Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2025
burryjw@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., English: Technical and Professional Communication (focus), University of South Florida, 2023
M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Central Florida, 2017
B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Central Florida, 2014
Professional Focuses
Technical and professional pedagogy; programmatic evaluation and improvement; community-engaged research; rhetoric of health and medicine; LGBTQ+ rhetorics; rural health research
Professional Activities
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Burry, J. W. (Aug. 2026). Rhetorics of cunning care: Mapping collective mētis in LGBTQ+ community health practices. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 9(3), 277-310. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2026.9303
Burry, J. W., & Stone, M. (May 2025). Introduction to “Down Home, Down the Street": Examining rural health in the rhetoric of health and medicine. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 6(2), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2025.2970
Burry, J., Gubala, C., Griffith, J., Zarlengo, T., & Melonçon, L. (Sept. 2024). Creating assignments that put programmatic inclusion into practice. In H. Falconer & L. McClary (Eds.). Inclusive STEM: Transforming Disciplinary Writing Instruction for a Socially Just Future. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-B.2024.2364.2.08
Burry, J., & Melonçon, L. (July 2024). Rhetoric of health and medicine. In Matthew Powers (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1442
Sonnenberg, M., Gubala, C., Burry, J., Griffith, J., Zarlengo, T., & Melonçon, L. (Sept. 2022). Implementing a continuous improvement model for assignment evaluation at the TPC program level. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816221124605
Book Reviews
Burry, J. W. (2026). [Review of the book Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness, 2025, by E. J. Rand], Ohio State UP. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 9(2), https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/view/3433
Conference Presentations
Burry, J. W. (2026, Aug. 6). Reimaging Careers in Health & Wellbeing [Panel presentation]. JMU Career Center Health and Wellbeing Summit, Harrisonburg, VA, United States.
Olesiak, T., Jordan, R., Burry, J. W. & Das, S. (2026, May 22). Queers in Public Space [Panel presentation]. Rhetoric Society of America Bi-Annual Conference, Portland, OR, United States.
Burry, J. W. & Hinson, K. (2025, Oct. 23). Navigating Programmatic TPC Sustainability in a Rural University Context: A Technical Problem [Conference session]. Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication Annual Conference, Lubbock, TX, United States.
Burry, J. W. & Stone, M. (2025, Oct. 18). Advancing Theory-building in RHM through a Rural Health Framework [Conference session]. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Burry, J. W. (2025, April 12). Remixing a Rural Health Framework for RHM Writing Courses [Conference session]. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Burry, J. W. (2024, Nov. 20). Engaging Community Ethics: A RHM Methodological Approach in Action [Conference session]. Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Burry, J. (2024, May 28). Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities[Conference session]. Rhetoric Society of America, Denver, CO, United States.
Burry, J. (2024, April 5). Medical Rhetoric Roundtable: Writing Abundance in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine[Conference session]. Conference on College Composition & Communication, Spokane, WA, United States.
Burry, J. (2023, Oct. 14). Theory building in RHM: Introducing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities [Conference session]. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Melonçon, L., Zarlengo, T., & Burry, J. (2023, Sept. 23). Revision in the Service Course [Conference session]. Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, United States.
Burry, J. (2021, May 26). Medicalizing Minority Bodies: Introducing Collective Mētis to Enact Justice [Conference session]. Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Invited Presentations
Burry, J. W. (2026, March 25). What is the boundary from community-actioned AI writing? Is there one? 7Cs Task Force on AI. Zoom Presentation.
Burry, J. W. (2026, Feb. 27). Bodies That Speak Back: Reimagining (Rural) Health, Empowerment, and the Rhetorics of Resistance. [Keynote address]. Association of English Graduate Students, Tampa, FL, University of South Florida, United States.
Burry, J. (2024, April 25). Utilizing AI ethically in professional writing. Tarleton State University, The Center for Educational Excellence. Zoom presentation.
