Madeline Bruegger (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. She primarily researches Digital Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric, Technical Communication, Community-Engaged Research, and Composition Pedagogy. Her research focuses on using sensory digital methods to visualize environments through affective and ethical attunements. She is currently conducting an ongoing community engaged research project using thermal imaging to visualize cooling corridors and extreme heat in Austin’s Eastern Crescent.
She began her career in teaching working in literacy intervention with K-3 students at an arts-integrated public charter school in Kansas City, Missouri. To this day, her first teaching experiences inspire her approach to multimodal research creation methods in the higher education classroom. Prior to moving to Austin, she received her MA in English (Writing Studies concentration) at the University of Maine, where she taught first-year writing courses for two years. At the University of Texas at Austin, she teaches rhetoric and writing courses both in person and online. She volunteers as a Teaching Assistant with the Texas Prison Education Initiative. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab, where she leads a research team on digital writing, literacy, and machine learning.
She has presented her research at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Computers and Writing, Rhetoric Society Association, and the Association for Machine Computing Special Interest Group in the Design of Communication (SIGDOC). Her research has been funded by the UT-City Climate CoLab. She is also a graduate student affiliate of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and a member of the Critical Digital Literacy Working group through the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Madeline is also a multimedia artist and zine-creator in the Austin community, where she asks her friends to “look at this cool thing I made.” She believes we should celebrate all the cool things in our communities.
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