Elena Kalodner-Martin, PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric, was recently awarded the 2022 The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Award. This award "seeks to highlight graduate students who make significant contributions to rhetoric, composition, and communications in their teaching, service, scholarship, and commitment to diversity and inclusion." Kalodner-Martin was also featured on an episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast.
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 writing in the disciplines courses in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering.