Sarah Singer (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of English

University of Central Florida

Description of Work: 

My research uses rhetoric as an analytical tool for examining scientific, technological, and medical discourses. My book project, The Patient Empowerment Paradox, investigates how widely accepted rhetorical moves often considered empowering become gridlocked and competing channels of information that can be disempowering and harmful to patients seeking medical relief. This project uses Lyme disease as a case study for understanding the patient empowerment model of chronic illness. Currently, I am also working on two other projects: 1) a study of illness narratives by long covid patients who had a pre-existing chronic illness, and 2) a collaborative study on patient-provider communication and the rhetoric of teach-back during student health center visits.

Contact: Sarah.singer@ucf.edu | @_sarahsinger (Twitter) | sarahannsinger.com