Emily Gresbrink, Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical Communication the University of Minnesota
• M.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota
• Certificate in Health Unit Coordinating from Hennepin Technical College
• B.A. in Print Journalism from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Emily Gresbrink is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the Integrated Engineering program, with a joint appointment in English. Their research interests include digital risk & crisis communication, social justice, technical communication, structured authoring pedagogy and practice, and graduate student mentorship. Her work addresses advocacy and amplification of marginalized perspectives and people, digital writing and content development in times of precarity & crisis, and ethics-driven discussions of generative artificial intelligence and intelligent content in the writing classroom. In addition to their educational background, Emily has spent nearly ten years in the healthcare and manufacturing sectors in technical writing and administrative roles, most recently at The Toro Company as a service writer in the commercial division.  

 

Gresbrink, E. (2024). A Humanist Approach to Digital Risk Communication: Investigating Graduate Student Responses to COVID-19 E-Mails (Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota).

 

Gresbrink, E., and Jordan, R. (Accepted). #BisexualBliss in the Regency Era: A Collaborative Critical Queer Feminist Autoethnography of Bridgerton Memes. In Rhetoric Review Symposium on Bisexual Digital Rhetorics (BiDigRhets), Cindy Tekobbe and Derek Sparby, Eds.

 

Kastman Breuch, L., Duin, A.H., & Gresbrink, E. (2022). Real-World User Experience: Engaging Students and Industry Professionals through a Mentor Program. In UX as Innovative Academic Practice, (Cargile-Cook, K., & Crane, K., Eds.). Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication Series, WAC Clearinghouse.

 

Banville, M., Gray, K., Gresbrink, E., Kalodner-Martin, E, Listhartke, H., Jordan., R., (2023). Imagining a Social Justice Technical Communication “Dream” Course. IEEE ProComm, Ithaca, NY.

 

Gresbrink, E. (2021). Stay Healthy, Safe, and Well: Investigating Effective Communication Design in COVID-19 Emails and Messaging. The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.

 

Banville, M., Das, M., Davis, K., Dsouza, E., Durazzi, A., Gresbrink, E., Kalodner-Martin, E., and Stambler, D. (2021). Identity, Agency and Precarity: Considerations of Graduate Students in Technical Communication. Programmatic Perspectives, 12(2), Fall 2021.

 

• ENG 475/575: Editing Technical Publications
• TCID 374/674: Creating Intelligent Content (with Metro State University)
• ENGR 276: Technical Communication for Integrated Engineering (with Iron Range Engineering)