Professor Laurence José

PhD in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, Michigan Tech University
M.A. and a Diploma of Advanced Studies with an emphasis in linguistics from the University Marc Bloch (France)
301 LOH | 331-3418 | [email protected] |

Laurence José teaches courses in professional writing, writing in the global context, style, document design, multimodal composing, and genre theory. She coordinates the Writing Department's Advisory Board and is the faculty advisor for the Organization for Professional Writers (OPW). She also serves as the director of the Digital Studies minor.

Her work has appeared in French and international journals, among which Langages, SCOLIA, the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris as well as in The Nordic Journal of English Studies. Her publications also include contributions to edited collections on Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication Programs (Baywood) and Academy-Industry Relationships and Partnerships (Baywood). 

In 2017, she received the Annual Faculty Service Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Pew Teaching Excellence Award from the Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center.