Education
PhD, Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University
MA, English Language and Literature, Western Illinois University
BA, History, Western Illinois University
Publications
Refereed Articles
Candice A. Welhausen and
Kristin Marie Bivens. (4, October 2019). “Using content analysis to explore users’ perceptions and experiences using a novel citizen first responder app.” Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. doi:
10.1145/3328020.3353953
Christa Teston, Laura Gonzales,
Kristin Marie Bivens, and Kelly Whitney. (2019) “Surveying Precarious Publics.”
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 2(3), 321-351. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2019.1015
Kristin Marie Bivens. (2019). “Constructing a Cultural Logic from a Swedish Context.”
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 49(4). 411-432. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619871218
Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, and Leah Heilig. (2019). “The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism.”
Technical Communication Quarterly. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211
Kristin Marie Bivens. (2019). “Rhetorical Ventriloquism, Earwitnessing, and Soundscapes in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).”
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 2(1) 1-32. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2019.1001
Kristin Marie Bivens. (2019) “Reducing Harm by Designing Discourse and Digital Tools for Opioid Users’ Contexts: The Chicago Recovery Alliance’s Community-Based Context of Use and PwrdBy’s Technology-Based Context of Use.”
Communication Design Quarterly, 7(2), 17-27. doi: 10.1145/3274995.3274998;
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Kristin Marie Bivens and Kelli Cargile Cook. (2018). “Coordinating Distributed Memory: An Environmental Engineer’s Proposal Writing Process Using a Product Calculator.”
Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32(3) 285-307. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918762028.
Kristin Marie Bivens and Kirsti Cole. (2018). “The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric.”
Journal of Communication Inquiry, 42(1), 5-25. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859917735650.
Kristin Marie Bivens, Lora Arduser, Candice A. Welhausen, and Michael J. Faris. (16 January 2018). “
A Multisensory Literacy Approach to Biomedical Healthcare Technologies: Aural, Tactile, and Visual Layered Health Literacies” in
Kairos, 22(2).
Carie S. Tucker King, Kristin Marie Bivens, Erin Pumroy, Susan Rauch, and Amy Koerber. (2018). “IRB Problems and Solutions in Health Communication Research.”
Health Communication, 33(7) 907-916. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1321164.
Kristin Bivens, Martha Kay Canter, Kirsti Cole, Violet Dutcher, Morgan Gresham, Luisa Rodriguez-Connal, and Eileen Schell. (15 October 2013). “
Sisyphus Rolls on: Reframing Women’s Ways of ‘Making It’ in Rhetoric and Composition”
Harlot, 10.
Refereed Book Chapters
Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, and Amy Koerber. (2019). Activism by accuracy: Women’s health and hormonal birth control. In J. White-Farnham, B.S. Finer, & C. Molloy (Eds.),
Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st century. New York, NY: Routledge.
Kristin Marie Bivens. (2018). “Rhetorically Listening for Microwithdrawals of Consent in Research Practice” in L. Meloncon and J.B. Scott, (eds).
Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 138-156. New York, NY: Routledge.
Other Publications
Kristin Marie Bivens. (2019). Book Review: “
Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity, by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle” in
Peitho, 22(1).
Kristin [Marie] Bivens. (2017). Book Review: “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine, by Colleen Derkatch” in
Technical Communication Quarterly, 26(2), 212-215. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2017.1297133.
Kristin Bivens. (2013). “
G.34 Toward a Sustainable Curriculum: Teaching FYC at the Community College Level with a Focus on Food Politics, Consumption, and the Environment to Promote Critical Literacy” Conference on College Composition and Communication session review essay in
Kairos.
Kristin Bivens. (2012). “
B.04 Medical Gateways: Ethnographic Studies of Communication Studies in Emerging Contexts” Conference on College Composition and Communication session review essay in
Kairos.
Projects
Expositions and Exhibitions: Chicago’s Involvement with Early Healthcare Technology for Premature Infants
The project “Expositions and Exhibitions: Chicago’s Involvement with Early Healthcare Technology for Premature Infants” draws upon the
Newberry Library’s collections to better understand Chicago’s relationship with neonatology, infants, and the use of technology as showcased during the Columbian Exposition (1893), the Baby Tent Exhibition (1911), the Century of Progress (1933-34), and other relevant events. As a
Newberry Library scholar-in-residence for 2019-2020, this research will contribute to preliminary work for a larger book project exploring healthcare technologies in critical care hospital contexts.
Grotesque Protests: Bodily Fluids, Social Media, and Activist Rhetorics
Based on “
Grotesque Protests in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric” (Bivens & Cole, 2018), this collaborative book project will examine how social media enables embodied, political protests in the United States and throughout the world. By analyzing political protests that use various body fluids, we argue these embodied, political protests are grotesque and used to recast power relations. In the process, these protestors provide rhetorical counter-strategies to populist discourse, which mirror other historical attempts to do much of the same.
Locating Technical and Professional Communication at Two-Year Institutions
Commencing in August 2018, “Locating Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) at Two-Year Institutions” endeavors to identify and learn about courses, curricula, certificates, emphases, concentrations, and programs of TPC at two-year institutions. Generously funded by a
2018 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) research grant, the research team includes Timothy J. Elliott (DePaul University), Gustav Karl Henrik Wiberg (Harold Washington College and
Nordic Electrochemistry ApS), and two undergraduate student research assistants.
Improving the Design of Visual Risk Communication through a Content Analysis of a Crowdsourced Public Health App’s Existing User Comments
Candice A. Welhausen and I were awarded a
2019 Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) career advancement research grant for our research using grounded theory and affinity diagramming to analyze the content of existing
PulsePoint Respond Android and iOs user comments.The project includes 2 undergraduate student research assistants.
Healthcare Application (App)
Based in my aural/sonic research in acute care hospital contexts and currently in preliminary discovery and development, the healthcare app will be marketed to hospital administrators and unit educators. Specifically, the healthcare app will be a clearinghouse and storehouse of information for friends and family of patients in intensive care units.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Talk: DePaul University Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse (Writing and Researching Across Borders speaker series), Chicago, IL, 22 January, 2020.
Conference:
Special Interest Group of the Design of Communication, Portland, OR, 4-6 October, 2019.
Talk: Swedish American Museum: Children and Sweden, Chicago, IL, 19 November 2019; 6:30 pm.
Memberships
Rhetoric Society of America; Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication; Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication
