Deborah C. AndrewsProfessor, Department of English
Deborah C. Andrews directs the College of Arts and Sciences' Center for Material Culture Studies. 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).
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She is a past president of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Business Communication. 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).