Lisa Dush

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Writing, Rhetoric, and DiscourseAssociate ProfessorFaculty
DegreesPhD, English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Office
SAC 355

BIO

Research Interests

Writing in nonprofits; New media and digital writing; Digital storytelling

Courses Recently Taught

  • WRD 532: Content Strategy
  • WRD 526: Grant and Proposal Writing
  • WRD 521: Technical Writing
  • WRD 372: Digital Storytelling
  • WRD 286: Writing with Photographs

Recent Scholarship

Research Articles

  • Dush, L. (2022). “The art of assembly: Script, platform, document." Technical Communication Quarterly.
  • Dush, L. (2022). "A community of practice design for capacity-building programs: The Chicago Peace Fellows." Community Development.
  • Dush, L. (2022). "Drawing into being: Charter graphics and their functions." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(2), 165-189.
  • Dush, L. (2017). "Nonprofit collections of digital personal experience narratives: An exploratory study." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31(2), 188–221.

Book Reviews

  • Dush, L. (2022). Book review: Rhetoric and guns, Eds. Lydia Wilkes, Nate Kreuter, and Ryan Skinnell. Technical Communication Quarterly.
  • Dush, L. (2022). Book review: Institutional literacies: Engaging academic IT contexts for writing and communication by Stuart A. Selber. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(1): 120–123.

Committees

  • College of LAS Personnel Committee
  • Teaching, Learning, and Technology Committee
  • Committee for Online Learning