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DÀNIELLE NICOLE DeVOSS
Associate Professor; Associate Chair; Director of Professional Writing
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/355-2400 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching interests: digital rhetoric; first-year composition; gender issues; professional/technical writing; technological literacies
courses: WRA 110 Writing: Writing Science and Technology; WRA 210: Introduction to Web Authoring; WRA 360: Visual Rhetoric for Professional Writers
At MSU, DeVoss has taught ATL 110: Writing Science and Technology; ATL 150: Writing Evolution of American Thought; AL 210: Introduction to Web Authoring; and AL 360: Visual Rhetoric for Professional Writers. Her research interests include computer/technological literacies; feminist interpretations of and interventions in computer technologies; philosophy of technology/technoscience; professional writing; technical communication; computer technologies in writing centers; gender/identity play in online spaces; online representation and embodiment; University partnerships with K-12, community, and industry institutions; and issues of rhetoric in disciplines such as nursing and medicine.
DeVoss’ work has most recently appeared in Computers and Composition; Journal of Business and Technical Communication; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; Sexuality and Culture; Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education, (2001, NCTE); and Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation (2001, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). DeVoss recently co-edited a collection on behavioral interventions in cancer care, Evidence-based Cancer Care and Prevention (2003, Springer Publishing).
Current research projects DeVoss is working on include an exploration of images of women and representations of women’s work in “office folklore”; analyses of composing in/with/through new media; and research exploring the burden family members face when providing care for cancer patients.
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