professional
writing and
technical
communication
faculty
David Toomey
Assistant Professor, Director, Program for Professional Writing and Technical Communication
Ph.D., University
of Virginia, 1998
M.A., University of Massachusetts, 1986
A.B., Hamilton
College, 1978
481 Bartlett Hall
413.545.5519
dtoomey@english.umass.edu
Interests include: nonfiction
writing; science writing; literature and mental disease.
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Most Recent Book:
The New Time Travelers: a
Journey to the Frontiers of Physics (W.W. Norton, 2007).
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (2007) and M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
B.A. Minnesota State University Moorhead
210A Bartlett Hall
413.545.3560 jlsolber@english.umass.edu
Interests include: histories of writing and technology; professional, technical, scientific, and workplace writing; computers and writing; composition theory; new media; visual design; information design/rhetoric; feminist/gender theory.
Her dissertation is entitled:
Pretty Typewriters: Gender, Technology, and Literacy in Career Advice Literature for Women, 1900-1945
Professor Emeritus, Founder, Program for Professional Writing and Technical Communication
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1967
M.A., University of Maine, 1962
A.B. Hamilton College, 1959
nelson@english.umass.edu
Interests include: American Realism, American Literature of the 1920's and 1930's, and the modern novel from 1930 to the present.
With the advice and counsel of Dr. Richard Howard of Digital Equipment Corporation, Nelson founded the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts in 1990. The program traces its roots to professional writing courses taught during the 1970s and 1980s by Professor John Mitchell.
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Most Recent Book:
American Folk Toys: Easy-To-Build Toys for Kids of All Ages (Taunton Press, 1998).