Dr. Erin Bahl

Associate Professor of Applied and Professional Writing

ebahl@kennesaw.edu
Office: EB 114

Erin Kathleen Bahl is Associate Professor of Applied and Professional Writing, as well as the department's Social Media and Branding Coordinator. Her work explores the possibilities digital technologies afford for creating knowledge and telling stories, with a focus especially on webtexts, webcomics, folklore, accessibility, and digital publishing. She is managing editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 
Her publications include scholarly and creative work in Kairos; Computers and Composition Online; enculturation: a journal of writing, rhetoric, and culture; The Digital Review; and The Smithsonian's Folklife Magazine.
Her dissertation, "Refracting Webtexts: Invention and Design in Composing Multimodal Scholarship," won the 2018 Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Dissertation Award. Her collaborative webtext "The Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual," co-authored with Margaret Price, received the 2023 Kairos Best Webtext Award.

• Link to CV (coming soon)
• Link to professional website
• Instagram: Little Yellow Bird / @lybcomic

• Concentration Area(s)
  • Applied Writing
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 6440 Professional and Academic Editing
  • PRWR 6570 Writing for Social Media
  • PRWR 6850 Web Content Development
• Select Publications
  • Bahl, Erin Kathleen and Margaret Price. “The Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual.” Peer-reviewed webtext. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Issue 26.2, Spring 2022, https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/26.2/topoi/price-bahl/index.html
  • Bahl, Erin Kathleen, Sergio Figueiredo, and Jeffrey Greene. “Instructor as Game Master: Applying Games’ Material Rhetorics to Online Course Design.” Special issue on “Making Games Matter” of Computers and Composition Online edited by Steve Holmes and Rebekah Schultz Colby. Peer-reviewed webtext. Fall 2022, http://cconlinejournal.org/fall2022/bahl-figueiredo-greene/index.html
  • Bahl, Erin Kathleen; Bartlett, Stephen; Cornwell, Mary Margaret; Howard, Laura W.; and Rodenbeck, Jason, "Accessibility Basics: Writing for Accessibility in Online Learning Environments" (2023). English Open Textbooks. 24. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/24
  • Bahl, Erin Kathleen, Sergio Figueiredo, and Rich Shivener. Comics and Graphic Storytelling in Technical Communication. Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 30, 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2020.1768297
  • -“The Seven Sisters and the Web of Threads: Fairy Tales from Brothers Grimm to Instagram” (Invited original digital comic and essay commissioned by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s Folklife Magazine (https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/seven-sisters-and-the-web-of-threads-comic)