Kristin Kondrlik

Kristin Kondrlik
  • Associate Professor, English
  • Co-Director, Professional and Technical Writing minor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: KKONDRLIK@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. - English, Concentration in Writing History and Theory, Case Western Reserve University
  • M.A. - English, Case Western Reserve University
  • B.A. - English and Political Science, Canisius College

Research Interests

Health CommunicationHealth HumanitiesRhetorics of Health and MedicineMedicine and LiteratureWomen's WritingPrint Culture StudiesTechnical WritingProfessional WritingPublic Health Communication

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes

I am always interested in involving students in my research. Feel free to email me with any interest in independent study work or research projects you may have interest in. Contact Dr. Kondrlik at KKondrlik@wcupa.edu

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

I am an Associate Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where I will work as a specialist in technical writing with a focus in health communication and writing history and theory. My research interests are in medical writing and rhetoric, rhetorics of contagion, public health communication, print culture studies of the nineteenth century, and technical communication practice and pedagogy.

List of Publications

  • “A Dialogue on Public Health Celebrities during COVID-19.” With Colleen Derkatch, Hua Wang and Beck Wise. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Vol 6, no. 4 (Spring 2024): 474-497
  • “Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Picture Books.” With Cara Byrne. New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-First Century, edited by James M. Curtis, Lexington Press, 2024, pp. 9-32.
  • “Agency and rhetorical citizenship in nineteenth century and contemporary vegetarian discourses in the United Kingdom” Rhetorics of Veg(etari)anism, edited by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch. Routledge, 2023, pp. 79-100
  • Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice. The V-Word. Co-edited with Cristina Hanganu-Bresch. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
  • “Conscientious Objection to Vaccination and the Failure to Solidify Professional Identity in Late Victorian Socio-Medical Journals.” Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 53, no. 3, 2020, pp. 338-371

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