Anne R. Richards, Ph.D. (Iowa State University)

Anne R. Richards, Assistant Professor of English, is a member of the applied writing faculty. She holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and professional communication, an M.A. in teaching English as a second language (both from Iowa State University), and a B.A. in religious studies (from Grinnell College). Before joining the KSU faculty, Anne was a technical editor and then marketing director for a scientific nonprofit organization. She also served as an editorial consultant for the Asian Development Bank. Anne enjoys teaching about digital media (especially the rhetorics of visuality and aurality) and gender and multicultural studies, and her MAPW classes frequently address these topics. Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication, which she co-edited with Carol David, was published by Parlor Press in 2008; and she hopes to see Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, co-edited with Adrienne Lamberti, published in 2009-2010. Anne has published or has forthcoming three articles in Technical Communication Quarterly, including one on music in multimedia. She enjoys reading, thinking, and writing along interdisciplinary lines and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on interdisciplinary themes, including articles on Christian rhetoric in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the lack of attention to postcolonial perspectives in ESL curricula in the United States, and the importance of inner necessity to the construction of a rhetorician's research agenda. Anne is an active member of KSU's programs in peace studies and in gender and women's studies. During the 2006-2007 school year, she served as a Fulbright teaching fellow in Tunisia.

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