Katie Lind

  • Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of Study

Education

  • Indiana University, 2018
  • Syracuse University, 2011
  • University of Puget Sound, 2009

Biography

Hailing from Colorful Colorado, Katie Lind has lived in seven states around the country and sees rhetoric everywhere. As a rhetorical and critical cultural scholar, she studies the intersections of visual rhetoric (and media studies), environmental communication, public advocacy and social movement communication, civic engagement, and public memory. She has published essays in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Environmental Communication, and the Howard Journal of Communications. She co-edited a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly which featured essays composing a “Rhetorical Bestiary.” Believing in praxis, Katie becomes a part of her community through volunteering, attending city hall meetings, and local environmental advocacy.

Katie is currently developing a book-length project that explores extinction and biodiversity loss as a rhetorical project. Katie enjoys dancing, puzzling, critiquing media (read: over-analyzing TV shows), and exploring whatever city she is in. She’s a fierce advocate for public transportation and finding ways to encourage American culture to become less dependent on cars (#NUMTOT pride).

Peer-reviewed Journals

Lind, Katherine D. “Let the Light Shine: Reclaiming Public Space Through Digital Projection,” “Amending Our Pasts and Futures: Communication Approaches to Contemporary Memory Infrastructure” Special Issue of Howard Journal of Communications. DOI:10.1080/10646175.2024.232618.

Lind, Katherine D. “Embracing the Subjunctive Voice: An Analytic for Ecologically Uncertain Times.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 108, no. 4, 2022. https://doi.org.10.1080/00335630.2022.2128200

Lind, Katherine D. “Flipping the Script: Developing an Intertextual Dialogue for Dolphin Advocacy in The Cove.” Journal of Environmental Communication, vol. 14, is. 5, 2019, pp. 628-640.

DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1699134

Special Issue

Jeremy G. Gordon, Katherine D. Lind, and Saul Kutnicki, Eds. “Introduction: A Rhetorical Bestiary.” Special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, 2017, pp. 222-228.

Public Scholarship

Lind, Katherine D. “Giving Nature a Critical Voice – A New Approach to Nature Conservation,” Langscape Magazine Voices of the Earth Part 2, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter 2016. http://www. terralinguaubuntu.org/Langscape/Volume_5/ lind.pdf

Book Reviews

Lind, Katherine D. Review of Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene, by Amy D. Propen. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 1, 2020, pp. 75-78.

Lind, Katherine. Review of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis, by Jenny Rice. Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 100, no. 4, 2014, pp. 498-502. (Invited)

Lind, Katherine. Review of Museums and the Public Sphere, by Jennifer Barrett. Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 99, no. 1, 2013, pp. 114-117. (Invited)

Spring 2025

Public Communication — WRCM 110

Eco-Justice and Environmental Advocacy — WRCM 260

Fall 2025

Argument and Persuasion — WRCM 112

Visual Communication — WRCM 209

Notes

Katie Lind Delivered Talk at Syracuse University Project Advance Seminar

May 14, 2025

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Katie Lind delivered the talk “Cultivating the Eco-Citizen” at the Syracuse University Project Advance seminar. The presentation offered practical and theoretical considerations for empowering high school and college students to become more environmentally aware and civically engaged. She will deliver the same presentation on May 20 in New York City.