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Dr. Elizabeth Angeli

Dr. Elizabeth AngeliMarquette University

Marquette Hall, 227

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3466elizabeth.angeli@marquette.edu Personal Website

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

English

Dr. Liz Angeli is an award-winning educator, writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director, and she is the founder of Lumin Living, LLC. Her research and teaching focuses on Ignatian discernment, public humanities, and career formation. She is author of Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace (Routledge, 2019), winner of NCTE’s Best Book in Technical and Scientific Communication Award. Her recent scholarship appears in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Public Humanities, Jesuit Higher Education, and Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction + Companionship.

Committed to bridging the academic-public divide, Dr. Angeli founded Lumin Living where she offers workshops, retreats, and one-on-one sessions for people who long to find their inner light so they can illuminate the world. She accompanies individuals and organizations through mission alignment, uncertainty management, and career formation. Dr. Angeli strives to make spirituality practical, inclusive, and accessible beyond religious contexts, emphasizing care for self, others, and the Earth.

You can view her up-to-date CV here.

Education

Ph.D., English - Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication, and the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (Purdue University)
M.A., English - Composition Studies in English as a Second Language, Linguistics (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Graduate certificates, in progress, Christian Spirituality and Pastoral Leadership (Loyola University Chicago, Institute of Pastoral Studies)
Honors B.A., Psychology with an Italian Studies minor (Marquette University)
Certificate in Spiritual Direction (Spiritual Guidance Training Program, Siena Retreat Center)
Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (St. Elizabeth School of Nursing)

Courses Taught

Career Discernment
Public Humanities
Writing in Health and Medicine
Technical and Professional Communication
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Rhetoric and Composition

Research Interests

Ignatian Spirituality and Discernment
Graduate Education
Faculty Professional Development
Public Humanities
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, especially as it applies to pre-hospital emergency medicine
Writing in the Disciplines
Writing Across the Curriculum

Publications

Publications pre-2020 are available on Dr. Angeli’s full CV.

Single-authored Monograph

Angeli, Elizabeth L. Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace. Routledge, 2019.

Articles & Book Chapters

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Rachel McNealis. “A Framework for Public Humanities: Integrating Public Humanists’ Experiences with Scholarship.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2025. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14740222251341410.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Conor Kelly. “Divine Command, Universal Ethics, and Discernment.” The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Derek Ross, Routledge, 2025, pp. 127-135. Invited chapter.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Rachel McNealis. “How to Prepare Faculty and Graduate Students for Public Humanities Leadership.” Public Humanities, 2025, vol. 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2024.8

Angeli, Elizabeth L. "Responding through Listening: Promoting Listening Skills through Lightning Talks and 2x2x2 Storytelling.” Journal of Response to Writing, Fall 2024, vol. 10, no. 2.

—. “Family Longs for Post-liver Transplant Success that Goes Beyond the Biomedical.” Journal of Liver Transplantation, Letter to the Editor, vol. 9, Feb. 2023.

---. “Crisis Communication.” Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Han Yu and Jonathan Buehl, WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, pp. 75-83. DOI: 10.37514/TPC-B.2023.1923.2.07. Invited chapter.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Lillian Campbell. “Designing ‘Writing for Health and Medicine’: Course Arcs, Anchors, and Action." Programmatic Perspectives, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, pp. 166-174.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Cathy Melesky Dante. “Scar Stories: A Framework for Befriending Pain and Suffering.” Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, vol. 29, no. 2, 2023, pp. 56-64.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., Serina Jamison, and Susan E. Jones-Landwer. “Preparing Humanities Students for Employment: Reimagining Career Exploration and Education through Ignatian Spirituality and Discernment.” Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, article 9. https://doi.org/10.53309/2164-7666.1426.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., and Julia A. Jezykowski. “EMS Report Writing Improved by Enhanced Structured Narrative Prompts.” JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 19 July 2022.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., Victoria Reinhartz, Sabrina Alahmad, and Julia Jezykowski. “Education Survey Finds Providers Feel Unprepared.” EMSWorld, ISSN 51, issue 4, April 2022.

Angeli, Elizabeth L., Julia Jezykowski, Patrick Sinclair, Tom Grawey, James T. Poltrock, and Ben Weston. “Documenting Patient Interaction: EMS Report Reader Expectations and Improvements for Providers.” Wisconsin Medical Journal, vol. 121, no. 4, 2022, pp. 285-291.

Angeli, Elizabeth L. “When the Classroom is the Workplace: Developing Writing Curricula for Healthcare Training Programs.” Teaching Writing in the Health Professions: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices, edited by Michael J. Madson, Routledge, 2022, pp. 107-120.

---. “Technical Communication Pedagogy and Layered Literacies in Workplace Training Courses.” Effective Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Michael J. Klein, WAC Clearinghouse, 2021, pp. 287-302.

---. Recurring column, “The Report Doctor,” in Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services Association magazine, EMS Professional. Column appeared in issues from May/June 2020 through January/February 2022. Invited. ---. “How Report Writing Supports Paramedic Students’ Learning.” International Paramedic Practice, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 28-33.

Honors and Awards

Ignatian Educator of Distinction, Marquette University
Faculty Mission Integration Fellowship, “Faculty Formation: A Proposal to Prepare Faculty to Teach and Advise Students in Career Diversity and Discernment,” Marquette University
Way Klingler Humanities/Social Sciences Fellowship, “Public-facing Humanities as a Way to Form Hearts and Minds: A Systematic Review of Graduate Education & the Role of Discernment,” Marquette University
Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication, National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference on College Composition and Communication
Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University
Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit National Honors Society
Psi Chi, the Psychology National Honors Society