Research

Current Book Project

T. Kenny Fountain. Imagining Conspiracy Theories: Visual Presence, Religious Belief, and QAnon. Book manuscript in progress.

Book

T. Kenny Fountain. Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Book Series. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014. https://www.routledge.com/Rhetoric-in-the-Flesh-Trained-Vision-Technical-Expertise-and-the-Gross/Fountain/p/book/9780415741026#

Articles

T. Kenny Fountain & Chandler Jennings. “Presencing, Immersion, & Community: How Conspiracy Theory Belief is Kindled Online.” Nova Religio, vol 28, no 3, February 2025, pp. 79-103. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2025.a949121

[Book review essay] T. Kenny Fountain. “Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Donald Trump.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 54.1 (January 2024): 91-102. [PDF]

Scott Weedon and T. Kenny Fountain. “Embodied Genres, Typified Performances, and the Engineering Design Process.” Written Communication 38.4 (October 2021): 587-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883211031508 [PDF]

T. Kenny Fountain. “Anatomy and the Observational-Embodied Look.” Medicine Studies 2.1 (June 2010): 49- 69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12376-010-0040-6 [PDF]

Bernadette Longo, Craig Weinhert, and T. Kenny Fountain. “Implementation of Medical Research Findings through Insulin Protocols: Preliminary Results from an Ongoing Study of Document Design and Visual Display.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 37.4 (August 2007): 435-452. https://doi.org/10.2190/V986-K02V-519T-721J

Book Chapters

Cynthia Ryan, Barbara Heifferon, and T. Kenny Fountain. “Afterword: Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is Past, Present, and Future.” The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Concepts for an Emerging Field. Eds. Lisa Melonçon, Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 237-243. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214466.html

T. Kenny Fountain. “Anatomical Presencing: Visualisation, Model-Making, & Embodied Interaction in a Language Rich Space.” Routledge Handbook of Language and Science. Eds. David R. Gruber and Lynda C. Olman. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 227-238. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351207836-18/ [PDF]

Bernadette Longo and T. Kenny Fountain. “What Can History Teach Us About Technical Communication?” Solving Problems in Technical Communication. Eds. Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 165-186. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo14312701.html [PDF]

T. Kenny Fountain and Lauren Fitzgerald. “Thou Shalt Not Plagiarize”? Appeals to Textual Authority and Community at Religiously Affiliated and Secular Colleges.” Pluralizing Plagiarism. Eds. Rebecca Moore Howard and Amy Robillard, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 2008/2009. 101-123.

Edited Volume: Conference Proceedings

Elizabeth L. Angeli and T. Kenny Fountain, eds. Conference Proceedings of The 36th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’18). Milwaukee, WI: ACM Press, 2018. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3233756