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Lindsay Steiner
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Lindsay Steiner
Associate Professor
English
Specialty area(s)
Professional & Technical Writing, Content Strategy/Writing, UX Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, AI & Writing, Writing Technologies, Organizational & Nonprofit Writing, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, and Collaborative Learning.
Brief biography
As Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, I am actively engaged in teaching, research, and service. I teach courses in professional & technical writing, writing & rhetoric studies, and first-year writing. My research interests focus on web content writing & UX writing, usability and UX, scholarship of teaching and learning, and writing technologies/writing with AI.
Current courses at UWL
Spring 2025
- ENG 110: College Writing II
- ENG 310: Digital Content Writing, Strategy, & Experience Design
Non-teaching reassignment:
- CASSH/VPA Faculty Fellow: Communication, Public Relations, & Event Planning
Education
Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, Kent State University (2013)
M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition, Kent State University (2009)
B.S. in Visual Communication, Ohio University (2003)
Career
Teaching history
- College Writing I (ENG 110)
- Writing for Management, Public Relations, & the Professions (ENG 307)
- Technical Writing (ENG 308)
- Digital Content Writing, Management, & Experience Design (ENG 310)
- Grant Writing (ENG 314)
- Publishing in a Digital Age (ENG 327)
- Introduction to Professional Writing (ENG 335)
- Professional Writing Practicum (ENG 452)
- Seminar in Rhetoric & Writing Studies (ENG 497)
- Study Abroad Faculty-Led Program, Galway, Ireland Summer 2016 (ENG 307)
- Visiting instructor and scholar (summer 2017), South Central University for Nationalities (Wuhan, China), Guangxi Normal University (Guangxi, China), and Beijing Information Science and Technology University (Beijing, China)
Professional history
Professional Memberships
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
- Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
- Global Society of Online Literacy Educators
- Society for Technical Communication