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Deborah C.
Andrews directs the College
of Arts and
Sciences’ Center for Material Culture Studies (www.udel.edu/materialculture).
The Center administers an undergraduate minor and facilitates cooperation
among several university programs in the field. She also coordinates the
English Department’s concentration in professional writing. She
teaches courses in technical editing, in researching and interpreting
objects and sites for public understanding, and on American literature
from 1865 to 1945, especially as it reflects and contributes to the
cultural and material world in America at that time. The
author of articles about domestic science in 19th century
America, whaling, and Philadelphia banking architecture, she has
published several texts on professional communication, including Technical Communication in the Global
Community (2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2001) and, most
recently, Management Communication:
A Guide (with W.D. Andrews: Houghton Mifflin, 2004). She is a past
president of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication (www.cptsc.org) and a
member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Business
Communication (www.businesscommunication.org).
A researcher, consultant, and speaker on many aspects
of professional communication, especially in an international context,
she is the former editor of Business
Communication Quarterly and has contributed articles to major
journals and anthologies in communication, most recently, ”North
America, the State of the Field,” a chapter in the Handbook of Business Discourse
(Edinburgh UP, forthcoming).
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