Rosanna Vail is a Ph.D. student in technical communication and rhetoric. She works as the managing editor of a peer-reviewed open access science journal and serves as technical editor for various monograph projects. 

Education

M.S. Technical Communication, Utah State University  

B.A. English/Writing, Southern Oregon University  

Publications

Vail, R. M. (2023). A record of revision (poem). Writers: Craft & Context, 4(1), 3. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.3  

Vail, R. M. (2023). “Descendants of survivors”: Tensions in translating COVID-19 vaccine promotion videos in Hawaiʻi. Technical Communication and Social Justice, 1(1), 64–78. Retrieved from https://techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj/article/view/8

Vail, R. M. (2022). Blight (poem). Survive and Thrive: A Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 8(1), 5. Retrieved from https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol8/iss1/5/  

Vail, R. M. (2022). Carefully crafted: Making as facilitator of multimodal composition in COVID-19 carework. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 6(2). Retrieved from http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/6-2-vail  

Vail, R. M. (2022). Book review: Equipping technical communicators for social justice work: theories, methodologies, and pedagogies by R. Walton & G. Y. Agboka (Eds.). Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 52(4), 493–497. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816221112860

Presentations

Vail, R. M. (2023.) Good genre going astray: plain language summaries in scientific publishing. Technical Rhetoric Symposium. Graduate student-led virtual symposium, Texas Tech University. June 3, 2023.  

Invited Talks

Panelist. Peer Review @ USU. Virtual panel for Peer Review Week hosted by Utah State University Libraries. September 26, 2023. 

PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric
Email: rvail@ttu.edu