Virginia Tech
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Last updated: August 15, 2009
Research
My research areas include visual communication, intercultural communication, and pedagogy, all within the broader field of professional communication. Perhaps due to several years of industry-based work experience, my research interests tend to be pragmatically-oriented, leaning toward the applied rather than the highly theoretical. A group of past articles relies on quantitative experimental methods to investigate the rhetoric of typography-the impact of typeface persona on readers' interactions with a text. More recently, I have been focusing on visual communication pedagogy, specifically on the role of visual thinking and on the integration of the visual into professional and business writing courses. In addition, I am very interested in intercultural rhetoric and am exploring intersections between visual communication and intercultural communication.