Emily January Peterson

EMILY JANUARY PETERSEN {[email protected]} is an assistant professor in the English department at Weber State University, where she teaches technical communication, literature, critical theory, and rhetoric courses. She is the director of the professional and technical writing program and has published some sixteen peer-reviewed research articles. She has received many awards, including an honorable mention for outstanding dis￾sertation from the CCCC and a Presidential Excellence in Teaching award. Her research focuses on professional identities from a feminist perspective, examining how women document their work technologically, historically, pro￾fessionally, and extra-institutionally. She has conducted research in the United States, Botswana, India, and South Africa and worked as a research specialist for At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women. She is cur￾rently working on a memoir about growing up in the Church with a gay father.