Barbara George
Senior Lecturer, Writing & Communication, English, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Barbara George is a teacher and researcher in environmental communication, technical writing, and within writing studies pedagogy.
Students in George’s courses find meaningful ways to engage in a variety of professional and civic discourse communities.
George’s book Mapping Environmental Risk and Energy Communication (Bloomsbury, 2025) explores energy discourses surrounding energy and global climate change. George also co-teaches a Grand Challenge course focused on Equity and the Environment.
George researches linguistic explorations of the intersections of environmental risk and communication, issues of intersectionality within environmental deliberation, and environmental justice within environmental communication. Additionally, George explores the use of narrative in finding new ways to “reimagine” environmental frames, particularly in Rust Belt communities. George has also researched different student retention efforts: best practices for literacies across disciplines, multilingual initiatives, and writing center supports. George’s work appears in Composition Forum, Environmental Sociology, and Communication Design Quarterly among others.