Selected Publications

“Technical Editing and Women Were Made for Each Other’: Ethaline H. Cortleyou’s Career Advice to Women in the Sciences.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 54.3 (2024), 282-303.

“History,” in H. Yu & J. Buehl (Eds.), Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication (Boulder, CO: WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2023), 135-144. [download]

"The Mandative Subjunctive in Technical Writing, or the Gap between Subconscious and Conscious Grammatical Knowledge," Technical Communication, 68.2 (2021): 59-84 (co-authored with Elizabeth Roberson).

Technical Editing: An Introduction to Editing in the Workplace (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) (co-authored with Donald H. Cunningham and Joyce M. Rothschild).

Transmedia, Participatory Culture, and Digital Creation, special issue of Technical Communication, 66.3 (2019) (co-edited with Daniel Reardon and David Wright). Winner of the 2021 CCCC Award for Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication.

"'Don't Be a Dilbert': Transmedia Storytelling as Technical Communication during and after World War II," Technical Communication, 66.3 (2019), 209-229. Winner of the 2021 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research in Technical and Scientific Communication. [download]

"'To Promote that Demand': Toward a History of the Marketing White Paper as a Genre," Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32.1 (2018), 113-147 (co-authored with David Wright).

"The Three Pillars of Sustainability as a Special Topic of Invention in the Marketing Communication of Plastic-Packaging Companies," in D. Ross (Ed.), Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric (New York: Routledge, 2017), 234-258  (co-authored with Shristy Bashyal).

"Quest for the Happy Ending to Mass Effect 3: The Challenges of Co-Creation with Consumers in a Post-Certeauian Age." Technical Communication Quarterly, 26.1 (2017), 42-58 (co-authored with Dan Reardon and David Wright).

"Eleanor McElwee and the Formation of IEEE PCS." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 4.2 (2015): 104-133.

"Women Organizers of the First Professional Associations in Technical Communication." Technical Communication Quarterly, 24.2 (2015): 121-146

"Elsie Ray and the Founding of STC." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 43.2 (2013): 121-143.

"The Role of Historical Study in Technical Communication Curricula." Programmatic Perspectives, 4.1 (2012): 42-87 (co-authored with David Wright).

"The First Wave (1953-1961) of the Professionalization Movement in Technical Communication." Technical Communication, 58.4 (2011): 300-322. [download]

"'Chrysler's Most Beautiful Engineer': Lucille J. Pieti in the Pillory of Fame." Technical Communication Quarterly, 19.2 (2010): 144-183. Winner of the 2012 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research in Technical and Scientific Communication.