Kirk St.Amant is a Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair of Technical
Communication at Louisiana Tech University (USA) and is a Research Faculty member
with Tech’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS) and
is on the steering committee for Tech’s Visual Integration of Science Through Art
(VISTA) program. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Health and Medical
Communication with the University of Limerick (Ireland), a Guest Professor of Usability
and Design with Southeast University (China), and a Research Fellow and an Affiliated
Faculty Member with the University of Strasbourg (France). Kirk's academic and consulting
work focuses on -- Health and medical communication-- Usability and user experience
design-- International and intercultural communication -- Online education and training
with a focus on instructional design
He also researches international virtual workplaces, online aspects of public health
communication/health literacy, international outsourcing/offshoring, and the effects
of globalization on online education.
Kirk has previously worked on international projects for companies such as Medtronic,
VERITAS Software, the Braun Corporation, and Unisys. He has also worked on international
projects for non-profit organizations including the Humanitarian Demining Information
Center (HDIC) and the Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education
(CEUME). Additionally, Kirk has taught online, on-site, and hybrid courses for universities
in Belize, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Qatar, Ukraine, and the United
States.
Kirk is a senior member and a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC)
and a past Vice-Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest
Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC). He is the former editor of the journals
Communication Design Quarterly (ACM SIGDOC) and Programmatic Perspectives (Council
for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication) and is a past president of
the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) and a former
member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society (IEEE PCS)'s Administrative
Committee.
