Joseph Patrick Bartolotta
Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy: Rhetoric & Scientific and Technical Communications
(Successfully Defended on April 26, 2013)
Dissertation Title: “Laboring Literacy: Rhetoric, Language, and Sponsors
of Literacy in Workers’ Education in the International Ladies Garment
Workers’ Union 1914-1939.”
Advisor: Thomas Reynolds
Committee: Lee-Ann Breuch, Christina Haas, and Donald Ross
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Degree: Master of Arts: English Rhetoric, Composition and Professional
Communication (2008)
Thesis Title: “Toward a Humor-Enhanced Classroom”
Advisor: Michael Mendelson
Committee: Barb Blakely, Linda Shenk
University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN
Degree: Bachelor of Arts: English with a Writing Emphasis (2006) Cum Laude
Publications
Bartolotta, J. (2019). Usability testing for oppression. Communication Design Quarterly, Presently Available Online First. To appear in 7(2); Fall, 2019.
Bartolotta, J., Newmark, J. & Bourelle, T. (2017). Engaging with online design: Undergraduate User-Testers and the Practice-Level Struggles of Usability Learning. Communication Design Quarterly Review, 5(3), 63-73.
Bartolotta, J., Bourelle, T., & Newmark, J. (2017). Revising the online classroom: Usability testing for training online technical communication instructors. Technical Communication Quarterly, 26 (3), 287-299.
Haas, C. & Bartolotta, J. (2012). Editor’s Introduction: The
Multiple Dimension of Writing in Global context. Written Communication,
29.1, 3-4. Special Issue on Writing and Global Context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Edited Collection
Bartolotta, J., Bourelle, T., & Newmark, J. (to be published in 2018) special issue on
User-Centered Design and Usability in the Composition Classroom.Computers & Composition.
Link to CFP here.
Research Interests
Connections between Rhetoric and Literacy
Professional Communication and Literacy
Do-It-Yourself and Professional Communication
Genre and the Teaching of Professional Writing
Methodologies for the Study of Writing
Professional Writing Internships
Teaching Experience
Hofstra University - Hempstead, NY
Assistant Professor, Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric, 2017-Present
Upper-Division Courses
Business and Professional Communication (WSC 130)
Technical Communication
First-Year Writing Courses
Composition (WSC 001, WSC 002)
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, 2015-2017.
Lecturer III, Department of English Language and Literature, 2013 – 2014.
Graduate-Level Courses
Major Texts in Rhetoric (ENGL 542)
Contemporary Texts in Rhetoric (ENGL 543)
Teaching Composition (ENGL 537/530)
Teaching Professional Writing (ENGL 539)
Business Communication (MGMT 712)
Upper-Division Courses
Documentation (ENGL 414) (computer classroom component)
Scientific, Environmental, and Medical Writing (ENGL 413)
Legal Writing (ENGL 420) (computer classroom component)
Professional Writing Internship (ENG 499)
Technical and Professional Writing (ENGL 219) (computer classroom component)
Business and Professional Writing (ENGL 219A) (computer classroom component)
First-Year Writing Courses
Expository Writing (ENGL 101)
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Graduate Instructor, Department of Writing Studies, 2008-2013.
Upper-Division Courses
Introduction to Scientific and Technical Communication (WRIT 3001)
Business and Professional Writing (WRIT 3029W)
Technical and Professional Writing (WRIT 3562W) (computer classroom component)
First-Year Writing Courses
University Writing (WRIT 1301) (computer classroom component)
Iowa State University
Graduate Instructor, Department of English, 2006-08.
First-Year Writing Courses
Foundational Composition I (ENGL 104) (computer classroom component)
Foundational Composition II (ENGL 105) (computer classroom component)
Foundational Composition II (ENGL 250) (computer classroom component)
Teaching Interests
Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Professional Communication
Usability Research/User-Centered Design
Composition and Writing Studies Theory and Methods
Ancient and Modern Rhetorical Theories
Kenneth Burke and Burkean Methods
Environmental Rhetoric
Presentations
International Academic Conferences and Presentations
“The Function of Metacognition as a Professional Genre in Business Writing.” 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. September 26, 2019. [Peer-Reviewed] (Accepted)
“‘Assuring’ Quality in Online Course Design: Testing Effectiveness and Striving for Balance OR Balancing Institutional Standards with Best Practices in OWI.” La Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura en Educación Superior y Contextos Profesionales (ALES); Santiago de Chile, Chile. October 9-11, 2018. [Peer-Reviewed]
“User-centered design, writing, and the role of collaborative community, from classroom to workplace.” 8th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; Cardiff, Wales. September 19, 2018. [Peer-Reviewed]
“Designing as a professional in highly structured multimodal environments.” 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice; Ghent, Belgium. November 23rd, 2017. [Peer-Reviewed]
“Collaborative Writing Technologies and Experienced Managers: A Study of how Executive MBA students engage with Team Communication Platforms (TCP) in class and in their professions.” 82nd Annual International Convention of the Association for Business Communication; Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. October 19, 2017. [Peer Reviewed]
“Writing and an early 20th century union-sponsored literacy in the United States.” Writing
Research Across Borders III; Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, France, February 19-22, 2014. [Peer-reviewed]
“Future possibilities of archival research on Writing.” Writing Research Across Borders III;
Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, France, February 19-22, 2014. [Peer-reviewed]
National Academic Conferences and Presentations
“Designing for Homeland Security.” SIGDOC (Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication); Portland, OR. October 4-6, 2019. [Peer-reviewed] (Accepted)
“‘Think pictures first, for they are more important than the news:’ Performing Language, Education, and the Image in a 1930s Labor Union.” Conference on College Composition and Communication; Pittsburgh, PA. March 15, 2019. [Peer-reviewed]
“Ce n'est pas une diversité: How airlines make claims and images about diversity in social media venues.” 83rd Annual International Convention of the Association for Business Communication; Miami, FL. October 26, 2018. [Peer-reviewed]
“Usability Testing as Reflective and Formative Training.” SIGDOC (Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication); Milwaukee, WI. August 4, 2018. [Peer-reviewed]
“Usability and Rhetoric: Reinventing the available means of dialectic.” Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America; Minneapolis, MN. June 2, 2018. [Peer-reviewed]
“Usability, User-Centered Design, and Wondering: Promoting Connections Between Audiences and Writers in the Writing Classroom and Beyond.” Roundtable. Computers and Writing; Findlay, OH. June 1-4, 2017. [Peer-reviewed]
“DIY as a Pedagogical Tool in Business Writing: Coping with Dynamic Stakeholders.” 81st Annual International Convention of the Association for Business Communication; Albuquerque, NM. October 22, 2016. [Peer-reviewed]
"Rhetoric SIG: Audience Considerations and the Rhetorical Strategies of Campus Communication"
81st Annual International Convention of the Association for Business Communication; Albuquerque, NM.
October 20, 2016. [Peer-reviewed]
“Action Based on Knowledge is Power:” Multiliteracies and Advocacy in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’
Union.” Conference on College Composition and Communication; Houston, TX. April 9, 2016. [Peer-reviewed]
“Documentation Reviews: A Creative Approach to Developing Critical Multimodal Literacies in
Professional Writing.” 80th Annual International Convention of the Association for Business
Communication; Seattle, WA. October 28-31, 2015. [Peer-reviewed]
“How to write instructions for (almost) anyone: Tumblr and social media as a new site for
craft instructions.” Computers and Writing; University of Wisconsin – Stout. May 28-31, 2015.
[Peer-reviewed]
“Teaching the ideological with the functional: Introducing OSS in a Technical Documentation
Classroom.” Computers and Writing; University of Wisconsin – Stout. May 28-31, 2015.
[Peer-reviewed]
“Assessing and Writing about the Myriad of Complex Ethical Issues of Risk and Relationships
in Professional Writing Internships.” Conference on College Composition and Communication;
Tampa, FL. March 21, 2015. [Peer-reviewed]
“What’s the Value of the Technical Writing Internship Class?: A study across the field.”
(Poster Presentation) Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW); Tampa, FL.
March 18, 2015. [Peer-reviewed]
“Approaches to Historical Methodologies in Business Communication Scholarship:
Celebrating the Past While Envisioning the Future.” 79th Annual International Convention
of the Association for Business Communication; Philadelphia, PA. October 22-25, 2014.
[Peer-reviewed]
“Humans Act and Machines Move: Burke’s Critical Approach to Technologies.” 9th Triennial
Kenneth Burke Conference; St Louis, MO. July 17-20, 2014. [Peer-reviewed]
“Crossing borders of language and borders of justice: Rhetorical training in an
immigrant/labor organized literacy program.’ Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society
of America; San Antonio, TX, May 22-26. 2014. [Peer-reviewed]
“Opening Literacies, Opening Rhetorics: How an Education Program in a Labor Union Granted
and Complicated Access to Its Members.” Conference on College Composition and Communication;
Indianapolis, IN. March 22, 2014. [Peer-reviewed]
“Laboring Literacy: How a literacy program in one Labor Union made writing public and
turned workers into writers and speakers.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication; Las Vegas, NV. March 14, 2013. [Peer-reviewed]
“Economies of literacy: Organized labor educational literacy programs in an immigrant
community.” 2012 Thomas R. Watson Conference; University of Louisville, Louisville,
KY, October 18, 2012. [Peer-reviewed]
"Indulging John Marshall's ‘Sympathies’: Identification, the Cherokee Nation, and the
Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia." Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of
America; Philadelphia, PA, May 2012. [Peer-reviewed]
“Problematizing literacy as an economic gateway.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication; St. Louis, MO. April 22, 2012. [Peer-reviewed]
“What we talk about when we talk global: Enacting the Global in writing research articles.”
15th Annual Conference – Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW); St. Louis,
MO, April 21, 2012. With Christina Haas. [Peer-reviewed]
“Twelve Bars and a Pen: Improvising and Writing as Sidepeople.” Conference on College
Composition and Communication; Atlanta, GA. April 9, 2011. [Peer-reviewed]
“Creating a New Relationship with Creation: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Christianity’s
Tip-Toe Toward Environmental Sustainability.” Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society
of America; Minneapolis, MN, May 29. 2010. [Peer-reviewed]
“Seeing Perspectives in Contact: RNC2008, Situated Knowledge and the Writing Classroom.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication; Louisville, KY, March 20, 2010.
[Peer-reviewed]
“Reconsidering the Same Problem: Technical Literacy, the Digital Divide and their
Precursors.” Conference on College Composition and Communication; San Francisco, CA.
March 16, 2009. [Peer-reviewed]
“From Logs to Blogs: Inviting Local Ecological Advocacy to the Web” Conference on College
Composition and Communication; New Orleans, LA. April 3, 2008. [Peer-reviewed]
Local Academic Conferences and Presentations
“Rhetorics and Literacies: A Study of a Writing in a Union-Funded Educational Program.”
University of New Mexico Department of English Language & Literature Spring 2014 Colloquium Series;
Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 27, 2014.
“The Intersections of Rhetoric, Literacy, and Literacy Sponsorship: An Investigation into
the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union's Educational Program 1915-1939." University of
Minnesota’s Communication Studies and Writing Studies Departments “Doing Rhetoric at the U”
Conference; Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 27, 2013.
“The Ethics of the Archives: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Archival Research
Methods in Writing Studies.” University of Minnesota Department of Writing Studies Current
Research Parlor, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 10, 2013.
“Crafting a Cultural Approach to Business Writing” (with Timothy Oleksiak) Minnesota
Colleges and Universities English and Writing Annual Conference, Normandale Community
College, Bloomington, Minnesota. April 5, 2013.
“Writing with Disaster: A Contemporary Case for Technical Writing Teaching.” Minnesota
Colleges and Universities English and Writing Annual Conference, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 29, 2012.
“Brown v. Board of Education as Argumentative Text.” Minnesota Colleges and Universities
English and Writing Annual Conference, University of Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota.
April 3, 2010.
“Local Music, Localized Rhetorics.” Minnesota Colleges and Universities English and
Writing Annual Conference, University of Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota. April 3, 2009.
“Humor and Phronesis: Satire as a Discursive Activity.” Federation Rhetoric Symposium,
Texas Women’s University; Denton, TX. February 9, 2008.
“Urban Culture without Urban Space.” Conference of the English Departments of the
Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities; Macalester College, Spring 2006.
Workshop Presentations
"Workshopping Personal Statements and Letters of Intent." University of New Mexico,
Department of Biology, PREP/FlyBase Postbaccalaureate Program, Albuquerque, NM.
November 17, 2014.
“Engaging Cultures in Professional Writing.” (with Timothy Oleksiak) Minnesota Colleges
and Universities English and Writing Annual Conference, Normandale Community College,
Bloomington, Minnesota. April 4, 2013.
“Writing as Craft: A ‘Model Approach’ to Business Writing” (with Timothy Oleksiak)
University of Minnesota Department of Writing Studies Teachers Teaching Teachers event.
Invited Presenter, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN. February 21, 2013.
“Let’s Get Professional.” University of Minnesota Writing Studies Advanced Composition
Workshop, Invited Panelist, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN. August 28, 2012.
“Responding to Student Writing.” University of Minnesota Writing Studies Workshop,
Invited Panelist, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN. April 1, 2009.
“WOVE and Environmentally Themed Communication Classes.” ISUComm Workshop, Invited
Presenter, Iowa State University; Ames, IA. November 13, 2007.
Academic Service and Honors
Assistant Director for Core Writing, University of New Mexico, August 2015-present.
Director of the Professional Writing Internship Program, University of New Mexico,
January 2014-Present.
Member of the University of New Mexico Department of English Outcomes Assessment
Committee, August 2014-Present.
Student Publications Board, University of New Mexico, August 2016-Present.
Coordinator of the University of New Mexico English 219/Anderson School of Management
course initiative, April 2014-Present.
Co-founder and Assistant Director of LUCID (Laboratory for Usability, Communication, and
Information Design), April 2014 – Present.
Awarded a $7,000 grant with Professor Natasha Jones to start a Usability Testing laboratory
at the University of New Mexico, funded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
Rhetoric and Professional Writing Committee, University of New Mexico, 2013-Present.
Core Writing Committee, University of New Mexico, 2013-Present.
Manuscript Reviewer, Written Communication 2012—present
Awarded the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research
Partnership Program (GRPP) Award for the Summer, 2011. ($5,000)
Editorial Assistant for the peer-reviewed journal Written Communication.
August 2010-December 2012.
Graduate Student Representative: Senate Education Policy Committee, University of
Minnesota, 2008-10. (Voting member)
Bedford/St. Martin’s TA Advisory Board. Served 2009-2010.
Professional Memberships
National Council of Teachers of English
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Association of Teachers of Technical Writings
Association for Business Communication
Society of American Baseball Research
