Natasha N. Jones
FacultyAfrican American and African Studies
Associate Professor
Biography
Natasha N. Jones is a technical communication scholar and co-author of the book Technical Communication after the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (winner of the 2021 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication). Her research interests include social justice, narrative, and technical communication pedagogy. She holds herself especially accountable to Black women and femmes and systemically marginalized communities. She strives to always center the narratives and experiences of those at the margins in her scholarship. Her work has been published in several journals including, Technical Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. She has received national recognition for her work, being awarded the CCCC Best Article in Technical and Scientific Communication (2020, 2018, and 2014) and the Nell Ann Pickett Award (2017). She currently serves as the President for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). Outside of her academic work, she finds joy in poetry and plants and all things horror/sci-fi.
Research Areas
Technical communication, Human-centered design
Education
BA in Print Journalism, Georgia State University
MA in Technical and Professional Communication, Auburn University
PhD in Technical Communication/Human-Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Research or Academic Affiliations
President, Association of Teachers of Technical Communication (ATTW)
Projects
Technical communication after the social justice turn: Building coalitions for action
Walton, R., Moore, K. & Jones, N. (2019). Technical communication after the social justice turn: Building coalitions for action. Routledge: New York, NY.
Technologies of disenfranchisement: Literacy tests and Black voters in the U.S. from 1890-1965
Jones, N. & Williams, M. F. (2018). Technologies of disenfranchisement: Literacy tests and Black voters in the U.S. from 1890-1965. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 64(4), 371-386. (CCCC Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical or Scientific Communication, 2020)
Contested sites of health risks: Using wearable technologies to intervene in racial oppression
Moore, K., Jones, N., Cundiff, B., & Heilig, L. (2018). Contested sites of health risks: Using wearable technologies to intervene in racial oppression. Communication Design Quarterly, 5(4), 52-60.
Rhetorical narratives of black entrepreneurs: The business of race, agency, and cultural empowerment
Jones, N. (2017). Rhetorical narratives of black entrepreneurs: The business of race, agency, and cultural empowerment. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31(3), 319-349. (In CCCC Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication, 2018)
Found things: Genre, narratives, and identification in a networked activist organization
Jones, N. (2016). Found things: Genre, narratives, and identification in a networked activist organization. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25(4), 298-318.
Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: An antenarrative of technical communication
Jones, N., Moore, K., & Walton, R. (2016). Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: An antenarrative of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25(4), 211-229. (Nell Ann Pickett Award, 2017 and CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for Best Article on Philosophy or Theory, 2018)
The technical communicator as advocate: Integrating a social justice approach in technical communication
Jones, N. (2016) The technical communicator as advocate: Integrating a social justice approach in technical communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 46(3), 342-361.
Courses
WRA 415: Digital Rhetoric
WRA 441: Social Justice as Rhetorical Practice
WRA 870: Research Methodologies in Rhetoric and Writing
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