Office/Office Hours

• office: 201 Ross
• office hours: W 1-3 (and most days)
• office phone: (515) 294-4455
• email: chkostel@iastate.edu

Interests

• visual rhetoric in professional communication
• history of visual communication (e.g., charts and graphs, drawings, handwriting, visual conventions of disciplines)
• international / cross-cultural communication
• literature and visual art

Selected Publications

• Kostelnick, Charles, and Michael Hassett. Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
• Kostelnick, Charles, and David D. Roberts. Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.
• “Melting-Pot Ideology, Modernist Aesthetics, and the Emergence of Graphical Conventions: The Statistical Atlases of the United States, 1874-1925.” Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004. 215-42.
• "Conflicting Standards for Data Displays: Following, Flouting, and Reconciling Them." Technical Communication 45 (1998): 473-82.
• "Supra-Textual Design: The Visual Rhetoric of Whole Documents." Technical Communication Quarterly 5 (1996): 9-33.
• "Cultural Adaptation and Information Design: Two Contrasting Views." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 38 (1995): 182-96.
• "From Pen to Print: The New Visual Landscape of Professional Communication." Journal of Business and Technical Communication (1994): 91-117.
• "Viewing Functional Pictures in Context." Professional Communication: The Social Perspective. Ed. Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls. Sage: Newbury Park, CA, 1993. 243-56.

Affiliations

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
• Society for Technical Communcication

Degrees

• Bachelor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• M.A., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.