Hi, I’m Dr. Adrianna Deptula.
I received my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University with specialties in technical and medical communication. I earned my MA in English, with a focus on Rhetoric and Composition, from John Carroll University in 2020, and I hold a BA in English and Spanish (Hispanic Studies). This fall, I will start a faculty position in the Writing Program at Case Western Reserve University

My research interests span Technical and Professional Communication (TPC), Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM), and artificial intelligence. My dissertation study investigated patient documentation practices across U.S. pain and spine clinics. One chapter, “One Size Does Not Fit All: How Clinical Pain Assessment Scales and Tools Mask Crip Narratives of Chronicity,” was recently published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.

I'm also involved in a collaborative study on artificial intelligence and rural healthcare communication, funded by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. This project has led to an accepted publication, “Navigating Methodological Mutability: Researching Rural Healthcare Written Communication in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence,” in the Journal of Written Communication. Additionally, my co-authored article, “Rhetorics of Authenticity: Ethics, Ethos, and Artificial Intelligence,” was recently published in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Outside of my research, I have taught technical writing, business writing, healthcare writing, and composition. My experiences as a writing instructor have taken me from a small liberal arts college, a diverse urban community college, and a research-intensive STEM institution.