Julianne Newmark
Lecture/Research  |  2024-25

Finland

Dr. Julianne Newmark is the  Director of Technical & Professional Communication and Assistant Chair for Core Writing at the University of New Mexico. As a researcher, she focuses on usability/UX/UCD and TPC pedagogy.  She also teaches, conducts research, and publishes in Indigenous Studies, particularly concerning early-20th-century Native activist writers’ rhetorically impactful bureaucratic writing, particularly in Bureau of Indian Affairs contexts. In recent years, she has received multiple grants to fund archival research for this project, including grants from CCCC/NCTE and the American Philosophical Society.  Her second monograph is provisionally titled "Reports of Agency: Retrieving Indigenous Professional Communication in Dawes Era Indian Bureau Documents.” Her 2015 book The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature was published by University of Nebraska Press. She is Editor-in-Chief of Xchanges, a Writing Studies ejournal.

During her tenure as a Fulbright scholar, Julie will be based at Tampere University, where she will teach in their technical writing Masters program and collaborate cross-disciplinarily with colleagues across the university. Julie will also be finishing a coauthored (with Joseph Bartolotta) textbook project titled “UX+You: The Technical and Professional Communication Student’s Introduction to Usability and User Experience in the 21st Century." The book is designed for Master’s- and Ph.D.-level TPC students, as well as faculty, who want to learn more about the history of usability and user-centered design and how TPC practitioners’ contributions in the UX industry are strengthened by their knowledge of rhetorical inquiry and strategies for using high-tech and low-tech testing methods in a variety of academic and industry settings. Dr. Newmark's Fulbright award (the Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar Award) is supported by the Fulbright Finland Foundation and Tampere University.