Imari Cheyne Tetu

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Imari Cheyne Tetu

PhD student, Rhetoric and Writing
Instructor, XA 375: Information Architecture
Research Assistant: Educational Data for Learning Innovation (EDLI)

Office: 267 Bessey Hall
Email: tetuimar@msu.edu

Research Interests

User Experience Research and Design, Digital Accessibility, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Technical Communication

Profile

Imari Cheyne Tetu is a third-year Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing. Her research interests lie along the intersections of UX, accessibility, and learning design. Imari frequently teaches in the Experience Architecture program and is interested in making UX and accessibility education broadly available to as many students, professional spaces, and communities as possible. 

Education

M.A., Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Michigan State University, 2022
B.A., Professional and Technical Writing, Saginaw Valley State University, 2020
A.A., Kirtland Community College, 2017

Representative Work

Tetu, I. C. (February 5, 2024). Review of “User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice.” Programmatic Perspectives 14(2).

Tetu, I. C., Kelly, S., Fu, J., Kirby, C. K., Schopieray, S., & Thomas, S. (January 26, 2024). Developing Asynchronous Workshop Models for Professional Development. Communication Design Quarterly 12(1).

Kirby, C. K., Fu, J., Tetu, I. C., & Zhuang, M. (December, 2023). Fostering Teaching Skills and Collaboration in an Online Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies 9(2).

Tetu, I. C., Oldham Griffith, C., Pouncil, F., & Potts, L. (2023). “Human Centered (Re)Design: Revising a Rhetoric and Writing PhD Program.” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. ACM SIGDOC. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623036

Moroski-Rigney, K., Avilés, A. M., Harris, E., & Tetu, I. C. (Eds.). (2023). Disability Justice and Anti-Ableism in Writing Center Work. Special issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship 47(4).

Tetu, I. C. (2022). “Accessible Communication App for Teaching Technical Writing.” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. ACM SIGDOC. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3559008

Sample Courses Taught

AL 111: Introduction to Accessibility in the Humanities
XA 242: Experience Architecture
XA 375: Information Architecture
WRA 101: Writing as Inquiry

Academic Affiliations

CTLI
EDLI
Teach Access
WIDE
WRAP