Dr. Joanna Wolfe

Biography

Joanna Wolfe’s research focuses on equity in communication, examining the factors that inhibit the participation of women and underrepresented minorities. She investigates evidence-based strategies to overcome these inequities. Her work encompasses technical communication and writing within engineering disciplines, addressing what effective communication entails across a range of contexts. Additionally, Wolfe is interested in the role of new technologies and how technological affordances can transform the ways we read, write, and teach. Her research is typically applied and action-oriented, with the aim of creating specific, measurable changes in the world. Wolfe's contributions to the field have been recognized with awards from the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Association for Engineering Educators, the IEEE Professional Communication Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery.

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