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Amidon, T. R., Pflugfelder, E. H., Richards, D. P., & Sackey, D. J. (2026). Undermining risk in technical communication: Extractive industry, cascading disaster, and the global climate crisis<\/em>. SUNY Press. Forthcoming June 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (Ed.). (2020). On teacher neutrality: Politics, praxis, and performativity.<\/em> Utah State University Press.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moore, K. R., & Richards, D. P. (Eds.). (2018). Posthuman praxis in technical communication<\/em>. Routledge: Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture Series.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Richards, D. P. (2025). Dead man\u2019s switch: Blame and causality in the epideictic scenes of disaster. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 55<\/em>(1),<\/em> 26-41.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pflugfelder, E. H., Amidon, T. R., Sackey, D. J., & Richards, D. P. (2023). Expanding the scope and scale of risk in TPC: Water access and the Colorado River Basin. Technical Communication Quarterly, 32<\/em>(3), 224\u2013241.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P., & Stephens, S. H. (2022). Do voices really make a difference? Investigating the value of local video narratives in risk perceptions and attitudes towards sea-level rise. Technical Communication, 69<\/em>(4), 79\u201396. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P., & Jacobson, E. E. (2022). How real is too real? User-testing the effects of realism as a risk communication strategy in sea level rise visualizations. Technical Communication Quarterly, 31<\/em>(2), 190\u2013206.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidon, T. R., Nielsen, A. C., Pflugfelder, E. H., Richards, D. P., & Stephens, S. H. (2021). Visual risk literacy in \u201cFlatten the Curve\u201d COVID-19 visualizations. Journal of Business and Technical Communication<\/em>, 35<\/em>(1), 101\u2013109. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephens, S. H., & Richards, D. P. (2020). Story mapping and sea level rise: Listening to global risks at street level. Communication Design Quarterly, 8<\/em>(1), 5\u201318. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2019). John Dewey, nonhuman agency, and the possibility of a posthuman public. Contemporary Pragmatism<\/em>, 16<\/em>(4), 366\u201395.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2019). An ethic of constraint: Citizens, sea-level rise viewers, and the limits of agency. Journal of Business and Technical Communication<\/em>, 33<\/em>(3), 292\u2013337.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2018). Not a cape, but a life preserver: The importance of designer localization in interactive sea level rise viewers. Communication Design Quarterly<\/em>, 6<\/em>(2), 57\u201369. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2017). Dwelling in the ruins: Recovering student use of metaphor in the posthistorical university. Composition Forum<\/em>, 37<\/em>, compositionforum.com\/issue\/37<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beale, M. C., McKittrick, M. L., & Richards, D. P. (2016). \u201cGood\u201d grief: Praxis, subversion, and the ethics of griefing guides. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25<\/em>(3), 191\u2013201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2015). Testing the waters: Local users, sea level rise, and the productive usability of interactive geovisualizations. Communication Design Quarterly, 3<\/em>(3), 25-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2011). Digitizing Dewey: Blogging an ethic of community. Computers and Composition Online, <\/em>Fall 2011 Issue (Special Issue: Ethics in a Digital Age, Virtual Classroom), cconlinejournal.org\/ethics_special_issue\/richards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Special Issues<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Richards, D. P., & Phelps, L. W. (Eds.). (2020). Special Issue: On Ideological Transparency. Introduction: \u201cIdeological transparency across landscapes of learning,\u201d Pedagogy<\/em>, 20<\/em>(1), 3\u201312.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Richards, D. P. (2024). Let\u2019s party: Composing a review of the literature on a technical topic. In K. St.Amant & P. Zemliansky (Eds.), Technical writing spaces: Readings on writing (vol. 6)<\/em> (pp. 87-102). Parlor Press; The WAC Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2023). Flood Insurance Rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action. In S. Williams (Ed.), Technical communication for environmental action<\/em> (pp. 95\u2013120). SUNY Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2022). Place-based podcasting: From orality to electracy in Norfolk, Virginia. In M. J. Faris, C. S. Danforth, & K. D. Stedman (Eds.), Amplifying soundwriting pedagogies: Integrating sound into rhetoric and writing<\/em> (pp. 301-314). The WAC Clearinghouse, UP of Colorado, doi.org\/10.37514\/PRA-B.2022.1688.2.22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuf, J-E., Nicula, J. G., Richards, D. P., Agim, O., Covi, M., & Anuar, K. A. (2021). Engaging residents in policy and planning for sea level rise: Application of the Action-oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow (ASERT) framework. In J.-E. (Wie) Yusuf & B. St. John III (Eds.), Communicating climate change: Making environmental messaging accessible<\/em> (pp. 36-57). Routledge, doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003037378<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2019). Emergent publics, public emergencies: the importance of John Dewey in Jane Bennett\u2019s nonhuman politics of vital materialism. In R. Danisch (Ed.), Recovering overlooked pragmatists in communication: Extending the living conversation about pragmatism and rhetoric <\/em>(pp. 197\u2013222). Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2017). Reconstituting causality: Accident reports as posthuman documentation. In D. G. Ross (Ed.), Topic-driven environmental rhetoric<\/em> (pp. 149\u2013167). Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2015). The (re)naturalization of Margaret Cavendish: Making active the relationship between nature and female subjectivity in Blazing World<\/em>. In J. Chappelle & K. S. Stanton (Eds.), Spectacle, sex, and property in eighteenth-century literature and culture<\/em> (pp. 83\u2013104). AMS Press, digitalcommons.odu.edu\/english_fac_pubs\/191<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professional Publications<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Richards, D. P. (2017). The problem of agency in visual risk communication. Intercom: The Magazine of the Society for Technical Communication, 64<\/em>(4), 20\u201322.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welhausen, C., Bivens, K., & Richards, D. P. (2023). Exploring the feasibility of a domain- specific DAta ReposiTory (DART) for scholars in technical and professional communication. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC \u201923), October 26-27, 2023<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 255\u2013257, doi.org\/10.1145\/3615335.3623060<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, T. R., Richards, D. P., Whytlaw, J. L., McLeod, G., Cronin, J., Miles, J. J., Reiblich, J., Davis, C., & VanGraafeiland, K. (2022). A geospatial hub to support wind energy and maritime activity spaces near Hampton Roads, Virginia, U.S.A. Proceedings of<\/em> OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads<\/em>, Oct. 17-20, pp. 1-5, doi.org\/10.1109\/ OCEANS47191.2022.9976992<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonzales, L., Itchuaqiyaq, C. U., Kramer, C., Lindgren, C., Nur Cooley, S., Richards, D. P., Rose, E., & Sharp-Hoskins, K. (2022). UX in\/as political re-negotiation (Extended Abstract). Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)<\/em>, doi.org\/10.1109\/ProComm53155.2022.00089<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P., Whytlaw, J. L., Allen, T. R., Miles, J. J., McLeod, G., & Cronin, J. J. A. (2021). User experience design as a framework for political negotiation in environmental decision making about wind energy. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication<\/em> (SIGDOC \u201921<\/em>), October 12-14, Virtual Event<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 231\u2013239, doi.org\/ 10.1145\/3472714.3473646<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P., & Ball, D. K. (2020). Facilitating flood fluency: The design and utility of a flood risk calculator based on FEMA\u2019s National Flood Insurance Program. In Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication<\/em> (SIGDOC \u201920<\/em>), October 5-9, Virtual Event<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (10 pgs.), doi.org\/10.1145\/3380851.3416775<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidon, T. R., Pflugfelder, E. H., & Richards, D. P. (Eds.). (2019). Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC \u201919), October 4-6, Portland, OR, USA<\/em>, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4503-6790-5, doi.org\/10.1145\/3328020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephens, S. H., & Richards, D. P. (2018). Mapping coastal residents\u2019 stories to communicate about sea level rise. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting Abstracts, PA42C-06, https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2018AGUFMPA42C..06S<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (Eds.). (2018). Special Issue: Proceedings from and future plans for the Symposium for Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). Communication Design Quarterly, 6<\/em>(1), 54 pgs., doi.org\/10.1145\/3230970.3230971<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2017). The challenges of exploring local place as a context of use in the study of interactive risk visualizations. In Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication<\/em> (SIGDOC \u201917<\/em>), August 11-13, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, 7 pgs., doi.org\/10.1145\/3121113.3121208<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jovanovic, V., Richards, D. P., Popescu, O., McKittrick, M. L., Tombolato-Terzic, D., Pazos, P., & Romberger, J. (2017). Developing a faculty learning community to support writing across different STEM disciplines. In Proceedings of 124th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition<\/em> (11 pgs.), June 25\u201328, 2017, Columbus, OH, USA, doi.org\/10.18260\/1-2\u201328130<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richards, D. P. (2016). Helping local residents make informed decisions with interactive risk visualization tools. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication <\/em>(SIGDOC \u201916<\/em>), September 23-24, Silver Spring, MD, USA<\/em>. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 6 pgs., doi.org\/ 10.1145\/2987592.2987626<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jovanovic, V., Richards, D. P., McKittrick, M. L., Pazos, P., & Romberger, J. (2015). Comparatively mapping genres in academic and workplace engineering environments. In Proceedings of 122nd American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition <\/em>(13 pgs.), June 14-17, 2015, Seattle, WA, doi.org\/10.18260\/p.23709<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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