Dr. Kristin LaFollette

Dr. Kristin LaFollette is Assistant Professor of English, Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Assistant Director of Composition at the University of Southern Indiana. She also oversees the medical humanities minor, and her research interests include rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and medical humanities.

Dr. LaFollette is the author of the forthcoming book Rehumanizing People of the Past: Technical Communication in Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (under contract with SUNY Press). Her other research has been published in various journals, including Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication and Social Justice, Across the Disciplines, Journal of Basic Writing, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Her article in Across the Disciplines received the 2023 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award. As a poet, Dr. LaFollette is the author of Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize) and Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize).

Dr. LaFollette currently serves as president of the Indiana College English Association (ICEA) and associate chair of the Medical Rhetoric Standing Group (MRSG) at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). She is also a member of the Board of Advisors and chair of the Humanities Committee at The Blood Project (TBP), an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient care.

Learn more about her work at kristinlafollette.com.