JESSIE RICHARDS

(She/Her)

Professor (Lecturer)

Management

  • Professor (Lecturer)
    Management

BIO

Jessie Lynn Richards is an assistant professor/lecturer in the Business School at the University of Utah where she teaches interpersonal and organizational communication and writing. Her research interests include ethnographic interviewing and sociolinguistics, and her work explores intersections of trauma, memory, and language with a specific focus on gender and post-war communities. She started a non-profit foundation called Fight Against Domestic Violence, which exists to educate communities and to fundraise for DV service providers. She earned a joint Ph.D. in Communication and Writing Studies and Rhetoric from the University of Utah.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Professor (Lecturer)
    Management1 Jul 2026 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
    University of Utah, Management1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

DEGREES

  • BS, Technical/Professional Writing
    Utah State University, English2002
  • PhD, Communication; Writing Studies and Rhetoric
    University of Utah2015
  • MA, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
    San Diego State University2004