Christa Teston
Christa Teston studies how humans navigate uncertainty in technoscientific, biomedical and media-rich domains. Specifically, she researches the evidential backstage, or all the work that goes on behind the scenes when experts attempt to corral chaos. Her first book—Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty (University of Chicago Press)—critiques the fetishization of certainty and advocates for an ethic of care that honors human fragility and bodily flux. Bodies in Flux was awarded the 2019 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.
In addition to this site-based research, Teston also has expertise in research methodologies. She has co-edited (with Brian McNely and Clay Spinuzzi) a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly focused on contemporary research methodologies in technical communication.
Teston serves as the department’s director of business and professional writing. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on how writing and rhetoric may be used to make more livable worlds.
With Wendy Hesford and Barbara Biesecker, Christa co-edits the “New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality” book series at The Ohio State University Press.
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