Prior to joining UWP at JHU, Fredrica Markson Eduaful was the project manager for a Clark Foundation grant where she deployed a STEM Writing Support Initiative at the University of Denver. Fredrica has also served as the assistant editor for College English. She is an award winning instructor with a PhD in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University.
Fredrica is an interdisciplinary scholar-teacher whose interest lies at the intersection between cultural rhetorics, science and technical communication. In research, her work seeks to foreground socio-cultural and transnational factors that impact the ways of existence, knowledge formation practices and resistance amongst postcolonial indigenous cultures and vulnerable populations in science related discourses. She believes that perspectives in these research areas have direct implications for approaches in writing in multicultural spaces. In the classroom, she uses a blend of decolonial, rhetorical and community-engaged approaches to teach disciplinary and interdisciplinary writing conventions while encouraging students to find their voices within them. In service, she is interested in designing writing support initiatives for STEM students, particularly students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Whether in the classroom, in research or in service, she seeks to create equitable, accessible and socially just spaces where students of all backgrounds can thrive and develop their voice and identities as advocates through writing.
She is a member of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), Rhetoric and Discourse Society of Ghana (RDSG), and the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA).