Teaching

Research

Teaching has been my family occupation for about 200 years. My great-great grandfather taught at the Italian gymnasium, as had his before him. My grandmother was brought up in the first all-girl’s school in Italy that was not primarily religious, founded by her mother; she graduated from the University of Florence at a time when few women did. My mother taught high-school French and my father, a forester, occasionally taught summer sessions for SUNY Forestry. Later my mother worked in post-secondary accreditation in the New York State Department of Education. I first taught in Sunday school when I was eleven and in high school I helped students, who had fallen behind, to learn to read. Now I teach technical communication, art and design and courses on science, technology and society at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

My research is interdisciplinary. I have analyzed the changes in technical communication history in my book, The Language of Work, and in several articles. I have published articles and chapters on content management and knowledge transfer, writing assessment, history and art. My most recent scholarly interests are in the relationship between images, medical imaging technology, scientific and mathematical discoveries. I want to provide a theory as to how the world has changed within the past 200 years in order to understand our present circumstances and prepare for the future.

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