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Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2023
stambldm@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: she/they

Education

Ph.D.Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, University of Minnesota, 2022

M.L.I.S., Library and Information Science, San José State University, 2012

B.S., Applied Sociology and English, Northern Arizona University, 2000

 

Professional Focuses

Rhetorics of wellness and disability; feminist rhetoric; food rhetoric; digital and visual rhetoric; technical and professional communication; writing about science, technology, and medicine; critical digital literacies; usability and user experience.

Publications

Book

Stambler, D. M. (Forthcoming). Wellness at work: Food, fatness, ableism, and citizenship in employee wellness. Ohio State University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Books and Edited Collections

Stambler, D. M. (2025). Making inroads: Using the UX process in TPC service course design to incorporate accessibility and access. In H. N. Turner & E. Rose (Eds.), Teaching user experience: A process approach. Routledge/ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication. 

Journal Special Issues (Guest-Edited)

Stambler, D. M., Veeramoothoo, S., & Davis, K. (Eds.) (2024). Toward digital life: Embracing, complicating, and reconceptualizing digital literacy in communication design. Special issue of Communication Design Quarterly, 12(2). [8 articles, 1 editors’ introduction.] Access the full issue: https://cdq.sigdoc.org/special-issue-12-2-toward-digital-life/ 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Stambler, D. M. (2026). Rhetorical sandwiches: Layering ethos and epideictic appeals as a persuasive strategy in public discourses of healthy eating. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric, 28(3), 47–68. https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/peitho/v28n3/stambler.pdf  

Davis, K., Tham, J., Stambler, D. M., Jiang, J., Campbell, J., Verhulsdonck, G., & Hocutt, D. (2026). What do we talk about when we talk about “AI literacy”?: Tensions in current institutional guidelines and recommendations for a slow, reflective future. Programmatic Perspectives, 17(1), 41–94. https://programmaticperspectives.cptsc.org/index.php/jpp/article/view/137/225

Stambler, D. M., Ranade, N., Hocutt, D., Fonash, S., Campbell, J., Duin, A. H., Pedersen, I., Tham, J., Veeramoothoo, S., & Verhulsdonck, G. (2024). Beyond digital literacy: Integrating threshold concepts in technical communication pedagogy to foster engagement with digital life. Technical Communication Quarterly, 34(2), 218–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2388038

Verhulsdonck, G., Weible, J., Stambler, D. M., Howard, T., & Tham, J. (2024). Incorporating human judgment in AI-assisted content development: The HEAT heuristic. Technical Communication, 71(3). https://doi.org/10.55177/tc286621

Davis, K., Stambler, D. M., Campbell, J., Hocutt, D., Duin, A., & Pedersen, I. (2022). Writing infrastructure with the Fabric of Digital Life platform. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 44–56. 

Stambler, D. M., Feddema, E., Riggins, L., Campeau, K., Breuch, L. K., Kessler, M. M., & Misono, S. (2022). REDCap delivery of a web-based intervention for patients with voice disorders: Usability study. JMIR Human Factors, 9(1), e26461. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26461

Stambler, D. M. (2022). “An Excelent good Remedi”: Medical recipes as ethos-building tactical technical communication in early modern England. Technical Communication Quarterly, 31(4), 311–325. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2021.2021451

Stambler, D. (2021). Eating data: The rhetoric of food, medicine, and technology in employee wellness programs. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 4(2), 158–186. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2021.2003

Kessler, M. M., Breuch, L. K., Stambler, D. M., Campeau, K., Riggins, L., Feddema, E., Doornink, S. & Misono, S. (2021). User experience in health & medicine: Building methods for patient experience design in multidisciplinary collaborations. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 51(4), 380–406. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816211044498

Banville, M., Das, M., Davis, K., D’Souza, E., Durazzi, A., Kalodner-Martin, E., Gresbrink, E., & Stambler, D. M.* (2021). Identity, agency, and precarity: Considerations of graduate students in technical communication. Programmatic Perspectives. https://cptsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Identity-Agency-and-Precarity.pdf *For this collaborative work, the authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetical order.

Davis, K., Stambler, D., Veeramoothoo, S., Ranade, N., Hocutt, D., Tham, J., Misak, J., Duin, A., & Pedersen, I. (2021). Fostering student digital literacy through the Fabric of Digital Life. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/fostering-student-digital-literacy-through-the-fabric-of-digital-life-89842f86-dab8-40af-9cb6-028a6660f454

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