Associate Professor

Education:

• BA (summa cum laude) - U of New Mexico (1990)
  
• MA - U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1993)
• PhD - U of New Mexico (1999)

Curriculum vitae (.pdf)

Dr. Tillery joined the UNLV English department UNLV in 2004, after 5 years at Oklahoma State University, where she directed the Technical Writing Program. Her interests include gender and the history of scientific rhetoric, environmental rhetoric, and ethics and technical communication. She has published on Margaret Cavendish, the plain style movement of the early Royal Society, and the rhetoric of anti-nuclear activists. Currently, Dr. Tillery is engaged in a long-term research project on the rhetoric surrounding the controversial Yucca Mountain Project, a planned high-level nuclear waste repository here in Nevada. She teaches classes in business and professional writing, rhetoric, and environmental writing; and before finishing her PhD, she spent five years as a technical writer, working at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs.