As an assistant professor of English, Jamie Remillard teaches courses in technical writing, science and environmental communication, creative nonfiction, and medical and health journalism. Her recent projects include field-based research to examine the roles of public engagement, participatory rhetorics, and placemaking in the City of Worcester’s recreational lakes and ponds program, and a natural resource report for the National Park Service’s Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network on media discourse around the management of barrier island breaches, the latter co-authored with Kristen Hychka and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Emerson College.