Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication

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• Andrew Mara teaches technical writing, rhetoric, and Nineteenth-Century American literature at North Dakota State University. His primary research interest is the rhetoric and design of institutional innovation. His work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Kairos, IEEE Transactions in Professional Communications, and in edited collections.
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