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Henry Covey

Email: hcovey@wisc.edu

Bio

Henry joined the Composition & Rhetoric program at UW-Madison after two decades of editing and writing in multiple roles and modalities, including as adjunct writing professor and researcher at Portland State University, technical writer for Resource Data, copyeditor for the Simons Foundation, senior editor at Cogitate Editing, managing editor for an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and more. This word nerd and bookworm currently studies discourse ecologies and creative processes of all types. His research and writing have received the ACM-SIGDOC’s Best Paper Award for his 2021 article “Disaster Documentation Revisited” and the Joyce M. Melville Award for his 2022 article on the “Literacies of Disaster,” and he and coauthors received an honorable mention for the 2022 Programmatic Perspectives Research Article Award for their 2021 paper “Open Educational Resources and Technical and Professional Communication: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions.” See henrycovey(dot)com for more information.

Interests

Disaster documentation, Crisis communication, Writing program administration

Selected Publications

“The Literacies of Disaster,” University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2022) document URL. (Winner of the Joyce M. Melville Memorial Award for Best Scholarly Project in Composition and Rhetoric).

“Open Educational Resources and Technical and Professional Communication: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions,” coauthored with Sarah Read & Jordana Bowen, Programmatic Perspectives 12.2, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), Fall 2021, https://cptsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Open-Educational-Resources-2.pdf. (Honorable Mention at CPTSC 2021).

“Disaster Documentation Revisited: The Evolving Damage Assessments of Emergency Management in Oregon,” SIGDOC ’21: The 39th Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Design of Communication, October 2021, pp. 70–84, https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473625. (Winner of the ACM-SIGDOC 2021 Best Paper Award).