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Amber Hedquist

Amber Hedquist

Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Professional & Technical Writing Programs, English

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Area of Study

Professional Writing, Technical Writing and Communication

Bio

My research and teaching focus on technical and professional communication, user experience (UX), community-engaged research, and emerging technologies. I study collaboration in technical and professional contexts, with a particular interest in the communication practices and technologies that help people work together. My recent projects examine artificial intelligence, participatory research methods, and immersive technologies, with an emphasis on helping people engage with complex issues and make informed decisions. I enjoy working with interdisciplinary teams and community partners to design research, educational experiences, and communication strategies that respond to real-world needs. My work has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Written Communication, Information Design Journal, and other journals and edited collections.

Education

Ph.D. English, Arizona State University, 2026

MA English, Arizona State University, 2024

BA English, Florida State University, 2021

Publications

Hedquist, A., Baia, S., Cooper, N. R., Noble, E., Lauer, C., & Storey, D. (2026). Positioning theory as a design lens: Localizing design through the study of relationships. Information Design Journal.

Hedquist, A., Hannah, M. A., & Willers, H. (2026). 2. Navigating Human-AI Collaboration: The Emerging Role of Technical Communicators as AI Facilitators. In Liminality: The work of resilience in technical communication (pp. 31-49). The WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado.

Hedquist, A., Caughman, L., & Lauer, C. (2026). Tuning In: Rhetorical Attunement as a Methodological Practice for Collaborative Research. Written Communication, 43(3), 840-854.

Hedquist, A., Castillon, M., Cooper, M., Keim, V., Mohseni, T., & Purcell, K. (2025). Reflections on AI Implementation in Research Administration: Emergent Approaches and Recommendations for Strategic and Sustainable Impact. Journal of Research Administration, 56(2), 75-87.

Hedquist, A. (2025). Inviting Participation: From Sample-Building to Relationship-Building in Participant Recruitment Processes. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.

Hedquist, A., Willers, H., & Hannah, M. A. (2024, October). Discipline-driven AI: Training a GPT to qualitatively code for technical and professional communication research. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 266-268).

Hannah, M. A., Caputo, C., Deen, L., Hedquist, A., Salgado, C., Shah, S., ... & Sutrisno, D. B. (2024). Thinking with Keywords: Investigating the Role and Nature of Professionalism Keywords in TPC Enculturation. Technical Communication Quarterly, 33(3), 342-357.

Dennen, V. P., Hall, B. M., & Hedquist, A. (2023). A systematic Review of Research on Intersubjectivity in Online Learning: Illuminating Opportunities for Cohesion and Mutual Understanding in the Research Conversation. Online learning, 27(1), 158-186.