Wellness Research

Wellness Research

My research on well-being uses digital methods and rhetorical analysis to investigate wellness writing. I focus on motifs that reveal common themes in wellness writing. This research not only teaches wellness literacy but also reveals core wellness advice. The result is a new, research-informed way of looking at wellness that will lead to better lives.

 

Up and Open

Up and Open

Up and Open is a course site supporting a first-year seminar taught at UNC-Chapel Hill in the spring of 2025. As the semester progresses, check the site for class material and projects aimed at studying and promoting wellness.

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Wellness Podcasts

Wellness Podcasts

Words of Wellness is a podcast recorded with students studying the rhetoric of wellness. Find episodes on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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Video Lessons

I regularly share updates on research and bits of advice on Instagram. Explore some posts here or follow along.

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Reading Wellness

My book project Reading Wellness: The Language You Need to Transform Your Life shows readers struggling with information overload how to make sense of wellness writing. It explores how figurative language, storytelling, and unexpected motifs that range from botany to journeys to wiring (even battle imagery) reveal surprising insights about well-being. We can all learn wellness literacy. And when we do, we discover a new view on health, the brain, relationships, emotions—a whole set of timeless topics. 

 

Wellness and Teaching

Developing campus programs and teaching courses now calls for attention to health, emptions, resilience--a whole host of wellness concerns.

Reunion: Presented and the Computers and Writing Conference
Reunion: Presented and the Computers and Writing Conference