Computers and Composition. November 18, 2020
Abigail Koenig, PhD
Adjunct Professor,
College of Business, Room 372
(502)-852-7205
Bio
Dr. Abby Koenig is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the College of Business. Her expertise is in communication and storytelling, which she teaches in several classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She holds a doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Texas Tech University.
Prior to UofL, she taught for eight years at the University of Houston – Downtown, where she specialized in intercultural and interracial communication. Her research interests are in algorithmic and information literacy and its impact on communication.
Education
- PhD (Technical Communication and Rhetoric) Texas Tech University
- MA (Mass Communication) University of Houston
- BFA (Dramatic Writing) SUNY Purchase
Awards & Honors
Outstanding Lecturer of the Year, 2018
University of Houston — Downtown
Outstanding Lecturer of the Year (Finalist), 2017
University of Houston — Downtown
The Ella Margaret Hawes Women in Transition Scholarship, 2010
University of Houston
Recent Research & Publications
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The algorithms know me and I know them: Using student journals to uncover algorithmic literacy awareness -
Emotions and affective polarization: How enthusiasm and anxiety about presidential candidates affect interparty attitudes American Politics Research. December 16, 2019 -
Review of Textual curation: Authorship, agency, and technology in Wikipedia and Chambers’s Cyclopædia by K. Kennedy Technical Communication Quarterly. May 29, 2019 -
Change is an emotional state of mind: Behavioral responses to online petitions New Media & Society. April 1, 2018 -
Book Review: Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation Journal of Business and Technical Communication. March 22, 2018