Summary
Assistant Professor, George Mason University teaching Writing and Rhetoric: writing program administration, professional writing, composition.
Lourdes Fernandez serves as Assistant Director for Advanced Composition; she teaches composition, advanced composition, professional and technical writing, and rhetorical theory for the English Department. She earned a PhD in Writing & Rhetoric from George Mason University; her research interests include hybrid course design and pedagogy, the rhetorics of institutional responses to public problems, the rhetorics of research methods, and rhetorics of sexual assault.
Dr. Fernandez led a focus group of students doing a usability study of onAir in the spring of 202o as well as preliminary navigation study in the fall of 2019.
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Recent Presentations
Wooten, C.A., Messier, J., Fernandez, L. & Meeks, K. (2019, July). Building public writing programs at diverse institutions (panel), Council of Writing Program Administrators, Baltimore, MD.
Fernandez, L., & Shafer, L. (2019, March). Distributing accountability: Meeting the needs of students, researchers, and knowledge-making in technical communication, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fernandez, L. (2019, March). Spotlight session: Methods for emerging researchers in rhetoric and composition (roundtable), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fernandez, L., Matthews, J., & Messier, J. (2018, June). Reaching for common ground: Professional development within and across the disciplines (panel), International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, Auburn, AL.
Fernandez, L. (2018, June). Ontologizing campus sexual assault: the role of university administrators in the rhetoric of sexual assault, Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.
Fernandez, L. (2018, May). Accounting for how things work: An approach to using procedural rhetoric as method, Computers and Writing, Fairfax, VA.
Fernandez, L. & McGregor, B. (2018, March). Writing faculty perceptions of student veterans, in Putting policy into practice: Teaching writing across the military-civilian divide (roundtable), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO.
Fernandez, L. (2017, November). “One in five women become victims of campus sexual assault”: How statistics perpetuate controversy in rape reporting, National Communication Association pre-conference, Dallas, TX.
Fernandez, L., McGregor, B., & Michiels, P. (2017, July). Digital faculty development hubs: If we build it, will they come? Council of Writing Program Administrators, Knoxville, TN.
Matthews, J., Fernandez, L., Messier, J. Lister, L., & Liberatore, S. (2017, July). Learning communities: Leveraging external funding for faculty-driven professional development, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Knoxville, TN.
OnAir Focus Groups
Dr. Fernandez led a focus group of students doing a usability study of onAir in the spring of 202o. Many of their suggestions and feedback has been incorporated into the latest onAir UX design. Below is a PDF of their findings.
