Kenny Fountain, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of English Kenny Fountain, PhD, is the author of Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab. His research interests include the rhetoric of science and medicine, communication in the disciplines and theories of the body and embodiment. His current project involves the discourses surrounding the use of Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) for HIV/AIDS. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on such subjects as visual rhetoric, scientific and technical communication, rhetorical theory, gender and queer studies, and new media theory.