Professional Summary
Christina M. LaVecchia is Assistant Professor of English and faculty in discipine-based education research (DBER). Her research spans multiple disciplines. In rhetoric and composition, her work focuses on contemporary composing theories, writing pedagogies (with particular interest in at-risk student populations), invention, digital literacies, and professional practices. Currently she is co-editing a volume on revision practices (Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making, Utah State University Press) in which contributors tell stories about revising and its impacts on thier work, identities, and everyday lives. Her published work in rhetoric and composition appears in College English, Composition Forum, Peitho, and JAEPL, among others.
She is a former Research Fellow and current Research Collaborator in the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. There she uses her training rhetoric and writing to researched patient-clinician communication and care (shared decision-making) that is individualized to meet patients’ values and preferences and fits their lives. Her collaborations appear in Patient Education and Counseling, Health Expectations, BMJ Open, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality, & Outcomes. She also has several works in progress with KER, most notably a study on patients’ experiences with contested, medically unexplained illnesses and conditions, an experience she terms undercared-for chronic suffering. While at Mayo Clinic she has also taught a workshop series on scientific writing to biomedical sciences postdocs and graduate students.
From 2019 to 2021 she supported faculty and programs from across disciplines with writing pedagogy as the founding Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and Assistant Professor of English at Neumann University in Aston, PA.
In 2012 she was the UC English department’s William C. Boyce Excellence in Teaching Award recipient and is the UC College of Arts and Sciences 2014 recipient of a university-wide teaching award.
For more on her research and teaching, visit her website: http://www.christinamlavecchia.org
Education
B.A.: Moravian College Bethlehem, PA, 2007 (English, music)
M.A.: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2011 (English & Comparative Literature)
Ph.D.: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, 2017 (Rhetoric & Composition)
Abbreviated Publications
Courses Taught
15-ENGL-101 ENGLISH COMP I
15-ENGL-102 ENGLISH COMP II
15-ENGL-289 INTERMEDIATE COMP
Topics in Rhetoric: "Why Voice Matters" Level:Undergraduate
Peer Tutoring Level:Undergraduate
-ENGL-1000 INTRO TO ENGL COMP
-ENGL-2000 DIGITAL COMPOSING
-ENGL-4091 BUSINESS WRITING
-ENGL-4092 TECH/SCI WRITING
-ENGL-2089 INTERMEDIATE COMP
Advanced Topics: Digital Composing Level:Graduate
Topics in Composition Level:Graduate