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Louise Zamparutti
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Louise Zamparutti
Associate Professor
English
Brief biography
Dr. Zamparutti's research focuses on rhetorical history, public memory, and memorials. Her work is published in Research in Social Change, Rhetoric Review, Romance Studies, and Human Remains and Violence, and she has contributed to the edited volumes Covid Communications: Exploring Pandemic Discourse (Springer, 2023) and A Century of Italian War Narratives (Brill, 2023). Her stage play, Identità/Identiteta, was produced in Milwaukee, WI. Her research in Slovenia has been funded by Fulbright, the University of Ljubljana, and UWL. Dr. Zamparutti speaks fluent Italian and mediocre French, and she is studying Slovene.
Current courses at UWL
ENG 307: Workplace Writing
ENG 308: Technical Writing
ENG 314: Grant Writing
ENG 335: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing
Education
PhD., UW-Milwaukee
B.A., Hampshire College
Career
Teaching history
ENG 497: Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Health Science Writing (UW Milwaukee)
Technical Writing (UW Milwaukee)
Business Writing (UW Milwaukee)
Professional history
Prior to earning her Ph.D. in English at UW-Milwaukee, Dr. Zamparutti was a dancer and choreographer, performing and showcasing original works in Seattle, New York, Italy, and Germany. She also worked as a Health and Wellness Director for the YMCA in Seattle and as a freelance translator (Italian-English) and writing coach. While earning her Ph.D. she taught professional, technical writing, and health science writing and worked as a Writing Center Tutor. These professional experiences inform her teaching and research.
Research and publishing
Book Chapters
Zamparutti, L. (2023). The Foibe War Narrative: The New Antiheroes of the Second Republic. In A Century of Italian War Narratives. Brill.
Zamparutti, L. (2023). Self-Isolation and Consubstantiality: COVID-19 Terminology and Collective Identity. In COVID Communication: Exploring Pandemic Discourse. Springer.
Selected Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings
Steiner, L., McCracken, C., Kopp, B, & Zamparutti, L. (2024). "Rhetorical prompt engineering." TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments in Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. WAC Clearinghouse.
Zamparutti, L. (2022). The ‘Antenarrative’ in Asynchronous Online Technical Communication Courses: A Social Justice Approach to Teaching. IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Proceedings. 392-396. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9881525.
Zamparutti, L. (2019). The Basovizza Monument: Constructing Memory and Identity. Research in Social Change. 11:3, 25-38. https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2019-0013.
Zamparutti, L. (2018). Plato, Mary Baker Eddy, and Kenneth Burke: Can We Talk About Substance? Rhetoric Review, 37:2, 199-211. 10.1080/07350198.2018.1424479.
Zamparutti, L. (2017). Brava Gente and the Counter (Re)public of Italy: Constructing the Foibe as a National Symbol. Romance Studies, 35:1, 12-30. 10.1080/02639904.2017.1299913.
DeVasto, D., Graham, S.S., & Zamparutti, L. (2017). Stasis and Matters of Concern: The Conviction of the L’Aquila Seven. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 30:2, 131-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651915620364.
Zamparutti, L. (2015). Foibe Literature: Documentation or Victimhood Narrative? Human Remains and Violence, 1:1, 75–91. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.1.1.6.