Faculty Profile for Dr. Sarah Katrina Robblee

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Dr. Sarah K. Robblee is a Lecturer in Texas State University’s Department of English. She holds a B.S. in English Language and Literature from Gordon College and a M.A. in English from Cal Poly Pomona University. Before joining Texas State’s Department of English in Fall 2021, she taught for 10 years in the English Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and directed the Writing Center and the Graduate Student Writing Assistant Program for 2.5 years. There, she developed the English Department’s course in technical writing and taught classes in business and technical writing, research methods, rhetorical theory, and composition, as well as the graduate class on writing program administration. She has worked as a professional editor in various academic projects and journals, and is currently the copyediting editorial assistant for Technical Communication under editor-in-chief Dr. Miriam Williams. She currently teaches courses in the MATC program at Texas State, including Document Design and Rhetoric, Usability Research, and English Language and Linguistics, as well as the undergraduate course in Technical Writing.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Robblee’s teaching interests lie heavily with graduate students studying technical communication and the development of MATC students pursuing their career goals. She has taught 3 courses for the MATC program as well as the undergraduate technical writing class for Texas State and enjoys them all, but her favorite courses to teach involve rhetoric, linguistics, research methods, and ethics in technical communication. Her courses involve students diving into both the theory and the application of a subject, working with real-world clients on real-world projects they can add to their portfolios. She finds that, especially for graduate students, mentorship, feedback, and one-on-one communication are key to students’ learning experiences. She encourages students in her classes to choose projects that develop their own interests in their academic, professional, or personal environments.

Research Interests

Dr. Robblee’s research has focused on technical editing and grant writing, but most of her time is spent in teaching. At the moment, she is researching the rhetorical strategy of worldview questions in classical and modern educational philosophies and the role that classical rhetoric has played in their development.