Karen is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. Before coming to Iowa State, she got her Masters in Technical and Professional Communication from Northeastern University, Boston. Her professional experience includes working for the Nonprofit Finance Fund in Boston and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison. In addition to teaching and taking classes, she works at the Virtual Reality Applications Center at Iowa State University.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 435 Ross Hall
• office hours: By appointment
• office phone: (515) 294-8609
• email: kgulbran@iastate.edu

Interests

• Technical Communication
• Rhetoric of Technology Transfer
• Rhetorical Theory

Selected Presentations

• "Positioning Business Communication Programs and Students in Emerging Global Networks: Textualizing Globalization." The Association for Business Communication International Convention. October 28, 2006.
• "Student Journals as Middle Ground: Excavating the Middle Ground." Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 2006.
• "Using the Moodle Content Management System in the Classroom." ISUComm E-Fair, Iowa State University. March 2006.
• "The Orange Journal: An Online, Peer-reviewed Publication for Graduate Student Scholarship." Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference. April 15, 2005.

Affiliations

• Society for Technical Communicators

Degrees

• Masters in Technical and Professional Writing. Northeastern University, Boston, 2003.
• B.A. in English. University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1989.