Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze (rtb@mit.edu)

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze is a Lecturer II in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Northeastern University. At MIT, she has taught writing and communication in a range of classes in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering fields. In addition to her pedagogical interest in rhetoric and writing studies, her research interests include Wikipedia's collaborative culture, rhetoric of science, affect, and nineteenth century culture.