Courtney Hoffman

Dr. Courtney Hoffman is an Academic Professional for Undergraduate Research Writing, in which capacity she teaches research proposal and thesis writing courses as well as provides 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, Courtney is working on a writng and communication textbook for undergraduate researchers. Courtney 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.