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Amy Propen teaches courses in rhetoric and professional writing, including Writing About Sustainability, Multimedia Writing, and Academic Writing. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota. She also holds a master’s degree in Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and a bachelor's degree in Geography from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research interests include visual, material, and environmental rhetorics.
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Propen, Amy D. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors: Conservation, Compassion, and Connectivity. Anthem Press, Strategies for Sustainable Development Series, 2024.
Propen, Amy D. At Home in the Anthropocene. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Propen, Amy D. Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality Series, 2018. Print.
Propen, Amy D. and Mary Lay Schuster. Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Policy and Protocol Through Discourse. New York: Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture, 2017. Print.
Weiss, Dennis, Amy D. Propen, and Colbey Reid, Eds. Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman. Lanham: Lexington Books, Series in Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology, 2014. Print.
Propen, Amy D. Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics: The Map, the Mill, and the GPS. Anderson: Parlor Press, 2012. Print.
Schuster, Mary Lay and Amy D. Propen. Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom: Persuasive Practices in Domestic Violence and Child Protection Cases. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2011. Print.