Denise Tillery

Denise Tillery, Assistant Professor of English, Director of Technical Writing Program (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1999).

Research and Teaching Interests: History of scientific and technical literature, 17th-Century scientific discourse, environmental writing, technical editing, and document design.

Professional Experience: More than five years of technical writing and editing for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories; taught Basic Writing for New Mexico Governor's Career Development Conference, 1999; Seminar in "Principles of Editing" for STC OK April 2003.

Selected Publications: "Language, Power, and Professional Choices: A Hermeneutic Approach to Teaching Technical Communication." Technical Communication Quarterly 10 (2001): 97-116

"The Philosophical Language and Linguistic Corruption: Gender and the Speaker of John Wilkins's Language Project." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44, 2 (summer 2003)

"Radioactive Waste and the Rhetoric of Doubt: the Anti-Technical Technical Discourse of Environmental Groups" Technical Communication Quarterly (fall 2003)

"Reinventing Technical Communicators: Graduate Education and the Need for Academic Specialists in Technical Communication," with Brenda Camp Orbell. Article accepted for How We Dream Now: The Future of Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Susan Romano and Virginia Anderson (currently under consideration at Hampton Press).

"Margaret Cavendish, Natural Philosopher," Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, 1999.

Works in Progress: Women writers' appropriation of and resistance to the norms of Early Modern scientific discourse; environmental rhetoric