Faculty Spotlight: Tracy Bridgeford

Dr. Tracy Bridgeford, chair of the English department, will be traveling to Minneapolis this week to conduct two workshops on content management and technical communication at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). These workshops are based on a book proposal for an edited collection that is designed to provide conference participants with a practicum experience connected to content management. She will be leading the workshops and presenting on document type definitions (DTDs), which have become a central activity in technical communication. DTDs define the structure and the hierarchy of the content in a document. She will be presenting along with many of her colleagues who will be writing chapters for the book.

When not in Minneapolis, Dr. Tracy Bridgeford is a Professor of Technical Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She directs the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication and has been the internship director (2007-2011) and graduate program chair (2009-2015). With Karla Saari Kitalong and Bill Williamson She co-founded and co-edited Programmatic Perspectives (2008-2015). She served as Information Officer and Proceedings Editor for the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (2003-2015). She serves as a reviewer for Kairos and is currently on the editorial board of Technical Communication Quarterly.

In 2015, she published with Kirk St. Amant, Academy-Industry Relationships: Perspectives for Technical Communicators and, in 2014 with Karla Saari Kitalong and Bill Williamson, Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Programs. She has contributed chapters to Resources in Technical Communication: Outcomes and Approaches, Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction, and Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication, which she also co-edited. She has also published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She co-edited a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on Techne and Technical Communication.