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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 Medicine9(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. 

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