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UNT Faculty Profile: Kim S. Campbell

Education

PhD, Rhetoric, Composition & Linguistics, Louisiana State University

BA, English Linguistics, Louisiana State University

Biography

Dr. Campbell received her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition and Linguistics from LSU in 1990, and has subsequently held positions at Auburn, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the University of Alabama, where she was the Derrell Thomas Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow. She is an experienced administrator, having served at UNT as Department Chair and at Alabama as both Coordinator of Management Communication and Associate Dean for Accreditation and Continuous Improvement. She was a Fellow in the Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium Leadership Development program in 2010-11. She currently serves as Director of Corporate Relations for the Department of Technical Communication.

Dr. Campbell is the author of several books as well as more than forty refereed papers and book chapters. She won the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022 from the Society for Technical Communication. She was the 2012 winner of the Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award from the Association for Business Communication, the 2009 winner of the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering Communication and the 2007 Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Service from the IEEE Professional Communication Society. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication from 1998 to 2008.

Outside the Classroom

She enjoys cooking, swimming, watching British TV, reading fantasy & mysteries, playing with her dogs, and watching LSU football.

Courses Commonly Taught

• TECM 5190: Style in Technical Writing
• TECM 5195: Technical Editing
• TECM 5200: Content Strategy

Research Interests

Linguistic style/tone and its effects on people at work

Memberships

• Society for Technical Communication (STC)
• Association for Business Communication (ABC)

Awards and Honors

• Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022 from the Society for Technical Communication
• Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award in 2012 from the Association for Business Communication
• Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium Leadership Development Fellow in 2010
• Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering Communication in 2009 and the Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Service in 2007 from the IEEE Professional Communication Society
• Derrell Thomas Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow for teaching performance by the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama