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Kelly Pender

Chair
  • Professor of English
  • Department of English
Kelly Pender
303 Shanks Hall
180 Turner Street, NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
pender@vt.edu
540-231-7785

Kelly Pender is the chair of and a professor in the Department of English and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. She specializes in rhetorical theory and the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine, and she regularly teaches courses in these areas.

Pender is the author of Techne, From Neoclassicism to Postmodernism (Parlor Press, 2011) and Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care (Penn State Press, 2018).

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