Dr. Meredith A. Johnson is DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Professional and Technical Communication at the University of South Florida. Her first book, Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation, co-authored with W. Michele Simmons and Patricia Sullivan, was published by Routledge as part of their ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication. It won the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award. Her current book project with Nathan R. Johnson, Affective Infrastructures: Sensing Urban Development, investigates how sensory experience is invoked in public deliberation about transportation planning. Johnson's scholarship has appeared in edited collections and journals, including Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication, IEEE: Transactions on Professional Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Review of Communication, enculturation, Computers and Composition: An International Journal, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She is the recipient of the Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly, the National Communication Associations Distinguished Book Chapter Award for Philosophy of Communication, and USF's Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award.