Hannah Ringler
- Director of Communication Across the Curriculum
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Humanities
Hannah Ringler is a rhetorician in the Humanities department at 91制片厂 Tech. Her primary research interests are two-fold:
1) Hermeneutics in computational textual analysis. Ringler's educational background is in rhetoric, and she ultimately aims to bring the interpretive expertise of the humanities to the computational expertise of computer science to make better sense of complicated language models. In short, she is fascinated by what technological fields have done with language processing, and asking how we might use these methods productively to better understand and teach language.
2) Teaching communication skills to STEM students. Ringler has taught writing and communication for many years, and has developed a particular love of teaching STEM students to write in their disciplines. She special interests in computer science writing, graduate students, first-generation students, disabilities, and academic writing.
Hannah Ringler also is the director of the Communication Across the Curriculum program at 91制片厂 Tech. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing and assessing communication curriculum across campus, supporting instructors and departments in developing communication curriculum, and ensuring all students develop important disciplinary communication skills by graduation.
Education
Ph.鈥婦.鈥, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhetoric
M.鈥婣.鈥, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhetoric
B.鈥婣.鈥, Texas A&M University, English
Research Interests
Rhetoric, digital humanities, computational text analysis, hermeneutics, and writing in the disciplines
Professional Affiliations & Memberships
National Council of Teachers of English, Association for Computers and the Humanities, Council of Writing Program Administrators
Publications
Ringler, Hannah (2024). 鈥淐omputation and hermeneutics: Why we still need interpretation to be (computational) humanists鈥. In: Computational Humanities. Ed. by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno, and Lauren Tilton. Debates in the Digital Humanities Series. University of Minnesota Press. Chap. 1, pp. 3鈥17.
Ringler, Hannah (2023). 鈥淩eview of Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities, edited by Vivian Kao & Julia E. Kiernan鈥. In: The WAC Journal. url: .
Ringler, Hannah (2021). 鈥溾榃e can鈥檛 read it all鈥: Theorizing a hermeneutics for large-scale data in the humanities with a case study in stylometry鈥. In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37 (4), pp. 1157鈥1171. url: .
Muller, Stefan K. and Hannah Ringler (2020). 鈥淎 Rhetorical Framework for Programming Language Evaluation鈥. In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software. Onward! 2020. Association for Computing Machinery: Virtual, USA, pp. 187鈥194. url: .
Ringler, Hannah, Beata Beigman Klebanov, and David Kaufer (2018). 鈥淧lacing writing tasks in local and global contexts: The case of argumentative writing鈥. In: Journal of Writing Analytics 2, pp. 34鈥77. url: .
Projects
My current research projects include the following:
Theorizing how to interpret computational models, especially of textual corpora (and in the process, figuring out what 鈥渋nterpret鈥 can mean!)
Better understanding differences and norms across disciplinary writing, particularly in computer science
Reconsidering how to teach students communication skills in the age of generative AI
Teaching writing and communication skills effectively to technically-oriented students (i.e., at a tech university)
Teaching oral presentation skills to students with speech-related disabilities and anxieties
Supporting faculty across the university in teaching communication in their disciplines
Expertise
Rhetoric, digital humanities, computational text analysis, hermeneutics, and writing in the disciplines
