Kristin LaFollette

Dr. Kristin LaFollette is a professor, scholar, and poet. She is Associate Professor of English (professional writing and rhetoric) at the University of Southern Indiana, and she also oversees and teaches in the medical humanities minor.

She is the author of the forthcoming book Rehumanizing People of the Past: Technical Communication in Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (under contract with SUNY Press). Her other research has been published in various journals, including Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication and Social Justice, Across the Disciplines, Journal of Basic Writing, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Her article in Across the Disciplines received the 2023 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award. As a poet, Dr. LaFollette is the author of Intern Year (Harbor Editions, 2026), Hematology (winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize), and Body Parts (winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize).

Dr. LaFollette has been part of The Blood Project since 2022, first as a contributor, then as an Advisory Board member, then as Humanities Subcommittee chair, and now as Director of Humanities Content and Strategy. Learn more about her at kristinlafollette.com.