Maeve McGuire

Maeve is a first-year MA student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current research focuses on how our health influences our communication practices. Specifically, she is interested in how marginalized health identities (e.g., neurodivergent, invisible illness, medically complex conditions) shape our sense-making and communication (e.g., uncertainty management, social support, resiliency). 

Before coming to UIUC, Maeve was at Iowa State University where she gained experience in teaching technical communication skills to engineering and business students. Now, at UIUC she continues this work with the Grainger College of Engineering leading the EngineerSPEAK program (Skills for Presenting Engineering and Applied Knowledge). Her work involves collaborating with upper-class/capstone engineering courses to bring public speaking and technical communication instruction to soon-to-be engineers through in-class lectures, practice activities, and workshops.