Mark Hannah
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Ross-Blakley Hall 165 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Mark A. Hannah is Professor of English at Arizona State University. His work examines intersections of law, rhetoric, and expertise in multi-disciplinary problem-solving contexts, and his research has appeared in Saint Louis University Law Journal, Nevada Law Journal, IEEE: Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Communication Design Quarterly, Connexions International Professional Communication Journal, Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Business Communication, College Composition and Communication, Programmatic Perspectives, Nature, Environment Systems and Decisions, and chapters in edited collections.
- Ph.D. Purdue University
- M.A. Northern Illinois University
- J.D. DePaul University College of Law
- A.B. (Magna Cum Laude), Wabash College
Specialties: Rhetoric, Professional Communiation, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Public Understanding of Law
*Indicates Graduate Student Collaborator
SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED)
Hannah, Mark A. and Francis J. Mootz III. “The Strange Persistence of Originalism.” Saint Louis University Law Journal. 69.1 (2024): 55-98.
Hannah, Mark A. “Setting the Argument: Authoring in the Law School Transition.” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments 8.2 (2024): 62-72.
Hannah, Mark A. Courtney Caputo*, Lily Deen*, Amber Hedquist*, Catherine Salgado*, Seher Shah*, Laura Cruser, Chris Fluty*, Tom Lane*, Tristan Rebe*, and Dwi Budidarma Sutrisno*. “Thinking with Keywords: Investigating the Role and Nature of Professionalism Keywords in TPC Enculturation.” Technical Communication Quarterly. 33.3 (2024): 342-357. Article appeared in special issue that won the Nell Ann Pickett Award for best issue/articles in Technical Communication Quarterly in 2024.
Bennett, Kristin C.* and Mark A. Hannah. “Transforming the Rights-Based Encounter: Disability Rights, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Access.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 36.3 (2022): 326-354. Awarded the 2024 CCCC “Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.”
Novotny, Maria, Lori Beth DeHertogh, Lora Arduser, Mark. A. Hannah, et al. "Amplifying Rhetorics of Reproductive Justice within Rhetorics of Health and Medicine." Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 5.4 (2022): 374-402.
Bennett, Kristin C.* and Mark A. Hannah. “Generative Fusions: Integrating Technical and Professional Communication, Disability Studies, and Legal Studies in the Work of Disability Inclusion and Access.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 64.3 (2021): 235-249.
Hannah, Mark A. and Susie Salmon. “Against the Grain: The Secret Role of Dissents in Integrating Rhetoric Across the Curriculum.” Nevada Law Journal 20.3 (2020): 935-966.
Hannah, Mark A. and Michael Simeone. “Exploring an Ethnography-Based Knowledge Network Model for Professional Communication Analysis of Knowledge Integration.” IEEE: Transactions on Professional Communication. 61.4 (2018): 372-388.
Hannah, Mark A. and Lora Arduser. “Mapping the Terrain: Examining the Conditions for Alignment Between the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and the Medical Humanities.” Technical Communication Quarterly 27.1 (Jan. 2018): 33-49.
Hannah, Mark A. and *Alex Arreguin. “Cultivating Conditions for Access: A Case for ‘Case-making’ in Graduate Student Preparation for Interdisciplinary Research.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 47.2 (Jan. 2017): 172-193.
Ariel D. Anbar, Christy B. Till, and Mark A. Hannah. “Bridge the Planetary Divide.” Nature 539 (3 Nov. 2016): 25-27.
*Hinrichs, Margaret M., Thomas P. Seager, Sarah J. Tracy, and Mark A. Hannah. “Innovation in the Knowledge Age: Implications for Collaborative Science.” Environment Systems and Decisions (2016): 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s10669-016-9610-9.
Hannah, Mark A. and Chris Lam. “Patterns of Dissemination: Examining and Documenting Practitioner Knowledge Sharing Practices on Blogs.” Technical Communication 63 (2016): 328-345.
Lam, Chris, Mark A. Hannah, and Erin Friess. “Connecting Programmatic Research with Social Media Using Data from Twitter to Inform Programmatic Decisions.” Programmatic Perspectives 8.2 (2016): 47-71.
Lam, Chris and Mark A. Hannah. “The Social Helpdesk: Examining How Twitter Is Used As a Technical Support Tool.” Communication Design Quarterly 4.2 (2016): 37-51.
Lam, Chris and Mark A. Hannah. “Flipping the Audience Script: An Activity that Integrates Research and Audience Analysis.” Business and Professional Communication Quarterly 79.1 (2016): 28-53.
Spierre Clark, Susan, *Andrew Berardy, Mark A. Hannah, Thomas P. Seager, Evan Selinger, and John Vianney Makanda. “Group Tacit Knowledge and Globally Distributed Virtual Teams: Lessons Learned from Using Games and Social Media in the Classroom.” connexions • international professional communication journal 3.1 (2015): 113-151.
Hannah, Mark A. and Chris Lam. “Drawing from Available Means: Assessing the Rhetorical Dimensions of Facebook Practice.” International Journal of Business Communication 54.3 (2017): 235-257. (First appeared online in 2015).
Hannah, Mark A. and Christina Saidy. “Locating the Terms of Engagement: Shared Language Development in Secondary to Postsecondary Writing Transitions.” College Composition and Communication 66.1 (Sept. 2014): 120-44.
Hannah, Mark. A., *Andrew Berardy, *Susan G. Spierre, and Thomas P. Seager. “Beyond the 'I': Framing a Model of Participatory Ethical Decision-making for International Engineering Communication.” connexions • international professional communication journal 1.2 (2013): 7-37.
Saidy, Christina, Mark A. Hannah, and Tom Sura. “Meeting Students Where They Are: Advancing a Theory and Practice Archives in the Classroom.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 41.2 (2011): 175-93.
Hannah, Mark A. “Legal Literacy: Coproducing the Law in Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly 20.1 (Jan. 2011): 5-24.
Bay, Jennifer, Michael Salvo, Mark A. Hannah, and Karen Kaiser Lee. “Working It Out: Community Engagement and Cross-Course Collaboration.” Programmatic Perspectives 2.2 (Sept. 2010): 152-80.
BOOK CHAPTERS (REFEREED)
Amber Hedquist*, Mark A. Hannah, and Heidi Willers*. “Navigating Human-AI Collaboration: The Emerging Role of Technical Communicators as AI Facilitators.” Liminality: The Work of Resilience in Technical Communication. Eds. Miriam Williams and Sherena Huntsman. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado. (2026).
Hannah, Mark A. and Francis J. Mootz III. “The Ethos of Originalism.” Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Law. Eds. Brian N. Larson and Elizabeth C. Britt. London: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 17-41.
Hannah, Mark A. “St. Augustine: The Place of Rhetoric in the Law and Religion Interface.” Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader. Eds. Francis J. Mootz III, Kirsten K. Davis, Brian N. Larson, and Kristen K. Tiscione. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2024. 224-242.
Hannah, Mark A. and Chris Lam. “Functional Flexibility: Cultivating a Culture of Adaptability for the Work of Professional Writing.” Rewriting Work. Ed. Lora Arduser. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado. 2023. 141-158.
Hannah, Mark A. and Christina Saidy.“‘Am I Covered for That?’: Examining the ‘Work’ of Policy Documents in the First-Year Course.” Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres. Ed. Stephen Neaderhiser. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 2022. 154-172.
Hannah, Mark A. and Susie Salmon. “Rerouting Stigma: Leading with Law in Mental Health Rhetoric Research.” Mental Health Rhetoric Research: Toward Strategic Interventions. Eds. Cathryn Molloy and Lisa Melonçon. New York: Routledge, 2022. 117-131.
Hannah, Mark A., Kristen R. Moore, Kehinde Alonge*, and Nicole Lowman*. “Legal Resource Mapping as a Methodology for Social Justice Research and Engagement.” Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methods, and Topics. Eds. Rebecca Walton and Godwin Y. Agboka. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2021. 74-96. Distribution of Effort: 40%
Hannah, Mark A. “Objects of O2: A Posthuman Analysis of Differentiated Language Use in a Cross-Disciplinary Research Partnership.” Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication. Eds. Kristen R. Moore and Daniel P. Richards. New York: Routledge, 2018. 217-234.
Hannah, Mark A. “Flexible Assembly: Latour, Law, and the Linking(s) of Composition.” Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015. 219-233.
Saidy, Christina and Mark A. Hannah. “Blogging as Public Writing: Meeting the Common Core State Standards Through Community-Centered Writing.” The Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research and Writing. Eds. James P. Purdy and Randall McClure. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2014. 259-283.
- Seager,Thomas Payson*, Hannah,Mark A, Selin,Cynthia Lea. NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology. NSF-ENG-EEC(11/1/2013 - 10/31/2016).
- Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Bell,David R, Bell,David R, Boonstra,Sheri Klug, Garnero,Edward, Hannah,Mark A, Hartnett,Hilairy, Hartnett,Hilairy, Mcnamara,Allen Kieth, Sharp,Thomas, Shim,Sang-Heon, Shock,Everett, Shock,Everett. FESD Type I: The Dynamics of Earth System Oxygenation. NSF-GEO(9/1/2013 - 8/31/2018).
Courses
2026 Spring
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| ENG 391 | Writing in Context |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2025 Spring
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| ENG 655 | Disciplinary Discourses |
2024 Summer
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| ENG 551 | Rhetorical Traditions |
2023 Fall
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| ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2023 Summer
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| ENG 552 | Composition Studies |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 655 | Disciplinary Discourses |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 551 | Rhetorical Traditions |
2022 Spring
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| ENG 392 | History of Rhetorical Theory |
2021 Fall
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| ENG 311 | Persuasive Writing |
| ENG 392 | History of Rhetorical Theory |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 551 | Rhetorical Traditions |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 655 | Disciplinary Discourses |