Dr. Kathleen Hardesty joined the faculty of Florida Polytechnic University in 2021
and currently teaches and coordinates the University’s technical writing curriculum.
She has taught courses in professional and technical writing, document and visual
design, digital media writing, and other communication topics at the university level
since 2015. She also has more than 20 years of professional/technical writing and
editing experience with a focus on the engineering industry.
Hardesty is the author of Violence, Silence, and Rhetorical Cultures of Champion-Building in Sports, a book in Routledge’s Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series. She has also
published in various academic journals and regularly presents her research at professional
association annual conferences.
Board Member and Secretary, Davidson Haiti Foundation, 2022-current
Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, 2020
M.A. in English, Rhetoric and Composition, University of South Florida, 2013
M.A. in International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2002
B.A. in English, Marshall University, 2000
B.A. in International Affairs, Marshall University, 2000
Technical and professional communication
Visual design and visual rhetoric
Data visualization and information design
Qualitative research methods
Sports rhetoric
Member, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
Member, Association for Business Communication
Member, Rhetoric Society of America
Hardesty, K. S., & Heilig, L. When writing hurts: Positionality, recovery, and distance
when forming and maintaining a research identity. In Storied practices: Positionality in writing studies. WAC Clearinghouse. Forthcoming.
