Amelia Herb
Senior Lecturer
Amelia is a leading scholar in STEM writing and AI communication, whose work traverses more than 20 STEM fields, bridging technical communication, rhetoric, and the social studies of science. Her research analyzes the social, rhetorical, and discursive dimensions of disciplinarity within STEM. She also investigates disciplinary research methods, library and information science, knowledge organization, archival methods, and domain analysis. Across all her endeavors, she champions technologies that foster human connection, prioritizing accessible communication grounded in equity and human values.
At the University of Arizona, she teaches courses in business and technical writing, while also actively contributing to the campus's understanding and promotion of artificial intelligence through her involvement with the AI Communications and Education teams and the broader AI community. She also runs a Faculty Learning Community on Artificial Intelligence for STEM Literature Reviews, co-leads a Collaborative Learning Community on Compassionate Pedagogy, and serves as a lead on the University-Wide General Education committee. She previously served as Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Business and Technical Writing (BTW) from 2021-2023.
Prior to her tenure at the University of Arizona, Amelia served as a Science Writing Associate at Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). During this time, she earned recognition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekaAlert! for pieces such as "Double Helix of Masonry—Researchers Uncover the Secret of Italian Renaissance Domes." Before her appointment at Princeton, she taught Writing in the Disciplines (WID) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked across physics, mathematics, biology, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, linguistics, and various other domains.
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Courses taught
ENGL 308 Technical Writing
ENGL 307 Business Writing
ENGL 313 Introduction to Professional & Technical Writing