A Very Short Bio 

Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher is a Canada Research Chair in Science, Health, and Technology Communication in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of On Expertise: Cultivating Character, Goodwill, and Practical Wisdom (Penn State UP), Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet (Ohio State UP) and coeditor, with Carolyn R. Miller, of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (Palgrave).

Short Bio

Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher is a Canada Research Chair in Science, Health, and Technology Communication in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is also the inaugural Co-Director, with Donna Strickland, for the Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology (TRuST) network. Professor Mehlenbacher’s research investigates how genres of scientific and science communications emerge and evolve, how aspects of expertise and ethos interact and relate to trust in scientific and technical domains, and the ethical aspects of specialist/non-specialist relationality in the communication of complex information. Professor Mehlenbacher is the author of On Expertise: Cultivating Character, Goodwill, and Practical Wisdom (Penn State University Press, 2022), Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet (The Ohio State University Press, 2019), and co-editor, with Carolyn R. Miller, of Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (Palgrave, 2017).