Professional Biography

Dr. Jason Tham (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University and Assistant Chair of the Department of English. He co-directs the User Experience (UX) Lab and serves as the faculty sponsor for the STC Student Chapter at TTU. He teaches courses in UX research, information design, instructional design, web publishing, digital rhetorics, and research methods. He is a Research Partner with the Digital Life Institute at Ontario Tech University. His current research interests are design thinking approaches in technical communication pedagogy and practice. In addition to his books UX Writing: Designing User-Centered Content (2023, Routledge, with Tharon Howard and Gustav Verhulsdonck), Writing to Learn in Teams: A Collaborative Writing Playbook for Students Across the Curriculum (2023, Parlor Press, with Joe Moses), Keywords in Design Thinking (2022, WAC Clearinghouse), Design Thinking in Technical Communication (2021, Routledge), Collaborative Writing Playbook (2021, Parlor Press, with Joe Moses), and Designing Technical & Professional Communication (2021, Routledge, with Deborah Andrews), Dr. Tham’s scholarship has appeared in Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, Computers & Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business & Technical Communication, and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, among other journals and edited volumes.

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