Kaden Milliren
Assistant Professor
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Office: CPR 301-N
Phone: 813-974-9538
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Bio
Kaden C. Milliren is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University
of South Florida. His research interests include neurorhetoric, affect theory, embodiment,
and rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM). His research explores how technology and
environments mediate and transform bodies. His dissertation Predictive Bodies, for which he was awarded the Patricia Sullivan Dissertation Scholarship, examines
embodied mediation in clinical and healthcare contexts, involving such varied medical
technologies as neurofeedback, ocular tracking devices, and machine learning-powered
haptic prosthetics. He has forthcoming publications in the edited collection Rhetoric After Identification (University of South Carolina Press) and the RHM Handbook (Routledge), the latter
of which analyzes and discusses the affordances, ethics, and consequences of the continued
integration of artificial intelligence into clinical spaces.
Kaden received several pedagogical awards during his time in graduate school at Purdue
University. He has primarily taught technical and professional writing courses including
business writing, multimedia writing, writing with generative artificial intelligence,
and writing in the health and human sciences. He has also taught first-year composition
and entrepreneurial writing.
Outside of academia Kaden enjoys cooking, hiking, swimming, basketball, and making
hot sauce. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he won a Washington State free throw
shooting competition when he was 9 years old. He maintains around 90 percent accuracy
from that spot on the hardwood.