Adrianna Deptula
Lecturer
About
Adrianna Deptula (she/her) received her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition with specializations in Technical and Medical Communication from Purdue University. She is a proud first-generation college graduate, holding a BA in English and Spanish and an MA in Rhetoric and Composition from John Carroll University. Her research interests include Technical and Professional Communication (TPC), medical rhetorics, healthcare communication, and the role of artificial intelligence in these fields.
Deptula has taught college writing for the past eight years and values learning alongside her students. She currently teaches AIQS 100: Public Health in the City, WRIT 215: Writing for the Health Professions, and WRIT 250: Science Communication. She has also taught college composition, business writing, and technical writing.
Deptula’s work has appeared in Written Communication, Rhetoric Review, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, with forthcoming work in Communication Design Quarterly. Her doctoral dissertation investigated how chronic pain and the body are represented in clinical documentation practices. To learn more about Deptula’s teaching and research, visit adriannadeptula.com.