Research Interests
Writing in nonprofits; New media and digital writing; Digital storytelling
Courses Recently Taught
- WRD 532: Content Strategy
- WRD 526: Grant and Proposal Writing
- WRD 521: Technical Writing
- WRD 372: Digital Storytelling
- WRD 286: Writing with Photographs
Recent Scholarship
Research Articles
- Dush, L. (2022). “The art of assembly: Script, platform, document." Technical Communication Quarterly.
- Dush, L. (2022). "A community of practice design for capacity-building programs: The Chicago Peace Fellows." Community Development.
- Dush, L. (2022). "Drawing into being: Charter graphics and their functions." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(2), 165-189.
- Dush, L. (2017). "Nonprofit collections of digital personal experience narratives: An exploratory study." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31(2), 188–221.
Book Reviews
- Dush, L. (2022). Book review: Rhetoric and guns, Eds. Lydia Wilkes, Nate Kreuter, and Ryan Skinnell. Technical Communication Quarterly.
- Dush, L. (2022). Book review: Institutional literacies: Engaging academic IT contexts for writing and communication by Stuart A. Selber. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(1): 120–123.
Committees
- College of LAS Personnel Committee
- Teaching, Learning, and Technology Committee
- Committee for Online Learning