Degrees Held

A.B., 1976, Duke University
M.A., 1979, The University of Florida
Ph.D., 1990, Georgia State University

Academic Summary

Emily A. Thrush teaches in both the Applied Linguistics and Professional Writing programs at The University of Memphis. She has been an Academic Specialist for the USIA/State Department in the Brazil, Czech Republic, Lebanon, Slovakia, Italy, and Germany, and served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Mexico in 2000-2001. Her research interests include information design for the World Wide Web, international and multicultural issues in technical communication, and the teaching of English for specific purposes.

Courses Taught

3601 Technical and Professional Writing
3602 Writing & Editing in the Professions
3603 Engineering Communication
4531 Methods and Principles of ESL
4617 Computers & Writing
7805 Information Design for the Web
7806 Foundations of Technical Writing
7807 Workshop in Corporate, Legal & Government Communications
7837 Writing Technical Manuals
7536 Issues in Second Language Writing
7537 Issues in ESL Reading
7535 ESL Grammar
7035 Issues in the Multicultural Classroom
7032 Discourse Analysis

Major Publications

• Thrush, Emily A. & Angela Thevenot. 2009. “Globalizing the Technical Communications Classroom: Killing Two Birds with One Stone.” In Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication: Theories, Curriculum, Pedagogies, and Practices. Barry Thatcher & Kirk St. Amant, Eds. Baywood Press.
• Kim, Loel, Emily A. Thrush, Susan Popham, & Joseph Jones. 2008. “A Profile of Students Using Wireless Technologies in a First-Year Learning Communities." In Going Wireless. Amy Kimmehea, Ed. Hampton Press. 151-178.
• Mary Lou McCloskey, Emily A. Thrush, Mary Elizabeth Wilson-Patton, & Gabriela Kleckova. “Developing English Language Curriculum for Online Delivery.” CALICO Journal, 25(2), 2008.
• "Bridging the Gaps: Technical Communications in the International and Multicultural World." Technical Communications Quarterly, 2(3), 1993. Winner of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article of the Year.
• Interactions I and II Multi-Skills Books. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1997. Co-author: Deborah Poole.
• "Multicultural Issues in Technical Writing." In Foundations for Teaching Technical Communication: Sources, Issues, and Curricula for an Emergent Discipline. Katherine Staples and Cezar Ornatowski, Eds. ATTW Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication Series. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Press, 1997.