Shannon Lodoen

Biography

Dr. Shannon Lodoen is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Composition. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature (Rhetoric) from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and an M.A. from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada.

Her research is organized into three related areas: rhetoric and communication, critical discourse and text analysis and student-centered pedagogy. Her work examines how smartphones are persuasive and persuading entities, using an approach that bridges communication and media studies, as well as rhetorical and critical theories. She is also interested in the intersecting roles of digital communications technologies and Artificial Intelligence in the classroom.

Dr. Lodoen has worked with UWaterloo's Centre for Teaching Excellence and IEEE's Society for the Social Implications of Technology and is currently on the Executive Board of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric.

Education

• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Waterloo
• M.A. - Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, University of Western Ontario
• B.A. - Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Waterloo

Currently Teaching

• COM 420: Adv Technical Communication I
• COM 221: Technical Report Writing
• HU 145: Themes in the Humanities

Publications

Lodoen, S. (2024) Settler Colonialism, Resource Extraction, and the Future of Canada: Reading Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves. Days of Future Pasts, eds. Ian Macdonald and Kate Polak. Liverpool University Press.

Lodoen, S. (2023) Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and the Limits of Optimism: A Pessimistic Reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 64(1), p. 85-97, doi:10.1080/00111619.2021.1944042

Lodoen, S. (2021) Power and Progress in the First, Second, and Third Universities: A Case Study of the University of Waterloo. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 4(3), p. 43-59, http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/4-2-issue-lodoen

Professional Experience

Associate Newsletter Editor, IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology (2023-2024)

Workshop Facilitator, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo (2022-2023)

Certificate in University Teaching, University of Waterloo (2021-2022)

Memberships and Credentials

Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Executive Committee Member (2022-)

IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology, Member (2023-)

Canadian Communication Association (2021-2023)

Awards, Honors and Recognitions