Kirk St. Amant is an Associate Professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina University where he teaches courses in professional communication in international contexts. He has worked on international projects for companies such as Medtronic, VERITAS Software, the Braun Corporation, and Unisys, and for the non-profit organizations the Humanitarian Demining Information Center (HDIC) and the Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (CEUME). A senior member of the STC, Kirk serves on the editorial board for the STC journal Technical Communication and is the Associate Editor for Globalization and Outsourcing for the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication – the journal of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. He is also the editor of the recent book Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age and the co-editor (with Pavel Zemliansky) of the Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices.
Degrees
B.A. Bowdoin College
M.A. James Madison University
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Intercultural and international communication
Online education in global environments
Globalization and offshoring/international outsourcing
Rhetoric of economics in global contexts
Courses Taught
7785: History of Professional Communication
Selected Publications and Presentations
With Pavel Zemliansky (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2008.
With Sigrid Kelsey (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication Vol I. and Vol. II. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2008.
With Daniel Flage, Noel Hendrickson, William Hawk, and William O’Meara. The Elements of Critical Thinking. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.
(Ed.) Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. (337 pages)
“Outsourcing: Perspectives, Practices, and Projections.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 50 (2007): 81-84.
“Online Education in an Age of Globalization: Foundational Perspectives and Practices for Technical Communication Instructors and Trainers.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 16 (2007): 13-30.
“Globalizing Rhetoric: Using Rhetorical Concepts to Identify and Analyze Cultural Expectations Related to Genres.” Hermes – Journal of Language and Communication Studies, 37 (2006): 47-66.
