Katlynne Davis

Dr. Katlynne Davis is an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches courses in technical and professional writing, user experience, business writing, and professional editing. As a researcher, she studies how social media and generative AI platforms shape the work of technical and professional communicators, and how these platforms shape the ways this work is valued by others. Her work has been published in Communication Design Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

Education

  • University of Minnesota, Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication, PhD
  • Iowa State University, Rhetoric, Composition, & Professional Communication, MA
  • University of Wisconsin-Parkside, English and History, BA

Publications

Davis, K. Tham, J., Stambler, D.M, Jiang, J., Campbell, J., Verhulsdonck, G., & Hocutt, D. (2026). What do we mean by ‘AI literacy’?: Tensions in current institutional guidelines and recommendations for a slow, reflective future. Programmatic Perspectives, 1(1).

Hocutt, D., Ranade, R., Chen, J., Davis, K. (2024). Data analytics for TPC curriculum. Programmatic Perspectives 15(1), 200-206.

Stambler, D. M., Veeramoothoo, S., & Davis, K. (Eds.) (2024). Toward digital life: Embracing, complicating, and reconceptualizing digital literacy in communication design. Special issue of Communication Design Quarterly, 12(2).

Davis, K., Stambler, D. M., Campbell, J., Hocutt, D., Duin, A., & Pedersen, I. (2022). Writing infrastructure with the Fabric of Digital Life platform. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 44-56.

Davis, K., Hocutt, D., Stambler, S., Veeramoothoo, C., Tham, J., Duin, A., Ranade, N., Misak, J., Pedersen, I. (2021, August 25). Fostering Student Digital Literacy through The Fabric of Digital Life. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

Banville, M., Das, M., Davis, K., D’Souza, E., Durazzi, A., Kalodner-Martin, E., Gresbrink, E., & Stambler, D. M. (2021). Identity, agency, and precarity: Considerations of graduate students in technical communication. Programmatic Perspectives, 12(2).

Breuch, L. K., Duin, A. H., Card, D., & Davis, K. (2022). Workshop: Forming advisory boards in Connection with technical communication academic programs. IPCC Proceedings, 244–245.

Davis, K. (2021). Examining the digital labor of mental health communication on social media. Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC), 401-402.

Wold, R., Davis, K., Duin, A.H., & Breuch, L. (2021, June). Industry Insights for Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the TC Classroom. Intercom.

Davis, K., Cosgrove, S., Ranade, N. (2020). Practitioner Perspectives for Digital Workplaces: Strengthen Business Communication Research Through Remote Methods. Association of Business Communication International Conference.

Duin, A.H., Pedersen, I., Caldwell, S., Stambler, D., Tham J., & Davis, K. (2019). Collaborating internationally to build digital literacy learning through TPC instructions. Proceedings of the 2019 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference, 131-132.

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