My teaching history includes four years teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in technical and professional communication practices. These courses involve a theoretical and practical assessment of language usage as it is understood through existing and emerging media, and through social contexts. My primary research area is in the application and reception of nontraditional content/medium pairings. Particularly, my interests are in how government and workforce cultures use media to shape, modify, or reform both internal and external practices; the material history of texts; and reader/artifact relationships. In writing my dissertation I explored how the Declaration of Independence, as a new genre in political discourse, influences global relations. Beyond the dissertation and classroom, I am active within the local community. My involvement includes appointments to the planning board, zoning board of adjustment, and chamber of commerce. Currently I'm working with our state colonial history museum on a book preservation project.
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