Faculty Profiles

Jones, N. N., Gonzales, L., Haas, A., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.). (2025). The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice and Technical and Professional Communication. Oxfordshire, England, UK: Routledge.

Williams, M. F. (n.d.). Why I Teach Style How I Teach Style Eds. Tracy Bridgeford. In T. Bridgeford (Ed.), Teaching Professional and Technical Communication, Volume 2. Denver, CO, United States: University of Colorado Press.

Williams, M. F. (2025). Protection and Precarity: Black Gun Culture and Public Health. In The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice and Technical and Professional Communication. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Dorpenyo, I., Das, M., Dayley, C., Roundtree, A. K., & Williams, M. F. (2024). Are you committed to diversity? Evaluating immigrants’ perceptions of diversity and inclusion claims/initiatives by U.S banks. Technical Communication, 71(1).

Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (2024). Foreword. In Grassroots Activism: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts. Ohio State University.

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2023). The Just Use of Imagination: A Call to Action (Reprint/Early Access Online). In Black in America 2nd Edition  edited by Jessica Edwards. Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press. Retrieved from https://sites.broadviewpress.com/blackinamerica/additional-selections-for-the-forthcoming-second-edition-summer-2024/

Williams, M. F. (2023). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: An Interview with Dr. Natasha Jones. Technical Communication (70th ed., Vol. 2). NY, NY: Society for Technical Communication.

Williams, M. F. (2023). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: Good Research Leads to Good Practice: An Interview with Dr. Avon Murphy, STC Fellow. Technical Communication (1st ed., Vol. 70). NYC, US: Society for Technical Communication.

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2022). Archives, Rhetorical Absence, and Critical Imagination: Examining Black Women’s Mental Health Narratives at Virginia’s Central State Hospital. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(1). https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2022.3140883

Williams, M. F. (2022). Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Public Policy Issues in Technical and Professional Communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 31(1), 33–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2021.1963487

Williams, M. F. (2022). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: Continuing our Conversation about Content. Technical Communication. NY, NY: Society for Technical Communication.

Williams, M. F. (2022). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: Balancing Strategy and Flexibility: An Interview with President of the STC Board of Directors, Kirsty Taylor. Technical Communication (1st ed., Vol. 69). Ny, Ny, US: Society for Technical Communication.

Williams, M. F. (2022). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: The Importance of Translation: An Interview with Dr. Laura Gonzales. Technical Communication (2nd ed., Vol. 69). NYC, US: Society for Technical Communication.

Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.). (2021). Cuentos and Testimonies II: Students’ Voices, Inclusion, & Anti-Racism. San Marcos, Texas, United States: Texas State University.

Williams, M. F. (2021). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: Innovation and Collaboration: From Lightweight DITA to mHealth Apps. Technical Communication (3rd ed., Vol. 68). NY, NY, US: Society for Technical Communication.

Gonzales, L., Walwema, J., Yu, H., Jones, N., & Williams, M. F. (2021). Narratives from the Margins: Centering Women of Color in Technical Communication. In Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies. Eds. Godwin Agboka and Rebecca Walton.

Williams, M. F. (2021). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: An Interview with Dr. Roxane Gay. Technical Communication (2nd ed., Vol. 68). NY, NY, Us: Society for Technical Communication.

Williams, M. F. (2021). Editor-in-Chief’s Editorial: To Pen Bridges. Technical Communication (1st ed., Vol. 68). NY, NY, US: Society for Technical Communicators.

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2020, June 16). The Just Use of Imagination: A Call to Action (Reprint). Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal. Retrieved from https://teacher-scholar-activist.org/

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2020). The Just Use of Imagination: A Call to Action. The Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Retrieved from https://attw.org/publications/the-just-use-of-imagination-a-call-to-action/

Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.). (2019). Cuentos & Testimonies:  Diversity & Inclusion at Texas State University.

Williams, M. F., & Roundtree, A. (2019). Diversity & Inclusion in Academic Program Development and Faculty Recruitment: An Interview with Dr. Libby Allison. In Cuentos and Testimonies: Diversity and Inclusion at Texas State University (1st ed.). Texas State University.

Jones, N. N., & Williams, M. F. (2018). Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy tests and Black voters in the U.S. from 1890-1965. Technical Communication, Volume 65(Issue 4).

Williams, M. F. (2018). #BlackLivesMatter: Tweeting a Movement in Chronos and Kairos. In O. Pimentel & C. Medina (Eds.), Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media.

Williams, M. F., & Jones, N. N. (2017). The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain Language Analysis. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Professional Communication Journal, 412–429. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2017.2762964

Williams, M. F., & Pimentel, O. (2014). Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication. Amityville, NY: Baywood Technical Communications Book Series-Routledge.

Williams, M. F. (2013). A Survey of Emerging Research: Debunking the Fallacy of Colorblind Technical Communication. Programmatic Perspectives, (5-1 Spring 2013), 86–93.

Williams, M. F. (2012). Game Theory and Technical Communication: Interpreting the Texas Two-Step Caucus Tier Through Harsanyi Transformation. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, (42), 373–391.

Pimentel, O., & Williams, M. F. (2012). Race, Ethnicity, and Technical Communication: Examining Multicultural Issues within the United States. Journal of JBTC (3rd ed., Vol. 26).

Williams, M. F. (2012). Reimagining NASA: A Cultural and Visual Analysis of the U.S. Space Program. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 26(12-Apr), 368–389.

Williams, M. F., & Pimentel, O. (2012). Guest Edited Special Issue of JBTC: Race, Ethnicity, and Technical Communication: Examining Multicultural Issues within the United States. Journal of Business and Technical Communication (12th-Jul ed., Vol. 26, pp. 271–276). Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Williams, M. F. (2010). From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing. Amityville, New York, United States: Routledge/Baywood Technical Communications Book Series-Routledge.

Williams, M. F. (2009). Understanding Public Policy Development as a Technological Process. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 23(9-Oct), 448–462.

Williams, M. F., & James, D. D. (2009). Embracing New Policies, Technologies, and Community Partnerships: A Case Study of the City of Houston’s Bureau of Air Quality Control. Technical Communication Quarterly, 8, 82–98.

Allison, L., & Williams, M. F. (2007). Writing for the Government- Pearson Longman Technical Communication Book Series. Boston: Pearson Longman: Allyn and Bacon Technical Communication Series.

Williams, M. F. (2006). Tracing W.E.B. Dubois’ “Color Line” In Government Regulations. The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 36, 141–165.