Dr. Joseph Robertshaw

Senior Lecturer, English

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 275
Huntsville, AL 35899
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joseph.robertshaw@uah.edu

Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Rhetoric and Writing, Bowling Green State University, 2018
  • MA English, Youngstown State University, 2011
  • MS Education (Curriculum & Instruction) Youngstown State University, 2010
  • BA English, University of Maryland University College, 2007
  • AGS General Studies, Harold Washington College, 2007

Expertise

  • Rhetorics
  • Writing
  • Professional and Technical Communications
  • Multimodality
  • Technologies of Writing
  • Pedagogy/Andragogy
  • Working Class Studies
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature
  • Young Adult Literature

Recent Publications

  • “Forming and Sustaining One Collaborative Service-Learning Partnership Around UX” Robinson, Joy, & Ryan Weber (Eds.). (2025). Collaborations and Partnerships in User Experience. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/1010.37514/PER-B.2025.2517, https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/ux/ 

  • “On Fishbowls, Student Personas, and the Wicked Problem of Generative Artificial Intelligence” Andrews, Christopher D. M., Elena Kalodner-Martin, Nicole O’Connell, Hua Wang, Lydia Wilkes, & Charles Woods (Eds.). (2025). The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference, 2024. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616 

  • “Forming and Sustaining One Collaborative Service-Learning Partnership Around UX” (2024) Chapter 11 in Collaborations and Partnerships in User Experience. Ryan Weber and Joy Robinson eds.

  • Digital Rhetoric Collaborative “How an Online Tech Writing Instructor Got Their Groove Back”, Blog Carnival 20, 02/24/2022. https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2022/02/24/how-an-online-tech-writing-instructor-got-their-groove-back/

  • Robertshaw, J. W. (2020, December). “Review of The Embodied Playbook: Writing Practices of Student-Athletes” by J. Michael Rifenburg. TETYC, 48(2), 263-64.

  • Peace, Michael R., and Joseph W. Robertshaw. The Crossroads Saga - Book 1: Intolerance. Thunderchild Publishing, 2020.

  • Zen Arguments: to argue without arguing - a class book that combines the teaching practices of the course with the results produced by students in the intermediate writing class that I designed and taught in Fall 2016.

  • The Phenomenon of Academic Labor in 21st Century Composition: a heuristic for textual study – Dissertation.

  • "Adjunct Island and the New Navigational Chart\- as part of the The Karen Lentz Madison Award for Scholarship Selected for Publication in the CEA Critic, 97.3, Fall 2017.

  • "Reading is Alive at Youngstown State: A conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Buchanan". OJELA.Vol 56:Issue1. Spring/Summer 2016. pp.73-77.