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Lindsay Steiner

Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Lindsay Steiner

Professor

English

Specialty area(s)

Professional & Technical Writing, Content Writing, UX Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, AI & Writing, Writing Technologies, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, Instructional Design, and Collaborative Learning.

Current courses at UWL

Fall 2025 teaching: 

  • Digital Content & User Experience Writing (ENG 310: 01 & 02)

Non-teaching reassignment: 

  • CASSH/VPA Faculty Fellow: Communication, Public Relations, & Event Planning

Education

Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, Kent State University (2013)
M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition, Kent State University (2009)
B.S. in Visual Communication, Ohio University (2003)

Career

Teaching history

  • College Writing I (ENG 110)
  • Writing for Management, Public Relations, & the Professions (ENG 307)
  • Technical Writing (ENG 308)
  • Digital Content & User Experience Writing (ENG 310)
  • Grant Writing (ENG 314)
  • Publishing in a Digital Age (ENG 327)
  • Introduction to Professional Writing (ENG 335)
  • Professional Writing Practicum (ENG 452)
  • Seminar in Rhetoric & Writing Studies (ENG 497)
  • Study Abroad Faculty-Led Program, Galway, Ireland Summer 2016 (ENG 307)
  • Visiting instructor and scholar (summer 2017), South Central University for Nationalities (Wuhan, China), Guangxi Normal University (Guangxi, China), and Beijing Information Science and Technology University (Beijing, China)

Professional history

Professional Memberships

  • Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
  • Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
  • Global Society of Online Literacy Educators

Kudos

presented

Lisa Lenarz, Art; Lindsay Steiner, English; Sarah Bakken and Kendall Morgan, both Murphy Library; and Daniel Schneider, Philosophy; presented "Great Ideas for Teaching Students (GIFTS): Assignments Using Generative AI" at the CATL Mini-Conference on Friday, Oct. 11, in La Crosse.

Submitted on: Oct. 10, 2024

presented

Bryan Kopp, Christopher McCracken, Lindsay Steiner and Louise Zamparutti, all English, presented "Teaching rhetorical complexity through an AI-mediated case study in technical writing" at CATL Conference on Teaching & Learning on Aug. 27 in La Crosse, WI.

Submitted on: Aug. 29, 2024

presented

Bryan Kopp, Christopher McCracken, Lindsay Steiner and Louise Zamparutti, all English, presented "Rhetorical prompt engineering in an era of AI expedience" at Teaching Technical Communication and Artificial Intelligence Symposium on March 20 online.

Submitted on: Mar. 21, 2024

published

Lindsay Steiner, English, authored the article "Book review: Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing" in H-Sci-Med-Tech published on Friday, Feb. 16 by H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences.

Submitted on: Feb. 16, 2024

published

Bryan Kopp, Christopher McCracken, Lindsay Steiner and Louise Zamparutti, all English, co-authored the article "Rhetorical prompt engineering" in TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments in Teaching with Text Generation Technologies published on Jan. 9 by The WAC Clearinghouse.

Submitted on: Jan. 31, 2024