Hi, I’m Dr. Adrianna Deptula.
I recently defended my dissertation in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Purdue University. I earned my MA in English, with a focus on Rhetoric and Composition, from John Carroll University in 2020, and I hold a BA in English and Spanish (Hispanic Studies). My research interests span Technical and Professional Communication (TPC), Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM), and artificial intelligence.

My current dissertation study investigates patient documentation practices across U.S. pain and spine clinics. This project investigates how clinical pain assessment scales and digital intake documentation shape perceptions of chronic pain and disability. One chapter, “One Size Does Not Fit All: How Clinical Pain Assessment Scales and Tools Mask Crip Narratives of Chronicity,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.

I am also involved in a collaborative study on artificial intelligence and rural healthcare communication, funded by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. This project has led to an accepted publication, “Navigating Methodological Mutability: Researching Rural Healthcare Written Communication in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence,” in the Journal of Written Communication. Additionally, my co-authored article, “Rhetorics of Authenticity: Ethics, Ethos, and Artificial Intelligence,” was recently published in the journal of Business and Technical Professional Communication.

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