Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2025
wyf4gl@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
Publications
Burry, J., & 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
