this time I participated in curriculum development for emergency responders, strategic- and tactical-level response planning for catastrophic mass casualty incidents, and public advocacy and education projects.
My research and teaching interests inhabit the intersections between these seemingly disparate fields. My dissertation, On Operational Rhetorics: Protocol, Procedure, and Technical Communication in Disaster Management, studies the rhetorical functions of protocol and procedure in disaster planning.
