Suzanne Rintoul | Faculty & staff bios

Name	Suzanne Rintoul
School	School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Program	Bachelor of Design (Honours) Bachelor of Engineering – Building Systems Engineering Bachelor of Engineering – Electronic Systems Engineering Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical Systems Engineering Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours)
Academic and Professional Designations	PhD, English (McMaster) MA, English (McMaster) BA, English (Western)
Title	Professor
Courses Taught	ENGL71370 - Technical Communications and Visual Media ENGL71200 - Scientific and Technical Communication ENGL71000 - Academic Communication
Areas of Expertise & Interest	Technical Communication Academic Communication Nineteenth-Century Culture and Literature
Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities	12 years of experience teaching writing at the post-secondary level Certified Professional Technical Communicator
Major Research Projects, Scholarly Activities, and/or Publications	Recent Publications: "The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communications." Canadian Journal for the Study of Discourse and Writing." Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Recent Presentations: "Encouraging Self-Reflexive Reading Practices Among Students Through Diverse Levels of Narrative Detail in Professional Communications Case Studies," Canadian Association of Language and Literacy, 2015
Additional Information	I am committed to helping students communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts and encourage them to think critically about the relationships between content and media.