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Louise Zamparutti

Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Louise Zamparutti

Associate Professor

English

Brief biography

Louise Zamparutti is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (USA), specializing in Rhetoric. Her research focuses on rhetorical history, public memory, and identity. 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 A Century of Italian War Narratives (Brill, 2023) and Covid Communications: Exploring Pandemic Discourse (Springer, 2023). She is the author of the stage play Identità/IdentitetaI, first produced in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has received grants and fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Scholars, Fulbright, the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, and the American Association for Italian Studies.

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.