Concentrations

Her scholarship and teaching reflect her interdisciplinary education and work experience and her commitment to publishing scholarship for practitioners, researchers, and teachers. A leading expert in first responder writing practices, Dr. Angeli has consulted with fire departments and EMS agencies to develop and deliver report writing training sessions, was selected to participate in NSF’s Innovation Corps program to bring writing research into first responder workplaces, and built a first-of-its-kind online training platform for medical report writing.

Her current research project is guided by a common question: “What can you do with a graduate degree in the humanities?” Traditionally, students who pursue humanities graduate education have wanted to research and teach in the university. But that’s not the case anymore for many students. Graduate students are hungry for new knowledge, and they want to take their humanities training into non-academic spaces. In doing so, humanities graduates create technology platforms, thrive as corporate trainers, and craft public-facing exhibits. This work is called public-facing humanities, and researchers in this area want to know how to develop best practices for how to do, research, and teach public-facing work. With support from the Way Klingler Fellowship, this research will result in training programs to support faculty who feel called to public-facing work and in new curricular structures that facilitate student success.

Dr. Angeli teaches writing courses that prepare students to communicate, live, and thrive in the world. These courses include writing in health and medicine, writing for workplaces, public humanities, and career discernment. She frequently teaches writing and discernment-based workshops for the university and community.

As a spiritual director and retreat leader, she accompanies people through personal and professional transitions, and she feels especially called to work with the LGBTQIA+ community. She considers herself to be a spiritual academic, committed to integrating spirituality into her teaching, academic and public-facing research, and service. Learn more at http://lizangeli.com.

Education

Ph.D., English - Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication, and the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (Purdue University)
M.A., English - Composition Studies in English as a Second Language, Linguistics (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
M.A., in progress, Pastoral Counseling (Loyola University Chicago, Institute for Pastoral Studies)
Honors B.A., Psychology with an Italian Studies minor (Marquette University)
Certificate in Spiritual Direction (Spiritual Guidance Training Program, Siena Retreat Center)
Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (St. Elizabeth School of Nursing)

Courses Taught

Public humanities
Career discernment
Writing in health and medicine
Rhetoric and composition
Technical communication and professional writing
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Rhetoric of science

Research Interests

Public Humanities
Humanities Graduate Education
Discernment
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, especially as it applies to pre-hospital emergency medicine
Writing in the Disciplines
Writing Across the Curriculum

Publications

First author with Rachel McNealis. “How to Prepare Faculty and Graduate Students for Public Humanities Leadership.” Public Humanities, 2025, vol. 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.8
“Responding through Listening: Promoting Listening Skills through Lightning Talks and 2x2x2 Storytelling.” Journal of Response to Writing, Fall 2024, vol. 10, no. 2
Angeli, Elizabeth L. “Crisis Communication.” Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Han Yu and Jonathan Buehl, WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, pp. 75-83. DOI: 10.37514/TPC-B.2023.1923.2.07
Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Lillian Campbell. “Designing ‘Writing for Health and Medicine’: Course Arcs, Anchors, and Action." Programmatic Perspectives, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023 pp. 166-174.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Cathy Melesky Dante. “Scar Stories: A Framework for Befriending Pain and Suffering.” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, vol. 29, no. 2, 2023, pp. 56-64.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., Serina Jamison, and Susan E. Jones-Landwer. "Preparing Humanities Students for Employment: Reimagining Career Exploration and Education through Ignatian Spirituality and Discernment." Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, vol. 12, no 1, 2023, article 9. https://doi.org/10.53309/2164-7666.1426
Fishman, Jenn et al. “Capacitating Community: The Writing Innovation Symposium.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 2023, pp. 49-67.
Angeli, Elizabeth L. “Family Longs for Post-liver Transplant Success that Goes Beyond the Biomedical.” Journal of Liver Transplantation, Letter to the Editor, vol. 9, Feb. 2023.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., Julia Jezykowski, Patrick Sinclair, Tom Grawey, James T. Poltrock, and Ben Weston. “Documenting Patient Interaction: EMS Report Reader Expectations and Improvements for Providers.” Wisconsin Medical Journal, vol. 121, no. 4, 2022, pp. 285-291.
Angeli, Elizabeth L. and Julia A. Jezykowski. “EMS Report Writing Improved by Enhanced Structured Narrative Prompts" JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 19 July 2022.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., Victoria Reinhartz, Sabrina Alahmad, and Julia Jezykowski. “Education Survey Finds Providers Feel Unprepared.” EMSWorld, ISSN 51, issue 4, April 2022.
“When the Classroom is the Workplace: Developing Writing Curricula for Healthcare Training Programs.” Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices, edited by Michael J. Madson, Routledge, 2022, pp. 107-120.
“Technical Communication Pedagogy and Layered Literacies in Workplace Training Courses.” Effective Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Michael J. Klein, WAC Clearinghouse, 2021, pp. 287-302.
“Community Engagement in Action: How Writing Fits in to Local EMS Agencies.” Writing & Rhetoric MKE. 8 March 2021, https://www.writingandrhetoricmke.com/blog/community-engagement-in-action-how-writing-fits-in-to-local-ems-agencies. Invited.
“The Report Doctor” column for Wisconsin Emergency Medical Service Association’s quarterly magazine EMS Professional. Invited column starting January 2020-December 2021.
"How Report Writing Supports Paramedic Students’ Learning,"International Paramedic Practice, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp.28-33
"Embodied Healthcare Intuition: A Taxonomy of Sensory Cues Used by Healthcare Providers." Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Vol 2, No. 4, (2019), 353-383.
“Improving EMS Documentation Outcomes.” ZOLL Pulse Blog, 19 Feb. 2019, https://www.zolldata.com/blog/improving-ems-documentation-outcomes.
“A New Model for Writing Effective Patient Care Reports.” EMS1.com, 3 Dec. 2018, https://tinyurl.com/angeli-ems1.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace. Routledge, 2019. Winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Best Book in Technical and Scientific Communication Award.
Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Christina D. Norwood. “Responding to Public Health Crises: Bridging Collective Mindfulness and User Experience to Create Communication Interventions.” Communication Design Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 2017, pp. 29-39.
"Assemblage Mapping: A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine.” Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, edited by Lisa Meloncon and J. Blake Scott, Routledge, 2017.
"Intuition in Healthcare Communication Practices: Initial Findings from a Qualitative Inquiry” with Lillian Campbell. ProComm 2017: IEEE Professional Communication Society, Summer 2017.
“Bridging the Complex Contexts of Care in Medical Usability” with John Jones, Catherine Gouge, Lisa Meloncon, Christina D. Norwood, Mariah Crilley, and Candice A. Welhausen. SIGDOC ’16: Proceedings of the 34^thAMC International Conference on the Design of Communication, Fall 2016, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2987630.
“Three Types of Memory in Emergency Medical Services Communication.” Written Communication 32.1 (2015): 3-38. Print.
“Metaphors in the Rhetoric of Pandemic Flu: Electronic Media Coverage of H1N1 and Swine Flu.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 42.3 (2012): 215-235. Print.
“Rhetorical Strategies for Working with Institutional Review Boards” with Zachery Koppelmann. Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2011): n. pag. Web. <http://tinyurl.com/cconlineangelikopp>.

Honors and Awards

Way Klingler Humanities/Social Sciences Fellowship, 2022-2024, “Public-facing Humanities as a Way to Form Hearts and Minds: A Systematic Review of Graduate Education & the Role of Discernment”
Conference on College Composition and Communication Award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication, 2020.
Towson University Faculty Development and Research Committee Grant, 2014-2015
Purdue University Research Foundation Grant for Dissertation Research, 2011-2012
Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching, Purdue University, 2010
Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University, 2009
Psi Chi, the Psychology National Honors Society, 2006