Dr Beck Wise
Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
+61 7 336 51441
Researcher biography
Beck Wise teaches and researches in professional, technical and academic writing, with specialisations in the rhetoric of science, multimodal writing, writing in digital environments, and feminist rhetorics.
Current research projects focus on:
- Rhetoric, risk and public health
- Feminist rhetorical histories of science
- Writing in the disciplines
Publications
Book Chapters
Wise, Beck (2022). "Anti-racist X-rays?": color-blind racism and the "universal" body. One size does not fit all: undressing the performance of bodies in popular culture. (pp. 229-248) edited by Sarah S. LeBlanc and K. Megan Hopper. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Wise, Beck, Ruskiewicz, John and Dolmage, Jay (2018). Making a persuasive infographic. How to write anything: a guide and reference. (pp. Unknown-Unknown) edited by John J. Ruszkiewicz and Jay T. Dolmage. Boston, MA USA: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Journal Articles
Van Luyn, Ariella and Wise, Beck (2024). Tactical storytelling and paradoxical failure: writing, knowledge-making and the public humanities. Humanities Research, XX (1), 151-168. doi: 10.22459/hr.xx.01.2024.10
Wise, Beck, Emerson, Lisa, Van Luyn, Ariella, Dyson, Bronwen, Bjork, Collin and Thomas, Susan E. (2024). A scholarly dialogue: writing scholarship, authorship, academic integrity and the challenges of AI. Higher Education Research and Development, 43 (3), 578-590. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2023.2280195
Derkatch, Colleen, Kondrlik, Kristin, Wang, Hua and Wise, Beck (2024). A dialogue on public health celebrities during COVID-19. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 6 (4), 474-497. doi: 10.5744/rhm.2023.4005
Wise, Beck, Emerson, Lisa, Van Luyn, Ariella, Dyson, Bronwen, Bjork, Collin and Thomas, Susan E. (2023). AI, authorship and academic integrity: how writing scholars will shape the future of higher education. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4642919
Holland, Travis and Wise, Beck (2023). Platform rhetoric and fan labour as the building blocks of LEGO Ideas. M / C Journal, 26 (3). doi: 10.5204/mcj.2946
Derkatch, Colleen, Kondrlik, Kristin, Wang, Hua and Wise, Beck (2023). A dialogue on public health celebrities during COVID-19. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 6 (4), 474-497. doi: 10.5744/rhm.2023.4005
Wise, Beck, Lyons, Simone and Waterbright, Siall (2022). “I wrote to become part of that discourse community”: developing writerly identity and agency in an online writing course. Text, 26 (Special issue 69). doi: 10.52086/001c.57759
Sellberg, Karin, Stephens, Elizabeth, Efstathiadou, Anna, Pillai, Suja, Yamada, Kazuki and Wise, Beck (2020). Medical humanities research showcase: the emergence of a new trans-disciplinary field in a time of precarity. Continuum, 34 (6), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1842121
Wise, Beck and Van Luyn, Ariella (2020). Not ‘all writing is creative writing’ and that’s OK: inter/disciplinary collaboration in writing and writing studies. Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, 24 (2). doi: 10.52086/001c.23485
Wise, Beck, Van Luyn, Ariella and Cantrell, Kate (2020). “Not-so-invisible mending”: developing editing skills in large online classes through visible labour. Research in Online Literacy Education, 3 (1)
Wise, Beck (2018). Fetal postitions: fetal visualization, public art, and abortion politics. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 1 (3–4), 296-322. doi: 10.5744/rhm.2018.1015
Conference Papers
Henrickson, Leah, Wise, Beck, Kozlovski, Alina, Hewitt, Donna, Shearer, Julie and Van Luyn, Ariella (2024). AI, writing, copyright and creativity. Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Armidale, NSW Australia, 27-29 November 2024.
Wise, Beck and Huber, Bernadette (2024). Writing is connecting: conversation across the field. Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Armidale, NSW, 27-29 November 2024.
Wise, Beck, Thomas, Susan, Van Luyn, Ariella, Emerson, Lisa and Dyson, Bronwen (2023). We need to talk about artificial intelligence: conversations about the future of writing and writing studies. 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 29 November - 1 December 2023.
Wise, Beck (2023). "AI and writing policy: implications for technical and professional writing" in "A writer, a reader and a bot walk into a bar: writing and ethics in (non)human collaborations (panel)". Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Canberra, ACT Australia, 29 November-1 December 2023.
Wise, Beck and Hawkins, Tekla (2023). Transformative feminist design in technical writing. Writing Research Across Borders, Oslo, Norway, 18-22 February 2023.
Wise, Beck, Walker, Amelia, Miller, Benjamin, Bjork, Collin, Gerrard, Hannah, Brantner, Mark, Henningsgaard, Per, Cooley, Suban Nur and Thomas, Susan (2022). Roundtable: The future of writing and writing studies in the Asia-Pacific. Australasian Assocation of Writing Programs, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia, 28-30 November 2022.
Derkatch, Colleen, Graham, S. Scott, Majdik, Zoltan, Melonçon, Lisa, Robvais, Racquel and Wise, Beck (2022). Roundtable on the addition of medicine under the ARST umbrella. Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine Pre-Conference at National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, United States, 16-20 November 2022.
Wise, Beck (2022). ‘Just getting on with it’: Rhetorical framings of risk and control in Australia’s COVID response. Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD, United States, 26-29 May 2022.
Wise, Beck and Hickman, Amy (2022). Local impacts of transnational health communication: COVID and control in Melbourne’s tower lockdown. Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine Pre-Conference, Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD, United States, 25 May 2022.
Huber, Bernadette and Wise, Beck (2022). The place of writing at Australian universities: Policies and practices. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, United States, 9-12 March 2022.
Wise, Beck (2020). ‘They are not qualified to call themselves counsellors’: Abortion care, professional expertise and policy in New South Wales, Australia. Rhetoric Society of America, Baltimore, MD, United States, 21-24 May 2020.
Wise, Beck, Lyons, Simone and Waterbright, Siall (2019). Developing disciplinary literacies in multimajor classes: a grounded analysis of student research in a Writing About Writing class. Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 25-27 November 2019.
Wise, Beck (2019). The multi-faceted nature of access in online learning environments. Computers and Writing, East Lansing, MI, United States, 20-22 June 2019.
Audio Document
Wood, Shane and Wise, Beck (2020). Episode 64: Beck Wise. Pedagogue: Teachers talking writing.
Newspaper Articles
Jacobson, Peter and Wise, Beck (2025, 12 22). Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist The Conversation
Wise, Beck (2020, 08 09). Pastel colours and serif fonts: is Annastacia Palaszczuk trying to be an Instagram influencer?” The Conversation
Seminar Papers
Wise, Beck (2025). Physicists as writers. School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland.
Van Luyn, Ariella and Wise, Beck (2022). Collaboration within and between disciplines: speculating on the future of writing and writing studies. Department Speaker Series. Department of English and Writing, University of Sydney.
Video Documents
Wise, Beck (2021). Ask the Author - Joanna Wolfe.
Wise, Beck (2020). Ask the Author - Huiling Ding.
Wise, Beck (2020). Ask the Author: Clay Spinuzzi.
Generic Documents
Wise, Beck (2020). Blanket fort instructions and user-testing project. Crowdsource TPC.
Wise, Beck (2020). Rhetorics of protest and public health during COVID-19. UQ Humanities Forum 2020.