Philippa Spoel

Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Laurentian University, Ontario. I teach in the English Department's Rhetoric and Media Studies program, in Laurentian-Science North's graduate diploma in Science Communication, and in the Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values. I also supervise graduate students in the Human Studies PhD and in the Rural and Northern Health PhD. I have published recently on the rhetoric of midwifery care, public communication of environmental science, and lay perspectives on healthy living. I am former Co-Director of Laurentian's Writing Across the Curriculum/Centre for Academic Writing and former President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric.