Michael Zerbe, B.S., M.T.S.C., Ph.D.
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Doctor of English
Meet Michael Zerbe
Dr. Michael J. Zerbe teaches Writing and Rhetoric courses as well as Science Fiction. He conducts research in the areas of scientific and medical rhetorics and was a Health Communication Fellow at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Dr. Zerbe was awarded a Fulbright to teach in Bulgaria and has taught in India as well.
- English, Ph.D.
Purdue University - Technical and Scientific Communication, M.T.S.C.
Miami University - Chemistry, B.S.
James Madison University
- FCO215: Technical & Scientific Communication
- HUM300: Science Fiction
- WRT305: Rhetorical Theory
- WRT352:Rhetoric of Science
- WRT410: Editing and Style
- Rhetorics of Science and Medicine
- Rhetoric and Composition and Science Literacy
- Zerbe, Michael J. “Toward a Rhetoric of DNA: The Advent of CRISPR.” POROI 14.2 (2019): Article 3.
- Zerbe, Michael J. The Rock-‘n’-Roll Guide to Grammar and Style. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Zerbe, Michael J. “Paging Paul Krugman: Toward a Topoi of an Exemplar Public Intellectual in the Natural and Physical Sciences.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 49.1 (2018):
- Zerbe, Michael J. “Satire of Science in Charles Dickens’ Mudfog Papers: The Institutionalization of Science and The Importance of Rhetorical Diversity to Scientific Literacy.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. 24.2 (2016): 197–227.