Nathan Pieplow, M.Ed.
- Associate Teaching Professor
Address
ENVD 1B78
Degree(s)
- M.Ed., University of Oregon
Areas of Expertise
- Public Rhetorics, Civics, and Advocacy
- Applied Public Humanities
- Creative Nonfiction
- Technical, Professional, and Community Writing
- Digital Rhetorics, Information Literacies, and Critical Data Literacies
- Science Writing and Environmental Rhetorics
Bio
Nathan Pieplow is an accomplished teacher of writing and published author.
An internationally recognized expert in bird vocalizations, he is the author of the two-volume Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of North America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 and 2019). He is also the co-author of the mid-grade novel Confessions of a Mango (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2026).
His primary research interests include avian bioacoustics, quantitative rhetoric, and the rhetoric of data visualization.
Course(s) Regularly Taught
- WRTG 1150 First-year Writing and Rhetoric
- WRTG 1160 CMCI First-year Writing and Rhetoric
- WRTG 3030 Writing on Science & Society
- WRTG 3035 Technical Communication & Design
- WRTG 3045 Writing for Emerging Workplaces
- WRTG 3070 Advocating with Data