Associate Professor
English

Daniel Richards

5032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Dr. Richards studies technical communication and rhetoric. His research focuses on environmental risk communication, user experience design, and writing pedagogy.

Ph.D. in English, University of South Florida, (2013)

M.A. in English, University of Windsor, (2009)

B.A. in English, University of Windsor, (2007)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Nunnery, J. A., Allen, T., Whytlaw, J., Richards, D. P.. and Mcleod, G. "Virginia Wind Energy Siting Solution" $775,000. Federal. August 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Richards, D. and Knowles, T. "User Experience, Residents, and Risk: Effectively (Re)Designing a Flood Rate Calculator" $6,700. 麻豆传媒. July 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Richards, D. P. . "Increasing Engagement in Online Writing Instruction: Developing Video Lectures for Technical Writing" $4,000. 麻豆传媒. July 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019
Richards, D. P. . "Flood Insurance Calculator and Website" $26,000. State. July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Richards, D. P. . "Story Mapping and Sea Level Rise: Bringing a Global Risk Home" $1,500. Higher Education. January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
Richards, D., Schwartz, K., Hester, P. T., Kumar, S. and Higgins, K. "Improving Disciplinary Writing Action Project Grant" $19,987. 2017 - 2018
Richards, D., Jovanovic, V., Pazos-Lago, M., Popescu, O. and Arcaute, K. "Improving Disciplinary Writing Action Project Grant" $20,000. 2017 - 2018
Richards, D. and Romberger, J. E. "Faculty Innovator Grant" $3,000. 2014 - 2015
Richards, D. and McKittrick, M. "Improving Disciplinary Writing Action Project Grant" $19,987. 2014 - 2015
Richards, D. and McKittrick, M. "Service-Learning Instructional Mini-Grant Award" $1,000. 2014 - 2015
Richards, D. "Faculty Research Grant" $6,000. 2014 - 2014
Richards, D. "Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program" $17,500. 2008 - 2008

Expertise

Communication
Environmental Communication
Risk and Vulnerability Management
Risk Communication
English/Grammar
Rhetoric

Articles

Pflugfelder, E. H., Amidon, T. R., Sackey, D. J. and Richards, D. P. (2023). Expanding the scope and scale of risk in TPC: Water access and the Colorado River Basin. Technical Communication Quarterly 32 (3) , pp. 224鈥241.
Richards, D. P. and Stephens, S. H. (2022). Do voices really make a difference? Investigating the value of local video narratives in risk perceptions and attitudes towards sea-level rise. Technical Communication 69 (4) , pp. 79鈥96.
Richards, D. P. and Jacobson, E. E. (2022). How Real Is Too Real? User-Testing the Effects of Realism as a Risk Communication Strategy in Sea Level Rise Visualizations. Technical Communication Quarterly 31 (2) , pp. 190鈥206.
Amidon, T. R., Nielsen, A. C., Pflugfelder, E. H., Richards, D. P. and Stephens, S. (2021). Visual risk literacy in 鈥淔latten the Curve鈥 COVID-19 visualizations. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 35 (1) , pp. 101鈥109.
Richards, D. P. and Stephens, S. (2020). Story mapping and sea level rise: Listening to global risks at street level. Communication Design Quarterly 8 (1) , pp. 5鈥18.
Richards, D. P.. and Phelps, L. W. (2020). On Ideological Transparency. Pedagogy 20 (1) , pp. 3-12.
Richards, D. P.. (2019). John Dewey, nonhuman agency, and the possibility of a posthuman public. Contemporary Pragmatism 16 (4) , pp. 366鈥395.
Richards, D. P.. (2019). An ethic of constraint: Citizens, sea-level rise viewers, and the limits of agency. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 33 (3) , pp. 292鈥337.
Richards, D. P. . (2018). Not a cape, but a life preserver: The importance of designer localization in interactive sea level rise viewers. Communication Design Quarterly 6 (2) , pp. 57-69.
Richards, D. (2017). Dwelling in the Ruins of Metaphor鈥攚ith Students. Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition (37).
Beale, M. C., McKittrick, M. and Richards, D. (2016). 鈥楪ood鈥 Grief: Praxis, Subversion, and the Ethics of Griefing Guides. Technical Communication Quarterly 25 (3) , pp. 191-201.
Richards, D. (2015). Testing the Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, and the Productive Usability of Interactive Geovisualizations. Communication Design Quarterly 3 (3) , pp. 25-29.
Richards, D. (2011). Digitizing Dewey: Blogging an Ethic of Community. Computers and Composition Online.

Books

Richards, D. P.. (2020). On Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, and Performativity. Utah State University Press.
Moore, K. R. and Richards, D. P. (2018). Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication.

Book Chapters

Richards, D. P. (2023). Flood Insurance Rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action Technical Communication for Environmental Action (pp. 95-120) SUNY Press.
Richards, D. P. (2022). Place-based podcasting: From orality to electracy in Norfolk, Virginia Amplifying soundwriting pedagogies: Integrating sound into rhetoric and writing (pp. 301-314) The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado.
Yusuf, J., Nicula, J., Richards, D. P., Agim, O., Covi, M. and Anuar, K. (2021). Engaging residents in policy and planning for sea level rise: Application of the Action-oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow (ASERT) framework Communicating climate change: Making environmental messaging accessible (pp. 36-57) New York, NY: Routledge.
Richards, D. P. (2019). Emergent publics, public emergencies: The importance of John Dewey in Jane Bennett鈥檚 nonhuman politics of vital materialism Recovering overlooked pragmatists in communication: Extending the living conversation about pragmatism and rhetoric (pp. 197鈥222) Palgrave Macmillan.
Richards, D. P. (2017). Reconstituting Causality: Accident Reports as Posthuman Documentation Hot Topics: Common Topics of Environmental Rhetoric Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture.
Richards, D. P. (2015). The (Re)Naturalization of Margaret Cavendish: Making Active the Relationship between Nature and Female Subjectivity in "Blazing World" Spectacle, Sex, and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture New York: AMS Press, Inc.

Conference Proceeding

Richards, D., Whytlaw, J., Allen, T., Miles, J. J.., Mcleod, G. and Cronin, J. J. A. . (2021). User experience design as a framework for political negotiation in environmental decision making about wind energy The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC 鈥21) (pp. 231鈥239) New York, NY: ACM SIGDOC.
Richards, D. P. . (2020). Facilitating flood fluency: The design and utility of a flood risk calculator based on FEMA鈥檚 National Flood Insurance Program Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication ACM SIGDOC.
Richards, D., Jovanovic, V., Popescu, O., McKittrick, M., Tombolato-Terzic, D., Pazos-Lago, M. and Romberger, J. E. (2017). Developing a Faculty Learning Community to Support Writing Across Different STEM DisciplinesThe Challenges of Exploring Local Place as a Context of Use in the Study of Interactive Risk Visualizations Proceedings of 124th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition Columbus, OH:.
Richards, D. (2017). The Challenges of Exploring Local Place as a Context of Use in the Study of Interactive Risk Visualizations SIGDOC 鈥17: The 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication Proceedings New York: ACM.
Richards, D. P. . (2017). The challenges of exploring local place as a context of use in the study of interactive risk visualizations Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 1-7) ACM SIGDOC.
Richards, D. (2016). Helping Local Residents Make Informed Decisions with Interactive Risk Visualization Tools SIGDOC 鈥16: The 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication Proceedings New York: ACM.
Richards, D., Jovanovic, V., McKittrick, M., Pazos-Lago, M. and Romberger, J. (2015). Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering Environments Proceedings of 122nd American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition Seattle, WA:.
  • 2021: Research Mentor Award (Fall 2021), Granted by The Patricia and Douglas Perry Honors College, 麻豆传媒. Awarded $500 to lead independent study with senior honors college student. Awarded $200 for materials.
  • 2020: University Doctoral Mentoring Award for the College of Arts & Letters, The Graduate School at 麻豆传媒
  • 2017: Teaching with Technology Award, University Outstanding Faculty Awards Committee, in association with the Office of Distance Learning and ITS
  • 2016: Shining Star Award for Outstanding Teaching, Student Engagement and Enrollment Services, 麻豆传媒
  • 2014: Honourable Mention, Best Dissertation in Rhetoric, Writing Studies, or Discourse Studies Category, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW)
  • 2013: Dorothy Newman Linton Award for Academic Promise, Department of English at the University of South Florida
  • 2013: Provost鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence at the University of South Florida
  • 2012: Alma Bryant Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, Department of English at the University of South Florida