Associate Professor of Applied and Professional Writing

Erin Kathleen Bahl is Associate Professor of Applied and Professional Writing, as well as the department's Social Media and Branding Coordinator. Her work explores the possibilities digital technologies afford for creating knowledge and telling stories, with a focus especially on webtexts, webcomics, folklore, accessibility, and digital publishing. She is managing editor for . 
Her publications include scholarly and creative work in Kairos; Computers and Composition Online; enculturation: a journal of writing, rhetoric, and culture; The Digital Review; and The Smithsonian's Folklife Magazine.
Her dissertation, "," won the 2018 Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Dissertation Award. Her collaborative webtext "," co-authored with Margaret Price, received the 2023 Kairos Best Webtext Award.

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    • Applied Writing
    • PRWR 6440 Professional and Academic Editing
    • PRWR 6570 Writing for Social Media
    • PRWR 6850 Web Content Development
    • Bahl, Erin Kathleen and Margaret Price. 鈥淭he Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual.鈥� Peer-reviewed webtext. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Issue 26.2, Spring 2022, 
    • Bahl, Erin Kathleen, Sergio Figueiredo, and Jeffrey Greene. 鈥淚nstructor as Game Master: Applying Games鈥� Material Rhetorics to Online Course Design.鈥� Special issue on 鈥淢aking Games Matter鈥� of Computers and Composition Online edited by Steve Holmes and Rebekah Schultz Colby. Peer-reviewed webtext. Fall 2022, 
    • Bahl, Erin Kathleen; Bartlett, Stephen; Cornwell, Mary Margaret; Howard, Laura W.; and Rodenbeck, Jason, "Accessibility Basics: Writing for Accessibility in Online Learning Environments" (2023). English Open Textbooks. 24. 
    • Bahl, Erin Kathleen, Sergio Figueiredo, and Rich Shivener. Comics and Graphic Storytelling in Technical Communication. Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 30, 2020, 
    • -鈥淭he Seven Sisters and the Web of Threads: Fairy Tales from Brothers Grimm to Instagram鈥� (Invited original digital comic and essay commissioned by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage鈥檚 Folklife Magazine ()