About Me

Dr. April O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in Sam Houston State University’s English Department where she teaches courses in technical communication and professional writing. Her research interests include public memory, countermemory, space/place, and social justice in technical communication. She earned her PhD from Clemson University’s interdisciplinary Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program. April has current and forthcoming articles and digital projects published in enculturation, Trace, Present Tense, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Textshop Experiments, Itineration, and Afterimage. She is currently working on a co-authored book manuscript, Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance, a project that builds a rhetorical theory of countermemory.

For more on my projects, click on the Projects link in the menu.