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Summary

I am a doctoral student specializing in genre theory, rhetorical style, rhetoric of science, and technical communication. My research examines genres of science communication and production of scientific knowledge online, focusing on nuclear energy controversies.

 

Currently I am Research Assistant to Dr. Carolyn R. Miller, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication at NCSU. In this capacity, I study aspects of emerging genres and am assisting with a larger project designed to globally connect genre theory researchers. I am also the Instructor of Record for an upper-division undergraduate course titled "Communication for Engineering & Technology."

 

Outside of work, I am an avid F/LOSS user and GNU/Linux advocate. More than a decade ago I installed my first distribution of Linux and have been enjoying the range of experience offered by various distros ever since. Further, my enthusiasm for these technologies has provided me with significant technical skills, abilities, and interests.

 

Please feel very welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter (@ashleyrkelly), or via email at arkelly2@ncsu.edu.

 

Specialties: Classroom and online writing instruction; academic, professional, and technical writing; technical communication; professional communication; research project coordination; collaborative research; qualitative research; interdisciplinary research; digital media research methods; social media research methods.

Education

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC, United States
Aug 2010 - Present
Doctor of Philosophy, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media

Advisors/Committee: Carolyn R. Miller (Chair, NCSU), William J. Kinsella (NCSU), Ann M. Penrose (NCSU), Jordynn M. Jack (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Randy Allen Harris (University of Waterloo)

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON, Canada
Sep 2008 - Apr 2010
Master of Arts (Co-op), Rhetoric and Communication Design

Thesis: Rhetorical figures’ description and use in single-sourced health documentation

Advisors: Neil Randall (English) & Chrysanne DiMarco (Computer Science, English)

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON, Canada
Sep 2005 - Aug 2008
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), English Literature and Rhetoric

Thesis: The Rhetorical Construction of Scientists as Authors in Popular Science Books: Ethos in Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene and Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden

Advisor: Randy Allen Harris

Academic Positions

Research Assistant for Carolyn R. Miller,  Department of English, NCSU (Aug. 2011 - present)

 

Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Department of English/Professional Writing Program, NCSU (Aug. 2011 - present)

       Courses Taught:

Research Assistant for the Public Communication Of Science and Technology (PCOST) group, Department of Communication, NCSU (Aug. 2010 - May 2011)

 

Lead Research Assistant for Randy Allen Harris, Rhetfig Project, University of Waterloo (Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2010)

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Waterloo (Jan. 2010 - Apr. 2010; Sept. 2008 - Dec. 2008)

       Courses Taught:

  • ENGL109 - Introduction to Academic Writing (workshop/breakout session)
  • ENGL 109DE - Introduction to Academic Writing (online)

Scholarly Contributions

Journal Article

Kittle Autry, Meagan, & Ashley R. Kelly. (2012). “Merging Duke Energy and Progress Energy: Online Public Discourse, Post-Fukushima Reactions, and the Absence of Environmental Communication.” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, pages TBA. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2012.672444.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Kelly, Ashley R., & Meagan Kittle Autry (2011). A Humanistic approach to the study of social media: Combining social network analysis and case study research. SIGDOC’11: The 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Proceedings. Pisa, Italy: ACM, 257-260. doi: 10.1145/2038476.2038525.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., Nike Abbott, Randy Allen Harris, & Chrysanne DiMarco. (2010). "Toward an Ontology of Rhetorical Figures." SIGDOC'10: Proceedings for the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. São Carlos-São Paulo, Brazil: ACM, 123-130. doi: 10.1145/1878450.1878471.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., James Wallace, Katie Cerar, Neil Randall, Phillip McClelland, Amanda Mindy Seto, & Stacey D. Scott. (2010). "Solar scramble: an educational children's game for collaborative multi-touch digital tabletops." SIGDOC'10: Proceedings for the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. São Carlos-São Paulo, Brazil: ACM, 27-32. doi: 10.1145/1878450.1878455.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., Allan McDougall, & Nike Abbott. (2009). "Rhetorical Models for Computational Systems."
SIGDOC'09: Proceedings for the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Bloomington,
IN: ACM, 155-162. doi: 10.1145/1621995.1622025. *Winner of the Graduate Student Competition.

Book Review

Kelly, Ashley R.  (2011). “Book Review Essay: Persuasion, Emotion, and Interdisciplinarity. A Review of

Two Perspectives.” Review of The Secret History of Human Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern

Brain Science and Texting 4 Health: A Simple, Powerful Way to Improve Lives. The Communication Review 14.4: 321-325. doi: 10.1080/10714421.2011.624035.

Conference Presentations

International/National Presentations

 

Kelly, Ashley R. (accepted, forthcoming) "Citizen Science and Credibility: Fukushima and Citizen Participation
in Global Scientific Response." Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Abbott, Nike & Ashley R. Kelly. (accepted, forthcoming). "Rethinking Evolutionary Metaphors in Rhetorical
Genre Theory." Genre 2012: Rethinking Genre 20 Years Later. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

Kelly, Ashley R. (accepted, forthcoming). “Genre Across Borders (GXB): Integrating Social Networking Tools to Facilitate Collaboration, Connection, and Community.” Panel titled "Genre Across Borders (GXB): Sustaining Genre Conversations" with Carolyn R. Miller, Christopher Minnix, Meagan Kittle Autry, & Dylan B. Dryer. Genre 2012: Rethinking Genre 20 Years Later. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Randy Allen Harris (accepted, forthcoming). “Cognitive Metaphor Studies and Gertude Buck’s The Metaphor: A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric.” 2012 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

 

Mehlenbacher, Brad, &  Ashley R. Kelly (accepted, forthcoming) “Integrating Social Media into Online Educational Spaces: Modeling Professional Practice in Instructional Interactions.” Computers & Writing 2012, Raleigh, USA.

 

Kelly, Ashley R. (5 November 2011) "Looking global, speaking local: proleptic structure in Fukushima-related discourse during an NC public hearing." Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Cleveland, 2011.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Nike Abbott. (31 May 2010). "Collaborating Across Disciplines: identity and graduate-level multidisciplinary research in the humanities." Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 

Kelly, Ashley R. (26 May 2009) "The Construction of Credibility (Ethos) in Sexual Health Pamphlets."Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing Conference. Carlton University. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

Regional Presentations

 

Ashley R. Kelly. (7 May 2012). Interdisciplinary panel on Nuclear Energy Industry with William J. Kinsella,

Lada Kochtcheeva, Leah Gardner, and Meagan Kittle Autry. Second Annual School of Public and

International Affairs/College of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference “Shale Gas and Nuclear Power:

The Bridge to a Renewable Energy Future?” North Carolina State University. Raleigh, North Carolina,

USA.

 

 

Ashley R. Kelly, & Meagan Kittle Autry. (7 May 2012). "Nuclear Power and North Carolina Energy Companies" Poster presented at the Second Annual School of Public and International Affairs/College of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference "Shale Gas and Nuclear Power: The Bridge to a Renewable Energy Future?" North Carolina State University. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

 

Kittle Autry, Meagan., & Ashley R. Kelly. (11 April 2012). "Looking Global, Speaking Local: Fukushima
Dai-ichi and Nuclear Energy Discourse in the Carolinas." Global Engagement Exposition. North Carolina
State University. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
 

Ashley R. Kelly, & Meagan Kittle Autry. (20 March 2012). “Temporal Trends in Digitally-mediated Environmental Debate: An analysis across media to assess social media use in local environmental debate.” Poster session presented at the annual NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.  *Winner, third place, Humanities and Design category.

 

Kittle Autry, Meagan, & Ashley R. Kelly. (18 February 2012). “Merging Duke Energy and Progress Energy: Examining Rhetorical Boundary Work in Nuclear Energy Discourses in the Carolinas.” Carolina Rhetoric Conference. Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Meagan Kittle Autry (15 April 2011). "Pilot study: Duke-Progress Merger." Environments, Risks, & Digital Media Symposium. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

 

Kelly, Ashley R. (26 February 2011). "Gertrude Buck's Metaphor: an antecedent theory to contemporary cognitive metaphor studies." Carolina Rhetoric Conference. University of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Nike Abbott, Joshua Armstrong, & Kaitlin Gallagher. (30 April 2010) "Collaborating Across Disciplines." University of Waterloo Graduate Student Research Conference 2010: Sharing Discovery. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Nike Abbott. (10 April 2010). "Graduate student identity formation & inter-/multidisciplinarity." Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, Illinois, USA.

 

Kelly, Ashley R., & Allan McDougall. (24 October 2009). "Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries is Risky Business." Risk! New York College English Association. Niagara County Community College. Sanborn, New York, USA.

 

Invited, Workshop, & Other Presentations

 

"Communication Patterns on Twitter.com in Response to Duke-Progress Energy Merger." For Progress
Energy Corporate Communication Department. 19 April 2012. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. With
 Meagan Kittle Autry.

 

"Introduction to LaTeX" For Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media Professional Development Seminar Series. 12 April 2012. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. 

 

Relevant Employment History

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC, United States
Aug 2011 - Present
Research Assistant for Carolyn R. Miller, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication 

 

  • Researching issues in rhetorical genre theory, particularly as related to emerging genres online.
  • Website management, both design and system administration, for the Genre Across Borders (GxB) project. Also responsible for managing content and thoughtfully including social media tools to help develop an international community of genre scholars.

 

Aug 2011 - Present
Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record) 
  • Design course, lesson plans, assignments, and schedule for upper-division undergraduate students, primarily from engineering and science disciplines, for a professional communication classes.
  • Evaluate student progress throughout the term to ensure learning objectives for the course and Professional Writing Program are met.

 

Raleigh, United States
Aug 2010 - May 2011
Research Assistant for Public Communication Of Science and Technology (PCOST) group 
  • Researched and wrote portions (literature reviews, histories) of manuscripts about science communication as related to public perception of EHS risk.
  • Assisted junior faculty and graduate students as well with their efforts, including collecting literature, data, and editing.

Research in Motion

Waterloo, ON, Canada
May 2011 - Aug 2011
Technical Writer 
  • Wrote internal design documentation for the Handheld Applications department, primarily assisting the Media and Architecture teams with their documentation efforts.
  • Consulted with subject-matter experts to design and write documentation to be used within and across teams at RIM for ongoing development of QNX-based Blackberry smartphone and tablet devices.

 

Waterloo, ON, Canada
May 2009 - Dec 2009
Junior Technical Writer 
  • Wrote internal design documentation and feature specifications for the Handheld Applications department, primarily for the Media and User Interaction teams.
  • Consulted with software developers from a number of teams to complete team-specific content, including technical and training documentation.

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON, Canada
Sep 2009 - Aug 2010
Lead Research Assistant for Randy Allen Harris 
  • Chaired team meetings, managed a team of six research assistants, and drafted a manuscript for publication.
  • Directed the design of a database, and wrote support documentation in a wiki, for an ontology of rhetorical figures to be used to determine relations of figures to one another–intended to help understand the linguistic and cognitive implications of the relationships we discovered.
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Teaching Assistant 

  • ENG 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing. One section of students (2010) met weekly on campus for a lesson and workshop and one section was held online (2008).
  • Supplemented a weekly lecture in a break-out session, evaluated/marked student assignments, answered questions related to rhetoric theory and academic writing.

Waterloo, ON, Canada
Sep 2009 - Aug 2010
Research Assistant for Neil Randall 
  • Collaborated through the Critical Media Lab with the Collaborative Systems Lab, in the Department of Systems Design Engineering under the direction of Dr. Stacey D. Scott & Dr. Neil Randall to design collaborative, educational software for children in K-5 learning environments.
  • With the Collaborative Systems Lab (Department of Engineering), submitted a software application to the SMART Educational Multitouch Tables competition at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces in November 2009. SMART Technologies selected our application as one of four to demo at BETT 2010 in London, England. Additionally, SMART provided us with a table for future development efforts (estimated value of 8,000 CAD.)
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Oct 2008 - May 2009
Research Assistant for Chrysanne DiMarco 
  • Worked with the Inkpot Natural Language Processing group in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science to conduct research into methods of single-sourcing documents to tailor to specific audiences.
  • Coordinated a team of graduate students to develop methods for modeling language in health communications that could be translated into a computational system.
Other, United Kingdom
Dec 2005 - Sep 2007
Bibliographic Research Assistant 
  • Researched electronic and printed bibliographic sources pertaining to periodicals published in Victorian England and wrote content based on this research for The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, Dec. 2005 - Dec. 2006 (Canada).
  • Catalogued information about and digitized portions of Victorian periodicals at the British Library (at the St. Pancras and Colindale Newspapers Library branches) to be included in a large database designed to aid researchers working in this field, May 2007 - Sept. 2007 (England).

Professional Development

Rhetoric Society of America Research Network: Sharing Work in Progress, led by David Zarefsky, 2012.

  • Selected for a workshop that provides feedback from a senior scholar on a work-in-progress paper. Students in workshop also provide feedback to one another and lead a discussion for one paper other than their own.

Certificate of Accomplishment in Teaching program, 2012

  • Selected for a competitive program that provides teaching support and training through workshops, reflective papers, teaching observations and development of a teaching portfolio.

Professional Writing Program Teaching Assistant Training, 2012

  • Prepared for teaching in Professional Writing Program by designing syllabus, assignments, and lesson plans, for both face-to-face and online classes.

Library Graduate Student Workshops, NCSU Library Services, 2011

  • Attended workshops on the topics of researching and composing Literature Reviews, Literature Searching, and Citation Management using Refworks/Zotero.

Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute: Workshop on Emerging Genres, led by C.R. Miller & V.
Gallagher, 2011

  • Selected for a competitive workshop concerned with emergence of genres on the Internet; provided with an opportunity to present current research.

Service to the Profession

Service to the Discipline

 

  • Guest Editor, Enculturation: Computers and Writing 2012 Special Issue, forthcoming October 2012. With Meagan Kittle Autry.

Service to the University/College

 

  • Social Media Support & Student Representative for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Genetic Engineering and Society IGERT interdisciplinary PhD program development, NSF funded initiative, Sept. 2011  - present

  • Panel Judge & Volunteer at the UW Graduate Student Research Conference 2010: Sharing Discovery, Apr. 2010.
  • Faculty of Arts Representative for the UW Student Technology Advisory Committee, Oct. 2009 - Apr. 2010.

Service to the Department/Program

  • Co-Administrator, Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media (CRDM) program Drupal site, Oct. 2011 - present.
  • Co-Chair of the Rhetoric of Science and Technology SIG, NCSU Rhetoric Society of America Student Chapter, Mar. 2011 - present.
  • Board Member for the NCSU Rhetoric Society of America Student Chapter, Jan. 2011 - present.
  • Team Lead, web site development, for the NCSU CRDM 2nd Annual Symposium titled "Environments, Risks, and Digital Media," Apr. 2011.
  • Webmaster & Volunteer for the UW Student Association for Graduates in English, Aug. 2009 - Aug. 2010.

 

My LinkedIn References

Dr. Randy Allen Harris

(Superior)
Professor University of Waterloo

“In 20 years of directing research assistants, there is no one I would recommend more highly as a research assistant or a team leader than Ms. Kelly. She is very smart, very hardworking, incredibly diligent, and remarkably resourceful. I would count myself lucky to work with her again, as her researcher director or as her colleague.” July 31, 2010


Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert

Dr. Rebecca Housel

(Superior)
President New York College English Association

“Ashley Kelly presented her research at a recent New York College English Association conference. I was very impressed with her, and her work. Others were as well. Ashley's paper received Honors at the key-note luncheon as one of the most promising pieces of work presented that day. Ashley is an intellectually lively researcher with a great talent for critical writing. I found her to be collegial and easy to work with. I would highly recommend Ashley Kelly for any research, writing, or academic positions.” February 11, 2010

Viktor Haag

(Superior)
Senior Technical Writer Research in Motion

“I supervised Ashley as a technical writer for two study-program work terms at RIM. I always found her to be conscientious, professional, hard-working, and very capable to learn new material, organize it, and write about it in a way that was clear and precise. I would be happy to have Ashely on my team again, and I would recommend her to anyone seeking a capable, hard-working communicator.” March 3, 2012

Nike Abbott

(Peer)
Doctoral Student Wilfrid Laurier University

“Ashley is a very bright and self-motivated person. She is an honest and encouraging colleague who likes to see others excel as well as herself. I really respect her opinions and her feedback on my own work.” October 30, 2009

Allan McDougall

(Peer)
Doctoral Student University of Western Ontario

"I have collaborated extensively with Ashley and can attest to her astonishing creative and organizational capabilities. Ashley is an excellent writer and a prolific researcher with unmatched technical prowess. She is also a natural leader, engaging public speaker, and innovative thinker. I consider it an honour to continue researching and co-publishing work with Ashley." October 29, 2009

Honours & Awards

Scholarships

  • Gladys Srivastava Graduate Award (for study in English and Digital Arts Communication), 2010
  • SSHRC J. Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters, 2009-2010
  • University of Waterloo’s President’s Graduate Scholarship, 2009-2010
  • University of Waterloo/Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship, 2008 & 2009

Honours and Awards

  • Winner, third place, at the NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium in the Humanities and Design category, 2012
  • Recipient, ScienceOnline2012  Student Scholarship, complimentary registration, 2012
  • Winner, Research in Motion Volunteer Recognition Program Grant for NCSU Rhetoric Society of America student chapter, 2011

  • National Science Foundation travel grant for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, 2011

  • Winner, Graduate Student Competition, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC), full travel expenses, 2009
  • Honourable Mention, Graduate Student Competition, New York College English Association, 2009

  • Winner, University of Waterloo Arts Graduate Experience Award, 2008  & 2010

Technical Skills & Experience

  • Management software: Content Management Systems (Drupal, Wordpress, Moodle), Wiki software (Confluence, Tiki wiki, Mediawiki, Tiddly wiki), and Revision Control systems (Perforce, LiveLink).
  • Text: Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office Suite, LaTeX, and Vim.
  • Images: Adobe Creative Suite, GIMP, Inkscape.
  • Web: HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML, Dreamwaver.
  • OS: GNU/Linux (Slackware, Debian-based, Redhat, Gentoo), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X.

Scholarly Writing

Icon_pdf_16 Toward an Ontology of Rhetorical Figures

Our paper describes the Rhetorical Figure Ontology Project, a multidisciplinary research project that is presently working towards the development of a comprehensive database of rhetorical figures, an associated wiki, and, ultimately, an ontology of rhetorical figures. The database and wiki project provide the dataset and space for the conceptual development, respectively, to create an ontology. We define an ontology as a formalized taxonomy or system of classification of concepts and associated descriptions of said concepts. Here we provide an overview of the present state of the project and a discussion of the development of ontological descriptions of rhetorical figures. This work is a joint venture between Dr. Randy Allen Harris (English) and Dr. Chrysanne DiMarco (Computer Science, and English) at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Icon_pdf_16 A Humanistic Approach to the Study of Social Media: Combining Social Network Analysis & Case Study Research

Humanistic research into social media is presently diverse in approach, but rich in theoretical underpinnings. It is unsurprising that there is some difficulty in translating often text-based approaches to multi-media rich, rapidly-evolving social networking environments. We explore theoretical issues for studying social media with respect to one popular research methodology: case study research (CSR). Here we examine the challenges that social media pose to CSR in the humanities and then advance an approach using social network analysis (SNA) to assist in selecting case studies. This approach, we argue, improves selection of case studies by considering the network structures of social media.

Relevant Coursework

North Carolina State University - Ph.D.


Rhetoric and Digital Media

Instructor: Carolyn R. Miller

 

Rhetoric of Science and Technology

Instructor: Carolyn R. Miller

 

Environmental Communication

Instructor: William Kinsella

 

History and Theory of Rhetoric

Instructor: Kenneth S. Zagacki

 

Technologies and Pedagogies in the Communication Arts

Instructor: Susan Miller-Cochran

 

Analysis of Verbal Data

Instructor: Jason Swarts

 

Communication in Networked Society

Instructor: Melissa Johnson

 

History and Theory of Communication Technology

Instructor: Jeremy Packer

 

Philosophy of Communication: Ethics

Instructor: Pat Arneson

 

Issues in Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media

Instructor: Ann M. Penrose

 

Supervised Teaching

Instructor: Jason Swarts


University of Waterloo - M.A. 

 

Theory and Criticism

Instructors:  Neil Randall, Randy Allen Harris, and Andrew McMurry

 

Genre Studies & Research Methods

Instructor: Catherine Schryer

 

Writing Theory and Pedagogy

Instructor: Catherine Schryer

 

Genres of Tech Communication

Instructor: Neil Randall

Service to the Community

  • Activity leader for "Exploring Materials - Thin Film." NanoNights, MacroPints event at the Museum of Life and Science, Durham, 2012.
  • Judge at Science Fair for K-2 students, Fred A Olds Elementary School, Raleigh, 2012. 
  • Guest lecturer for classes about Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Science. International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge class. Broughton High School, Raleigh, 2012.
  • Activity leader for "Exploring Materials: Thin Film." Children-focused NanoDays event at the Museum of Life and Science, Durham, 2011.
  • Ally with GLOW: The Queer and Questioning Community Centre at the University of Waterloo, 2006 - 2010.
  • Co-Director, University of Waterloo Women's Centre, 2007 - 2008.
  • Executive member, University of Waterloo Women's Centre, 2005 -  2009.

Solar Scramble Educational Game

During my MA, I worked with the Collaborative Systems Lab at the University of Waterloo. We created an educational software game for the SMART tabletop. This is a video of our demo.

 

Creating this game was a great opportunity to learn more about hardware and software integration. Initially we were developing on a "homemade" tabletop, using the SMART SDK, and only later were we able to secure a SMART table for development efforts.