Katharine Hayhoe has impressive academic credentials. As a climate scientist, she has 125 peer-reviewed publications and serves as director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Hayhoe is also an excellent public communicator. Much of Hayhoe’s climate advocacy work happens in non-academic online spaces: Quora, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Hayhoe also identifies as an evangelical Christian and is known for her ability to convince fellow believers to take action. I am fascinated by Hayhoe’s ability to present herself not only as an accomplished scientist but also as a woman, a Canadian, and a believer. For communicators interested in…
Author: Megan Von Bergen
Megan Von Bergen
Megan Von Bergen is currently working towards her PhD in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her research focuses on religious rhetorics, digital rhetorics, first-year writing--and whenever possible, all three together.
Speakers: Brenta Blevins (University of Mary Washington), Nicholas Hoffman (University of Buffalo, SUNY), and Francis Macarthy (Illinois State University, Normal) Chair: Sara Wilder (University of Maryland) Introduction Writing is a dynamic endeavor, as the CCCC 2019 theme of “performance” makes clear; it is a negotiation between the writer’s lived experiences and the public(s) she is trying to reach, in which the writer draws on a range of resources to make her work stick. Increasingly, one of these resources is digital media, and on the cutting edge of that media is augmented and virtual reality, and chat applications. Brenta Blevins, Nicholas…