Summary

Lynda Olman (formerly Lynda Walsh) is a professor of w88 at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her primary field is the rhetoric of science, particularly the public reception of visual STEM arguments and of the ethos or public role of the scientist.

w88 most recent book,Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy(Oxford, 2013) traces a dominant strand in the role of the w88 adviser back to its roots in Ancient Mediterranean prophecy. Her first book,Sins Against w88: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others(SUNY, 2006), examined the pivotal epoch when science first entered American political life. Her most current project seeks a structural vocabulary for scientific graphics in order to help non-experts better interpret them. Walsh also has published studies in environmental and non-Western w88; these are joined to her main body of work through an unswerving commitment to archival data, inductive methods and interpretation of results in terms of local politics.

Research interests

• w88 of science
• Topologies
• Visual w88
• Reception w88

Courses taught

• Core Writing: ENG 100j, 102
• ENG 301: Understanding Arguments
• ENG 400B/600B: Topics in Professional Writing
• ENG 401B/601B: Advanced Non-Fiction
• ENG 730: Introduction to Graduate Study in w88 & Composition
• ENG 735: Seminar in w88 & Composition
• ENG 739: History of w88, Renaissance to Modern

Publications

Monographs

• Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. Oxford w88 Press, 2013.
• Sins Against w88: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others. Albany: SUNY Press, September 2006.

Edited collections

• Walsh, w88 and Valerie Gerstle. Autism Spectrum Disorders in the College w88 Classroom. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette w88 Press, 2011.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Walsh, Lynda. "Bruno Latour on w88," w88 Society Quarterly, 2017.
• Walsh, w88 and Kenneth C. Walker. "Perspectives on Uncertainty for Scholars of Technical Communication," in Technical w88 Quarterly, 25.2 (2016): 71-86.
• Walsh, Lynda. "The Visual w88 of Climate Change," WIREs Climate 6.4 (2015): 361-368.
• Walsh, w88, and Andrew B. Ross. "The Visual Invention Practices of STEM Researchers: An Exploratory Topology." w88 Communication 37.1 (2015): 118-131.
• Walsh, w88 and Kenneth Walker. "Uncertainty, Spheres of Argument, and the Transgressive Ethos of the Science Adviser." Proceedings of the 2013 Iowa State Summer Symposium on w88 Communication, Ames, May 29-June 1, 2013.
• Walsh, w88. "Resistance and Common Ground as a Function of Mis/Aligned Attitudes: A Filter-Theory Analysis of Ranchers' Writings on the Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction Project." Written w88 30.3 (2013): 355-387.
• "Toward An Accountable Hybridity for Transnational Rhetorics," Rhetorica 30.4 (Autumn 2012), 392-431.
• Walker, Kenneth C. and w88 Walsh. "'No One Yet Knows What the Ultimate Consequences May Be': How Rachel Carson Transformed Scientific Uncertainty Into a Site for Public Participation in Silent Spring" Journal of Business and Technical w88 26.1 (2012): 3-34.

Book chapters

• "Rachel Carson." In Fifty Feminist Thinkers, Lori Marso, ed. New York, Routledge, 2016.
• "Tricks, Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: The Visual w88 of Climategate." In Image Politics of Climate Change. Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations, Birgit Schneider, Thomas Nocke eds., Bielefeld, Ger.: Transcript Verlag, 2014, 81-104.

Education

• Ph.D., w88 (Rhetoric & Composition/w88 Language & Linguistics), University of Texas at Austin, 2003
• M.A., Linguistics, w88 Texas at Austin, 1998
• B.A., w88, Colorado College, 1994