About
I am a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University where I specialize in professional and technical writing and medical rhetoric. My dissertation explores the networks of communication in emergency medical services (EMS) using ethnographic methods of participant observation, surveys, and interviews. By examining written and spoken discourse that occurs within EMS communication networks, my dissertation serves as an overview of EMS networks of communication.
I teach courses in business writing, business writing for international students, and technical writing. I have taught introductory composition and advanced composition for international students, and I also co-coordinate a writing across the curriculum component for an animal science genetics course at Purdue. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I am also the coordinator for the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).