Dr. Kristin LaFollette is Associate Professor of English, Affiliated Faculty of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Assistant Director of Composition at the University of Southern Indiana. She also oversees the medical humanities minor, and her research interests include rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and medical humanities. She received an M.A. in creative writing from Indiana University South Bend and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing studies from Bowling Green State University.
Dr. LaFollette is the author of Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026). Her other research has been published in various journals, including Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication and Social Justice, Across the Disciplines, Journal of Basic Writing, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Her article in Across the Disciplines received the 2023 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award. As a poet, Dr. LaFollette is the author of Intern Year (Harbor Editions, 2026), Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize), and Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize).
She is the immediate past president of the Indiana College English Association (ICEA), chair of the Medical Rhetoric Standing Group (MRSG) at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and a member of the Board of Directors at Perugia Press. In addition, she serves as Director of Humanities Content and Strategy at The Blood Project (TBP), an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient care.
Dr. LaFollette lives in Evansville, Indiana, with her spouse and their whippet. Learn more about her work at her Academia.edu page or USI faculty profile.
Kristin LaFollette, Ph.D. 