Associate Professor and WRTC Graduate Program Director
Year Started at JMU: 2016
dehertlb@jmu.edu
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Education
Ph.D., English, Specialization in Scientific and Technical Communication, Washington State University, 2015
M.A., English, Appalachian State University, 2008
B.A., English, University of Southern Mississippi, 2004
Professional Focuses
healthcare communication; women’s health; scientific and technical writing; content strategy; project management
Publications
Book
De Hertogh, Lori Beth, Green, Ann, Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina, Micciche, Laura, Molloy, Cathryn, Siegel Finer, Bryna, & White-Farnham, Jamie. (2026). Living Menopause. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Selected Journal Articles
De Hertogh, Lori Beth & Molloy, Cathryn. (2025). It’s not just hormones: Menopause anxiety through a feminist rhetorical framework. Peitho, 27(2).
Novotny, Maria & De Hertogh, Lori Beth. (2022). Amplifying rhetorics of reproductive justice in rhetorics of health & medicine. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 5(4).
De Hertogh, Lori Beth & DeVasto Danielle. (2022). Shaping a participatory health communication pedagogy with UX and patient-agency. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 4(4).
Novotny, M. & De Hertogh, L.B. (2022). A dialogue on situating reproductive justice in rhetorics of health & medicine. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 5(4).
De Hertogh, L.B. & DeVasto D. (2022). Shaping a participatory health communication pedagogy with ux and patient-agency. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 4(4).
De Hertogh, L.B., Novotny, M., & Harper, K. (2020) Annotated bibliography of rhetorics of reproductive justice. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 20(2).
Lane, L., De Hertogh, L.B., Ouellette, J. (2020). Feminist citational mapping as recovery and reconsideration: A methodology for analyzing citational practices. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 22(3).
McCarthy, S., De Hertogh, L.B., & Rouillon, V. (2020). The role of curation in tenure and promotion documentation. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 4(1).
De Hertogh, L.B., Lane, L., & Ouellette, J. (2019). Feminist leanings: Tracing technofeminist and intersectional practices and values in three decades of Computers and Composition. Computers and Composition, 51, 4-13.
De Hertogh, L.B. (2018). Feminist digital research methodology for rhetoricians of health and medicine. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(4), 480-503.
De Hertogh, L.B. (2018). Vanishing acts: Theorizing digital iterations in feminist archives. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, 26.
De Hertogh, L.B. (2015). Reinscribing a new normal: Pregnancy, disability, and health 2.0. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, & Technology, 7.
Refereed Book Chapters
Avery Edenfield, De Hertogh, Lori Beth, & Molloy, Cathryn. (2026). Situating menopause in rhetorics of health & medicine. In Lisa Meloncon, Blake Scott, & Cathryn Molloy (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Rhetorics of Health & Medicine. Routledge Press.
Molloy, Cathryn & De Hertogh, Lori Beth. (2026). “All that effort for nothing?”: How to make use of disappointing data. In Michelle McMullin, Valerie Smith, & Lisa Melonçon (Eds.), Research Practice in Technical and Professional Communication. WAC Clearinghouse.
De Hertogh, Lori Beth & Molloy, Cathryn. (2024). Transforming menopause stigma through feminist rhetorical action. In Jacqueline Rhodes & Suban Nur Cooley (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric. Routledge.
De Hertogh, L.B. (2020). Interrogating race-based health disparities in Black Women Do Breastfeed. In Erin Frost & Michelle Eble (Eds.), Interrogating Gendered Pathologies (pp. 188-204). Louisville, CO: Utah State University Press.
Novotny, M. & De Hertogh, L.B. (2019). Rhetorics of self-disclosure: A feminist framework for understanding infertility activism. In Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, & Cathryn Molloy (Eds.), Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (pp. 59-72). Philadelphia, PA: Routledge Press.
Conference Proceedings
De Hertogh, L.B., & DeVasto, D. (2020). User experience as participatory health communication pedagogy. SIGDOC: Special Interest Group on Design of Communication.
