Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Agbozo teaches and researches technical and professional communication, science and medical writing, visual and digital rhetoric, and technoculture. He received several teaching grants for facilitating student-applied learning. His dissertation, which won the 2022 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication, theorizes the creation and take up of the Global Positioning System through discursive-material analysis. His current research projects investigate mHealth and persuasive technologies, the rhetoric of health and medicine, discourses of debt and financial crises, and research methodology.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

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    2023-01-01 Software-mediated public health information localization as social justice work.  Technical Communication and Social Justice.  1:8-23. 2023-01-01
    2022-01-01 Localization at Users’ Sites is Not Enough: GhanaPostGPS and Power Reticulations in the Postcolony.  Technical Communication.  69:7-17. 2022-01-01
    2022-01-01 Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis for Technical Communication Research.  Technical Communication Quarterly.  1-15. 2022-01-01
    2021-12-01 Educational Language Policy in an African Country: Making a Place for Code-Switching/Translanguaging.  Applied Linguistics Review.  12:503-522. 2021-12-01
    2019-03-01 Teacher trainee sociolinguistic backgrounds and attitudes to language-in-education policy in Ghana: A preliminary survey.  Current Issues in Language Planning.  20:338-364. 2019-03-01
    Revisiting "Home" in Ghanaian Poetry: Awoonor, Anyidoho and Adzei.  CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.  21.
    Translation as Rewriting: Cultural Theoretical Appraisal of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" in the Ewe language of West Africa.  Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance.  18:43-56.

    Book

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    2023-08-01 Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the Intersection of Culture, Science, Religion and Politics.  Routledge. 2023-08-01

    Chapter

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    2021-01-01 Creating translated interfaces: Representations of African languages and cultures in digital media -- Rethinking language use in digital Africa: Technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Multilingual Matters. 51-72. 2021-01-01

    Document

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    2023-08-01 Political Myth-Making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction and Promotion of the African Dream.  Discourse & Society. 1-3. 2023-08-01
    2022-01-01 New Histories and Theories of Writing with/through Technologies: A Review Essay.  Composition Studies. 158–166. 2022-01-01

    Presentations

    Research Overview

  • Technical and Professional Communication, Science and Medical Writing, Visual and Digital Rhetoric, Technoculture, Critical Discourse Studies, Translation and Localization

    • Principal Investigator On

    Investigator On

  • Summer Pedagogy Development Initiative 2023-05-01 - 2023-07-01
  • Summer Professional Development Grant 2022-05-01 - 2022-07-01

    • Teaching Overview

  • Technical and Professional Communication, Science and Medical Writing, Visual Rhetoric, Digital Writing, Technology and Society, Environmental Writing, Applied Linguistics, Composition

    • Full Name

  • Gabriel Agbozo