Amelia Herb
Senior Lecturer
Amelia Herb teaches courses in business and technical writing and has trained faculty in the teaching of writing in the disciplines/business and technical writing. She is involved with promoting artificial intelligence use on campus and has served on the AI Communications and Education teams, as well as being an active member of the artificial intelligence community on campus.
Her research focuses on disciplinarity—genre, activities, rhetoric, and discourse—of STEM fields, as well as disciplinary research methods, library and information science, knowledge organization, archival methods, and domain analysis. Please find out more about her work here.
Prior to joining U of A, she was a Science Writing Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Princeton University where she received American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekaAlert! recognition for such pieces as Double Helix of Masonry—Researchers Uncover the Secret of Italian Renaissance Domes.
Prior to joining U of A, she was a Science Writing Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Princeton University where she received American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekaAlert! recognition for such pieces as Double Helix of Masonry—Researchers Uncover the Secret of Italian Renaissance Domes.
At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), previous to her appointment at Princeton, she taught writing in the disciplines (WID) working across 10+ fields including physics, mathematics, biology, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and linguistics among others.