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Kate Maddalena

Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Education
BA (English/French) University of North Carolina Greensboro
MA (Language and Literature) North Carolina State University
PhD (Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media) North Carolina State University

Publications

Books

  • The Prison House of the Circuit: A Media Geneaology. University of Minnesota Press. (Polyauthored with Media Genealogy Collective: Jeremy Packer, Paula Nunez de Villavicencio). 2023

Articles and Chapters

  • “Perfect Incommunicability: War and the strategic paradox of human-machine communication” (with Joshua Reeves and Jeremy Packer) in The SAGE Handbook on Human-Machine Communication. 2023.
  • “Fighting for Bandwidth: Prioritizing Social Justice as Essential Carework in the Age of COVID-19” (with Janelle Jennings-Alexander) in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics: Special Issue on Writing and Carework. 2022.
  • “Teaching Holistic Eco-technology: the quadrat as interface between the biosphere and the bitsphere” in What Would Ursula Franklin Say? McLuhan Centre Reprising the Real World of Technology Working Group, University of Toronto. 2022.
  • “Emerging practices for scientific communication pedagogy,” in the Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication, Hanganu-Bresch, Maci, Zerbe, and Cutrufello, Eds. 2021.
  • “Tick Problematic: Motherhood as a Posthuman Predicament” In Heliotrope. Environmental Media Lab, University of British Columbia. 2021.
  • “Ghost” In the Canadian Journal of Communication. 2021.
  • “Palpable Pixels: A Materially Digital Medium for the Culturally Digital Age” In LEGOIfied: Building Blocks as Media. Taylor and Ingraham, eds. Bloomsbury, NY. 2020.
  • “Dissolving the Divide between Expert and Public: Improving the Science Communication Course” With Colleen Reilly. In Scientific Communication: Principles, Practices, and Methods. Han and Northcut, eds. 2018.
  • “Is the Earth an Optical Medium? An Interview with Chris Russill” With Chris Russill. In International Journal of Communication. 2016.
  • “Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text” With Ashley Rose Kelly. In Canadian Journal of Communication. 2016.
  • “Harnessing Agency for Efficacy: ‘FoldIt’ and Citizen Science” With Ashley Rose Kelly. In POROI: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention. 2015.
  • “The Digital Body: The U.S. Signal Corps, Telegraphy, and the Discourse Network of 1865”
  • With Jeremy Packer. In Theory, Culture & Society. (Winner of the James Carey Media Research Award). 2014.
  • “The Toys of Organic Chemistry: Material Manipulatives and Inductive Reasoning” In Teorie vĕdy/Theory of Science Special Issue: Philosophical Toys Today. 2013.
  • “Plastic Child-Gardening Tools: Lego’s Nostalgia for the Open-ended Toy” In Technoculture. 2013.
  • “I need you to say I: Why First Person is Important in College Writing" In Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Volume I. Lowe and Zemliansky, eds. 2010.

Research

I research knowledge-making media, epistemic rhetorics, and the popular uptake of science. I teach writing and critical theory-informed media studies. I write about stuff like LEGO, genetics, drugs, microbiota, and ghosts.

Other

Specialization
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Media Studies
Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Critical Theory
Current Courses
CCT417 Alternative Media; WRI307 Science and Writing; WRI470 Writing Futures; CCT300 Critical Analysis of Media; WRI 293 Introduction to Technical Communication; WRI 360 Communicating in a World of Big Data