Maria Novotny

Education

• PhD, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University
• MA, Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy, Michigan State University

Teaching Schedule

Courses Taught

•           ENG 207 Health Science Writing

•           ENG 427 Writing for Nonprofits: Social Media Content

•           ENG 430 Advanced Writing Workshop

•           ENG 443 Grant Writing

•           ENG 444 Technical Editing

•           ENG 449 Internship in the Humanities

•           ENG 701 Writing Pedagogies

•           ENG 712 Cultural Rhetorics

•           ENG 713 Research Methods in Rhetorics, Litearcies, and Community Engagement

•           ENG 749 Advanced Internship in Writing and Community Engagement

•           ENG 755 The Social Justice Turn in Technical and Professional Communication

•           ENG 854 Community Litearcies & Writing          

   

   

Research Interests

As a scholar trained in writing, rhetoric, and professional communication, my interdisciplinary research agenda considers the nexus of reproductive loss and infertility, reproductive health technologies and data collection, health advocacy, and patient lived experience. Through community-engaged methods, my scholarship articulates a rhetorics of care framework that centers the knowledge-making practices of reproductive health communities in rhetorical research and identifies community-based methodologies to enhance the decision making and consent practices of research subjects and communities. My focus on care is intentional given the prevalence of healthcare across my research paradigm. Three primary questions orient the inquiry that I conduct:

·       How do persons use writing and rhetoric tools to navigate barriers to reproductive care?

·       How may writing, rhetoric, and technical communication research effectuate care in reproductive health communities?

·       What new methods/olgies, practices, and/or forms of scholarship may be required to support care as an outcome in humanities-based research?

These guiding research questions informing my scholarship reflect the publications I have produced in the fields of rhetoric of health and medicine, cultural and feminist rhetorics, and technical and professional communication.

Selected Publications