Courtney A. Hoffman

Dr. Courtney A. Hoffman is currently an Academic Professional and Associate Director of the Writing and Communication Program, a role she began in August 2026. Dr. Hoffman previously taught research proposal and thesis writing courses as well as provided administrative support for Georgia Tech's Undergraduate Research Option Program (UROP). Her pedagogy focuses on information design in writing courses, while her personal research focuses on the intersection of literary and writing studies with health, coallescing into a research agenda in the medical humanities. She is collaborating with a colleague on a project examining 18th-century midwifery manuals as texts to produce and reproduce culture through genre development as technical writing. Their current article in progress looks at the rhetoric of ethics of care in these manuals. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman is working on a writng and communication textbook for undergraduate researchers. Dr. Hoffman is now in her 10th year at Georgia Tech, having completed a term as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Tech in 2022, where she also served as Assistant Director of the Writing and Communication Program, before she took on her position with UROP.