Hi, I’m Adrianna Deptula.
I received my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University with specialties in Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) and medical rhetorics. I earned my MA in English, with a focus on Rhetoric and Composition, from John Carroll University, and I hold a BA in English and Spanish (Hispanic Studies). I am currently a full-time lecturer within the Writing Program at Case Western Reserve University.

My research interests span TPC, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM), and artificial intelligence. My dissertation study investigated patient documentation practices across U.S. pain and spine clinics. One chapter, “One Size Does Not Fit All: How Clinical Pain Assessment Scales and Tools Mask Crip Narratives of Chronicity,” was recently published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.

I'm also involved in a collaborative study on rural healthcare communication and clinical artificial intelligence, funded by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development and Purdue's John Martinson Honors College.

Outside of my research, I have taught technical writing, business writing, healthcare writing, and composition. My experiences as a writing instructor have taken me from a small liberal arts college, a diverse urban community college, and two research-intensive STEM institutions.