Dori Coblentz

Dori is a Lecturer in Technical Communication and teaches classes on first-year composition, technical communication, and the history of science. In addition to her writing pedagogy research, she specializes in early modern English literature and culture, digital pedagogy, and the history of technical communication. Her monograph, Fencing, Form and Cognition: Artful Devices (Edinburgh UP 2021) explores the ways in which early moderns generated and transmitted practical knowledge about time. Her current project, Inventing Professions: Literature, Science, and Rhetoric in Early Modern Print Culture, examines how early modern scientific writings and technical handbooks worked alongside literary texts to shape emerging ideas of professional identity and knowledge transmission. Building on these themes, Dori's research now extends to generative AI, where she explores similar questions of invention, authorship, and knowledge transmission in her role as chair of Georgia Tech's Writing and Communication Program's AI Working Group.