Elena Kalodner-Martin, PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric, was recently awarded one of the 2022 ATTW Graduate Research Awards and a 2022 Amplification Award for her dissertation research. The Graduate Research Award supports advanced PhD students with clearly defined research projects that contribute to the field of technical and professional communication. The Amplification Award recognizes and amplifies important contributions of underrepresented students presenting at the ATTW annual conference.
Kalodner-Martin’s research is at the intersection of the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and feminist studies. Her dissertation theorizes patient narratives on social media as a form of technical and technological expertise. She currently teaches courses on social issues in computing in the College of Information and Computer Sciences.