Heather Turner
Dr. Turner, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, specializes in Professional and Technical Writing, Community Writing, and Digital Humanities. With over ten years of community-based consulting as a User Experience designer (UX), she continues collaborating with community members and students to make technologies and texts more functional, usable, accessible, and inclusive. Her research on community-based design and justice has been published in Technical Communication and The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University
M.A. in English, Auburn University
B.S. in English and Art (minor), Troy University
First Year Writing
Professional and Technical Writing
Visual Communication and Information Design
Digital Rhetorics
Multimodal Composition
User Experience with Technology (UX)
Introduction to Digital Humanities