At Ohio State University, Christa Teston, Ph.D. is Professor of English in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy program. Teston mobilizes multiple methods to study how people navigate uncertainty in technoscientific and biomedical contexts. Her first book, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2017 and won two national best book awards. Her second book, Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, was published in 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press and draws on analyses of three case studies about how in/dignities emerge in contemporary caretaking contexts. Teston also directs Ohio State University’s business, professional, and technical writing courses and serves as the President of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Society. 

Selected Publications

• Bahl, E. K., Iwertz Duffy, C., & Teston, C. (forthcoming). Methods for Emerging Researchers in Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State University Press.  
• Teston, C. (2024). Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care. Johns Hopkins University Press. 
• Hesford, W.S., Licona, A.C., Teston, C. (2018). Precarious Rhetorics. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. 
• Teston, C. (2017). Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 

Curriculum Vitae