• Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Jessie Cortez

Educational Background

  • PhD, English: Rhetoric and Composition, Texas A&M – admitted to candidacy 2021
  • MA, English: Composition and Rhetoric, UNC Charlotte – 2018
  • BA, English, McNeese State University - 2016

Research Interests

    • Technical Communication
    • Science Communication
    • Rhetoric of Science
    • Science and Technology Studies

Awards & Honors

  • 2018 Graduate Diversity Excellence Fellowship, Texas A&M University
  • 2018 J. Murrey Atkins Library Graduate Student Award, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • 2018 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Nominee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Selected Publications

  • Joshua DiCaglio, Gwendolyn Inocencio, Jessie Cortez, Hannah Mailhos, & Connor Hearron. "Wikipedia as Editorial Microcosm: Stalled Wikipedia Articles and the Teaching of Applied Comprehensive Editing.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Under Submission.