Research Interests
Rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine; disability rhetoric; literacies; emerging technologies; and user experience.
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Stambler, D. M. (Forthcoming). Wellness at work: Food, fatness, ableism, and the politics of employee health. Ohio State University Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
Stambler, D. M. (2026). Rhetorical sandwiches: Layering ethos and epideictic appeals as a persuasive strategy in public discourses of healthy eating. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric, 28(3), 47-68. https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/peitho/v28n3/stambler.pdf
Davis, K., Tham, J., Stambler, D. M., Jiang, J., Campbell, J., Verhulsdonck, G., & Hocutt, D. (2026). What do we talk about when we talk about “AI literacy”?: Tensions in current institutional guidelines and recommendations for a slow, reflective future. Programmatic Perspectives, 17(1), 41-94. https://programmaticperspectives.cptsc.org/index.php/jpp/article/view/137/225
Stambler, D. M. (2025). Making inroads: Using the UX process in TPC service course design to incorporate accessibility and access. In H. N. Turner & E. Rose (Eds.), Teaching user experience: A process approach. Routledge/ATTW Book Series in Technical and Professional Communication.
Stambler, D. M., Ranade, N., Hocutt, D., Fonash, S., Campbell, J., Duin, A. H., Pedersen, I., Tham, J., Veeramoothoo, S., & Verhulsdonck, G. (2024). Beyond digital literacy: Integrating threshold concepts in technical communication pedagogy to foster engagement with digital life. Technical Communication Quarterly, 34(2), 218-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2388038
Verhulsdonck, G., Weible, J., Stambler, D. M., Howard, T., & Tham, J. (2024). Incorporating human judgment in AI-assisted content development: The HEAT heuristic. Technical Communication, 71(3). https://doi.org/10.55177/tc286621
Davis, K., Stambler, D. M., Campbell, J., Hocutt, D., Duin, A., & Pedersen, I. (2022). Writing infrastructure with the Fabric of Digital Life platform. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 44-56.
Stambler, D. M., Feddema, E., Riggins, L., Campeau, K., Breuch, L. K., Kessler, M. M., & Misono, S. (2022). REDCap delivery of a web-based intervention for patients with voice disorders: Usability study. JMIR Human Factors, 9(1), e26461. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26461
Stambler, D. M. (2022). “An Excelent good Remedi”: Medical recipes as ethos-building tactical technical communication in early modern England. Technical Communication Quarterly, 31(4), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2021.2021451
Stambler, D. (2021). Eating data: The rhetoric of food, medicine, and technology in employee wellness programs. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 4(2), 158-186. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2021.2003
Kessler, M. M., Breuch, L. K., Stambler, D. M., Campeau, K., Riggins, L., Feddema, E., Doornink, S. & Misono, S. (2021). User experience in health & medicine: Building methods for patient experience design in multidisciplinary collaborations. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 51(4), 380-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816211044498
Journal Special Issues (Guest-Edited)
Stambler, D. M., Veeramoothoo, S., & Davis, K. (Eds.) (2024). Toward digital life: Embracing, complicating, and reconceptualizing digital literacy in communication design. Special issue of Communication Design Quarterly, 12(2). [8 articles, 1 editors’ introduction.] Access the full issue: https://cdq.sigdoc.org/special-issue-12-2-toward-digital-life/