Dr. Justin Mando

Degrees:

Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016.

M.A. in Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011.

Specializations:

• Composition Pedagogy
• Intellectual Risk-Taking in the Writing Classroom
• Science Writing
• Environmental rhetoric
• Rhetoric of place
• Discourse analysis
• Computer-aided rhetorical analysis

Additional Interests:

• Place-based pedagogy
• Susquehanna River Issues
• Environmental Advocacy
• Deliberative democracy
• Health and medical discourse

Courses Taught:

• ENGL 110: English Composition
• ENGL 242: Reading Our World: Climate Change
• WRIT 274: Craft of Writing: Writing about Place
• WRIT 311: Advanced Composition
• WRIT 312: Technical Writing
• WRIT 319: Science Writing
• WRIT 466: Writing Studies Seminar: Environmental Advocacy Writing
• WRIT 671: Special Topics in Rhetoric: Discourse Analysis
• WRIT 672: Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition

Sample Publications:

Commer, Carolyn, Ana Cooke, Justin Mando, and Alexis Teagarden. “(Re)Locating the Rhetorical Commonplaces of Failure and Risk-Taking.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2024, pp. 78-94.

Teagarden, Alexis, Justin Mando, and Carolyn Commer. “Counterpoint: Why Not Intellectual Risk-Taking.” If at First You Don’t Succeed? Writing, Rhetoric, and the Question of Failure, edited by Stephen J. Corbett, 2024, pp. 47-64.

Mando, Justin. Fracking and the Rhetoric of Place: How We Argue from Where We Stand. Lexington, 2021.

Mando, Justin. "Scientist Citizens: Non-traditional and Alternative Approaches to Scientific Communication." Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication. Routledge, 2022.

Mando, Justin and Garrett Stack. "Convincing the Public to Kill: Asian Carp and the Proximization of Invasive Species Threat." Environmental Communication, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018, pp.820-833.

Mando, Justin.  "The Rhetorical Construction of Proximity in a Marcellus Shale Public Hearing." "Communicating Hydro-fracking" Special issue of Environmental Communication, vol. 10, no.3, 2016, pp. 352-364.

Johnstone, Barbara, and Justin Mando. "Proximity and Journalistic Practice in Environmental Discourse: Experiencing 'Job Blackmail' in the News." Discourse in Communication, vol. 9, no. 1, 2015, pp. 81-101.

Teagarden, Alexis, Carolyn Commer, Ana Cooke and Justin Mando. "Intellectual Risk in the Writing Classroom: Navigating Tensions in Educational Values and Classroom Practice." Composition Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2018, pp. 116-136.

Creative Writing:

Mando, Justin. “Zoom in on the Conejohela Flats.” Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtfCyhOhZmw&t=27s

Mando, Justin. 2022. "Mantis Move in." About Place Journal, vol. vii, no. 1, May 2022. "Mantis Move In"

Passions & Distractions:

• Fly fishing
• Recreation on the Susquehanna River
• Visiting family and friends in Slovakia
• The Chautauqua Movement